Satire

By Rabia Ahmed - It seems a bit unfair to expect the Prime Minister or any other government minister to worry about the power crisis. After all who in Pakistan worries about the Maori in New Zealand

By Rabia Ahmed - Every year in the British Houses of Parliament a gentleman called ‘The Black Rod’ carrying an ebony stick (engraved with a motto: Shame be to him who evil thinks), wearing black buckled shoes

By Harris Bin Munnawar - Dear Sir, Nearly half of the people of Pakistan are sleeping out in the open after their houses, crops and cattle were swept away by the recent floods. The other half have been left debilitated

By Haseeb Asif - Chlamedia is an electronically transmitted disease (ETD) that can prove life threatening in heavy doses. Passed on in the form of short wave radio signals from booster to booster,

By Haseeb Asif –  This government has seen fit to give us teeth to bite with. After the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) you will see how miscreants will simply start vanishing Earlier this month police in Lahore registered a First Investigation Report (FIR) against a nine month old baby for attempted murder. The child […]

By Hassan Belal Zaidi –  The master of the talk show circus has a gargantuan ego and is subject to little or no editorial oversight A talk show host is supposed to be a lot like a newspaper columnist; his words are full of sound and fury but they signify nothing. It is the news […]

By Hassan Belal Zaidi –  Munawwar, do you recall what Clemenzo once said about war? No. I don’t think I do, Shahid, no. He said war was too important to be left to the Generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be […]

By Nadeem F. Paracha - 2013 saw the publishing of some fantastic books in Pakistan. Many of them were based on great insights on whatever has been haunting Pakistan for decades.

By Ali Aftab Saeed –  Imran’s latest statements leave a bad taste Hate him or love him, it seems you just can’t stop Imran from saying something so unusual that the statement becomes a frog that an entire army of politico-doctors has to dissect. From the campaigning days to date, his line has not just […]

By Nadeem F. Paracha –  Why almost every sentence uttered by my fellow Pakistanis is punctuated with an Inshallah? Like most urban middle class folks these days, a friend of mine too has a habit of using the term Inshallah (God willing) a lot. So one day I asked him why is almost every sentence […]