March 23, 2007: Celebrating the Democratic Spirit

Posted on March 23, 2007
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Adil Najam It is impossible to ponder upon the meaning of Pakistan Day without thinking of the events happening in Pakistan right now. We are living through a historic moment, but probably not for the reason many people think it is. The debacle about the removal of the Chief Justice of Pakistan and the protests […]

March 23, 1940: Lahore (Pakistan) Resolution

Posted on March 22, 2007
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Adil Najam Other posts in this series for March 23, 2007 – here and here. March 23 commemorates the passage of what was originally the ‘Lahore Resolution’ (Qarardad i Lahore) and later became better known as the ‘Pakistan Resolution’ (Qarardad i Pakistan). If there is a single most important founding document of Pakistan, it has […]

Bodhi Tree in Islamabad

Posted on March 19, 2007
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Guest Post by Mast Qalandar In my last two posts on Islamabad (here and here) I talked about the woods and the forest trails that I love so much and take to them whenever I can. In those woods, at the foot of the Margallas, until a few years ago, there was a very large […]

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