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					<title><![CDATA[Between Orwell’s Nightmare And Huxley’s Dream: The Dystopia We Built Ourselves]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Who knew that one day predictions of George Orwell made in 1948 and Aldous Huxley in 1932 will both be true and there will be times when conditions predicted by both will be prevalent simultaneously.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Tauqeer Irtiza]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:29:50 +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>
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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[Riding The Midnight Train – A Magical Journey Through Regret And Redemption]]></title>
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										<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>
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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[What Giants Offer To Aspiring Anthropologists: Lessons From Travel Literature]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Travel is easy to undertake, convenient to describe, difficult to write, and harder still to write well about.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:02:15 +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>
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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[Navigating Modernity Through The Contemporary Afsana]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Contemporary Urdu short fiction works within a complex milieu of navigating the tensions of rapid urbanisation, shifting gender dynamics, economic precarity, and the lingering shadows of patriarchal traditions.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan Haneef]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan Haneef]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:45:14 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Seeing Vs Observing – What A Diarist Can Learn From Sherlock Holmes]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[I remember.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:44:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Muslims Against The Muslim League - And Why Opposing Jinnah Failed The Test Of Time]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the claims of Islamophobes and Islamists, Muslims are not a monolith.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:15:54 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Cry, My Beloved Country: A Reflection On Pakistan's Unfulfilled Promise]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/05-Aug-2026/cry-beloved-country-reflection-pakistan-s-unfulfilled-promise]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[There are books we read simply to pass examinations, and there are books that quietly accompany us through life until, many years later, they begin to reveal meanings we were never old enough to understand.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Azhar Dogar]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Azhar Dogar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:23:46 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Antilibrary Of Hyderabad: Inside Akbar Dhamrah’s 10,000-Book Sanctuary]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The name Akbar may mislead some readers.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Diary, Editor's Picks, Features, Travel]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:35:19 +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>
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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[Stones That Speak: Decoding The Ancient Rock Art Of Sindh’s Taki Valley]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[My latest book on the rock carvings of Sindh's Taki Valley is a new addition to the growing body of scholarship on Pakistan's rock art heritage in general, and Sindh in particular.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:23:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Demons, Magic, Heroism And Martyrdom: Inside The Dastan-E Amir Hamza]]></title>
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										<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>
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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>
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										<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>
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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 Syed Hashmi Redefined the Balochi Ghazal]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In a relatively short life of just fifty-two years, Syed Hashmi (1926&ndash;1978) made enduring contributions to Balochi literature across various genres, including fiction, poetry, lexicography, linguistics, aphorism writing, and letter writing.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fazal Baloch]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Fazal Baloch]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:03:34 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Arrakis In Sindh – The Unexpected Pakistani Roots Of Frank Herbert’s Dune]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/23-Jun-2026/arrakis-sindh-unexpected-pakistani-roots-frank-herbert-s-dune]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Although Frank Herbert&rsquo;s epic book Dune holds the justifiably deserved honour of winning both the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, it would be an understatement to note that Denis Villeneuve&rsquo;s magnificent films based on it (&ldquo;Dune Part 1&rdquo;, released in 2021 and &ldquo;Dune Part 2&rdquo;, released in 2024; the third.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadya Chishty-Mujahid]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadya Chishty-Mujahid]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:32:34 +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>
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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[Return Of The Vernacular: Ijaz And The Expanding Horizons Of Punjabi Fiction]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/21-Jun-2026/return-vernacular-ijaz-expanding-horizons-punjabi-fiction]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[A quiet but far-reaching literary revolution is unfolding across the contemporary world.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adnan Tariq]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Adnan Tariq]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:25:31 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Topography Shapes Destiny]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/14-Jun-2026/topography-shapes-destiny]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[There exists a wonderful tradition at my husband&rsquo;s workplace that they give their employees a set of carefully selected books every December to read in the coming year.