March 28, 2004
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Deal-making on the sidelines
 THE emergency Loya Jirga held on June 10-21, 2002, in Kabul was a small but critical step in Afghanistan’s political development. It was an opportunity to accord national legitimacy to the peace process initiated in Bonn....
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Excerpts: Bosnia’s Muslim identity
 EVEN during the height of ethnic cleansing and human misery across this country, the Muslim governments en bloc failed to come to its rescue. A few pious statements by the Organization of Islamic Conference...
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Articles: Musharraf in Is New York Burning?
 PAKISTAN’S President, Pervez Musharraf is to be one of the characters of the new novel by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins: Is New York Burning?, reports Paul Michaud from Paris....
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Articles: Big story of a little book
 IN the nineteenth century when the British were ruling India the main researches and publications were written in the English language. Authors like Elphinstone of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) and...
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Articles: Keeping sane
 WOULD not be alive and sane if I did not have four things in my life which really help me deal with the world. The first are books. The second is music. The third is my family and the fourth are my dreams....
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Author: The heretic trio
 IN the classic western fairy tale it is a simple child who blurts out the plain fact that the vain emperor wears no clothes. That’s no accident. Most adults learn to...
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Review: The imperial versus the local
 THREE Essays Collective is producing an unusual and valuable series. Each book reprints three essays by a distinguished author — essays produced over time but examining different aspects of a single...
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Review: Talking socialism, promoting capitalism
 “WHAT is truth? I do not know for certain, and perhaps our truths are relative and absolute truth is beyond us.” (J. Nehru, Discovery of India, 1981, p359)...
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Review: What ails India?
 M.J. AKBAR is no stranger to Pakistani news-junkies. His insightful commentary on Indo-Pakistan relations and global goings-on is always given importance and attention. The fact that he is editor-in-chief of the...
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Review: Low on the priority list
 THERE is an absence of literature on higher education in Pakistan, symptomatic of the neglect and marginalization of knowledge in our society. The book under review not only fills this vacuum,...
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Review: Where are the jobs?
 SOUTH Asia faces five major employment challenges, says the recent report published by the Mahbub ul Haq Development Centre, Human Development in South Asia 2003 — The Employment Challenge. First, South...
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Review: A voice from death row
IT is a great British debate, which doesn’t happen any longer. Bring back capital punishment? Almost from memory, Joe Public says yes. Arguments are never joined and thus remain frozen, much...
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Children''s Book Review: Memorable and endearing
 PUFFIN Books India has just released two children’s books that are worth checking out. The first Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne — The Magical World of Upendrakishore Roychoundhury is a series of...
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Review: Songs of innocence
 THE innocence of a poor child marred by maturity brought about by an early realization of the facts of life is in fact the summing up of the contents of Mohammad...
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In brief
THE book is not a biography in the strict sense of the term, but its material, spread out over 30 chapters, describes in detail the various achievements of the great personality...
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Review: Storytelling in rhyme
 THOUGH the progress Urdu poetry has made over the centuries is beyond much of a doubt, the fact is that the process of evolution has been somewhat lopsided. The genre of...
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