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Encouraging Pakistani Entrepreneurs: Sofizar Wins MITCEF-OPEN Business Acceleration Plan

Posted on January 30, 2008
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Adil Najam
Sofizar, which works on “click fraud” and “web analytics Solutions” (maybe we at ATP should be talking to them!) describes itself as “a Carlsbad, CA based internet marketing company with development and operations based out of Lahore” won the 2007 MITCEF-OPEN Business Acceleration Plan (BAP).
Zafar Khan, the CEO of Sofizar, along with others from [...]

Irreconcilable Differences: Imran Khan and Jemima Reunited

Posted on January 29, 2008
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Adil Najam
Well, not really.
Headlines like that were in rage today and referred to the fact that Imran Khan and Jemima, now divorced, appeared together in a protest outside 10 Downing Street, London, where Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf was meeting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. According to The News:
The high profile divorced couple stood side by side [...]

Deplorable: Iconic Humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi Facing Deportation From US, Passport Siezed

Posted on January 29, 2008
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Adil Najam
Hassan Abbas from WatanDost just alerted me to this most deplorable and shocking news. According to the Daily Times:
Renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi was interrogated by US immigration officials at the JF Kennedy Airport in New York, who also seized his passport and other documents, a private TV channel reported on Monday. Edhi [...]

dil wale geyseria le jaaeN ge..…the Jet Rickshaw

Posted on January 28, 2008
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Owais Mughal
Following photo appeared in Dawn of January 13, 2008. It shows yet another use of rickshaw. After a sudden drop in winter temperature, this guy bought a water heating geyser from Saddar, Karachi and is seen hauling it in the ever-versatile carrier of Pakistan, the rickshaw.

The Jet Rickshaw?
When I first saw the title photo [...]

Book Review: No Space for Further Burials By Feryal Gauhar

Posted on January 27, 2008
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Raza Rumi
Decades of imperialism have left Afghanistan and its people devastated. But the fall of the Taliban, and the much touted “liberation” of Afghanistan, has produced a new spate of novels, films and other artistic media dealing with the “Afghan victim.”
And when I say “Afghan victim,” I mean a nauseating overdose of burqa-oppression, Taliban brutality [...]

Silencing the Chaudhries: Iftikhar and Aitizaz

Posted on January 26, 2008
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Adil Najam
Much has happened in Pakistan over the last many weeks. Too much.

Amidst all the chaos and tragedy it has become difficult to keep track of just all that is happening, let alone make sense of it. It is clear that the dust has not settled yet. Far from it one can be sure [...]

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