Pictures of the Day: This is what a 7-star looks like!

Posted on September 4, 2006
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Adil Najam For all of those, me included, who wondered what a 7-star hotel looks like; this is it. To find out what it feels like, you will have to wait an indefinite amount of time until this surreal StarTrek-like structure actually comes about in Islamabad. Will it? And if it does will it really […]

A High School with Just One Student

Posted on September 3, 2006
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Guest Post by Raza Rumi ATP has articulated the problems with Pakistan’s education policies and trends in the past (here, for example). I recently came across this little piece published yesterday in the Pakistani newspaper The Daily Times and I thought this is a fit sequel to ATP’s concern on education. Just one student in […]

Mubarakbaad: Wedding dholls for Bilal

Posted on September 3, 2006
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Adil Najam All of us here at ATP want to wish our colleague Bilal Zuberi the very best of luck on his marriage day; today. Yes, you heard it right! From one married guy to a soon-to-be-married guy: “hunn, lagg patta jaaye ga!”; this phrase is not translatable but lagg patta jaaye ga” is profoundly […]

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