Five Rupees

S o a bit of blog news: we're moving. Over the last few weeks, we/I have been in discussion with the people over at Asian Correspondent ...

Full Time: Spain do enough to move ahead of Switzerland into second, on goal difference. They'll have to beat Chile later in the week to...

G reetings, loyal readers. I have not been able to blog in the last few days for a couple reasons, but suffice it to say, I've missed yo...

I was going to title this post "Video Of The Day" but that really wouldn't have done it justice. Please watch this, and make ...

I arrived back in Pakistan a few hours ago; I'm here for the next month to spend time with family as well as celebrate AKS' wedding...

I have a blog post up on Dawn's website. It concerns our selection issues before the summer tour to England. You may be surprised, but...

O kay, I'm really happy with the response rate but there's a minor complication which a reader's comment alerted me to. Namely, ...

B ehold. Via Huma Imtiaz's twitter , please check out this Geo report, which tells us what the covers of notebooks sold in Lahore's ...

T his passage is drawn from page 148 of David Halberstam's truly excellent book on the US-Vietnam war called The Best and the Brightest ...

T he Twitterverse has been obsessed with the beginning of the third season of Coke Studio. Everyone felt that the best performance was by A...

W ell, there you go. Some of you may know that Five Rupees was nominated in the Pakistani Blog Awards under the "Political coverage...

I have to say, I was fairly disturbed when I read Mosharraf Zaidi's latest op-ed in The News. Maybe I take things too seriously, but I...

I 'm in a bit of a rush right now, but read this press release from Human Rights Watch in full. Evidently Shahbaz Sharif's governme...

B efore I put down my thoughts, let me urge you to go and read two great posts on the tragic killings at Ahmedi MOSQUES yesterday. The first...

W ith the World Cup just two weeks away, it's time to put in some predictions. I'm always wrong with this stuff, but it never stops ...