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Pakistan: Compiled and introduced by Muneeza Shamsie


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The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2011 46: 691
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Pakistan
compiled and introduced by Muneeza Shamsie
Karachi, Pakistan

Introduction
2010 marked the birth centenary of Ahmed Ali (1910-1994), one of the
great pioneers of South Asian English fiction and, for a long while, the only
internationally known writer of Pakistani English fiction. The immense
changes that have taken place since and the increasing interest in Pakistani
English Literature were reflected by the publication of special issues on
Pakistan of Granta and other international journals. There were also important
critical works by Cara Cilano and Masood Raja, a debut poetry volume by
Shadab Zeest Hashmi, new fiction by established writers Hanif Kureishi,
Tariq Ali and Roopa Farooki and notable debuts by Anis Shivani, Maha
Khan Philips and Haider Warraich. There were incisive political analyses
by Khaled Ahmed and Zahid Hussain, a topical autobiography by Fatima
Bhutto and English translations of early women’s memoirs – respectively,
by a Princess of Pataudi and by Atiya Fyzee Rahamin. There were also
accomplished translations by Musharraf Farooqi and Yasmeen Hameed.
Pakistani English fiction continued to gather awards. Daniyal
Mueenuddin’s story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders won
the regional (Eurasia) Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First
Book, the O. Henry Award, The Story Prize and The Rosenthal Family
Foundation Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The
National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award.
Aamer Hussein’s novella Another Gulmohar Tree was shortlisted for the
regional (Eurasia) Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. Kamila
Shamsie’s fifth novel Burnt Shadows received the Anisfield Wolf Award,
the AOLA award and the Nord-Sud Award; Uzma Aslam Khan’s third
novel Geometry of God received the IPPY Bronze Award; Musharraf Ali
Farooqi’s Story of A Widow and H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy were shortlisted
for the inaugural DSC award which Naqvi won in 2011; Bina Shah’s fourth
novel A Season For Martyrs, published first in an Italian edition, received

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the Il Mondo Di Bambini International Prize; Maniza fourth Naqvi’s novel


A Matter of Detail received Pakistan’s Patras Bokhari Award.
The English short story in Pakistan has a long history (M. Shamsie Archiv,
135). Hanif Kureishi’s Collected Stories reproduce his three story collections
in chronological order, together with new stories, including “Weddings and
Beheadings”, consisting of a professional photographer’s chilling monologue,
while the sophisticated “The Assault” portrays the debilitating power of words.
Following Kureishi’s development as a writer, the book includes Kureishi
classics such as “We’re Not Jews”, “My Son the Fanatic” and “The Body”.
Another innate storyteller, the Pakistani American Anis Shivani makes an
accomplished debut with Anatolia and Other Stories. The title story, set in
Ottoman Turkey, revolves around the trial of Noah, a prosperous Jewish
merchant falsely accused of tax evasion. The narrative moves seamlessly
from the ambitions and dilemmas of the kadi (judge) to Noah’s discussions
on western philosophy with Nasibeh, daughter of his Muslim patron. The
story embodies Shivani’s ability to encapsulate entire worlds with brevity and
to illuminate issues of identity and belonging across cultures and centuries.
The only story with South Asian characters, “Independence”, tells of desire,
ambition and duty in a pre-Partition India. Among several stories about
the United States, “Manzanar” tells of a Japanese American businessman
confined to camp in 1942; “Gypsy” looks at the lives of a Rom family from
Hungary; “Texas” describes an American nanny working for a prosperous
couple from Indonesia.
Roopa Farooki is the daughter of a Pakistani father and Bangladeshi
mother. In her fourth novel Half Life, Dr. Aruna Ahmed Jones (Roony), a
literature scholar of Singapore-Bangladeshi origin, impulsively walks out
on her marriage with Patrick, her English husband in London. She flies
back to Singapore to her childhood friend and onetime lover, Ejaz Ahsan
(Jazz). She finds a letter by Hari Hassan, a respected but minor Bengali
poet, addressed in 1971 to “my brother enemy” – Hari’s old friend Anwar,
a Punjabi army officer. As family secrets unfold, it transpires that Hari
Hassan is dying in Kuala Lumpur and he is Jazz’s estranged father. The
manner in which Farooki treats the 1971 war, the relationship between
Hari and Anwer and the quiet intertwining of their personal and family
histories (as well as that of their two nations) also captures the story of
the subcontinent and its divisions across two generations.
Tariq Ali’s fifth “Islam Quintet” novel The Night of the Golden
Butterfly set in Pakistan over some fifty years, reflects a combination of
polemic, anger and self-indulgence. The idealism and defiance of Dara
(the narrator) during his left-wing student days in Lahore is juxtaposed
with his exile in London in the jaded present while Pakistan has been
overtaken by military rule, corruption and religious extremism. Dara,
a writer, is contacted by Plato, an older friend from Dara’s Lahore past

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to write his biography. Plato – a fellow Punjabi, one-time maths teacher


and now a distinguished Pakistani painter – is working on a political
triptych which will set “Fatherland” (Pakistan) on fire. Dara owes Plato
a favour: long ago, Plato had arranged a secret tryst for the student Dara
with Dara’s great love, Jindie, a Chinese Pakistani girl. The beautiful and
clever Jindie, known as sunheri titli – The Golden Butterfly – subsequently
married Dara’s friend Zahid, a doctor. Thanks to Plato, their lives become
intertwined again in London. The unhappily married Jindie presents Dara
with a manuscript – the history of her family. The excavation of little
known historical detail remains the great strength of Tariq Ali’s novels:
Jindie’s trip to China and her manuscript about Chinese Muslims provide
the book with some of its most interesting passages.
Bina Shah’s third novel Slum Child tells of Laila, a poor, orphaned
Christian girl who struggles against the problems of belonging to a minority
and the ravages of extreme poverty. She finds work as a maidservant with
a benevolent employer, whose grownup children rescue her from the
machinations of her stepfather. Haider Warraich’s first novel Auras of the
Jinn looks at many different dimensions of Pakistani life, including poverty,
superstition and police brutality. Set in Rawalpindi, the plot revolves
around Imran, the son of a mechanic, Haji Hassan, and his religious wife,
Khatoon. Punished brutally by his school teacher, Imran falls in with the
pot-smoking Farhan and the Soota Boyz, a gang of petty criminals. Caught
by the police, Imran suffers multiple fractures and neurological damage.
Soon he begins to communicate with a “presence”, which he perceives as
a wonderful female, but his family believes him to be possessed by a Jinn
and subjects him to a maulvi’s brutal exorcisms. Imran’s horrified father
decides to contact an old friend, a medical doctor, and entrusts Imran to
his care. Imran is treated in hospital without a fee. In this new world of
patients, doctors and nurses, the narrative does dissipate slightly, but it
also highlights a different type of exploitation: instead of curing Imran,
the doctor withdraws his medicines as an experiment for medical study.
Maha Khan Phillip’s first novel, Beautiful from This Angle, employs satire
to make a telling comment on exploitation and iniquity in Pakistan and to
lampoon the western media. The privileged young Amyna contributes a
racy newspaper column about her giddy social whirl of sex and drugs while
also writing a fictitious memoir, the Oppressed Muslim Woman’s story, for
western audiences. Niilofar, a poor woman bullied by her husband, comes
to Amynah’s landowning friend Henna for help. Together with Mumtaz,
the high-minded daughter of a drug dealer (who turns out to be a CIA
agent), they decide to make a film to help Niilofar. They embellish her story
with details of their own, inspired by their friend Monte. He is making a
reality show, “Who Wants to Be a Terrorist”, for a foreign channel, using
foreign actors and a false training camp. But a real terrorist turns up in

