Adil Najam My dear friend (I should say mentor) and former colleague Anwar Iqbal – now the Dawn correspondent in Washington DC – was recently asked to speak on how Pakistan is portrayed in the US media at a conference organized by the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). Instead of giving the usual staid talk, […]
Adil Najam The Pakistan Kisan Conference met in Lahore this Sunday and (again) demanded an end to feudalism. My first reaction to reading the news was to remember Faiz (remembering Faiz, by the way, is my default mode in just about all matters): youN arz o talab say kab aiye dill, pathar-dil paani houtay haiN […]
Adil Najam I recieved a couple of emails with this picture today, and then saw it poste by Vaqas on Metroblog Lahore (see earlier picture here). A great picture by Awais Lodhi. We at ATP have a long-standing fascination with rickshaws (here, here, here, here an here). But, this, of course, is about political commentary, […]
