Darwaish
I am watching television right now and every news channel is reporting the latest interview by Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. This interview came as a surprise to many people here in Pakistan and is sending shock waves around the world (wait and see after 4th July holiday in US).
Dr. Khan, who remains popular across […]

Adil Najam
Islamabad, from where I write this, is abuzz with talk about Samad Khurram, the Pakistani student currently at Harvard University, who snubbed the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, by refusing to shake her hand or accept an award for Pakistani students from the Roots Academy - a top-notch private school - who […]

Nadeem Omar
This set of photographs from F.E. Chaudhry depict the news journalist side of Chacha’s portfolio.

In February 1961, Queen Elizabeth II, toured India, Iran, Nepal and Pakistan on her first ever tour of countries outside Europe. She arrived in Pakistan on 11th February, and was received at the airport by Govenor, Nawab Kalabagh Khan. As […]

Owais Mughal
An Indian national who was languishing in Pakistani jails for the past 34 years has been released on March 3, 2008. He was granted amnesty by the President of Pakistan. Amid a festive and emotional ceremony, he crossed the border into India today (March 4, 2008) and got reunited with his family. In […]

Zara K
There are two ways to lose oneself: by a walled segregation in the particular or by a dilution in the “universal”. Aimé Cesaire
I used to love airports. I loathe them now.
It was soothing to watch multifarious faces become faceless and free in airports, to watch different shades of people get absorbed into a single […]

Adil Najam
The much-anticipated, and now posthumus, new book by Benazir Bhotto - Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West - is to be released soon and excerpts were printed today in the Sunday Times (London).
I have read the excerpts but have not read the book yet. I am very eager to read the book and just […]