Adil Najam I have often wondered – and seriously – if Pakistanis read? No, not whether they can read. Illiteracy being what it is in Pakistan, there are many – too many – who obviously cannot. But this question does not pertain to them. This is about those who could read if they chose to […]

Nadeem Omar In this, the first in our series of photographs from the F.E. Chaudhry Collection, we want to feature this remarkable photograph taken on a Lahore street-side, probably in the 1950s. A group of four young women unabashedly sitting in a row on a road side in Lahore, picking each other’s heads for lice […]

Adil Najam As one reads the news from Pakistan and looks at the picture below, one cannot but help wonder what are these three gentlemen thinking; about each other and also about their own future? In a land where speculation replaces analysis and conspiracy outdoes strategy, word is ripe that the eventual “unsteady” state might […]