Khalid Saleem

ONE wonders if the gentle reader has come across the most apt definition of the ‘supermarket’. A supermarket, this definition goes, is the place you…

I hasten to laugh at everything for the fear of being obliged to weep”. One does not claim authorship of these words; since they were…

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…

DOLLARS have always had an uncanny fascination for the residents of the Land of the Pure. Maybe it is because of our tendency to slavishly…

THE ongoing potshots in the field of health should have served to bring home to mankind the truism that nature is always one step ahead.…

THERE are two other buzzwords that continue to cadge the headlines. These are ‘corruption’ and ‘accountability’. Open any newspaper and these two are always there…

ONE was afraid that someday it would come to this. The way things move in the Land of the Pure, what else does the common…

  MOST tales one comes across these days are fishy. Some, to be sure, are more fishy than others, but fishy neverthe-less. One was looking…

  OUR cricket appears to have hit rock bottom. Things just could not be any worse than they are at this juncture. The common Pakistani…

Efforts have been on for some time, it would appear, to ‘humanize the computer’. One would have thought that, as things stand, the influence of…