Things categorized as 'Ghazi Salahuddin'
January 10th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
We, my wife and I, were able to make a dash for Manhattan and spend a couple hours around Times Square on the bitterly cold evening of Wednesday because there ...
August 23rd by Ghazi Salahuddin.
In some ways, August, like T S Eliot's April, is our cruellest month, "mixing memory and desire". It does breed, against the backdrop of ritualistic celebrations, some sombre thoughts about ...
August 23rd by Ghazi Salahuddin.
In some ways, August, like T S Eliot's April, is our cruellest month, "mixing memory and desire". It does breed, against the backdrop of ritualistic celebrations, some sombre thoughts about ...
July 26th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Do we still have light at the end of the tunnel? Yes, I am alluding to this week's incredibly painful breakdown in the electric supply in Karachi, in the wake ...
June 7th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Let me begin with a confession: I sat through the live coverage of President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world on Thursday with rapt attention and felt convinced of ...
May 31st by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Vaguely I remember our late evening strolls in Saddar, breathless with hopes and dreams about our future. Once, we made this idiosyncratic resolve that "let's us all become great people ...
April 12th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
With the pace of events suddenly picking up, April so far has been a real roller coaster. That mood of elation at the end of March, after the vindication of ...
March 29th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Unlikely though it may seem, an American president has sought to weave the interests and aspirations of Pakistan's people into his country's grim encounter with the terrorist elements that operate ...
March 15th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
When President Asif Ali Zardari pounced upon Geo News on Friday – ominously, Friday the thirteenth – the writing on the wall became luminous. And the immediate resignation of Information ...
March 9th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
On Friday, addressing a charged rally of his supporters in Lahore, Nawaz Sharif took another step ahead in his confrontational campaign against President Asif Ali Zardari and exhorted the people ...
March 1st by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Many of us had seen this coming but the aftermath of the Supreme Court disqualification of the Sharif brothers and the imposition of governor's rule in Punjab is still too ...
February 8th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Moving around the dinner guests in that relaxed and somewhat dreamy setting, I sensed an underlying current of anxiety and disquiet. Again and again, our conversations drifted towards the fighting ...
December 16th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
One of my refrains, when dealing with relations between Pakistan and India, is that South Asia – the expanse that lies under the shadows of the Himalayas – is jinxed. ...
November 9th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
At a time when the world is illuminated by the miracle of democracy, manifested in the election of an Afro-American as president of the United States of America, we remain ...
October 19th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
There was a time when we tended to be self-righteously offended by any shockingly negative assessment of Pakistan. We looked at those assessments as biased or conspiratorial. Gradually, though, damning ...
October 12th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Writing this column, week after week, is verily a disconcerting exercise. One is constrained to keep chewing the cud because the overall situation remains grim and threatening. Yes, there are ...
October 5th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
We know why Shakespeare's Juliet would not let her lover Romeo swear "by yonder blessed moon". She cried: "O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, / That monthly ...
September 28th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Rio de Janeiro is a very distracting place. Its unique location, its touristy sites and its strange urban flavour, particularly for first-time visitors to Latin America, can leave one breathless ...
September 21st by Ghazi Salahuddin.
With all this gloom that remains settled on our minds, it does become a relief when we share our thoughts with social development experts from other developing countries. You realise ...
September 7th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
A forbidding thought it may have been but the reality of Asif Ali Zardari as the president of Pakistan cannot be wished away. We know that Pakistan has not been ...
August 24th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
This question has constantly been posed during the past few months: why is Asif Ali Zardari so hesitant to restore the deposed judges, particularly Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry? Yes, the ...
August 17th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
We may detect some similarities between commando culture and cowboy culture. After all, there always seemed something personal in the bond between Pervez Musharraf and George W Bush. And ...
August 10th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Pakistan is the sixth largest country in the world, in terms of population. It is one of the seven declared nuclear powers. It has one of the world's largest ...
August 3rd by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Whatever else the ISI may be able to do, with its fearful capacity to pull off clandestine projects, it does not seem to have the power to perk up Prime ...
July 27th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Let us hope – and I am sincere in this expectation – that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's Washington yatra will make the present government more confident in setting its ...
