Guest Post by Raza Rumi [ATP had carried a short post at the time of Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi’s death; today we feature Raza Rumi’s more in-depth tribute to the poet] Ab aik baar to qudrat javaabdeh thehre hazaar baar ham insaan aazmaaye gaye Now Nature must be held accountable at least once; We humans have […]
Mast Qalandar (MQ) It was the summer of 2006. I was in the US on a short visit, but my stay, unexpectedly, stretched a bit too long, and I started missing Islamabad, my home for the last 12 years. A friend told me to look up this new blog, All Things Pakistan (ATP), started by […]
Adil Najam All Things Pakistan was launched with a remix video I had made back in 2006, based on Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Hum DaikhaiN Gay, asĀ – in some ways ATP was launched because of that video. More than four years and more than three hundred thousand views later (on YouTube) that video still seems […]