Stories by AMSHE
Few people realise that Lahore Gymkhana’s club sandwich was invented for the East India Company soldiers.
Updated 15 Aug, 2025 08:14pm
This particular column is based on my last trip to Lahore from Cambridge, where I am considered a ‘Lahore...
Published 13 Aug, 2025 05:06am
Just where should one ‘drop in’ to enjoy a true Lahori Chinese meal. A Chinese friend who visited our city has...
Published 31 Oct, 2021 07:04am
Over the last two weeks my effort to try out Lahore’s finest Club Sandwich faced many a setback. This sandwich has...
Published 17 Oct, 2021 06:38am
Migrants have great expectations of their homeland, especially when it comes to food, and the fare of Lahore has a...
Published 10 Oct, 2021 06:35am
Bakra Eid and a lockdown do not exactly match. So the solution for Lahoris is one of the two options: either get a...
Published 09 Aug, 2020 06:41am
This column is designed to last the coronavirus lockdown, in place almost everywhere on Mother Earth. As humans stop...
Published 11 Apr, 2020 06:25am
Oh, it’s great to be back in the dust-polluted and politically confused Lahore. The clean, healthy air of academic...
Published 27 Nov, 2019 07:13am
If my dear GC friend Naveed Nasir ever returned from ‘flowery’ San Francisco to see his old house in Gulberg...
Published 01 Aug, 2019 06:59am
When you are with two delightful academically famous ladies, complaining about food is not appropriate. My interest...
Published 26 Jul, 2019 07:06am
For Pakistanis who roam the world, there is one food tradition that they miss immensely, and that is the Pakistani...
Published 14 Jul, 2019 06:54am
After a gruelling national airline trip laced with an unannounced early departure, seats reshuffle from the extreme...
Published 07 Jul, 2019 07:23am
Its the third day of Eid and chances are you're tired of all the hullabaloo. How bout a day out with the fam?
Published 18 Jun, 2018 09:53am
Now that the fasting days are over we all find ourselves pushed into a weekend of indulgence. From the austere to ...
Published 16 Jun, 2018 08:05am
If you really want to enjoy amazing Lahori food, the Walled City is the place to go, and I do not mean the recent...
Published 15 Apr, 2018 06:27am
It is amazing just how the image and theme of Sultan Rahi, the famous Punjabi actor known as the Clint Eastwood of...
Published 01 Apr, 2018 06:48am
The very name ‘Qabail’ with regards to the culinary world is enough to draw anyone’s attention, for the food ...
Published 25 Mar, 2018 06:14am
Oh, it’s good to be back on the mad ‘dodgem car’ roads of Lahore. My city was visible only after 500 feet from...
Published 18 Mar, 2018 07:07am
As the month of Ramazan continues, not to forget the searing heat, among the best ‘Iftari’ offers, amazingly,...
Published 12 Jun, 2016 07:02am
For quite some time I had been hearing of the wonders being conjured up by this new eatery in DHA’s DD sector near...
Updated 05 Jun, 2016 01:38pm
