Land Reform: Time for Feudalism to go

Posted on February 5, 2007
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Adil Najam The Pakistan Kisan Conference met in Lahore this Sunday and (again) demanded an end to feudalism. My first reaction to reading the news was to remember Faiz (remembering Faiz, by the way, is my default mode in just about all matters): youN arz o talab say kab aiye dill, pathar-dil paani houtay haiN […]

A Walk through Karachi’s Empress Market

Posted on February 4, 2007
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Owais Mughal Clicking on most of the photos in this article will take you to their source websites and larger image sizes. On my recent trip to Pakistan, I tried to re-live some of the fondest memories of my early youth. One of them was daily travel in public buses during my college days. In […]

Picture of the Day: Haqooq-e-MardaaN

Posted on February 2, 2007
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Adil Najam I recieved a couple of emails with this picture today, and then saw it poste by Vaqas on Metroblog Lahore (see earlier picture here). A great picture by Awais Lodhi. We at ATP have a long-standing fascination with rickshaws (here, here, here, here an here). But, this, of course, is about political commentary, […]

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