Media Watchdog

Isn’t it evident that social problems cannot be fixed by just one solution or through the efforts of the few in isolation?

The decision by the Pakistan Railways (PR) to suspend six trains has deprived the vast majority of people of a cheap mode of transport.

Everyone who is trying to analyse the crash, please stop. It was an accident. Air traffic controllers do a great job of preventing accidents.

The ads for Olpers, National Foods and Habib Banaspati all look and feel the same - simply because of their stereotypical portrayal of the family.

Six of the 152 passengers on the ill-fated Air Blue Flight 202 were my friends. People I had sat, laughed and fought with. Now they were gone.

Abida Parveen sang Lal Meri Pat, at which point everyone got up on their feet, sang along, and finally dhamaaled. Everyone danced to their own beat.

Hakimullah arrives. He is looking pale and gloomy; the VOF team looks at each other, nods are exchanged, audio levels adjusted, but a sound of an explosion ruptures the silence.

It is heart warming to hear positive statements that the real face of Pakistan ‘are its hardworking, generous and beautiful people’ in an era when the world is awash with bad news.

Doping scandals, bans, and match fixing allegations are like summer, monsoon and winter for Pakistani cricket fans. All three follow in the same cyclic manner each year.