Adil Najam and Owais Mughal First, a word of thanks to our readers for responding to our call for supporting the nearly one million Pakistanis who have been displaced by the fighting in Swat and adjoining regions. Knowing that many of our readers are already contributing very significantly in many different ways through many sources, […]

Adil Najam and Owais Mughal As Mosharraf Zaidi wrote in his post yesterday: “In the long run, only Pakistan can help Pakistan.” As long-time readers of this site know, central to our notion of Pakistaniat is the idea that taking national responsibility is as important as having national pride. With the number of displaced Pakistanis […]

Adil Najam Today is Mother’s Day. All days should be mother’s days. While some of the crass commercialism that such occasions fall prey to can be disingenuous, it is good to take out the time to appreciate that which we should always be appreciating, but which we often do not. Silly discussions about whether Mother’s […]