April 11, 2004
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Strengthening military rule?
 Pakistan’s military government launched a campaign for political devolution in 2000 that it said was aimed at transferring administrative and financial power to local governments....
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EXCERPTS: Years of fame
 I am very grateful to friends in television, in particular to Shireen Khan, for persuading me to join Pakistan Television. After Akbar, it was especially good for me to return to a working life....
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ARTICLES: Unforgettable...
 Alamgir Hashmi was born in Lahore, graduated from Punjab University and did his doctorate from an American university. He is a well-known poet, scholar, critic and academic. He started writing poetry...
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ARTICLES: Literary writing in Pakistan Random thoughts
 The violence in the neighbourhood and within the country has changed the idiom of fiction and poetry in the last decade or so. This change is different from the shift that...
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ARTICLES: My heart bleeds
It was 1964. I was on board the SS France, docked in New York harbour, and was about to make my second crossing of the Atlantic. This was still the time of the great ocean-going liners. Travel then was much more relaxed; journeys in the western world were threatened only by natural disasters....
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AUTHOR: Dr Viqar Zaman A man for peace
 Sitting in his study talking to Dr Viqar Zaman, I glance at the shelves lined against its walls. The volumes displayed there spell the literary taste of the man, who holds...
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REVIEWS: Born a free spirit
 Princess Abida Sultaan was one of the most remarkable women of her generation, a unique full blooded personality, who belonged to an extraordinary princely state, where women had ruled in their...
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REVIEWS: Mythology unlimited
“Bolvudis village, Togermonth 4th, 5 a.m. Muwi visions acted in 7, New spells learnt several, Warrior skills 3/10, Magic 8/10, Attraction for Asvin don’t know.”...
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REVIEWS: Looking for Jacob’s clock
 It’s a right royal deceptive title: Prisoner on a Bus: Travels through Pakistan. For inside the covers of Salman Rashid’s latest book is a freedom to wander if not at will,...
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REVIEWS: Why are Americans so gullible?
Al Franken is a cheeky guy, and he knew that he could be asking for trouble in subtitling his book A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Sure enough, the...
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REVIEWS: Ambedkar’s prescription for dharma
 Gail Omvedt, a prolific writer, is currently a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and she is also the research director of the Krantivit Trust. Her book is...
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REVIEWS: Over the moon about each other
 When Sylvia Plath committed suicide in February 1963, the poet Anne Sexton envied her friend, as Diane Middlebrook points out in Her Husband: Hughes and Plath — A Marriage. Plath had...
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REVIEWS: The story of Pakistan
 This book by Salim Alvi, a veteran journalist, is the story of Pakistan as seen by him. It is a new narrative and is quite distinctive as it comes from a...
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REVIEWS: A life of struggle
 Leon Trotsky was born on November 7, 1879 in a Jewish farming family in Ukraine. He refused to study engineering as his father wanted....
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