Adil Najam
News sources around the world are reporting that, however, that we will have to live with the 2008 a full second more than we thought! The way it looks to me, however, in the case of Pakistan - and of all regions ‘ahead’ of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - we are actually going to [...]

Adil Najam
Our ATP Poll on ‘What events from 2008 will define Pakistan in 2009?’ continues. However, as promised, we bring you a second companion ATP Poll which asks a related but different question: What do you think might be the big news coming out of Pakistan in 2009? (You can mark multiple choices).

If you [...]

Adil Najam
Three months after being destroyed by dastardly suicide bombers who also murdered 60 people, mostly Paksitanis, the Islamabad Marriott Hotel reopened today in a visible sign of resilience and defiance by the hotel’s owner Sadruddin Hashwani.

The first picture above is of the hotel as it opened today. The second as it was before the [...]

Adil Najam and Owais Mughal

(Also see our second Year in Review Poll on “Predictions for 2009.” Image from Flickr by Mirjee.)
We had ended the year 2007 at ATP by calling it the “Year of Angst and Anger.” We had begun the year 2008 with a wishlist of seven prayers: Prayers for Human Dignity, for Living [...]

Adil Najam
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated one year ago today, December 27.
I remember being in utter shock when I first heard that news. In some ways I am still in shock. Indeed, as our wall of newspaper covers showed, the whole world was in shock. That shock, I believe, is also still alive.
And, yet, so much [...]

Adil Najam
Having produced such humorous poetry giants as Anwar Masood, Dilawar Figar and Khalid Masood Khan, it is obvious that Pakistan is fertile ground for mazahia shayeri. The works of Inayat Ali Khan, Khalid Irfan, and others shows that there is absolutely no dearth of subject matter to laugh at. Another new voice is that [...]