2008 |
| August 29, 2008 |
Native son, neurosurgeon |
| August 22, 2008 |
They kill women, don’t they! |
| August 15, 2008 |
Unravelling of Al Qaeda |
| August 8, 2008 |
Grand revolutionary |
| August 1, 2008 |
English, the moveable feast |
| July 25, 2008 |
Land of invisible women |
| July 18, 2008 |
PIA, the way it was |
| July 11, 2008 |
Kardar: the once and forever skipper |
| July 4, 2008 |
Invasion of the sound byte snatchers |
| June 27, 2008 |
Come back Naveed Malik |
| June 20, 2008 |
Three cups of tea |
| June 13, 2008 |
Remembering Inam Aziz |
| June 6, 2008 |
God’s self-declared gatekeepers |
| May 30, 2008 |
Tarek Fatah’s lonely crusade |
| May 23, 2008 |
Urdu press in Old Blighty |
| May 16, 2008 |
Prime Minister Gillani: poetry and politics |
| May 9, 2008 |
The Field Marshal’s testament |
| May 2, 2008 |
Think twice then say nothing |
| April 25, 2008 |
How Pakistan can become Singapore |
| April 18, 2008 |
The man called Zafrulla Khan |
| April 11, 2008 |
Machiavelli made easy |
| April 4, 2008 |
Chacha Chaudhry’s century |
| March 28, 2008 |
Hamo Khan: another wicket falls |
| March 21, 2008 |
Romancing the city of Lahore |
| March 14, 2008 |
The writing on the wall |
| March 7, 2008 |
Ijaz Batalvi and Noon Meem Rashed |
| February 29, 2008 |
The Taliban’s world |
| February 22, 2008 |
The inimitable Bokhari touch |
| February 15, 2008 |
Ah! India-Pakistani diplomacy |
| February 8, 2008 |
The autobiography collector |
| February 1, 2008 |
A Lahori in Washington |
| January 25, 2008 |
Dev Anand, not out at 82 |
| January 18, 2008 |
Murray College: the way it was |
| January 11, 2008 |
America’s years of darkness |
| January 4, 2008 |
Remembering Benazir Bhutto |
|
2007 |
| December 28, 2007 |
How OPEC failed the Third World |
| December 21, 2007 |
For Zahur Azar’s eyes |
| December 14, 2007 |
Annie and Parvin Shakir: a passage at arms |
| December 7, 2007 |
The vision of Qurratulain Hyder |
| November 30, 2007 |
Lahore circa 1947 |
| November 23, 2007 |
The rosary of silence |
| November 16, 2007 |
Kashmir’s vanished beauty |
| November 9, 2007 |
English and its Pakistani travails |
| November 2, 2007 |
Speaking the hard truth in Washington |
| October 26, 2007 |
Soldiering on but not in battle |
| October 19, 2007 |
Indian summer without secrets |
| October 5, 2007 |
The big off break man from Sialkot |
| September 28, 2007 |
Letters from the Saint of Chakiwara |
| September 21, 2007 |
Sadequain 20 years later |
| September 14, 2007 |
Majid Lahori: the people’s columnist |
| September 7, 2007 |
The magic world of child painters |
| August 31, 2007 |
Qurratulain Hyder, literature’s First Lady |
| August 24, 2007 |
Sialkot, city with a difference |
| August 17, 2007 |
Kashmir: a rational view |
| August 10, 2007 |
Pakistan and history’s black jester |
| August 3, 2007 |
Old soldiers fading away |
| July 27, 2007 |
Javed Hashmi’s testament |
| July 20, 2007 |
Hamraz Ahsan: London’s native alien |
| July 13, 2007 |
Munir Niazi’s magic worlds |
| July 6, 2007 |
The story of Dodoland |
| June 29, 2007 |
Akbar Ahmed’s journey |
| June 22, 2007 |
The national treasure called Ahmed Faraz |
| June 15, 2007 |
Chacha Zindabad |
| June 8, 2007 |
Tahir Mirza slips gently into the night |
