ADVICE FROM DISNEYLAND
The Shaukat Tarin/Hina Rabbani Khar budget for 2009-10 is no different from any other Pakistani budget presented in the last two decades. There is nothing in there which will tangibly do anything for the 180 million wretched Pakistanis who find it difficult to make ends meet. Pakistani budgets are like Pakistani movies where viewers can...
NO FREE LUNCH
Since 1947 Pakistan has found that there have been plenty of suitors who have wanted to give it bagfuls of money to help find its feet. But finding our feet has been harder than it should have been so here we are in 2008 still looking for a handout from wherever we can find it. ...
HOW MUMBO-JUMBO CONQUERED THE WORLD (AND OUR COUNTRY TOO)
I’m stealing this title from Francis Wheen’s excellent book, “How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World”, because I think it is very relevant to Pakistan as it is to the rest of the world. The book describes how we live in an age where intellectual dishonesty, conjured statistics, charged emotional rhetoric, and absolute nonsense can be pawned...
The Sugar Coated Shaft
It is now official – the party has begun though 95% of the population of Pakistan is not invited, but then the plebs have never been on the guest lists since the birth of this country in 1947. On Monday the 6th of June, a glib and shifty Omar Ayub Khan with his Hitler-esque mustache...
