Adil Najam I must confess that I had an unterior motive in putting up the last ATP Poll – on whether readers thought that there would be elections in Pakistan in 2007 or not? I am supposed to give a talk about this topic in Washington DC today, organized by the Association of Pakistani Professionals […]
Adil Najam I was talking to a friend yesterday about Pakistan’s traumatic politics and remembered these really funny verses from Khalid Masood: Luch lafang elect huwa hai annay-wa Beeba phir reject huwa hai annay-wa Sooe pay dhaga daalnay waali nokri pay Anna aik select huwa hai annay-wa We had featured these in a post very […]
Adil Najam As was expected – but much more so than expected becasue of its timing – Ayesha Siddiqa’s new book Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy is causing waves in Pakistan and abroad. True to form, the establishment has bothed up things even more than usual by trying to mess with the book’s launch […]
