Mast Qalandar When I wrote the post on Ashoka’s Rock Edicts I had made a suggestion at the end of the post to the department concerned, which was to put up a proper and readable translation of the edicts at the site — both in English and Urdu. To my pleasant surprise, I discovered the […]

Mast Qalandar If you think it was the MMA who tried to introduce the “law of morality” in the Frontier province of Pakistan (NWFP), think again! A “law of morality” was first introduced in the region much, much before the MMA or the Taliban appeared on the scene. Even before Pakistan, before the British and […]

Mast Qalandar Geo News is back on cable TV in Pakistan! It was banned along with two other popular TV channels on November 3 last year when Emergency was imposed in the country. We don’t know on what conditions the channel has been allowed to operate again. We also don’t know how much dent the […]