Roshan Malik Bahawalpur State (1833-1955) has a unique architecture blended with Italian style. It was comprised of three districts (Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan). The last ruler Nawab Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi V ruled the State (1907-55) before it merged into the unitary province of Pakistan. The State reached the zenith of its […]

Adil Najam Following up on our earlier post on Dengue Fever in Pakistan, maybe I was wrong about the extent of public health awareness after all. There is very little that I can add to the facts included in the caption of this photograph in the Dawn today (7 November, 2006): “The sewage and all […]

Adil Najam More than 10,000 Sikh yatrees from India, Europe and North America converged on Nankana Sahib on Sunday to celebrate the 538th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, and the first of its ten Gurus. This was reportedly the largest Sikh gathering at Nankana Sahib since 1947. Earlier in […]