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When I heard this news today, I can tell you, it warmed my heart. Wanker-in-chief Zaid Hamid 's arrival on March 6 (Saturday) at the I...

The media catchphrase of the last couple of days: " Chhitrol " (flogging). This, of course, after rather explicit footage first e...

So how fragile are the egos of the people in government? According to sources, the following Ufone ad (admittedly not one of their funniest...

Add one more media victim of the economic slump. The daily Business Day has ceased publication, as of Friday, 26 February. What's t...

Hmmmm. My first thought when I read The Times ' Mary Bowers ' response to my earlier post on the Dawn blog was, 'now you...

I don't really know what to say about this bit of news from across the border, other than recalling Samuel Johnson's not-oft-enough-...

If you thought Punjab under the Sharifs was a model of serious legislative work, think again. This story from Dawn today made me laugh out...

So CPM was musing about scoops a couple of days ago. How's this for being on the ball. This is a story on the front-page of Dawn to...

I am no great admirer of former minister Sheeda Tully aka Sheikh Rashid Ahmed , he of Lal Haveli and the newly formed Awami Muslim League f...

Came across this funny comics site called (bizarrely) Fly, You Fools! and thought would share its latest post. Enjoy! Actually, go see i...

Can you beat this? Or more specifically, can we beat him? Like, physically? According to an exclusive story today by The News ' Usman...

You know what the difference is between a scoop and just another story? Sometimes as little as a few seconds. In my case, it's about one...

Oh shoot. Here we go again with fashion weeks and Pakistan. Can we do anything in Pakistan without it being linked in some way to either ap...

DawnNews' new look. It seems we were slightly off in terms of our time slot predictions for the Urdu bulletins. The date for their l...

A hilarious post on " Sexy Islamism " by ex-DawnNews journalist Khawer Khan pointed me in the direction of this clip of designer ...

First things first. If ever there had been any doubt about the cretinism of President Asif Ali Zardari's legal and political advise...

This man is a one-man wrecking machine. I speak of course of PPP MNA from Muzaffargarh, Jamshed Dasti. The last time I wrote about him , I f...

A couple of stories I missed this past couple of weeks that really should be highlighted. If you haven't seen these yourself, you really...