Picture of the Day: ‘I Love Miss Spelling’

Posted on November 28, 2006
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Adil Najam The headline used for this photograph by the Daily Times was just too good not to reproduce above. I do not know if this qualifies as Pinglish or not but the typo – ‘over’ instead of ‘our’; the misplaced space in ‘Friend Ship’; and the grammar slippage in ‘with Pak-China’ are so very […]

Rahim Shah: Going Beyond the Frontier

Posted on October 24, 2006
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Adil Najam It is both sad and surprising that the NWFP gets such little credit for its cultural and intellectual contributions to contemporary Pakistan despite the immense impact that artists and intellectuals from the NWFP have had. Of course, the Frontier is not the only part of the country whose contributions get drowned out amidst […]

Aggressive Diplomacy?

Posted on October 17, 2006
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Adil Najam Since the issue has been raised a number of times in our comments section, I was intrigued by a news agency report published in The Daily Times (16 October, 2006) stating: “Expenses on foreign visits by the two leaders were comparatively low until 2004, but such spending has seen a phenomenal increase since.” […]

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