Happy Independence Day

To my Pakistani readers.

Read De Grouchy Owl’s post (no permalinks [link edited to permalink for the post —ZA]; it’s the Aug 14 post) about moving to Pakistan from the US.

Mountains in Pakistan

I promised some time ago to write about interesting non-political stuff in Pakistan. This is the first post in that series. I hope that I can continue this series for some time. We’ll start with the mountains. The northern part of Pakistan is mountainous and there are three main mountain…

April 7, 2003

In "Pakistan"

Activist Islam in Pakistan: Post 1

I promised this series quite some time ago, but didn’t get around to doing it. I’ll use Al-Muhajabah’s “A field guide to Islamic activists” as a jumping-off point (Yes, I remember mentioning it earlier and promising a critique of its Pakistan-related items.) Taliban also need to be understood as a…

January 26, 2003

In "Islam and Other Religions"

Israel and Pakistan - A Report

Google is great; it’s amazing what you can find while looking through your referral logs. I have gotten quite a few visits who were searching for Israel and Pakistan. My post about Pakistani recognition of Israel is #5 on Google. While looking through the search results, I noticed a report…

July 17, 2003

In "International Affairs"

4 comments

Wow, thanks for the plug. I didn’t really think of the post as a Chauda August thing. I typed it a few days back and didn’t feel like writing anything fresh.

And I guess I should learn the permalinks thing. I’ve got to jack the FrontPage software from my work and fiddle with my blog. Wish me luck, I’m a certified technotwit.