View Point: Recipe for trouble
This government has been trying to fool us all along regarding the nature of "a new era in strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia." When a joint statement issued at the…
The right to play
The celebration of the first International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on the coming Sunday (April 6, 2014) will be an appropriate occasion to determine whether the children…
Rubbishing Russia
The Sochi Olympic Games are over and many in the west are gnashing their teeth because they weren’t an utter failure. How very annoying – how absolutely infuriating – for…
Pantomime of the stooges – continueth
In box office terms this is already a roaring success, the longest comedy show currently running in the country. Three of the four characters tasked by the government to grapple…
African asylum seekers in Sicily dream of soccer glory
Like many young men in Italy, the soccer players who put on their cleats for an afternoon match in this small Sicilian town dream of international stardom on the field.…
View Point: Disarray in our sporting scene
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has finally gotten rid of Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Zaka Ashraf, dissolved the PCB governing board and reappointed Najam Sethi at the head of an eight-member…
Talk, time and tactics
The talk tamasha continues. No one has come out looking good from this absurdity. The two committees have only confirmed what we already knew: that they were a farce. Despite…
Meddling arrogance
Washington cannot understand that interfering in other nations’ domestic affairs is not only dangerous but entirely counter-productive. It should come as no surprise that there has been gross US interference…
Shariah is not the issue
The Taliban are in a war and those fighting wars are realists, not armchair philosophers arguing about theory and metaphysical subtleties. Of course they will say they are for the…
A state adrift…and at war with itself
Is this for real? Are we serious? Brand name Pakistan already has not much going for it, and those in charge, pilots at the helm, seem so determined on turning…
