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What’s cooking?

A famous person told me once, very angrily, that if you won’t me talk about what I want to talk about , then I’ll just discuss food for 40 minutes.I laughed and asked him: “tell me... → Read More

For our women

The first time I ‘met’ Qandeel Baloch was when she came to one of the programmes I was producing at Geo News in Lahore. She was in Karachi, connected to us via studio link.I remember how... → Read More

Break from the past

Before the election, and during campaigning, the one person everyone was watching was Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. It was obvious that the PPP would not be forming government in the centre so practically... → Read More

Why did Shahbaz Sharif fail?

There comes a time when there is a vacuum that needs to be filled by a leader. The tragedy of Pakistan is that this space is almost always given to a blood relative of the leader before. However,... → Read More

Death and politics

It wasn’t an excuse or a farce. Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, Pakistan’s former first lady and one-time head of the PML-N, really was sick. For more than a year, she battled throat cancer and for... → Read More

The meter starts now

PTI MPA Dr Imran Ali Shah probably doesn’t regret repeatedly slapping an old man on the road. But he is probably kicking himself for not realising that the event was being taped – or,... → Read More

Dilemmas: old and new

The honeymoon ended sooner than expected and confusion has set in. Merit, honesty and a corruption-free Pakistan – this is what was promised to Imran Khan’s voters. But it seems that... → Read More

The PTI’s Shahbaz Sharif

There is only one requirement for Imran Khan’s pick for the chief minister of Punjab: s/he has to be better than Shahbaz Sharif. Better administration, better optics, and better at getting... → Read More