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					<title><![CDATA[Punjab di Veil: The History Of A Divided Land And The Unfinished Question Of Punjab ]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Book: Punjab di VelAuthor: Aamir Riaz
جھوٹ آکھاں تے کجھ بچدا اےسچ کہاں تے بھانبڑ مچدا اے
Bulleh Shah&rsquo;s immortal words contain a profound philosophy of truth: truth exposes what falsehood tries to preserve.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tallat Naveed]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:35:43 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Meet The Masked Master Of Japanese Horror]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Strange Pictures is an international bestselling mystery-horror novel written by the masked Japanese YouTuber and author Uketsu.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:18:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Naina Adil’s Poetry: Between Word, Voice And Silence]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Naina Adil&rsquo;s poetic identity can best be understood through her two major poetry collections, Shabd and Gul Baang.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:12:23 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Why Was India Partitioned? Revisiting The Long Road To 1947]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/11-Sep-2026/india-partitioned-revisiting-long-road-1947]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Few questions in South Asian history appear as simple in wording and as difficult in substance as the one Anees Sheikh places at the center of his book: Why was India partitioned? The temptation to answer quickly is strong.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Reader's view]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:51:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Riding The Midnight Train – A Magical Journey Through Regret And Redemption]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/09-Sep-2026/riding-midnight-train-magical-journey-regret-redemption]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In The Midnight Train, an 81-year-old London bookstore owner named Wilbur Budd suffers a massive heart attack and awakens near death on a fog-enshrouded railway platform.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:43:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The State Within, Now Written Into Law]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/06-Sep-2026/state-within-now-written-law]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Book: How Pakistan Transformed as a Deep State: Power, National Interest and National Security
By Moonis Ahmar
Ethics International Press, UK, 2026.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Rumi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Raza Rumi's Editorial]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Rumi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:11:15 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Manuscript In Stone: Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro’s Decades Of Archaeological Discovery In Sindh]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The discovery of rock art in the mountains of the Sindh province of Pakistan owes largely to Dr Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sirat Gohar Daudpoto]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Heritage, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Sirat Gohar Daudpoto]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:27:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Everybody Talks, Nobody Knows: Review Of Aisha Saeed’s The Wedding Week]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Aisha Saeed&rsquo;s The Wedding Week turns a lavish South Asian wedding into chaos of family secrets, communal gossip and buried trauma, asking how easily suspicion can become identity.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mudassar Javed Baryar]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mudassar Javed Baryar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:10:58 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Shahryar Khan’s Game Plan: Can Pakistan Become An Economic Gateway?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Author: Shahryar Khan Niazi
Book: Game Plan: Pakistan Economic Gateway Vision, Strategy and Leverage in a New World Order
Publisher: Karachi: Markings Publishing, 2024, pp.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Moonis Ahmar]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Literature, Reader's view, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Moonis Ahmar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:11:20 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Memory, Trauma And The Difficult Birth Of The Self: A Review Of Naina Adil’s Novel Kokh]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/01-Sep-2026/memory-trauma-difficult-birth-self-review-naina-adil-s-novel-kokh]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Naina Adil&rsquo;s Kokh is a layered work of contemporary Urdu fiction that explores childhood trauma, memory, sexuality, mental illness, family silence, exploitation and the possibility of healing.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:11:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Building Peace: From Personal Experience To Global Ethics Of Non-Violence]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/25-Aug-2026/building-peace-personal-experience-global-ethics-non-violence]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Book: Building Peace: Reflections Of Eminent Educators, From Personal To Political
Edited by: Syed Sikander Mehdi and Matt Meyer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, 2026
 At a moment when war, political polarization, racial and religious intolerance, disinformation, ecological insecurity and renewed nuclear anxieties are.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Reader's view]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:46:15 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Beyond The Map: No Nation Is A Single Story]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/24-Aug-2026/beyond-map-nation-single-story]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Book: Nation and Nationalism in South Asian LiteratureEdited By: Goutam Karmakar and Nukhbah Taj LangahPublisher: Routledge, 2026, pp.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mudassar Javed Baryar]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Culture, Features, History]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mudassar Javed Baryar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:40:09 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[An Ethno-History Of Inclusivity: A Review Of Muhammad Kashif Ali’s Kalasha]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/21-Aug-2026/ethno-history-inclusivity-review-muhammad-kashif-ali-s-kalasha]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Author: Muhammad Kashif Ali 
