Adil Najam If you go to the website of The Daily Times for today (June 17, 2006) and look at the very first section–called Main News–you will see 5 top headlines of the day. When you look at the five stories together, they tell an even more sorry and depressing tale than each one does […]
Adil Najam All this talk of the London Taxi coming to Pakistan has sent me into a bout of nostalgia about the Tanga (anglicized by some to become a ‘Tonga’). Its still there, but fast on the way to extinction; especially after the arrival of the Qingqi (a ‘Qingqi’ is the poor man’s London Taxi; […]
Adil Najam Pakistan will soon have around 300 ‘London Taxicabs’ plying the streets of Islamabad and soon thereafter a plant will be established to manufacture these for export elsewhere. According to a story in The Daily Times (June 16, 2006) the government has allowed the duty-free import of 300 London Taxicabs on a ‘trial basis.’ […]
