Adil Najam, Bilal Zuberi, Owais Mughal
From all of us at All Things Pakistan (ATP; Pakistaniat.Com) we wish our regular readers, our contributors, and all passers-by a wonderful and very happy Eid Mubarak (Eid Greetings). We wish you happiness, prosperity and all things good; now and forever.
You have all already given us great happiness by having become our extended circle of friends and family. The best compliment we ever got was Pervaiz Alvi saying that coming to ATP is “like going home every day.” We, too, feel that this is another home for us and look forward every day (many times each day, actually) to comments from regulars as well as the many who appear occasionally, then disappear, and sometimes appear again!
ATP was launched as a small individual experiment on June 11. Today – just over 4 months, 275 posts from 24 authors, 4000 comments, and very nearly quarter million page hits later – we are proud that an ‘community’ has emerged around ATP. We could not have possibly asked for more.
Like any community, not everyone agrees on everything. Sometimes tempers get flared. Often smiles are shared. Occasionally laughter breaks out. Most often there is a sense that we are thinking about the same things, even if in very many different – even divergent – ways. Most importantly, there is something that brings this community together; we would like to believe that thing is Pakistaniat.
P.S. Eid will be celebrated in much of North America and in many other places (including parts of the NWFP in Pakistan) on Monday. It will be celebrated elsewhere, including most of Pakistan, on Tuesday. Hopefully we have timed this post right and it gets to you either as your Eid has just begun or is about to.
Eid Mubarak to everyone and especially ATP team. Each one of your team sacrifices and contributes significantly to provide a cooked kheer (pakee paka’ee kheer) for the rest of us looking for something to escape to from the daily routine.
ID MUBARAK TO ALL AT ATP. And thanks for a great forum for being Pakistani.
EID MUBARAK EVERY ONE.
Thank you Dr. Najam and the Team for providing us with this virtual ATP “Home away from Home”. You guys are doing a great job. God bless you all. Have a wonderful day.
Being a “Silent Reader” from the last couple of months I guess its about time I should post a comment for you guyz, “Great Work”. All your posts were/are wonderful n for a change there is no political or religious motive behind all this, which makes it even more worth just reading through all the posts.
All the Very Best of Luck n Keep it up !
Eid Mubarak 2 all the ATP team, readers & everyone :)
Long Live Pakistan
Eid Mubarik to every one and thanks for good wishes ATP members.