Book Title: Kalasha: Sole Non-Muslim Indigenous People Of Pakistan 
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS, 2026, pages 330
 I recently encountered a book that offers a powerful counterpoint to narratives depicting Pakistan as a monolithic, exclusionary state indifferent to its internal diversity and pluralistic.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Chawla]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Culture, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Chawla]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:32:19 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning: A Guide To Human Dignity And Survival]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/19-Aug-2026/viktor-frankl-s-man-s-search-meaning-guide-human-dignity-survival]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose one&rsquo;s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one&rsquo;s own way.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Murad Moosa Khan]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Lifestyle]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Murad Moosa Khan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:16:34 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A History Written Without A Library]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/17-Aug-2026/history-written-without-library]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The book did not begin as a book at all.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mazz Bin Akmal]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Heritage, Literature, Book Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mazz Bin Akmal]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:20:25 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Hold On: A Young Woman’s Journey Through Love, Ambition And Sacrifice]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/05-Aug-2026/hold-young-woman-s-journey-love-ambition-sacrifice]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Naveed Iftikhar&rsquo;s debut novel explores the journey of a young woman from Kohat to New York but it is also a journey of growth, awareness, understanding and acceptance of our emotions, consequences of our life&rsquo;s choices and of circumstances beyond our control.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nida Usman Chaudhry]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Art, Book Review, Features, Literature, Reader's view]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nida Usman Chaudhry]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:13:56 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Deconstructing Colonial Legacies: Institutional Shifts In Pakistan’s Madrasa System]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/03-Aug-2026/deconstructing-colonial-legacies-institutional-shifts-pakistan-s-madrasa-system]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Book Review: Reclaiming Madrassa: Challenges and Transformation 
Author: Dr.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prof Muhammad Iqbal Chawla]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Literature, Reader's view]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Prof Muhammad Iqbal Chawla]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:08:18 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Fraught Bonds And Fierce Love: The Activist Heart Of Arundhati Roy’s Memoir]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[When I began to read Arundhati Roy&rsquo;s memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me, I don&rsquo;t know what I expected &ndash; excellent writing for sure, but this part autobiography, part biography of her mother blew me to smithereens.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review, SPOTLIGHT]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:32:55 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Ever Land: A Haunting Debut About Sisterhood, Exile And The Unquiet Past]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/29-Jul-2026/ever-land-haunting-debut-sisterhood-exile-unquiet-past]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Amy Abdelnoor&rsquo;s Ever Land arrives at a moment of profound reckoning, its publication coinciding with an ongoing genocide that has exposed the fault lines of global consciousness.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mudassar Javed Baryar]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mudassar Javed Baryar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:30:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Grammar Of Rebellion: Mohammed Hanif's Most Political Novel Yet]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/27-Jul-2026/grammar-rebellion-mohammed-hanif-s-political-novel-yet]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Mohammed Hanif has always understood that Pakistan's deepest conflicts are rarely fought only on battlefields or in parliament.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:57:13 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Book Review: Alexander The Great's Invasion Of India]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/15-Jul-2026/book-review-alexander-great-s-invasion-india]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Alexander the Great&rsquo;s Invasion of India and Battle with King Porus: Battle of the Hydaspes and Punjabi Resistance, authored by Dr.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mazhar Abbas]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mazhar Abbas]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:45:23 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Indigeneity And Literary Decoloniality: A Review Of Abdullah Farooqi's Scholarship On Iqbal]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/15-Jul-2026/indigeneity-literary-decoloniality-review-abdullah-farooqi-s-scholarship-iqbal]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Some books deserve attention for what they say; others for the voices they recover.