Khalid Saleem

Of (absent-minded) professors!
- By Khalid Saleem
- July 14, 2025
IT would be hard to find anyone who has not heard or read jokes featuring the (absent-minded) professor. With the possible exception of the mother-in-law…

Some more equal than others!
- By Khalid Saleem
- June 30, 2025
ONE thing that Corona virus pandemic brought in its wake was the realisation that nature abhors inequality. The pandemic brought home the truism that all…

Mountains out of molehills!
- By Khalid Saleem
- June 23, 2025
ONE visible by-product of the current developments on the political front in this blessed land is that the ‘lovers of democracy’ are all floundering around…

Elusive secret of living longer!
- By Khalid Saleem
- June 16, 2025
One often comes across pieces in the media of the Third World stressing the fact that several developing countries are ‘youth-heavy’, in that young people…

Of reptilian overtones!
- By Khalid Saleem
- June 2, 2025
WHAT is one supposed to do if faced with a real, live reptile? Not any run-of-the-mill rep-tile, mind you, but a fat, slimy, revolting creature…

Fiddling with figures!
- By Khalid Saleem
- May 26, 2025
ACCOUNTABILITY of varied shades has been in the news of late. Senior bureaucrats have been known to wriggle out of tight situations with their well-known…

Team players and solos!
- By Khalid Saleem
- May 19, 2025
FROM the ‘gentlemen’s game of cricket’ to the turbulent field of foreign affairs, our teams are often found wanting. It may be time to wonder…

On buying a used car!
- By Khalid Saleem
- May 12, 2025
In the world of today, where everything has been turned on its head because of the Corona Virus pan-demic, why should one talk of cars…

Islamabad: the (once) beautiful!
- By Khalid Saleem
- May 5, 2025
When the, then, President took the momentous decision to opt for a brand new Capital, the news did generate a mur-mur of sorts; though -…

Wither OIC?
- By Khalid Saleem
- April 28, 2025
WITH all the problems facing the Muslim World, the OIC appears to be lost in slumber. Not only has it hardly taken notice of the…