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					<title><![CDATA[“Dala Culture”: When Power Becomes Bigger Than The Law]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[On the streets of Karachi, some vehicles appear to have acquired a meaning far beyond transportation.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:56:48 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Mission Pakistan: A Citizen’s Vision For Rebuilding The State]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[I have been a citizen of Pakistan for over six decades.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Mujtaba Quadri]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Mujtaba Quadri]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:39:58 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[From Colonial Legacy To Elite Privilege: Pakistan’s Bureaucracy Must Remember Whom It Serves]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Our prime minister Shahbaz Sharif was right to admonish two senior bureaucrats for their display of pomp, pageantry and self-aggrandisement during the Independence day parade in Islamabad on August 14.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Qamer Soomro]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Citizens' Voice, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Qamer Soomro]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:34:38 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Corporate School Trap]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The teaching profession appears to be experiencing a watershed moment worldwide.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gaitee Ara Siddiqi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Education, Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Gaitee Ara Siddiqi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:14:05 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Ceuta And The Price Of An Independent Spanish Foreign Policy]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The extraordinary migration crisis that overwhelmed Ceuta in late July 2026 should not be viewed merely as another episode of irregular migration at Europe&rsquo;s southern frontier.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:25:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Case Closed: Families Facing Systemic Bureaucracy In Karachi]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[There are, it turns out, two efficient ways to close a murder in Karachi.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Manoj Kumar Lohana]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Citizens' Voice, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Manoj Kumar Lohana]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:54:55 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Why Our Good Years Never Last]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I sat through a series of calls with the lawyers for Chinese groups looking at substantial investments here, in power, textiles, infrastructure and agriculture.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faisal Islam]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Citizens' Voice, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Faisal Islam]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Are We Independent?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Every year, on 14 August, we celebrate independence with flags, national anthems, ceremonies and speeches.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadir Shabbir Dayo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Citizens' Voice, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadir Shabbir Dayo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:11:35 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The High Cost Of Luxury: Inside The Modern Marriage Debt Trap]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Modern marriage in Pakistan increasingly resembles an auction house where personal worth is calculated through market value rather than human character.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Muhammad Ramish Chaudhry]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Features, Festival, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Muhammad Ramish Chaudhry]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:28:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[ 79th Independence Day Reflections ]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Small nations have always struggled against more powerful ones for their freedom.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Ikramul Haq]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Insight, Top Story, Analysis]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Ikramul Haq]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:11:22 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Case Against The Division Of Sindh]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In my last op-ed, I argued that wholesale provincial reorganization and a one-size-fits-all approach to creating new administrative units are unsuitable for Pakistan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Saeed Ahmed Rid]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, History, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Saeed Ahmed Rid]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:16:56 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Elected On Bail: The Rukhsar Ahmed Case]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/12-Aug-2026/elected-bail-rukhsar-ahmed-case]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Voters in Mirpur-IV, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, have just re-elected Chaudhry Rukhsar Ahmed, 62, with 22,376 votes, defeating the Pakistan Peoples Party's Sohaib Arshad, who took 15,851 votes.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yummna Hina Khan]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Yummna Hina Khan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:37:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Indus River Dolphin: Conservation Challenges And National Responsibility]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/29-Jul-2026/indus-river-dolphin-conservation-challenges-national-responsibility]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The Indus Dolphin, Platanista gangetica minor, locally known as Bulhan is one of the world&rsquo;s most rare freshwater cetaceans.