Pakistani diaspora
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Shithole countries
Asks how wrong Trump was to call some countries ‘shitholes’, conceding as a half-Pakistani, half-Iranian writer that a large diaspora usually signals something wrong at home, though the remark is…
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San Bernadino Terror Attack
The author recounts the San Bernardino attack by a Pakistani-American couple, setting out what was known of the shooters, their weapons and the reported pledge to ISIS, and considers what…
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Pakistani makes the largest political bet in history –
A Guardian report on a City trader of Pakistani-German heritage who made the largest political bet in British history on a No vote in Scotland, with the poster remarking that…
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“Jews, your end is near”
After attacks on synagogues in Paris and Germany during Gaza protests, the poster urges Pakistanis in the UK and others to show empathy beyond their own grievances, drop Hitler admiration,…
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A preview of Indo-Pak cooperation in Uganda
A Ugandan anecdote in which a sales call brings two South Asian colleagues, one Indian and one Pakistani, whom the poster sees as an almost perfect illustration of Indo-Pak cooperation,…
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CAPA pays tribute to Dr Mehdi Ali Qamar
Posts a tribute from the Community Association of Pakistani Americans to Dr Mehdi Ali Qamar, killed in Pakistan, with the poster noting the Ohio community’s loss and the shock that…
