Smokers’ Corner
Recently while attending the second Pakistan-India Social Media conference in Karachi as a panelist,I was approached by a young man with a mic who wanted to interview me for a…
Spotlight: Will the waves created by Allama Qadri amount to anything?: Political scenario
PPP is having a bad time in the aftermath of the bye elections which it lost comprehensively to the Nawaz League. This was followed by a series of defections from…
Answers to our problems lie with us
Earlier this month, a man went to a renowned hospital in Karachi for treatment of his son who was injured by a falling pedestal fan in his village in interior…
A rare project stuck in limbo
The Mashal Pakistan LNG Project was initiated in May 2006. It envisages the construction of a re-gasification terminal in Karachi with the capacity of supplying 500 million cubic feet of…
Waiting for Malala to grow up
When the state and the political elite of the country cannot be on the same page even on how best to deal with an existential threat to it, is there…
The gun-toting GFs
There are a lot of strange things happening in the world these days. For starters, Mr Rehman Malik has been having statistical visions from the divine, and here’s how they…
Beyond slogans
Pakistan’s politics has received a shot in the arm over the past few days. Two public rallies in Lahore, where all the decisive political battles have been fought, and the…
Local government in Sindh
The year 2011 marks the 26th year since 1985 of violence and bloodletting in Karachi. The major factor in the violence is the battle for control, which is what has…
The phantom of Mohatta Palace
Mohatta Palace in Karachi, which is said to be haunted, was built in 1927 by Shiratan Chandraratan Mohatta, a self-made businessman from Marwar. With the birth of Pakistan twenty years…
Competing extremes
Hoardings all across Karachi, placed by the ‘Citizens of Pakistan’, in both English and Urdu, are asking the question: do we want the Taliban’s Pakistan or Quaid-e-Azam’s. This is a…
