Weekly Briefing
The eminently mockable Zaid Hamid.
This week: what you should be reading in the Pakistani blogosphere.
I haven’t posted for a few days since the NRO is the only thing that seems to happening in the country and there’s nothing left to say about it that others haven’t articulated more eloquently. Make the Five Rupees post, “Why I Don’t Really Care About the NRO and Zardari” the last thing you read on the subject.
Then again, plenty of people are taking great delight in the striking down of the NRO because there are few things Pakistanis enjoy more than seeing squirming politicians. In that case, Grand Truck Road reminds us how much we enjoy schadenfreude.
There’s already been some talk of an impending army coup. It’s more likely, though, that the electronic media will take over the country. Nadeem Paracha at Dawn has prepared for the eventuality by getting his jokes ready.
The blog Pakistan Media Watch is usually quite unsubtle in its PPP shilling, although not as obvious as Daily Times. But this post on how The Nation puts ideology ahead of consistency is a must-read.
One last dig at the electronic media. While its easy to bemoan the presence of Zaid Hamid, its more fun to mock him. Tazeen explains how some are doing just that.
And, finally, foreign correspondent Maha Atal has been keeping a blog of her reporting from Pakistan at the Pulitzer Center’s website. Lots of really interesting stuff there.
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I really like this idea of putting together a compendium of blogosphere’s best weekly offerings. It would be nice to get to know more about these bloggers and who can be considered elite blogs in Pakistani web world.