Owais Mughal NOTE: Translation of all Urdu sentences is given at the end I want to start this recipe’ with 7 time-tested words of wisdom. These words are tested by myself over a time period of two days, hence proved: Never Judge a Custard by its Cover Ok, so after you’ve sinked-in this message, I […]

S.A.J. Shirazi Traveling on Grand Trunk Road all my life, it captured my imagination as a cultural curiosity when I read Rudyard Kipling’s Kim. At the beginning of the last century Kipling called it: “a wonderful spectacle…. without crowding…. green-arched, shade-flecked … a river of life.” But Pakistan’s National Highway Number 5 (N5), alias the […]

Adil Najam Today is 9/11. For Pakistanis 9/11 has always been a sad date. On this date in 1948, barely a year after the nation’s birth, its founding leader, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, died. Today I want to post three historical artifacts – each worthy of your attention, and each worthy of some thinking through. The […]