Adil Najam Muhammad Abbas made Pakistan’s Winter Olympics debut today. We already have a post on Abbas’s remarkable trip from learning skiing on home-made planks in Pakistan’s Northern Areas to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, but these Associated Press pictures from his run today are quite stunning and we thought they deserve a separate post.

Adil Najam Earlier today, Mohammad Abbas of Pakistan completed a downhill free run in Whistler, British Columbia (picture below). Tomorrow he will compete in the Men’s Giant Slalom at the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010.  (See followup post with more pictures, here). It is unlikely that he will be in the run for a medal, but […]

Adil Najam Not surprisingly, Pakistan politics remains a mess. The President remains the master of brinksmanship. Instead of doing the right thing to begin with, he pushes crises to the edge and then, just in the nick of time takes a U-turn. The judiciary keeps testing the limits of its own power and at least […]