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Ironic aspects The terrorist of one state can be the freedom fighter of the other nation. Humiliated Muslim nations see American armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq as terrorists in American uniforms...		EXCERPTS: Another time, same place The region in which the federal capital now sits tells a long story of human existence. The earliest known human culture in the subcontinent flourished here some 500,000 years ago...
ARTICLES: Terrorism and terrorists in fiction Terrorism and terrorists have entered serious fiction but with greater understanding by the authors who have taken up this subject in their works. They have spent more time and energy...		ARTICLES: Tower of Babel Hindi/Urdu, one spoken language, divided politically by the British after the 1800s into a Hindu’s Hindi and a Muslim’s Urdu, is now undergoing a natural reunion....
AUTHOR: Radical musings “Naveeda, the poor mason’s daughter given as second wife to the childless urban lord, jumped to her death into the river along with her two children because she had thought she would be.....		AUTHORS: Source of solace For the past two months we seem to be lamenting for so many lights of our literary and social scene who have departed for their eternal abode. The latest to bow out is Mohsin Bhopali...
AUTHORS: Myth and mythology Those who embark on the grueling and tedious path of research and scholarship are few and far between, and their names can be counted on fingertips....		REVIEWS: Calligraphy and creation There have been so few notable English language poetry collections to have been published in Pakistan of late that it is really good to see Body Loom by the versatile Athar Tahir....
REVIEWS: Filled with music Writing on music and musicians has now become fashionable. Although a majority of the articles published in newspapers and magazines lack in substance and are generally verbose...		Children’s review of the week Scott Beatty emulates director Christopher Nolan with his Batman Begins: The Visual Guide and brings forth the dark origins, closest friends and deadliest foes of the dark knight....
REVIEWS: Change is inevitable In modern day dynamic external environment, organisations must continue to evolve internally in order to come up with an effective response. Otherwise their performance may erode....		REVIEWS: The most awkward of situations This may be “the most comprehensive document published so far in Pakistan on the Kargil misadventure.” It is an endeavour to present the author’s side of the picture, clarify his version...
REVIEWS: Slow and steady Russia was late in everything. It got to laying the bases of a state only in the 13th century. It had its industrial revolution in the 1930s and its state bourgeoisie...		OPINION: The debate goes on BY the looks of it, these are troubled times in the realm of Urdu literature. Ashfaq Ahmad, Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Shaukat Siddiqui and Munir Niazi have recently walked into the sunset...