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Niilofar’s sleepy village. Amid the media attention, Mumtaz evolves into
a terrifying political and media opportunist, while Amynah is forced to
consider her own integrity and confront a few home truths.
In an accomplished first collection consisting of spare, evocative poems,
Pakistani American Shadab Zeest Hashmi commemorates Andalusia’s
inspiring Euro-Arab culture in The Baker of Tarifa. The book, divided into
three, includes prose poems and performance poetry and uses bread as
the central metaphor for an enduring multicultural legacy. The first part
celebrates Europe’s introduction to sugar cane, palm fronds and stringed
musical instruments, among others. A sequence revolves around Yusuf
(Joseph), “His name means/the interpreter of dreams”. The poem “Yusuf
Sees the Ghost of the Last Queen of Andalus” conjures up images of empty
cradles and war. The second part revolves around the 1492 expulsion of
the Moors from Spain and includes references to historical figures such as
Boabdil and Queen Isabella. The final section “Lambent” gathers up words,
crafts and cultures which reflect to this day the Andalusian inheritance
in Europe and far beyond.
The year also saw important translations of Urdu, Sindhi and Punjabi
poetry including Songs of Freedom, translations of the great Sindhi poet
Shaikh Ayaz, by Anwer Pirzado, J.M. Girglani, Saleem Noorhusain and
others. This compilation of Ayaz’s volumes includes a valuable introduction
to each collection and leads up to a tribute to Ayaz. Muzaffar A. Ghaffar
continues his “Within Reach” series of Punjabi mystic poetry with his
translation of Damodar Das Aurora’s great classic Heer Damodar based
on the romantic folk legend of Heer Ranjha. The novelist, children’s writer
and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi brings his considerable linguistic and
literary skills to Rococo and Other Worlds consisting of his translations
of selected poems from Afzal Ahmed Syed’s three Urdu collections. The
quality of translation is truly remarkable: each poem stands on its own
in English. Afzal’s poems, merging the classical and the modern, range
from the witty and ironic to the metaphorical and symbolic. He mingles a
myriad of images, such as Goya and Napoleon in the title poem, references
to chocolate chip cookies and Egyptian amulets in “It Could Never Be”
and images of blind cheetahs, coloured fish and flying clouds in “If I Do
Not Return”. In “Spring Shall Return to the City”, he writes:
By virtue of the prime minister’s
photogenic smile
Adonis-like
the murdered youth shall return from Hades
And other victims too.
The president shall clear his throat
And the terrorists will surrender arms
And get jobs at the Mehran Bank.

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Yasmeen Hameed meets a different challenge with her rich, extensive


collection, Pakistani Urdu Verse, consisting of her translations of the
Urdu nazm by over 60 writers. The poets she has selected represent
“the new stream of thought that emerged almost simultaneously with
the new genre, that is free verse in the first half of the twentieth century”
(xv–vi). The writers follow a chronological order by date of birth; each
is accompanied by a nuanced, informed and valuable introduction. The
many poets represented here include such luminaries as Faiz Ahmed
Faiz, N.M. Rashid, Munir Niazi, Wazir Agha, Ada Jafarey, Ahmed Faraz,
Iftikhar Arif, Parween Shakir, Kishwar Naheed, Sarmad Sehbai, Fahmida
Riaz, Zeeshan Sahil as well as younger writers. Hameed’s book is indeed
a labour of love and scholarship and her translations certainly bring Urdu
poetry to an Anglophone audience
Bilal Tanweer is among the promising new short story writers included
in Granta’s “New Voices”, but he has also translated Ibn-e Safi’s popular
Urdu detective fiction House of Fear. Consisting of two novellas, the
book features the wily Ali Imran who plays the buffoon but is in fact
the head of the secret service and soon unmasks the criminal. Tanweer’s
translation is fluid and lively but the slapstick is perhaps more effective
in the original. S.M. Shahid has been much praised for his translations
of two great Urdu humorists in Glimpses: Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi and
Glimpses: Shafiqur Rahman. The unconventional marriage of the beautiful
and lively Ruttie Petit to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s future founder,
against the wishes of her Parsee parents, and the subsequent tensions
in her marriage as well as her untimely death are subjects of endless
fascination in Pakistan but remain shrouded in silence. Unfortunately
Khawaja Haider Razi’s slim book Ruttie Jinnah: The Story Told and
Untold has very little to offer that is either new or insightful and focuses,
instead, more on the public figure of Jinnah than on Ruttie herself. In
contrast, Atiya’s Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to
Edwardian Britain by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Sunil Sharma provides
a well-documented biography which gives context to the co-authors’
English translation of Atiya Fyzee’s 1906 Urdu travelogue Zamana-i-
Tahsil (A Time of Education). Her account of her trip to London to join
a teachers training programme includes the many eminent public and
literary figures she met, both British and Indian, and vividly captures
London at the height of Empire. The authors also provide glimpses of
Atiya’s marriage to artist Samuel Fyzee Rahamin and her subsequent
travels to the United States as well as her interest in crafts, choreography,
music and women’s rights. There is also an illuminating analysis of her
famous correspondence/relationship with two great Urdu poets, Shibli
Nomani and Muhammed Iqbal: the appendix includes extracts from
Atiya’s slim but famous 1947 book Iqbal.

