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Fiction@ATP: Rishta
2008-01-16 05:14:00 Pervaiz Munir Alvi PurDil Khan had been under a lot of pressure lately. Even before the month of fasting had started his wife was nagging him on a number of issues. She wanted his help to stock essentials like sugar, rice, flour and ghee before the prices would shoot up for the holidays. She also wanted ... More About: Society , Fiction
Technological Wonder: This Mess Of Wires Actually Works
2008-01-15 13:56:00 Owais Mughal This photo is a working telephone distribution box of an apartment complex in Karachi. At one end, the box is connected to the local telephone exchange and on other it makes individual connections to several homes. l had initially chosen this photo for its photographic quality and subject but since then many random thoughts keep ... More About: Works , Mess
10+ Dead in Karachi Blast: Aaj aisa nahin, aisa nahin honay daina
2008-01-14 19:39:00 Adil Najam Having to write regular posts of ATP can sometimes become a heavy burden. Not because of the workload. But because of the pain and hurt that can come with following the daily struggles for survival. Today, once again, too many did not survive those struggles. The News reports from Karachi : Death toll in the bomb blast ... More About: Society , Law and Justice , Dead , Blast
Are Mobile Companies Using Deceptive Marketing In Pakistan?
2008-01-14 06:30:00 Babar Bhatti I have been observing a trend of aggressive marketing and advertisement by the mobile operators in Pakistan . 50 paisa, 3 paisa, 1 paisa. Trying to one-up other competitors, the advertisements emphasise the lowest possible rate to grab attention. In reality the low rates being advertised come with many conditions. To figure it out one has ... More About: Marketing , Companies , Technology , Mobile
No More Guilt Trips on Currency Notes in Pakistan
2008-01-14 02:40:00 Deeda-i-Beena ATP Editor’s Comment: It turns out that, in fact, the said line (husool-e-rizq-e-halal ibaadat hai) does still exist on the new note. Our thanks to the readers who were able to catch the oversight that we failed to. However, we have kept the post live partly because the discussion is itself interesting and partly because ... More About: Society , Pakistan , Development , Currency , Notes
Arts Pakistan - A Place to Visit
2008-01-12 17:44:00 Raza Rumi The art world of Pakistan is not given the attention it deserves. But amends are being made. Arts Pakistan, or Artspak, is a recently developed website, with an exclusive collection of videos, paintings and photographs that depicts the country’s vibrant art scene. The website has been developed by Khalid Sherdil, a motivated civil servant. The ... More About: Place , Visit
Roti in Pakistan
2008-01-11 16:00:00 Wasim Arif/ Other Pakistan azal se Adam-o-gandum meiN ae dost ajab andaaz ki khat-pat rahi hai barabar baRh raha hai narkh-i-gandum bani Adam ki qeemat ghat rahi hai The classic movie Roti starring the legendary Rajesh Khanna begins with his character Mangal stealing roti as a child from a restaurant to fill his empty stomach. This event transforms him for ... More About: Society , Food
Terrorists Hit Lahore with a Suicide Attack: We Should All Take This Person
2008-01-10 19:26:00 Adil Najam Militant suicide bombers brought their mayhem and murder to Lahore today. The well-planned terrorist attack has left at least 26 people dead and some 70 injured. According to Dawn: A suicide bomber blew himself up among police outside the Lahore High Court building Thursday, killing at least 22 policemen and 4 civilians, and wounding ... More About: Society , Politics , Suicide , Terrorists
The Colorful Mil vs Dil Relationship in Pakistani Society
2008-01-09 23:26:00 Irum Sarfaraz What is a discussion on contemporary Pakistani society without a discussion on the relationship of mother in laws and daughters in laws. Though this unique relationship is a bitter fruit in all cultures across the globe; regardless of race, class and ethnicity; in few other places it is as prominent as it is in ... More About: Society , Humor , Relationship , Colorful
Coconut Seller
2008-01-09 06:28:00 Pervaiz Munir Alvi Traveling on the GT road some where near Hassan Abdal we pulled into this filling station. The tank was almost empty and had to be refilled. A moment later this child appeared at the car window. A beautiful child who could not be more than twelve years old. His face was devoid of ... More About: Society , Education , Seller , Coconut
Being a Patient in a Pakistani Hospital
2008-01-08 11:42:00 Syed Ahsan Ali Being a chronic cardiac patient, I get severe pneumonia often which usually takes me to one of the largest private health facility in the largest city of Pakistan. I have been to the same hospital three times in the past five years so I understand how things operate there. But this time, things ... More About: Hospital , Development , Pakistani , Patient
Thatta Kedona - A Self Help Project
2008-01-07 23:15:00 S.A.J Shirazi The cluster of mud and brick houses in the plains of Punjab, Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka (TGD) looks like a typical Pakistani village about 80 kilometres away from Lahore and 40 kilometres from Indus civilization ruins in Harappa. There is no gas or telephone in the village. No asphalt roads lead to it. Yet it ... More About: Society , Education , Heritage , Development , Project
Reshma and Son: The Voice of the Desert
2008-01-06 16:06:00 Adil Najam I have always been mesmerized by Rashma’s voice. It is a voice unlike any other I know. Truly it is the voice of the desert - unending in its breadth and unrelenting in its depth. A voice that comes from the heart and a one that always touches the heart. Although she is probably best ... More About: Television , Women , Music , People , Film
Election 2008, Pakistan: Who Do You Support, and Why?