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Imran Aziz Tunio]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Citizens' Voice, Environment, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Imran Aziz Tunio]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:28:43 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Paradise Hijacked: How One Of The World’s Finest Destinations Turned Into A Land Of Mafias]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/27-Jul-2026/paradise-hijacked-one-world-s-finest-destinations-turned-land-mafias]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Pakistan was handed everything on a silver platter by nature.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mansoor Riaz]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight, Travel]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mansoor Riaz]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:22:01 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Bab Al-Mandeb Another Choke Point]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait and a major global chokepoint between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tariq Aqil]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Tariq Aqil]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:11:06 +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[Beyond Gender, Beyond Rights: Woman’s Ontology In Islamic Metaphysics]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/09-Jul-2025/beyond-gender-beyond-rights-woman-s-ontology-in-islamic-metaphysics]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be human? What inner quality, what metaphysical signature, confers upon a being the dignity of being called human? This question has reverberated across the corridors of philosophical reflection for centuries.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sumreen Fatima]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks, Features, History, Insight, SPOTLIGHT]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Sumreen Fatima]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:04:31 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How A Successful Banker Tried To Impact Lives In Pakistan And Beyond]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/20-Apr-2025/how-a-successful-banker-tried-to-impact-lives-in-pakistan-and-beyond]]></link>
										<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[The Solar Revolution Has Arrived In Pakistan]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[This is big news, and not just in the Pakistani media.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ahmad Faruqui]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Economy, Editor's Picks, Features, Insight, Main Slider, Perspective, Technology]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ahmad Faruqui]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:13:15 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[ Ibn Khaldun And The Understanding Of Civilisations - II]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Click here for the first part
Let us examine two case studies of two different Muslim responses to the challenges of our world.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks, Features, History, Insight, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:27:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Ibn Khaldun And The Understanding Of Civilisations - I]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/16-Feb-2025/ibn-khaldun-and-the-understanding-of-civilisations-i]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In the coming time, how we organise our lives, view our own cultures and interact with others will be determined by the outcome of a struggle between two diametrically opposed ideas.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks, Features, History, Insight, Legacy, Perspective, SPOTLIGHT]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:59:06 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Gowing Threat Of Lightning In Tharparkar: Unraveling The Causes]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Lightning, a natural phenomenon that is commonly associated with its dazzling brilliance and potential for devastating impact, has long fascinated scientists and the general public alike.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iftikhar Talpur]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis, Editor's Picks, Environment, Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Iftikhar Talpur]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:57:02 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Al-Ghazali’s Opposition To Philosophy: Putting It All In Context]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Since its introduction into the Islamic world, philosophy has faced relentless opposition and negative criticism throughout its history.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sumreen Fatima]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Insight, Legacy, Reflections]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Sumreen Fatima]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 01:28:52 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Burnout Boys And Girls Of The NGO Sector]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In my experiences on the field, I found that in the employment pyramid of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), field workers constituted the foundational layer.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Diary, Economy, Editor's Picks, Features, Focus, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:48:53 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[AI, Silicon Valley Ideologies And The Meaning Of Humanity]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Among the potentially extinction-level crisis on the horizon for humankind&mdash;which include climate change and the threat of nuclear war&mdash;is the creation and development of artificial intelligence or AI.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed, Amineh Hoti, Frankie Martin]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Insight, Literature, Main Slider, SPOTLIGHT, Technology]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed, Amineh Hoti, Frankie Martin]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:11:42 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Home Of Our Own: How Spin-Off Settlements Arise In Rural Sindh As Families Leave Traditional Arrangements]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Nestled within the fertile agricultural landscape of Sindh, at the edge of a village or alongside a minor canal, tiny hamlets are commonly referred to in the Sindhi language as Pahenja Ghar (Our Own Houses).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Diary, Editor's Picks, Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 22:56:45 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Harmonious But Contradictory: Sindh’s Multi-Caste Villages]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Sindh&rsquo;s multi-caste-based-village presents a complex social landscape where a harmonious surface often conceals a contradictory underbelly.