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

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:12:23 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Why Noon Meem Rashid Became The Existential Outsider Of Urdu Poetry]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Before him, Urdu poetry was dominated by traditional ghazals.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadir Mansoor]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Nadir Mansoor]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:07:30 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Memory, Trauma And The Difficult Birth Of The Self: A Review Of Naina Adil’s Novel Kokh]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Naina Adil&rsquo;s Kokh is a layered work of contemporary Urdu fiction that explores childhood trauma, memory, sexuality, mental illness, family silence, exploitation and the possibility of healing.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Intikhab Ulfat]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:11:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Bulleh Shah, Waris Shah, And The Soul Of Pakistan]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/24-Aug-2026/bulleh-shah-waris-shah-soul-pakistan]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I spent my school years at one of Lahore's leading boarding schools.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Azhar Dogar]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Art, Culture, Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Azhar Dogar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:41:29 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The Monuments We Recite: Why Pakistan Celebrates The Poets It Fears To Read]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[At Pakistani weddings, on greeting cards, in the captions beneath a certain kind of sunset photograph, one Faiz Ahmed Faiz poem outperforms nearly every other line of Urdu literature: the opening of &ldquo;Mujhse Pehli Si Mohabbat,&rdquo; a lover&rsquo;s gentle confession that he can no longer love as he once did.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zahoor Agha]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Zahoor Agha]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:06:49 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[ Evolution Of Defiance In Punjabi Women’s Literature]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[For approximately 550&ndash;600 years, the meadows of Punjab have been echoing with the legends of Heer, Sahiban, and Sohni&mdash;women whose rebellions were appraised by the profundity of their romantic devoutness.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan Haneef]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan Haneef]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:19:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[City, Love And Memory In Shahid Imtiaz’s Debut Anthology]]></title>
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										<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[Light of the Pen: How Balochistan’s Women Writers Documented Resistance]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[For the women writers of popular resistance in Balochistan, the political is inseparable from the personal, and the poetic is as ancient as the soil.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan Haneef]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Features, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan Haneef]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:39:59 +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 Sorrow To Soul: Reimagining Modern Punjabi Poetry With Rai Mohammad Khan Nasir]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/26-Mar-2026/sorrow-soul-reimagining-modern-punjabi-poetry-rai-mohammad-khan-nasir]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[In today&rsquo;s fast-changing world, many regional languages are struggling to survive in their true spirit.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adnan Tariq]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Features, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Adnan Tariq]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:01:29 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Beloved And Discerning Humourist]]></title>
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										<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[A Cultural Cartographer: Adrian Husain’s Journey Through Selfhood]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/10-Jan-2026/cultural-cartographer-adrian-husain-s-journey-selfhood]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Across the pages of Knife of the Tide, his collection of masterfully wrought sonnets set across borders, landscapes and different stages of selfhood, poet Adrian Husain becomes a kind of cultural cartographer, mapping fault lines and past high points, decay and reinvention.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariam Tahir Butt]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mariam Tahir Butt]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:48:00 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Understanding The Ghalibian Crucible: Unveiling Sufi Realities Beyond The Pretext]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/28-Dec-2025/understanding-ghalibian-crucible-unveiling-sufi-realities-beyond-pretext]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Would it be blasphemous to call Mirza Ghalib a Sufi poet when his rindana lifestyle&mdash;debauchery and licentious behaviour towards religion&mdash;is common knowledge?
