May 25, 2008
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Devil’s in the detail
 It’s damn hard writing about Gen Ziaul Haq. Especially so for someone who lived through his rule — when reality was more fantastic than fiction — and survived to tell.....
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EXCERPT: The invisible hand
 Excerpted with permission, the novel re-imagines the conspiracies and coincidences leading to the mysterious 1988 plane crash that killed Gen Zia, YOU might have seen me on TV after the crash.....
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REVIEWS: War of words
 Alasdair MacIntyre — while making a ‘disquieting suggestion’ in the beginning of his chef-d’oeuvre After Virtue — hypothesised that what we chiefly possess as a vocabulary of...
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REVIEWS: Hooray for Hollywood
 David Mamet has written 21 stage plays, 14 books and 18 movie scripts, being twice nominated for Academy Awards. Among his many credits are screenplays for The Untouchables (1987) with...
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COLUMN: inkpaperthink
 What do writers talk about when they talk about the business of writing? Works in progress, writer’s block, publisher woes and blues? ‘I never like to talk about what I am writing,’ a well-known fiction writer remarked in response...
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REVIEWS
 This report, presented by the National Democratic Institute, Pakistan, comes handy for analysing the attitudes of the youth towards political participation. The data is based...
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REVIEWS: Six days a week
 The passengers of a Comfort Airways flight survive the great disaster when Captain Dhoot safely lands the aircraft in Mumbai.....
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ARTICLE: War breeds literature
 Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was brought up and educated by his parents to work in the iron and steel industry. But he went on to become not only an undisputed Soviet leader, but also the longest serving after Joseph Stalin....
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EXCERPT: Return to kingdom
 His twitching was now getting out of hand. Outside, the day had stalled in the absence of wind. Without a shepherd, heat....
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REVIEW: Rude contents, crude language
 WITH the names of Josh Malihabadi and Kishwar Naheed being on the list of those whose life accounts Saqi Farooqi says he consulted before writing his own memoirs, it does not take rocket science to trace the roots....
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REVIEW: Sacred facts
 An adage in Pushto goes thus ‘unless the truth is revealed the lie will destroy the whole village’. In the atomic era, this adage can be expanded to ‘unless the truth is revealed, the lie will destroy countries....
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COLUMN: No grand eulogy
The year 2007 had been observed both in India and Pakistan as the 150th anniversary of the great event of 1857, which has now come to be acknowledged as the first war of independence in undivided India....
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