Owais Mughal Most of our readers correctly guessed the title photo of this ATP Quiz. It was the hangar for airships located at present day Karachi airport. If this generation doesn’t then I am sure a generation before ours definitely remembers this famous landmark of Pakistan which was called kala chapra (the black hangar). This […]
Adil Najam I wish I had heard of Samuel Martin Burke before he died at age 104 a few weeks ago (on 9 October, 2010). He was, by everything I have now found about him, a remarkable man. I am sure there are other Pakistanis who have also never heard of him. For them, I […]
Adil Najam This installment of excerpts from K.K. Aziz’s The Coffee House of Lahore (read book review by Raza Rumi, here) presents a portion of his profile of Zaheer Kashmiri (photo on right). The book is organized as a series of these portraits of what Aziz calls the ‘habitués’ of the Lahore Coffee House. Earlier […]
