http://www.khalidhasan.net Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:10:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please visit the In Memoriam page for remembrances of a great man. http://www.khalidhasan.net/2009/02/05/1661/ Please visit the In Memoriam page for remembrances of a great man. http://www.khalidhasan.net/2009/02/05/1656/ The Durrani affair is another bizarre reminder that our government is still fumbling. What we have is a grouping of what has come to be known by the ugly and insulting term “stakeholders”, who pull the wagon to which they are hitched in different directions. Sometimes the tug-of-war fails to ... http://www.khalidhasan.net/2009/01/18/the-durrani-affair/ It is time the PPP government levelled with the people and admitted that there really is not going to be any UN investigation per se into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Why? Because the Government of Pakistan has failed to pursue the investigation with any seriousness, nor is it clear as ... http://www.khalidhasan.net/2009/01/11/bhutto%e2%80%99s-un-murder-probe/ he other day, I asked someone who had phoned from Lahore how the city was. He replied, “You can see for yourself.”Cities change of course but while in Europe, they change for the better, in our part of the world, they go to seed. The old is not preserved ... http://www.khalidhasan.net/2009/01/09/lahore-the-moveable-feast/ With the exception of cigarettes, which bring no benefit of any kind to anyone, there is nothing under the sun that does not produce some good. Take 9/11. Of course it put everyone living in the West with a Muslim name and what are euphemistically called “Middle Eastern looks” under suspicion as ... http://www.khalidhasan.net/2009/01/02/comedy-muslim-style/ egum Para, who passed away in her sleep in Mumbai in December of this year, was born on Christmas day 82 years ago, in Jehlum. Her father, Mian Ehsanul-Haq, was a judge who at some point in his life went into the judicial service of the princely state of ... http://www.khalidhasan.net/2009/01/02/begum-para-the-last-glamour-girl/ Like bullfrogs out after heavy summer rains, Pakistani cyberspace and the realm of the printed word are full of the croaking of neocons who have convinced the already ignorant that the Security Council sanctions against Jama’at-ud Dawa and certain individuals only came because Pakistani officials were either sleeping at the ... http://www.khalidhasan.net/2008/12/28/pakistani-neocons-and-un-sanctions/ his is the centenary year for Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, British Agent 007, irresistible to women with names like Vesper Lynd, Domino Vitali, Kissy Suzuki, Mary Goodnight, Tiffany Case, Solitaire and Tatiana Romanova. For the baddies of the world, who in his day were mostly commies ... http://www.khalidhasan.net/2008/12/26/well-played-james-bond-4/ Some well-heeled woman in Lahore took to the streets this week, daintily holding candles, while bright-eyed young men made up the rear — all in honour of the Iraqi journalist Muntazir al-Zaidi, who lobbed his shoes at President Bush. The NWFP assembly passed a resolution and a nation, already in ... http://www.khalidhasan.net/2008/12/21/a-nation-in-denial/