Adil Najam
News has it that Pakistani engineer and entrepreneur Shahid Khan is all set to strike a mega deal to become the new owner of the NFP (American) football team St. Loius Rams. I must confess that I do not follow the NFL as so many others do. But this I know: this is a [...]

M.P. Bhandara
(Editor’s Note: This is the second in our series of lessons to be learnt from the events of 1971. This particular piece was written by the late M.P. Bhandara, then member of the Pakistan parliament, for Dawn in 2005. The intensity of the sentiment on stranded Pakistanis remains equally valid today.)
There is a [...]

Adil Najam
I have been waiting many weeks to write about H.M. Naqvi’s debut novel, Homeboy.
I finished reading the book soon after it first came out this fall and found myself riveted to the richly layered, intense tale of three colorful characters - all of Pakistani descent - living in New York City. Homeboy follows the [...]

Mohammad Ayaz Abdal
In the land of great Pharaohs, under the shadow of the mighty pyramids, there lives a woman who seems to know every intricate details of every conspiracy that went on in the ruins of the magnificent palaces. You will see her on your TV screen, if you are a history buff, detailing the [...]

Aziz Akhmad
US-Pakistan politics aside, I enjoy my longish stays in the US, whenever I visit here, usually in the summers. One reason is the many opportunities this country provides for “the pursuit of happiness,” which, in fact, is enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence as an “inalienable right of man [and woman]” along with [...]

Himayun Mirza
This is the story of how I had some of the best naans I have ever had in my life at the Taliban Food Center, a small local restaurant in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The name has got nothing at all to do with the Taliban as we know them in Afghanistan, Pakistan and [...]