Adil Najam

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• “Sindhi Topi Day.” Wonderful. But Why the Guns?

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam Did you know that today, December 6, was “Sindhi Topi Day” ? I did not. But I now do. I also now know that it was celebrated with great fervor . I am glad that it was. Even though some have raised concerns about how such a celebration might “isolate” Sindh from the rest of the country, ...
  3 days ago

• PPP Finds its Wasi Zafar: “Corruption is Our Political Right!”

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam It seems that the PPP government has finally found its equivalent to Wasi Zafar (the absurd, and often obnoxious, Law Minister in Gen. Musharraf’s government; here and here ). Listen to the Rt. Hon. Abdul Qayyum Khan Jatoi, Federal Minister for Defence Production, proclaiming that it is the ...
  5 days ago

• Why They Hate Pakistanis and Muslims?

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam The headline screams out that more than 40 people are dead after a heartless and soulless suicide attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi. The story under it tells us that more than half of those butchered are children . Numb. Enraged. Without words. One stares into space. How many such headlines have ...
  5 days ago

• Financial Innovation: Pakistan’s ‘Hajj Notes’

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam Did you know that from the 1950 through the mid 1990s the State Bank of Pakistan would publish special Hajj Notes in Rupees for Pakistani Hajis? These were mentioned in an earlier post on ATP on Pakistani banknotes, but I recently stumbled on a fascinating paper on the history of the Pakistani ...
  1 week ago

• Hajj and Eid-ul-Azha Mubarak

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam and Owais Mghal From all of us at ATP we congratulate the nearly 3 million Muslims who performed Hajj this year, including 160,000 Pakistanis, and also wish fond Eid-u-Azha greetings to all of you. This is the fourth such post we have written since ATP began ( 2006 , 2007 , 2008 ). Each year we ...
  1 week ago

• Full Text of Balochistan ‘Package’: Is it Enough?

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam In a special joint session of the National Assembly and the Senate, the government today unveiled its promised “Baluchistan conciliation package” (synopsis of provisions and full text, below). This marks a small but important step forward in what one certainly hopes is a trend towards full ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Politics of NRO: Beneficiaries List Released

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam The list of beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was released yesterday amidst more pomp than it deserved - since, the list verifies what we knew rather than tell us too much new information. There are, however, details that are new and potentially important in the volatile ...
  2 weeks ago

• 25th Death Anniversary: Faiz Ahmed Faiz

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam Today is the 25th death anniversary of Faiz Ahmed Faiz . Maybe we can remember him by sharing the verses from him that are most moving for us. Pakistaniat readers are well aware of the aqeedat ATP has for Faiz Ahmed Faiz . Indeed, in some ways ATP started with a tribute to him and to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bun-Kabab or McDonalds?

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam We have written about the ’street McDonalds’ stands before and this new picture is also interesting. Not sure how the corporates from McDonald’s feel about this. Probably not too good. Although, they should realize that they are not likely to be losing any customers to these street-vendors… ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mr. Chief Justice, Give Them a Hearing

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam I realize that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has much, maybe too much, on his plate right now. And all of immense consequence. He and his court will be judged on how they deal with these monumental issues. But they will also be judged on whether they can give the ordinary Pakistani a confidence in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Books: H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam I have been waiting many weeks to write about H.M. Naqvi’s debut novel, Homeboy . I finished reading the book soon after it first came out this fall and found myself riveted to the richly layered, intense tale of three colorful characters - all of Pakistani descent - living in New York City. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pakistan at War: Lest We Forget

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam This montage of headlines from Dawn need little explanation. It represents seven headlines; one each from each of the last seven days (Nov. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, 2009). All except one were headlines on Dawn , and one (Nov. 13, 2009) was on the back page. The fact that the killing of 17 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gilgit-Baltistan Goes to Vote

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam Today is a good day for democracy in Pakistan. The Gilgit-Baltistan region goes to poll for the first time to elect a legislative chamber of their own . Full franchise needs to be extended to each and every Pakistani, everywhere in Pakistan. One hopes that this step will be extended soon to other parts ...
  4 weeks ago

• Get Well Soon, Imran Khan

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam Legendary cricketer, motivated philanthropist and maverick politician Imran Khan had an emergency stomach surgery performed yesterday. He is still in hospital (yes, at the very same Shaukat Khannum Hospital that is his greatest gift to Pakistan - yes, it is a gift far greater than even his World ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rickshaw Wisdom: Solve the Mystery

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam Many of you might have recently received this picture of rickshaw poetry in your email recently. It depicts rickshaw poetry under the title “Soch Raha Hai Pakistan.” Its cute. All the more because it is on the back of a rickshaw. And we all love rickshaws . No one more than ATP. This is why ...
  5 weeks ago

• Aisam-Cerritani Beat Federer-Chidudinelli

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam Aisamul Haq Qureshi - Pakistan’s most prominent tennis star about whom we have written at ATP here and here - and his doubles partner James Cerritani scored a high profile upset by beating World Number One Roger Federer and his partner Marco Chiudinelliini straight sets at the Basel Open ...
  5 weeks ago

• Zardari Meets Nawaz: What Should They Say To Each Other?

  
  ALL THINGS PAKISTAN — Authority: 550
  Adil Najam The media is abuzz with petty pontifications about the likely meeting later today between Mr. Asif Ali Zardari and Mr. Nawaz Sharif . By the time many readers read this, the talks may already have transpired and, then, the media will be abuzz about what they talked about. Here is hoping ...
  6 weeks ago

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