Owais Mughal
Shakeb Jalali is a famous Urdu poet. His real name was Syed Hassan Rizvi. He was born in a small town called Jalali near Aligarh, India on October 1, 1934. He passed his matriculation exam from Badayun (UP) and then moved along with his sisters to Rawalpindi. His life as a poet began [...]

Owais Mughal
Writing about motorcycles and their rides has remained a favourite topic at ATP. For example here, here and here. I found following photo at Metroblogging Lahore. It is courtesy of Usman Latif.

Adil Najam
The stream of disturbing images from Islamabad continues. It has left one dumbfounded. But one must never be silent in the face of injustice. Of the many disturbing reports and images that have been floating in, there is probably none more poignantly disturbing than this one from ARY:

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Saleem S. Rizvi
By cleverly tiptoeing around the land mine of constitutional issues relating to General Musharraf’s electability in uniform and his second term as president, the majority of the nine- judge bench of the apex court has rendered a decision purely wrapped in legal technicalities.
In simple words, the majority of the bench has said [...]

Guest Post by Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa
Pakistan’s political situation today raises more questions about the future of politics and democratic rule in the country than it did in the past. Clearly, democratic rule cannot be engendered through covert deals. Secret agreements made in the name of transition to democracy exacerbate the problem, because any political leader [...]

Owais Mughal
I first saw this photo by Raja Islam at Metroblogging Karachi and since then I am spellbound. The photo is self-explanatory but I do want to translate it for our English readership. For our Urdu readers I want to mention that punch line is written just above the McDonald’s sign.
Translation: Try our quality foods [...]