The funny side of travelling through China
Largest sitting Buddha in the world in Leshan, China The first thing that strikes you about China is its size. For a country that is huge, expansive and wide-skied, its people are quite petite. Women...
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Let me begin with a disclaimer. I, chairman of CNG (Chaudhry Nisar Group) do categorically demand that I am not to be confused with the CNG wallahs my dear friend Khwaja Asif went after until he ran...
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June 1, Saturday I’m back in the province while Nawaz bhai takes the capital; even as kids he never let me play with his toys. I recited a poem by Mir to calm myself down. July 1, Monday He leads...
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Monday Dear diary, I’m going to be writing in you twice a day, once to express my thoughts and feelings and once to make sure all the thoughts and feelings are accounted for. This is called the double...
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Monday Today, I had to take oath as the State Minister for Water and Power in Islamabad. Khawaja Asif came to me with a book of statutes and told me to swear on it, so I held it and shouted @#$%! Many...
View ArticleDiary of Aamir Liaquat
Illustration by Fahad Naveed Monday Hello dear diary, my name is Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain, but you can call me, Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain. What am I a doctor of? The soul, I heal the human spirit. The...
View ArticleDiary of General Raheel Sharif
Chief of Pakistan Army, General Raheel Sharif Monday Mere aziz hamwatno, this is the diary of General Raheel Sharif. I’m often told that a lot of the commissioned officers never liked Kayani. He was...
View ArticleDiary of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari
Monday Dear diary, a lot of people criticise me just for being Benazir’s son. They say I shouldn’t be in politics, that it’s wrong. I don’t understand what they want me to do, join the army? People...
View ArticleThe funny side of…driving
Illustration by Fahad Naveed Most semi-educated blockheads believe Darwin said we have evolved from monkeys. He didn’t. What he said was that we evolved from a lower form of life and going by the...
View ArticleDiary of Altaf Hussain
Monday Dear diary, dear Rabita Committee, and all the intelligence personnel having to read this: from Edgware Sharif in Londonpur, tum sab ko Altaf Hussain ka, Salam. Salam. Salam. This country is...
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