Adil Najam Thanks to the magic of internet search, our last ATP quiz was not difficult to decipher. Yes, it is Government College Lahore. The photograph was taken in December 1947 by LIFE magazine famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White, and is of freshmen students in a physics class. What made the picture interesting to me was […]

Adil Najam All Things Pakistan is going Tweets! Those of you who use Twitter and have written to us on this, do please join Pakistaniat at Twitter. Keeping up with happenings in Pakistan is difficult enough. Keeping up with technology is more difficult. Yet, the miracle is that we have kept afloat despite occasional hiccups […]

Adil Najam Karachi used to be called “the city that never sleeps.” It may as well now be called “the city that forever bleeds.” Karachi is bleeding again. More than a dozen dead. 80 injured. The Sindh Home Minister says “shoot to kill.” And everyone expects more blood to spill on the streets of Karachi. […]