Books: ‘Three Cups of Tea’ for Education

Posted on January 10, 2009
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Babar Bhatti I discovered the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin in my local library. Once I started reading it was hard to put it down. The book is about a bohemian American mountain climber Greg Mortensen whose life was saved in a remote northern village of Pakistan in […]

Callous and Stupid, Not Funny: 9,580,902 Crank Calls

Posted on January 3, 2009
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Adil Najam According to the 1998 census, the population of Lahore was 6,319,000 (6 million) inhabitants. According to today’s Daily Times, these inhabitants managed to make 9,580,902 (9.5 million) crank (prank or hoax) calls to the emergency 15 number in 2008 (how many cranck calls were made to other numbers remains unknown, but is likely […]

ATP Poll: Predictions for 2009?

Posted on December 29, 2008
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Adil Najam Our ATP Poll on ‘What events from 2008 will define Pakistan in 2009?’ continues. However, as promised, we bring you a second companion ATP Poll which asks a related but different question: What do you think might be the big news coming out of Pakistan in 2009? (You can mark multiple choices). If […]

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