Category Archives: Books

The war culture won

It was Bengali language and culture – suppressed by rulers in Islamabad who saw it as a threat to the idea of Continue reading

Arabia at Crossroads: Arab People Strive for Freedom, Peace and New Leadership

Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.

Book Review:
The book offers stunning new discoveries and forbidden insights interwoven in the social and political Continue reading

Book: Questioning the Authority of the Past

Book: Questioning the Authority of the Past
The Ahl al-Qur’an Movements in the Punjab
By Ali Usman Qasmi
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Review by Mohammad Jamil
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Myth-busting the Bangladesh war of 1971

Sarmila Bose

Last month, Al Jazeera published an article entitled Book, film greeted with fury among Bengalis. Here, Sarmila Bose, author of Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, responds to the criticism levelled at her work.

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Wages of terrorism as state policy

By Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander, The Milli Gazette
Published Online: Apr 09, 2011
Print Issue: 16-31 March 2011
Book: Coming Blowback: how Pakistan is endangering the World
Author: Wilson John
Publisher: Rupa and Co in collaboration with Observer Research Foundation
Year of Publication: 2009
Pages: 296
Price: 595

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Pakistan: a Hard Country by Anatol Lieven: review

By Peter Oborne

The crisis in North Africa and the Middle East has driven Pakistan out of the headlines, but this is surely only a temporary lull. Cursed by nuclear weapons, home to al-Qaeda, victim of several raging insurgencies and Continue reading

Pakistan’s Kennedy

The Bhutto Murder Trail
Author: Amir Mir
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs 495

Mir has drawn a comparison between the Bhutto killing and Jack Kennedy’s shooting, says Raja Menon

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Pakistan, a Tinderbox

By MV Kamath

Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan, MJ Akbar; Harper Collins, Pp 342; Rs 499.00

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Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan

Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages

By James Bovard

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Akbar badmouths Pakistan

By S M Hali

Mubashar Javed Akbar’s latest book entitled Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan is the portrayal of a dismal future of Pakistan based on the distortion of facts and the twisting of history. He has received excellent comments about his book from the West and India, because anything coming from the pen of a Muslim that is insulting for Pakistan or the Muslims is hailed as a masterpiece of literature.

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