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naghmana Siddique]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Naghmana Siddique]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:15:07 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Demons, Magic, Heroism And Martyrdom: Inside The Dastan-E Amir Hamza]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/09-Jul-2026/demons-magic-heroism-martyrdom-inside-dastan-e-amir-hamza]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The Adventures of Amir Hamza (or Dastan-e Amir Hamza) is a massive Indo-Persian epic following the mythological and romantic exploits of the Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) uncle, Amir Hamza.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:54:55 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Silt And Sovereignty: Rewriting The History Of Sindh Through Evidence]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/02-Jul-2026/silt-sovereignty-rewriting-history-sindh-evidence]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The writing of Sindh&rsquo;s history in South Asia has long vibrated between two extreme poles: the overly romanticised, hagiographical folklore of local traditions, and the clinical, court-centric chronicles left behind by imperial conquerors.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:30:12 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Ali Ammar Redefines Literary Theory In The 21st Century]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/22-Jun-2026/ali-ammar-redefines-literary-theory-21st-century]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[While universities are mushrooming across Pakistan, turning higher education into an industry by making degree acquisition increasingly easier, the quality of research remains far from satisfactory.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adnan Ashraf]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Adnan Ashraf]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:02:37 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Khurshid Hasnain’s Novel Is A Fresh Addition to Urdu Social Realism]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/11-Jun-2026/khurshid-hasnain-s-novel-fresh-addition-urdu-social-realism]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Khurshid Hasnain&rsquo;s recently published novel Manzar Aik Bulandi Se is a significant, refreshing, and thought-provoking addition to contemporary Urdu fiction.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:32:11 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Amjad Saqib On Human Dignity And Systemic Oppression In Pakistan's Landscape]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/amjad-saqib-human-dignity-systemic-oppression-pakistan-s-landscape]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In their book Economy Studies, de Muijnck and Tieleman call for the decolonisation of economics.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Economy, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 17:04:39 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[City, Love And Memory In Shahid Imtiaz’s Debut Anthology]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/22-May-2026/city-love-memory-shahid-imtiaz-s-debut-anthology]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Lahore&rsquo;s air is imbued with creativity.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Features, Literature, Poetry, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:27:07 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Five Partitions – Sam Dalrymple’s New Take On The Raj’s Messy Exit]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/21-May-2026/five-partitions-sam-dalrymple-s-new-take-raj-s-messy-exit]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[One would think it is hard to add anything new to the historical account of the eighty-year-old partition of British India when all the documents have been made available in the public domain for decades now.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shakil Akhtar Rai]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Shakil Akhtar Rai]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:57:08 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Is Paulo Coelho’s New Book A Guide To Love Or An Overly Optimistic Fairy Tale?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Gift speaks of love, which the author Paulo Coelho categorizes as a human being&rsquo;s greatest fortune and spiritual centre.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 03:01:09 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Journey Into Turkmenistan And The Resilient Baloch identity]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Yarjan Badini&rsquo;s travelogue offers a compelling exploration of Baloch culture, traditions, and the enduring presence of Baloch communities across Central Asia and beyond.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Masood Hameed]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Masood Hameed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:24:46 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Nicholas Kristof And The Power Of A Reporter’s Notebook]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/23-Apr-2026/nicholas-kristof-power-reporter-s-notebook]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The social currency of our modern age is a bankrupt one, traded in fake news, tailored truths, and the reflexive venom of comments written by those who never bother to read.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:27:38 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Class, Culture And Cruelty: Reading Mueenuddin’s Second Novel]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/08-Apr-2026/class-culture-cruelty-reading-mueenuddin-s-second-novel]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Daniyal Mueenuddin is a Pakistani-American author who writes in English.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:32:37 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Ryszard Kapuściński Offered A Masterclass In African Reporting]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/04-Apr-2026/ryszard-kapu-ci-ski-offered-masterclass-african-reporting]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran reminded me of Ryszard Kapuściński.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:52:55 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Tracing Lahore’s Progressive Urdu Poetry Legacy]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/01-Apr-2026/tracing-lahore-s-progressive-urdu-poetry-legacy]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Words, when meaningfully woven together, hold within them an unimaginable power.