Mian Ijaz Ul Hassan

I believed in cantonments because I am a great believer in tradition and national heritage, even if aspects of it may threaten to lead to our undoing Successively and relentlessly most speakers were trying the patience of an obliging gathering. Yelling in the microphone does not necessarily help ignite feelings. Striving for repeated crescendos merely […]

Can man ever regain his lost heaven on earth? Marx unequivocally asserts that yes, he can and rejoins that in any case, in making the effort, man has nothing to lose but his chains. Today men scoff at all this as clichés, but there was a time when it warmed the hearts of millions. Today,

The second time I crossed Baghdad was in the winter of 1964 when I drove with my wife and parents from London to Lahore. Those were the days. We didn’t need a single visa to undertake the journey except for Italy where we had to pay five pounds each as ‘entrance fee’ Friends tried to

It is in the best interest of the country and the society that the brutish sport, played frequently at public expense, is called off immediately. The bullies cannot imagine what chaos would be unleashed if the citizens fielded a team of their own The best advice I have come across this week is — “Wear

 There was a consensus that if the matter was left to Oxbridge India and Pakistan the matter could be settled in a session. The only protest registered in the seminar was by Minoo of the ML(Q) who claimed that Aitzaz of the PPP had taken a more commanding seat by brushing him aside to the

 There are people who suffer from all possible ailments ranging from gout to being irritable and grouchy. The fools will not learn and insist on what is right and how things should be done and run. They will demand their rights and will neither accept nor extend a favour. Citizens with a manifesto like this

Something less serious and more nutritious than cabbage and pumpkin soup is a 1000-calorie sandwich invented in Scotland. The sandwich consists of two slices of white bread smothered in chocolate sauce, dipped in batter and deep-fried There is nothing like being in a comfortable bed. I have a tendency to roll off the mattress, unless

Where must everyone stand in this landscape is a matter that each must judge for himself individually. What must a poet or a painter address is a question to which each writer and artist must find his own answer Some people believe great poets and painters must transcend the mean, small events and tackle larger