What Modi understands
Weekly article - What Modi understands - http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/31-Dec-2015/what-modi-understands December 31, 2015
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He should at least sing
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Weekly piece for Daily Times (that got lost in editing) http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/17-Sep-2015/he-should-at-least-sing Determined I was to write on the ever-going political engineering experiment by the powers-that-be to install the leadership of their will. But then I have not fully learnt avoiding useless arguments. And I indulged in one such with a few friends on Atif Aslam’s much talked about Tajdar-e-Haram for a popular fizzy drink sponsored music show that gets a lot of limelight on media, both regular and social. My disdain for the show is pretty well-known among my friends and when a friend was all praises for Atif for the song, I could not help but point out that Atif’s singing lacked the basic understanding of melody and does not adhere to basic rules of singing. That, of course, did upset a few there and we went into a long argument. In the singing sensation’s defense, the best my friends could muster was that yes he lacks basics of music but one shoul...
Cricket Spitballs
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A slightly messed up edited version of this appeared in Daily Times of March 6, 2015. Shahid Afridi is a star all-rounder whose bowling average is equal to Imran Khan’s batting average and batting average is equal to Imran’s bowling average. How we wish it would have been reversed. A solace for team Pakistan can be that last time India won a close encounter against Zimbabwe, thanks to Kapil Dev, they ended up winning the world cup. Think positive guys or better do not think at all. Nasir Jamshed’s average in first four matches of the world cup resembles Aamir Sohail’s average of last four matches of WC92. Bigger question is, if by stroke of luck Pakistan does well here, can Jamshed do commentary? Like this time, in 1992 too, Pakistan lost big to West Indies in a match where Rameez Raja was stuck in our television screens for most part of the match. There is hope. Like 1992, even this time, no one is getting what Wasim Akram is throwing at them. Like 1992, even this time Waq...
Comedy in tragedy
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Unlike what the mainstream media believes, portrays, or covers, I have always found a PML-N government to be a comic affair. Ever since their first stints of power in my teen years to today, every time they have been in power, in their desire to look ultra-smart they end up providing comic relief to the observers. This time around, however, the affair seems to be on steroids. And if that was not enough what followed APS attack has sealed the deal for someone looking for ultimate comic relief. And the magnitude of tragedy that it follows and the problem that we face makes this comedy even more tragic. We are dealing with a government that seems to have no clue of the problems and how to deal with them. And in all seriousness trying to solve them without clue, it is creating a classic comedy. On security policy, all it is resorting to is a series of All Parties Conferences. Even that would have been fine had the agenda been initiated by the government. But the missing entity from all...