IT’S ALWAYS THE ECONOMY, STUPID
It’s August and finally Mr. Musharraf has called it a day and decided to spare the nation and himself a drawn out impeachment drama which would have gone through. On Wednesday the deadline for the judges issue comes up and hopefully one way or the other even that will be resolved. And now to the...
HOMECOMING
According to financial circles in London, Islamabad is going to be graced with financial royalty when Shaukat Aziz arrives. And before people begin to get all excited that he’s coming to play another round of spectacular golf at the Islamabad Golf Club and repeat his hole in one at the 16th hole televised by the...
AN ODE TO SHAUKAT AZIZ
Since about October 12th 2007 the news in the country and internationally hasn’t really allowed us to pay homage to a great patriot who gave us 9 years of his life and has recently left with a heavy heart for greener pastures. I speak of Shaukat Aziz who has recently left for London and then...
‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE MERRY
Millions of citizens across Pakistan are quivering like little puppies as they anticipate their most favorite time of the year – budget time. For those tens of thousands of tourists who are visiting Pakistan because of the Visit Pakistan 2007 campaign, budget time is when millions of ordinary Pakistanis rejoice as they know that a...
Removed From Reality
The reality is that no Caucasian in his/her right (and white) mind is going to be coming to Pakistan anytime soon. Our honorable wheeler-dealer of a Finance Minister was quoted in a leading English-language daily today saying that given Pakistan’s large English speaking human resource pool it was to become a premier place for doing...
