Cafe Pyala

When you have four stories on one patently manufactured 'issue' carried by a newspaper in five days, you can safely consider it an ...

Almost two years ago, I wrote this piece and this piece about reporting on the Air Blue aircraft crash in Islamabad. The tragic crash of ...

I was going to post my outrage over the depths of tabloid-y sleazebaggery that The News sunk to today but blogger Tazeen has already said...

This is a post about the heart-rending tragedy that struck on the Siachen Glacier early Saturday morning, which has buried - and in all lik...

What a fucking waste of a Sunday. Here I was minding my own business, trying to do some work, relax a little bit, surf the net and... I end...

I have been meaning to write about a clip from the DawnNews show Kab Ta k titled ' Hasool-e-Insaaf Ki Jidojehd ' (The Struggle fo...

It's usually at times like these that I heave a sigh of relief that one does not have easy access to Indian news television channels in ...

If you had any doubts about what Meher Bokhari , the recently removed host of Samaa 's Newsbeat programme, is going through these days...

Whatever else the merits of the Wikileaks expose may be, one thing is for sure: it is a DISASTER for some of Pakistan's media. The huge...

Remember this story in The News on November 3 by its Group Editor, Shaheen Sehbai ? The front page 'expose' of an allegedly massiv...

Don't you just hate it when the facade of liberal, sensible urbane-ness you have so carefully constructed over years and years comes cra...

About bloody time somebody said this in the US media! The programme is Morning Joe on MSNBC . The rant is by MSNBC staffer Dylan Ratigan ...

A picture has been doing the rounds on email purporting to show the debauchery of Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani . It shows...