Adil Najam Former Congressman Charlie Wilson died, at 76, earlier today in his native Texas. Long-time readers of ATP are familiar with my fascination of Charlie Wilson (here, here and here). In many ways Charlie Wilson was as much an architect of today’s Pakistan as General Zia-ul-Haq. Only a lot more colorful, and maybe a […]
Owais Mughal I never met Gul Hameed Bhatti. But when the news of his sad demise came on February 4, 2010 it made me sad. He was 63 years old. While I never met him, I knew him from my childhood and always regarded him as the one who was a walking encyclopaedia on Pakistani […]
Adil Najam Earlier this month (on January 17), Prof. Khawaja Masud – teacher, mathematician, philosopher, activist, progressive, and truly an intellectual’s intellectual – died in Islamabad. I have been traveling internationally the last two weeks and did not hear of his demise till late yesterday. The fact that I got to hear of this only […]
