1925-2007: Nisar Bazmi Dies; His Music Lives

Posted on March 23, 2007
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Adil Najam The last few weeks have not been good. Its one bad news after the other. The fiasco of the Chief Justice’s removal; government high-handedess with protesting lawyers and then the media; Pakistan being kicked out of the Cricket World Cup; Bob Woolmer’s death in what we now know to be a murder; Inzimam’s […]

March 23, 1940: Lahore (Pakistan) Resolution

Posted on March 22, 2007
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Adil Najam Other posts in this series for March 23, 2007 – here and here. March 23 commemorates the passage of what was originally the ‘Lahore Resolution’ (Qarardad i Lahore) and later became better known as the ‘Pakistan Resolution’ (Qarardad i Pakistan). If there is a single most important founding document of Pakistan, it has […]

Owning Mohammad Iqbal

Posted on March 22, 2007
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Iqbal was a wonderfully interesting person. Not the cardboard cut out we turned him into!

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