A true leader is a true politician but a true politician is not always a true leader. Truly speaking, what has been missing in our leaders and politicians is truth.

A true leader is easy to do business with. He is not action-packed, he is momentous. He does not shape history; he provides directions. He ceases every passing moment and disciplines the life of the people.

A true politician is uncensored. He is not a sub-nationalist. He is a revisionist by temperament but not anti-status quo when challenged. He is a worker by posture but comes very close to being Machiavellian.....more

‘The News” in its 4 December issue reported that a controversial poem is deleted from Inter textbook. The fist letter of each verse of the poem ‘The Leader’ when conjugated in sequence spell “George W Bush’, and the poem eulogises his leadership qualities rather poetically. To top it all, the poet’s name is not mentioned, which is considered a scholastic requirement to lend credibility to the literature included in the textbooks.

An official of the concerned Ministry wondered as to how a number of committees that sift through all textbooks failed to notice such a glaringly objectionable material for more than a year. .....more

I am an Advocate and was very pleased to read an article in Defence Journal on the issue of ‘PERJURY’. Perjury is no doubt the root cause of concern in our judicial system and the rule of law in a free society can only be achieved through effective implementation of laws. The problem of effective implementation of laws is more complicated than is generally understood. You have to prove even the genuine cases in the courts of law through false and fabricated statements. People usually do not voluntarily present themselves for the cause of others and are reluctant to spare time. Perjury, corruption and such problems are genuinely rampant in the field of judiciary, but the problem is not of false and frivolous statements (Perjury) but of false and frivolous cases. And due to these frivolous cases, the work load on the courts is such that an ordinary trial court is unable to cope with the situation. First, there is a general tendency of filing false cases and secondly, false and useless interlocutory applications are filed in the pending cases. Resultantly too much time is wasted on trivial and unsubstantial matters. Even if the judge wants to expedite the matter it is seen as mala fide intentions on the part of the judge....more

A lot is being discussed on TV about the placid pitches of Lahore and Faisalabad, which have helped batsmen amass huge scores without yielding any results. A foreseeable draw after five days of boredom is not what the cricket fans spend their time and money for. I am no cricket buff and it was quite revealing for me to know that such pitches are specially prepared in consultation.....more