Adil Najam Just got an email from reader Adnan Ahmad (thanks) informing me that former President of Pakistan and veteran civil servant Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK), died today after a bout of pneumonia. (Historic pictures of GIK’s career in Pakistan politics, here). According to an AP Report: Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistan’s president from 1988 to […]

Adil Najam Given all the discussion about cricket and Islam (here), sooner or later we will come to beards and cricket and whether beards of a certain length or style are ‘religiously intimidating’ for some (related story here). I thought I would pre-empt the discussion by sharing some images of a few ‘great beards’ of […]

Adil Najam It is both sad and surprising that the NWFP gets such little credit for its cultural and intellectual contributions to contemporary Pakistan despite the immense impact that artists and intellectuals from the NWFP have had. Of course, the Frontier is not the only part of the country whose contributions get drowned out amidst […]