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faiza Idrees]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Faiza Idrees]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:35:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Paradise Lost And Found In Khushwant Singh’s Short Stories]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/13-Jun-2026/paradise-lost-found-khushwant-singh-s-short-stories]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[I have never made a secret of the fact that I read Khushwant Singh&rsquo;s books religiously.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:25:54 +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[Beyond The Illusion Of Power: Social Justice And Ethics In Nahjul Balagha]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/04-Jun-2026/beyond-illusion-power-social-justice-ethics-nahjul-balagha]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Nahjul Balagha, translated as the &ldquo;Peak of Eloquence,&rdquo; is the most popular collection of sermons, letters, and sayings attributed to Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib&mdash;the fourth Caliph, the first Shia Imam, and the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Features, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:52:58 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[American Exceptionalism Or Civilisational Decline - What Do The Scholars Say?]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/american-exceptionalism-civilisational-decline-scholars-say]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In a prior column, I expressed my views on whether America had entered a stage of decline.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ahmad Faruqui]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ahmad Faruqui]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 21:06:59 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Amjad Saqib On Human Dignity And Systemic Oppression In Pakistan's Landscape]]></title>
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										<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[A Journey With The Last of the Soviets]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/journey-last-soviets]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In the cold winter of 2014, I walked into the Saeed Book Bank in Islamabad.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 02:11:12 +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[Reading Rasool Bakhsh Palijo As Progressive Literary Critic]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/20-May-2026/reading-rasool-bakhsh-palijo-progressive-literary-critic]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The path of the critic is no straight road, but a spiral ascent forged through a lifelong devotion to the word.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:45:50 +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>
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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[Women And Men In Khushwant Singh’s Life]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[There are a few books that are read twice, and even fewer that are really relished on a second reading.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:09:44 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Literature Meets Anthropology: Memories Of Aijaz Mangi, Chekhov And The Power Of Prose]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The phantom scent of cool Jamshoro breezes from the 1990s still lingers, summoning the hollow ache of late-night walks shared with Aijaz Mangi.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:37:44 +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[Ibn-e-Safi And The Art Of Intelligent Escape In Urdu Fiction]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/24-Apr-2026/ibn-e-safi-art-intelligent-escape-urdu-fiction]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Escape is not always about running away.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Muhammad Bilal Ramzan]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Muhammad Bilal Ramzan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:57:37 +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[Syrrina Haque’s Stories Remain A Haunting Reflection On Womanhood In Pakistan]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/19-Apr-2026/syrrina-haque-s-stories-remain-haunting-reflection-womanhood-pakistan]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Stories make us who we are, and this is particularly true in the case of fictional narratives.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:09:22 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Time Of The Dictator: Reading Marquez In Urdu]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/18-Apr-2026/time-dictator-marquez-urdu]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Gabriel Garc&iacute;a M&aacute;rquez (1927-2014) is counted among those distinguished writers who gave extraordinary latitude and depth to world literature.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:01:00 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[An Indigenous History Of the Pukhtuns]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/13-Apr-2026/indigenous-history-pukhtuns]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The historiography of South Asia has long privileged imperial and urban narratives, often marginalising frontier societies whose histories are equally rich yet comparatively understudied.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:34:52 +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[From Copyboy To Counter-Culture Icon: The Making Of A Gonzo Journalist]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/22-Mar-2026/copyboy-counter-culture-icon-making-gonzo-journalist]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[I have always been drawn to the works of the &ldquo;New Journalists.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:42:35 +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>
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										<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[Voices Of Valour: A Tribute To Christian Defenders Of Pakistan]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[During the concluding moments of the session, the host remarked that the gathering was not merely a discussion about a book, but a tribute to the white in Pakistan&rsquo;s flag &mdash; symbolising minorities, particularly the Christian community, and their dedicated service to the nation.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayaz Morris]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Features, History, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ayaz Morris]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:48:29 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Nostalgia On Nisbet Road: Pran Nevile’s Lahore]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/01-Mar-2026/nostalgia-nisbet-road-pran-nevile-s-lahore]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[I wonder how childish and unpredictable the ways of the heart are.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Memory]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:11:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[From Third World Geopolitics To Rural Power In Colonial Sindh]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Dr David Cheesman is a distinguished historian and policy advisor whose transnational perspective was shaped by an upbringing in India, West Africa, and Europe.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Books, Editor's Picks, History, Interview]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:16:26 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Moral Authority Over Rank: Decoding 'Legacy Beyond Leadership']]></title>