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Legacy, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:54:27 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[When Western Concepts Fail South Asian Realities - A Linguistic Reckoning]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/21-Mar-2026/western-concepts-fail-south-asian-realities-linguistic-reckoning]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Keywords, in the simplest possible sense, are shortcuts for large amounts of valuable information.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bilal Tantray]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Bilal Tantray]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:47:40 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Colombo: Port of Call – A Journey Through Time With Ajay Kamalakaran]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/15-Mar-2026/em-colombo-port-call-em-journey-time-ajay-kamalakaran]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Ajay Kamalakaran is a journalist and writer, based in Mumbai.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:29:41 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Moral Authority Over Rank: Decoding 'Legacy Beyond Leadership']]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/20-Feb-2026/moral-authority-rank-decoding-legacy-beyond-leadership]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Lieutenant General Arshad Mehmood was born in August 1940 in Kotli, Azad Kashmir.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Education, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:02:19 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Writing Inwardly: How Silence Matured Into Tahir Sandhu’s Neondra]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/12-Feb-2026/writing-inwardly-silence-matured-tahir-sandhu-s-neondra]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Some stories don&rsquo;t begin on the page.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tallat Naveed]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Tallat Naveed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:43:38 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Identity, Isolation And The American Dream In Kiran Desai’s Latest Novel]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/22-Jan-2026/identity-isolation-american-dream-kiran-desai-s-latest-novel]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Kiran Desai is an Indian author whose novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:01:22 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Not Just A Colonial Tool: How South Asia's Native Rulers Championed Archaeology]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/02-Jan-2026/colonial-tool-south-asia-s-native-rulers-championed-archaeology]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[It is indeed true that archaeology in the South Asian Subcontinent was a colonial project that was used as a tool for governance.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sirat Gohar Daudpoto]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Heritage, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Sirat Gohar Daudpoto]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:07:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Daughter Of Contradictions]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/27-Dec-2025/daughter-contradictions]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Salam Benazir kesi shaandaar zindagi
Shikast aapko aduu koi na de saka kabhi&rdquo;
("Salam Benazir, for a life stately
You remained undefeated by every enemy")
Salam Benazir, by Fahmida Riaz)
Benazir Bhutto (BB) &ndash; assassinated in Rawalpindi eighteen years ago today &ndash; is an iconic personality from South Asia, not only the scion.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:34:06 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[From Exploitation To Irrelevance: Harari’s Vision Of The 21st Century]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/23-Dec-2025/exploitation-irrelevance-harari-s-vision-21st-century]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In a series of 21 chapters, Yuval Noah Harari highlights pressing issues like backsliding democracy, inequality, climate change, terrorism, and disrupting technologies.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review, Technology]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:33:47 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin’s Warning to the Global Middle Class]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/19-Dec-2025/joel-kotkin-s-warning-global-middle-class]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In his book The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, Joel Kotkin expresses concern on inequality, which has been widened by the pandemic and backsliding democracy.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:27:03 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Pen Against The Sword: How Palestinian Writers Are Documenting Genocide]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/14-Dec-2025/pen-sword-palestinian-writers-documenting-genocide]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro and is an urgent anthology of personal testimonies, poetry, photos, and reportage by Palestinians bearing witness to the ongoing destruction in Gaza.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:36:39 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Cultural Explosions And Political Tensions: Records Of Life In Revolutionary Algeria]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/10-Dec-2025/cultural-explosions-political-tensions-records-life-revolutionary-algeria]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Books often spark a reader&rsquo;s curiosity about the authors who have shaped their minds.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:10:45 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Malala’s Untold Story – Of Bollywood Bops, Girlfriends And Growing Up]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/07-Dec-2025/malala-s-untold-story-bollywood-bops-girlfriends-growing]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:19:14 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Aisha Hassan’s Debut Redefines Environmental Storytelling in Pakistan]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/07-Dec-2025/aisha-hassan-s-debut-redefines-environmental-storytelling-pakistan]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Aisha Hassan&rsquo;s When the Fireflies Dance feels less like a debut novel and more like an early tremor of a writer who understands that Pakistan&rsquo;s next great fiction will not emerge from cities, campuses, or intellectual salons, but from the smog-choked peripheries where labourers breathe in their own slow undoing.