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    • Men of the Match!
    • Changing Global Order
    • Between Humiliation and Escalation
    • Fools Fooling Fools
    • Prepare for the Worst
  • REGION
    • Margalla Machismo!
    • High-Stakes Mediation
    • America or Iran?
    • Crisis Within Crisis
    • Austerity Myth
    • Foreign Investment Façade
    • Flowing Assumptions
    • Counting India
    • The Invisible 14%
    • ‘Bangladesh First’
    • Too Minor to Matter
    • From Rap to Reform
    • The Ally That Wasn’t
  • International
    • End of Pax Americana?
  • FEATURE
    • Bursting the AI Bubble
    • Degrees Without Destiny
    • Shrinking Spaces
    • Shaam with Saheli
  • REVIEWS
    • Books
      • Pakistan Cricket Chronicles 1948–2024
      • Memoirs Of Iftikhar Soomro
    • Web Series
      • Bridgerton Season
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    • Grapevine
    • Who Said That!
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      • News Buzz May 2026
    • Opinion
      • Seize the Moment, Pakistan!
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Scholarly Endeavour

August 4, 2022August 4, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Experienced linguist Carla Radloff, although American in terms of background

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Corporate Pakistan: Insights to Leadership and Governance

June 29, 2022June 30, 2022 admin 0 Comments

It is difficult to obtain sound business acumen through textbooks. More often than not..

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The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan

June 29, 2022June 30, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Dr. Aasim Sajjad Akhtar’s The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan attempts to achieve two interrelated goals. First, he has presented an empirical and theoretical sketch of existing capitalism in Pakistan.

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A Midlife Holiday

June 29, 2022June 30, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Stevie Nicks is a legend!” I knew I would love ‘A Midlife Holiday’ from this opening line.

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Village Ties

May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 admin 0 Comments

The quest for social change in the Global South is a knotty endeavour as it is often difficult to find the most appropriable means to achieve the desired development goals.

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Pakistan in an Age of Turbulence

May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Masuma Hasan is a leading Pakistani scholar and former diplomat.

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The Paris Apartment

May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 admin 0 Comments

British author Lucy Foley has made quite a name for herself in crime fiction, especially with her novels preceding

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Better Confess

April 28, 2022April 29, 2022 admin 1 Comment

Written by award-winning Irish author Alan Gorevan, the novel ‘Better Confess’

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Karachi’s Public Transport – Origins, Evolution and Future Planning

April 28, 2022April 29, 2022 admin 0 Comments

The book, Karachi’s Public Transport – Origins, Evolution, and Future Planning

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The Muslim Vanishes

April 28, 2022April 29, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Saeed Naqvi is a senior journalist and television commentator. Naqvi has written three books and his latest literary venture..

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The Pink Lady

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. This quote by Cassandra Clare, an American writer best describes the intention behind the book ..

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Passion of Dhol

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Six hundred words worth of a review is simply not enough to do justice to this erudite and remarkably well-researched work.

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Notes on an Execution

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Notes on an Execution’ by Danya Kukafka burrowed deep under my skin from the opening pages.

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Empyrean Realms

March 2, 2022March 3, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Taimur Awan’s poetic prowess and a serene sense of rhyme are reflected in his poems. He is the author of two books – a collection of poems – Spiritual Balms and Empyrean Realms.

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Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth Century North India

March 2, 2022March 3, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Akbar Zaidi follows up his edited volume New Perspectives on Pakistan’s Economy with this erudite and engaging scholarly monograph on the role played by print and orality in helping to shape Muslim subcontinental identity in nineteenth century India, especially during the Raj.

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A Taste of Pakistan in Fusion

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Primarily a mixing of different food cultures and cuisines together, fusion cooking can be referred to as a form of cooking which combines…

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The Islamic Law of Inheritance

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 admin 0 Comments

At a quarter of the length of Hamid Khan’s tome on constitutional law, this particular book on Islamic inheritance might be less lengthy…

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The Way You Live

January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 admin 0 Comments

The Way You Live by Mehrin Ruaid brings out life’s important questions about choosing a life partner.

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Tales from Karachi

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments

‘Tales from Karachi’ is a collection of flash fiction and poetry about Karachi, once referred to as ‘The City of Lights.’

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Gut-wrenching Reminder

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Memoirs that resemble hagiographical texts are grossly unreliable as they fail to present a nuanced portrait of reality. Syed Nizam Shah’s Paradise Lost…

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Change in South Asian Cities

January 4, 2022January 5, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Despite the fact that many of us live in cities, and even if we do not their growth, structures and changes impact us, many of us remain utterly unaware of how complex these spaces are.

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Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: Pitfalls and the Way Forward

December 1, 2021December 2, 2021 admin 0 Comments

Any discourse on Pak-Afghan relations requires a careful consideration of the cumulative impact of history, geopolitics and the ever-evolving ground realities.

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A Personal Chronicle of Pakistan

December 1, 2021December 2, 2021 admin 0 Comments

An officially recorded history always tends to differ with personal accounts that recount the same set of events, but in a way of their own. ‘A Personal Chronicle of Pakistan’

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