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Picture of the Day: How We View Young Women?

Posted on November 30, 2006
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Adil Najam
Sepoy, of Chapati Mystery fame, sent me this picture before. It is a crude sheyr (verse) crudely written at the back of a bus.
Roughly translated, it says:
Girls these days are so proud of their beauty
They don’t know the first kalma, but speak in English
Sepoy said it made him chuckle. It makes me chuckle [...]

International Visitors: Birds Come Flying In

Posted on November 29, 2006
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S.A.J Shirazi
Pakistan gets a large number of guest birds from Europe, Central Asian States and India every year. The birds from North spend winters in different wetlands and deserts of Pakistan, which are distributed almost throughout the country, from the high Himalayas to coastal mangroves and mud flats in the Indus delta. And, after winters [...]

Picture of the Day: ‘I Love Miss Spelling’

Posted on November 28, 2006
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Adil Najam
The headline used for this photograph by the Daily Times was just too good not to reproduce above.
I do not know if this qualifies as Pinglish or not but the typo - ‘over’ instead of ‘our’; the misplaced space in ‘Friend Ship’; and the grammar slippage in ‘with Pak-China’ are so very charming [...]

Pakistan’s Mobile Industry: On the Growth Path

Posted on November 28, 2006
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Guest Post by Babar Bhatti
The overall consensus of industry analysts is that Pakistan is one of the countries with a huge untapped potential for telcom growth and an attractive investment environment. Recently Business Monitor International (BMI) ranked Pakistan as a key destination for telecom growth. The BMI rankings take into account a number of [...]

Fire on Devon Street; Sabri Nihari Gutted

Posted on November 26, 2006
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Adil Najam
This may not mean much to our readers outside of the United States, but within the Paksitani-American community, Devon Street in Chicago is a landmark location and Sabri Nihari, within Devon Street, is an institution in itself. These are icons of the Pakistani-American community and Devon Street is the closest that we have in [...]

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