Adil Najam This Muslim Commercial bank (MCB) advertisement prominently covers a quarter of the front page of today’s Dawn newspaper (6 August, 2006). I, of course, have no objections to newspapers selling advertising or to advertisers making whatever ads they want. That is their right. But it is also my right, and our duty, to […]
By Franz Gastler One of the first general reminder that I left the “little boxes made of ticky tacky” of suburban Minnesota and arrived somewhere outside of the U.S. or western Europe is the traffic. One is greeted immediately with a liberal mix of chaos and charm. The dismissive ambivalence that sometimes tends to cloud […]
By Owais Mughal While Lahore is getting known for its underpasses, Karachi takes its pride from an ever burgeoning infrastructure of flyovers. But since 2005, when Karachi took a go at underpasses, it seems to fail miserably. First of all there is not enough plannig done for water drainage out of the underpasses. Second, underpasses […]
