Adil Najam A friend sent these to me as examples of Pinglish. Supposedly, they are examples of actual language used in letters and applications of various types. Even if they are not real, they are funny. A candidate’s application: “This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ‘typist and an accountant–Male or Female’… As […]
Adil Najam (ATP Note: On July 11, 2008, Samad Khurram broke his public silence on this episode in an op-ed published in The News. This post has been updated to include the op-ed in full, at the end of the post). Islamabad, from where I write this, is abuzz with talk about Samad Khurram, the […]
Adil Najam It is not often that one dares to place a headline as bold as the one above. We have used such superlatives a few times before, but very few: for the dialogues from Maula Jatt, for the blockbuster movie Aina, twice for the PTV show Fifty-Fifty, once for the show and once for […]
