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Our prince - yes our prince, we’re still in the Commonwealth, I’m afraid - was in Lahore recently and the residents of the city, never ones to want to miss out on a party, really wanted to be invi

They’re perpetually waiting for the other shoe to drop. Ever since the rumours of the cabinet reshuffle started, all cabinet members have been constantly watching over their backs. Even the staff of

India’s ‘Meat King’, Moeen Qureshi, had a destination wedding for his daughter in Turkey recently. He’s fabulously rich (the income tax and excise departments are still reportedly figuring out

It wasn’t as bad as his detractors were claiming it to be. Nor was it quite the seminal moment of history that his supporters were making it out to be. No, the prime minister’s speech had its plus

Two separate special planes flying out of Saudi Arabia recently. One, for the First Lady, who flew back to Pakistan. And the other, the Prime Minister, who flew out to the United States to address the

Though the sacking of Shahbaz Gill, the rabble-rousing Punjab CM spokesperson, has gotten more press, it is the removal of Aun Chaudhry from his position in the Punjab government that has more signifi

It was a mixed dining experience for the patrons of one of Lahore’s swankiest restaurants the other day. On the one hand, their meal was interrupted by a raid by the police, who were looki

A curious state of affairs in the automotive sector. The government’s haphazard and presumably ill-thought taxation structure has brought about a lop-sided change in consumption patterns: people on

Eidul Azha came and went and with it were the usual comments on the practice of sacrifice itself.Whereas there could be introspection within the faith itself about whether the mass sacrifice is do

He’s tried the whole passive-aggressive girlfriend routine with the Sharifs and it didn’t work. So Chaudhry Nisar used the nuclear option and actually left the League at a sensitive point in time.

In style, fitness and matters sartorial - if not much else - the prime minister cuts quite a figure.After this US visit, the fellow who stitched his shalwar-kameez is seeing great business, with m

Some rumours of the Punjab’s former first lady Tehmina Durrani of having left the country. No such thing, apparently. Busy writing a book on the late national saint Abdus Sattar Edhi, while taking r