Adil Najam Earlier this month (on January 17), Prof. Khawaja Masud – teacher, mathematician, philosopher, activist, progressive, and truly an intellectual’s intellectual – died in Islamabad. I have been traveling internationally the last two weeks and did not hear of his demise till late yesterday. The fact that I got to hear of this only […]

ATP Reads: Your Favorite Books on Pakistan

Posted on January 26, 2010
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Adil Najam We at ATP like books. Over the last many months we have featured and discussed a number of books that relate to Pakistan in various ways. I must confess that I had always hoped that we would talk more about books than we have. I hope we will be able to do so […]

Shazia’s Death: A Call For Introspection

Posted on January 24, 2010
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Adil Najam The murder of 12-year old child Shazia, working as a housemaid in the house of one Chaudhry Naeem (a former president of the Lahore Bar Association) has been widely reported and strongly condemned by all (including Chief Minister Punjab and the President of Pakistan). It is, indeed, something that we must all condemn. […]

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