December 19, 2004
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The army’s mindset
 Every year, throughout Pakistan, there is a search for approximately 320 young men between the ages of 17 and 22. The ones chosen succeed where almost 15,000 fall: they are to be cadets in the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) at Kakul....
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EXCERPTS: Spiritual experience
 In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
“Read!” It still rings in my ears, for it was also the word with which my education began. It calls to mind that colourful event of my childhood and all the excitement that went with it....
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ARTICLE: Power, knowledge and representation
 In the modern academia, economics, politics and sociological studies are considered as ideological and are to be read politically, wrote Edward Said. This is the most appropriate description for the orientalist...
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AUTHOR: Dr Tariq Rahman: At the root of conflict
 I was lucky to have caught up with Dr Tariq Rahman only a few days before his departure for the US. The professor of linguistics had been invited by the University...
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AUTHOR: Toni Morrison: Not pleased with America
 A Nobel prizewinner, a Pulitzer prizewinner and a Princeton professor to boot, Toni Morrison is a famously grand writer, one not much given to generosity when it comes to interviewers....
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REVIEWS: The why and when of terrorism
 How did a series of coordinated attacks take place on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon without any apparent warning on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001? What can...
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REVIEWS: Political witch hunting
The civil service, as an implementing agency for public policies and maintenance of order, is an important pillar on which an edifice of good governance is raised in any country. A...
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REVIEWS: Myths remain myths
 There is some extraordinary charm about Palestine. No matter how much you read, you want to read more. The appetite is insatiable. You think you know a lot, but the more...
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REVIEWS: Magical history tour
 In 1806, Napoleon’s France is at war with mad King George’s England. Wellington leads the British army in Portugal; Admiral Nelson is dead. Gas lamps light London’s streets as horse-drawn carriages...
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REVIEWS: The multimillionaire who fell to earth
 I don’t like quoting from book blurbs, because it makes it appear that you haven’t actually read the book, but in the case of Media Man: Ted Turner’s Improbable Empire,...
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REVIEWS: Understanding the inexplicable
 Colleen McCullough, immortalized by her early novel, The Thorn Birds, and hailed as the top historical novelist of our time, is now losing her sight, yet scorns the idea of working...
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REVIEWS: Investing in the future
 Syed Jamal Mohsin is well known in the Pakistani community in the United States. Having worked in the financial service industry there for more than two decades, he has a rich...
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REVIEWS: All the world’s a stage
 The world of theatre in Pakistan hasn’t come of age. In fact, it never reached a stage from where it could be bracketed with the artistic modes of expression that are...
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REVIEWS: A scientific way of thinking
 Edmund, the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester in William Shakespeare’s profoundest tragedy King Lear, defies the common belief of Elizabethan England that mankind’s fortunes are compliant to heavenly bodies....
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IN BRIEF
Malayalam is the regional language of Kerala, a southern Indian state known for its highest literacy rate in South Asia, among both sexes and in rural and urban areas alike....
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IN BRIEF
Translating poetry is always a difficult job as it requires a thorough knowledge of two languages — in this case Urdu and Pushto. Humayun Hamdard, a young poet and playwright, took up this challenge quite successfully and translated...
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