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mudassar Javed Baryar]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Climate Crisis, Editor's Picks, Environment, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mudassar Javed Baryar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:48:18 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Letters That Bring Back Lost Warmth]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/04-Dec-2025/letters-bring-back-lost-warmth]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In an era when human connection is getting compromised and weaker by the day, there appear to be fewer avenues to reclaim the glory of those times when people waited weeks &ndash; and, in some cases &ndash; months to receive the response to a letter they had carefully penned and sent.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:13:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Why Truth Does Not Resolve Political Conflict: Harari On The Power Of Fiction]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/02-Dec-2025/truth-resolve-political-conflict-harari-power-fictions]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In his latest book, Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari highlights the issues of disruptive AI and populist fascism.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review, Technology]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:58:11 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Alvin Finkel Traces The History Of Inequality From Foraging To Neoliberalism]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/25-Nov-2025/alvin-finkel-traces-history-inequality-foraging-neoliberalism]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[I came across Alvin Finkel&rsquo;s book, which aims to provide a people&rsquo;s history that emphasises equality, democracy, and reciprocity.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Economy, Editor's Picks, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:39:48 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Narrating Pakistan Through Varied Voices - And Capturing A Nation's Soul]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/23-Nov-2025/narrating-pakistan-varied-voices-capturing-nation-s-soul]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The notion of writing about one&rsquo;s country is always tinged with idiosyncratic and personal feelings.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:27:49 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Cinematic Republics: Muslim Identity, Pakistan And The Poetics Of Belonging In Hindi Film]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In the long history of Indian cinema, few questions have proved as persistently generative, or as persistently uneasy, as those surrounding the Muslim presence on screen and the idea of Pakistan just beyond it.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Aftab Husain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Film, Review, SPOTLIGHT]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Aftab Husain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:59:07 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[More Than Malicious Gossip: Remembering Khushwant Singh]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s nothing short of a blessing to get one&rsquo;s hands on any book of Khushwant Singh, the most celebrated and widely read South Asian writer.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Legacy, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:50:42 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[From Capitalists To Cloudalists: The New Techno-Feudal Overlords Of The Global Economy]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Dismissing the notion that we are still living under capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis argues that the true measure of 21st-century power is the extraction of cloud rent.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Economy, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:17:26 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Halima Khan Weaves Fiction Over Fact To Chronicle The Trauma Of Partition]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/09-Nov-2025/halima-khan-weaves-fiction-fact-chronicle-trauma-partition]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Halima Khan is a writer and curator with a background in Communication Studies and English Literature.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:24:39 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[From Iraq War To Kashmir: Pankaj Mishra On How Elite Rhetoric Sanctions Brutality And Oppression]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Before The World After Gaza (2025), Pankaj Mishra wrote Blind Fanatics (2020) where he drew out the issues with upper caste and middle class liberals and intellectuals who are more concerned with their privileged positions or nationalism than about pushing against imperial interests and the subjugation of people.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:17:25 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Jhumpa Lahiri’s Roman Stories Unpack Universal Themes of 'Otherness']]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri is celebrated for her depiction of immigrant and Indian-American life, yet her tender stories also capture universal themes of longing, loneliness and barriers of communication.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:20:12 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Language Apartheid In South Asia: When Your Native Tongue Isn't Good Enough]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The British Raj ended in August 1947 but the nearly 2 billion inhabitants of the South Asian Subcontinent continue to suffer from its overhang.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ahmad Faruqui]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review, Diary]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ahmad Faruqui]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 02:33:25 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Shah Hussain's Defiant Love In A New Historical Novel]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The author of The Sufi&rsquo;s Nightingale, Sarbpreet Singh, is a writer, playwright and podcaster known for his work on Sikh history and historical fiction.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:27:21 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Fascism’s New Frontline: Universities, Nationalism And The Battle For Truth]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/26-Oct-2025/fascism-s-new-frontline-universities-nationalism-battle-truth]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Professor Jason Stanley&rsquo;s books How Fascism Works (2018) and Erasing History (2024) help understand backsliding democracy and the rise of authoritarianism.