Islamabad is a fine microcosm of Pakistan in more ways than one given its composition of ethnic backgrounds with citizens from all over the country eking out a living here and making the seat of the ...

For a major part of my journalistic career, I have had to make the graveyard shift — the price you pay for editing the broadsheet. Also, one has had the good fortune of employing skill in ...

There must be something common between Shahid Afridi and retired generalissimo Pervez Musharraf. They both tend to believe in their indispensability for Pakistan although, as we have conclusively ...

It is some irony that prime time television was probably at its best during the time of the worst dictatorship this country suffered. To think that the fare etched itself in the minds of my ...

My younger daughter, who’s just six-and-a-half, placed a bet with her older sibling, who’s all of eight-and-a-half, and won. The upstart had wagered that Imran Khan will not join the ...

Our hospitality is legendary. Ye hum nahi, loag kehte hain (the people, not us, say it) — so goes the refrain. Last month’s D-8 Summit in leafy but security besieged Islamabad provided us ...