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 01:47:17 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[For desk researchers and armchair scholars, a Sindhi village may seem dull and passive, often described as a place devoid of energy and liveliness.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Economy, Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:40:55 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Beginner’s Guide To Writing About Old Buildings]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[I vividly remember that it was mid-April 2021.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 16:17:56 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Pashtuns’ Dying Old World]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In a historical moment when the very foundations of a social order begin to crumble, Antonio Gramsci foresees an &lsquo;organic crisis&rsquo;.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bakht Noor Nasar]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:53:27 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of Students And Political Change In Bangladesh: Reality And Speculation]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Following the student-led movement that toppled the government in Bangladesh, the world is closely monitoring the rapidly changing situation.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghazala Fasih]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:48:19 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[In recent years, new socio-religious movements and leadership have emerged across South and East Asia, often drawing inspiration from more mystical or Sufi strands of religious tradition.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:20:02 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Martial Law In Pakistan: Possibilities And Deterrents]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Anocracy: Open and Closed 
Global politics seems to be becoming conducive for military takeovers again.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:01:03 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Populism In The West And In Asia: Similarities And Differences]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The Left and Right of Populism
The word &lsquo;populism&rsquo; in Pakistan entered the mainstream political discourse rather late in the day.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:25:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Pakistan’s Intelligentsia Does Not Properly Understand Blasphemy Vigilantism]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The truth of the matter is that this culture of vigilante murder of people accused of blasphemy dates back to 1929, when Ilm Deen killed Mahashe Rajpal in Lahore.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Basil Dogra]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Basil Dogra]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:41:29 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How To Stay Grounded In Modern Life]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Being grounded means that someone is a sensible human being who has the ability to stay composed and remain connected to nature and his core values.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[M Aamer Sarfraz]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:01:07 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Did Punjab Become The Epicentre Of Blasphemy-Related Violence?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Lingering echoes of a violent past
According to a 2022 study by the Centre for Research &amp; Security Studies, between 1947 and 2021, 89 people were killed in Pakistan for allegedly committing blasphemy.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:12:18 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Accounting For The Anti-Establishment Factor In Pakistan's Electoral Politics]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Electoral politics in Pakistan is undergoing enormous changes and a new factor is redefining the electoral landscape of Pakistan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Atif Nazar]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Atif Nazar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:11:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Gloomy November: Can The Right-Wing 'Outsiders' Really Do Anti-Establishment Politics?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[On 19 November, the Argentinians went to the second round of the presidential elections, and on 22 November, the Dutch took part in the elections.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patryk Tadeusz]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Patryk Tadeusz]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:14:32 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Afghan Refugees Are Pakistan’s Strategic Investment]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Long before the first Afghan refugees started arriving in Pakistan in the late 1970s, there had been unrestricted movement of people across the AfPak border.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arwin Rahi]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Arwin Rahi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:51:43 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[What Happened When The Poles Went To The Polls]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[On 15 October, parliamentary elections were held in Poland, in which Poles "elected" 460 members of the Sejm and 100 members of the Senate (the quotation marks result from the author's lack of faith in bourgeois elections, who calls the system not democracy, but electoralism.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patryk Tadeusz]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:46:07 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[District Kurram with an area of 3,380 square kilometres and a population of 808,102 inhabitants has recently hit the headlines in national and international media.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Muhammad Imran]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Muhammad Imran]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:08:19 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Propaganda Of The Deed And War Termination Strategies: In Conversation With Victor Ofosu]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Mustansar Siam (MS): Can you provide a brief and concise overview of the concept of &ldquo;propaganda of the deed&rdquo; as it has traditionally been understood in academic analyses? 