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Biti Kahani: Autobiography of Princess Shahr Bano Begum of Pataudi,


originally written in Urdu in the 1880s, is possibly the first memoir by
an Indian Muslim woman. Translated by Dr. Tahera Aftab, it provides
a valuable insight into women’s lives in the late nineteenth century and
includes references to the 1857 conflict and its aftermath. Bilquis Nasiruddin
Khan’s memoir, Song of Hyderabad, describes the author’s childhood in
the princely state of Hyderabad amid traditional customs and court life.
She goes on to relate the story of her migration to Pakistan in 1947 as the
wife of a company executive in Pakistan Burmah Shell and her subsequent
travels. Her account of changing times is filled with contrasts and includes
the two-year incarceration of her son and her son-in-law, during the rule
of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government, for alleged involvement in the
Baluchistan uprising. Fatima Bhutto’s autobiography Songs of Blood and
Sword tells a moving tale of family tragedy and political wrangling. There
are some powerful passages in the book including the rivalry between
Fatima’s father Murtaza and his sister Benazir, who both died violent
deaths as did their brother Shahnawaz and their father Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto. The problem arises when political actions and policies are judged
and described through a personal bias and lead to distortions of history.
Other autobiographies of interest include those by two distinguished
diplomats: South American Diaries: A Pakistani Ambassador’s Journal
1981–1995 by Raja Tridiv Roy and Quiet Diplomacy: Memoirs of an
Ambassador of Pakistan by Jamsheed Marker. The Punjab Story, edited
by Waheed Ahmad, consists of rare documents – Jinnah’s correspondence
with Muslim League leaders during the 1940s – which were brought to
Pakistan by Wajid Shamsul Hassan under dramatic circumstances during
the Partition riots. Word for Word: Stories behind Everyday Words We
Use by Khaled Ahmed is an immensely readable and fascinating book on
etymology which draws on Ahmed’s famous newspaper columns of that
title. He takes the reader on a learned journey across Arabic, Aramaic,
English, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit and Urdu, among
other languages.
The prolific and incisive Ahmed also published a two-volume political
analysis The Musharraf Years 1998–2008 and a third book, Sectarian War:
Pakistan’s Sunni Shia Violence and Its Links to the Middle East. Another
distinguished journalist Zahid Husain also explores the traumatic story
of growing extremism and sectarianism in Pakistan in his lucid account
The Scorpions Tale; a new updated edition of Taliban by Ahmed Rashid
celebrated the book’s tenth anniversary. It was good to see a new version
of Zamir Niazi’s pioneering work The Press in Chains, edited by Zubeida
Mustafa and detailing the long history of press censorship in Pakistan. The
many dimensions of Karachi are revealed through three different books:
the updated edition of Karachi: Megacity of Our Times, edited by Anwer

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Mooraj and Hamida Khuhro, with new colour illustrations; Karachiwala: A


Subcontinent within a City, edited by Rumana Husain and filled with rare
photographs and essays by Karachi citizens, celebrating the city’s history
and multiculturalism; Look at the City from Here: Karachi Writings, edited
by Asif Farrukhi, a compilation of fiction and non-fiction which tell the
city’s story from colonial times to the present day.
In fact, there was a very diverse and rich offering of non-fiction, including
Calling a Spade a Spade, a collection of articles by Minoo P. Bhandara,
Bapsi Sidhwa’s brother. Art books included Marjorie Husain’s biography
Iqbal Hussein: The Painter of Imprisoned Souls and the sumptuous Mazaar
Bazaar: Design and Visual Culture in Pakistan, edited by Saima Zaidi, which
includes informative articles on a wide range of subjects from calligraphy
and contemporary painting to films, advertising and photography. Mehdi
Hassan: The Man and His Music, edited by Asif Noorani, pays tribute to
the unique singer and includes articles, photographs and CDs.
In Search of Sacred Spaces by Samina Quraeshi is filled with stunning
photographs. The text describes Quraeshi’s personal spiritual journey and
is supplemented by an informed chapter by Ali S. Asanai providing an
overview of Sufism in South Asia; in another chapter, architect Kamil Khan
Mumtaz discusses the design elements of Sufi shrines. Ibn Tamiyya and
His Times, edited by Shahab Ahmed and Youssef Rappoport, consists of
essays examining the influence and impact of the eponymous controversial
and complex Islamic thinker who has influenced Wahabi, Salafi and other
movements in Islam while Iqbal’s Concept of God by Salman Raschid
looks at the philosophic legacy of the great poet.
The year saw some significant works of literary criticism. Dohra Ahmed’s
Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines how
the anti-colonial discourse of South Asian and African writers was shaped
by their contact with American utopian literary texts. It was described as
a book “with a lasting impact on American studies” by Francoise Lionnet
(Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46(2): p. 226). Ambreen Hai’s important
study, Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial
Literature, looks at the connections between language, textuality and the
body in the works of Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster and Salman Rushdie.
Hai focuses on the self-conscious awareness of all three writers in “the
agency of their words” (6). Central to this are profound issues of power,
politics and censorship. In her reading, the human body becomes “the site
of autonomy, instrumentality and subjection” (9). Hai looks at Kipling’s
“compulsive fascination for childhood and children’s bodies” and argues
that child deaths reflect British anxieties about the ambiguity of his stories
as tales of empire: Kipling’s dead children embody, in her view, censorship,
censure and subversion. She goes on to discuss hybridity and bilingualism
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and who learn Hindi, are endowed with creativity, inventiveness and the
ability to mediate between cultures – skills lacking in Britons newly arrived
in India. She provides a fascinating reading of Kim, locating Kim’s power
in language and demonstrating the symbolic role of the amulet he wears
on his chest and of his white skin as embodiments of text. She says that
through the conflicts of Kim, the narrative makes an assertion of self-
disguise and the difficulties/ambiguities of writing. In her discussion of
Forster’s sexual politics and his awareness of the links between different
forms of oppression – racial, gendered and sexual – Hai looks at the author’s
prolonged struggle to write A Passage to India. She examines Forster’s
concerns with language and the double meanings which run through the
text, with particular attention to the mysterious cave scene and its echoes
in the courtroom. In Dr. Aziz’s inability to write a poem for the future
that transcends creed and culture, Hai reads Forster’s inability to imagine
a postcolonial language – of the kind Salman Rushdie set out to invent
in Midnight’s Children through this narrator Saleem Sinai – and argues
that Midnight Children’s constant references to the body, its processes,
ingestions, secretions and excretions present “the genesis of [the] human
body as the genesis of the text” (205).
Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim
National Identity (1857–1947) by Masood Ashraf Raja studies the ways
in which pre-Partition literary texts in Urdu created transgeographic
narratives of Muslim unity which contributed to the idea of Pakistan. He
asserts that the growth of Muslim nationalism and concepts of Muslim
exceptionalism were political and “a question of survival” (xvi) amid major
political changes in the post-Mutiny era. He re-interprets the writings of
Ghalib and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as a means of negotiating an equitable
relationship between the British Raj and the Indian Muslims (not one
of patronage). He discusses the new movement in Urdu literary criticism
pioneered by Azad and Hali and the reformist message in the fiction of
Nazir Ahmed, who advocated Anglicization while neo-traditionals such
as Shibli Nomani and Akbar Allahbadi searched for answers in Muslim
history and pan-Islamism instead. Raja goes on to compare Iqbal and his
modern, egalitarian universalist interpretation of Islam with Maulana
Mawdudi’s concepts of an Islamic state governed by shariah.
Cara Cilano’s pioneering book National Identities in Pakistan: The 1971
War in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction explores the loss of East Pakistan
which gained independence as Bangladesh. As the events of that traumatic
year have passed into a virtual public amnesia in Pakistan, Cilano points
out the many contradictions in the 1972 Hamoodur Rahman Commission
Report and looks for answers in Pakistani fiction in English as well as in
translated Urdu texts. She provides an excellent reading of Sorayya Y.
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the uncanny dream paintings, in 1990s Islamabad, by Noor the daughter


