By Bilal Zuberi Brick making is a valuable industry to Pakistan – indigeneous and providing employment in rural areas where agriculture may not be enough to sustain all the people. I met today with a German consultant today who has visited Pakistan several times to help local industry improve their brick-makng processes. My meeting encouraged […]

Adil Najam This was not a very good weekend for tailors in Karachi. The first headline to catch my attention was The News (9 June, 2006) proclaiming: Doctor held for stealing kidney And then there was the second one, also in The News on, same day: Murdered for illicit sexual liaisons It turns out that […]

Adil Najam This picture just brought back a flood of memories. This picture was taken in Peshawar in May this year. But it could have been me so many years ago. I remember that blue sweater, that tie that never kept in place (that is before the uniforms changed to ‘malitia’ shalwar qameez), those pale-yellow […]