Posted by Shahrezad Samiuddin on 11 19th, 2009
How do you, indeed? Meera does the rounds via SMS jokes about her English. Meera helps a damp squib sink to the bottom of the Indian box office. Meera’s alleged husband turns up demanding his house and crores back. Meera predicts she’ll be linked...
Posted by Nadeem F. Paracha on 11 19th, 2009
Islamabad, November 18: Famous anti-India TV personality, Zion Hamid, was caught yesterday watching Shakuntali, a popular Indian TV soap opera. The discovery was made by one of his fans who Hamid thought was his milkman.
When Hamid opened his door,...
Posted by Guest on 11 18th, 2009
In case you haven’t been able to keep up, here’s a short recap of the last five months in Pakistan cricket. We became World Champions, but were branded as match-fixers by a very bored politician. We beat our arch-rivals in a major ICC tournament,...
Posted by Guest on 11 17th, 2009
Return to Karachi after a five-week vacation and you’ll find that things have changed dramatically. I am not referring here to the steady decline in the state of the country’s affairs, but the fact that Liberty Books, hitherto the most visible...
Posted by Talha Zaheer on 11 16th, 2009
In the midst of an impassioned mob at the New York Yankees ticker tape parade, I came across an unexpected sight. A few feet from me, with an equally obtrusive view of Broadway, stood a tall Caucasian man holding an Urdu newspaper, the words ‘Pakistan...
Posted by Asif Akhtar on 11 14th, 2009
Recently, I met some jihadis who have been in the business of holy war since the 1990s. I was surprised to hear that even though they were in support of the jihad in Afghanistan and Kashmir, they were opposed to the idea of destabilising Pakistan...
Posted by Amber Rahim Shamsi on 11 13th, 2009
I had a bizarre encounter with our corner shopwallah the other day, which went something like this.
‘Ayee?’ (Has it come?)
‘Abhi nahin. Kal try karna.’ (Not yet. Try tomorrow.)
So I did, and he still didn’t have it. This continued for several...
Posted by Nadeem F. Paracha on 11 12th, 2009
The day after the terrible terrorist attack at Islamabad’s Islamic University that took the lives of eight innocent students, certain TV news channels ran a footage of a dozen or so angered students of the university pelting stones. The first question...
Posted by Hafsa on 11 12th, 2009
In the age of stump microphones, slow-motion lip reading, and ICC penal codes for racist slurs on the field, Pakistan’s pioneer sports channel has come up with an unbelievable series promo.
The private sports channel’s teaser for the upcoming...