Tasawaf in Islamic tradition is based on two fundamental pillars: Shariat, which is the outward, divine law of Islam (God's commands and duties), and Tariqat, the inner,.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan Haneef]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Features, Legacy, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Madiha Arsalan Haneef]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:23:33 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Being Jaun Elia]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Main jo hoon, &lsquo;Jaun Elia&rsquo; hoon janaab
Iska be-had lihaaz kijiye ga&rdquo;
(Who am I, I am &lsquo;Jaun Elia&rsquo; your majesty
Treat him with utmost courtesy)
Jaun Elia&rsquo;s name is very important among the poets of the modern era who have remained distinguished owing to their philosophy and art, also style of saying and.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:11:44 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Planet Severed From Etiquette]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Ab mein akhlaq se toota hua sayyara hoon
Haan mein aavara hoon, aavara hoon, aavara hoon&rdquo;
(Now I am a planet severed from etiquette
Yes, I am profligate, I am profligate, I am profligate)
After leafing through the latest edition of the Kulliyat of Urdu&rsquo;s superlative, singular poet Mustafa Zaidi &ndash;who died 55 years ago.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:57:34 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Poetics Of The Embrace - Then And Now]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/22-Oct-2025/poetics-embrace-now]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Across time and cultures, the embrace has served as a gesture charged with meanings that exceed its physical form: an act that can console, possess, reconcile, or even unsettle.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Aftab Husain]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Aftab Husain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:06:01 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Does The Arc Of The Moral Universe Bend Towards Justice? Faiz And Darwish Respond]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King famously said that &ldquo;the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Salman Kureishy]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Main Slider, Poetry, SPOTLIGHT]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Salman Kureishy]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:00:18 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[‘I Come After Meeting the Seas’ – NM Rashid As Poet Of Poets]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Raja Nazar Mohammed Janjua (1910&ndash;75) preferred to be known as Noon Meem Rashid.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:24:07 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Portal To Peace: Gurudev Tagore, Bard Of Bengal - II]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Click here for the first partThere is no better way to enter a discussion of Tagore&rsquo;s views of nationalism, one of the central themes in his thought and writing, than through one of his most acclaimed novels, The Home and the World (1916).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:06:20 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Portal To Peace: Gurudev Tagore, Bard Of Bengal - I]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In late 1961, when I joined Birmingham University in the UK as an undergraduate, I was selected as part of the cast of students performing the play The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed, Amineh Hoti, Frankie Martin]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed, Amineh Hoti, Frankie Martin]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:01:44 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[What Nietzsche Saw In the Poetry of Hafez - But Iqbal Did Not]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[As I explored the poetry of Hafez of Shiraz in the original, in translations and commentaries, I was delighted and surprised to know that Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th-century German philologist/philosopher, admired Hafez.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Salman Kureishy]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Legacy, Literature, Main Slider, SPOTLIGHT, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Salman Kureishy]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:31:28 +0500</pubDate>

