The First Stamps of Pakistan

Posted on February 5, 2010
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Bilal Zuberi Somewhere around class 6 I realized that I needed to have a hobby? Playing cricket on the streets or reading Ishtiaq Ahmad novels were not considered real ‘hobbies’ in my peer group. Popular hobbies were: stamp collecting, coin collecting, paper plane making, collecting dinkie cars, or drawing transformers in your school notebooks. Well, […]

Lutfullah Khan and his alam-e-shauq

Posted on December 10, 2009
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Mohammad Ayaz Abdal Behind the Dubai palace in Karachi, near the seashore, there lives a merry old man. He holds a treasure which is unparallel in this world. A treasure which is most likely to be destroyed……… The reason being, most of us still questions the validity of the argument that it is indeed a […]

“Sindhi Topi Day.” Wonderful. But Why the Guns?

Posted on December 6, 2009
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Adil Najam Did you know that today, December 6, was “Sindhi Topi Day”? I did not. But I now do. I also now know that it was celebrated with great fervor. I am glad that it was. Even though some have raised concerns about how such a celebration might “isolate” Sindh from the rest of […]

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