Adil Najam My dear friend (I should say mentor) and former colleague Anwar Iqbal – now the Dawn correspondent in Washington DC – was recently asked to speak on how Pakistan is portrayed in the US media at a conference organized by the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). Instead of giving the usual staid talk, […]

Owais Mughal One of the reasons that made (note the past tense here) Pakistan the greatest cricket nursery of the world was the fact that cricket was played in every street, every park and every free space of every city. When I was growing up, every street in our neighborhood had a junior cricket team and […]

Adil Najam The Pakistan Kisan Conference met in Lahore this Sunday and (again) demanded an end to feudalism. My first reaction to reading the news was to remember Faiz (remembering Faiz, by the way, is my default mode in just about all matters): youN arz o talab say kab aiye dill, pathar-dil paani houtay haiN […]