| June 1, 2007 |
Kishwar Naheed lets memory speak |
| May 25, 2007 |
No business like mil–business |
| May 18, 2007 |
Travel time Sialkot |
| May 11, 2007 |
Nur Jehan – one in a million |
| May 4, 2007 |
Amrita Sher Gil’s Lahore |
| April 27, 2007 |
What happened to Jinnah’s Pakistan? |
| April 20, 2007 |
Kashmir and Indian apologists |
| April 13, 2007 |
Abdulla Malik’s old Lahore |
| April 6, 2007 |
Ah! that damsel in distress |
| March 30, 2007 |
Muslehuddin: the prince of Lahore |
| March 23, 2007 |
How Bhutto’s fears have come true |
| March 16, 2007 |
Mirpur 1947 – the untold story |
| March 9, 2007 |
Bokhari, Lahore’s true geographer |
| March 2, 2007 |
Lahore: a musical story |
| February 23, 2007 |
The holy men of Pakistan |
| February 16, 2007 |
Why Pakistan broke up |
| February 9, 2007 |
Jolly good laugh |
| February 2, 2007 |
Kuldip Nayar’s Sialkot |
| January 26, 2007 |
Ayub 40 years later |
| January 19, 2007 |
The many worlds of Zamurrad Malik |
| January 12, 2007 |
The orange blossom man |
| January 5, 2007 |
The Taliban’s world |
|
2006 |
| December 29, 2006 |
The last Orientalist |
| December 22, 2006 |
Beyond a boundary |
| December 15, 2006 |
Stop the Taliban takeover of Pakistan |
| December 8, 2006 |
The spell they cast |
| December 1, 2006 |
A soldier rediscovers Islam |
| November 24, 2006 |
Hurricane Asma hits Washington |
| November 17, 2006 |
Truckin’ down heartbreak highway |
| November 10, 2006 |
Chas Freeman: a voice in the wilderness |
| November 3, 2006 |
October memories of small town cricket |
| October 27, 2006 |
Killing Kashmir with “self-governance” |
| October 20, 2006 |
Ladies as hooded bandits |
| October 13, 2006 |
Savera, the magazine that refuses to die |
| October 6, 2006 |
Nawaz Sharif’s testament |
| September 29, 2006 |
The great shade tree |
| September 22, 2006 |
The man who rode through the Karakorams |
| September 15, 2006 |
Our Lady of the Apostrophe |
| September 8, 2006 |
Ahmed Bashir: the mullah’s nemesis |
| September 1, 2006 |
Letter to the Quaid: Srinagar circa 1947 |
| August 25, 2006 |
Agha Nasir’s cultural mosaic |
| August 18, 2006 |
The elusive bird called Good Governance |
| August 11, 2006 |
Zahur Azar and the first broadcast |
| August 4, 2006 |
The truth about Miss Jinnah’s death |
| July 28, 2006 |
It happened in 1946 |
| July 21, 2006 |
Bhutto’s last letter to his hangman |
| July 14, 2006 |
Dorothy Parker: O what a lady! |
| July 7, 2006 |
How the Quaid’s fears came true |
| June 30, 2006 |
Jammu: return of the lost son |
| June 23, 2006 |
Remembering Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| June 16, 2006 |
The Zia-ul-Haq murder mystery |
| June 9, 2006 |
Pakistan’s Mullah takeover |
| June 2, 2006 |
Zulifikar Ali Bhutto’s last interview |
| May 19, 2006 |
The National Cat Commission |
| May 19, 2006 |
Naushad: fled is that music |
| May 12, 2006 |
Shakespeare: king of all he surveyed |
| May 5, 2006 |
Who will stand up and speak for Islam? |
| April 28, 2006 |
Everyone has a Kashmir solution |
| April 21, 2006 |
The Saint of Chakiwara rides again |
| April 14, 2006 |
Faiz and the land of yellow leaves |
| April 7, 2006 |
A 1947 Kashmir story |
| March 31, 2006 |
What really happened in 1971 |
