August 15, 2004
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Judicial manoeuvrings
 On December 2, 1997, the court office arranged the courtrooms according to the roster framed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah the day before....
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EXCERPTS: Gender and space
 IN the period since the United States’ war on terrorism, media coverage in the United States has been filled with images of victorious US forces, humiliated Taliban fighters, figures of Afghan women, sombre Pakistani generals....
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ARTICLES: New voice, old message
 Once a week, in a single-storey brick building off Saddoun Street, you may find the poets of Baghdad. They are a group of perhaps 30, nearly all middle-aged men and unemployed....
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ARTICLES: Writers have never had it so good
If, God forbid, there was ever to be a movie about British publishing, it would have to be a cross between “Mary Poppins” and “The Lord of the Rings”, a genteel...
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ARTICLES: A learning experience
“Books have always been part of my pleasure time and for me, reading a well researched book is akin to exploring a treasure trove,” states Shabnam Zafar. So when an old...
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AUTHOR: Laeeq Ahmed Babree: Purifying the heart
 Laeeq Ahmed Babree was born on September 28, 1931 in Lahore and died in June 2003. Recalling his childhood he would say, “I used to go to the mosque and was...
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AUTHOR: Jamal Abro: A humble iconoclast
 Jamal Abro is among those rare authors who, by writing a single book, earn a high reputation envied by writers of dozens. Even if he had not later written his autobiography...
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REVIEWS: Transformative approach
 This book helps to further develop the paradigm of strategic management of organizations in turbulent cross-cultural environments. It comprises contribution of scholars from around the world. The analysis and conclusions are...
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REVIEWS: Secret of success
THIS book may be seen as an attempt to seek an answer to a basic question haunting many economists and scholars: Why do some societies succeed in imparting richness of life...
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REVIEWS: Common man’s culture
 From an expansive, wide-ranging, and enormous film canvas of the subcontinent, Ashraf Aziz, the author of the book under review, Light of the Universe, has spotlighted five scintillating and coruscating panels...
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REVIEWS: Clinton’s American dream
 Bill Clinton is a product of the American dream. From the 16th century onwards, downtrodden and ambitious Europeans made their way to the potentially rich land of the Americas. The early...
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REVIEWS: The core and the kernel
The most fundamental aspect of practical life in Islam is the concept of the Shari’a, in the context of its legal system. It is the epitome of Islamic thought, the most...
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REVIEWS: Inside Mugabe’s crazed court
 Andrew Meldrum is positive about Zimbabwe: his title is, in a sense, his slogan and the image on the cover, of a Zimbabwean girl with worn trainers, a pretty smile and...
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REVIEWS: Tension of unaddressed dreams
 To an academic The Good Doctor, short listed for the Booker Prize 2003, is a political novel about post apartheid South Africa. But to the reader with a heart it is...
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REVIEWS: Raising the bar
 Edgar Allan Poe called sleep “those little slices of death”; had he trained as a barrister, he might have altered this memorable epithet. Law, at least in the eyes of Harry...
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REVIEWS: Politics in the courtroom
The chief task of the judiciary is the administration of justice. In deciding disputes, the courts ascertain not only the facts, but also apply laws to such facts and interpret the...
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