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										<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[Of Identity, Love And Lahore: Rereading The Reluctant Fundamentalist]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[I can hardly recall anything that made me fall more in love with the Anarkali side of Mall Road than Mohsin Hamid&rsquo;s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:02:12 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[My Journey With The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Meezan Zahra Khwaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:41:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Printing And Reading Culture In Colonial Shikarpur]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/30-Jan-2026/printing-reading-culture-colonial-shikarpur]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The story of print culture in colonial Sindh is not just about machines and books.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:10:01 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Identity, Isolation And The American Dream In Kiran Desai’s Latest Novel]]></title>
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										<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[The Subtle Glow Of 2025: Three Books That Taught Me To See]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[As the year slips away in its quiet, almost sublime manner, it gently invites reflection.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:46:15 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Forever Brawls: Political And Ideological History Of The Modern Middle East]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/16-Jan-2026/forever-brawls-political-ideological-history-modern-middle-east]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The political landscape of the Middle East has undergone a sweeping transformation since the 19th century, transitioning from the overarching religious-imperial framework of the Ottoman Caliphate toward the ethnic nationalisms of the 20th century, and eventually into a late-century resurgence of religious-political identity.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Insight, Main Slider, SPOTLIGHT]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:34:37 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Beloved And Discerning Humourist]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/13-Jan-2026/beloved-discerning-humourist]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Syed Mohammad Jafri, the intelligent satirist and humourist of the Indo-Pak subcontinent was born in 1905.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:33:18 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Lives Bound By Cultures In Anita Desai’s World]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/09-Jan-2026/lives-bound-cultures-anita-desai-s-world]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[South Asian culture is kaleidoscopic and rich, and so are most of the novels set in its milieu.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:15:45 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Reflections On Professor Akbar S Ahmed And Pashtun Society]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/05-Jan-2026/reflections-professor-akbar-s-ahmed-pashtun-society]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In 1976, whilst completing my doctorate as a graduate student at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, I was asked to review a book for the Times Literary Supplement.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andre Singer]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Features, Memoir, Memory, Perspective]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Andre Singer]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:55:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Portraits And Stories From Lahore’s Metro]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[There are stories galore in Lahore.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Art, Books, Culture, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:03:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Not Just A Colonial Tool: How South Asia's Native Rulers Championed Archaeology]]></title>
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										<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[Khushwant Singh’s Risqué Masterpiece]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[I have had a whale of a time reading Khushwant Singh&rsquo;s novel The Company of Women.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Features, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:16:23 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Daughter Of Contradictions]]></title>
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										<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>
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										<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[Between Memory and Homeland: Reading Rumi's Being Pakistani]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Connection&rdquo; is a curious feeling.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Heritage, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:12:16 +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[Revisiting African Voices From My Diaries Of The 1980s]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Last week, Dr David Cheesman, author of Landlord Power and Rural Indebtedness in Colonial Sind, 1865-1901, sent me the Kindle edition of his other book, National Resources: Letters from Algeria 1973&ndash;74.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Diary, Editor's Picks, Features, History]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:42:41 +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[Climate Justice Vs Corporate Greed: The Fight For Pakistan’s Ecosystems]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/06-Dec-2025/climate-justice-vs-corporate-greed-fight-pakistan-s-ecosystems]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The book From Mountain To Mangroves - Protecting Pakistan's Natural Heritage by Rina Saeed Khan offers diversified input on the topic.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nazeer Ahmed Arijo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Climate Crisis, Environment, Features]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nazeer Ahmed Arijo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:04:36 +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[How Lincoln's Language Saved The Union]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/01-Dec-2025/lincoln-s-language-saved-union]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[This may sound incredible, but Lincoln never attended college.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ahmad Faruqui]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Editor's Picks, Features, Heritage, History, Legacy, Travel]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ahmad Faruqui]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:43:50 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Modern Monetary Theory Questions The Anxieties Around Debt]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Recently, top economists and historians assembled by the Peter G.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Economy, Editor's Picks, Features, Perspective]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Junaid Jahangir]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:07:54 +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>
