By Anwaar Hussain Everybody loves Raymond, the double slayer. The Pakistani Government ‘loves’ him to the extent that they are willing to bend the rules to grant him diplomatic immunity from prosecution for the twin killings that he committed in Lahore. They ‘love’ him for the large one-time dose of Manna, over and above the [...]

By Anwaar Hussain The US says that Wikileaks disclosures are a crime. Since when has disclosure of a crime become a crime, wasn’t explained. Apart from the fact that the reaction of the United States’ Government borders on the ridiculous, it does remind one of that famous quote from the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and [...]

By Masood Hasan As institutions and all that we once held in great esteem fall around us like ninepins in a bowling alley where the players have gone berserk, very few of us now have the luxury of taking a step back and simply evaluating our position. Instead, we seem to be swept along the [...]

By Anwaar Hussain Having observed international politics in general, and Pakistani politics in particular, over a long period of time, the scribe feels constrained to surmise that the phenomenon, weird as it may seem, works according to certain laws. Let us call these as the general Laws of Politics (Pakistani Politics in Particular) or LOP(PPP) [...]

By Anwaar Hussain With Pakistan’s Supreme Court striking down the amnesty granted to the hyenas, the hunt for this carnivore in the Indus valley begins. Tracking skills and techniques have suddenly become very important to locate the animal, identify his spoor and follow his filth trail to his hiding place. This requires skill, knowledge and [...]

Author’s note: The soon to come Bush’s farewell address will be delivered in Texican, his native language. To enjoy the address, you got to have a working knowledge of Texican. The lexicon for Texican is given at the end of this address. By Anwaar Hussain Guys ‘n gals! Howdy gang, When I took over the [...]

By Anwaar Hussain If by a quirk of fate, America’s victim nations get together, pronounce ‘enough is enough’ and proceed to invade and occupy America, what would their Rules of Engagement be during the occupation. The scribe has chalked out just a few on the exact same lines as America has them for her forces [...]