Victor Ofosu (VO): From the academic perspective, propaganda of the deed is defined as the use of violence to subvert government policies, forcing a.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mustansar Siam]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mustansar Siam]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:49:59 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Roots Of Rage: Why Is Pashtun Anger Justified?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA["Why are you being hyper?" A dear friend from Lahore chided me one cold evening while we were chatting about ethnic politics in Pakistan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aslam Kakar]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Aslam Kakar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 20:05:03 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Beyond Gentrification: Pakistan Needs Inclusive Urban Renewal]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Urban gentrification is the process of revitalisation and modernisation in semi-urban neighbourhoods into vast luxurious and posh residential societies to increase property prices and attract more affluent residents.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Ghulam Mohey-ud-din]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Ghulam Mohey-ud-din]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:44:55 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[Modern India is a land of dizzying contrasts.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:50:57 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on the 1st of November.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patryk Tadeusz]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:35:48 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[I used to be invited by the Staff College at Quetta to give a talk on the evolution of warfare, and at the conclusion, to suggest a method for studying military history.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Major General Syed Ali Hamid]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Major General Syed Ali Hamid]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:52:26 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[Islamabad is a modern city, but its antiquity goes back to prehistoric times, about two million years before the present.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sirat Gohar Daudpoto]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2022 21:17:09 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Case Study: The myth Of Philippine Marriage And Divorce]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[No one who voluntarily enters into marriage agrees to the union with the thought of separation or divorce in mind.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[TFT Special]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:47:03 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[Sam Bankman-Freid fit into the mould of the computer-geek-turned-instant billionaire through his sheer genius – except that his genius lay in using other people’s money to take risky bets.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shajeel Zaidi]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:18:48 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[On Women And War]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Introduction  Rape has always been used as a weapon of war in major wars including World War 2.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[TFT Special]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:42:07 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Women In Sport Confront Gilgit-Baltistan's Cultural Anxieties]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Last month, the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) decision to organise a Women’s Sports Gala, a women-only event, stirred protests when a few politicians and certain local religious groups opposed it.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abid Ali Baig]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Abid Ali Baig]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:08:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Hiding In Plain Sight: The Not-So-Deep Reality Of The Deep State]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In 2020, a friend, settled in the US, quipped that never had he heard so many Pakistanis (in the US) use the words “deep state” as much as they had been doing during the November 2020 US presidential elections.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 11:27:39 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Actions, Intentions And Murder: Examining Section 302 Of The Penal Code]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Notorious, formidable, perplexing, yet rather simple: Qatl-i-amd, section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code 1860 or simply; the law of murder, is perhaps the most renowned provision regarding criminal law in Pakistan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shakir Raza Rizvi]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mohammad Shakir Raza Rizvi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:05:27 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA["A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism" – with these words Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels begin their Communist Manifesto.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patryk Tadeusz]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Patryk Tadeusz]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 23:22:47 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Women’s Plight During Disasters And Emergencies: The Part Some Would Rather Not Discuss]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Women and young girls of reproductive age affected by the recent flooding are having a harder time than anyone can imagine.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Hiba Tohid]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis, Features, Health, Insight, Main Slider]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Hiba Tohid]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:38:48 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[States And Markets | Pakistan Is Not The Next Sri Lanka...]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka, the land of Ceylon Tea and technically sound batsmen, has gone through a complete and utter political and economic meltdown in the last few months.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Aqdas Afzal]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Economy, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Aqdas Afzal]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2022 08:08:20 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Experiments In Political Engineering And The Economic Cost To Pakistan]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The 1980s is the decade when Pakistan’s social fabric was completely torn apart by the self-declared reformer, General Zia-ul Haq—a dictator — who ruled for 11 years until he perished in a mysterious plane crash.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Misbah Azam]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Misbah Azam]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:26:20 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Begin At The Beginning: Interpreting The Preamble To Pakistan's Constitution]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The vote of no-confidence of March 2022 has created a pressing need to study, understand and create awareness at wider scale about the constitution of Pakistan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Salma Shaheen]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Reflections, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Salma Shaheen]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:59:09 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[What I Learned From My Survey Of Educated Young PTI Supporters In A Major Urban Centre]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The night of April 10, 2022 reinforced a sharp divide in the educated segment of society: between PTI supporters and the supporters of all other parties (referred to as “ghaddars” by the PTI-supporters).