White Lies: Political Ties

There’s no love lost between economist Dr Hafeez Pasha and federal finance minister, Ishaq Dar. The former pulls no punches in his critique of...

Today’s White Lies: Part 2

It appears that things are set to change at the PCB. The mild-mannered former diplomat chairman is rumored to be on his way out,...

Today’s White Lies – 1

Maulana Sheerani and his crew's edicts are just one of the many things that prove that the odds are stacked against women in our...

Today’s White Lies: Part 2

Our friend from Canada, the irrepressible Maulana Tahir-ul-Qadri, is itching for a comeback. He had recently made a well publicised announcement to join the...

Today’s White Lies: Part 1

The prime minister was in Turkey recently where he attended the marriage of the Turkish president's daughter. Now the Turkish president himself is rather fond...

Today’s White Lies

One had heard of boutique eateries and then boutique hotels, but now we have boutique hospitals. At a private hospital in Lahore, a new...

Today’s White Lies

The recent tete-a-tete between the person running the country and the person running the country is said to have taken place as a result...

White Noise: The new kid on the block

The First Daughter has firmly entrenched herself in the scheme of things. She is now completely indispensable to the premiere. So much so, that...

White Lies: On staying informed

One of the First Flies on the Wall of the nation i.e. a source in the Raiwind palace, testifies to the fact that there...

White Lies: Lawn Wars – The Force Awakens

Once more unto the breaches, dear friends, once more... Why? Because the lawn wars are upon us. And the videos are almost as gruesome as the...

White Lies: Not-so-very reconciliation

The point was to break bread together and mend fences. But the reconciliation meeting between Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Chaudhry Sarwar, held at Jehangir...

White Lies

In the prime minister’s address to the nation, he said that there was also going to be action against the various bank defaulters of...

White Lies

There had been a gold rush of sorts, with the begumaat-with-connections going over to neighbouring India to buy designer jewellery there and selling it back...

Today’s White Lies: Part 2

The PPP is down and out in the Punjab. everyone knows that. So, to do a bit of damage control on this particular front, the...

White Lies Part 1

Having ruled out the hawks within his party, PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has reached out to Prime Minister nawaz Sharif and has enquired about his...

White Lies: Live from the CM Punjab’s office

The Punjab chief minister is a workaholic and one who doesn’t realise that others might not be. So it was the day of the...

White Lies

  The PCB might go out of the frying pan and into the fire. You see, after the terrible performance of the national team at the...