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Posted in Book Review on Dec 5th, 2011
In Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, Steve Inskeep tries to make sense of Pakistan’s largest city. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book is divided into four parts.
Posted in Book Review on Oct 2nd, 2011
Tweet Book review: Kaptaan’s kahaani Unless your name is Jinnah, it takes a healthy amount of arrogance to write a book titled Pakistan: A Personal History. About as much arrogance as it would take to believe that you can lead an injury-plagued, out-of-form cricket team to a World Cup victory or that you can build a [...]
Posted in Book Review on Oct 2nd, 2011
Book Review Kaptain’s Kahani about Imran Khan, Unless your name is Jinnah, it takes a healthy amount of arrogance to write a book titled Pakistan: A Personal History. About as much arrogance as it would take to believe that you can lead an injury-plagued, out-of-form cricket team to a World Cup victory or that you can build a cancer hospital from scratch that provides free treatment to the poor.
Posted in Book Review on Sep 28th, 2011
Tweet Akhtar defends remarks against Tendulkar, refuses to apologise Shoaib Akhtar has defended his remarks against Sachin Tendulkar made in his book Controversially Yours and says most of his fans support him and only a minority is criticising him.
Posted in Book Review on Sep 27th, 2011
Posted in Book Review on Sep 26th, 2011
Posted in Book Review, Sports on Sep 25th, 2011
Tweet Shoaib Akhtar calls off book launch in Mumbai MUMBAI: Shoaib Akhtar has cancelled the launching ceremony of his autobiography ‘Controversially Yours’ in Mumbai. According to reports in the Indian media, the launching ceremony was scheduled for Sunday.
Posted in Book Review on Sep 25th, 2011
Tweet Book review: Our Lady of Alice Bhatti – Alice in charya-land Our Lady of Alice Bhatti is a tale of love, death, bigotry and violence. It deals with life in its raw form and deconstructs it to the very core. It is a love story of Alice Bhatti, a Catholic woman who has just been [...]
Posted in Book Review on Sep 24th, 2011
Tweet Shoaib Akhtar’s ‘Controversially Yours’ released NEW DELHI: Former Test cricketer Shoaib Akhtar’s book ‘Controversially Yours’ that has already sparked much controversy has been released in India, Geo News reported Saturday.
Posted in Book Review on Sep 24th, 2011
Tweet Book review: Unlikely friendships – odd couples Book: Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Posted in Book Review on Sep 19th, 2011
Posted in Book Review on Sep 19th, 2011
Tweet Book launch: ‘Making waves’ in the world of art ISLAMABAD: In our times, contemporary art has become about ownership and not about knowledge. This was stated by artist and writer Salima Hashmi, while speaking at the book launch of “Making Waves” here on Thursday. Authored by Silwat Ali, the book is a compilation of artwork [...]
Posted in Book Review, Celebrities on Sep 4th, 2011
Posted in Book Review on Sep 4th, 2011
Posted in Book Review on Jul 12th, 2011
Posted in Book Review, general-information on Apr 16th, 2011
Each country’s intelligence service is the “mirror of the society it serves.” The British see intelligence as a game, with the lottery of birth deciding which side you’re on. America sees spying as “big business” and is more interested in electronics than in battles of wits. Israel’s secret services, like the country itself, were the creation of humorless Russians and Poles. So Mossad and Shin Bet, like the Cheka and OGPU, are “primarily a tool for preserving the regime.” That involves plenty of torture and murder at home and abroad, and more mischief than analysis
Posted in Book Review on Sep 25th, 2010
BOOK REVIEW A History of God. Written by Karen Armstrong. The interaction with the God has always involved rigid adventures like mountain tops, earthquake, darkness, delusion and danger. Despite the subject being more a philosophy, history of God is very interesting, passionate and intense. The historians always had the metaphors to describe it in a threatening way and the creator and creation could never have a relationship of understanding and love.
