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Khiyal Rakhna: ATP Turns Five Today! It is Time to Move On. Thank You For Y
2011-06-11 09:33:00 Adil Najam Today – June 11, 2011 – All Things Pakistan turns five years old! Today, sitting in Lahore, Pakistan, I write in the realization that it is now time to move on. This is not a ‘Good Bye’ post – it is, in fact, a ‘Thank You’ post. Nor do I want this to ... More About: Time , Move
What?s Going Right in Pakistan
2011-06-10 19:49:00 Adil Najam There is much – way too much – that is going terribly wrong in Pakistan . But not all is lost. Not just yet. One must never deny that which is going wrong. Indeed, to accept and acknowledge it is itself the first step towards finding ways to reverse the wrong. But nor should ... More About: Society , Music , Development , Media Matters
Have We Gone Mad? (Reader discretion advised)
2011-06-09 19:34:00 Adil Najam This graphic video of the brutal murder of 19 year of Sarfraz Shah being confronted and shot dead by Rangers – supposedly because he was a robber refusing to surrender – is only the latest in a string of state and societal resort to violence that makes one wonder if we have gone ... More About: Society , Justice , Reader
Pakistan Wins Test Series After 4 Years, 2 Month
2011-01-19 06:18:00 Owais Mughal After drawing second test match of the series against New Zealand, Pakistan has won their first Test Cricket series after a gap of 10 Test Series spanned over a period of 4 years and 2 months. Bari der ki mehraan aate aate! But I have a comment on today’s match. Can you imagine ... More About: Years
Saadat Hasan Manto?s Obscenity Trial: Zehmat-i-Mehr-i-Darakhshan
2011-01-18 08:15:00 Aziz Akhmad (Editor’s Note: Today, January 18this the death anniversary of Saadat Hasan Manto. Two day’s ago (January 16) was the anniversary of the ‘judgement day’ in his famous ‘obscenity trial.’ To mark these anniversaries, we are re-posting this, the last of a three part series on ‘Manto ka Muqaddama,’ by Aziz Akhmad (first two ... More About: Literature , People , Books , History , Trial
Pakistan?s First Flood-Lit 5-Day Cricket Match ? Orange Cricket Balls and H
2011-01-17 15:23:00 Owais Mughal and Aqil Sajjad In the age of big news and bigger opinions, a small news about the National Cricket title of Pakistan seems trivial. But following Pakistan’s domestic cricket has remained ATP’s tradition (See here, here, here and here). The 2010-11 National Cricket Champions title of Pakistan goes to Habib Bank today. History ... More About: Orange , Balls , Match
Media Watch: Good Step by Express Tribune
2010-10-28 04:05:00 Faris Islam Earlier today, the Express Tribune announced via their website and newspaper that retired Justice Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, a former Law Minister, Attorney General and Governor of Sindh would be the newspaper?s inaugural ombudsman. According to the announcement, the highly respected constitutional expert will ?act as arbitrator? and as a link between the newspaper ... More About: Media , Watch , Good
Folk Tales of Pakistan: Mirza-Sahiban
2010-10-27 05:16:00 Mast Qalandar In an earlier post on Sohni Mahiwal I had said folklore was a mixture of beliefs, facts and fiction and that it was always a poet who immortalized a love story. But, it is also true that a poet chose to sing a particular story, and not the other, because of its inherent ... More About: Poetry , Heritage , Pakistan , Folk , Tales
Target Killings: Rahman Baba, Data Ali Hajvery, Abdullah Shah Ghazi, Baba F
2010-10-25 07:59:00 Adil Najam The Fajr attack in Pakpattan Sharif, on the shrine of Baba Fareeduddin Masud Ganjshakar was one more in a series of very targeted and very strategic attacks on shrines of Sufi saints across Pakistan: Rahman Baba, Data Sahib Hassan Ali Hajveri, Abdullah Shah Ghazi, many more, now Baba Fariduddin Masud Ganjshakar. Once again, ... More About: Justice , Target , Killings
ATP Poll: Grading Our Leaders, Yet Again
2010-10-24 22:58:00 Adil Najam It is time, yet again, to request our readers to please grade the performance of the key figures in Pakistan politics. We had asked you to do so in April 2010 and earlier in 2009 (here and here). We had presented the comparison between these two results here. Given the political twists and ... More About: Politics , Poll
A People?s History of Pakistan
2009-12-21 06:02:00 Adil Najam WPvideo 1.10 we can quibble all you want about whether his interpretation of the history of Pakistan is correct or not and what he has missed or added unnecessarily - and, no matter what our own interpretation may be, rest assured that there are many who would quibble with our interpretation too. That is the nature ... More About: People , History
