The Express Tribune, Sunday Magazine, November 11, 2012 On December 16, 1971, the Pakistani army stationed in the eastern wing of its country laid down arms before its Indian counterpart. The apparent regional supremacy of India was further enhanced by a nuclear test on May 18, 1974, when the Buddha smiled amid a radioactive haze. […]
The Express Tribune, 9 November, 2012 Iqbal was on his way to the Third Round Table Conference, which was going to be held in London at the end of 1932. In Bombay, a representative of the Roznamah-e-Khilafat asked him on his position if the Hindu majority of British India accepted 13 out of the 14
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The Express Tribune, Sunday Magazine, June 17, 2012 Layla and Majnun, Shireen and Farhad … these are the lovers of legend, whose romances have been told and retold for centuries. But how many know of the Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi who re-imagined these timeless tales? And how many know that he modelled his legendary heroines
This is a review of the stage play Mantorama in Dawn
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Dawn Sunday Magazine, sometime in 1997 Iqbal: from Finite to Infinite (Evolution of the Concept of Islamic Nationalism in India) Author: Moinuddin Aqeel Publisher: Abul Kalam Azad Research Institute, Karachi pp. 59 Iqbal makes a guest appearance in this monograph which could have been more appropriately defined by its subtitle alone. The first 36 pages
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Review of Psycho Mansion in Dawn Books & Authors
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Dawn Images, Sunday, January 16, 2011 How did the New Year arrive thirty years ago? It was 1981. The interest-free banking got introduced that day. The new Islamic century had also started a few weeks earlier, and the media was abuzz with relevant content. Since the state-controlled PTV was the only available television channel, the
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Iqbal Review, Volume 52, Number 2, 4. April, October 2011, pp.123-130 The following paper was submitted in December 2010 but has come out only recently in 2018 in a backdated issue of the journal. The ‘Abstract’ that appears in the journal was not written by me and I am not including it here – 25
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This article was originally published in the magazine, Nukta Art, December 2010. Since then, it has been shared on The Free Library by Farflex, where it is also referenced to the articles on Ibn Tufail and Fred Astair. It is also linked on the Waheed Murad website at Weebly. It can be downloaded as an
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