White Lies
He has issues with the far-from-ideal punctuality of certain cabinet members, the prime minister does. The likes of Firdous Ashiq Awan and Omer Ayub...
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Qeemay walay naan; yes, and he had two the other day. A television anchor swears that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is, in fact,...
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Plenty of faux concern for the nation’s incarcerated population in the wake of former PM’s bail on medical grounds. What about the rest of...
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Our prince - yes our prince, we’re still in the Commonwealth, I’m afraid - was in Lahore recently and the residents of the city,...
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They’re perpetually waiting for the other shoe to drop. Ever since the rumours of the cabinet reshuffle started, all cabinet members have been constantly...
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India’s ‘Meat King’, Moeen Qureshi, had a destination wedding for his daughter in Turkey recently. He’s fabulously rich (the income tax and excise departments...
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It wasn’t as bad as his detractors were claiming it to be. Nor was it quite the seminal moment of history that his supporters...
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Two separate special planes flying out of Saudi Arabia recently. One, for the First Lady, who flew back to Pakistan. And the other, the...
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Though the sacking of Shahbaz Gill, the rabble-rousing Punjab CM spokesperson, has gotten more press, it is the removal of Aun Chaudhry from his...
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It was a mixed dining experience for the patrons of one of Lahore’s swankiest restaurants the other day. On the one hand, their meal...
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A curious state of affairs in the automotive sector. The government’s haphazard and presumably ill-thought taxation structure has brought about a lop-sided change in...
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Eidul Azha came and went and with it were the usual comments on the practice of sacrifice itself.
Whereas there could be introspection within the...
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He’s tried the whole passive-aggressive girlfriend routine with the Sharifs and it didn’t work. So Chaudhry Nisar used the nuclear option and actually left...
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In style, fitness and matters sartorial - if not much else - the prime minister cuts quite a figure.
After this US visit, the fellow...
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Some rumours of the Punjab’s former first lady Tehmina Durrani of having left the country. No such thing, apparently. Busy writing a book on...
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Yes, it’s a bizarre protocol, this whole business of the airports now wrapping all luggage items in plastic. Apparently, they say it’s for the...
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The World Cup might not have yielded a victory for Pakistan but certainly has kickstarted the careers of some willing and unwilling social media...
