(Picture on left by go2net; picture on right by peterhessel; both on Flickr.com) Following on yesterday’s Picture of the Day, since people had asked, this is what a ‘Qingqi’ looks like by the time it gets to Pakistan. My thanks to Altamash Mir for the information on how it is the product of a joint […]
Adil Najam Updates: here and here. Following from the earlier post on the reported destruction of a Hindu temple in Lahore, the confusion not only continues but compounds. This is what we know: On May 28, 2006, Dawn reported that a Hindu Temple in Rangmahal, Lahore, had been demolished to make way for a commercial […]
Adil Najam The Kominas–a ‘Muslim Punk’ band led by two Pakistani-Americans (Basim Usmani and Shahjehan Khan)–will be playing in Brooklyn, New York today (June 17, 2006). The reason for this plug, however, is not just because they are Pakistani-American kids making socially facinating and provocative music (see Boston Globe writeup on them here). It is, […]