of a Bengali woman orphaned in 1971 and adopted by a West Pakistani
soldier. Cilano also discusses the importance of memory and remembering
in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography and Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke.
She interrogates issues of nationhood in Intizar Hussain’s metaphorical
story “City of Sorrows”, about Biharis, the Urdu-speaking migrants from
north-east India to East Pakistan, who are still confined to Bangladeshi
concentration camps and denied entry into Pakistan. Cilano also examines
short fiction by Umme Umara, Aamer Hussein, Asif Farrukhi and Hasan
Manzar and the changing post-1971 political realities in Pakistan.
Cilano guest-edited the “Special Issue on 1971 Indo-Pakistan War” of
Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies which has five essays that look
at the national and international dimensions of the conflict. These include
Philip Oldenberg’s discussion of the four different phases of the 1971
war including Kissinger’s visit to Peking; Luke A. Nichter and Richard
A. Moss’s examination of the memoirs and policies of Richard Nixon and
Henry Kissinger and Mavra Farooq’s analysis of the relationship between
Pakistan and China in 1971.
Now in its second year, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies,
edited by Masood Raja at the University of New Texas, is an immensely
important addition to Pakistan Studies. The journal is a peer-reviewed
multi-disciplinary academic journal with online and print editions; its many
literature-related writings include critical articles, reviews, bibliography
and a much-needed platform for new poetry, fiction and translations by
writers of Pakistani origin.
Pakistan’s recent flourish of art, literature and music has been
overshadowed by increasing violence and extremism. This fact and the
diversity of Pakistan emerge in Granta 112: Pakistan. Essays by Jane
Perlez and Declan Walsh combine impressions of Pakistan with political
observations, Fatima Bhutto writes of the Sheedis, a unique Pakistani
community of African origin; Kamila Shamsie looks at Pakistan’s pop
music revolution. There is some very fine fiction by Nadeem Aslam,
Mohammed Hanif and Jamil Ahmed, poems by Yasmeen Hameed and
Daniyal Mueenuddin and photographs of contemporary Pakistani art.
This excellent issue is supplemented further by several online articles,
including John Siddique’s six-part Partition memoir and the witty “How
to Write about Pakistan” by four well known writers.
The bi-annual Pakistani Literature’s special issue Selections 1947–2010,
compiled and edited by Khurram Khiraam Siddiqi, is divided by language
and includes English translations of the country’s major literatures as
well as a section on Pakistani English Literature. The work featured in
this comprehensive volume ranges from major pre-Partition writers to
contemporary voices such as Hasina Gul, Zeeshan Sahil, Attiya Dawood,
Farkhanda Lodhi, Moniza Alvi and Kamila Shamsie.
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There is, of course, a direct relationship between Pakistan and the


wider Muslim world, including the diaspora. The thought-provoking
Interventions special issue, Muslims in the Frame, guest-edited by Peter
Morey and Amina Yaqin, addresses the stereotyping of Muslims in the
western media and related discriminatory social and political discourses.
Tariq Modood explores minority identity and multiculturalism; Christoph
Ramm examines Islamophobic attitudes in Germany; Amina Yaqin looks
at media portrayals of Muslims, particularly women, as the oppressed
Other; Ziauddin Sardar and Merry Wyn Davies comment on Hollywood’s
portrayal of Muslims and Peter Morey analyses 24, the popular U.S.
television thriller.
Overall, Pakistani English literature continues to be vital and varied,
though there was a glaring paucity of drama. There was, however, a
crucial increase in critical studies. Among Pakistan’s English language
press, Dawn’s Books & Authors remains the only book supplement in a
national daily, but literature-related issues are being discussed increasingly
in op-ed, metropolitan and weekend pages. A new literary journal Life’s
Too Short Literary tapped into new talent with an annual literary award
for short fiction. The winner Sadaf Halai’s “Lucky People” and the two
runners-up “Six Fingered Man” by Aziz A. Sheikh and “Settling Affairs”
by Rayika Choudhri were all published in the journal’s inaugural issue
as were other noteworthy entries. The high standard of the work surely
indicates the enormous promise of Pakistani literature. The journal
includes an extract from Musharraf Ali Farooqi and Michelle Farooqi’s
forthcoming pictorial novel, Mohammed Hanif’s translation of the
popular Urdu detective novel Chalawa, featuring a female sleuth, and
brief jottings by Mohsin Hamid while composing thoughts for The
Reluctant Fundamentalist.
The year saw several losses: Sultan Ahmed, renowned journalist
and editor of the newspapers Morning News, The Leader and The Sun
and posthumous recipient of the Pride of Performance award, and two
distinguished Urdu writers, Wazir Agha (b.1922), poet, critic, essayist and
intellectual, and Anis Nagi (b.1939), short story writer, poet and critic.
They are greatly mourned.

