Adil Najam Another momentous year, in what has been a momentous decade for Pakistan, comes to an end. Indeed, more than momentous, both the year and the decade were tumultuous. Whatever they were I wish the year, and the decade, had been just a little less so. If I have a wish for 2011 it […]

Daroon-e-Khanna The 6th Karachi International Book Fair was held in Karachi this week. More than 300 publishers/ booksellers, more than a quarter million visitors over five days. You might have read about the importance of such events, you might have heard about the achievements of the fair and you might have been told about the […]

Adil Najam Given all the political maneuvering, convulsions, rearrangements, revelations and rearrangements of recent days and weeks, maybe it is time, once more, to request our readers to please grade the performance of the key figures in Pakistan politics. We had asked you to do so in October 2010 and  in April 2010 and earlier […]