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

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

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					<title><![CDATA[Haris Silajdžić As The True Ambassador Of Peace Between Islam And The West]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Authors&rsquo; Note: 
There are few things more important than promoting understanding and bridge-building between people of different religions and cultures.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed, Amineh Hoti, Frankie Martin]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Diary, Editor's Picks, Features, History, Interview, Legacy, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed, Amineh Hoti, Frankie Martin]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:20:40 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Beyond Spiritual And Profane Translations: What Rumi Actually Said]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I used to recite prayers; now I recite rhymes and poems and songs&rdquo;
(Rumi - Divan, Ghazal #2351/17)
A spectre has been haunting some Muslim writers and critics over the last few years &ndash; the spectre of a popular appreciation of the poetry of Jalal-ad Din Muhammed, better known as Rumi.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Salman Kureishy]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Salman Kureishy]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:38:20 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The First Progressive Poetess]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA["Bade taabaan, bade roshan sitare toot jaate hain
Sahar ki raah takna ta-sahar aasan nahi hota"
(Very bright, very shining meteors do appear
 It is not easy waiting for dawn until the night does disappear)
The creator of six poetic collections published in one volume as Mausam Mausam (Every Season), an autobiography Jo Rahi So Be-Khabari.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:53:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Can Religion Bind Diverse Peoples?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The frequently used word &ldquo;Ummah&rdquo; (worldwide community of believers) has always puzzled me.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Diary, Features, History, Perspective, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:04:37 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Remembering Shiv, Amrita And Shafqat Mirza]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[مینوں کئیاں نیں آکھیا کئی واری
توں لیناں پنجابی دا ناں چھڈ دے
مینوں انج لگدا لوکی آکھدے نیں
او پُتر !اپنی توں ماں چھڈ دے
اُستاد دامن
The volume in my hand, Punjabi Language, Literature and Legends, is the work of Safir Rammah, a distinguished figure in the realm of Punjabi language activism, literary criticism, and editorial work.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tallat Naveed]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:55:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Novice’s Excursion Into The World Of Art]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[I am not an artist in the real sense of the word, but have always enjoyed art.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Art, Culture, Diary, Editor's Picks, Features, Perspective, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:20:44 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA["Whose Corpse Is This On The Battlefield?"]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[As the news and social media platforms relentlessly inundate our screens and overwhelm our senses with images of lifeless bodies and their blood-spattered remains from the deadly conflicts raging in the world, the lines of a Sindhi poem by the late Tanveer Abbasi haunt me deeply:
"Hee kehnjo lash aa jang jey maidan ma.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rinku Dutta]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 05:08:20 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Hindu Imagery And Themes In Pakistani Urdu Poetry: A Case Of ‘Cultural Mourning’?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I write to preserve memories that are under threat of erasure.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Salman Kureishy]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Poetry, SPOTLIGHT]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Salman Kureishy]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:27:25 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of Sex, Lies And Perversion]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The decade of the 1970s began in Pakistan with suicides &ndash; both individual and national.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayesha Siddiqa]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Book Review, Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Literature, Main Slider, Memory, Poetry, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ayesha Siddiqa]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:19:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Mohsin Ehsan’s Poetry And The Indus Delta]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[It was in December 1987 when I embarked upon fulfilling one my long-standing dreams.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Memoir, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:15:10 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Homemaker And A Poet Fall In Love: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/23-Nov-2024/a-homemaker-and-a-poet-fall-in-love-what-could-possibly-go-wrong]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[If a matrimony ad were to be written for Mustafa Zaidi at his peak it would read: Poet, Bureaucrat, Recipient of Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam, Romantic, Suicidal.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mehr Husain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Book Review, Books, Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Literature, Poetry, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mehr Husain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:51:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of Faiz And Films]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[I have felt all my life that Faiz was such a multifaceted person that looking at him just as a poet extraordinaire does not do justice to his persona.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Siraj Khan]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Editor's Picks, Features, Film, Music, Poetry, Main Slider]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Siraj Khan]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:26:35 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The history of humans is replete with references to love.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:33:40 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Homage To A Holy Family: Salam-e-Akhir]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[This Salam, a panegyric and form of Urdu poetry written in praise and respect of our Prophet (SAW) as well as Hussain (AS), his family and companions at Karbala, was written by Syed Aal e Raza, a notable Urdu poet of Marsiyas, Salaams, Ghazals and Quatrains (Qataa, Rubayi).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abbas Masud]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Abbas Masud]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:16:41 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Shakeel Jafri's Poem On Religious Intolerance Became A Guiding Light]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Shakeel Jafri is a versatile personality.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Nafees]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Mohammad Nafees]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:27:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of Punjabi Language, Literary Criticism And Folk Resistance - As Depicted By Zubair Ahmad]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Professor Zubair Ahmad stands out as a prominent contemporary storyteller and poet, acclaimed within the Punjabi literary sphere.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tallat Naveed]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Tallat Naveed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:22:46 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Surjit Patar As Lyrical Intellectual]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The recent demise of eminent Punjabi poet Surjit Patar (14 January 1945 &ndash; 11 May 2024) once again highlighted the increasing literary divide between the two Punjabs.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Safir Rammah]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Safir Rammah]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 02:21:43 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Poetry Of Resistance In Pakistan Through The Ages]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The language of poetry is very powerful.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 01:50:05 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How A Poetess And Scholar Works To Keep Urdu Alive - In India And Elsewhere]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Dr Meh Jabeen Nejm Ghazaal is an Urdu poetess and writer hailing from Mysore, India, the historic land associated with Tipu Sultan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Murad Yusufzai]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Murad Yusufzai]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 13:52:01 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Gaza Monologues At Lahore's Alif Laila Library]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Don&rsquo;t cry child,
Your mommy has only just
cried herself to sleep
(Faiz Ahmad Faiz)
A session of the Gaza Monologues was held at the Alif Laila Library in Gulberg on Friday.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabia Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Rabia Ahmed]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:16:21 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[The news about the passing away of Ahmad Saleem reached me when, having had cataract surgery, I could not read and write without eye-fatigue.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Tariq Rahman]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Tariq Rahman]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:22:35 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Two Poems For Gaza]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Note: Each poem is accompanied by photographs taken by the author in Sidhbari, Himachal Pradesh, India