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barrister Wali Azam Khan]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Barrister Wali Azam Khan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2022 10:26:14 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Is PTI Crying Wolf About State Repression?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Since the Supreme Court ruling of April 7, which declared Imran Khan’s dissolution of the national assembly unconstitutional, the subsequent delay on the vote of no-confidence by the PTI’s leaders and his eventual ouster in the early hours of April 9, Khan and his colleagues have carried out a disinformation campaign, played the religion card, and.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabia Mehmood]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Rabia Mehmood]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 10:08:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Making Of A Messiah: The Emergence Of Political Religion In Pakistan]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Sacralising the Secular  The shift from pre-modern societies that were deeply rooted in religious beliefs and rituals, to modern ones in which religion was ousted from political and public spaces, was a long and complex process.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Perspective, Reflections, Insight, History, Main Slider]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2022 22:48:22 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Follow The Hollow: Politics Of Consumption Among The Middle-Classes In India And Pakistan]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Consumerism, or the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods, largely emerged from the 19th century onwards.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Perspective, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:06:45 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[This article presents a political economy explanation of ongoing institutional recalibrations in Pakistan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Danish Khan]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Danish Khan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:53:15 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Perfect Storm: Cyber Threats To Nuclear Security Around the World]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[A nuclear weapon is a device that uses nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two processes to release energy in an explosive manner.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayaz Hussain Abbasi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Strategy, Features, Focus, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ayaz Hussain Abbasi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:19:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Womansplaining: A Conversation With Sherry Rehman]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Raza Rumi: Welcome to Think Fest Conversations, and it is a great pleasure and honour to be with Senator Sherry Rehman who is Pakistan's foremost parliamentarian, a leading voice on women's rights, human rights, and democracy.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[TFT Features Desk]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2022 10:02:23 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Putin's War: Trying To Resolve An Old Strategic Dilemma With A Perilous New World Order]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, I was talking to Pakistan’s famous intellectual, political analyst and renowned environmentalist Dr.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Misbah Azam]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 21:02:50 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Myanmar Junta's Defense In The Rohingya Genocide Case At The ICJ Is Troubling]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Following the military-led "clearance operation" that forced 750,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, Gambia, a West African nation, in November 2019 brought a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Parvej Siddique Bhuiyan]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:07:35 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Looking For A Centre: The PML-N's Roots And Evolving Ideological Trajectory]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The PML-N is perhaps the country’s largest ‘big tent’ party.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 05:18:20 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[You Are What You Eat: How Far Does The Urban Pakistani Diet Contribute To A Public Health Crisis?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Pakistan is facing a dual burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases, like many of the other developing countries.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Qaisar Raza]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Health, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:37:09 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Who’s Afraid Of Judge Ayesha Malik: Seniority As An Outdated Principle]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Once again Pakistan stands on the edge of making history by appointing Justice Ayesha Malik as the first female Supreme Court judge, and once again, there is vicious opposition to her appointment.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Usman Khan Yousafzai]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Perspective, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Usman Khan Yousafzai]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 12:13:02 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Gladly Becoming The Other: The Oddities Of Self-Orientalism]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West had been concocting distorted views of Eastern cultures, especially ever since the 18th century.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Features, Culture, Perspective, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 05:01:19 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Pakistan's Two Biggest Political Leaders And Their Revolutionary Pretensions]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In the post-Musharraf period, Pakistani politicians have been behaving as if they are revolutionaries.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Umer Farooq]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Perspective, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Umer Farooq]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:39:01 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Foucault’s Political Spirituality, Punjab And TLP]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/10-Dec-2021/foucault-s-political-spirituality-punjab-and-tlp]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Just before the 1946 general elections in ‘British India,’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League (AIML) was poised to become the largest party of Muslims in the region.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Features, Perspective, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 23:56:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Maududi’s Leviathan: From A Political Ambition To A Cultural Pursuit]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The American historian Richard Wolin in his book The Seduction of Unreason wrote that after being disillusioned by the collapse of student revolts of the 1960s, many young leftist intellectuals in Europe began to engage with the works of the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Features, Perspective, Insight, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 17:45:57 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[What Law Enforcement And The Criminal Justice System Can Do To Make Women Safer From Harassment]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The current influx of cases of harassment of women has raised questions on our social values and the criminal justice system.