January 28, 2001: Around 12 noon, four armed men attack a van belonging to the Darul Uloom Farooqia in Shah Faisal Colony. Five, including teachers and students of the madrassa and the van driver, are killed in the ensuing carnage and four others injured.......                                                            
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Back in the mid ’90s, renowned defence analysts predicted the initiation of an arms race in South Asia in the event of the introduction of anti-tactical missile defence systems: “One that could derail America’s nonproliferation policy in the region and.......
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Make no mistake - Faisal Edhi is a chip off the old block. The newly appointed acting president of the Edhi foundation is a compact, self-contained individual, who like his father, manages to pack quite a punch without overstating his case - or cause......
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Adding yet another chilling chapter to the country’s ignominious track record vis á vis religious bigotry is the case of a college professor accused of blasphemy by his students and on trial for a charge which could, if he is convicted, cost him his life........
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Q: You live abroad, but the stories in Love and Longing are firmly rooted in India, almost as if you had never left home. You don’t comment on the immigrant experience. A: In my first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, there is one major narrative thread that moves through the contemporary United States.........
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Denim, thread and metal rivets. In 1873 two men, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, fashioned these three elements into the most popular garment in the world – Levi’s jeans........
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