| March 24, 2006 |
AS Bokhari, unlike any other |
| March 17, 2006 |
The great Bard of Gujrat |
| March 10, 2006 |
Manto and the Saint of Chakiwara |
| February 24, 2006 |
The Peshawar-Ohio link |
| February 17, 2006 |
The splendid Pran Sabharwal |
| February 10, 2006 |
Ah! Those Foreign Office wives |
| February 3, 2006 |
Nargis: star of undying bloom |
| January 27, 2006 |
The road Kashmiri pandits did not take |
| January 20, 2006 |
ZAB: poet, revolutionary, patriot |
| January 13, 2006 |
Eqbal Ahmed’s unanswered question |
| January 6, 2006 |
Amtul Hafeez: a woman remembers |
|
2005 |
| December 30, 2005 |
Dubai chalo Dubai |
| December 23, 2005 |
Meera Sen’s forgotten lover |
| December 16, 2005 |
Shakespeare rules the world |
| December 9, 2005 |
How the military mind works |
| December 2, 2005 |
What is so Islamic about the hijab! |
| November 25, 2005 |
Dr Israr’s poisoned chalice |
| November 11, 2005 |
General, go to Mali |
| November 4, 2005 |
Finally, the great Pakistani novel |
| October 28, 2005 |
To Gitmo and back |
| October 21, 2005 |
Sir Geoff keeps the writs flyin’ |
| October 14, 2005 |
Big Brother is listening |
| October 7, 2005 |
How I won the Spanish Lottery |
| September 30, 2005 |
The women’s hour |
| September 23, 2005 |
Ishfaque Ahmed’s prayer |
| September 16, 2005 |
Old soldiers come together |
| September 9, 2005 |
Black cats and Zaheer Abbas’s cracked bat |
| September 2, 2005 |
Aslam Khattak, the long-distance runner |
| August 26, 2005 |
Ah! Those perfect cooks |
| August 19, 2005 |
Zahur Azar and freedom at midnight |
| August 12, 2005 |
No, North Korea we’re not |
| August 5, 2005 |
Where does the Kashmir bus stop? |
| July 29, 2005 |
Frankly, my dear |
| July 22, 2005 |
Welcome to Tora Bora |
| July 15, 2005 |
Remembering Syed Abid Ali |
| July 8, 2005 |
The hounding of Ahmed Faraz |
| July 1, 2005 |
Not all old soldiers fade away |
| June 24, 2005 |
Looking for justice, but where? |
| June 17, 2005 |
Daud Rehbar, the exile who never left |
| June 10, 2005 |
Fazal Mahmood ends his spell |
| June 3, 2005 |
In the aftermath of 9/11 |
| May 27, 2005 |
Jammu 1947: gone but not forgotten |
| May 20, 2005 |
Ahmed Bashir, the last warrior |
| May 13, 2005 |
Jinnah and Colonel Blimp |
| May 6, 2005 |
No springtime in Kashmir |
| April 29, 2005 |
“Judge” Maqbul Sharif’s times |
| April 22, 2005 |
The return of Manto |
| April 15, 2005 |
Well played Omar Kureishi |
| April 8, 2005 |
It happened 2000 years ago |
| April 1, 2005 |
Playing with millions |
| March 25, 2005 |
The fight for Islam’s soul |
| March 18, 2005 |
Looking for Musarrat Nazir |
| March 11, 2005 |
The Jam who “mickled” the UN |
| March 4, 2005 |
What left-handers don’t know |
| February 25, 2005 |
Rise and shine Sir Geoff |
| February 18, 2005 |
Sardar Sadiq’s Lahore |
| February 11, 2005 |
The other Khurshid Anwar |
| February 5, 2005 |
Saigal, one in a million |
| January 28, 2005 |
Hamoodur Rehman revisited |
| January 21, 2005 |
The wrath of God |
| January 14, 2005 |
The great conspiracy |
| January 7, 2005 |
Kashmir: some home truths |
|
2004 |
| December 31, 2004 |
Faiz twenty years later |
| December 24, 2004 |
Come back Tauqir Zia |
| December 17, 2004 |
Anwar Ali and the old campaigners |