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										<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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					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:17:26 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Inside The Franklin Book Program And The Cold War Battle For Pakistani Minds]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[By the middle of the 20th century, the cultural rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union extended far beyond the realm of politics or military might&mdash;it was a battle for the global imagination.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Omar Tarar]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Omar Tarar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 01:24:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Halima Khan Weaves Fiction Over Fact To Chronicle The Trauma Of Partition]]></title>
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										<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>
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					<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>
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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>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/30-Oct-2025/shah-hussain-s-defiant-love-new-historical-novel]]></link>
										<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>
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										<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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					<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:29:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Textbook Revolutionary: Why KK Aziz Wrestled With Official Narratives]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/24-Oct-2025/textbook-revolutionary-kk-aziz-wrestled-official-narratives]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[To understand a nation, you must first listen to its dissident voices &ndash; the ones that speak in measured tones against the roar of approved history.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadir Mansoor]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Education, Features, History, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadir Mansoor]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 05:06:27 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Can A Muslim Hegemon Also Find Its Space In A Multipolar World?]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/19-Oct-2025/can-muslim-hegemon-also-find-space-multipolar-world]]></link>
										<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>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/17-Oct-2025/wit-wounds-mark-twain]]></link>
										<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[Double Debut: Meezan Zahra Khwaja Launches Two Brave Books On Grief And Mental Health]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Literary Lahore witnessed a rare occurrence on Saturday, 4th October 2025: a launch event of not one but two books &ndash; not by an old established author, but by a young writer, a brand-new star set to shine brightly in the firmament.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nazia Khan]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nazia Khan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:26:40 +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>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/12-Sep-2025/zaffar-junejo-offers-a-scholarly-journey-into-sindh-s-history-and-culture]]></link>
										<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>
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										<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[Bond, But Of The Mussoorie Hills, Not Hollywood]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/30-Aug-2025/bond-but-of-the-mussoorie-hills-not-hollywood]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[A week ago, I playfully tapped the keyboard of my laptop and typed the word &ldquo;Himalaya&rdquo; in the Google search bar.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Diary, Editor's Picks, Features, Legacy, Literature]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 18:20:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Mawakhat: Stories Of Hope And Resilience In The Wake Of Pakistan’s 2022 Floods]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/29-Aug-2025/mawakhat-stories-of-hope-and-resilience-in-the-wake-of-pakistan-s-2022-floods]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The courage, fortitude, and resilience of any nation are tested in difficult times.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Climate Crisis, Environment, Citizens' Voice]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usama Malick]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:04:41 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Offerings From Blimp Press: Handcrafted Literature With Urgency And Imagination]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/25-Aug-2025/offerings-from-blimp-press-handcrafted-literature-with-urgency-and-imagination]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Under the aegis of the small but budding Blimp Press, Fizza Abbas and Waqas Rabbani &ndash; who writes under the pen name Thomas De Verne Hovercraft &ndash; are steadily building more than just a publishing house.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariam Tahir Butt]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mariam Tahir Butt]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:57:33 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Writing Bhanbhore’s Stories: Fagan, Carroll And The Art Of Archaeological Narrative]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/18-Aug-2025/writing-bhanbhore-s-stories-fagan-carroll-and-the-art-of-archaeological-narrative]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[It does not matter if we are merely literate or highly educated: we all put words to page.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:02:27 +0500</pubDate>

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