Karachi’s Forgotten Chapters of History

Posted on February 19, 2010
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Mohammad Ayaz Abdal I have always been interested in the history of this city. Karachi is a relatively a new city by the Subcontinent standards. In fact, this city is in its infancy compared with thousands of years of history associated with some of the other cities. An excellent article has been written for ATP […]

Mairaj Mohammed Khan on the Making of Pakistan’s Politics

Posted on February 16, 2010
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Adil Najam There is probably no period in Pakistan’s political history that was more central to defining the political contours of the country than the period which defined the rise, and ultimately the fall, of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Trauma is a permanent condition in Pakistan politics, especially today. But Pakistan politics, even as it unfolds […]

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, […]

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