Fawad The music of Khan Sahib Mehdi Hassan Khan has been the backdrop to my own life as well as of so many music enthusiasts in Pakistan. Cliche as it might sound, there is no one - and i mean no one - who is in the same league as Mehdi Hassan. Just...

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...

Adil Najam and Owais Mughal 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...

temporal Eid ul Adha is on or around the corner. I wish you all a safe, happy and fulfilling celebration with your family and friends. All I ask is, please spare the poor goat or lamb or cow’s life. The purpose of sacrifice is to understand the...

Owais Mughal The photo, by Farhan Khan, shows sacrificial animals being brought to a market in Latifabad, Hyderabad for upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. I do have a question: Why would one name an ox or a cow as kabootar (pigeon)?