Bibliography
bibliographies published serially
“Bibliographic News” Annual of Urdu Studies ed MU Memon pp298 [see
Journals, Internet Sites].
MLA International Bibliography 2010 [see Pakistan-related items in the
relevant sections].
“List of Recent Pakistan Related Texts” David Waterman Pakistaniaat 2(1)
pp152–53; 2(2) pp94–96; 2(3) pp117–121 [see Journals, Internet Sites].
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RESEARCH AIDS

“A Comrade and a Gentleman” Rakhshanda Jalil The Friday Times


(Lahore) Mar 1–17 pp16–18 [essay on Sahibzada Mahmuduzzafar
Khan and The Progressive Writers Movement].
“The Great Pakistani Novel” Haider Warraich Dawn B&A (Karachi) 7
Feb p2.
“A Law to Repeal” Hajrah Mumtaz Dawn (Metropolitan) 16 May p13–15
[comment on the 1876 Dramatic Performances Act].
“Literature and Activism” Zubeida Mustafa Dawn (Op-Ed) 24 Mar p7.
“Local Attitudes towards Varieties of English” Bushra Ahmed-Khurram
Dawn (Education) 31 Jan p21.
“A New Literature” Mufti R Aamir Dawn (B&A) (Karachi) 7 Feb pp1–2.
State of Human Rights in 2009 375pp Human Rights Commission of
Pakistan (Lahore) Rs300.
“Teaching September 11 in the Classroom” Amitava Kumar Wasafiri 25
(1) Mar pp5–11 [refs to Pakistani authors].
Understanding the Militant’s Media in Pakistan: Outreach and Impact ed
Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies 222pp Pakistan Institute for
Peace Studies (Islamabad) Rs750 [essays].
Word for Word: Stories behind Everyday Words We Use Khaled Ahmed
386pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs895.

Poetry
Akhtar, Rizwan “A Half Rhymed Tale of a Punjabi Girl” Pakistaniaat 2(1)
pp118–121; “Kitchen Cabinet” Pakistaniaat 2(2) pp85–86; “Betrayal”
Pakistaniaat 2(3) pp114.
––– “Alphabets in Our Time”, “Chapatti” Wasafiri 25 (3) Sept pp28–29.
Hashmi, Shadab Zeest Baker of Tarifa: Poems 68pp Poetic Matrix Press
(Madera, CA) US$15.
––– “Diary of a Wartime Chief”, “Ghazal” Pakistaniaat 2(2) pp83–84;
“A Scribe Is Visited by a Jinn in a Sugarcane Field”, “Notes for My
Husband” Pakistaniaat 2(3) pp115–116.
Pasha, Kyla High Noon and the Body 99pp Yoda Books (New Delhi) Rs150.
Sahir, Mashal Love the Unspoken Language self-pub.
Turner, Mehnaz “Punjabi” Pakistaniaat 2(2) pp87.

Drama
Sheikh, Farhana Mincemeat 96pp Oberon Books (London) £8.99 [2009].

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Fiction
Ali, Tariq The Night of the Golden Butterfly 288pp Verso (London) £14.99.
Bukhari, Shaista The Untamed Affair 120pp self-pub Rs650.
Farooki, Roopa Half Life 260pp Macmillan (London) £11.99.
Gandhi, Nighat M. Ghalib at Dusk and Other Stories 175pp Tranquebar
(Chennai) Rs200.
Gardezi, Saadia Zehra “Escape on Ferozepur Road” Pakistaniaat 2(1)
Spring pp115–117.
Khan, Khadija The Mind of Q self-pub.
Khan Phillips, Maha Beautiful from This Angle 232pp Penguin India Rs250
Khar, Shahnawaz The End of Islamabad 134pp self-pub.
Kureishi, Hanif Collected Stories 688pp Faber & Faber (London) £14.99.
Mueenuddin, Danyal “A Spoiled Man” PEN/O’Henry Prize Stories 2010
ed Laura Furman Anchor Books (New York).
Shah, Bina Slum Child 288pp Tranquebar (Chennai) India Rs295.
Shivani, Anis Anatolia and Other Stories 268pp Black Lawrence Press
(New York) US$16 16 [2009].
Tanweer, Bilal “After That, We Are Ignorant” Granta Online-Only: New
Voices <www.granta.com/Online-Only/New-Voices-announcing-
Bilal-Tanweer>.
Warraich, Haider Auras of the Jinn: A Pakistani Story 288pp India Ink
(New Delhi) Rs295.

Translations
Arora, Damodar Das Heer Damodar: Within Reach trans from Punjabi
by Muzaffar A. Ghaffar Ferozesons (Lahore) Rs4995 [boxed set of
4 vols].
Ayaz, Shaikh Songs of Freedom ed Saleem Noorhusain trans from Sindhi
by Anwer Pirzado, J.M. Girglani, Saleem Noorhusain et al. 476pp
Culture Department Government of Sind (Karachi) Rs500.
Fyzee Rahamin, Atiya “A Time for Education” trans from Urdu by Siobhan
Lambert Hurley and Sunil Sharma in Atiya’s Journeys: A Muslim
Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain eds Siobhan
Lambert-Hurley and Sunil Sharma Oxford Univ Press.
Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan Wine of Passion: The Urdu Ghazals of
Ghalib trans from Urdu by Sarfaraz Khan Niazi 301pp Ferozesons
(Lahore) Rs295 [2009].
Hameed, Yasmeen Pakistani Urdu Verse [see Anthologies]
Haider, Khwaja Razi Ruttie Jinnah: The Story Told and Untold trans from
Urdu by Haider Khwaja Razi 165pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi)
Rs595 (English ed first pub Pakistan Study Centre 2004).

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Qadri, Hazrat Noshah Ganjbakhsh Discourses trans from Punjabi by Faiza


Raana 68pp Suchet Kitab Ghar (Lahore) Rs200.
Rahman, Shafiqur Glimpses: Shafiqur Rahman trans from Urdu by S.M.
Shahid 107pp Fazeleesons (Karachi).
Rahamin, Atiya Fyzee [see this section, Autobiographies, Fyzee Rahamin,
Atiya].
Safi, Ibn-e The House of Fear trans from Urdu by Bilal Tanweer 228pp
Random House (New Delhi) Rs195.
Salim-ur-Rahman, Muhammad ed The Naked Hens: An Anthology of Urdu
Short Stories 217pp ILQA Publications (Lahore) Rs395.
Syed, Afzal Ahmed, Rococo and Other Worlds trans from Urdu by Musharraf
Ali Farooqi 108pp Wesleyan Univ Press US$22.95.
Yousufi, Mushtaq Ahmed Glimpses: Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi trans from
Urdu by S.M. Shahid 105pp Fazeleesons (Karachi).

