10 Moharram – Ashura

Posted on January 19, 2008
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Adil Najam NOTE: In some parts of the world (e.g., Europe) today is the 10th of Muharram. Ashura. In other parts (e.g., Pakistan) Ashura will be tomorrow. We reproduce today the post we had done on Ashura last year. My sentiments today are the same as they were last year. Given the events of the […]

Are Ringtones Unislamic? (Please Don’t Answer!)

Posted on January 18, 2008
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Adil Najam Pakistan is a land of creative cell-phone ringtones. Sometimes, I feel, a little too creative. You are sitting in a meeting with some very self-important and staid people – officials, businessmen, buzurg grandfather types – and one of their cell-phone rings: and the ring-tone is a computer synthesis of “Sanou Nehr Waaley Pul […]

Adil Najam Having to write regular posts of ATP can sometimes become a heavy burden. Not because of the workload. But because of the pain and hurt that can come with following the daily struggles for survival. Today, once again, too many did not survive those struggles. The News reports from Karachi: Death toll in […]

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