April 13, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Quest for security Today, Pakistan’s military personnel intensity, MPI, (military personnel per head of population) is 3.3 times that of India’s, and Pakistan’s military expenditure intensity, MEI, (military expenditures per dollar of GDP) is 1.8 times India’s.... EXCERPTS: America’s Afghan adventure Up to November 1, US warplanes had flown 2,000 sorties, or 80 a day. With a single Tomahawk missile costing $1 million, the war expense was running at $2 billion a month.... ARTICLE: A promise kept The last time I visited Spain, I had promised myself to come back and explore Toledo for a longer time. That passionately beautiful island-fortress had stayed in my memory as some principal city of my mind.... ARTICLES: Why the easy path? I had been listening to the vayee of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai at his shrine for a couple of hours. I decided to come out for a smoke when I was... ARTICLES: The poet of love Shah Latif is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Sindh. A quick reading of his Risalo (Message) instantly captures the mind of the reader. Latif’s poetry conveys the sentiments... AUTHOR: Abdel Rehman Munif: Of oil and salt Harran is stable, he said to himself, and that’s all it will ever be until the last drop of oil is gone. Then all the men and beasts will walk away... SYNDICATED REVIEWS: The truth, the whole truth More people than ever before now believe that the most important thing about themselves may be the things that they cannot remember. And we are always being encouraged to come to... SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Speaking with forked tongues The end of the cold war and the fall of client regimes of both superpowers produced a rich crop of ousted dictators who now do their shopping in suburban supermarkets or... REVIEW: Romancing Sindh Britain’s interest in Sindh, because of its strategic importance in the furtherance of its imperial power, brought with it a spate of path finding writings on its social, cultural and economic... History of a passion As the true savant of our cricket Omar Kureshi says in his foreword, Latif Jafri’s voluminous History of Pakistan Test Cricket “will take you down memory lane and will chronicle the... REVIEWS: Children’s voices If you think children can’t make a difference, you are very wrong. Who else can describe all the world’s harm if not children? Children should be heard, and their ideas and... REVIEWS: How Kashmir can be won? This is a revised edition of the title which was first published in 1991. It was the time when the jihadi elements from Afghanistan felt left out in the cold after... REVIEWS: Myth of justice Capitalism is the mantra of our industrial age. It is the lubricant that greases the economic juggernaut and keeps it rolling. But the quest for justice is as old as human... REVIEWS: Making Pakistan a fiction By definition a novel is a long story in prose. It deals with invented characters and events, which the author creates to convey his story to others. An autobiographical novel, on... REVIEWS: Challenged since the start The period between 1997 and 2003 has seen the publication of numerous volumes that seek to provide a comprehensive picture of Pakistan, during a period when the country completed half a... CHILDREN’S BOOKS REVIEWS: In praise of tolerance The Human Rights Education Programme (HREP) is a non-governmental organization that was started in 1995 with the aim of developing a caring, tolerant, humane and stable society. It aims to provide...

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