Business Recorder introduced me to Ghulam Kibria, whom, not long after introduction, I started addressing 'Bhai Sahib', an address - no one shared with me. Writing, basically on accounting and finance…
While demanding the list of provisionally registered medical colleges, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) blamed the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) for the delay in an inquiry against seven…
A year since Iraq’s last elections, it remains without not only a new government but a budget too, obstructing much-needed reforms and infrastructure projects in the oil-rich but war-ravaged country.…
Once upon a time there was news; compact and closely orchestrated by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Fake news was unheard of; just plain vanilla dispensed by the government.…
Controlling political parties, subjugating them and encouraging them to disintegrate in the name of the national interest as well as external pressure, political engineering, greed and use of various manoeuvres…
In the first part of this series, we discussed how ‘Jang’, founded by Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman established itself as the foremost Urdu newspaper in the country. In this second and last…
I visited Karachi recently after a very long time. Once called the city of lights, Karachi had fallen over the years into the darkness of lawlessness, staged ethnic rivalries and…
Part - III A year after Lt-Gen Majid Malik began his comfortable exile in Morocco, Gen Zia overthrew Bhutto and assumed all powers. The figurehead president, Zahoor Elahi, was eventually…
Talking about prisons, the chief justice of Sindh said last Saturday that more than retribution and deterrence the main purpose of imprisonment should be reform and rehabilitation. In Pakistan, where…
At a Moharram majlis in my native village of Mustafabad, which is part of Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary constituency today, a believer was overcome with grief during a recitation of the…
