Adil Najam
I suspect that most of our readers have never seen this building in Pakistan. Sadly, many would never even have heard of it. However, for reasons that I am sure some readers will soon explain, it should be a fairly easy one to guess for many.

Do you know what building this is? Where? […]

Adil Najam
Just got an email from reader Adnan Ahmad (thanks) informing me that former President of Pakistan and veteran civil servant Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK), died today after a bout of pneumonia. (Historic pictures of GIK’s career in Pakistan politics, here).
According to an AP Report:
Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistan’s president from 1988 to 1993, died Friday […]

Adil Najam
Given all the discussion about cricket and Islam (here), sooner or later we will come to beards and cricket and whether beards of a certain length or style are ‘religiously intimidating’ for some (related story here).
I thought I would pre-empt the discussion by sharing some images of a few ‘great beards’ of cricket. Readers […]

Owais Mughal
These photos are all from the daily Dawn and were posted there in the past two to three weeks. Each photograph is a story in itself and we would love to hear your comments or titles for them.
(1) This photo is from Lahore. A monkey; unable to find one of his own specie; is […]

Guest Post by Naveed E.
A Dialogue between ‘The Wise’ and ‘The Fledgling.’
“You know, only God can afford to mete out belated justice and get away with it.� sermonized the Wise.
“What about the courts. If they provide justice though a bit late, doesn’t it work? Atleast it is better than not doing justice at all.â€Â? I […]

Adil Najam
It is both sad and surprising that the NWFP gets such little credit for its cultural and intellectual contributions to contemporary Pakistan despite the immense impact that artists and intellectuals from the NWFP have had.
Of course, the Frontier is not the only part of the country whose contributions get drowned out amidst the (sometimes […]

Adil Najam
After all the trouble we went through to time our Eid posts (here, here, here, here, here, here) so they could be enjoyed by people in different time zones around the world, it turns out that ‘official’ Eid in Pakistan will be on Wednesday. Of course, the ‘unofficial’ Eid’s have already been celebrated on […]