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:29:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Can A Muslim Hegemon Also Find Its Space In A Multipolar World?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[While attending the launch of an important new book on world order, my mind inevitably drifted to relating the subject to my own area of interest&mdash;the Muslim world.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Review, SPOTLIGHT, Strategy, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:05:19 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of The Wit And The Wounds Of Mark Twain]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Ron Chernow's recent biography Mark Twain provides an extensive, accurately researched portrayal of the legendary American writer.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:57:02 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Witness To Change: A Sindhi Writer’s Recollection Of The 1990s]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Shaikh Moonis Ayaz, a scion of one of the great poets of the Sindhi language after Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, has authored this book of memories reflecting the days he spent at his alma mater, the University of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, USA, in the early 1990s.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anwer Abro]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Anwer Abro]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:01:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Tales From A World Where Everything Has A Soul]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Arsalan Qadeer (retired) was commissioned in an armoured regiment of the Pakistan Army in 1988.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:40:35 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Diverse Was Karachi's Cricketing Golden Age?]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/17-Sep-2025/how-diverse-was-karachi-s-cricketing-golden-age]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[A remarkable book has been added to cricket annals, and though a slim collection, its wealth and compilation of information makes it an important book not just for cricket fans, but those interested in the history of Karachi.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Saeed Husain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Cricket, Editor's Picks, Features, Heritage, History, Review, Sport]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Saeed Husain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:05:32 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo Offers A Scholarly Journey Into Sindh's History And Culture]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The Dr NA Baloch Institute of Heritage Research, Jamshoro, has recently published its 38th book, Hyderabad and Beyond: Historical and Cultural Insights.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Muhammad Habib Sanai]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Heritage, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Muhammad Habib Sanai]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:14:06 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Case For Killing Tourism]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/07-Sep-2025/the-case-for-killing-tourism]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Growing up, we are often told that travel makes us better as human beings.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review, Travel]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 03:52:37 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of Samad Behrangi And A Fish In A Pond]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/31-Aug-2025/of-samad-behrangi-and-a-fish-in-a-pond]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[I first encountered the short-lived Iranian writer Samad Behrangi (1939-1968) in Sibte Hasan&rsquo;s classic work on the Iranian Revolution, Inquilab-e-Iran (1980), where while discussing the stifling atmosphere under Raza Shah Pahlavi, Hasan mentioned how scores of Iranian writers and poets paid the ultimate price for dissenting with the Shah by.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Legacy, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:25:51 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp: A Testament To Endurance]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/12-Aug-2025/banu-mushtaq-s-heart-lamp-a-testament-to-endurance]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Even if the writer and reader live in different countries or on different continents, compelling, spellbinding stories have the power to shape ideologies and leave an indelible mark on readers.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:39:48 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Is Love An Action Or A Feeling? Emily Henry’s Novel Ponders The Big Questions]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Emily Henry is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author known for her contemporary romance novels, often described as witty and charming, and frequently compared to the work of Nora Ephron.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:06:49 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Typically Tanya: A Bold, Satirical Dive Into Karachi’s Newsrooms And Nightlife]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[There is much more to Taha Kehar&rsquo;s comic satirical novel Typically Tanya than meets the eye.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Citizens' Voice]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:49:24 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Rare Insider's Account Of Pakistan's Left]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/16-Jul-2025/a-rare-insider-s-account-of-pakistan-s-left]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zubair Ahmad]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, History, Legacy, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zubair Ahmad]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:49:06 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[No ‘Both Sides’ In Genocide: Ilan Pappe Rejects Zionist Mythology And Western Complicity]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Ilan Pappe commands immense respect for his body of work including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) and Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Perspective]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:48:28 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Perpetual Outsiders: The Lingering Legacy of Anti-Chinese Racism]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Strangers in the Land is Michael Luo&rsquo;s exemplary analysis of Chinese immigration to the United States and how they were treated, usually quite poorly, once they arrived there.