Wedding Season Hits Pakistan
2009-12-20 16:56:00 Muhammad Rizwan The advent of winter season in Pakistan invariably brings the spate of marriage ceremonies along. It provides a little respite to the people from sweltering heat that entices them to put their wedding occasions mostly in time slot that begins from the start of winter season till it ends. The winter season has very much ... More About: Society , Wedding , Development , Season
Post-NRO Pakistan: Uncertainty Rules, Again
2009-12-19 18:09:00 Adil Najam As our ongoing ATP Poll on what should happen after the NRO decision by by the Supreme Court shows, there are many options but little clarity on what will happen nexts. Ministers are being stopped at airports. Summons are supposedly being sent to Ministers. PPP leaders are coming to the defense of their colleagues. ... More About: Politics , Justice , Pakistan , Post , Rules
ATP Poll: NRO Null and Void. Now What?
2009-12-18 15:16:00 Adil Najam The Supreme Court has spoken. And spoken loudly. The NRO, they say, is null and void. What they do not say - and should not, since it is not in their mandate - is what should happen now to all that was unfolded as a result of the NRO. That is for politics to ... More About: Politics , Justice , Poll
1971: Hum kay thehray ajnabi?
2009-12-17 05:30:00 Adil Najam As the fourth and final part of our series on the events of 1971, we are reposting this post which was first published at ATP on December 16, 2006. We are reposting it with all the original comments since they, as a whole, are very much part of the conversation we all need to ... More About: Music , History , Poetry , Urdu
Chai Chahiye
2009-09-22 05:33:00 Owais Mughal I am sitting in front of my computer, listening to my favorite “Vital Signs” song: Ye shaam phir nahi aaye gi (This evening won’t come again) I am smiling and sipping on my favorite Lipton Tea, while my fingers are keying in this moment in time. All in all, a very coordinated effort is going on between my ... More About: Chai
Eid is?
2009-09-20 15:41:00 Owais Mughal and Adil Najam From all of us at All Things Pakistan (ATP; Pakistaniat.Com) we wish our regular readers, our contributors, and all passers-by Eid Mubarak. We wish you happiness, prosperity and all things good; now and forever. Today, we want all of you to help us write this post for us. Tell us, please, what Eid ...
Saadat Hasan Manto: A Tribute
2009-09-19 14:43:00 Adnan Ahmad Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the greatest short story writers of the 20th century was born on May 11, 1912 in Ludhiana district of Indian Punjab. I could have referred to him as one of the greatest short story writers in Urdu but many would agree that given the depth and the quality and ... More About: Literature , People , Books , Tribute
Performance of Pakistani Players in IPL
2008-06-07 17:08:00 Owais Mughal First edition of IPL twenty-20 tournament finished six days ago. 12 Pakistani players also took part in the tournament. Following was their performance. While Sohail Tanvir was declared the best bowler of the tournament, we didn’t see many match winning performances from Pakistani batsmen. More About: Players , Performance
Go East ? Go West
2008-06-04 18:06:00 Owais Mughal Following photo is courtesy of _tunnel_. The photo was taken on May 14, 2008 in Landhi, Karachi. Private educational institutions have become big business in Pakistan, but this picture is also about so much more. What comes to your mind when you see this? More About: East , West
Naai: Much More Than a Haircut
2008-06-03 10:01:00 Bilal Zuberi I now live in Boston, USA and among the personal things I simply have to find time for (besides eating and doing my laundry) is getting a haircut every few weeks or so. I got a haircut today and despite paying many times more than what I would typically pay back home in ... More About: Society , Haircut
Suicide Attack at Danish Embassy in Islamabad: Dastardly, Cowardly, Inexcus
2008-06-02 15:47:00 Adil Najam The cowardly suicide attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad which has led at least eight people dead is not just an attack on a foreign embassy in Pakistan, it is an attack on Pakistan. There is and there can be no excuse for this dastardly action, and to make excuses is to become part ... More About: Society , Law and Justice , Suicide
ATP Poll: What Lies in Gen. Musharraf?s Future?
