Owais Mughal 36 years ago, on December 16, 1971, then East Pakistan became Bangladesh. Last year Adil Najam had a very touching post on the same topic and I’ll strongly recommend a revisit to it here. Raza Rumi had also written a post after revisiting Dhaka recently. I belong to a generation which did not […]

Owais Mughal Last year we had a post on Finding Your Dream ‘Bakra’ Online. The trend continues this year and as Eid approaches, so do bakras. And they are now invading the internet too. A good friend of mine has forwarded me this ad. It turns out that now you can buy your bakra from […]

Adil Najam The Emergency that Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf had imposed on November 3 was technically lifted today. The operative word there is ‘technically.’ Pakistan, Pakistanis and Pakistani politics were already in a very troubled state when the emergency was imposed and it is in a far worse condition now. Only someone who has totally missed […]