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:54:54 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Debunking The Myths: Ilan Pappé's Unflinching Exposé Of Zionist Colonialism]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Ilan Pappe has recently published Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024), a concise primer A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2024), and an updated version of Ten Myths About Israel (2024).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:11:21 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Asymmetry Of Suffering: How Zionism Uses Victimhood As A Weapon]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?&rdquo;
(Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings)
Sam&rsquo;s speech in the Lord of the Rings ends with an uplifting message to fight for some good in the world.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:51:07 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Decolonizing Genocide: Pankaj Mishra's Challenge To Western Complicity]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The election of Modi and Netanyahu to power for an extended period has shown the failure of democracy to contain right wing populism.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:27:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Living Truthfully - How Jennifer Finney Boylan Redefined Herself]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/22-May-2025/living-truthfully-how-jennifer-finney-boylan-redefined-herself]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of nineteen books, including her memoir She&rsquo;s Not There which was the first best-selling work by a transgender American.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Pakistan General Elections, Perspective, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 03:17:21 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Echoes Of Ghalib: Unveiling Timeless Wisdom Through A Modern Mirror]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/06-May-2025/echoes-of-ghalib-unveiling-timeless-wisdom-through-a-modern-mirror]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;For Ghalib, life is an unending search.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Furqan Ali]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Furqan Ali]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 22:00:00 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Hundred Years Of Rebellion: Marking Ruth First's 100th Birthday]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[This year already marks the birth centenaries of such legendary African intellectuals and anti-imperialists as Frantz Fanon and the Congolese patriot Patrice Lumumba, both of whom attracted significant interest from anticolonial and solidarity movements worldwide, including here in Pakistan; while 2024 marked the birth centenary of a revolutionary.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Legacy, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 15:38:22 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Karachi – Basis Of People-Friendly City Planning]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/28-Apr-2025/karachi-basis-of-people-friendly-city-planning]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Karachi, a city of deep personal significance to me, remains close to my heart.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayaz Morris]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ayaz Morris]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:02:27 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Megaliths to Mosques: Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro's Quest To Document Pothohar's Heritage]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/28-Apr-2025/megaliths-to-mosques-zulfiqar-ali-kalhoro-s-quest-to-document-pothohar-s-heritage]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Of all things about the Pothohar region of Pakistan, what fascinates me the most is its historic built environment.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sirat Gohar Daudpoto]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Heritage, History, Legacy, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Sirat Gohar Daudpoto]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:59:40 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How A Successful Banker Tried To Impact Lives In Pakistan And Beyond]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[A career in international development banking is one of authority, glamour and responsibility.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Economy, Editor's Picks, Features, Insight, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:20:13 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Sabre-Rattling In Space: A Pakistani Perspective On Militarisation And Strategic Stability]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The exploration and utilisation of outer space have transitioned from being the prerogative of a few developed nations to a global concern.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Attiq ur Rehman]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Attiq ur Rehman]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:57:07 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Seat 1C: A Crash, A Miracle, And The Philosophy Of Survival]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/17-Apr-2025/seat-1c-a-crash-a-miracle-and-the-philosophy-of-survival]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The moment of transcendence I had briefly experienced was like a flash in the dark.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Furqan Ali]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Furqan Ali]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:30:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Book Review: The New Icon Savarkar And Facts By Arun Shourie]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Former minister in the BJP government of Atal Behari Vajpayee and veteran journalist Arun Shourie has authored a study of V.