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This was crying out to be taken notice of. According to a news item in The News , Nepal's authorities have come up with an innovative wa...

Ok, so with reference to the sexual harrassment allegations against MD Dunya TV Yousaf Baig Mirza (YBM), first reported on Cafe Pyala here ,...

Okay folks, have been trying to remember all the bits and pieces I wanted to blog about over the last couple of weeks but which I never go...

Two stories, from two provincial assemblies had me in fits. Or they would have, had I known what to make of them. The first comes from the...

Apologies for the long absence... a bunch of stuff to catch up on, which I hope some of my fellow bloggers will also get round to. But befor...

Brought to you by the makers of The Friday Times, I give you Ali Sethi, the next big name on the Pakistani literary scene. A publishing prod...

Okay, so Salmaan Taseer owns the Daily Times. If you had any doubts on that count you could do worse than check out this week's Sunday m...

What is the first word that comes to mind when Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah is mentioned? Soft-spoken? Mild-mannered? Ineffectual? Wea...

So here's that wonderful, wonderful catch by Shahid Afridi to get rid of New Zealand's Scott Styris in the on-going ICC T20 tourname...

"General Kayani takes Ariel view of operation Rah-e-Rast" You can imagine my surprise when I saw this poetic heading in The News....

I almost spilled my morning tea and toast when I feasted my eyes on this in this morning's Dawn . I mean, you know you're in some de...

Saeed Ajmal tries slapstick in effort to entertain There has been much too much negativity around the Pakistani cricket team's performan...

In the middle of the frenzy about the army operation in Swat / Buner / Dir, the news of kidnappings and recovery of scores of cadets, the ap...