Wajid Shamsul Hasan

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib is my favourite poet. Like Shakespeare his verses so explicitly, most candidly and succinctly size up...

Tougher times ahead!

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

February 6, 2020

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So far it seems easier than done for PTI. Besides their main support coming from the same ‘page’ powers that...

How safe is a safe house?

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

January 27, 2020

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It is good to know that Her Majesty’s government, in its sublime generosity, courtesy its new High Commissioner HE Dr...

For whom the bell tolls!

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

January 8, 2020

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Dr Henry Kissinger, now in his agile eighties, is considered as past master in international diplomacy. If I distinctly remember...

Salmaan Taseer Shaheed – remembering a brave heart

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

January 3, 2020

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Tuesday January 4, 2011 was one of the darkest days of our times. It spotlighted our history with the ghastly...

Gagging media – the coup that didn’t happen

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

January 1, 2020

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A few months back I wrote a piece for ‘Surkhiyan’ on the state of the media titled ‘Silencing of the...

A tribute to Benazir Bhutto

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

December 26, 2019

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“Our suffering and pain has been enormous. One day the season will change and the tide will turn and Insha...

“Remember, remember the fifth of November”

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

November 5, 2019

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In Islamabad it was Guy Fawkes night (Nov 5th, 1996) twenty three years ago when a handpicked president Farooq Leghari...

Confusion worst confounded

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

October 31, 2019

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Pakistan is much too enigmatic a country and its people having no clear vision as to which way they should...

Brighton revisited

by Wajid Shamsul Hasan

September 28, 2019

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In a dismal global atmosphere when Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been trying his best to awaken the sleeping...