Author: Shakir Lakhani
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Kill all women!
Three recent incidents prove that as far as women are concerned, we’re still living in the Stone Age. The first, about a woman being gang-raped, should not shock us anymore. This is the kind of incident that happens regularly, so much so that it would be shocking if it didn’t occur on any given day.…
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India preparing to win next football World Cup
Indians are wondering why their country has not been able to send a team to the World Cup tournament in South Africa. My sources in India tell me that India is making massive efforts to raise a world class football team for the next World Cup. India confidently expects to be the next World champions.…
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Unjust taxation
A Karachi businessman recently had a heart attack when he got a notice from the Income Tax department to pay a huge sum as income tax. It seems that his mobile phone bills alone had averaged more than fifty thousand rupees a month, even though his declared income had been only four hundred thousand rupees…
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Indian girl kills herself after being rebuked for talking to a boy
This is something that one would have thought happened only in Pakistan or Afghanistan. But 18-year-old Anithra of Uttar Pradesh killed herself after the chairman of her college rebuked her for talking to a boy. Strange, even after watching all those Bollywood movies and Star Plus programs where boys and girs are seen with their…
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New chemical element discovered in Pakistan!
Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new el…
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A fatwa to end all fatwas
During and after my recent angioplasty in hospital, I was surrounded by cheerful female nurses an…
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Pakistan needs more provinces and Provincial Autonomy
If Pakistan is to survive, it has to be made economically manageable, and the only way this c…
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Do Zardari and Gilani pay the minimum wage to their workers?
The ruling party has again raised the minimum wage by another thousand rupees. Workers (particula…
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Heart Attack!
Eight days back I had to undergo angioplasty as two heart arteries were eighty percent blocked. O…
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Jamshed Dasti: Would you hire this crook?
Ask yourself this simple question: a man has been proven to be a crook. Would you hire such a per…