Cafe Pyala

I had promised a comprehensive post about the unraveling of Husain Haqqani when it first happened. The different aspects of the case (techn...

Thanks to Nadeem Farooq Paracha 's blog in Dawn , we have the first acknowledgement from a Pakistani news organization about our role i...

Reading through the top story in today's The News and Jang , my eyes grew progressively wider and wider. Not so much from the latest Wi...

Isn't is quite remarkable that almost none of the major newspapers in Pakistan thought that the 'leader of the Muslim Ummah' Kin...

This past week seems to have been a Nizami-obsessed week. Might as well share a final bit of news about the goings on at The Nation. So, S...

As if almost on cue to khabardrama's long-delayed review of Arif Nizami's Pakistan Today (see previous post ), comes news from chac...

First of all an apology and an excuse. I have been meaning to write about Arif Nizami 's long-awaited Pakistan Today ever since it hit ...

Since we're on the topic of poisonous senility... okay, so we weren't really on that topic, but it just seemed a good way to start t...

So, the honeymoon of the conspiracy maniacs has finally come to an end. It has been confirmed that Shireen Mazari , that doyenne of hyper-...

We're hearing that Pakistan Today - former The Nation editor Arif Nizami's long-awaited new daily with the financial backing of P...

Imagine my shock and surprise when I saw 'Breaking News' on Express TV just before 7pm tonight that the entire sordid cricket spot-...

From today's The Nation , picture courtesy reader Saleem Shady... Adds a whole new meaning to " chun chun kar botian " den...

Some might be nonplussed that yet another English daily is gearing up to hit the market. Is there really such a big market for English langu...

I had begun writing a post about the strange suppression in the Pakistani media - print and television - of the news about the killing of, a...