***

Games Boys Play


Boys in Sidhbari playAt the foothills of theSnow-crowned DhauladharThey bowl and bat                 On Ghore-ke-larThe field where the horses grazeThey don't know the.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rinku Dutta]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Rinku Dutta]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:47:17 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[Sindhi music lovers commemorated the 83rd death anniversary of Bhagat Kanwar Ram, known as the Father of Sindhi classical music, who was assassinated by a group of religious extremists on the 1st of November 1939 near a railway carriage in Shikarpur, a historical town of Sindh.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kamran Khamiso Khowaja]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Kamran Khamiso Khowaja]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:29:56 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[There are many poems in English, Naats in Urdu and Qaseedas in Arabic written on the matchless personality of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH).]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Khurram Khraam Siddiqui]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Khurram Khraam Siddiqui]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 17:09:26 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Kishwar Naheed: An Embodiment Of Courage In Expression]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Kishwar Naheed's latest literary offering graces our midst at a juncture when Urdu poetry finds itself ensnared in a conundrum.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Inaam Nadeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Inaam Nadeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:42:02 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Writing About A Thousand Sublime Sorrows]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Men must endure,
Their going hence, even as their 
coming hither
Ripeness is all
(William Shakespeare)
 
Pain is an integral part of human existence.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Khurram Khraam Siddiqui]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:16:09 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Other Torments And Other Joys: The Dialectical Poetry Of Faiz Ahmed Faiz]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Faiz Ahmed Faiz is a monumental name in the world of leftist poetry; at least in the Marxist circles.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shahalam Tariq]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Shahalam Tariq]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:23:45 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[First Morning Of Freedom]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[So is this the freedom we dreamt for
The dawn stained with the darkness
Mornings with blood
Is this the morning 
For which the friends went a far
In a hope that they will finally
Reached the promised skies
The final destination of stars
In the desert of the skies
Of the promised land
There must be somewhere
The coast to the waves.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hasan Mujtaba]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Culture, Features, Poetry, Main Slider]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Hasan Mujtaba]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:18:06 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Celebrating Philosopher-Poet Kabir In Massachusetts]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Aisi baani boliye, man ka aap khoye  Auran ko sheetal kare, aapuhi sheetal hoye     (One should speak words that eliminate the ego,  That sound good to others, also good for you)  This doha, a traditional form of short symmetrical poem, by Sant Kabir Das, the 15th century poet, mystic, philosopher, scholar continues to resonate today.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[TFT Special]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 08:36:19 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[School Of Ethereal Love: A Rosary Of Glorious Punjabi Poets]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[As the centuries pass a necklace materialises.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Osama Siddique]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks, Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr Osama Siddique]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:11:02 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[3 Poems To Celebrate Mother's Day And Zehra Nigah's 87th Birthday - 'A Child Is A Child After All']]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Today, the 14th of May, is a special day for two reasons: firstly it marks the 87th birthday of the iconic and beloved Urdu poet Zehra Nigah, who is respected and eagerly followed equally on both sides of the border; and secondly the day also marks Mother’s Day.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks, Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 19:58:15 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Why Is Bulleh Shah Relevant In Contemporary Society?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[History tells us that South Asian society was highly influenced by the notion – and still believes – that status assigned on birth defines social class structure and hierarchical orders.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gohar Ali Iftikhar]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Culture, Poetry, History, Heritage, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Gohar Ali Iftikhar]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:18:28 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Mascha Kaléko As Poetess Of The ‘Other’]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In literature and associated narratives, females often carry the otherness and foreignness in society.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ihtsham Ravi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Writing, Literature, Culture, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ihtsham Ravi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:53:00 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[When A Bollywood Songwriter's Daughter Married In Pakistan]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[When legendary songwriter Hasrat Jaipuri’s only daughter Kishwar in Mumbai accepted a marriage proposal from across the border in Pakistan, she never thought that she would end up in dire financial straits in her adopted city, Rahim Yar Khan in the Punjab province of Pakistan.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Siraj Khan]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 07:37:47 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Kishwar Naheed’s Ode To Mahsa Amini On The Iranian Revolution’s 44th Anniversary]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Today marks the 44th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most important events – and certainly the last great revolution – of the 20th century.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Writing, Literature, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2023 05:58:39 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Sadequain Amrohi And The Art Of The Rubai]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Today, the 10th of February 2023, marks the 36th death anniversary of Sadequain Amrohi, the legendary poet, painter and calligrapher.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Syed Faizan Raza]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Art, Editor's Picks, Features, Writing, Literature, Culture, Poetry, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Syed Faizan Raza]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:17:35 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[How Jaun Elia Continues To Speak To Our Social Realities]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood,” said Friedrich Nietzsche.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asif Khan]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Perspective, Poetry, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:23:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA['A Mercy Unto Mankind' - A Dedication To The Prophet (PBUH) From East To West]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[When the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings on him) returned to Makkah at the head of a large victorious army, the people of that city waited anxiously for what he would do to them.