Letters and Autobiography


Ahmad, Waheed ed The Punjab Story 1940-1947 555pp National
Documentation Wing Government of Pakistan (Islamabad)
[correspondence].
Ahmed, Salma Cutting Free: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Pakistani
Woman 276pp Roli-Lotus (New Delhi) R295 [first pub Sama (Karachi)
2005].
Amin, Shahid M. Reminiscences of a Pakistani Diplomat 257pp Karachi
Council on Foreign Relations Economic Affairs and Law (Karachi).
Bhutto, Fatima Songs of Blood and Sword 470pp Penguin Books, India
(New Delhi) Rs1395
Hussain, Major General Wajahat Memories of a Soldier: 1947: Before,
During and After 296pp Ferozesons (Lahore) Rs595.
Kazi, Seema Between Democracy and Nation: Gender and Militiarisation
in Pakistan 236pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs695.
Khan, Bilquis Jehan A Song of Hyderabad: Memories of a World Gone
By xvi+308pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs795.
Khan, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Selection of Talks and Interviews
transcribed and ed Nadia Ghani introd Shuja Nawaz 334pp Oxford
Univ Press (Karachi) Rs795.
Marker, Jamsheed Quiet Diplomacy: Memoirs of an Ambassador of Pakistan
448pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs795.
Princess Shahr Bano Begum of Pataudi Biti Kahani: Autobiography of
Princess Shahr Bano Begum of Pataudi ed and trans from the Urdu
by Tahera Aftab 350pp Oxford Univ Press (Oxford) £15.99.
Rabbani, Ata Jinnah: Through My Eyes 175pp Ferozesons (Lahore) Rs300.
Rahim, Talat Down Bureaucracy Lane: An Expose of a Pakistani Bureaucrat
165pp Ferozesons (Lahore) Rs495.

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Roy, Raja Tridiv South American Diaries: A Pakistani Ambassador’s Journal


1981-1995 409pp National Book Foundation (Islamabad) Rs660.
Shariff, Admiral Mohammed Admiral’s Diary: Battling through Stormy
Sea Life for Decades 415pp The Army Press (Islamabad).

Anthologies
Happy Birthday to Me: A Collection of Contemporary Asian Writing ed
Farhana Shaikh fwd Claire Chambers 224pp Dahlia (Leicester) £8.99.
Ibn Taymiyya and His Times eds Shahab Ahmed and Yossef Rapoport gen
ed Syed Nomanul Haq 400pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs750.
Karachi: Megacity of Our Times: Second Edition eds Hamida Khuhro and Anwer
Mooraj 410pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs1950 [updated+colour
photographs first-pub Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) 1997].
Karachiwala: A Subcontinent within a City ed Rumana Husain
330pp+photographs The Jaal Trust (Karachi) Rs2990.
Look at the City from Here: Karachi Writings ed Asif Farrukhi 295pp
Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs625.
New Anthem, The Subcontinent in Its Own Words, The ed Ahmede Hussain
335pp Tranquebar (Chenai) £13.99 [includes Pakistani authors] [2009].
Pakistani Urdu Verse: An Anthology ed Yasmeen Hameed 538pp Oxford
Univ Press Rs995.
Pakistani Women: Multiple Locations and Competing Narratives ed Sadaf
Ahmed gen ed Ali Khan 324pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs695.
South Asian Voices: Writing Feminism eds Selina Hossain and Radha
Chakravarty 177pp The University Press (Dhaka) Rs460 [includes
Pakistani writers].
South Asian Voices: Writing Freedom eds Selina Hossain and Radha
Chakravarty 207pp The University Press (Dhaka) Rs540 [includes
Pakistani writers].

Criticism
general studies

“British Muslim Masculinities and Cultural Resistance: Kenny Glemain


and Simon Beaufoy’s Yasmin” Rehana Ahmed Journal of Postcolonial
Writing 45(3) Sept pp285–296 [2009].
“Cartographic Irresolution and the Line of Control” Ananya Jahanara
Kabir Social Text 110 pp45–66 [2009].
Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National
Identity (1957-1947) Masood Ashraf Raja 156pp Oxford Univ Press
(Karachi) Rs495.
“The English Short Story in Pakistan: A Survey” Muneeza Shamsie Archiv
fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 247.162 (1)
pp35–48.
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“Hieroglyphs and Broken Links: Remediated Script and Partition Effects


in Pakistan” Ananya Jahanara Kabir Cultural and Social History 6
(4) pp485-506 [2009].
Landscapes of Hope: Anti-colonial Utopianism in America Dohra Ahmed
x+250pp Oxford Univ Press (Oxford and New York) £34.99 [2009].
Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Ambreen Hai xi+377pp Ohio Univ Press (Athens) US$55 [2009].
“Multi-Culti Nancy Mitfords and Halal Novelists: The Politics of
Marketing Muslim Writers in the UK” Claire Chambers Textus
23(2) pp389–403. 
National Identities in Pakistan: the 1971 War in Contemporary Pakistani
Fiction Cara Cilano 176pp Routledge (New York, Abingdon) £80.
“Racialized Masculinities and Postcolonial Critique in Contemporary
British Asian Male-authored texts” Ruvani Ranasinha Journal of
Postcolonial Writing 45(3) pp297–307 [2009].
Shakespeare according to Iqbal: An Alternative Reading of the Tempest
Khurram Ali Shafique 47pp Iqbal Academy Pakistan (Lahore) Rs70.
“Pakistan’s Literary Boy’s Club” Bina Shah Daily Times (Lahore) 16
Oct pA8.
“The Pak Pack Takes over the Literary World?” Bina Shah The Hindustan
Times (New Delhi) 23 Oct <www.hindustantimes.com/The-Pak-Pack-
takes-over-the-literary-world/H1-Article1-616835.aspx>.
“Writing from Extreme Edges: Pakistani English-Language Fiction” Cara
Cilano Ariel 40 (2/3) 183–202pp [2009].

studies on individual writers

Ali, Tariq “Interview: Tariq Ali on Writing Novels” Maniza Naqvi Three
Quarks Daily 1 Feb <www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/02/
interview-tariq-ali-on-writing-novels.html>.
Alvi, Moniza “Review: Europa by Moniza Alvi” Joseph Coelho Wasafiri
25(3) Sept pp83–84
Aslam, Nadeem “Memory and Cultural Identity: Negotiating Modernity in
Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers” David Waterman Pakistaniaat:
A Journal of Pakistan Studies 2(2) pp18–35.
Farooki, Roopa “My Brother Enemy” Muneeza Shamsie Dawn B&A
(Karachi) 31 Oct pp1–2 [review of The Way Things Look to Me and
Half Life].
Farooqi, Musharraf “The Revival of the Qissa” Riaz Aamir The News:
Literati (Karachi) 27 Jun p30 [review of Hoshruba].
––– “Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s The Adventures of Amir Hamza” Colleen
Thorndike Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies: 2 (2) pp51–53
[review of Amir Hamza].

