White Lies

A sizeable number of senior female politicians, we are told, have not only gone under the knife for a bit of nip-and-tuck but also...

White Lies

The government has gone into a PR overdrive in relation to the budget. God knows they need to, given the mood of the street...

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A cottage industry of rumours about the prime minister’s marriage has sprung up again. This time round, a television pundit has even gone to...

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It was an interesting press conference. Senior print journalists on one side and senior ministers, headed by the prime minister himself, on the other. Information...

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Citibankers are living it up these days. There’s Hashim Jawan Bakht, the current Punjab finance minister. There’s Zubair Soomro, recently appointed as the chairman of...

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Where is the press czar of the current government? Ever since his tussle with Naeem ul Haq, the man seems to be on a...

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The Indian army might be one of the largest in the world, yet the merry folk of Bollywood feel they should be the ones...

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Sheikh Rasheed, the Pindiboy extraordinaire, the self-described ‘downtown man’, seems to have been given a shut up call by Imran Khan recently. In his constant...

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The daughter-in-law of a hard to track businessman is to have her birthday in Switzerland. A grand affair, with two chalets already having been...

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There is a Pakistani delegation to World Economic Forum at Davos every year. Their events aren’t too well attended, unfortunately; many times the few...

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Twenty percent off. The Chief Justice ruled that private schools have to reduce their fees by a fifth. Where, exactly, did this specific proportion...

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He’s whatever he wants to be. Sure, his title might be the Federal Minister for Water Resources, but when the man wants to be...

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No man, said the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, steps in the same river twice. Because by the time he steps in it for what is...

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It’s a bit of a fast, a day at the PM’s secretariat . There’s no food. Earlier on in the whole austerity business, there...

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What goes around, comes around. The offshore accounts of the First Sister (?) are being thrown in the Prime Minister’s face. A bit unfair to...

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With Naya Pakistan, attempts at Naya Lahore in the offing. Apparently, a task force has been set up for a shake-up in matters pertaining...

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Chaudhry Pervez Elahi’s video in which he is expressing resentment against the current Punjab Governor has been doing the rounds lately. Though he has...