Adil Najam
The frustration and anger that one finds in the comments on the Emergency imposed by Gen. Musharraf in Pakistan is mirrored everywhere. In every conversation one has with any Pakistani anywhere. I was in Pakistan till last weekend and this pent-up feeling of frustration was evident in every conversation even before the Emergency was [...]

Adil Najam
These are distressing times. But this is not a time to be depressed.
This is a time, as Owais reminds us in his last post, to reaffirm our hopes for the future. True defeat would be to give up on those hopes. I have put up the splash image (on the front page) that I [...]

Adil Najam
From all of us at All Things Pakistan we wish our regular readers, our contributors, and all passers-by a wonderful and very happy Eid Mubarak (Eid Greetings). We wish you happiness, prosperity and all things good; now and forever.

[Pictures: Empire State Building, New York City, lit green to mark Eid-ul-Fitr, 2007].
We had started our [...]

Adil Najam
Today, October 8, marks the 2nd anniversary of the tragic earthquake hit Northern Pakistan, Kashmir, and parts of India and Afghanistan.

But we want to dedicate this post not only to the memory of what happened, but also to the reminder that much more still needs to be done. This post today is dedicated to [...]

ATP Team
It has come to our attention that on some browsers visitors are having problems with the page loading up. In particular, the two right-hand columns get pushed down to the bottom of the page. We have also recently been hit by larger-than-usual spam and as a result it seems that many legitimate comments [...]

Owais Mughal, Adil Najam,
Bilal Zuberi and Darwaish
Today we celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Pakistan’s birth.
We could talk about what was promised of Pakistan. What has become of it. Or what should be done to improve it. But we try to do that at Pakistaniat (ATP) everyday. And we do realize that ..aah ko [...]

Adil Najam
As promised, we now have a new look for Paksitaniat.com.
For the last couple of weeks, a small group of us have been working frantically - nearly around the clock - on reworking the look of ATP with the goal of making the user experience better without changing the essential feel of ‘Pakistaniat’ at the [...]