Dawn, Images, November 28, 2010. On January 6, 1968, the government of President Ayub Khan announced that a conspiracy had been uncovered between some personnel from East Pakistan and Indian politicians to overthrow the government in East Pakistan and establish an independent state of Bangladesh. Twelve days later, the popular Bengali politician Sheikh Mujibur Rehman […]
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Report of a presentation by Khurram Ali Shafique in Dawn
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“Kudos for Khurram Ali Shafique for offering an alternative reading of The Tempest, and that too according to Iqbal,” writes Peerzada Slaman in this review of Shakespeare According to Iqbal, originally published in Dawn, Books and Authors on April 5, 2010. They say William Shakespeare created the most of God. The reference is to the
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This article was published in Dawn on March 21, 2010 as ‘The spirit of all human beings’. It was later pointed out by M. Suheyl Umar that ‘soul’ rather than ‘spirit’ is a more appropriate translation of the original phrase used by Sir Syed. The word ‘spirit’ has therefore been replaced with ‘soul’ in the
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This article was originally published in Dawn Images, March 14, 2010. In presenting it here, I am making two changes to correct a factucal error. The third sentence in the original text was, “Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the dissident foreign minister who was generally identified with a hard line stance against India, had just received an
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Originally published on Dawn Blog, 9 November 2009, with the caption, “In his prose work, Allama Muhammad Iqbal foresaw the trajectory of the Pakistani masses, writes Khurram Ali Shafique.” The best resource for understanding the work of Allama Iqbal is the collective experience of the Pakistani masses, including the unschooled. Call it a dream, but
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This article was originally published in Dawn Images, 30 November 2008, as an obituary (ironically, just as I was finishing my article ‘The Mystery Behind Waheed Murad‘, the man who might have known the most about that mystery was breathing his last). Filmmaker Pervez Malik died on November 18. It can’t be the end of
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Dawn Images, Sunday, 23 November 2008 I have been researching the life and works of Waheed Murad for more than 20 years now and the mystery around him deepens with every new clue that I come across. He is the greatest screen legend of Pakistani cinema and therefore we forget that he was also a
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Iqbal Review, Volume 52, Number 2, 4. April, October 2011, pp.55-72 The following is the third chapter of a small book submitted to Iqbal Academy Pakistan in March 2008 as a draft requiring further improvement. Without my knowledge and permission, this chapter ended up as a research paper in the Academy’s journal Iqbal Review, and
Iqbal Review, Volume 51, Number 2, 4. April, October 2010, pp.29-59 The following is part of a document submitted to Iqbal Academy Pakistan in March 2008 for publication as a small book, Iqbal in the Mind of Europe – an overview of the Western interpretations of Iqbal. It was supposed to undergo some further improvement
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