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					<title><![CDATA[Who Gets To Define The “Real” Lahore? Nostalgia, Cultural Purity And Politics of Belonging]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview, veteran actor and director Usman Peerzada took a nostalgic look back at the Lahore of his youth.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Muhammad Obaid Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:45:28 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Border Panjab Never Asked For]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Every August, the story of 1947 is told through the birth of Pakistan and India.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Syed Mohsin Fareed]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:03:53 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Returning To Military College Jhelum: A Visit To My Alma Mater]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The 12th of November 2025 was the Centenary Year of my alma matter Military College Jhelum (MCJ).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maj Gen Dr Muhammad Masudul Hasan Nuri]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:35:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[ Peshawar Has The Soul Of An Ancient City - IV]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Click here for the previous part in this series
Once she was Pushkalavati, the Lotus City of antiquity.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pervez Akhtar Khan]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Pervez Akhtar Khan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:10:54 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[ Peshawar Has The Soul Of An Ancient City - II]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Click here for the previous part in this series

Some cities grow in circles, others in straight lines.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pervez Akhtar Khan]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Features, Heritage, Memory, Nostalgia]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Pervez Akhtar Khan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:05:58 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[When The Sun Sets On Cities: Osama Siddique’s Urdu Novel]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Osama Siddique&rsquo;s debut Urdu novel Ghuroob e Shehr Ka Waqt is an exquisite addition to Urdu literature.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asmaa Bilal]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Asmaa Bilal]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:32:54 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of Shoaib Hashmi And Happiness On TV]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[“I am a professor of economics, but I stopped teaching economics long ago.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nyla Daud]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 08:18:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Memoir| When I Spent A Glorious Summer At Cambridge University]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Dr Akbar Ahmed will be writing his memoirs for TFT about his eventful life and multiple pursuits.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:45:28 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Walking Down Memory Lane This Eid]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The smell of henna-filled hands clad in cloth or plastic shoppers, to prevent it from dripping and coloring the walls.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Nostalgia, Features, Culture, Festival, Memory]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 08:16:28 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Bani Gul: Building A New Town In The Kurram Valley]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In my life, I have lived in many diverse places; Miram Shah in North Wazirstan, Abbottabad, Alizai in Kurram, Pabbi, Nowshera, Murree and Nathia Gali come to mind.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Nostalgia, Features, Memoir, History]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2022 06:34:45 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Sindh University: Nostalgic Space Of Our Collective Memory - II]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/04-Sep-2021/sindh-university-nostalgic-space-of-our-collective-memory-ii]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The pre-1947 history of Sindh’s higher education, in broad terms, can be divided into three eras: early history, the Muslim period and the British colonial period.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Nostalgia, Features, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:19:58 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Sindh University: Nostalgic Space of our Collective Memory - I]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/21-Aug-2021/sindh-university-nostalgic-space-of-our-collective-memory-i]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Since the 1950s, among the majority of educated youth of the region, ‘Sindh University,' ‘Jamshoro,' ‘patriotism,' ‘revolution,' and ‘Sindh’ have become synonymous words.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Nostalgia, Features, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zaffar Junejo]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:55:22 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The way it was]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[My grandparents were from Punjabi zamindar families.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shoaib Bajwa]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Shoaib Bajwa]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:32:49 +0500</pubDate>

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