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:34:52 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Rilke Through The Eyes Of A Young Poetess]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In the year 2017, I bought Letters to a Young Poet during travel to Lahore for work.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ihtsham Ravi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Writing, Literature, Diary, Perspective, Reflections, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ihtsham Ravi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:07:11 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Celebrating Ghalib’s 225th Birthday Through Rare Artifacts]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in both India and Pakistan on 27 December.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Syed Hassan Haadi]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Syed Hassan Haadi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:38:44 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A New Book About John Keats Tells Us More About His Poetry And The Love Of His Short Life]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Nearly two centuries have passed since John Keats, one of the most celebrated lyrical poets of English literature, died of tuberculosis.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Syed Amir]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Literature, Poetry, Main Slider]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 01:47:52 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of Mind, Body, Sanity And Love: Iffat Navaid's Autobiography]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath questioned and wrote the most beautiful poetry, writer Iffat Navaid wrote her biography marveling on her husband's body-mind – a whole functioning human being reduced to the whims of wits – and wrote such a poignant yet powerful autobiography.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amna Raza Abbasi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Book Review, Poetry, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:14:39 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Lahore Sings Its Heart Out]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Lahore saw its musicians and singers come together to raise funds for flood victims at a mehfil organised and hosted by Tagh'eer Lahore Creative Space.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lifestyle Desk]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:21:59 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[A Poem For The Women Of Iran]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Oh Mullah, our hair locks turn into Flags You can’t hide yourselves behind the hijab of your beards We’ve revolted against Khomeini’s edicts.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[TFT Special]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2022 07:44:12 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Intimations Of Ghalib: Translations That Are Not Hindered By The Literal]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Many moons ago, I received Intimations of Ghalib, a slim volume of translations of the timeless verse by the great 19th-century poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Rumi]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:51:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Interpreting Faiz: A Distant Lover’s Memory or the Longing for a Utopian State?]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Introduction  Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some of the golden words written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Illahi Panhwer]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2022 19:27:27 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Madho Lal Hussain: Saint Of Lights]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[In Lahore, the city of saints, one of the most revered Sufi-poets is Shah Hussain, whose short poems in the genre of the ‘kafi’ haven’t ever lost popularity and appeal – ever since they were composed over four hundred years ago.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Culture, Poetry, Heritage, Legacy]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:26:17 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[The World Of The Urdu Sonnet]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[It is rare to come across a writer who is so devoted to the written word that she cares far less to publish and showcase her work than to write more of it and get it right.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shadab Zeest Hashmi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Book Review, Poetry, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Shadab Zeest Hashmi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:32:48 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Translating The Ghazal Of Ghazals: Amir Khusrau’s 'Zihaal e Miskeen']]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Poetry often bypasses the conventions of connotation, flexes the rigidity of common contextual structures and eventually reinvigorates language itself by nuancing the larger context and stretching what is imagined through it; much of this work of bending and reshaping meaning is done by exploiting the visceral base of language, its inherent music.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shadab Zeest Hashmi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Shadab Zeest Hashmi]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:44:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Of Faith And Reason In Harmony: Ejaz Rahim’s Epic Journey]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[It is a daunting task to draw a circle around Ejaz Rahim’s latest book of English poetry.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Book Review, Poetry, Review]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2022 12:43:16 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Poet Of The Desert: Khwaja Ghulam Farid]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Punjab has a rich literary tradition in Sufi poetry.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Literature, Culture, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 06:42:31 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Lyrical Leftist: Majrooh Sultanpuri At 102]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[‘Majrooh, likh rahe hain vo ahl-e-vafaa ke naam Hum bhi khade hue hain gunahgaar ki tarah (Majrooh, the names of the faithful they write Like a sinner, I await my name, quiet) *** Asrar-ul-Hasan Khan ‘Majrooh’ (1919-2000) was born 102 years ago today in Sultanpur, and studied in relatively conventional settings, becoming a qualified Unani hakim, a.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:36:41 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Deciphering Ghalib For A New Age]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Anjum Altaf is a respected Pakistani academic who has delved deep into the poetry of the 19th-century Urdu poet Asadullah Ghalib – and with his co-author Amit Basole, he has found deeper meanings of Ghalib’s verse that elude many a casual reader.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:57:29 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA["Lament, For God’s Sake, Shun Artistry" - Ishrat Afreen To Mourners of Imam Hussain (AS)]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The full Urdu text of Ishrat Afreen’s moving new poem Azadaran-e-Hussain Ke Naam (To the Mourners of Hussain) is as follows - followed by my humble translation in English: عزاداران حسین ع کے نام جشن کی مانند تیاری نہ کر رسم کی صورت عزاداری نہ کر اے عزادار حسین ابن علی اس طرح زہرا کی دلداری نہ کر نرم کر اس سے زمیں دل ذرا اشک آنکھوں سے فقط جاری نہ.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2021 17:30:25 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Dr. Waheed Jatoi's Work On The Poetry Of G. Allana Is A True Labour Of Love]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Love is the most powerful driving force on the planet.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sajad Jatoi]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Book Review, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 23:30:49 +0500</pubDate>

