Owais Mughal
Many years ago, before I became a proud owner of Yamaha 100, I used to have a Yamaha 50. It was red in color and many a times the person riding on it also used to get shades of red. These red shades sometimes came in anger and sometimes as blushes. This motorcycle made [...]

Mast Qalandar
What is common between President Pervez Musharraf, Imran Khan, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry?” Even a schoolboy knows the answer: They are all members of the Kala Kola Klub.
So writes Khalid Hasan in a delightful column last week in Daily Times.
Khalid Hasan has a knack of coining interesting names [...]

Shahran Asim
As part of my effort to introduce humorous poets of Pakistan on this blog (here and here) I am bringing a post on Dilawar Figar today.
My personal recollections of Dilawar Figar was in 1996 when he was invited along with other noted personalities in a Roo-Baroo program. He recited his very interesting poetry which [...]

Owais Mughal
If you visited Hill Park many years ago, you may remember the presence of a haunted house inside Meraj amusement park. It was a small igloo shaped structure covered in bougainvillea and on the entrance there was a plaque displaying just two words: Bhoot Bangla (The Ghost House). When I first heard of this [...]

Adil Najam
Sometimes the only way to deal with a really serious situation is to make it funny. So, here is our little experiment to see what words you would put into the “leaders” mouth (please, no batameezi!).

So, basically, here is the storyline we all know so well. What we do not know is what these [...]

Shahran Asim
This post also contains two audio files of Inayat’s poems.
The reason I started wrote this post is because I saw a repost on Anwar Masood and I thought that we should also start introducing some more humor for ATP readers. I think these post serves a breath of fresh air in the current situation [...]

Adil Najam
Our repost of our ATP Mushaira post on Anwar Masood prompted reader Shahran Asim to send us this newer audio recording of Anwar Masood commenting on elections in Pakistan. I thought it was not only hilarious but also pertinent; and certainly worth sharing. Thanks, Shahran.