Shahran Asim

Asian Broadcasting Network (ABN) is a non-profit organization serving the south Asian community in Chicago area since 1997. ABN also hosts an Urdu language talk radio show which goes on air every sunday from noon to 3 p.m.

Recently ABN featured a very enlightening interview with Pakistani journalist, Rauf Klasra. The interviewing panel consists of Dr.Mujahid Ghazi, Jibran Ilyas, Aqil Sajjad and Sabahat Ashraf.

The topics discussed in the interview range from Lahore incident to recent political situation in Punjab. He also talks about the current status of Long March and his assessment on the next events which may put Pakistan into one of the greatest turmoils of our history. He also elaborated the ‘Un-Holy’ alliance between the most powerful sections of Pakistani society viz. Army, Civil Bearucracy, Politicians, Judiciary and Media. He also talks about how this nexus was broken on March 9th, 2007 etc and how media has sided with the judiciary since then.

Adil Najam

For a while now we have been carrying links in our middle column to what was featured at ATP a year ago and two years ago. If you look at the headlines for today, you will note that exactly one year ago today the lead story at Pakistaniat.com was Uncertainty Rules Pakistan and two years ago it was a post about the then-recent sacking of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and a video of the then-living poet Ahmad Faraz’s Mohassra. It seems that nothing much ever changes in Pakistan politics. Except, maybe, to get progressively worse.

I had started my post exactly a year ago, about Pakistan’s political uncertainty, with the following words:

Explaining what is happening in Pakistan, and why, is never easy. Never has it been more difficult than it is now.

I may have been wrong. It seems even more difficult today than it did a year ago.

Adil Najam

This picture is interesting at so many levels.