By Syed Abbas Raza Greetings from sweltering Karachi. I am spending the summer in Karachi. It’s my first trip to the city of my birth in almost six years, and I’ve already been here a little over three weeks now. Here are a few things, picked rather arbitrarily, which I find are very much the […]

Adil Najam The anticipation for the final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup final is universal. Even in countries like Pakistan which are nowhere on the world football map, the excitement is palpable. Pakistan’s team may not be competing, but Pakistani parrot Mithu is competing with Germany’s octopus Paul and Singapore’s parrot Mani (originally from […]

Adil Najam Everytime I use the word ‘Jahalat’ I seem to invite the wrath of the self-righteous. But do tell me what other word can be used to describe this news story below? It may seem innocuous when someone half-buries a child in the sand to seek a cure for paralysis from a solar eclipse, […]