I know this is a blog entry that is going to provoke the most hideous retribution, yet it is a burden I need to off load and so I place my neck on the platter and await a mass chopping. I have no regrets; First off, I utterly loathe almost everything about the entire concept [...]

In a very grim sort of way, Pakistan has become the most entertaining spot on the planet over the last two years or so.  The last year of General Musharraf’s quasi-military dictatorship was compelling especially with the growth of the local media channels that brought the furore and filth of Pakistani politics right into our [...]

Hail to the King Baby…..Jacko is Backo! but is he still Michael Jackson or hadn’t he recently reportedly “embraced” Islam as many of the worlds top luminaries do.  Cat Stevens, Jermaine Jackson and Mike Tyson among them and apparently even Britney Spears toyed with the idea before Mel Gibson talked her out of it.  I [...]

Having despised Nationalism as the most divisive of political notions for most of my conscious life I now find that it does have certain charms and attractions.  Now, especially as my youth is spent I join former Test Cricketer Saeed Anwer in his call to stop and abolish the menace of cricket which he says [...]

Something very odd happened yesterday. There was no suicide bombing anywhere in Pakistan.
Sadly, over the last year or so those of us living in the “Land of the Pure” have been driven to cursing the day it all began because where we are today is something that our founder would have been [...]

What a year it has been for the Pakistan film industry so far. The much over-hyped ‘Revival of Cinema in Pakistan’ has been exposed as it has all but stuttered to a halt. Production levels have plummeted to the levels of when the industry was on its fledgling wobbly legs back in the early 1950s [...]