All Aboard: A Review of the Dream Cruise

Posted on November 9, 2006
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Guest Post by Awab Alvi (Teeth Maestro) At ATP, we have written before about the Gulf Dream Cruise, which is now the talk of the town. Yesterday I had the opportunity to have dinner aboard the Dubai Dream Cruises and to check out what this cruise liner had to offer to its potential customers. (Click […]

Can PIA Survive?

Posted on November 4, 2006
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Adil Najam According to a story in Dawn today (4 November, 2006) “Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is in such dire financial straits that it may be threatened with liquidation because of its monthly losses of more than Rs1 billion and its current liabilities which exceed its assets by more than Rs20 billion.” The report goes […]

The Cost of Living: Of Milk and being a Lakh-Patti

Posted on November 2, 2006
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Adil Najam Our educated chattering classes do not consider it sophisticated to talk about milk. (Photo Credit for this powerful picture: Baba Dody) They would much rather spend their time pontificating about global geopolitics, the power politics of our would-be-saviors (both those in power and those waiting to come back to power), the intricacies of […]

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