Adil Najam and Owais Mughal First, a word of thanks to our readers for responding to our call for supporting the nearly one million Pakistanis who have been displaced by the fighting in Swat and adjoining regions. Knowing that many of our readers are already contributing very significantly in many different ways through many sources, […]

S.A.J Shirazi Setting eyes on Maqbool and his mule cart for the first time, one could be forgiven for thinking that he belongs to a working class endeavoring for survival. His shabby dress and toes peeping out of slippers too large for him, do not project an image of a contented and happy man who […]

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 […]