Owais Mughal
With apologies to Allama Iqbal:
aa gaya ain laRaai meiN agar waqt-i-JAZZ
qibla ru ho ke zameeN bos hui qaum-e-Hejaz
The following photo is courtesy of Mr. Waheed M. Zuberi.

It shows a traffic policeman busy talking on cellular phone while controlling the traffic through a busy intersection. The photo was taken on a Clifton, Karachi Road at [...]

Owais Mughal
Today when Mohammad Yousuf scored a boundary off the bowling of Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh) he completed his 9000 runs in One Day International (ODI) career. He is the second Pakistani and World’s 12th batsman to reach this milestone.
The list of Pakistan’s top 10 batsmen in terms of career runs is as follows. The number [...]

Shahran Asim
This post also contains two audio files of Inayat’s poems.
The reason I started wrote this post is because I saw a repost on Anwar Masood and I thought that we should also start introducing some more humor for ATP readers. I think these post serves a breath of fresh air in the current situation [...]

Adil Najam

This photograph of lawyer leader Aitzaz Ahsan on top of an ambulance putting his hand together and begging for peace and a stop to the needless violence by some who are ’supposedly’ his supporters, speaks volumes. It speaks volumes about Aitizaz Ahsan; volumes about the culture of anger and violence that has gripped Pakistan, [...]

Darwaish
Last two days have been dramatic in Pakistani politics. Since February Elections, we have been hearing good news, atleast on political fronts. It seemed that Pakistan is finally moving towards national reconciliation and this time politicians are really coming together and serious about solving public problems. But things have suddenly changed since yesterday. In separate [...]

Adil Najam
The Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious journalistic awards in the world and winning any of these awards is as big an honor as a journalist can achieve. The 2008 Pulitzer Prizes were just announced and in the category of “Breaking News Photography” the winner is Adrees Latif of Reuters, a Pakistani-born, Bangkok-based news [...]

Raza Rumi
On the flourishing ‘column’ industry despite the slow growth of readership’
What is so peculiar about the Pakistani media opinion factories churning out problems and solutions products day after day? Frankly, they are self perpetuating oligarchies and boring at best. The slightly discerning mortals who browse the daily newspapers in English and vernacular languages or [...]