I first saw this Cricinfo photo over at Pakistaniat. It gives one a view of the large swarm of police deployed at the 2nd one-day international between Pakistan and South Africa, which Pakistan won by 25 runs.
This photo reminded me of how in the past I’ve been critical of foreign teams canceling, postponing and [...]
And Life Moves On…
Another Depressing Development
And there I was, just about to shut down my laptop after deciding that I’d surfed enough for the day, when my sister rushed to inform me of some “bloody incident all over the news”. Benazir Bhutto had returned to Karachi today after 8 years of self imposed exile. Scores of her “supporters” (some genuine [...]
The Myth Of Pakistan & Musharraf’s Liberalism
There is much interest in Pakistan’s political and cultural dynamic these days. Hardly a week passes by when you don’t come across some article or the other in the international press highlighting and celebrating Pakistan’s apparently new found inclination for modernism, or ‘enlightened moderation’ if I were to use Musharraf’s now worn out neologism.
Such writers [...]
Some Thoughts On Dr. Adil Najam
People on my Facebook contacts and on my RSS feed reader have been paying their tributes to Dr. Adil Najm, who was one of the convening Lead Authors for the IPCC team that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
I have been reading Dr. Najam for a while via his blog [...]
Should Muslims Really Have One Eid?
Eid celebrations [...] are greatly predominated and influenced by local culture across the Muslim world, so much so that you’d find a big difference in the way it’s observed from Turkey to Pakistan to Indonesia. We all eat different kinds of festive food, we all wear different kind of festive clothes, we all really do [...]
Celebrating Eid Around The World
I’ve been busy compiling a indepth article on moon-sighting controversies in the Islamic world, and that’s why the belated Eid wishes post. Hope you’ve had a spiritually fulfilling Ramadan and may Allah accept the good deeds we have done during this month!
Eid is being celebrated through out the world on at least three different days [...]
Goodbye Inzi
I haven’t had a chance to write anything on the cricket lately, but I watched most of the last day’s play at Lahore today, and I have some thoughts to share. The eventual result of the match (a commendably earned draw which handed SA a 1-0 series win) didn’t quite go in Pakistan’s favor completely, but [...]
More Plagiarism Updates
In response to my previous post about plagiarism, The Pakistani Spectator, to their credit reacted swiftly and firmly, not only removing the plagiarised post but also publicly apologising on their blog and banning the said author, namely Maher Nawaz Khan, from their contributing authors’ list. It takes some one brave to acknowledge their mistakes, so I appreciate the responsibility [...]
What Makes Pakistanis Laugh?
There’s a few blogs out here that claim to discuss Pakistan and all things related to Pakistan, but what is unique about Pakistan Paindabad is that it is run and maintained by two Indians. Gauruv Sood and Mayank Austen Soofi are well known names in the Indian blogosphere but at Pakistan Paindabad they write themselves [...]
Plagiarism In The Pakistani Blogosphere
What is common between the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the famous American deaf and blind author cum activist Helen Keller and lead guitarist of The Beatles, George Harrison? They’ve all been accused of (and in at least two of these cases) successfully proven to have been guilty of plagiarism (see Wikipedia article on Plagiarism for [...]
