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The lost Jinnah AS for the role of the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the partition of India, the historians have contested each other for long. While some refer to the primacy of the historical forces — though interpreted differently...		Finding fault with Jinnah is nonsense THE words tell the whole story. “Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three....
Love of long ago IT was the second night of the annual Urs (anniversary) of Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. Renowned singers rendered his mystic verse in soothing compositions till late in the night. It was one of the memorable nights, when one finds his soul immersed in unexplained ecstasy....		The write stuff I WANTED to put a noose round my neck not because my car tyre burst on the way from the Karachi airport to my house in the midday sun, and...
Boss management TWO people in the world are never wrong — the customer and the boss. In fact, they are right even when they are wrong! So does that imply a “Yes, Boss” attitude where flattery and buttering up is the only way to get along with your superiors? Not at all. There are many ways to get along with your boss....		Snapshots from our aviation history ON DECEMBER 17, 1903, Wilbur Wright became the first man in history to fly an aeroplane in North Carolina in the US. On this day, exactly a century ago, he was able to fly his machine contraption a few feet above ground for....
Merry Xmas FOR millions and millions of Christians all around the world, including Pakistan’s very own, Christmas is the best time of the year. It’s a time for families fun, and festivities! A...		The filthy rich lawmakers THE economic indicators of Pakistan, as given in the UNDP’s 2003 report, paint an alarming picture. Sixty-six per cent of the 140 million Pakistanis are living in abject poverty and their...
An Amazon of our very own ONLY three hundred meters away from the road and the seashore in Sandspit, is a full-grown forest, which, mile for mile, would pale even the mighty Amazon by comparison. If I tell this to anyone, would they believe it....		Obesity: nip it in the bud OBESITY is defined as an abnormal growth of the adipose (fat) tissue due to either an enlargement of the fat cell size (hypertrophic obesity), or an increase in fat cell number (hyperplasic obesity), or a combination of both....
The dream lake SO today was the Day of Judgment. The dream lakes, which I seen in the early days of my youth, which had haunted me throughout my life, today I will find out whether they really exist or was it just a fantasy....		Hashr: a legendary playwright WHEN an enlightened drama buff thinks of theatre, he is reminded of Ancient Greece, where drama/theatre used to be a great pastime. The statue of Dionysus, the god of wine, used to be carried through the streets of Athens...
Hundred years of flying ON DEC 17, 1903, two young Americans, Orville and Wilbur Wright, designed the first aircraft — a contraption with wings and an engine — that flew for a few seconds and then crash landed. On that day, 100 years back, mankind had entered the threshold...		An autobiography with a touch of fiction KISHWAR Naheed has once again written her autobiography. This time she has done the work in a different and perhaps more meaningful way. No doubt, her previous volume, Buri Aurat ki...
Hot Seat MOVIES have always been the grand passion for renowned architect Habib Fida Ali. In fact, he had wanted to become a film director when he was in school. While at Atchison,...		With the gallop and a swing YOU had to be someone to be at the recently concluded 7th International Polo Federation (FIP) Zone D playoffs, held for the first time in Pakistan, and, let’s say, genetically fastened to the sport to understand it. While many...
A remarkable achievement WHILE things back home have yet to take any concrete shape, I find it much more worthwhile to share with my readers a few comments about India’s achievement in the second...		Problems with the new format THAT the national team would win the tri-series involving Pakistan Juniors and Malaysia was a foregone conclusion even at the time when it was scheduled. Such encounters are always more beneficial...
Our man Charlie Wilson TO PREFIX ‘the Honourable’ to a man like former Representative, Charlie Wilson, a member of the US Congress from 1973-1996 is highly “inappropriate”: he was a “drunken, ignorant, lying, zipper-flapping, corrupt, power hungry freak...		Wardrobe matters A LOT of money is about to be spent on both sides of the Wagah border. Or it is my conjecture that this is about to happen. Conjecture. It is such a safe word. Just like ‘alleged’, used ever so freely by us ‘journos’ to keep our skin...
The award goes to ... THE great war monger and war lover, Monsieur Donald Rumsfeld, did not surprise many when he recently won the foot-in-mouth prize for bad English in London on the above obtuse statement. One feels good that at least he was victorious at something, if not at the war in Iraq...		Scarf vs secularism WITH reference to the article Scarf vs secularism, 16 November 2003, it is less appalling to get to know that the law is being reviewed in France to ban the wearing...
MOSAIC: Over 15,000 fish under threat AN international team of scientists detected more than 15,000 different species of fish in a census of the world’s seas, but they warned that many are under threat from overfishing....		Newsmaker AS PICTURES of a dirty, dishevelled man with a matted beard flashed across the globe on TV screens, viewers could not believe that the man who has been the subject of one of the greatest manhunts in historywas actually...