PSL – a homegrown global brand
PSL is a success story which every Pakistani should be proud of. Fifth season (PSL 2020) has been fully hosted in Pakistan with packed stadiums, although not any more due…
Lahore and the PSL final
In the wake of a renewed militant assault, the thought of holding the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final in Lahore appears superfluous to many. Perhaps with good reason too: why…
Happy PSL everybody!
The floodlights at Gaddafi Stadium still work. There are a lot of narratives tied up and ensconced within the successful conduct of the Pakistan Super League final. For many of…
Pindiots, pundits and the PSL
I am now at that blessed age where I am no longer expected to dance at family weddings. Nonetheless, as a semi-respectable elder, I am still expected to lend my…
Honourable people
JUDGES are strange, fascinating characters. Every morning, they don colour-coded robes, walk into their workplace with sherwani-clad chaperones, and look down from elevated seats at rooms full of supplicants. Once…
Coronalization
I coined the term ‘Coronalization’ considering its multi-dimensional and global effects. The word ‘coronalization’ is a combination of ‘corona’ from coronavirus and “lization taken from globalization. The fatal effects of…
Sustainable housing
The availability of affordable housing remains a nightmare for middle and lower income groups in Pakistan, despite the government’s ambitious agenda to build five million affordable housing units in five…
The quest for a rule-based economy
During Eid holidays a simple graph was viral which depicted the secular decline in Pakistan’s economic growth since the 1990s relative to India, on fifteen years rolling basis. The frequency…
Inflation: what the govt is doing wrong?
Inflation for the current year, so projected the then finance minister Ishaq Dar in his 9 June 2023 budget speech, would be 21 percent for 2023-24 – revised upward to…
Who wants to be the PCB chief?
The intense manoeuvring that goes into the selection of the person in charge at Gaddafi Stadium always makes for some most intriguing viewing. And in the final analysis, it is…
