Adil Najam LATEST DEVELOPMENT: Following a gun-battle early morning on Sunday that left three of teh hostages and foru terrorists dead, teh remaining 25 hostages have been freed. Details, from The News: Operation against terrorists in GHQ has entered into last stages and 25 hostages have been freed. According to sources, 25 hostages have been […]

Aziz Akhmad This is the second part of my rendition of Saadat Hasan Manto’s description of his own trial, as presented in Zehmat-i-Mehr-i-Darakhshan. This is not a literal translation are readers are highly encouraged to read the original. The first part of this was posted last week (here). We pick it up from where we […]

Owais Mughal We proudly own a copy of Hafeez Inayatullah‘s famous book ‘khaana pakaana’ (cooking meals). At first we thought the book was written by a male author named Mr Hafeez, but after reading the preface it dawned on us that author is infact a lady named Ms Hafeez, because she wrote the word ‘raqma‘(female […]