Bilal Zuberi
A news report, and some gruesome pictures associated with it, recently caught my attention. I had not heard about the turtle population in Pakistan for many years now, and was somehow under the impression that steps taken by government to ban poaching and export had resulted in significant protection of the turtle habitats.
Well, according [...]

S.A.J. Shirazi
The name Jhelum reminds of Alexander from Macedonian who came to the South Asia sometime in 326 BC.
He moved from Taxila of Raja Ambhi, whom he subdued without fight, to Kalar Kahar. From there he moved over the Salt Range, turning left, along the western bank of River Jhelum, which he called Hydaspes. He [...]

Owais Mughal
This article contains brief results of Quaid-e-Azam trophy 2006-07, a history of the tournament since 1953 and a trivia of records.
Quaid-e-Azam (QEA) Cricket Trophy - Pakistan’s premier first class cricket tournament - concluded in Multan today. Karachi Urban regained the National Cricket title for the city after a gap of 5 years. Sialkot, the champions of last [...]

Raza Rumi
An email from a Pakistan based writer friend made me recall Parveen Shakir. The poem, Tomato Ketchup, written most probably in the memory of Sara Shagufta (the modernist Pakistani poet who committed suicide in the footsteps of Sylvia Plath).
I am not drawing conclusions or imagining comparisons. My writer-friend is neither suicidal nor at the [...]

Adil Najam
Report from News (21 February, 2007):
A fanatic shot dead Punjab Minister for Social Welfare Zill-e-Huma Usman “for not adopting the Muslim dress code” at a political meeting here at the PML House on Tuesday. A party worker caught the accused, Maulvi Sarwar, and handed him over to the Civil Lines Police. Huma was [...]