Book Review: The Pakistani Anglophone Literary Context
The Pakistani Anglophone Literary Context
Syed Afsar Sajid
Title: ‘the silhouette of voice’
Author: Hafsah Bashir
Title: ‘Echoes and Imprints: Voices of Early Pakistani...
 Book Review: An apt socio-political study of Pakistan
An apt socio-political study of Pakistan
Syed Afsar Sajid
Title: ‘Pakistan --- Search for Stability’ (443 pp)
Edited by: Maleeha Lodhi
Published by: OUP Pakistan
Maleeha Lodhi...
Book Review: Lonely Evenings of Islamabad and Corona
By Sajjad Shaukat
Whenever any natural calamity or man-made disaster took place in Pakistan, without wasting time, the Custom officer Dr. Asif Mahmood...
Review of two new but valuable books
Syed AfsarSajid
Title: Fikr-o-Khayal
Author: Prof. Dr. Sh. Muhammad Iqbal
Pages: 304 – Price: Rs.500/-
Title: Deedban
Compiler: Shahzad Beg
Pages: 184 – Price: Rs.2,000/-
Prof. Dr. Sh. Muhammad...
Book Review: Beyond Dates and Pomegranates
'Beyond Dates and Pomegranates'
Syed Afsar Sajid
Title: ‘Beyond Dates and Pomegranates --- An Epic Poem
on the Life and Times of the Holy Prophet...
Book Review: Critical studies of South Asian Anglophone Fiction
Critical studies of South Asian Anglophone Fiction
By Syed Afsar Sajid
Title: ‘The State of Nation, Diasporic Predicaments & War Memories
in Contemporary South Asian...
Book Review: Raziuddin Razi’s humorous columns
Raziuddin Razi’s humorous columns
Syed Afsar Sajid
1. Title: ‘Column, KahaniyaN, Khakay’
Author: Raziuddin Razi
Pages 136 – Price: Rs.500/-
2. Title: ‘Column Hotel Baba Kay’
Author: Raziuddin...
Book Review: An interesting miscellany of news
An interesting miscellany of news
By Syed Afsar Sajid
Title: ‘Pakistan’
Compiler: Muhammad Saeed
Publisher: OUP, Karachi
Pages: 564 – Price: Rs. 2500/-
Muhammad Saeed is a veteran...
Book Review: Urdu Poetry –Translated and Original
Urdu Poetry –Translated and Original
By Syed Afsar Sajid
1. ‘Beginning of Tomorrow’- (Urdu Poetry of Karamat Bukhari)
Translated by: Amina Rizwan
2. ‘Charagh-e arzoo shab...
Book Review: Of history, memory, fiction, and education
1. ‘History, Memory, Fiction
New Dimensions in Contemporary Pakistani and Kashmiri Writings’
2. ‘Educational Leadership: Policies and Practices
Voices from the Developing Countries’
Oxford University Press...
BOOK REVIEW: ‘South Asian Filmscapes — Transregional Encounters’
South Asian Filmscapes
Syed Afsar Sajid
Title: ‘South Asian Filmscapes --- Transregional Encounters’
Published by: Oxford University Press, Karachi
Edited by: Elora Halim Chowdhury --- Esha...
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Istifsar’ – a poetic inquisition
‘Istifsar’ --- a poetic inquisition
By Syed Afsar Sajid
Title: ‘Istifsar’
Author: Ghulam Murtaza Aatir
Publisher: Nasta’liq Publications, Urdu Bazaar, Lahore
Page: 192 – Price: Rs. 500/-
Ghulam...
Book Review: Urdu and Northern Pakistani Languages
‘Languages of Northern Pakistan -- Essays in memory of Carla Radloff’
Editors: Joan L. G. Baart, Henrik Liljegren, and Thomas E. Payne
Publishers: Oxford...
A valiant architect of Pakistani literature
Title: Pakistani Adab kay Memaar – ‘Prof. Dr. Sh. Muhammad Iqbal: Shakhsiyat aur Fun’
Author: Shahid Bukhari
Pakistan Academy of Letters has launched a...
Book Review: ‘The Fragrance of Tears’
Victoria Schofield is a reputed historian and commentator on international affairs. She was
educated at Oxford and succeeded late Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) as...