Mast Qalandar People often describe Islamabad as a city without a soul. Actually, Islamabad’s soul is not to be found in the city itself, but on the fringes of the city. In the little hamlets and hills. Fauzia Minallah, an Islamabad based artist, has recently published a delightful coffee-table book titled ‘Glimpses into Islamabad’s Soul’. […]
Adil Najam The much-anticipated, and now posthumus, new book by Benazir Bhotto – Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West – is to be released soon and excerpts were printed today in the Sunday Times (London). I have read the excerpts but have not read the book yet. I am very eager to read the book […]
Raza Rumi Decades of imperialism have left Afghanistan and its people devastated. But the fall of the Taliban, and the much touted “liberation” of Afghanistan, has produced a new spate of novels, films and other artistic media dealing with the “Afghan victim.” And when I say “Afghan victim,” I mean a nauseating overdose of burqa-oppression, […]
