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Contested Coastlines in South Asia

Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia By Charu Gupta & Mukul Sharma Routledge Pp251; Price Indian Rs 650 Interesting addition to
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Women in Islam and the Middle East

 
Women in Islam and the Middle EastEdited by Ruth RodedIB Tauris 2008  Pp293 Much of the lively and often heated debate on the role of ...
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Imran Khan's Personal History

 
Pakistan: A Personal HistoryBy Imran KhanBantam Press; Pp 390This is a timely publication as it comes when Imran Khan is making a Zip-Zap Zoom of ...
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Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan

 
Tracking the Media: Interpretations of Mass Media                            Discourses in India and PakistanBy Subarno Chattarji; Routledge India, 2009; Pp335.The book, as the title tells blandly, examines ...
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Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni-Shia Violence and Its Links to the Middle East

 
Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni-Shia Violence and Its Links to the Middle EastBy Khaled AhmedOxford University Press. PP 369 Veteran Pakistani journalist, Khaled Ahmed traces the growth ...
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Pakistan: Nationalism without a nation?

 
Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot. (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002). ISBN 81-7304-407-4. Price Rs 650 (US$13). 352 pages.The book gives an account of Pakistan's complicated political mosaic focuses ...
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‘Aftershock’ Book offers 'survival' guide, Says China, India will be 'hot spots'

 
Already into its second edition, the book argues that the dotcom bubble, and housing bubble as also Federal Reserve's market ‘manipulation’ and the ‘incredible irresponsibility and bad judgment of the public sector’ have ruined the American economy. It opines that China, India and other emerging markets, while remaining the hotspots of investment for profits, may help buffer the world from the full impact of the U.S.-led recession. ...
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The Karachi Scandal

 
Title: On nous appelle ‘les Karachi’(MEMOIR) By Magali Drouet & Sandrine Leclerc Fleure Noir, Paris ISBN 978-2-265-09220-4 PP253 €17,50; Title: Le Contract. Karachi, l’affaire que Sarkozy voudrait oublier (investigative journalism) By Fabrice Arfi & Fabrice Lhomme Stock, Paris ISBN 978-2-234-06239-9 PP 362 €20,50...
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Rashid Mirror To Af-Pak Chaos

 
There is no gainsaying that each of the three players - US, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have exploited the other for their agenda – India for Pakistan, Soviet Union for the US and holy jihad for the Saudis. Who amongst the three is more selfish, and who has won? The jury is still out...
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Tome on British Secret Services

 
One feature that makes the book interesting is the desperate effort of the British secret services to touch up the image of London and Washington's firm belief that the CIA need n't “to bolster a fading British presence”. The British believed passionately that the US was very much in need of their expertise and they were frustrated when ‘not taken seriously by the US’...
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