Monday, January 14, 2013
Sajid Hussain
I was all packed and ready when PIA suddenly decided to cancel its flight from Quetta to Turbat, which I was supposed to take to attend a family wedding the very next day. I panicked and called my uncle in Turbat to inform him that I ...

Friday, September 21, 2012
Sajid Hussain
QUETTA: In what appears to be a tug of war of interests between the provincial government and non-government organisations (NGOs) over the collection and distribution of relief supplies, around 0.1 million victims of the recent ...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Sajid Hussain
In June 2009, members of MNA Yaqoob Bizenjo’s family received a gift parcel at their residence in Karachi’s upmarket Defence area from someone in Turbat. As they opened the parcel, it exploded. The MNA’s five-year-old daughter, ...

Monday, February 13, 2012
Sajid Hussain
Karachi Overawed faces were fixed at Vikram Seth. The snake-shaped line of anxious people waiting to get their freshly-bought books signed by the British novelist of Indian origin was growing in length. Pakistan’s celebrity ...

Sunday, February 12, 2012
Sajid Hussain
Karachi Manto is known for his stories on post-partition prejudices. Ironically, people are still arguing over whether he became an alcoholic in India or Pakistan. When historian Ayesha Jalal said Manto became an alcoholic ...

Saturday, January 14, 2012
Sajid Hussain
The civilian government and the army are flexing their muscles against each other in a different Pakistan where sacking an army chief or booting out an elected prime minister is no longer as easy as it was in 1999 – the year when the ...

Saturday, November 12, 2011
Sajid Hussain
Even if we buy the government’s claim that the number of missing persons in Balochistan has declined, it is only because many of them have lately been found dead. Since June 2010, more than 230 bodies of the previously missing ...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sajid Hussain
Karachi I have made a wise decision. After scrupulous calculation, I bet some precious money with a friend on the Indian side. What is wise in this? Well, as bookies would say, Indians have never lost to Pakistan in a World Cup ...

Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sajid Hussain
Karachi Noted author and journalist Ahmed Rashid has said Pakistan is facing some real geo-strategic problems as it has become so isolated that it has been left with no friends in the region. “We don’t have regional allies. ...

Thursday, December 02, 2010
Sajid Hussain
KARACHI: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has finally admitted the presence of fugitive Baloch leader Brahmdagh Bugti in his country, according to WikiLeaks cables. Karzai revealed this during a meeting with a UN official in February ...