Darwaish
While Pakistanis are protesting against the Martial Law (or so called Emergency) and attack on judiciary, the Harvard Law School has announced Medal of Freedom for Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary. I first heard the news on Geo and couldn’t believe if it were really true but later HLS website has also confirmed [...]
Owais Mughal
Photo Credits of the following masterpiece belong to Fayyaz Ahmed. As we had mentioned in an earlier post that back of a Pakistani Rickshaw is usually a running commentary on Pakistani Society. In this photo I want to point out few details. One is the broken pair of back lights. Other is a pair [...]
Guest Post By Irum Sarfaraz
If the current situation in Pakistan is a source of concern for the rest of the world in the sense that it is increasing the already existing instability of the country, chances are it is less so for the 165 million in the country. For Pakistanis the current martial law translates [...]
Adil Najam
The frustration and anger that one finds in the comments on the Emergency imposed by Gen. Musharraf in Pakistan is mirrored everywhere. In every conversation one has with any Pakistani anywhere. I was in Pakistan till last weekend and this pent-up feeling of frustration was evident in every conversation even before the Emergency was [...]
Owais Mughal
Shahid Afridi is now the third most used bowler ever for Pakistan in One Day Internationals. Following is the list of Pak bowlers and the number of bowls they have thrown.
1. Wasim Akram: 18186 balls, 502 wickets, 36.22 strike rate
2. Waqar Younis: 12698 b, 416 w, 30.52 sr
3. Shahid Afridi: 9832 b, [...]
Owais Mughal
The 155 km long Motorway M1 between Islamabad and Peshawar in now open for traffic in its entirety. The 117 km portion of it got inaugurated on October 30, 2007.
M1’s construction work was initially started in the year 1993 by a Turkish company Bayindar but it left the work incomplete in 1997. The contract [...]
