Adil Najam Important: The Bill below is now the most recent version – S.1707 of the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009, as passed by Both House and Senate. It was passed by the Senate on Sep. 24, 2009 and the House on Sep. 30, 2009. As indicated in the earlier version of this […]

Adil Najam The debate over the US $7.5 billion (over five years) Kerry-Lugar Bill – The Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act – passed by the U.S. Senate late September seems to have have generated great confusion, bemusement, anger and frustration. Sometimes, all at the same time. The headlines in only today’s The News tell us, […]

Aziz Akhmad This is the second part of my rendition of Saadat Hasan Manto’s description of his own trial, as presented in Zehmat-i-Mehr-i-Darakhshan. This is not a literal translation are readers are highly encouraged to read the original. The first part of this was posted last week (here). We pick it up from where we […]