Khalid Saleem

THE ongoing potshots in the field of health should have served to bring home to mankind the truism that nature is always one step ahead.…

THERE are two other buzzwords that continue to cadge the headlines. These are ‘corruption’ and ‘accountability’. Open any newspaper and these two are always there…

ONE was afraid that someday it would come to this. The way things move in the Land of the Pure, what else does the common…

  MOST tales one comes across these days are fishy. Some, to be sure, are more fishy than others, but fishy neverthe-less. One was looking…

  OUR cricket appears to have hit rock bottom. Things just could not be any worse than they are at this juncture. The common Pakistani…

Efforts have been on for some time, it would appear, to ‘humanize the computer’. One would have thought that, as things stand, the influence of…

BREXIT inevitably brings back several memories related to the classic tension (?) across the Channel. For one thing, the British-French stand-off had never quite left…

IT would be hard to find anyone who has not heard or read jokes featuring the (absent-minded) professor. With the possible exception of the mother-in-law…

THE one thing that the corona-virus Pandemic has brought in its wake is the realisation that nature abhors inequality. The Pandemic does appear to have…

PASSAGE of half a century has not eased the pain of the traumatic events of 1971. Much has been written on the subject. Most analyses,…