Tag: F.S. Aijazuddin
Royal taxidermy – F.S. Aijazuddin
ROYALS are buried with ceremonial fanfare. What they never hear is the scratch of the pen by their biographers, as they scavenge among diaries,...
Grinning infamy – F.S. Aijazuddin
SIR Winston Churchill — himself half-American — once contended that Great Britain and the United States were “two nations divided by a common language”....
Bitter after-taste – F.S. Aijazuddin
PRESIDENT Joe Biden has handed Afghanistan to the Taliban on a platter. After his mismanagement of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, he has also...
Races between races – F.S. Aijazuddin
THE XXXII Olympic Summer Games are over. The empty seats in the stadium will remain vacant, waiting for the silent scourge of Covid-19 to...
Races between races – F.S. Aijazuddin
THE XXXII Olympic Summer Games are over. The empty seats in the stadium will remain vacant, waiting for the silent scourge of Covid-19 to...
Healing the spirit – F.S. Aijazuddin
DOCTORS cure the human body. Olympians heal the human spirit.
The past 10-plus days of Olympiad XXXII have been exhausting — for the participating contestants,...
A future PM? – F.S. Aijazuddin
WHY do we subject ourselves every four years to international humiliation, expose our disregard for competitive sports, and reveal an unconscionable neglect of...
Strip the shroud – F.S. Aijazuddin
STRIP the shroud off Afghanistan. You will not find the bodies of 14,500 Soviet soldiers who died during their government’s obsessive nine-year occupation (1979-1989)...
Gastric diplomacy – F.S. Aijazuddin
FIFTY years ago today, on July 8, 1971, Dr Henry Kissinger as president Nixon’s envoy made a stopover in Rawalpindi to meet president Yahya...
KSLF London 2021 – F.S. Aijazuddin
KHUSHWANT Singh alive was vital; in death, he has become virtual. Like many of us, he, too, has fallen victim to the impact...