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										<description><![CDATA[Hamen khabar hai ke hum hain charagh-e-akhir-e-shab Hamare baad andhera nahi ujala hai (We know that we are the lamp at the end of the night After us there won’t be darkness, but light) It may seem obligatory to write the customary centennial tribute to Zaheer Kashmiri – who was born 102 years ago on August 21 in Amritsar – by someone who now.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2021 20:34:54 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Poet of a Few Moments: Sahir Ludhianvi at 100 - II]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Sahir Ludhianvi made his place among Urdu Progressive poets with Taj Mahal, where for the first time the past was presented as deprivation rather than prosperity; and people’s alienation rather than colonial resources have been given a place.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 02:08:44 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Poet of a Few Moments: Sahir Ludhianvi at 100 - I]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Before he was Sahir Ludhianvi, Abdul Hai (1921-80) was born in a family of Punjabi landowners a hundred years ago last month on the 8th of March and passed away on the 25th of October 1980 in Bombay.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 02:44:28 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Shaikh Ayaz: Voice of Sindh - III]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The poetry of Shaikh Ayaz played a wholesome role in the nationalist, patriotic and progressive poetry of Sindh.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:03:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Shaikh Ayaz: Voice of Sindh - II]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[A ‘traitor’ Is not given a Medical Certificate  Shaikh Ayaz moved from Karachi to Sukkur where he remained associated with the legal profession.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 02:16:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Shaikh Ayaz: Voice of Sindh - I]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[‘Ae qaum! Sunaaye the maine kal qisse tujhe taqdeeron ke  Aaj ik ik baghi ke sar par hain taj saje taazeeron ke  Har aik Ayaz ye kehta hai ab tu ne qaul nibhaya hai  Vo geet tu ne gaaye jin se utre rang zameeron ke’  (O nation! Yesterday I narrated to you tales of destinies  Today the head of every rebel is crowned with penalties  Ayaz, everyone.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:31:21 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Two Worlds of Faiz Ahmed Faiz]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Faiz Ahmed Faiz was a poet of the oppressed classes and is rightly recognized for highlighting their torments.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Parvez Mahmood]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:18:42 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Farewell Naseer Turabi  (1945-2021)]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Kuchh roz Naseer aao chalo ghar mein raha jaaye  Logon ko ye shikva hai ke ghar par nahin milta  (Come, in our house for a few days Naseer, let us now remain  For he is not found at home, the people complain)  One had still not fully come to terms with the death of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi last Christmas, when news came on January 10, more than a.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<title><![CDATA[Sardar in the Soirée - II]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Ali Sardar Jafri’s long poem Karbala – recited by him – is available in the public domain.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 04:35:25 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Poem: Hamare dum se hai ab abroo-e-daar-o-rassan]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[For more poetry please visit: www.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fawad Hasan Fawad]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Fawad Hasan Fawad]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:01:34 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Sardar in the Soirée - I]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/16-Oct-2020/sardar-in-the-soiree-i]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[“Har cheez bhula di jaayegi  Yadon ke haseen butkhane se  Har cheez utha di jaayegi  Phir koi nahin yah poochhega  Sardar kahan hai mehfil mein”  (Every memory will be erased from the beautiful temple of memories  Every single thing will have gone  Then, no one will ask:  Where is Sardar in the Soirée?)  For some reason, the writer, orator, poet,.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 03:39:21 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Chhappan Chhuri: Kishwar Naheed At 80]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Translator’s note: June 18 last month marked the 80th birthday of arguably Pakistan’s greatest poet alive, Kishwar Naheed, who has done for Urdu poetry what had been done earlier in Urdu prose by Ismat Chughtai.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:22:36 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Remembering our Paro of the Rose Petals]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[It was certainly liberating reading a couple of weeks ago in these pages about the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Prize for Women’s Writing – the first ever prize for Pakistani women’s writing – and that a young woman had won the inaugural prize for her short-story.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:17:39 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Bard of the Tavaif and Life]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[“It reveals my secrets, however much I conceal in privacy Poetry speaks with true accuracy” (Shayiri Sach Bolti He) Amongst the ranks of Progressive poets, Qateel Shifai – born a hundred years ago earlier this week on the 24th of December in Haripur in what was then the North West Frontier Province, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan – belonged to.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:10:35 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Before I Forget]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Before I Forget is a collection of poems by Dr.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:32:16 +0500</pubDate>

