Adil Najam Three months after being destroyed by dastardly suicide bombers who also murdered 60 people, mostly Paksitanis, the Islamabad Marriott Hotel reopened today in a visible sign of resilience and defiance by the hotel’s owner Sadruddin Hashwani. The first picture above is of the hotel as it opened today. The second as it was […]
Adil Najam and Owais Mughal (Also see our second Year in Review Poll on “Predictions for 2009.” Image from Flickr by Mirjee.) We had ended the year 2007 at ATP by calling it the “Year of Angst and Anger.” We had begun the year 2008 with a wishlist of seven prayers: Prayers for Human Dignity, […]
Owais Mughal and Jauhar Ismail The division of opinion between the column writers of Urdu and English press in Pakistan has been quite stark in the past few years. May be we are generalizing the above statement too much but some degree of truth is not hidden from any regular reader of both Urdu and […]



















































