August 19, 2007
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A splendid ode
 I have never been to Afghanistan, but seeing it through the eyes of the two main protagonists of Khalid Hosseini’s second, much awaited novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns....
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Writing Afghanistan
 Hosseini’s second novel includes the main events in Afghanistan’s history over the past three decades, from the communist revolution to the Soviet invasion to the US-led war....
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REVIEW: An alternative review
 AS someone who enjoyed reading the whole Harry Potter series, and having just finished reading the last book, I must say, with some degree of sadness that I disagree....
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ARTICLES: The dark night
 As former dictator Gen Ziaul Haq’s reign came to an abrupt end on August 17, 1988, literature and the literati too began to breathe again. The following three articles...
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ARTICLES: Eloquent voices in exile
If, as per Dr Johnson’s magisterial and completely apt pronouncement, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel than exile became the last refuge for independent spirits....
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ARTICLES: In the howling wilderness
 I was the director of publications in the ministry information in Lahore when martial law was imposed in 1977. The very next morning I was that the coffee table book based...
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REVIEWS: Nuclear benefits
 There are three reasons why Israel was able to develop nuclear weapons so easily. One was the resolve of the political leadership to give Israel ‘the ultimate weapon’ in aggression...
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REVIEWS: Divided societies
 John Richardson’s Paradise Poisoned: Learning about Conflict, Terrorism and Development from Sri Lanka’s Civil Wars is the product of at least 17 years of analysis and research....
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REVIEWS: Ever’s a long time
 ‘Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more grey each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.’...
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REVIEWS: Muslim past feeds into present
 The Arab terrorists live and die in history. Even if their tactics are modern, their language echoes the haughty certainties of the Arab conquerors. Khalid ibn Walid’s declaration...
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ARTICLE: Memories of Lahore
 “IT is spiritual. Please speak softly. It is intellectual. Please maintain composure”. This piece of advice seems a bit strange seeing the times we are living....
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REVIEW: Nuances of love
 Shireen Haider has borrowed the title of her book from the epoch-making book Ek Mohabbat So Afsanay written by the veteran writer Ashfaque Ahmed, as a mark of her profound....
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