Adil Najam Kaleem Omar is a journalist extraordinaire. Prolific, insightful, versatile beyond belief, and always full of surprises. His essay in this weekend’s The News on Sunday (18 June, 2006)‘Nobody in Karachi whistles anymore’ did not disappoint! In the Karachi of the old days, the city of my youth, one often used to hear people […]
Adil Najam The Kominas–a ‘Muslim Punk’ band led by two Pakistani-Americans (Basim Usmani and Shahjehan Khan)–will be playing in Brooklyn, New York today (June 17, 2006). The reason for this plug, however, is not just because they are Pakistani-American kids making socially facinating and provocative music (see Boston Globe writeup on them here). It is, […]
Adil Najam In response to my post yesterday (‘Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts to feature in movie about Pakistan’) a few people who have not yet read the book wrote to ask that I tell them more about the book. It really IS worth a read by anyone interested in politics or in a good […]
