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Say, like me you live in Lahore, and have spent a reasonably blameless and blemishless life.

Say, like me you live in Lahore, and have spent a reasonably blameless and blemishless life. And then, in the mail you get this fat envelope with the whacking big official seal of NAB‚ the National Accountability Bureau.

After the initial shock of receiving a summons from the National Accountability Bureau, the actual event, which was a conference in Islamabad, was a pleasant surprise.

Letter From Lahore

The kite-flying season is long since over, and the politics season is not quite in yet, and that leaves us with nothing to do. So, we have taken to making the best of both worlds.

Letter From Lahore - August 30, 2002

Smile when you talk to me. Mister! The spanking new Prime Minister is Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to you; to me he was a fresh young pupil all of 40 years ago.

He was a clever little boy, and a whiz at spelling; but he was only a little boy.

Letter From Lahore - December 20, 2002

Letter From Lahore - December 27, 2002

It was the redoubtable Lucy Van Pelt, of Peanuts‚ who first made the demand. The year 1964 was coming to an end, and she wanted to know who was responsible for this outrage.

It was some time ago. To be precise it was the time we first started an airline service between Lahore and Islamabad.