Owais Mughal
Any vistor to Sukkur-Rohri Pakistan is usually awe struck by the largest man made monuments in the area. They are two in number. One is the 118 year old Lansdowne bridge and the other is the 45 year old Ayub Arch.

In the photo above, silver metallic structure is the Ayub Arch and the brown [...]

Owais Mughal
36 years ago, on December 16, 1971, then East Pakistan became Bangladesh.
Last year Adil Najam had a very touching post on the same topic and I’ll strongly recommend a revisit to it here. Raza Rumi had also written a post after revisiting Dhaka recently.
I belong to a generation which did not see those times. [...]

Owais Mughal
Last year we had a post on Finding Your Dream ‘Bakra’ Online. The trend continues this year and as Eid approaches, so do bakras.
And they are now invading the internet too.
A good friend of mine has forwarded me this ad.
It turns out that now you can buy your bakra from the comfort of your [...]

Adil Najam
The Emergency that Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf had imposed on November 3 was technically lifted today. The operative word there is ‘technically.’ Pakistan, Pakistanis and Pakistani politics were already in a very troubled state when the emergency was imposed and it is in a far worse condition now. Only someone who has totally missed on [...]

Owais Mughal
Here is an assortment of 3 Urdu and a Punjabi song of Pakistani movies of yesteryears. These are blasts from the past but still widely enjoyed. Today is a snowy day at where we live and it is difficult to go out. These and other songs will be our companion for the weekend. Hope [...]

Adil Najam
Many of you would already have seen this photograph.

It shows a policeman (of the Punjab Police, I believe) helping hang billboards showing the election symbol of ‘bicycle.’ The bicycle, by the way, is the electoral symbol of the ruling party PML(Q), whose supposed Prime Ministerial candidate Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is the Chief Minister of [...]

Darwaish
Some of you must be thinking that this is a private home or a tourist hotel somewhere in northern areas. Nah, you are wrong. Yes, it is a famous place so I am sure may of ATP readers will guess it easily but some might find it difficult specially those who have never been [...]