2008-01-05 01:24:00 Adil Najam We want to do a blogging experiment and really let our readers write this post for us. What we are doing is not unique, but there is a twist to how we wan to do it. First, here is the question we want you to answer for us: Please tell us which political leader or ... More About: Society , Politics , Pakistan , Support , Election
More Crises in Pakistan ? Electricity, Flour, Sugar, Water, Sui Gas Crises
2008-01-04 04:35:00 Darwaish Everyone these days seems to be talking about the elections, the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto and its impact on federation of Pakistan , the ever high anti Pakistan and anti Army sentiment in Sindh, Balochistan and FATA. The ordinary Pakistanis, middle and lower class in particular, are faced with a long list of other serious ... More About: Politics , Poetry , Electricity , Sugar
Should Foreign Men Marrying Pakistani Women Get Pakistani Citizenship?
2008-01-03 16:21:00 Owais Mughal Yes, if they want to, they should. At present, they don?t. Pakistan Citizenship Act currently allows a foreigner girl marrying a Pakistani man to get Pakistani citizenship but not vice versa. Recently, this question of gender equality got a boost from Federal Shariat Court in Pakistan as they declared the Pakistani Citizenship Act, 1951, to be ... More About: Women , Foreign , Marrying
Benazir Bhutto: Remembering the Dream
2008-01-03 05:51:00 Yasser Latif Hamdani Pakistan is mourning. It is not just Benazir Bhutto but the dream of Pakistan itself that is in pieces. Pakistan was envisaged as a modern democratic homeland for the Muslim minority of British India as a last resort by Pakistan’s founding father Mahomed Ali Jinnah, who had fought for it to ensure the political ... More About: Society , Politics , People , History , Dream
Heer-Ranjha: The Story of Punjab?s First Feminist
2008-01-02 01:00:00 Mast Qalandar Of all the folk tales of Punjab, Waris Shah’s Heer is the most widely read, recited (actually, sung), commented upon and quoted love story. People have even done Ph.Ds on it. It is a very long poem, written in the Punjabi baint meter, comprising of 630 odd stanzas of 6 to 12 or more ... More About: Poetry , Story , Heritage , Mast Qalandar , The Story
Pakistan in 2008: My Wish List
2008-01-01 09:12:00 Adil Najam I have written too many depressing posts recently. I want to make this one different. Actually, I want you to help me write this post. I have quickly jotted down my list of wishes for Pakistan for 2008 . New Year Wish List s are supposed to be short and succinct. They need not be entirely achievable ... More About: Society
Pakistan in 2007: A Year of Anger and Angst
2007-12-31 22:53:00 Adil Najam and Owais Mughal It is appropriate, at many levels, to start our New Year Post with the same verse we used at this time last year. The sentiment of the sheyr is even more true now than it was a year ago. Har saal yeh samajh keh guzara hai aye _Saba_ Yeh ishq ki saddi meiN ... More About: Pakistan , Anger
[Videos Added] Bilawal Zardari Becomes New PPP Chairman and Benazir Bhutto?
