Adil Najam For a moment I flirted with the idea of using the title “The Greatest Pakistani Movie Ever?” (to match with the earlier ATP post on PTV show Fifty-Fifty). But even with the question mark at the end, that would have been unfair on the remarkable movies of the 1960s; particularly, for me, the […]

By S A J Shirazi An old sleepy and dusty village Satghara lies about 20 minutes drive away from Okara in the quiet backwaters of Punjab. The coins found at Satghara prove that the place was inhabited at the time of Kushan dynasty. On the Southern bank of River Ravi, it is a typical Pakistani […]

Guest Post By Raza Rumi Last December witnessed a literary landmark of post-internet Pakistan. A dedicated website – www.patrasbokhari.com – on Patras Bokhari, a towering literary figure, was launched at the Government College University, Lahore. Prof Syed Ahmed Shah Bokhari (1898-1958) is most famous through his pen-name ‘Patra’Â? Bokhari. While he was a first-rate educationist, […]