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Haji, Nafisa “All in the Family” Saman Shamsie Newsline (Karachi) Jun
p102.
Hussein, Aamer “Flame in the Forest” Padraig Belton Dawn B&A (Karachi)
9 May p1 [review of Another Gulmohar Tree].
Jamal, Mahmood “Labour of Love” Humair Ishtiaq Dawn B&A (Karachi)
2 May p3 [review of Islamic Mystical Poetry].
Khan, Sorayya Y. “Memories of Another Day” Semeen Khan Newsline
(Karachi) Apr p102 [review of 5 Queens Road].
Mueenuddin, Daniyal “Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other
Wonders” Sohomjit Roy Pakistaniaat 2(1) pp90–94.
Naqvi, H.M. “Interview: Hussein Naqvi” Mahvesh Murad Dawn (B&A)
31 Jan, 1–2; “I’d Like to Think That All the Characters Are Facets of
My Persona” Huma Imtiaz The News: Literati (Karachi) 4 Apr p30
[interviews].
––– Imtiaz, Huma “Brash, Refreshing” The News: Literati (Karachi) 28 Feb
p30; “Bright Lights, Big City” Mohsin Siddiqi Dawn B&A (Karachi)
21 Mar p3 [reviews of Home Boy].
Pasha, Kyla “A Primer for the Small Weird Loves” Aasim Akhter The News:
Literati (Karachi) 22 Aug p30 [review of High Noon and the Body].
Phillips, Maha Khan “Well, Dirt and More” Dawn B&A (Karachi) 7 Nov
p1; “Couture Served with a Side of Scandal” Afrah Jamal Daily Times
(Lahore) 25 Dec ppA7 [reviews of Beautiful from this Angle].
Sahir, Mashal “The Language of Love” Intizar Hussain Dawn B&A
(Karachi) 10 Jan p8 [review of The Language of Love].
Sethi, Ali “A Renaissance Man” Huma Yusuf Dawn (B&A), (Karachi) 6
Jun pp1–2 [interview].
Shamsie, Kamila “Eyeless in Guantanamo: Vanishing Horizons in Kamila
Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows” Pascal Zinck Commonwealth Essays and
Studies 33(1) pp45–54.
Shivani, Anis “Of Other Worlds” Mohsin Siddiqui Dawn B&A (Karachi)
5 Sept p1 [review of Anatolia and Other Stories]
Tanweer, Bilal “An Interview with Bilal Tanweer” Ollie Brocker 26 Jan
http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/New-Voices-announcing-Bilal-
Tanweer [short story+interview see Fiction].
Warraich, Haider “A Novel Experience” Dawn (B&A) (Karachi) 14 Nov
http://www.dawn.com/2010/11/14/non-fiction-a-novel-experience.html
[on writing a novel].

Non-fiction
Acharaya, Keya and Frederick Noronha eds The Green Pen: Environmental
Journalism in India and South Asia 303pp Sage (New Delhi) Rs395
[essays, see this section Noronha, Frederick].

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Ahmar, Moonis ed Conflict Resolution Research in South Asia 244pp


Department of International Relations, Univ of Karachi Rs400
[essays].
Ahmed, Khaled The Musharraf Years 1998–2008 Vol 1: Political Developments
in Pakistan 360pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs995.
––– The Musharraf Years 1998–2008 Vol 2: Religious Developments in
Pakistan 350pp Vanguard (Lahore) Rs995.
––– Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni Shia Violence and its Links to the
Middle East 402pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs995.
Alam, Manzoor War on Terrorism or American Strategy for Global
Dominance 407pp Vantage Press (New York) US$18.95.
Alam, M. Shahid Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism
288pp Palgrave (New York) US$85.
Arif, General K.M Estranged Neighbours: India-Pakistan (1947–2010)
344pp Dost Publications (Islamabad) Rs595.
Bhandara, Minoo P. Calling a Spade a Spade: Selected Writings of Minoo
P. Bhandara 277pp Vanguard Books (Lahore) Rs695 [essays].
Butt, Iqbal Haider Revisiting Student Politics in Pakistan 180pp Bargad
(Gujranwala).
Chaudry, Aminullah Hijacking from the Ground: The Bizarre Story of PK
205 350pp AuthorHouse (Bloomington) US$11.60.
Gilani, Iqbal Shafi ed The Voice of the People: Public Opinion in Pakistan
2007–8 xvii+222pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs595.
Gul, Imtiaz The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier 320pp
Penguin London £9.99.
Hasan, Shaikh Khurshid Pakistan: Its Ancient Hindu Temples and Shrines
118pp National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research Centre
of Excellence (Islamabad) Rs600.
Hassan, Dr Fatima Sufism Revisited 408pp Sang-e-Meel (Lahore) Rs900.
Husain, Marjorie Iqbal Hussein: The Painter of Imprisoned Souls 238pp
self-pub (Karachi) [biography+art criticism].
Husain, Syed Shahid What Was Once East Pakistan 223pp Oxford Univ
Press (Karachi) Rs595.
Hussain, Syed Sultan Mahmood 100 Years of Dyal Singh College Lahore
1910–2010 639pp Izhar sons (Lahore).
Hussain, Zahid The Scorpion’s Tale: The Relentless Rise of Islamic Militants
in Pakistan – and How It Threatens the World vii+245pp Simon and
Schuster (New York) Rs1195.
Khan, Ali and Magnus Marsden eds Islam and Society in Pakistan xxxiv+496
pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs995 [includes essays by Pakistani
authors].
Khan, Nichola Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan: Violence and Transformation
in the Karachi Conflict xi+187pp Routledge (London).

