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Our never-never land |
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Shamshad Ahmad
Pakistan's T20 skipper Shahid Afridi was seen gnawing at the cricket ball voraciously in full public gaze. Why he did this is not because he was hungry but apparently because he just couldn't help it. Afridi's ball-munching scene indeed shocked the world as an act of limitless dishonesty, and perhap
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Caught in the vortex of time |
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Raoof Hasan
The murder attempt on Sheikh Rashid, a candidate of his own Awami Muslim League from NA-55 by-election scheduled for later this month, is another example of the deep-set violence syndrome that has come to symbolise our society. This follows the dastardly attack on a religious procession in Karachi a
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Belling the cat |
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Dr A Q Khan
In my school days we used to read classical Urdu stories by writers like Deputy Nazir Ahmad and Maulvi Muhammad Ismail Meruthi. One interesting story was about mice and a cat. This particular cat was terrorising the mice, every now and then catching and eating one of them. The mice called a meeting
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Without the war on terror |
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Charles Ferndale
When I read Dr Khalid Saifullah's analysis of the war on terror (February 8) I could find so little fault with it that I felt compelled to manufacture some. But, try as I may, I failed. So, instead, I fell back on looking for omissions in his arguments.
Dr Saifullah omitted to mention a few o
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The Indians are coming! |
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The writer is a former ambassador.
It is a pity that neither Delhi nor Islamabad has ever acquired the faculty of imagining the suffering and joy of the other, to say nothing of their respective concerns and limitations, and the two governments are all too ready to lapse into recriminations at the drop of a hat. They attribute evil a
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Our image abroad |
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Tayyab Siddiqui
A favourite pastime of our politicians is to call foreign policy a failure and accuse the diplomats abroad of not projecting the image of Pakistan and its interests. Quite often, parallels are drawn with India's conduct of diplomacy and our diplomats are pilloried for their inefficiency and incompet
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