Uncle Urfi: A PTV Blockbuster

Posted on January 15, 2011
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Raju Jamil PTV Karachi center was tense. There were no value scripts that it would take stakes on. Frustration led to an urgent meeting among stake holders and Hasina Moin was asked or rather ordered to write something up as soon as possible to overcome the gloom and drought prevailing at PTV Karachi. Hasina had […]

Growing Up Pakistani in Peking, 1966-68 (Part 2)

Posted on January 14, 2011
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Imran H. Khan (Editors Note: This is the second of a two part post on the author’s reminiscences of growing up in pre-Cultural Revolution China. In the first part Imran H. Khan looked at the cultural and social aspects of the China that was and how they looked to a young Pakistani boy. In this, […]

Three Poems for Troubled Times: Abhi Tou Kuch Nahin Hua

Posted on January 13, 2011
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Adil Najam A cascade of horrible recent events, all involving an outpouring of violence – in thought, in words, in deed – and culminating in the brutal murder of Salman Taseer continues to haunt the Pakistani psyche. We are left numb in disbelief of a reality which we always knew: the dysfunctional divisions in society […]

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