Owais Mughal
At ATP we have regularly discussed preservation of our art, architecture and heritage. For example here, here, and here. This post falls in the same category. Today’s news is that Italy is going to return 96 ancient looted items to Pakistan. This announcement was made by Italian Cultural Minister Francesco Rutelli.
The items which will [...]
Bilal Zuberi
Imagine 42 degrees celsius (107 degrees Farenheit) weather, no electricity, no fans, high humidity, no drinking water, and knee deep water on streets. Now imagine living through that for more than 24 hours. Terrible!
That is precisely what most Karachiites have been going through for more the past 2 days. A huge monsoonal storm hit [...]
Owais Mughal
UPDATE June 26: Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq won his first round Wimbledon match beating Briton Lee Childs 6-3 6-4 7-6. His second round match is a much tougher game where he will meet former Russian No. 1, Marat Safin . According to Guardian Unlimited, the 27-year-old from Lahore said after the game: “I am living my [...]
Raza Rumi
The current controversy on Rushdie’s knighthood has several dimensions. Amid the knee-jerk reactions alluding to the grand-conspiracy-against-Islam, it brings out various layers and levels of literature’s role and position in societies and now in the globalized world.
I was once a fan of Rushdie and avidly devoured his books with great admiration. From Grimus to [...]
Darwaish
In another dramatic development last night, dozens of armed Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa students stormed into a Chinese Beauty Parlor (massage centere) and kidnapped 9 people including 6 women and 3 men. All people are apparently of Chinese nationality. The incident occurred late Friday night.
According to Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa students, a [...]
Adil Najam
Pakistan seems to be in a whole new phase of ‘politics by References.’
Gen. Musharraf set the tone for what seems to be an emerging fashion with his now notorious Reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Then it was the MQM members of the National Assembly moving their reference against Imran Khan for his ‘moral [...]
