Bradistan Calling

Here are the answers to the photos below going row by row and Left to Right:

1. Mohammed Sarwar MP (1997 First Pakistani elected member parliament in UK)
2. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (First Pakistami Muslim Female Lord-shadow minister for community cohesion for Conservative Party)
3. Sadiq Khan MP 2005 (First Pakistani MP in Greater London)
4. Khalid Mehmood MP (2001 2nd Pakistani MP in UK)
5. Lord Micael Nazir-Ali (First pakistani to become member of House of Lords)
5. Shahid Malik MP 2005 (Minister for International development Labour Government)

Adil Najam

This Associated Press picture from Emilio Morenatti of two goats (or is it sheep?) being carried at the back of a motorcycle on a road on the outskirts of Islamabad is quite funny. Although not as funny as the Eid Bakra post we carried earlier, here.

Aziz Akhmad

I never had the privilege of meeting Khalid Hasan. I only knew him through his columns, which I usually read, and always enjoyed.

He wrote simply, meticulously, and playfully. A lifelong journalist, he observed people minutely, noting not only what they said and how they said it, but also their dress and demeanor, and commented upon them playfully and bluntly. His satire was particularly reserved for people with puffed up egos.

In his columns, I also noted he had a particular curiosity about the various things men did to their hair and heads. I happened to share this curiosity with him.

A little over a year ago, I sent Khalid Hasan a rather mischievous e-mail, my first to him, commenting upon the appearance of a Pakistani diplomat he had earlier written about as being too full of himself. I was only half expecting a reply but, to my pleasant surprise, Khalid Hasan’s reply, laced with humor, came the same day.