Adil Najam I must confess that I had an unterior motive in putting up the last ATP Poll – on whether readers thought that there would be elections in Pakistan in 2007 or not? I am supposed to give a talk about this topic in Washington DC today, organized by the Association of Pakistani Professionals […]

Owais Mughal Mohammad Yousuf completed 8000 runs in One Day Internationals (ODIs) today. He is Pakistan’s 3rd and World’s 17th batsman to reach this cricket milestone. The list of Pakistan’s top 10 batsmen in terms of career runs is as follows. The number in parenthesis is their World Ranking in terms of ODI career runs. […]

Adil Najam I was talking to a friend yesterday about Pakistan’s traumatic politics and remembered these really funny verses from Khalid Masood: Luch lafang elect huwa hai annay-wa Beeba phir reject huwa hai annay-wa Sooe pay dhaga daalnay waali nokri pay Anna aik select huwa hai annay-wa We had featured these in a post very […]