										
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					<title><![CDATA[Firaq Gorakhpuri  as Connoisseur  of Beauty]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/13-Sep-2019/firaq-gorakhpuri-as-connoisseur-of-beauty]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The 28th of August last month marked the 123rd birthday of the prominent writer, critic, poet and polymath Raghupati Sahay Firaaq Gorakhpuri.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:16:04 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Magnificent Makhdoom]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[“Carry life as you walk, and carry the firmament too Walk so, that the entire world should choose to walk with you” The scene is from 1935.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
					<category><![CDATA[Features, Poetry]]></category><language>en</language>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:33:56 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Poetess of ‘No’]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/05-Jul-2019/poetess-of-no]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[The theme of a great part of the world’s poetry is the woman’s self.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 08:36:14 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Melody of Consciousness]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Zehra Nigah, who turned 83 on the 14th of May last month, begins her first volume of poetry Shaam ka Pehla Taara (The First Star of the Evening) with a couplet by Ghalib in which a wish for the renewal of the “Law of Joy” is revealed.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Raza Naeem]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 02:04:25 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[Between grief and optimism]]></title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Distinguished English and Urdu poet Harris Khalique had his latest collection of verse in English hit the stands amidst raving reviews.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Farman Ali]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Farman Ali]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 08:36:54 +0500</pubDate>

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					<title><![CDATA[43210]]></title>
					<link><![CDATA[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/08-Mar-2019/22357]]></link>
										<description><![CDATA[Harmanjeet Singh is the poet behind the Punjabi sensation Laung Lachi which has recently been adopted by a Hindi film.]]></description>

					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ammara Ahmad]]></dc:creator>
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											<author><![CDATA[Ammara Ahmad]]></author>
									
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:35:15 +0500</pubDate>

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