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features, Main Slider]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:20:58 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Mirabai Meets Kafka: The Unlikely Conversations Of The Missing Prayer]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In the rusted remains of discarded family relics, a ragman searches for &ldquo;what we never thought existed / in our everyday things,&rdquo; yet the poet may well be describing the essence of his own poetry.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariam Tahir Butt]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Memory, Poetry, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mariam Tahir Butt]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:43:42 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Book That Feels Like a Hug: Lessons From Sonoko Machida’s The Convenience Store by the Sea]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Sonoko Machida is an award-winning Japanese author, born in 1980 in Fukuoka Prefecture.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:59:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Pakistan@2050: Addressing Population Growth And Its Impact On Sustainable Development]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The Population Council of Pakistan under the dynamic and resilient leadership of Dr.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Saeed Shafqat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Saeed Shafqat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:50:41 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[From Card Games To Code – The Foundations Of A Tech Icon]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/15-Mar-2025/from-card-games-to-code-the-foundations-of-a-tech-icon]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates is one of the individuals who has changed our world today in more ways than we know.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Legacy, Review, Technology]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:30:12 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Finding Home: Exploring Identity In Pakistan]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/13-Mar-2025/finding-home-exploring-identity-in-pakistan]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The brainchild of Saba Karim Khan, Home #itscomplicated is the latest addition to Pakistani literature exploring the theme of home as Pakistanis.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mehr Husain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Citizens' Voice]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mehr Husain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:32:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Journalism On The Edge: Umber Khairi’s Tale Of Risk And Redemption]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Ms Umber Khairi&rsquo;s sincerely written book, Akbar in Wonderland, highlights the important point that journalists the world over are at risk.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadya Chishty-Mujahid]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadya Chishty-Mujahid]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:45:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Through Snowstorms And Scars: Han Kang’s Tale Of Friendship And Sacrifice]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Han Kang, born in 1970 in South Korea, made her literary debut as a poet in 1993 and published her first short story in 1994.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:24:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Farah Ali’s Haunting Debut Unveils The Silent Apocalypse Of Poverty And Climate Collapse]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Award-winning author Farah Ali&rsquo;s debut novel The River, The Town paints a poignant narrative that traces the lives of Baadal, his mother Raheela, and his wife Meena.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariam Tahir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Climate Crisis, Culture, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mariam Tahir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:46:02 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Streams Of Consciousness: Amn Zain ul Abidin’s Raw And Radical Debut]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Amn Zain ul Abidin, a student of Advanced Cambridge Level Year 1 at Lahore Grammar School 55 Main, delivers an evocative debut with Streams of Self-Addressed Letters.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Furqan Ali]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Furqan Ali]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:37:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[From Tigris To Thames: Elif Shafak’s Epic Journey Through Time And Water]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose writings have been translated into 56 languages.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 18:00:01 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[China In 2035: Towards A Society Of Common Prosperity For All]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Historically, the Western portrayals of China have oscillated &lsquo;between extremes of fantasy and contempt, dating back centuries&rsquo;, while discussions about China&rsquo;s rise within the capitalist world economy in the West, particularly in the United States, &lsquo;have been rife with myths and biases&rsquo;.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Saeed Shafqat, Ayesha Siddique]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Saeed Shafqat, Ayesha Siddique]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:34:53 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Journey Through Chaos: Mazhar Abbas' Insightful Chronicle On Pakistan’s Politics, Society, And Press Freedom]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Perhaps, no voice amongst Pakistani journalists is more synonymous with establishing freedom of speech and upholding democratic ideals in Pakistan than Mazhar Abbas.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dilawar Hussain]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dilawar Hussain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:57:14 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Book Review: The Fight To Free Palestine (2024)]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Recently, I bought a short 96-page book from a couple of young students who lead a student communist group on campus.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:46:34 +0500</pubDate>

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