Adil Najam
As promised, we now have a new look for Paksitaniat.com.
For the last couple of weeks, a small group of us have been working frantically - nearly around the clock - on reworking the look of ATP with the goal of making the user experience better without changing the essential feel of ‘Pakistaniat’ at the [...]

Owais Mughal
Former Australian cricketer Geoff Lawson has been named as the new coach of Pakistan’s national cricket team. Probably an old news by now; but we still want to have a discussion on it.

In the photo above Geoff Lawson is seen shaking hands with Mudassar Nazar after his job interview in Bhurban, Pakistan on [...]

Adil Najam
Har saal yeh samajh kay guzara hai aye Saba
Yeh ishq ki saddi mein adawat ka saal tha

Adil Najam
(UPDATE: You can view this movie here).
Shaib Mansoor’s feature film Khuda Kay Liye: In The Name of God is to be released in Pakistan on July 20, 2007. There is great buzz about it; as there should be.
Regular readers know how much respect, even reverance, I have for Shoaib’s work. For me he is [...]

Guest post by Babar Bhatti
I recently read a news item that a Chinese city has suspended plans to build a chemical plant after a wave of cell phone text and online messages generated strong opposition to the project. This is an interesting use of technology in a country where free speech is not always allowed [...]

Darwaish
In one of my earlier posts on Lahore’s old books shops, Adil Najam raised an interesting point and suggested that Pakistan is ripe for an Amazon type service for selling and buying old books and young Pakistani entrepreneurs should think about it. I don’t know if anyone has started such book selling service in Pakistan [...]

Guest post by Athar Osama
Adil Najam’s post on judicial assertiveness the other day sheds light on a very interesting - and important - aspect of the current judicial crisis in Pakistan. What are the limits of Judicial activism or - to use Adil’s words - assertiveness?
This is not something new to the world - or [...]