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Yes, it’s a bizarre protocol, this whole business of the airports now wrapping all luggage items in plastic. Apparently, they say it’s for the safety of the contents of the luggage. The CAA alread

The World Cup might not have yielded a victory for Pakistan but certainly has kickstarted the careers of some willing and unwilling social media influencers and memelords.One are the ‘Inna nu pi

A sizeable number of senior female politicians, we are told, have not only gone under the knife for a bit of nip-and-tuck but also routinely get their fix of Botox.Secrecy is the name of the game

The government has gone into a PR overdrive in relation to the budget. God knows they need to, given the mood of the street these days.In one of these offensives, the government’s financial team

A cottage industry of rumours about the prime minister’s marriage has sprung up again. This time round, a television pundit has even gone to the extent of saying that the union was teetering on the

It was an interesting press conference. Senior print journalists on one side and senior ministers, headed by the prime minister himself, on the other.Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry and his be

Where is the press czar of the current government? Ever since his tussle with Naeem ul Haq, the man seems to be on a soft gag order of sorts.He used to drive journalists crazy by playing them down

Sheikh Rasheed, the Pindiboy extraordinaire, the self-described ‘downtown man’, seems to have been given a shut up call by Imran Khan recently. In his constant harangues against Shehbaz Sharif’s appointment as the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/02/17/white-lies-293/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The daughter-in-law of a hard to track businessman is to have her birthday in Switzerland. A grand affair, with two chalets already having been booked and many rooms of a nearby hotel. A posh set in t

There is a Pakistani delegation to World Economic Forum at Davos every year. Their events aren’t too well attended, unfortunately; many times the few attendees in the hall include the chauffeurs who

Twenty percent off. The Chief Justice ruled that private schools have to reduce their fees by a fifth. Where, exactly, did this specific proportion come from, we don’t know. But His Lordship isn’t

He’s whatever he wants to be. Sure, his title might be the Federal Minister for Water Resources, but when the man wants to be Bond, Her Majesty’s Secret Service adds a new<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/05/white-lies-289/" title="Read more" >...</a>