Posted in Book Review on Sep 25th, 2010
Gohar Ayub’s ‘Glimpses into the Corridors of Power’ or ‘Aiwaan Iqtidaar ke Mushahidaat’ focuses on his role as a leading politician of the country from the 1977 elections to the end of the so called democratic rule in 1999 with the inception of General Pervez Musharraf’s reign. Gohar’s picture appears on the book’s cover. In the background looms his father in military uniform. That is entirely appropriate since the book is as much a biography of the field marshal as it is an autobiography of the author
Posted in Book Review on Sep 25th, 2010
Book Review Civilization and Its Enemies, Civilization and Its Enemies (CIE) by mystery writer-turned cultural theorist Lee Harris contains some of the most disturbing (and racist) political rhetoric to reach a mass audience since Mein Kampf.
Posted in Book Review on Sep 25th, 2010
“China,s Dilemma: The Taiwan Issue” by Sheng Linjun , L.B.Tauris Publisher, Pages: 239, Price: 17.95 UK P Sheng is a China-born scholar and has completed his education from China and Australia.
Posted in Book Review on Sep 25th, 2010
“BLIND MEN OF HINDOOSTAN, – INDO-PAK NUCLEAR WAR, General Krishnaswami Sunder ji joined the British Army in 1945, and after holding every level of command appointment – from platoon commander to Chief of the Indian Army – retired in 1988.
Posted in Book Review on Sep 22nd, 2010
Book Review Battle of Chhamb 1971. The Indo-Pak War of 1971 was fought between the two adversaries who probably had identical missions and were evenly poised against each other. Chances remained wide open to either side till the end .
Posted in Book Review on Sep 22nd, 2010
This article covers the review of the book ASIAN JUGGERNAUT BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY.
Posted in Afghanistan, Book Review, funny stuff, Health, Music, Pakistan, poetry on May 29th, 2010
Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that the need of the hour is to promote media democracy in the country where media should work to responsibly provide intellectual feedback to the political government’s policies to help improve its working.
The Minister was addressing the certificate distribution ceremony of the 3rd National Media Workshop on “Media as an element of National Power” at National Defence University here on Friday.
Posted in Book Review, Music, poetry on Apr 25th, 2010
.Sania kins reach Lahore Shoaib Malik’s father-in-law and Sania Mirza’s father Imran Mirza has arrived in Lahore today with Sania’s sister Anam Mirza and other relatives. They have been taken from the Allama Iqbal Airport to a local five-star hotel where the eighth floor has been booked for them.
Sania’s family reached Lahore from Delhi through a PIA flight PK-271. While talking with media after arriving at the airport, Imran Mirza said that we are happy to reach Pakistan. We have come here for attending the ceremonies of valima and reception.
Replying to a question, he said that we pray to God for success of this marriage. “We are extremely excited to be here …. I hope the marriage is successful,” Imran Ali Mirza, father of Sania Mirza, said while talking to media men on his arrival at the airport. He was accompanied with Anam Mirza, sister of Sania Mirza besides other members of Mirza family. An entire floor of a local hotel has been reserved for accommodating the guests. Meanwhile, addressing a press conference in Sialkot along with MPA Chaudhry Akhlaq, Shoaib’s brother-in-law Imran Zafar said that they are completely following the government’s policy of avoiding unnecessary electricity.
Their house is being illuminated through generator and Wapda is not extending any undue favour. He said that Shoaib and Sania would reach Sialkot tomorrow for attending their reception. Imran Zafar said that journalists would be fully cooperated at the reception but they would not be allowed to cover the ceremony.
He said that he himself is making all the arrangements of Shoaib’s valima and there is no interference by the city administration. MPA Chaudhry Akhlaq said on this occasion that there is no ban on serving more than one dish. This may be recalled that all decorative lights were taken off from the house of Shoaib after Wapda made a raid for illuminating it.
Meanwhile, the newly wed couple Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza attended a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in their honour on Friday. According to details, the couple left the hotel from the back door without any protocol to attend the dinner whereas despite using main gate the super star couple entered the PM House from back door.
It was also reported that PM, First Lady, Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza were present at the dinner. Prime Minister expressed best wishes for the newly wedded couple. The Prime Minister presented some gifts to the star couple which they accepted with thanks.