February 19, 2006
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Behind closed doors
 This book takes a close look at the workings of the United Nations Security Council and its failure to exercise control over the international community...
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EXCERPTS: Setting up house in a village
 The book is a personal account of an American woman who has lived and worked among the Afghan refugees and the tribal Pakhtoons...
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ARTICLES: Balochi books in 2005: Poetry, again
 Naguman, a young and promising Balochi story writer, once wrote: “Urdu literature had produced its most brilliant story writer, Manto, within the first 25 years of Urdu story writing.”...
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ARTICLES: The cosmic spirit
 Imagine a Nobel Prize for a web-based computer game design. It almost did happen. The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to novelist Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) in 1946 for his novel...
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AUTHORS: His story
 “I would never see my loved ones and my native land again. I would be all alone, cut off from my family, my people, and my beloved Hill Tracts....
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AUTHORS: Creativity booked
 “Yes,” she admits without a qualm, “I have been outspoken. It was my father who gave me this conviction. Then there was my mother...
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REVIEWS: Portrait of the critic
 A forty-something painter, Henry MacAlpine, turns his back on a lucrative career of painting portraits of the wealthy in early 20th-century London....
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REVIEWS: In with the in crowd
 Several years ago, Tony Blair issued a lofty denouncement of tribal politics. Tribalism, he declared, was embarrassingly....
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REVIEWS: Analyse, elucidate and speculate
 “I strongly suspect that the reason US forces have been unable to run down Osama is, that he is nowhere near the Afghanistan-Pakistan...
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REVIEWS: Practically speaking
 With the rapidly growing (more horizontal, as opposed to vertical) FM phenomenon across Pakistan, it is safe to assume that....
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In brief
 Every city has its personality, which is based largely on its history and citizens — past and present. A part of the golden triangle...
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REVIEWS: Migratory patterns
 Women And Migration in Asia is the first volume in a series of five volumes that critically analyses migration theories...
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REVIEWS: Close to reality
 STORY writing is one of the most difficult genres of literature. Khayyam has embarked upon this arduous journey with a fair degree of conviction...
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In brief
In this book, which is a compilation of short articles written for newspapers, the author poses a very important question: how can a Muslim country be turned into a modern state?...
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