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In ... and out MIAN Shahbaz Sharif had been making preparations to return to Pakistan for the past several weeks, in defiance of the agreement under which 18 members of the Sharif family were exiled to Saudi Arabia on December 10, 2000. He was coming back to uproot the...		Govt forced Shahbaz to abscond FORMER Justice Rashid A. Razvi, in this interview to Dawn Magazine, says that the government, acting on its whims, has forced Shahbaz Sharif to become an absconder by forcibly sending him out of the country after his bid to return home....
Catwalk in Kangal Colony-II KANGAL Colony is mostly inhabited by sweepers, semi-skilled workers, labourers, tramps, maid-servants, small-time gamblers, vendors and the wayward. A stinking sewage brook carrying the filth from a couple of phases of the posh Defence Housing Authority flows through Kangal Colony, thus it dissects the slum...		To serve and protect POLICING was once a noble profession in our part of the world. Then the colonials arrived and rest is all history....
Tribute to a mother RECENTLY in Sydney, staying at the Ritz Carlton, on a dark, rainy Sunday afternoon, I watched a TV interview of the famous Chilean writer, Isabel Allende, who had just released her new book, Paula. The book is in the form of a letter to her...		The dilemma of working mothers I’M always in a rush ... there are so many things to do and so little time. Morning rituals are performed in a huff. There is no room for a detailed...
Devastation, not restoration WHILE driving from Islamabad to Peshawar, one comes across many beautiful sites. And of these places, one is Kund....		Future at your fingertips AFTER completing high school or graduation, most of the students in Pakistan face a dilemma. Should they stay and get higher education, or try and go abroad for the same reason?...
The backyard of Pakistan TRAVELLING through the Mekran belt is adventurous as well as fun. Full of diversions, one imbibes many things during the journey. Living in the age of millennium where the world is shrinking into a global village with all priority on the econom...		Future fuel substitute THE engines of global economy are being run by crude oil. However, as experts have been warning for years, the crude oil reservoirs of the world are fast receding. And there is every possibility that the current levels may...
Crying for renovation SOME twenty-six kilometres west of Khairpur Nathan Shah, in Dadu district, is the historical Jamia Mosque of Garhie. Built by Mian Nasir Mohammad Kalhoro, in AD1680, he was known as the...		Othello’s real conflict IT is not a research paper but a short statement of an issue in Shakespeare. Black characters are not absent from the plays of Shakespeare. We find them in The Merchant of Venice, in the character of Morocco and in Titus Andronious in Aaron who is most probably a Negro....
How to read Iqbal? THE distinguished scholar from India, Shamsurrahman Faruki, was on a short visit to Pakistan. The Iqbal Academy had invited him to deliver a lecture on Iqbal....		The Faqir of Ipi “CHERCHEZ la femme,” say the French to indicate that behind every great man is always a woman. No one would have thought that this would be true even about the Faqir...
Hot Seat SCULPTOR and jewellery designer, Amin Gulgee claims he watches all kinds of movies, although he has hardly seen any in the last year. However, his favourite is Kill Bill, a movie...		There’s a lot riding on the coach NO sooner have we lost a rubber that the warrants are out on Javed Miandad. There is the assertion that he does not use technology, nor has he mastered the art of communication and does not know how to sit quietly whether in rejoicing or frustration....
Over to Jamsheed Marker I need to define some terms. These articles will be about my favourite cricket persons who may or may not be cricket players. They will be people who impacted on...		Time frame has finally been set EVER since PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan took office, he has said quite a few things, sometime his actions not matching his words in the manner they should have. But with all...
‘A third space of possibility’ HOWEVER much I may consider myself a citizen of the world, the fact is that I am always going to be asked where I am from. I have therefore dispensed with the multi-rooted pretence,” says Nuzhat Ahmad...		An author comes of age FOR two reasons it was a gathering different than what you see at book launches. One, because the author was a 19-year-old girl; and two, because she happened to be a...
Honouring a hero ON a warm evening last month, a group of lawyers and journalists from Pakistan on a visit to India met the honey-tongued Mahindar Kaur, the 93-year-old sister-in-law of Bhagat Singh, one of the heroes of the anti-British freedom movement, at her sprawling home in Chandigarh....		Twisted truth WITH reference to the article, Twisted truth (May 2), I agree with the writer. Rather than modernizing the medievalism of the madrassas these politicians want mainstream education to be ‘madrassaized’. If...
MOSAIC: Danger lurking round the corner HEPATITIS C is a viral infection of the liver with grave consequences as liver failure and liver cancer. Globally 2 billion people are infected with the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and...		Newsmaker These words could very well be sentences out of a fairy tale. But luckily for Mary Donaldson, this is exactly what is going through in her life right now. Except that she’ll have to wait for sometime to become the Queen....