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Kothari Smitu, and Zia Mian eds Bridging Partition 360pp Orient Black
Swan (Hyderabad, India) Rs995 [includes essays by Pakistani writers].
Malik, Iftikhar Pakistan: Democracy, Terror and the Building of a Nation
208pp New Holland Publishers London £9.99
Marsden, Magnus and Ali Khan eds [see this section Khan, Ali].
Masood, Ehsan Science & Islam: A History 240pp Icon Books (London)
£14.99.
Mir, Nadir Gwadar on the Global Chessboard: Pakistan’s Identity History
Culture 200pp Ferozesons (Lahore).
Naqshbandi, Mohammed Al-Haq Black Water 250pp Fikr Publications
(Lahore) Rs250.
Niaz, Ihlan The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan: 1947–2008
320pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs795.
Niazi, Zamir The Press in Chains: Second Revised and Updated Edition
ed Zubeida Mustafa introd Zohra Yusuf xviii+237pp Oxford Univ
Press (Karachi) Rs895 [first pub Karachi Press Club 1986].
Noorani, Asif ed Mehdi Hassan: The Man and His Music 80pp Liberty
Books (Karachi) Rs695 (includes 2 CD’s).
Noorani, A. G. Jinnah and Tilak: Comrades in the Freedom Struggle 484pp
Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs795.
Noronha Frederick and Acharaya, Keya eds The Green Pen [see this
section Acharaya, Keya].
Patel, Rashida Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan
308pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs695 [first pub as Women versus
Man: Sociological Gender Inequality in Pakistan Oxford Univ Press
(Karachi) 2003].
Quraeshi, Samina, and Carl W. Ernst with Ali S. Asani, Kamil Khan Mumtaz
Sacred Spaces: A Journey with the Sufis 296pp+250 colour illustrations
Peabody Museum Press (Cambridge, Mass) US$65.
Qureshi, S.M. Moin Wandering and Wondering 308pp Qureshi Enterprise
(Karachi) Rs500 [travelogue].
Raschid, M.S. Iqbal’s Concept of God Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs395
[first pub under name of MS Raschid by Kegan and Paul (London) 1981].
Rashid, Ahmed Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and
Beyond, 2nd ed 344pp IB Taurus (London) £9.99 [first pub as Taliban:
Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, 2000].
Saif, Lubna Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment in Pakistan 1947–1958:
The Role of the Punjab 262pp Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) Rs595.
Sandford, Christopher Imran Khan: The Cricketer, the Celebrity, the
Politician xiii+402 HarperCollins (London) Rs1295.
Siddiqui, Wajih-uddin Renaissance and Reformation of Islamic Society: Need
for Revival and Development of Confidence, Creativity & Pluralism
fwd Khalid Zaheer xviii+516pp Royal Book Company (Karachi).

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Tahir, Tanvir Ahmad Political Dynamics of Sindh 1947–1977 801pp Pakistan


Study Centre Univ of Karachi Rs800.
Tauseef, Afzal Quratulain Hyder Classic Publishers (Lahore) Rs150.
Zaidi, Saima Mazaar Bazaar: Design and Visual Culture in Pakistan
xvii+346pp +illustrations Oxford Univ Press (Karachi) and Prince
Claus Fund Library (The Hague) Rs3000.
Zaman, Viqar and Gul Afroz Zaman, Religions of South Asia: Unity in
Diversity 134pp Paramount Publishing Enterprise (Karachi) Rs295.

Miscellaneous
Basharat Peer “Life in Kashmir” Kamila Shamsie Dawn (Op-Ed) 8 Jun
p7 [review of Curfewed Nights first pub The Guardian 5 Jun].

Journals
Annual of Urdu Studies 25 ed M.U. Memon University of Wisconsin
Madison, Department of Languages and Cultures 1220 Linden Drive,
Madison, WI 53706, USA Subs Individual (US): US$25; (Rest of
World) US$35; Institutional (US): US$45.00; (Rest of World) US$50
(incl postage) <subscriptions@urdustudies.com> (South Asia edition,
forthcoming) [see Internet sites].
The Life’s Too Short Literary Review 01: The Magazine of New Writing from
Pakistan, eds Faiza S. Khan and Aysha Raja 114pp Siren Publications,
Lahore Rs395.
Pakistani Literature ed Fakar Zaman Pakistan Academy of Letters Sector
H-8/1, Islamabad, Pakistan [see Special Issues].
Pakistaniaat: Journal of Pakistan Studies ed Masood Ashraf Raja Department
of English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA
subs print (single) US$29 (print+online–1year) individual US$80
institutional US$150 <pakistaniaat@gmail.com> [see Special Issues,
Internet Sites].
Pakistan Perspectives: Biannual Research Journal ed Sabiha Hasan Pakistan
Study Centre Univ of Karachi P.O.Box 8450 Karachi 725270 subs
individual Rs250 US$30; Annual Rs500 US$60 airmail charges (for
two issues) US$15 <pscuok@yahoo.com>

Special Issues
Granta 112: Pakistan ed John Freeman Sept 288p £12.99 [see Internet Sites].
Muslims in the Frame: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial
Studies 12(2) guest eds Peter Morey Amina Yaqin gen ed Robert J.C.
Young 330pp £15.

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710 Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Pakistani Literature: A Selection 1947–2010 comp and ed Khurram Khiraam


Siddiqi ed-in-chief Fakhar Zaman 847pp Rs500 (paperback) Rs550
(hardbound) £10/US$15 (outside Pakistan) [see Journals].
Pakistaniaat 2(3): Special Issue: The 1971 Indo-Pakistan War guest ed
Cara Cilano ed Masood A. Raja US$29 [see Journals, Internet Sites].
Words without Borders: Writing from Pakistan guest ed Basharat Peer June
2009 <http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/june-2009>[translations
from major Urdu writers including Asad Mohammed Khan, Mohammed
Khalid Akhtar and Fahmida Riaz – see Internet Sites].

Internet Sites
<www.chowk.com> [news, creative work, reviews, chat].
<http://framingmuslims.org> [research network].
<www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/riij-si1.asp> [Interventions, “Framing
Muslims”, see Special Issue].
<www.granta.com/magazine/112> [Granta, see Special Issues].
<www.PakUSonline.com> [includes author interviews].
<www.pakistaniaat.org> [Pakistaniaat, see Journals, Special Issues].
<www.urdustudies.com> [Annual of Urdu Studies, see Journals].
<www.wordswithoutborders.com> [see Special Issues].

*B&A=Books and Authors Supplement

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