2008-06-01 17:50:00 Adil Najam Noises drenched in that uniquely Pakistani mix of rumor, spin, speculation, and analysis suggest that something is afoot in Army House, Rawalpindi. Some suggest that spurred from the US as well as the new political dispensation in Pakistan, but largely because of their own accord, the military leadership is finally ready to ease Gen. ... More About: Politics , People , Future , Poll , Musharraf
Daylight Savings Introduced in Pakistan: Is This A Good Idea?
2008-06-01 00:17:00 Adil Najam As of the stroke of midnight Saturday-Sunday (May 31-June 1, 2008) Pakistan officially advanced its clocks by one hour. This “daylight savings” move is a bid to conserve energy in a increasingly energy strapped economy in conditions where everyone agrees that the energy situation is going to get worse well before it gets any ... More About: Development , Idea , Daylight Savings , Daylight
The Poetry of Dilawar Figar
2008-05-30 22:10:00 Shahran Asim As part of my effort to introduce humorous poets of Pakistan on this blog (here and here) I am bringing a post on Dilawar Figar today. My personal recollections of Dilawar Figar was in 1996 when he was invited along with other noted personalities in a Roo-Baroo program. He recited his very interesting poetry which ... More About: Humor , Poetry , Urdu
Tyranny of Democracy
2008-05-30 03:32:00 Deeda-i-Beena The public pronouncements made thus far by the Chief Justice Iftikhar have emphasised two themes viz. Supremacy of the Constitution and, the Rule of Law. He has left his own restoration and that of the superior judiciary to his minions, Aitzaz and Nawaz to pursue. Together his two themes represent the foundation and the essence ... More About: Society , Politics , Tyranny , Democracy
Harnessing Wind Energy in Baldia Town
2008-05-30 03:15:00 Owais Mughal Following photo appeared in both Jang and Dawn of May 29, 2008. It shows residents of Baldia Town Karachi have resorted to harnessing Wind Energy to produce electricity. We’ve discussed Electricity shortage and alternate ways to produce electricity in Pakistan in several posts here. I am happy to see this indiginous effort on part ...
The Politics of Kalabagh Dam and Pakhtunkhwa
2008-05-29 06:32:00 Owais Mughal Kalabagh Dam, which has been a dead project for all practical purposes, got a stir yesterday when Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf said that the project has now been shelved for ever. On the same day, another interesting development happened about NWFP where it was decided to change the name of ... More About: Politics
Juvenile Delinquency in Pakistan
2008-05-28 14:19:00 Irum Sarfaraz The state of juvenile delinquency in Pakistan is reaching epic proportion with neither the law nor other people associated with it willing to understand the continual and serious dangers being rendered to the health, social and moral development of these children and society. The majority of these delinquents are ?street children? who are increasing rapidly ... More About: Society , Juvenile
Pakistani Rupee?s Record Slide Versus US Dollar
More articles from this author:2008-05-25 15:04:00 Owais Mughal According to money central at msn, Pakistani Rupee was traded at US $68.25 today. Just around January of 2008, Rupee was quite steady at around 61 rupees to a dollar but in the past 4 months, the depreciation has been alomst 10%. That too at a time, when US dollar is also weakening as ... More About: Dollar , Slide , Versus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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