Adil Najam Kaleem Omar is a journalist extraordinaire. Prolific, insightful, versatile beyond belief, and always full of surprises. His essay in this weekend’s The News on Sunday (18 June, 2006)‘Nobody in Karachi whistles anymore’ did not disappoint! In the Karachi of the old days, the city of my youth, one often used to hear people […]

(Picture on left by go2net; picture on right by peterhessel; both on Flickr.com) Following on yesterday’s Picture of the Day, since people had asked, this is what a ‘Qingqi’ looks like by the time it gets to Pakistan. My thanks to Altamash Mir for the information on how it is the product of a joint […]

Adil Najam Updates: here and here. Following from the earlier post on the reported destruction of a Hindu temple in Lahore, the confusion not only continues but compounds. This is what we know: On May 28, 2006, Dawn reported that a Hindu Temple in Rangmahal, Lahore, had been demolished to make way for a commercial […]