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This installment of the ATP photo-quiz features someone decidedly pretier and nicer than the folks featured in the last one.
I am guessing this one is not too difficult either. Many woudl be able to reognize at least one of these ladies immediaetly. However, a liitle googling may be required to figure out the other. […]

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This one is for all those who think that the international media gives Pakistan a bad rap (it does, but probably less than what we believe):

‘Powerful Pakistan have few weaknesses’
Yes, you read it right. That is what the Scyld Berry at The Daily Telegraph (UK, 25 June, 2006) believes.
For those of us who get […]

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As ATP had noted in a blogpost on 21 June, 2006, Indians are laughing at Pakistanis. In fact, they are laughing so hard that the ‘world largest democracy’ just voted a 40-year old Pakistani stand-up comic as the ‘Funniest Man in India.’
According to a news report at rediff.com:

Pakistan’s Rauf Lala has been voted by […]

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The very first blogpost on ATP was the video tribute to Pakistan I had made using Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s classic poem ‘hum daikhain gay…’ This was not just blatant self-projection — although it was that too. It was an expression of my hopes and concerns, an acknowledgement of my gratitude to Faiz’s poetry, and […]

This photograph was taken by Talha Masood on a Pakistan Railways train from Islamabad to Lahore. It first appeared, under this headline, in Talha’s weblog, My Cosmos, which is a wonderful chronicle on the life and times of Islamabad.
For a picture taken by a cellphone camera, its quality is very good. But more than that, […]

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Did you know that June 21 is World Music Day, or Fete de la Musique. Well, now you do. This festival is celebrated across the world with various music programs and free concerts. Since 2004 it has also been celebrated in Pakistan. This picture is from the free concert held in Islamabad […]

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According to the Associated Press of Pakistan, as reported in the Daily Times (22 June, 2006):
Members of the National Assembly were upset after Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Sher Afgan pointed out that sand-contaminated ‘halwa’ was served in the house cafeteria…. Dr Sher Afgan said that the situation posed a health risk to members […]