Adil Najam
I have felt a feeling of guilt all day today for having focussed on the ‘coup’ rumors that were triggered by the national power breakdown instead of directing focus on what that breakdown meant for ordinary Pakistanis; why it happened, and what should now be done? The journalistic instinct to pounce on the sensational [...]

Adil Najam
Further to our earlier post, an interesting - and rather bizarre - twist to the frenzy around Gen. Musharraf’s current US tour took place this Sunday when rumours of a potential coup in Pakistan began doing the round all over Pakistan.
According to the Daily Times (25 September, 2006):
President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s medical check up [...]

Adil Najam
Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s much anticipated autobiography, In the Line of Fire, will officially be released in a few hours. It will be launched at a signing ceremony at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. [Earlier ATP posts here, here and here].
The build-up - whether intended by the publisher, Simon and Schuster, or [...]

Adil Najam
Note: An updated list of the Best Pakistani restaurants outside Pakistan is now available here.
Here at ATP we like talking about food. Especially Pakistani food (on chai here, on ganderi here, here, on aam here and on omletes here). The start of Ramzan, fasting and feasting, seems to be as good a time as [...]

Bilal Zuberi
My first memory of a bike ride is from when I just started primary school. My school was only a few blocks away from our home in Karachi, and with my dad working in the Middle East, my parents had to find some help to take us kids to school and back.
A loving, frail, [...]

Adil Najam

This news item from today’s Daily Times (23 September, 2006) needs no explanation. Saira Amin needs our words of congratulations, and maybe a crisp salute.

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