Owais Mughal I asked the Northerly winds, I asked a university professor, I asked several taxi drivers and I asked my friend Abbas: Where can I fulfill my wish of eating good ‘nihari’ in Singapore? Everyone said ‘go east go west, Usman is the best‘.

Owais Mughal According to the latest edition of the trivia book  Top 10 of Everything 2011 by Russell Ash, Pakistan has the 10th highest newspaper circulation in the world! We may not think of ourselves as newspaper reading people, but seems like newspapers do sell! There are several interesting records in the book, but the […]

Adil Najam I wish I had heard of Samuel Martin Burke before he died at age 104 a few weeks ago (on 9 October, 2010). He was, by everything I have now found about him, a remarkable man. I am sure there are other Pakistanis who have also never heard of him. For them, I […]