CommentWhite Lies
No man, said the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, steps in the same river twice. Because by the time he steps in it for what is ostensibly the second time, it is not the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/23/white-lies-288/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Dec 23, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
It’s a bit of a fast, a day at the PM’s secretariat . There’s no food. Earlier on in the whole austerity business, there were at least some biscuits. Now, just your<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/09/white-lies-287/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Dec 9, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
What goes around, comes around. The offshore accounts of the First Sister (?) are being thrown in the Prime Minister’s face. A bit unfair to do so, you ask? That she is<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/02/white-lies-286/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Dec 2, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
With Naya Pakistan, attempts at Naya Lahore in the offing. Apparently, a task force has been set up for a shake-up in matters pertaining to the city. IMF-imported economist and policy wonk<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/26/white-lies-285/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Nov 26, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
Chaudhry Pervez Elahi’s video in which he is expressing resentment against the current Punjab Governor has been doing the rounds lately. Though he has faced criticism for it, some have actually gone<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/18/white-lies-284/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Nov 18, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
The Rules of Business are clear: there can be only one Chief Minister. But that doesn’t mean there is a shortage of aspirants for éminence grise. Amongst the contenders for wanting to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/12/white-lies-283/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Nov 12, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
He’s pulling out all the stops in the bypoll for Lahore’s NA-131, Humayun Akhtar Khan is. It was a razor-thing lead with which that Imran Khan beat Saad Rafiq here. And the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/14/white-lies-282/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Oct 14, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
She’s come out of her shell, the First Lady has, what with her much-awaited television debut. The channel’s ratings would have gone through the roof. Good on them! In the imagination of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/30/white-lies-281/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 30, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
The newly elected government has given a lot of material for the opposition and heartache for its followers with the ascension to important positions of some friends of the chairman of the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/23/white-lies-280/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 23, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
Promises of austerity (never asked for in the first place) fell apart when the prime minister started moving about in his official helicopter. In order to justify it, the official spin machine<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/16/white-lies-279/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 16, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
An interesting event on Defence Day this year. The prime minister was invited and made an extempore speech/sermon. The incumbent defence minister was also present but so was the last man, Khwaja<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/09/white-lies-278/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 9, 2018
CommentWhite Lies
“E = mc^2” “F = ma” “a^2 + b^2 = c^2” “55/km” Ah, the great, revolutionary mathematical equations of the world! The new information minister could have well stayed quiet about the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/02/white-lies-277/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 2, 2018