“Who would have known,” is all that a journalist has to say – while sitting in a restaurant in Islamabad – about the rumours surrounding the resignation of Hafeez Sheikh. “People are calling him the next Shaukat Aziz,”
Published23 Feb, 201311:06pm
“A former ambassador seems upset with the political developments in the country,” comments a journalist sitting in a café.
Published10 Feb, 201304:16am
ISLAMABAD: “A former ambassador seems upset with the political developments in the country,” comments a journalist sitting in a café.
Published09 Feb, 201309:24pm
“I am tired of these first-time-in-history sentences,” complains a journalist sitting in a café, sifting through a bunch of English newspapers on the table.
Published02 Feb, 201311:31pm
ISLAMABAD: “I am tired of these first-time-in-history sentences,” complains a journalist sitting in a café, sifting through a bunch of English newspapers on the table.
Published02 Feb, 201310:13pm
“Fantastic” is how a tourist from England describes the lights and colours decorating the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi to celebrate Eidul Miladun Nabi.
Published27 Jan, 201312:06am
“It’s alive”, commented a social media activist on Tahirul Qadri’s acronym ‘TuQ’ that acquired a life of its own during the five-day long march-sit-in.
Published19 Jan, 201310:03pm
At a late night dinner in Islamabad there is a consensus amongst guests that Tahirul Qadri has no real intention to march.
Published13 Jan, 201303:21am
ISLAMABAD: At a late night dinner in Islamabad there is a consensus amongst guests that Tahirul Qadri has no real intention to march.
Published12 Jan, 201309:16pm
“When a Canadian citizen breaks the law or disrupts peace in a foreign land, the role of consular services becomes limited,” an embassy official said.
Published11 Jan, 201312:15am
Abdul Samad, 42, who is from the Middle East but is visiting Pakistan, smiles whenever he hears Pakistanis mention Tahrir Square - the famous square in Cairo, where thousands of protestors gathered on January 25,
Published06 Jan, 201303:36am
Tahrir Square has been re-injected into Pakistan’s political vocabulary, after Canadian-Pakistani religious scholar, Tahirul Qadri, returned to Pakistan.
Published05 Jan, 201311:31pm
As the latest edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's, ‘The Hobbit’, gets screened in theatres around Islamabad this week, moviegoers who have not read the book or the series ‘Lord of the Rings’, are confused whether the movie is the beginning of the Trilogy or the e
Published30 Dec, 201203:30am
ISLAMABAD: As the latest edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's, ‘The Hobbit’, gets screened in theatres around Islamabad this week, moviegoers who have not read the book or the series ‘Lord of the Rings’, are confused whether the movie is the beginning of the Trilo
Published29 Dec, 201208:10pm
ISLAMABAD: “Change,” read a colourful advertisement appearing for the past few days on the front pages of some newspapers.
Published22 Dec, 201209:32pm
Socialising in the “Af-Pak” circuit in Islamabad, one is bound to bump into all kinds of people. Recently at an Af-Pak reception hosted by a German organisation, one met parliamentarians from Pakistan and Afghanistan
Published16 Dec, 201202:08am
ISLAMABAD: Socialising in the “Af-Pak” circuit in Islamabad, one is bound to bump into all kinds of people. Recently at an Af-Pak reception hosted by a German organisation, one met parliamentarians from Pakistan and Afghanistan and delegates from Europe
Published16 Dec, 201201:11am
Judging from the results of the recent by-election, it seems that the ‘poor people’ of Southern Punjab have rejected the former prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani’s theory of a North-South divide in the
Published10 Dec, 201202:07am
Tea with Mussolini is a movie that was released ten to twelve years ago. Its availability remains questionable but with a fair bit of sleuthing, one might just find a copy in a DVD store in Islamabad.
Published24 Nov, 201209:05pm
