Adil Najam This Muslim Commercial bank (MCB) advertisement prominently covers a quarter of the front page of today’s Dawn newspaper (6 August, 2006). I, of course, have no objections to newspapers selling advertising or to advertisers making whatever ads they want. That is their right. But it is also my right, and our duty, to […]

By Franz Gastler One of the first general reminder that I left the “little boxes made of ticky tacky” of suburban Minnesota and arrived somewhere outside of the U.S. or western Europe is the traffic. One is greeted immediately with a liberal mix of chaos and charm. The dismissive ambivalence that sometimes tends to cloud […]

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, […]