It is quite startling how a non-journalist and non-TV professional can do a far better job on TV than most sports journalists or anchors.

Former Pakistani opening batsman Aamir Sohail co-hosts a show on PTV Sports. The cultural decency and sporting acumen (and sans getting provoked by geo-political conspiracy theories that are hurled at him) with which he does the programme is worth watching. To boot, he does not speak on cricket alone.

On May 17, Aamir S conducted an episode on tennis. His questions for the experts of the game were to-the-point and well-structured. Despite not being a sports journo, he is teaching a lesson or two to those pen-pushers who, with the advent of satellite TV, think they can do or say anything on live TV in any manner. Kudos to the cricketer!

A word about Aamir Sohail’s co-host: the chap seems to have a penchant for using the English language when it’s least needed, and he has literally exhausted the meanings of the word ‘flamboyant’. Easy on the English, man.

Opinion

The Dar story continues

The Dar story continues

One wonders what the rationale was for the foreign minister — a highly demanding, full-time job — being assigned various other political responsibilities.

Editorial

Wheat protests
Updated 01 May, 2024

Wheat protests

The government should withdraw from the wheat trade gradually, replacing the existing market support mechanism with an effective new one over the next several years.
Polio drive
01 May, 2024

Polio drive

THE year’s fourth polio drive has kicked off across Pakistan, with the aim to immunise more than 24m children ...
Workers’ struggle
Updated 01 May, 2024

Workers’ struggle

Yet the struggle to secure a living wage — and decent working conditions — for the toiling masses must continue.
All this talk
Updated 30 Apr, 2024

All this talk

The other parties are equally legitimate stakeholders in the country’s political future, and it must give them due consideration.
Monetary policy
30 Apr, 2024

Monetary policy

ALIGNING its decision with the trend in developed economies, the State Bank has acted wisely by holding its key...
Meaningless appointment
30 Apr, 2024

Meaningless appointment

THE PML-N’s policy of ‘family first’ has once again triggered criticism. The party’s latest move in this...