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 […]

Owais Mughal
During the discussion in our Bazm-e-Eid Mehfil, there was an interesting to-and-from inititaed by Mast Qalandar on the following shey’r:
Eid ka din hai, gallay aaj tou mill lay zalim
rasm-i-duniya bhi hai, moqa bhi hai, dastoor bhi hai
I just found this video of a Lollywood film song built around what seems to be a version […]

Adil Najam, Bilal Zuberi, Owais Mughal
We want all of you to help us write this post for us.
Tell us, please, what Eid in Pakistan means to you by filling in the sentence that starts with “Eid is…” We are particularly interested in how you would complete this sentence in terms of the truly ‘Pakistani’ social […]

Adil Najam, Bilal Zuberi, Owais Mughal
From all of us at All Things Pakistan (ATP; Pakistaniat.Com) we wish our regular readers, our contributors, and all passers-by a wonderful and very happy Eid Mubarak (Eid Greetings). We wish you happiness, prosperity and all things good; now and forever.
You have all already given us great happiness by having […]

Adil Najam
According to a Reuters report (CricInfo version here) Pakistan cricket players have “been advised to strike a balance between religion and cricket.” This according to Dr. Nasim Ashraf, the new Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

The report goes on to say:
Since last year, the Pakistan team has made it a point to pray […]