Tag: F.S. Aijazuddin

OUR new finance minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, is preceded by a strong lineage. Our first finance minister, Ghulam Muhammad, began as an assiduous accountant with Mahindra & Mahindra. He turned trusted … Read More

MEMOIRS of retired Indian and Pakistani diplomats contain accounts of their postings to Islamabad and New Delhi, spent in professional pugilism and recollected in tranquillity. Former Indian high commissioner Ajay … Read More

IT took termites to teach me non-attachment. Recently, I needed material on the 1971 East Pakistan crisis from a section in my library. There, I unearthed a squirm of termites … Read More

UNTIL the 1960s, no member of the British Royal Family could be portrayed on the stage or on screen. The character had to have been dead for at least 50 … Read More

DR Azra Raza’s name — a playful anagram — is nevertheless one of the most universally respected in oncology. Pakistani by origin, she graduated from Dow Medical College, Karachi, in … Read More

“WHENEVER an elder dies, a library burns down.” When Dr B.N. Goswamy (India’s pre-eminent art historian) died and was cremated on Nov 17 in Chandigarh, a second Library of Alexandria … Read More

IN war, truth is the first casualty. In Third World countries, truth all too often is smothered at birth. Never more often than when general elections are due. The midwife … Read More

THE launch by India of its Chandrayaan-3 rocket and space probe on Aug 23, 2023, and, a few days later, its Aditya L-1 observation mission to the sun, have propelled … Read More

ANOTHER Ice Age is spreading across our continent. The last occurred 20,000 years ago. This time it is a political one, freezing relations between India and Pakistan. No one is … Read More

ARE Pakistanis justified in regarding Islamabad as superfluous to their governance? Do they need a president? The present incumbent perches in a gilded cage, his wings clipped by the 18th … Read More