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawood Khalid Awan]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Perspective, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dawood Khalid Awan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:25:58 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Roots Of Rage: How Barelvi Militancy Became A Mass Political Force]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) did not emerge from a vacuum.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadeem Farooq Paracha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:32:40 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[History, The Historian’s Craft And South Asian History: A Study Plan]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The story to prepare this study plan goes like this: after having worked in the development sector – designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating projects – for two decades, I opted to study history.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Education, Focus, Insight, History]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:58:05 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Abdul Qadeer Khan: The Sinner and the Saint]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Dr.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Ayesha Siddiqa]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Memoir, Insight, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Ayesha Siddiqa]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 21:24:45 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Taliban's 'General Amnesty' Does Not Apply To Afghanistan's Defenceless Hazaras]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The rapid collapse of the US-backed government of Afghanistan was entirely unforeseen and took everyone by surprise.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Saleem Javed]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Analysis, Perspective, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Saleem Javed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2021 15:53:56 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Women, Piety and Autonomy]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Pakistan as an Islamic Republic has often been at the helm of curbing and restricting women’s basic freedoms.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faiza Farid]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Faiza Farid]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 02:57:45 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Pashtun Women and the National Question - II]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Fragmentary and atomized struggles get a people nowhere.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:19:41 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Pashtun Women and the National Question - I]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Recent news of the killing of two girls on the basis of “honour” in Waziristan, news of multiple incidents across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of domestic violence and the now-forgotten Kohistan video scandal all point to a particular violent and dehumanizing form of patriarchal violence in Pashtun society.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:38:08 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Symbols and the Struggle for India’s Soul]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Shakespeare once said, “What’s in a name?” If he happens to come back to life to live in the middle of India, he will discover, to his shock, just how wrong he was in saying so.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Muhammad Tahir Iqbal]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Muhammad Tahir Iqbal]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:18:29 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Bacha Khan as Political Revolutionary: Disrupting the Flow of Time]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Time is not experienced uniformly.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 10:01:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How strong have Punjab’s CMs been?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Sardar Usman Buzdar is unlikely to go down in history as a very strong and effective Chief Minister of Punjab.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ammar Ali Qureshi]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ammar Ali Qureshi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:35:01 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Intimate Struggles]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[When talking about the resistance of women against multi-faceted oppression, the struggle of Pashtun women and their unique oppression has to be taken stock of in its own right.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 08:25:54 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Trouble with the Enlightenment]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/21-Jun-2019/the-trouble-with-the-enlightenment]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Every ideology, religion and worldview contains seeds of discontent within.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aziz Ali Dad]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Aziz Ali Dad]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:02:18 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Context of the Enlightenment - I]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/24-May-2019/the-context-of-the-enlightenment-i]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[When the Indian Subcontinent came under the rule of the British Empire, it came into contact with the ideas dominating the European intellectual scene.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aziz Ali Dad]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Aziz Ali Dad]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 08:23:42 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Un-parliamentary Systems]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/03-May-2019/un-parliamentary-systems]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA["We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…”  These words are attributed to the great thinker, revolutionary leader and statesman Thomas Jefferson and begin the 1776 US Declaration.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Salman Tarik Kureshi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Salman Tarik Kureshi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 08:35:30 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Why Bacha Khan matters today - II]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/01-Mar-2019/why-bacha-khan-matters-today-ii]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Political action based on non-violence has to be the most important legacy of Bacha Khan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:52:25 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Why Bacha Khan matters today - I]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/22-Feb-2019/why-bacha-khan-matters-today-i]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[For Walter Benjamin, the great German philosopher, history was alive in the now – the everyday of this age.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Hurmat Ali Shah]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:34:58 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Divided Rule]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/09-Feb-2019/divided-rule]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Readers who remember their high school history lessons may recall the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Salman Tarik Kureshi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Insight]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Salman Tarik Kureshi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2019 00:04:55 +0500</pubDate>

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