June 1, 2003
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Asymmetric war
 It has been clear ever since the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001 that even major military successes in Afghanistan may not have brought victory in any traditional sense of the term....
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EXCERPTS: Leading the country to victory
 Abdul Hafeez Kardar was the commander-in-chief of Pakistan cricket. He led the team in its inaugural test match and guided it in its nascent years....
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ARTICLE: Two approaches to history
 The writing and reading of history for us in Pakistan seems little more than manufacturing convenient myths to suit our immediate needs. K.K. Aziz in his book, The Pakistani Historian, discusses...
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ARTICLE: What they want
 Several questions are raised about the rural support programmes (RSPs) and their workers. Who are they? Are they different from the government...
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AUTHOR: Rachel Cusk: Mum’s the word
 “For a long time I was so angry,” says Serena Porter, one of the characters in Rachel Cusk’s fourth novel, The Lucky Ones (Fourth Estate). Asked what she was angry about,...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Right here, right now
 The recent election of a BNP councillor in Halifax and a tabloid-led fury raging over asylum-seekers, an expose of the far right political movement could not be more timely. Nick Ryan’s...
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SYNDICATED REVIEWS: Time to start living
In the nineteenth century, women in Britain had a great deal to be angry about. They could not vote, it was difficult for them to divorce, they had few rights over...
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REVIEWS: From rags to power
 In view of the murder and mayhem associated with the name of Saddam Hussein, it would be unrealistic to expect an unbiased account of his life by any author, least of...
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REVIEWS: From the green forests...
 Reading In Retrospect: The Story of a Bureaucrat is like entering a labyrinth. However, here Daedalus — M. Habib Khan — has embedded the paths with his jewels of interesting anecdotes...
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REVIEWS: Under the imperialist shadow
 The Afghans are a resilient people. They have faced invasions from the Greeks to the British and recently the Americans, but each time, the conquerors had to leave with humiliating memories....
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REVIEWS: Reality-based perspective
 This book is a collection of newly translated essays, written over a period of almost forty years by distinguished French sociologist and philosopher, Raymond Aron, who chronicles the history of the...
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REVIEWS: Yes, the very first
 During the darkest periods of my life, I had often wondered whether I would ever come upon my true calling in life. I wanted to be a cricketer but wasn’t good...
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REVIEWS: Swaying the imagination
 Given to scholarly showmanship, Nirad C. Chaudhuri once boasted to a journalist: “...as children we were great admirers of Napoleon. Before I was sixteen I knew the entire Italian campaign by...
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REVIEWS: History with a purpose
 The first question that comes to mind after seeing this voluminous first part of the history of Urdu literature is why another book when there are a number of histories of...
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