Things categorized as 'Kamran Shafi'
January 12th by Kamran Shafi.
There goes Amreeka Bahadur, once again doing exactly the wrong thing. As quoted in this newspaper of record Richard Holbrooke, the czar of American policy planning for Afghanistan and Pakistan ...
January 5th by Kamran Shafi.
There was the usual and quite absurd story on the Internet the other day, one that amply demonstrates the in-your-face attitudes of those who would use ‘militant’ Islam to further ...
August 5th by Kamran Shafi.
Well then, there go Dogar And Company Ltd., and all those who attended them hand and foot: the Pirzadas, the Ranjhas, the Durranis, the Maliks and the Chaudhries, the last ...
July 7th by Kamran Shafi.
Let me start by remembering Kaleem Omar who sadly passed on recently. ‘KO’ to others, Kaleem Bhai to me, I first got to know him well when I was press ...
June 30th by Kamran Shafi.
THIS past week the Commando, and his sidekick the Private Banker, or shall we say Tweedledum and Tweedledee, were interviewed by a private TV channel in London, where they live ...
June 16th by Kamran Shafi.
Governor NWFP, Owais Ghani, on Sunday, June 14, 2009: ‘The government has decided to launch an operation against militants in Fata. ‘It has been decided that a comprehensive ...
June 9th by Kamran Shafi.
JUST before the most recent army action against the murderous, terrorist Yahoos began, and when there was more doom and gloom abroad in the land than there is now, some ...
June 2nd by Kamran Shafi.
THE blinding speed with which the army high command is claiming success upon success in Buner and Swat, and now, increasingly in Waziristan, is astounding to say the least.
It ...
May 26th by Kamran Shafi.
WHO were the four young men, seemingly soldiers but in a dishevelled state and with overgrown hair and beards, in the custody of the terrorists (I henceforth refuse to refer ...
April 7th by Kamran Shafi.
SORRY for the trite title, but its blood-chillingly true, isn’t it? As my readers well know, I am quite quickly moved to tears: films like Il Postino and East is ...
March 17th by Kamran Shafi.
As a long-time supporter of the complete reversal of the Commando’s actions of Nov 3, 2007, as one who protested (whenever possible) his dismissal alongside the 20, on some days ...
March 10th by Kamran Shafi.
First off, what did the poor, gentle, Sri Lankans do to deserve the treatment they got in Lahore at our hands?
I ask this question in the manner I do because ...
February 17th by Kamran Shafi.
I HAVE changed the title of this piece from 'We whirling dervishes ought to be ashamed' to the present one because I have many times exhorted this state of Pakistan, ...
February 10th by Kamran Shafi.
MY English teacher, friend; and oftentimes critic and censor, Mr Khalid Hasan, one of the very best writers ever, is dead. He died in exactly the way in which one ...
September 13th by Kamran Shafi.
SO then, did not even one of his friends advise Asif Zardari not to put himself ‘in the line of fire’ (pun very much intended) unnecessarily? I mean, he could ...
September 6th by Kamran Shafi.
WRITING about his opposition to the candidature of Asif Ali Zardari, my old and respected friend Ardeshir Cowasjee had this to say: “Now, let us revert to our mutilated almost ...
August 28th by Kamran Shafi.
BAD idea, Asif Zardari putting himself up for election as president, and worse, to do it without consulting the PML-N, the other part of the quite wonderful experiment of ...
August 12th by Kamran Shafi.
SO then, the Commando has got us into all sorts of trouble, what, by continuing to hang on to the President’s Lodge (née Army House) by his manicured fingernails! Well, ...
August 5th by Kamran Shafi.
FIRST the positives. We go on comparing the strides the Thais have made with us stuck in a time warp, without looking at the fact that Thailand has long hence ...
July 13th by Kamran Shafi.
YES, we know; we know exactly what our problems are, thank you very much indeed sir.
We know we have an acute electricity shortage in the country, and who better than ...
