SMOKERS’ CORNER: A RIVER BY ANY NAME

Last week, on the social media site X, the former minister of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Fawad Chaudhry was given a rather stern lesson in history by the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

In an X post, Bilawal had used the word ‘Sindhu’ for the River Indus, warning that “an attack” on its flow (by India) would not be tolerated. Mr Chaudhry commented that Bilawal should not have used the word ‘Sindhu’. He wrote: “This is an attack on Pakistan, not on Sindh...