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Adil?s Father Passed Away
2008-05-24 21:02:00 Owais Mughal Father of Adil Najam passed away in Pakistan on May 23rd. inna-lilah-e-wa-inna-ileh-rajeoon. Please pray for the ‘maghfarat’ of deceased soul and ’sabr’ to his family. It is also a part of our ‘Pakistaniat’ to join eachother in our times of sorrow and provide support to eachother.
Toshangi Gorge - The Grand Canyon of Sindh
2008-05-23 06:31:00 Owais Mughal The landscape of Sindh Province is mostly associated with deserts as well as agricultural and coastal table lands. Sindh however is endowed with much more than that. Few days ago we introduced the highest peak of Sindh called Gorakh - where it snows in winter - and today we’ll introduce another road less ... More About: Gorge , Grand Canyon , Grand , The Grand
A Mini Post: Rising Food Prices - A Silent Tsunami?
2008-05-22 06:50:00 Owais Mughal Many people are calling the recent inflation of food prices world wide a silent tsunami. As we have covered it at ATP before, Pakistan is obviously a part of this crisis. A friend recently forwarded me the food price list of a ‘bachat bazaar’ of Pakistan. It was an eye opener for me. That sample ... More About: Food , Tsunami , Post , Mini , Silent
The Haunted House of Hill Park
2008-05-22 02:45:00 Owais Mughal mohallay waalay naa-haq khafaa ho gayay woh to ek andaaz tha os ke pyar karne ka If you visited Hill Park many years ago, you may remember the presence of a haunted house inside Meraj amusement park. It was a small igloo shaped structure covered in bougainvillea and on the entrance there was a plaque displaying ... More About: House , Haunted
A Rare Video of Aug 14, 1947
2008-05-21 14:03:00 Asma Mirza The video to the right is from BBC urdu and is making runs on Internet these days. It shows the Independence Day events of August 14, 1947. One can see rare glimpses of people and events here including Mr. Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten, Liaqat Ali Khan, Fatima Jinnah, Lady Mounbatten etc.The video does not ... More About: Video , Television , History , Film , Rare
Business Diversity in Rahimyar Khan
2008-05-21 02:29:00 Owais Mughal Following photo appeared in the daily Dawn of May 18, 2008. It sohws a small business stall in Rahimyar Khan , Pakistan. What caught my attention to this photo is the sheer diversity of business being caried out from this small stall. The Urdu words written on the stall advertise for ‘desi’ Eggs, a public ... More About: Business , Diversity
Is the Judges? Issue Impeding Progress on the Economy?
2008-05-20 04:09:00 Aqil Sajjad It is being said by some people that the present economic crisis is a result of the uncertainty created by the lawyers? movement. Some other people are saying that the judges issue? is diverting attention from more pressing national issues. Such arguments are being given for ignoring the judges? issue so that the economy ... More About: Society , Politics , Economy , Judges , Progress
Shoaib Akhtar - A Fallen Hero?
2008-05-19 03:30:00 Raza Rumi I am not concerned with the technicalities of Shoaib Akhtar ’s sentence, which have been the subject of much debate across Pakistan and indeed wherever cricket is played and followed. There have been some avoidable outbursts by both Akhtar and his disciplinarians. Akhtar has a chequered past in the conventional sense; and perhaps his tragic ... More About: Sports , People , Hero , Fallen
Inspiration Pakistan: Nehr Waaley Pul Tey
2008-05-18 04:25:00 Adil Najam I must confess that the goriness of my last post still leaves me drained and shaken. I offer this picture post on the simpler pleasures of life in Pakistan , partly as a way of shaking myself off the shivers but much more as a way to highlight that not only is another Pakistan possible, ... More About: Society , Music , Inspiration , Picture of the day
Vigilante Justice: Horrible, Horrifying, Horrendous (Reader discretion advi
2008-05-16 17:49:00 Adil Najam For nearly two days now I have been debating whether to put up this post and, especially, the accompanying photograph. A shiver runs through my body to think about, let alone see, this picture. But as we have done before (here, here, here, here, here, here) we put up this picture of mob vigilante violence ... More About: Society , Politics , Justice , Development , Reader
Polio Resurgence in Pakistan
2008-05-16 06:17:00 Owais Mughal Last year we carried out this post on Polio Vaccination Drive Facing Threat in Pakistan . In a disturbing development, polio which had almost been eradicated from Pakistan is making a resurgence. The target of getting Pakistan polio free was for 2010 but according to Dawn news report of May 15, 2008, eight cases have so ...
