Adil Najam I write this post in dedication to Bob Woolmer – Pakistan cricket coach and England Test player who died in mysterious circumstances four years ago yesterday (March 18). I write it also in the shadows of the memory of what was possibly Pakistan’s most humiliating defeat in World Cup cricket – to Ireland […]
Adil Najam (This post was first published at ATP on March 20, 2007 – two days after Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer died in mysterious circumstances during the 2007 World Cup played in the West Indies. Today, on his fourth death anniversary – as Pakistan plays in another World Cup – we believe that it is […]
Mast Qalandar In an earlier post I had described the different Pugrees worn across Pakistan, including the famed and flamboyant Peshawari Patkaiy or Kullah. There is an interesting story passed down by generations of students of Islamia College Peshwar about how this particular turban, once part of the prescribed college uniform, was abandoned by the […]
