The Express Tribune, Sunday Magazine, November 18, 2012 A secret agent in a white car chases two motorcyclists in a crowded bazaar and shoots them dead. A Land Cruiser, in a bid to scoop up the agent, speeds on the wrong side of the road and accidentally runs over another motorcyclist. The rescue attempt fails,
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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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This is a review of the book Bayad-i-Suhbat-i-Nazuk Khayalan, published in Herald, sometime in 1998 The biographical sketches contained in this book are based on the memories of the author, who had long term associations with most of the celebrities described here. Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Dr. Taseer, Majeed Malik, Noon Meem Rashid, Mohammad Hasan Askari
Herald, sometime in 1997 Iqbal’s Reconstruction of Ijtehad By Muhammad Khalid Masud Publishers: Iqbal Academy Pakistan and Islamic Research Institute There are not many writers who could write a mere 26 pages of prose and inspire others to generate weighty volumes on them. Yet we can be sure that Iqbal is one such case. And
This review was published in Herald, November 1997. In the light of my subsequent research, I am no longer quite sure about what I had suggested here about the works of Stanley Wolpert and Ayesha Jalal, i.e. they are “the two powerful accounts of Jinnah’s career ever to be written – and his most convincing
‘8 Days a Week’, Dawn The Review, 3-9 April 1997 ‘Rolling stone gathers no moss,’ right? The next time somebody asks this question don’t answer until you have finished the recently published autobiography of Dr. Mubarak Ali. The prolific history writer has chosen a curious moment for writing the story of his life: at the
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‘8 Days a Week’, Dawn Tuesday Review, 17-26 December 1996 This is the first launch of EMI since the company’s return from its crisis. Tanveer Afridi, who has composed and sung the songs, displays a fine sensitivity for the eastern traditions of melody – even though the songs sound contemporary (as they very much are)
‘8 Days a Week’, Dawn Tuesday Review, 26 March – 1 April 1996 If you read one book this week, read Pura Chand Aur Adha Geet … An anthology of poems by Azhar Niaz, who belongs to a special breed of poets who thrived in the Karachi University around the late eighties and early seventies
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This brief write-up was published as an entry in the ‘8 Days a Week’ column of Dawn Tuesday Review, 26 March – 1 April 1996. Needless to say, my views as a film critic have evolved much since then, and more so in favour of the mainstream Pakistani movies of the past (to which category
Dawn Tuesday Review, 28 November – 4 December 1995 As this issue goes out for circulation, many of our readers are awaiting the last episode of Karb, which is to be shown on PTV tonight. We are almost sure that Sania (Samina Peerzada) will turn down the proposal of Wiqar Ahsan (Usman Peerzada). But still
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