Things categorized as 'Ardeshir Cowasjee'
January 17th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
None can deny that one of the most critical issues in the exploding city of Karachi (or Lahore or Rawalpindi) is traffic and transport.
And none can deny that the standard ...
January 10th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
Prior to launching into the main subject, the yawning constitutional abyss, I thought it might be suitable, with the country in mourning over the latest non-exploits of its cricket team, ...
August 2nd by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
In a country in which animals are treated and regarded as inanimate objects for the use and abuse of human beings we must marvel at the penchant of some of ...
June 28th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
A PROMINENT headline in this newspaper on June 25, 2009 informed us that our powerless prime minister, appointed by our power-charged president, “vows to revive the spirit of ’73 constitution”. ...
April 27th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
Air Marshal Asghar Khan, once, long ago, in what were the ‘good old days,’ was the world’s youngest chief of an air force, Pakistan’s air force, which he led with ...
April 6th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
THE local press is sometimes rather tardy when it comes to latching on to events on the home front. The video of the flogging of a young girl allegedly by ...
March 23rd by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
WERE the celebrations premature? We will soon know. Celebrations on the ‘restoration’ were valid enough, but in view of the varied situations that otherwise prevail it could be said that ...
March 15th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
Now, what with the word ‘disintegration’ being bandied about in the media, the ‘leadership’ we suffer must bear in mind the words spoken by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who they still ...
February 23rd by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
KARACHI, this increasingly ravaged city, has a dire history of the conversion of amenity plots to commercial and residential use.
Virtually every ‘ruler’ or administrator has left his mark on ...
February 8th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
“NO one should take journalists too seriously, especially journalists themselves because what they write in the morning is used to wrap fish in the same evening. Maulana Charagh Hasan Hasrat ...
February 1st by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
PROBLEM: endemic. Who grabs the larger slice of the national cake which is shrinking by the day? Karachi, population 17 million, has a vehicle population of 1.7 million. Transportation to ...
January 25th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
AS my long-suffering Gujarati friends have now realised, it is a new ball game. President Barack Hussein Obama, from what we know of him and from what he has said ...
January 18th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
SIXTY-plus years down the line there remain some dumbos amidst us who
say that Mohammad Ali Jinnah made a mistake, that he should never have founded Pakistan.
Can they not imagine what ...
October 27th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
THE condition of the huge overcrowded Bagh that is Pakistan is, at the moment, not quite that as envisaged by Benazir Bhutto before she was so tragically assassinated.
For starters we ...
October 19th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
OUR moth-eaten Pakistan will hobble along, led as it always has been since 1948 by men endowed with mediocrity or men endowed with moral depravation, until, through God’s infinite grace, ...
October 14th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
IN 1847, the home of a British subject living in Athens, a Jew by the name of Don Pacifico, was vandalised and plundered by an anti-Semitic mob. After unsuccessfully appealing ...
October 7th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
FORTUNE has given me the pleasure of having a good friend who has lived on this earth for 93 years, though looking at him and talking to him one would ...
September 29th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
THIS was written on Saturday, Sept 27. The nation, the father-motherland, is in deep trouble and we are now approaching virtually one week of Eid holidays.
The country will shut itself ...
September 21st by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
INFORMATION technology has made it possible for people to know that Pakistan has waged war against a formidable enemy, the world’s sole superpower, and that both warring sides are winners.
To ...
September 15th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
NINE-ELEVEN is a date on which we in Pakistan mourn a natural death and a date on which the world remembers and denounces an act incited by religious extremism which ...
September 8th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
TIMES being what they are, trepidation being as it is amongst many of those with experience or knowledge, and the leading characters on the national political stage being who and ...
September 1st by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
HOW ironic. Having reiterated time and time again over the past years that the then president of Pakistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf, was (and remains) the best of the worst ...
August 27th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
YUSUF Abdullah Haroon, a dexterous man, an elusive friend I have known ever since I can remember, and his charming supportive wife Pasha, came for lunch. We have both seen ...
August 18th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
THE 61st anniversary of the coming into existence of Pakistan has come and gone, and once again the leaders of the day evoked the memory of the founder-maker of their ...
August 10th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
AT play: Our insecure elected and unelected political players, some corrupt to the core. The aim: Dependent upon the contours of their overflowing pockets, they shoot at half-cock. The beneficiaries: ...
