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Junaid Jamshed Buried in Karachi
Junaid Jamshed Buried in Karachi
Huge turnout at singer’s funeral after plane crash that also left 46 others dead.
Thousands attended the funeral prayers on Thursday of Junaid Jamshed, a pioneer of Pakistani pop who renounced music to become a Muslim evangelist and who was among 47 people killed in a plane crash last week.
Politicians, senior military officers, cricketers, singers and fans were among those who bade farewell at a service held at a cricket ground in Karachi. “I cannot believe that Junaid is no longer with us,” said Maulana Tariq Jamil, a renowned Islamic preacher, who led the funeral prayer.
Thursday 29 April 2021
Paris - It was THE phone call with THE news I d been waiting for for years. It was May 2, 2011 in Islamabad, and very early in the morning. I was in bed and half asleep. On the end of the line was Jennie Matthew, news editor in the bureau, as terse as usual: Washington is about to announce they ve killed bin Laden in Pakistan.
This was it. I d been waiting for this day for six years, since reporting from Afghanistan in 2005. The question of what happened to Osama bin Laden, following his 2001 escape under US bombardment, coloured every NATO briefing. Many believed he was hiding across the border, in Pakistan s mountainous and semi-autonomous tribal belt, where the Americans didn t send ground troops, but instead waged their war from the sky, by drones.
Pakistan’s History of Resistance
Pakistan’s History of Resistance
File photo. Asif Hassan AFP
The country’s past, as detailed in a new book, is replete with people such as Dr. Mubarak Ali who resisted the national narrative
When you write about Pakistan, the uppermost feeling that guides you is a positive sensation: no matter what, Pakistan is right, give or take a few integral foibles that can be set right. But there are those among us who keep sketching Pakistan negatively, spreading what we think is despair. One is mostly inclined to ignore the “corrective” aspect of criticism and feels like punishing those who express these views.