White Lies
Recently, the Punjab university held an across-the-sects prayer session. Jamia Ashrafia's senior cleric was to lead the prayer. But the function also needed a...
White Lies
Ah, Aitcheson College, an ode to your tradition of greatness! In your hallowed halls have passed boys who grew up to be giants. Like...
Our man in Havana
A former military man, who, after his service, has been associated with both sides of the (then) political divide, claims o be in thick...
White Lies
So it took a while, but Yousaf Gillani finally had to surrender the Turkish necklace. Mrs Erdoğan must have been appalled, if nobody else....
White Lies
There’s this big broast chain in Lahore that draws all sorts of crowds. But for some reason the food inspector suddenly showed up to...
White Lies
There’s only so many things that Shahbaz Sharif can do, really. If you ask those who know he’s the one who’s got the ship...
White Lies
Now didn’t Malala get a rough deal back home? Eight of the ten accused in her case have walked – insufficient evidence, of course,...
White Lies
Talk to the N guys and they’ll tell you they’ve changed the map of the country – for the better, of course. They say...
White Lies
Turns out that Mrs Khan the second is headed right back to the channel where an interview led to the ‘hand in hand into...
White Lies
Now some people were taken aback by the happenings at the meeting about the Corridor route. Sadly the Karachi tragedy coincided. But when an...
White Lies
The solar power plant inauguration in Bahawalpur was quite a show, wasn’t it? ‘Seeing is believing’, khadim-e-aala always says. That’s probably why the N-league...
White Lies
There’s some peculiarities to Pakistani politicians. When they’re in power they keep wondering how long they’ll remain in power. And when they’re not in...
White Lies
First of all, #RANDI was a unique self-inflicted wound; an own-goal if there was one. The Chinese use you for their counter-pivot to America’s...
White Lies
Count on the PTI to run in circles and keep contradicting itself. Now there’s word of an internal power struggle, triggered by the return...
White Lies
Everybody got a good laugh at the PPP’s last core committee meeting. Everybody, except Rahman Malik, apparently. Things would’ve been pretty mundane with Sherry...
White Lies
Now one thing you’d expect from a place like Lahore Gymkhana – which gathers the urbane, suave and wealthy, after all – is to...
White Lies
It’s shariah compliant nikahs now. Yes, you heard it right. And it’s online. Marriages may be made in heaven, but Muslim brothers and sisters...
