Adil Najam About a year ago, I had posted one of the funniest comedy performances I have ever seen – Khalid Abbas Dar and friends at the 1987 PTV Awards singing ‘Mein naeen khedna Korea dey naal.’ But I had premised it by saying that this was “not the best work of Khalid Abbas Dar” […]

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 […]