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by Khwaja Razi Haider
Ruttie Jinnah was the only woman to capture the heart of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan....read more
| |  | | Selected Plays
by Shahid Nadeem
This selection of seven of Shahid Nadeem's plays, published here for the first time in English translations, fully displays the author's dazzling range and ability. Each play is memorably distinct in both subject and treatment...read more
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by Aazar Ayaz and Andrea Fleschenberg
The Gender Face of Asian Politics covers a wide range of studies on gender and politics, gender and political leadership, impact and forms of female political representation and participation in different Asian countries such as...read more
| |  | | Karakoram in Transition: Culture, Development, and Ecology in the Hunza Valley
by Hermann Kreutzmann
The impact of global change and societal transitions are addressed in this book in which for the first time eminent scholars from a wide set of disciplines cooperate in an international effort to combine the state-of-the-art research results about the Hunza Valley...read more
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by Moni Mohsin
Meet butterfly, Pakistan’s most lovable, silly socialite. An avid partygoer, inspired misspeller, and unwittingly acute observer of Pakistani high society, Butterfly is a woman like no other...read more
| |  | | Children Trafficking in Pakistan
by Musa Khan Jalalzai
This book contains a number of fact-based articles by prominent writers (including Asma Jehangir) on the subject of Child Trafficking in Pakistan...read more
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by Zamir Niazi
Zamir Niazi always took a very objective view of the past and the present and was quite critical of whoever curbed the freedom of the Press or compromised on it. His writings are an excellent portrayal of the state and the role of Press in Pakistan...read more
| |  | | A Woman of Substance: The Memoirs of Begum Khurshid Mirza
Edited & Compiled by Lubna Kazim
Khurshid Mirza’s dynamism led her to leave the cloistered world of Aligarh and pursue a career in films in Bombay. She rapidly climbed the ladder of success as Renuka Devi and worked with famous actors and directors of the time. The Partition brought her film career to an end and she left for Pakistan...read more
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 | | In the Name of Honor: A Memoir
by Mukhtar Mai
In June 2002, journalists throughout the world began to hear of the gang rape of a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala. The rape was ordered by a local clan known as the Mastoi and was arranged as punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman's brother. Timely and topical, In the Name of Honor is the remarkable and inspirational memoir of a woman who fought and triumphed against exceptional odds...read more
| |  | | Marital Discord: Causes & Cures
This book contains the foundations for a happy marriage; it calls attention to the most common marital problems that people complain about, and then after that diagnosis, it contains an important discussion on how couples can best deal with and solve marital disagreements...read more
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Edited by John Retallick & Iffat Farah
The crux of the argument is that schools need to be transformed into learning communities if significant improvement is to take place...read more
| |  | | "Believing Women" in Islam
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by Asma Barlas
Takes readers into the very heart of Islamic teachings on women, gender and patriarchy, allowing them to understand Islam through its most sacred scripture rather than through cultural practices...read more
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by Salma Ahmed
This is the absorbing tale of a woman who was a pampered child, and unhappy wife and a repentant mother—but one who emerged triumphant as a woman of substance, in business and politics...read more
| |  | | Between Chaddor and the Market
by Jasmin Mirza
The author has described how and why women, despite the gender-based constraints of Pakistani society, have stepped into the market-economy and work force...read more
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by Tariq Rahman
The alien worlds described in this book are the three major streams of school education in Pakistan: Islamic seminaries (madrassas), Urdu-medium schools and elitist English-medium schools...read more
| |  | | The State of Pakistan's Children (2003)
SPARC, a non-profit organization, with the same aims as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, is trying to improve the lot of children in Pakistan...read more
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