Ardeshir Cowasjee
OCCASIONALLY, just occasionally, there is a glimmer of hope. Not for the immediate present, nor even for the near...
Published 28 Aug, 2011 01:15am
A TEACHER is lecturing on population: “In Pakistan, every 10 seconds a woman gives birth to a baby.” A smart-alec...
Published 21 Aug, 2011 12:00pm
TODAY is officially a day of celebration — of sorts — for the ruling clique and a sizeable portion of the 180-plus...
Published 14 Aug, 2011 04:02am
SUBTITLED ‘When brothers and sisters fight’, Louise Bates Arnes wrote He Hit Me First in 1982 on selected dos and...
Published 07 Aug, 2011 12:54am
WITH increasing frequency, there fall into my email inbox messages from young people, students, some studying ...
Published 30 Jul, 2011 08:04pm
ON consecutive days, Irfan Husain and this column have taken up a critical issue which for reasons of expediency has...
Published 24 Jul, 2011 01:00am
IN times of dire turmoil, when things on all fronts seem hopeless and one does not know what might happen in the...
Published 16 Jul, 2011 08:34pm
IN this ‘world-is-but-a-stage’ that is Pakistan, what is it that visits apathy upon the suffering masses? They...
Published 09 Jul, 2011 08:36pm
PAKISTAN continues to flounder. The 2010 Environmental Performance Index ranked 163 countries on 25 performance...
Published 02 Jul, 2011 08:13pm
MID-June was a particularly fraught period for that strange relationship that prevails between the mighty US, which...
Published 25 Jun, 2011 08:28pm
GEORGE Burns, the comedian who generated laughter up to the age of 100 (much to be said for having a sense of...
Published 18 Jun, 2011 08:18pm
THIS nation is past master at myth-making and befooling itself. It lives in make-believe land — in our particular ...
Published 12 Jun, 2011 04:46am
A man points towards the Wikileaks memos shown on a TV screen at an electronic shop in Karachi, Pakistan on ...
Updated 29 Apr, 2019 04:42pm
WHILST the United States and Great Britain are doing whatever they think best to preserve Pakistan — naturally in...
Published 28 May, 2011 08:26pm
WILLIAM Dillard, founder of Dillard`s Department Stores, the third-largest department-store chain in the US, made...
Published 21 May, 2011 08:07pm
THE ministerial springing to the defence of the ISI took off pre-Abbottabad. On April 25, the interior minister,...
Published 14 May, 2011 08:30pm
IT has taken great strength of character for the Monticello doctor, Babar Awan, not only to resign from his powerful...
Published 08 May, 2011 02:24am
THE March 31 issue of carried an article entitled `A great deal of ruin in a nation`, comparing critical statistics...
Published 30 Apr, 2011 08:25pm
THIS past Friday came and went in the usual manner. The republic’s citizens were busy combating terrorism and...
Published 23 Apr, 2011 07:53pm
THE phrase ‘no clear path’ has a rather fine ring to it particularly if applied in general to Pakistan, the republic...
Published 16 Apr, 2011 08:15pm