| December 10, 2004 |
Naseer Anwar’s Lahore |
| December 3, 2004 |
Northern Areas, neither fish nor fowl |
| November 26, 2004 |
The Kashmir mirage |
| November 19, 2004 |
Who’ll save Murray College? |
| November 12, 2004 |
Uncle Sam’s nephew |
| November 5, 2004 |
Mirpur, the vanished city |
| October 29, 2004 |
Kashmir’s continuing tragedy |
| October 22, 2004 |
From religion into religiosity |
| October 15, 2004 |
Let Chaudhry Rehmat Ali lie in peace |
| October 8, 2004 |
A soldier’s life |
| October 1, 2004 |
Preserving lives as lived |
| September 24, 2004 |
Yahya, the last act |
| September 17, 2004 |
Who are Pakistan’s ambassadors? |
| September 10, 2004 |
Ashfaq Ahmed’s way |
| September 3, 2004 |
Riding into the Canadian sunset |
| August 27, 2004 |
Dynasties, Subcontinental style |
| August 20, 2004 |
Memory lane to Jammu |
| August 13, 2004 |
Paranoia stalks America the beautiful |
| August 6, 2004 |
Angels to the rescue |
| July 30, 2004 |
How Jinnah was remembered in 1976 |
| July 23, 2004 |
A Hamid's Lahore |
| July 16, 2004 |
Manto in Uncle Sam’s cabin |
| July 9, 2004 |
Invoking George Orwell |
| July 2, 2004 |
1971: what went wrong |
| June 18, 2004 |
Who killed Zia-ul-Haq? |
| June 11, 2004 |
Who says slavery stands abolished? |
| June 4, 2004 |
Bring on the Big Khan |
| May 28, 2004 |
No tears for Dhaka |
| May 21, 2004 |
Butt out |
| May 14, 2004 |
From tiger cages to Abu Ghraib |
| May 7, 2004 |
The Islamic century |
| April 30, 2004 |
Faiz, the way he was |
| April 23, 2004 |
Doctored religious messages |
| April 16, 2004 |
Batalvi and Bhutto: a case to answer |
| April 9, 2004 |
Kashmir without tinted glasses |
| April 2, 2004 |
The Quixotic dreamer |
| March 26, 2004 |
Saigal a hundred years later |
| March 19, 2004 |
The chief makes history |
| March 12, 2004 |
Another cricketing Khan gone |
| March 5, 2004 |
Suraiyya, star from another sky |
| February 27, 2004 |
Naipaul's last Indian innings |
| February 20, 2004 |
Sialkot's vanished days |
| February 13, 2004 |
The story of Fatima |
| February 6, 2004 |
What Lahore could be and isn’t |
| January 30, 2004 |
Lahore’s crane drain |
| January 23, 2004 |
A prince departs |
| January 16, 2004 |
A Manto remembrance |
| January 9, 2004 |
Saffron's no colour for India |
| January 2, 2004 |
ZA Suleri: A daughter remembers |
|
2003 |
| December 26, 2003 |
Hitting hard, hitting straight |
| December 19, 2003 |
Poisoning young minds |
| December 12, 2003 |
Requirements of love |
| December 5, 2003 |
Those three Batalvi brothers |
| November 28, 2003 |
Solved, the Osama mystery |
| November 21, 2003 |
The world according to Rathore |
| November 14, 2003 |
The way it was |
| November 7, 2003 |
Malika Pukhraj and memory’s mosaic |
| October 31, 2003 |
Danny Pearl, a life interrupted |
| October 24, 2003 |
Dr Abdus Salam: a memoir |
| October 17, 2003 |
Believing the unbelievable |
| October 10, 2003 |
Thank God we're not North Korea |
| October 3, 2003 |
HK Burki: one in a million |
| September 26, 2003 |
Three forgotten music greats |
| September 19, 2003 |
Cliché is king of the castle |
| September 12, 2003 |
Staying the course with the Bhuttos |
| September 5, 2003 |
The feudals rule OK, thank you |
| August 29, 2003 |
