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Satire: A Historical perspective of the Caste system of Pakistan

Posted on March 19, 2010
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Mohammad Ayaz Abdal
Pakistan can proudly boost of having one of the oldest and the most organized caste systems in the world. This system always drew interest from the ancients to the recent sociologists.

Plutarch and Homer studied it and made it a part of their ancient doctrine. Chankiya and Machiavelli added its necessary components in [...]

Coming Soon: Newsweek, Pakistan Edition

Posted on March 6, 2010
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Adil Najam
The news itself is old, but I just heard of it. It seems that a Pakistan Edition of American news magazine Newsweek is coming soon to a news stand near you. Reportedly, the initial run will be 30,000 copies - four times the current sales - and the first issue is expected in September.

Reportedly, [...]

Technology, Society, Morality and Criminality: How A Deleted Cell Phone Video Led to Murder

Posted on March 4, 2010
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Adil Najam
The story told in this video takes around seven minutes to tell. But it will haunt you for much longer.

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Intolerance Kills: Zealots Turn Eid Milad Celebrations into Battlegrounds

Posted on February 28, 2010
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Adil Najam
In both Faisalabad and Dera Ismail Khan, religious zealots turned Eid Milad-un-Nabi celebrations violent leaving at least seven dead and more than thirty injured. The irony, and sheer lunacy, of this criminal violence is that there are those amongst us who are so convinced that they and they alone are the “best” Muslims of [...]

Celebrating Eid-Milad-un-Nabi

Posted on February 27, 2010
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Owais Mughal and Adil Najam

Today was the 12th of Rabi-ul-Awal in Pakistan and Eid Milad-un-Nabi - marking the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) - was celebrated across the country. ATP offers Eid Milad-un-Nabi greetings to all its Muslim readers. As pictorial special, we share these photographs from Dawn and APP of [...]

Ultimate Lollywood (2): Some Say I Am Sweety

Posted on February 20, 2010
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Adil Najam
About a year ago I did a short post and somewhat presumptuously titled it “Ultimate Lollywood.” Let me suggest, equally presumptuously, that I may have now found an exemplar of what it means to be “Lollywood” that is even more “ultimate,” maybe even “Lollywood supreme”. Judge for yourself.

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