Adil Najam Something important happened in Pakistan today – something that is not getting enough coverage in the print of electronic media; something that should. Railway authorities near Multan identified a suspicious briefcase left in a railway compartment. The bomb disposal squad was immediately called. The timed brief-case bomb that is reported to have been […]

Selected and Introduced by Adil Najam In this the first installment of excerpts from K.K. Aziz’s The Coffee House of Lahore (read book review by Raza Rumi, here) we have selected a passage that appears very early in the book and describes what Lahore used to look like around the time of partition. The vivid […]

Adil Najam Pakistan needs serious tax reform. That we did not get today. What it got instead was a collection drive – supposedly to pay for the post-flood rehabilitation, but probably even more because the international community has been pushing us to raise internal revenue collection. That itself is not a bad thing. Indeed, it […]