Op-Ed

This is the picture of Honourable Gohar Ayub, the former Foriegn Minister, Author, Politician and Soldier. The family relations is traced back to his grandfather and my grandfather back in Kashmir pre-partition that they as a family…

The other day had discussion with my school fellow Honourable Zahoor Iqbal, a concerned businessman from Swat, who returned midway from Islamabad back to Swat once he found all routes closed. To me the situation is explosive both…

Monday 7th November 1530, I had the honour to meet Honourable Shaukat Sharar at office in Saidu Sharif Swat. Mr. Sharar is an institution in himself. A graduate from Dawood Engineering College Karachi in the 1984 batch, was the first…

While in the company of Dr. Shuja cousin of the world renowned artist late Gul Jee and friend of my father that I received this sad text and picture from s concerned US based Pakistani requesting me to bring it into the notice of the…

My half family served in Cavalry part of the Armoured Corps another in Infantry in Pakistan Army . I as a child who on the quiet meekly watched my cousin play with his dinky toys in their house in Rawalpindi, praising the "Centurion Tanks",…

Yhe other day I had a terrible bicycle accident third in the series that I survived miraculously after being hit from the back that shows how unsafe the vulnerable in the society remains be it the pedestrians cyclists or motor cycles…

While I finished a lunch at Bar Be Que Tonight Islamabad with a family friend Honourable Col. Sardar Ahmed Yar Jang, who was about to leave for Umra and onwards to London to join his children, that I received this scholarly article that…

A nation with no heroes remains not only leaderless but directionless as well. While in Mardan some time back , Honourable Tariq Khan, a seasoned and senior bureaucrat and family friend of Dr. Humayun Khan, complained to me why services of…

On 26th October at around 1830 hrs, accompanied by my only daughter, I called on Honourable Prince Akbar Zeb, the former Pakistan Ambassador to Canada now leading a retired life playing with his beloved grand child, the baby Prince Rayan.…

This Photograph came from Imperial War Museums. Image file number IWM Q 6502. The picture was taken by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke during WW1. This historic picture I dedicate to ace Photographer Honourable Arif Mehmood, whom I…