The F.E. Choudhry Gallery: A Story of Normalcy, or of Displacement?
2008-05-15 00:55:00 Nadeem Omar Thisphotographs from F.E. Chaudhry depicts Chacha’s ability to turn a news story into a human story. A narrative photograph of the Punjabi victims of the 1950 flood in the wake of which nearly three thousands perished. Their villages and homes submerged, a family has taken refuge in a railway bogey, which serves as a kitchen ... More About: Society , History , Story , Development , Gallery
?Why Can?t We All Just Get Along??
2008-05-14 13:24:00 Syed Ahsan Ali Recently PPP?s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari told media categorically that we were not elected for the restoration of judges but for basic issues such as roti, kapra aur makaan. Since then factions in media have been trying to build up an argument about what is more essential, our basic necessities or restoration ... More About: Society , Politics
ATP Comic Quiz: What Have They Been Thinking?
2008-05-13 07:40:00 Adil Najam Sometimes the only way to deal with a really serious situation is to make it funny. So, here is our little experiment to see what words you would put into the “leaders” mouth (please, no batameezi!). So, basically, here is the storyline we all know so well. What we do not know is what these ... More About: Quiz , Politics , Humor , Comic , People
PML(N) Quits from Cabinet (and, maybe, from coalition?)
2008-05-12 14:32:00 Adil Najam Not unexpectedly, the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz Group has decided to quit from all cabinet positions in the coalition government it had so recently formed with Asif Zardari’s PPP. According to The News: Following the failure of London talks on the reinstatement of judges; Pakistan Muslim League (PML)-N has decided to resign from federal cabinet ... More About: Politics , Coalition , Cabinet
May 12: Khuda Khair Karey
2008-05-12 06:01:00 Adil Najam Today is May 12. Today marks the first anniversary of the carnage in Karachi. Today is the day when the resolution on the restoration of the Supreme Court judges was to be presented in Parliament. Ominously, even eerily, today also marks the 15th death anniversary of the Pakistan’s pre-eminent poet of political protest, Habib Jalib. May 12 will ... More About: Politics , People , History , Poetry
Happy Mother?s Day Pakistan
2008-05-11 17:50:00 Adil Najam Today is Mother ’s Day. Everyday should be a day to cherish and to honor what our mothers do for us. But it is good that on one day at least we take a few minutes out to think of that which can sometime become so routine that it becomes easy to forget. So, today, and ... More About: Society , Women , Pakistan , Happy
Some Memorable PTV Commercials: What Were Your Favorite Ads?
