February 5, 2002
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Crisis of identity
 A section of the Pakistani intelligentsia began to talk about a thing it called “the crisis of identity” in the late 1950s, that is within a decade of attaining freedom....
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EXCERPTS: No ideological disruption
 Iqbal, the ideologue, had diagnosed the malaise of the Muslim world in his famous Reconstruction and had come to the conclusion that “For the present every Muslim nation must sink...
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EXCERPTS: Paintings on the rocks
 The situation changed in 1981 when one of our photographers climbed up to the terrace strewn with large boulders and much gravel...
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ARTICLE: The roots of ‘girl power’ By Aquila Ismail
 “Girl power” is more venerable than the Spice Girls and was discovered by a man, the full Oxford English Dictionary disclosed. It was first spotted in a less raunchy setting by...
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ARTICLE: Demand for poetry and fiction
 The year 2001 saw significant progress in creative Sindhi writing — both prose and poetry. The most significant factor was the move to activate the historical societies, and literary organizations as...
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ARTICLE: Power and its purpose
 In a lifetime devoted to the study of international relations no book that I have read has had greater impact on my thinking, let alone my work as a university professor,...
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AUTHOR: Abdul Ghafoor Noorani: Courage to speak
 The recent visit to Pakistan of the renowned Indian lawyer and author, Abdul Ghafoor Noorani (A.G. as he is popularly known), aroused unusual interest. His presence happened to coincide with the...
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SYNDICATED: The elusive answer
 When the world’s most famous living cosmologist issues another State of the universe report, what should we expect? A great deal if we take the promises made in his bestseller. A...
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SYNDICATED: Testament of a literary dustbin
“It seems inconceivable to me,” writes Elizabeth Young at the opening of her introduction, “that a critic would enthusiastically compile a volume of their old book reviews and then expect anyone...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Murder in the palace
 On June 2, 2001, as the world was still absorbing the horrendous events which had transpired the night before at the Narayanhiti Palace, the centre of power and all that is...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Power as destiny
 The meteoric saga of Alexander the Great is familiar, yet each re-telling leaves one breathless. At sixteen he was regent of Macedonia; at eighteen he led the decisive charge at the...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): Why Jinnah ignored Caroe
 Although a work of high merit on the complex issue of transfer of power from the British Raj to Pakistan in the North West Frontier Province, this book attempts to give...
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REVIEWS (ENGLISH): A plea for rationality
A number of questions are agitating the minds of Muslims today for which they are looking for convincing answers. Some might appear to be minor issues but all of them...
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REVIEWS (URDU & REGIONAL): From the master’s pen
 The only time I met Dr Farman Fatehpuri was with the late Professor Sajjad Baqar Rizvi. It was in the early fifties. He had a few old and some new books...
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