Adil Najam and Owais Mughal (Also see our second Year in Review Poll on “Predictions for 2009.” Image from Flickr by Mirjee.) We had ended the year 2007 at ATP by calling it the “Year of Angst and Anger.” We had begun the year 2008 with a wishlist of seven prayers: Prayers for Human Dignity, […]

Signs of a Brewing Storm

Posted on December 22, 2008
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Jauhar Ismail The photo to the left shows stormy clouds gathering over Islamabad on December 16, 2008. Today, which is just six days later from when this photo was taken, I believe there is another storm brewing in Islamabad on its political and foreign relations front. Not withstanding the conspiracy theories still circling around in […]

Is Urdu Press Waking Up To Reality?

Posted on December 21, 2008
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Owais Mughal and Jauhar Ismail The division of opinion between the column writers of Urdu and English press in Pakistan has been quite stark in the past few years. May be we are generalizing the above statement too much but some degree of truth is not hidden from any regular reader of both Urdu and […]

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