SPIRIT OF A TIGER CANNOT BE CAGED
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan The tiger is a cool and beautiful animal. It is the largest cat found from Anatolya in Central Asia…
DOES RUSSIAN ROULLETTE HAVE ANY BULLETS
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Air Commodore Nazir Bin Latif is an icon in Pakistan Air Force. Over generations, like popular athletes, thousandsof officers…
WHERE WHITE IS BLACK AND BLACK IS WHITE
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan It was during 1971 India Pakistan war. Hostilities were in full swing in East Pakistan and air war had…
FREEDOM IS NOT ACHIEVED BY SITTING AT HOME
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Our physical training (PT) instructor in Burn Hall was a retired “Subedar”; equivalent of an Army Sergeant. All students…
GLOBAL REALIGNMENT IMPACTS PAKISTAN
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Sixties and seventies was the golden era of Pakistani andPunjabi film industry. There are commonalities between blockbusters in those…
POSITIONS WITHOUT RATIONALE ARE UNSUSTAINABLE
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Lahore is a city of extreme contrasts. Those living in “jhuggis”, temporary tents, scrape a living by rummaging through…
MEMORIES DON’T WIPE LIKE BLACKBOARDS
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Miss Minto was our math teacher in Burn Hall, Abottabad. She had a severe, no nonsense demeanor that kept…
WHEN INDIVIDUALS ARE STRONGER THAN NATION
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan The top story these days on American media is the indictment of President Trump on federal criminal charges. It…
NUMBERS DON’T LIE, ECONOMY IS SUNK
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan “Kukar toon ganday tay agaye han” answered Ashraf, an experienced mason now out of work in once booming construction…
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Hans Christian Anderson, a Danish author wrote scores of fairy tales impacting generations. I remember reading them as a…