Maula Jatt: Nawa aaya hai, soonia

Posted on August 8, 2006
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Adil Najam For a moment I flirted with the idea of using the title “The Greatest Pakistani Movie Ever?” (to match with the earlier ATP post on PTV show Fifty-Fifty). But even with the question mark at the end, that would have been unfair on the remarkable movies of the 1960s; particularly, for me, the […]

Picture of the Day: Neighborly greetings

Posted on August 7, 2006
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Adil Najam This picture was taken in Karachi earlier today (7 August, 2006) by atrophying and posted on Flickr.com. Even if its was done inadvertently, I find it a very timely and appropriate billboard. Especially at this precarious time in India-Pakistan relations – note the silliness of recalled diplomats – when extremists on both sides […]

PaRhnay waalouN kay naam!

Posted on August 7, 2006
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Adil Najam This newsitem in Dawn (7 August, 2006) by Bhagwandas say it all. KARACHI, Aug 6: Over 20,000 books, including a number of precious and rare ones, of the Central Archeological Reference Library have been shifted to yet another location in the city for the fifth time in nearly a decade, it is learnt […]

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