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  • Bungee jumping

    Bungee jumping has never really taken off in Pakistan — maybe in a metaphorical sense it has been around for a while

  • Wash, rinse, spin and repeat

    Columnists and commentators, myself included, go through the same wash, rinse, spin and repeat cycle

  • Alive and well

    For a slice of honest-to-goodness heritage experience I recommend Golra Sharif railway station to west of Islamabad

  • A matter of identity

    The identity I have is shaped by the choices I have made, the same as everybody else

  • From darkness comes darkness

    Seed is being sown in young minds that ‘new’ is to be regarded with suspicion, and innovation is not to be encouraged

  • Time for Plan ‘B’

    Pakistan is not comfortable with powerful women, and it never quite made up its mind about Benazir Bhutto either

  • Service? What service?

    My time of time poverty coincides with many of the services that I need to avail myself of having an extended siesta

  • A different type of animal

    Denying the presence of IS in Pakistan is as futile as denying that , the determination of the area of a circle

  • The Big Little

    People selling colouring books at traffic signals have businesses that are their personal equivalent of a start-up

  • A broken contract

    When a nun talks of purchasing guns to guard the school, it is a fair indication there is something wrong