Ashiq Kalim and the romance of ZAB |
| August 15, 2003 |
Remembering Zafrullah Khan |
| August 8, 2003 |
Last of the gentleman officers |
| August 1, 2003 |
Punjab University's forgotten genius |
| July 25, 2003 |
Javid Iqbal’s testament |
| July 18, 2003 |
Mourning Agha the violinist |
| July 11, 2003 |
Letter from Tehran |
| July 4, 2003 |
Reliving those Delhi yesterdays |
| June 27, 2003 |
The dragon harvest |
| June 20, 2003 |
Oval hero in his 76th over |
| June 13, 2003 |
Kissing Punjab University goodbye |
| June 06, 2003 |
Slavery, the diplomatic way |
| May 30, 2003 |
The Washington connection |
| May 23, 2003 |
The Ozymandias paradigm |
| May 16, 2003 |
Because they hate women |
| May 9, 2003 |
Kishwar Naheed looks back |
| May 2, 2003 |
The Saudi crystal ball |
| April 25, 2003 |
Northern Areas demystified |
| April 18, 2003 |
Abdulla Malik - the last comrade |
| April 11, 2003 |
The truth about the Ganga hijacking |
| April 4, 2003 |
Found: Pakistan's real problem |
| March 28, 2003 |
The Urdu press and its chosen format |
| March 21, 2003 |
Those Lahore radio days |
| March 14, 2003 |
The external publicity myth |
| March 7, 2003 |
The son also rises |
| February 28, 2003 |
Last post for an old soldier |
| February 21, 2003 |
Open the window and let the sun in |
| February 14, 2003 |
The hijackers of Islam |
| January 24, 2003 |
Great son of Narowal |
| January 17, 2003 |
The Brits are not returning |
| January 10, 2003 |
Getting it right on Kashmir |
| January 3, 2003 |
Memories of pre-1947 Lahore |
|
2002 |
| December 27, 2002 |
Remembering Nasir Ahmed Farooki |
| December 13, 2002 |
Dilip Kumar is king |
| December 6, 2002 |
Come back Zia-ul-Haq |
| November 29, 2002 |
Kasi's posthumous defenders |
| November 22, 2002 |
Memories of Manto |
| November 15, 2002 |
APP: a death foretold |
| November 08, 2002 |
Step across this line |
| November 01, 2002 |
James Bond at forty |
| October 25, 2002 |
Hotel Moenjodaro |
| October 18, 2002 |
Here comes the hirsute brigade |
| October 14, 2002 |
The Saudi way |
| October 11, 2002 |
Errol Flynn of Cricket |
| October 4, 2002 |
Pakistan doing OK, Generally speaking |
| September 27, 2002 |
Smoking, sin without pleasure |
| September 20, 2002 |
A fishy story |
| September 13, 2002 |
Kashmir: time for honesty |
| September 6, 2002 |
Ibne Insha’s last letter |
| August 30, 2002 |
CSP-DMG, down but is’t out? |
| August 23, 2002 |
The Jehlum Connection |
| August 16, 2002 |
The Little Master |
| August 9, 2002 |
Fakhre Humayun, a remembrance |
| August 2, 2002 |
Jailed in India, unwanted in Pakistan |
| July 26, 2002 |
The crocs are a'swimmin' |
| July 19, 2002 |
Sir Geoffrey the Great |
| July 12, 2002 |
Liberalism, Chaklala style |
| July 5, 2002 |
The General's ghosts |
| June 28, 2002 |
One cricketer's memories |
| June 21, 2002 |
Sultan Rahi lives |
| June 14, 2002 |
Kashmir: what could have been |
| June 7, 2002 |
The Saudi way |
| May 31, 2002 |
Iqbal: one in a million |
| May 24, 2002 |
Naipaul strikes again |
| May 17, 2002 |
Gujarat through one Indian's eyes |
| May 10, 2002 |
Chacha Zindabad |
| May 3, 2002 |
Playing cricket with Faiz |
| April 26, 2002 |
English, Pakistani style |
| April 19, 2002 |
Omar Kureishi's Casablanca |