2008-05-10 17:12:00 Adil Najam The Ads (commercials) we watch while growing up can sometimes have an amazingly profound an impact on us. When I look back at all my years of growing up with PTV (Pakistan Television ) I remember as many ads as I do any other form of programming. The memories of some still bring back a ... More About: Society , Film , Commercials , Favorite
Violence Against Women: Breaking Down Walls
2008-05-08 15:50:00 By Aisha Sarwari What are the odds that I move into a house in the elite F/11 sector of Pakistan?s capital, Islamabad and our land lord turns out to be a wife-beater? 1 in 4, according to the United Nations report on gender 2007. Flip it around and the same applies to 25% of all women in ... More About: Society , Women , Violence , Breaking , Walls
Demands of Politics: Ministership Or Mayorship
2008-05-08 00:53:00 Owais Mughal These days nothing shocks us anymore. Look at this cutting from today’s Jang. This guy is openly asking for a Ministerial post as a condition of contesting elections. I am sure these kinds of ‘joR toR’ have happened before but I’ve never seen such aspirations revealed so publicly. Enjoy. Reference: Jang Faisalabad of May 7, ... More About: Politics , Demands
Linguistic Diversity in NWFP
2008-05-07 14:34:00 Manzoor Ali Shah The NWFP has always been in limelight, but for wrong reasons. From the British raj’s Afghan wars in eighteenth century to Russian invasion in 1979 and American ouster of Taliban from Kabul in 2002, NWFP had been pivotal to the imperialistic designs, as it provides road access to Afghanistan. Later, the emergence of ... More About: Diversity , Linguistic
Spring Colors in Hunza Valley
2008-05-06 21:02:00 Owais Mughal The Following photo is courtesy of Zahoor Ahmed. It is dated as April 17, 2008 and shows colors of spring in Pakistan’s Hunza Valley . Some of you may remember also our earlier photo post, which showed Autumn Colors in Hunza Valley. More About: Spring
Data Durbar: Food Crisis
2008-05-06 06:02:00 Adil Najam More About: Society , Food , Development , Data , Crisis
Will the PPP-PML(N) Coalition Survive?
2008-05-05 06:19:00 Adil Najam A number of our commenters have been suggesting that the honeymoon between PPP and PML(N) - or, more specifically, between Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif- will not last. That the “judges issue” will bring the demise of this coalition. WPvideo 1.10 More About: Politics , Coalition , Survive
The F.E. Choudhry Gallery: Ba Adab, Ba Mulahiza
2008-05-04 07:29:00 Nadeem Omar This set of photographs from F.E. Chaudhry depict the news journalist side of Chacha’s portfolio. In February 1961, Queen Elizabeth II, toured India, Iran, Nepal and Pakistan on her first ever tour of countries outside Europe. She arrived in Pakistan on 11th February, and was received at the airport by Govenor, Nawab Kalabagh Khan. As ... More About: Society , People , History , Gallery , Picture of the day
Judges To Be Reinstated, Says Nawaz. But What Does That Mean?
2008-05-02 22:23:00 Adil Najam ATP has closely followed, what is now called the “Judicial Crisis”, carefully and with grave concern from its very beginning. We have been sad when things went wrong, been elated when they things went right, and rejoiced at the democratic sentiment that has often been expressed through this movement. In all cases, we have ... More About: Politics , Law and Justice , Judges
Discrepancy: So What Is It?
2008-05-02 03:51:00 Pervaiz Munir Alvi Previously at ATP we have talked about ?Redundancy? and about ?Naming Names? in Pakistan. At those posts lively comments by many of our readers made the original post even more interesting. Once again we are hopeful that our loyal readers will come forward and add to this post with their own interesting questions. ... More About: Society , Heritage , Urdu
Gorakh Hill: Where It Snows in Sindh
2008-05-01 02:40:00 Owais Mughal Do you know there is a place in Sindh where it snows in winter? Yes, there is one such place and it is called Gorakh Hill . It is located in Dadu District and has an altitude of 5500 ft. It is the highest peak in the Kirthar range of hills which also forms ...
Namal College - Imran Khan?s Brainchild Launched in Mianwali
2008-04-29 13:48:00 Darwaish Last Sunday, Imran Khan delivered another promise when his brainchild Namal College in Mianwali was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. After Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital in Lahore, its yet another gift from the Great Khan for the people of Pakistan. Located alongside of famous Namal Lake, Namal College will have full ... More About: Education , People , Development
Shoaib Akhtar: How Many Times Can You Say You?re Sorry?
More articles from this author:2008-04-29 05:49:00 Adil Najam A general rule that many parents teach their children is that if you have to keep saying “sorry” for the same mistake again and again and again and again; then, apology loses its effectiveness, and you your credibility. A first instinct at hearing about Shoaib’s Akhtar “unconditional apology” to the nation and the PCB for ... More About: Sports , People , Picture of the day , Times , Shoaib Akhtar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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