Daylight Savings Time Introduced in Pakistan

Posted on May 31, 2008
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Adil Najam As of the stroke of midnight Saturday-Sunday (May 31-June 1, 2008) Pakistan officially advanced its clocks by one hour. This “daylight savings” move is a bid to conserve energy in an increasingly energy strapped economy in conditions where everyone agrees that the energy situation is going to get worse well before it gets […]

Inspiration Pakistan: Nehr Waaley Pul Tey

Posted on May 17, 2008
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Adil Najam I must confess that the goriness of my last post still leaves me drained and shaken. I offer this picture post on the simpler pleasures of life in Pakistan, partly as a way of shaking myself off the shivers but much more as a way to highlight that not only is another Pakistan […]

Adil Najam For nearly two days now I have been debating whether to put up this post and, especially, the accompanying photograph. A shiver runs through my body to think about, let alone see, this picture. But as we have done before (here, here, here, here, here, here) we put up this picture of mob […]

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