http://pakistaniat.com Pakistan. Pakistani. Pakistaniat. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:38:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Owais Mughal Let me confess I did not know what this was until I saw this picture. Do you know what it is? What is it used for? Where it comes from? Do tell us more about this is you do know? Or, make a guess? http://pakistaniat.com/2009/07/04/atp-quiz-2/ Adil Najam For as long as I can remember, I have heard passionate arguments about whether the four provinces of Pakistan should be divided into multiple smaller provinces. The discussion has, once again, gained momentum. This time the focus is the Punjab and converting Southern Punjab into a separate province (a ... http://pakistaniat.com/2009/07/03/seraiki-province/ Adil Najam What is the most appropriate word for 'GanDeri' in English? I have puzzled over this for long and asked a number of friends. In fact, this is a re-post of the question I had posed at this blog 3 years ago. The best I got was 'sugarcane cut-piece'; where 'cut-piece' ... http://pakistaniat.com/2009/07/02/ganderi/ Dr. Rauf Parekh Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi, one of the most celebrated humorists of the Urdu language, said in an interview early in his literary career that he had decided to quit writing humour. Reason? He thought it was useless to write humour if one could not write it the way Shafeeq-ur-Rahman ... http://pakistaniat.com/2009/07/01/shafeeq-ur-rahman/ Adil Najam These are two amazing pictures. Both were taken today (June 30, 2009) but they tell two very different stories. Each story is equally true and each story is equally important. The stories are about the little girls in the pictures. But they are also stories about each one of us. The ... http://pakistaniat.com/2009/06/30/pakistan-idps/