“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,”
“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.
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.
“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.
“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.
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,
Tahrir Square has been re-injected into Pakistan’s political vocabulary, after Canadian-Pakistani religious scholar, Tahirul Qadri, returned to Pakistan.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
