The Indian army might be one of the largest in the world, yet the merry folk of Bollywood feel they should be the ones firing the salvos in the current bit of tension with Pakistan.
Some from within the literary community have also decided to play their part by boycotting Lahore’s foremost literary festival, rendering it quite a lacklustre affair.
It seems that all those hyperbolic affirmations of neighbourly love in the past were just an untoward incident away from being completely discarded.
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A game of thrones seems to be playing out over the state television broadcaster. A tussle between the information minister and the PM’s political advisor Naeem-ul-Haq.
Haq wants to restructure PTV and make it autonomous a la the BBC. Fawad Chaudhry, with the union behind him, wants things to remain the way they are. Chaudhry is right to feel slighted since it’s his ministry, after all.
The problem with the whole restructuring business is that there will be a lot of layoffs but there still won’t be any autonomy. NAB is also supposed to be autonomous but we know who pulls the strings there.
There is a third option, however. One that will make both the sides want to immediately reach a compromise: shut the thing down instead.