Newsmaker 2016: Raheel Sharif
Minus one
L'esprit de l'escalier. Staircase Wit. It’s when, much after an argument, you think up of a perfect reply or a witty zinger.
The Pakistani...
Newsmaker 2016: Imran Khan
PML-U
You know your legal team is shabby when you are accused of wasting the court’s time with “tales from the Arabian Nights” despite it...
Newsmaker 2016: Nawaz Sharif
A storm seems to have been weathered
A caged lion tries to roar. That was what we called the prime minister in his entry in...
Newsmaker 2016: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)
Someone’s thinking finance
Sure, the PSX turned out the fifth best, meaning most earning, stock market in the world in ’16 and the best in...
The good and bad of 2016
How did Pakistan do? 2016 saw Pakistan making some significant gains as for as its counter terrorism drive is concerned. Without a doubt, the...
“It will be a two-party contest in Punjab” – An interview with Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed
There will be no grand alliance in the coming election
The chances for an alliance with PPP are very bleak in the broader context as...
Twenty-sixteen: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Breaking it down
Our infant democracy grew a year older, and celebrated yet another birthday. For a country like Pakistan, desperately struggling to define its...
Parliament or fish market?
Questioning the sanctity of Parliament
Earlier, when PTI along with Tahirul Qadri-led Pakistan Awami Tehreek tried to reach the gates of Parliament House during Azadi...
13 gates illustrating Lahore – part-1
Imagine the grandeur and glory of these gates once upon a time
The glorified era has ended and now the gates are just a mark...
Media Watch: Shahid Masood as the neighbourhood auntie squad
Yes, a slightly older clip, but one that has resurfaced on the interwebs because of Naeem Bukhari’s primacy on the PTI’s legal team in...
Media Watch: This week, in “Casually Delivered Bombshells”
Dunya’s Kamran Shahid pretty much won the airwaves last week when former president General Pervez Musharraf admitted on the former’s show that it was,...
Shalimar Gardens Lahore
Wonder of the world
Walking through the flowers and green beds you will see arcaded pavilions entirely built with white marble. Water was flowing under...
PAK-US Relations: The ugly truth
Going with the wind
The focus of bilateral relations between Pakistan and the US, as per the trends of the past, has been more on...
Trump: Pakistan’s Catch-22
Could things get messy in the months ahead?
Islamabad’s action or inaction against militants based in the country’s tribal and urban areas is likely to...
Media Watch: The fickle nature of the truth
Social media was being predicted to be an end to the champagne baths of the press barons that was going to set loose a...
Media Watch: Finally, an Achilles’ heel
The media really does have the run of the place in Pakistan. As long as they avoid the military, the fundamentalist militant organisations, till...
City of Sikh heritage — Gujranwala
Somebody preserve it, please
This is the Samadhi of Sardar Charat Singh, which is behind Sheranwala Bagh (the Garden of Lions) on GT road, inside...
