February 03, 2008
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The challenges ahead
 SHAHID Javed Burki is a man with impressive credentials. A highly educated economist, with a quarter century at the World Bank under his belt, as well as a stint as the...
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EXCERPT: The bottom line
 IT was with great fanfare that the World Bank began the analytical work that was to result in the third report on global poverty scheduled for publication in 2000, the beginning of the new millennium....
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REVIEW: The treasure is in the trying
 THE Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban by Sarah Chayes emanates an infectious warmth. One is compelled to admit that this is a remarkable book. More than that, here is an amazing woman....
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REVIEW: Moment in history
 THE book perhaps has a wrong title: more appropriately it should have been An American’s Tribute to Jinnah. It is indeed astonishing that Phillips Talbot wrote in the late ’40s, when...
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REVIEW: Sanctioned
 I HAVE long entertained the fantasy that if people — particularly world leaders — read more novels, there would be fewer wars. The act of reading places the reader in the minds of different characters, rendering them real people with real hopes, aspirations, fears, loves and pain....
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American voyeurism in post-war Iraq
 NARRATIVES of American misadventure during the occupation and its aftermath continue to emerge out of Iraq as journalists publish candid accounts that are, at times, even jaw-dropping....
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REVIEW: Big business
 AWARD-Winning Canadian journalist, filmmaker and author of the bestseller, No Logo, Naomi Klein takes on neo-liberal economist Milton Friedman, Jeffrey Sachs and other boys of the Chicago School in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism....
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REVIEW: Poverty in South Asia
 POVERTY is pervasive and its effects are deep and profound. Most of us have experienced poverty in our lives in one form or the other, for it is difficult to live in Pakistan and escape its overwhelming presence....
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REVIEW: A smouldering work
 FOR all purposes, the CIA is not just another bureaucratic arm of a fledging world power. The intelligence agency has come to represent the darker side of the American machine. Its shadowy image has helped its use as a major factor in pop culture references....
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REVIEW: A deceitful reality
 IN his essay, ‘The Year of Economics: The struggle for the world product’, Helmut Schmidt wrote that ‘the world economy has entered a phase of extraordinary instability and that its future course is absolutely uncertain’...
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COLUMN: Pearls of wisdom
 THE book I have just received and read has led me to think that Muslim intellectuals living in the West are at present faced with a difficult situation. Muslim extremist groups have by their thoughts and actions created an impression about Muslims and Islam that is hardly palatable to the civilised world of our times...
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