Adil Najam Was Waheed Murad was the very first ‘heart throb’ and ‘super star’ of Pakistan? Cricketers Fazal Mahmood and Merry Max (Maqsood Ahmad) certainly had their groupies well before Waheed Murad, but they were ‘niche stars’. The phenomenon called Waheed Murad took the country by storm – across class and across locations – and […]
Guest Post by S.A.J. Shirazi While travelling off the beaten track, not only you travel in soot free and serene environment but you explore new vistas too. Interesting things come in the way, which normally remain hidden from common commuters in the area. The journey on the byways embraces you with lovely colours, atmosphere, people […]
Adil Najam The 249th annual urs of the great sage Bulleh Shah’s begins in Kasur today. We here at ATP have paid tribute to the sage in two earlier posts (here and here). And even though I have been itching to write about the poetry of other greats such as Waris Shah, Khawaja Farid, Sultan […]