2007-12-30 07:03:00 Adil Najam The News is now confirmed. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has been named the new Chairman of the Pakistan People ’s Party. His father, Benazir ’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari will be the co-Chairman. WPvideo 1.10 Seemingly credible reports suggest that Bilawal Zardari, Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year old son, now a student at Oxford University, is being considered as the ... More About: Videos , Politics
Bilawal Zardari MAY Become New PPP Chairman and Benazir Bhutto?s Successor
2007-12-30 07:03:00 Adil Najam [NOTE TO READERS: We had earlier posted a story suggesting that Bilawal Zardari had already been confirmed as the new PPP Chairperson. Realizing our mistake, we then took this post off and replaced it with a note of apology saying that this news was not yet confirmed. Given that Bilawal Bhutto as PPP ... More About: Politics , People , Chairman , Benazir , Benazir Bhutto
ATP Correction: Bilawal Bhutto MAY be the likely next PPP Successor
2007-12-30 03:59:00 Adil Najam Dear Readers, We apologize that we may have been mistaken in our earlier post about Bilawal Zardari. It is NOT confirmed and we apologize for the confusion. We misunderstood an earlier cmmunication. At this point all we know is that his name is being considered as an immediate or ultimate Chairman. It is expected that a decision ... More About: Bhutto , Hutto , Rect
Pakistan After Benazir: Choosing Our Future
2007-12-29 21:28:00 Adil Najam Benazir Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan , now lies under six feet of earth in Garhi Khuda Bux, her ancestral village, in a grave next to her equally mercurial father, the late Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. As the graphic above (click to enlarge) from Boston Globe shows, hers - like her father’s - was ... More About: Society , Politics , People , Future
Benazir Bhutto?s Assasination: An International Outpouring of Shock
2007-12-29 00:36:00 Adil Najam Whatever her opponents may think of her, Benazir Bhutto was a most recognized and much-loved international figure. An icon in the best sense of the word. The shock of her death - and the manner of her death - was not confined to Pakistan. As comments on our earlier post suggests, in that moment, ... More About: Politics , International , People , Shock , Picture of the day
Benazir Bhutto Assasinated
2007-12-27 14:42:00 Adil Najam News is just breaking that former Prime Minister and head of the Pakistan People ’s Party, Benazir Bhutto was killed in Rawalpindi in a terrorist attack. She was gunned down by an assasin who then blew himself up in a suicide attack. This happened at teh end of her rally in Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi; the same ... More About: Politics , Benazir Bhutto
Pakistan?s Politics and the Urban Middle Class
2007-12-26 16:30:00 Anonymous Thailand?s parliamentary elections on December 23 provided fresh evidence (if evidence is still needed) of the futility of military intervention as a means of changing the fundamental political trends of a nation. The Economist recently referred to Thailand as ?Southeast Asia?s Pakistan .? The fundamental problem in both countries is the same: an overbearing military, which ... More About: Society , Politics , Urban , Middle
Mr. Jinnah in Caricature is More Real
2007-12-25 17:20:00 Adil Najam Today, December 25, marks the birth anniversary of Pakistan’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah . Mr. Jinnah has been a subject of frequent, and sometimes heated, discussion on ATP (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). Maybe it is best to spare him the agony of argumentation on his birthday. Instead, we wish to ... More About: Education , People , History , Real
Christmas in Pakistan: Greetings and Reflections
2007-12-25 08:11:00 Adil Najam Christmas greetings to all our Christian readers in Pakistan and elsewhere. On this auspicious day, we at ATP pray for peace and goodwill to all. Last year our Christmas post had carried the picture on the right below. This year we thought that the one of a Pakistani Santa riding a camel would make ... More About: Society , Religion , Architecture , Reflections
Review of ?Charlie Wilson?s War?: Please Read the Book? But Do Watch the Mo
More articles from this author:2007-12-24 07:04:00 Adil Najam I saw Charlie Wilson’s War, the movie featuring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, today. Long-time readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of the book by the same name on which movie is based. I enjoyed the movie… a lot. Judging by their reactions and response so did most of the ... More About: Politics , Television , Watch , Books , History 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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