Adil Najam The headline screams out that more than 40 people are dead after a heartless and soulless suicide attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi. The story under it tells us that more than half of those butchered are children. Numb. Enraged. Without words. One stares into space. How many such headlines have we seen? […]
Adil Najam Did you know that from the 1950 through the mid 1990s the State Bank of Pakistan would publish special Hajj Notes in Rupees for Pakistani Hajis? These were mentioned in an earlier post on ATP on Pakistani banknotes, but I recently stumbled on a fascinating paper on the history of the Pakistani Hajj […]
Adil Najam and Owais Mughal From all of us at ATP we congratulate the nearly 3 million Muslims who performed Hajj this year, including 160,000 Pakistanis, and also wish fond Eid-u-Azha greetings to all of you. This is the fourth such post we have written since ATP began (2006, 2007, 2008). Each year we have […]
