Adil Najam and Owais Mughal
The very first post on All Things Pakistan came online on June 11, 2006. Today, we celebrate the completion of three years in Pakistaniat.
It has been a traumatic, but most enthralling ride. Today we write only to thank you all for sharing this ride with us. The ups as well as the downs. And there have been plenty of both.
In the past we have used or milestone posts (100th post, ‘Going Forward’ post, ‘Move to Pakistaniat.com‘ post, ‘Tangay Walla’ post, 6-month anniversary post, 1-year anniversary post, Redesign curtain-raiser post, 2-year anniversary post) to detail the philosophy of ATP, chart its development, make announcements, share our frustrations, and examine our achievements. All of those posts remain on record, and part of us hopes that you will go back and read them.
But our purpose in this post is merely to take a pause, catch our breath, and say, “Thank You, All!”
Thank you for your companionship. Thank you for your community. Thank you you letting us be a small part of your routine. Thank you for tagging along even when we moderated out your comments. Thank you for letting us know (all too often) when you disagreed with us. Thank you for cheering us along when you thought we were moving in the right direction. Thank you for sending in your ideas. Thank you for pointing out our mistakes. Thank you for supporting our causes.
Thank you to the nearly 100 authors who have written over 1400 posts on this blog. Thank you to those who have written over 50,000 comments. Thank you to the nearly 6000 who follow us on newsreaders and RSS. Thank you to the 250+ readers who now follow us on Twitter. Thank you to the over 200 who follow us on Mobile phones. Thank you to the nearly 2400 who are ‘fans’ on Facebook and have now created a parallel Pakistaniat community there. Thank you, most of all, to the many millions (yes, multiple millions) who have visited this blog on Pakistan and have viewed many many more millions of pages.
Thank you, everyone, for having stayed for the ride. For those of you who have been with us from the beginning, thank you for having stayed on (we, too, miss the more intimate comments of those early days when ‘everyone knew everyone by name’). For those who have joined us more recently, welcome aboard and thank you for being part of this community. For those who were more frequent visitors and are no more, we hope you will keep coming back, even if less frequently.
What we cherish more than anything else – and the one thing that keeps us going – is the sense of community and companionship. The belief and the manifestation that we may disagree on much, but we share a bond of Pakistaniat. And, so, we thank you today for your Pakistaniat. It is your Pakistaniat that helps keep our Paistaniat alive. Thank you.
I believe you are the same Adil Najam which I know. You used to live in street 31 of G-6-1/3 (incidentally the same street from where they caught Al-Qaeda member last week) and study in Islamabad College for Boys. If my memory is still with me, you had KE-100 or 175 in blue color. You had been a role model for us during school and later in Engineering University Lahore. You were an excellent debator and I have never seen you losing. Once you represented students in a talk show hosted by Laeeq Ahmad, after which you were offered your own host show on PTV.
One of my friends once forwarded me your article from this blog and after going through your profile I found you are the same Adil Najam that I know. Yours and Osman’s efforts in keeping Pakistaniat alive in us are really commendable. I have been a regular visitor of your blog for the last one year. I have placed it in my igoogle home page and every morning I follow the blog religiously. The best part of this community is that we are patient, tolerant and accept positive criticism.
Keep up the good work
CONGRATULATIONS
You have created a platform of substance for so many interesting voices. That is a wonderful achievement. I hope you grow by leaps and bounds in the years ahead.
Well done !
God Bless.
Congratulations…!!
… or aap sab ka bohat bohat shukria kay aap logon nay hamain Pakistan kay bary main bay-intha malomat farham kee. Pakistan or uskay masail ko naye tareqay say sochnay, samjhnay or phir uspay har tarah kay background say taluq rakhnay walay logon kay views parhnay or jannay ka moqa farham kia.
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“I must confess” :-P kay is blog nay meri Pakistaniat main kafi izafa kia hay, main nay ye blog shayed Dec-Jan say parhna start kia tha lakin pichlay 2-3 months main main nay ATP kay taqreban sary topics perh dalay, kuch samjh aye kuch nahi, lakin is say meri Pakistan kay lia jo mohabbat (hubul-watni) hay usmain izafa hoa hay, kionkay buraian to har banda achi ker layta hay lakin jo positive points hain unhain likhna or paysh kerna her kisi kay naseeb main nahi hota.
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Jo hamray Pakistani behn bhai mulk say baher hain un kay liaye to ye blog aik nemat say kam nahi per Pakistan main rehnay walon kay lia bhe aik bhatreen forum hay jahan per wo apnay masail discus ker saktay hain or apni awaz aagey pohncha saktay hain.
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Again ATP ke pori team ko bohat bohat mubarakbad or shukria … Allah(SWT) ATP ko mazeed taraqi ata farmain or unkay maqasid ko kamiabi ata farmain … Ameen..!!
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ATP Khappay ;-)
Mubarakbaad.
Well played, yaar!
Congratulations ATP.
And Thank YOU. You have enriched our lives. You do a wonderful job. Well done.