Bilal Zuberi
Karachiites will certainly remember fiery speeches from Altaf Hussain and other MQM leaders of the 1980’s and 1990’s where he argued and pleaded against the rural-urban quota system which had been imposed in the Sindh province since 1973. MQM, at that point, had argued strongly that such a quota system was not only [...]
Owais Mughal
This notice board is from Food Street, Lahore. It reads:
“Entering the ‘Food Street’ wearing shorts is strictly prohibited: Food Street Administration”
Among other things on this notice board, I enjoyed reading the word sakht (strictly). As if the word forbidden didn’t sound serious enough, the administration had to add a prefix strictly forbidden to make [...]
Dr Ghulam Nabi Kazi
Allama I. I. Kazi died in 1968 and therefore people of my generation have had little or no direct contact with him. My paternal grandfather Dr. Ali Ahmed Kazi was a nephew of Allama Sahib while my maternal grandfather Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi was a first cousin and brother-in-law of his.
In [...]
Mast Qalandar (MQ)
This post is about the “posters”, that is, the people who regularly post comments on ATP. In other words, my mental sketches of the persons I come across on the ATP discussion board.
One of the things I do early in the morning, after checking my e-mail and the news updates, is look up [...]
Owais Mughal
Just like rest of the world, Harry Potter’s seventh book, titled as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows got launched in Pakistan today amid fanfare. Considering the diminishing trend of reading printed books worldwide, it is a positive sign to see the type of demand this book has created among Pakistani muggles.
Big bookstores [...]
Adil Najam
The news is in. The Supreme Court of Pakistan just reinstated Iftikhar Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of Pakistan by throwing out the Presidential reference against him. The Supreme Court has today showed its mettle, just as the lawyers of Pakistan have been showing their mettle for the last many months. One feels proud [...]
