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Second impressions MAKING a return trip to Afghanistan was always on the cards for me. To be honest ... it couldn’t be otherwise. I had both left an integral part of myself there when I travelled with the mujahideen way back in 1983 and, more importantly from a personal point of view, emerged from my experiences then as the embryo of the person I find myself to be now....		EXCERPTS: Wild creature “IT’S come” said someone from the throng, and they pushed ahead a couple of steps with an urgency that seemed to indicate that had they stepped back the same distance they would have fallen into a pit....
ARTICLE: Babar in Hindustan “FROM the year 910AH [1504-1505AD], when Kabul was taken, to 932AH [1525-1526 AD], I have wished for Hindustan. Partly because of my ameers’ lack of interest and partly because of my...		AUTHORS: Stef Penney – Leave me alone THE morning-after interview with the winner of a big literary prize is a time-honoured ritual. Bleary-eyed journalist turns up having speed-read book; equally bleary-eyed prizewinner makes allowances for thinness of textual...
AUTHORS: Sharif Kunjahi – Serving his language IN a short span of less than one year, the Punjabi language has lost some of its brightest stars: Amrita Pritam, Munir Niazi and now Sharif Kunjahi....		REVIEWS: Speaking like a statesman CHRIS Patten is not your typical stiff-upper-lip, acerbic, old-school-boy-league English politician. In many ways he may be quite the antithesis of one, defying for the benefit of many the stereotype persona of a gentleman politician....
REVIEWS: Children’s book review of the week THE Fantastic Four and Avengers, the most popular of Marvel Comics superhero teams, come alive in Tom DeFalco’s The Ultimate Guide series which, apart from the vibrant colour illustrations, carries information...		REVIEWS: Standing tall WITH a rich history in fashion, Camilla Morton has worked for big names like John Galliano at Christian Dior and has found her passion in fashion journalism....
REVIEWS: Know thyself IF not the greatest then certainly the most provocative story of all time, which continues to unfold, is that of human evolution. Evolutionary biologists have now fossils, and the genetic proof...		REVIEWS: Grappling with the truth CEASELESS propaganda backed by money and guns has, for many years, projected an image of America as a proud patron of freedom, democracy, justice and ‘values’....
REVIEWS: Will the dream come true? THE Indians want the world to believe that the day is not far when theirs would be the third largest economy in the world –– after the US and China....		REVIEWS: Celebrating mothers THOUGH no woman would consciously deny the divine status she receives on becoming a mother, popular debate in the West today questions the very essence related to the pros and cons of motherhood....
In brief THIS small book by two academics of the University of Peshawar narrates the story of the rise and development of two important movements in the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. One is Soofi Mohammad’s Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohamaddi (TNSM) and the other is the Taliban Islamic Movement of Afghanistan....		REVIEWS: Odyssey in Urdu THE epic battle which raged on for nearly a decade has died out with the towers of Ilium burnt to the ground. As the warring Greek kings prepare to return to...