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Return of cultural events to Pakistani city signals budding changes

by Kim Barker [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[21.Apr.08] :. PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Everything about the show was secretive - the invitations given only to select women, and no prior advertising. When audience members sat in the new orange seats at the...

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In Pakistan, it’s a Facebook faceoff

by Kim Barker [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[20.Mar.08] :. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The clash over Pakistan’s future also is being fought on the popular Internet social networking site Facebook, where competing groups of mostly 20-somethings try to...

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The Clippings File: Pakistan

by Jillian Burt

[9.Jan.08] :. Pakistan Tops List of Journalists Killed in 2007 In 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan. His widow, Mariane, also a journalist, wrote a book about her...

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Independent media feel Pakistan clamps

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Nov.07] :. By Kim Barker Chicago Tribune (MCT) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Abdul Qayyum Khan flipped through the TV stations, past music videos, a bike race, an Indian soap opera and a cooking show....

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Zombies breathe life into Pakistani film

by Kim Barker [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[15.Jun.07] :. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—This horror movie has everything—a midget zombie, human entrails, doll heads and a Mace-wielding, burqa-wearing killer. But “Zibahkhana,” known in...

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From taboo tome to must-read

by Kim Barker [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[7.Jun.07] :. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—It hardly seemed like the book launch would be the event of the season. The book, “Military Inc.,” an academic and sometimes dry treatise on Pakistan’s...

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Pakistan drag diva bends rules of gender, society

by Kim Barker [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[3.May.07] :. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Begum Nawazish Ali flirts with the country’s law minister, batting her long eyelashes and calling him darling. She kisses one of the minister’s sons on the cheek...

 

Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver

by Tara Taghizadeh

[8.Jan.02] :. A brilliant and insightful account of an important nation that is in the midst of a serious identity crisis.

 
 
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