Adil Najam
Back in August of 2006 one of the first ATP Polls we did was to ask our readers which recent leader they thought did the most good for Pakistan? We had structured the question carefully to focus on the good that these leaders did (all leaders do bad things as well as good, some more and some less). It is time to ask the same question again.
In 2006 we had not included Gen. Musharraf since he was still in power. This time including Gen. Musharraf but not Asif Zardari, who is in power now. So, what do you think?
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Owais Mughal
I started this afternoon by watching a Mohammad Ali Shehki song on youtube. Besides enjoying his musical mastery, the song also brought back some memories. One song led to another and before I realized I had watched his 10 songs. Should I also say that ‘gaane dekhta gaya aur post banti gayee’. Seen below is an assorted collection of Shehki songs. I will also try to punctuate the musical post below with some information about Shehki.
(1) payam-e-mashriq
Before we go on to watch Shehki’s more famous songs, I was happily surprised to find following video. It shows Mohammad Ali Shehki and Mahjabeen Qazlibash singing Allama Iqbals’ farsi poem called ‘payam-e-mashriq’. From the looks, it appears this song must be from 1970s.
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