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Coming Soon: Newsweek, Pakistan Edition

Posted on March 6, 2010
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Adil Najam
The news itself is old, but I just heard of it. It seems that a Pakistan Edition of American news magazine Newsweek is coming soon to a news stand near you. Reportedly, the initial run will be 30,000 copies - four times the current sales - and the first issue is expected in September.

Reportedly, [...]

Technology, Society, Morality and Criminality: How A Deleted Cell Phone Video Led to Murder

Posted on March 4, 2010
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Adil Najam
The story told in this video takes around seven minutes to tell. But it will haunt you for much longer.

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Bureaucratic Delays Puts Lives of NWFP Policemen at Risk

Posted on March 3, 2010
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Adil Najam
As we wrote at the end of last year - whilst naming the Pakistani Policeman as ATP’s Pakistan Person of the Year 2009 - “the faces that represent the reality of Pakistan in 2009 more than any other, are the faces of the Pakistani police… All too often in this murderous year, the Pakistani [...]

Hockey World Cup 2010: Pakistan Beats Spain to Remain in the Game

Posted on March 2, 2010
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Adil Najam
It is the Pakistani cricketers who are supposed to be erratic and unpredictable, disappointing one day and enthralling the next. But this time the Pakistan hockey team seems to be following a similar path at the 2010 Hockey World Cup now underway in India.

On the opening day of the tournament, Pakistan had lost decisively [...]

Intolerance Kills: Zealots Turn Eid Milad Celebrations into Battlegrounds

Posted on February 28, 2010
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Adil Najam
In both Faisalabad and Dera Ismail Khan, religious zealots turned Eid Milad-un-Nabi celebrations violent leaving at least seven dead and more than thirty injured. The irony, and sheer lunacy, of this criminal violence is that there are those amongst us who are so convinced that they and they alone are the “best” Muslims of [...]

Celebrating Eid-Milad-un-Nabi

Posted on February 27, 2010
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Owais Mughal and Adil Najam

Today was the 12th of Rabi-ul-Awal in Pakistan and Eid Milad-un-Nabi - marking the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) - was celebrated across the country. ATP offers Eid Milad-un-Nabi greetings to all its Muslim readers. As pictorial special, we share these photographs from Dawn and APP of [...]

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