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Future of dates

Saturday 13 October '07

Benazir rejects call to delay return,” reported Friday’s Dawn from London. Benazir Bhutto’s statement at a press conference...
What the world is reading

Monday 8 October '07

The future is here. Newsweek begins its cover story (The year of miracles) by recalling the impact of 1905, with its flurry of papers by Albert Einstein.
It’s done!

Saturday 6 October '07

It’s a done deal,” went Dawn’s main headline on Friday. Its report from London was structured around Benazir Bhutto’s press conference...
Knocking on Fiction’s Door

Sunday 7 October '07

Orhan Pamuk collects fragments of his writing and constructs a wonderfully connected story
What the world is reading

Monday 1 October '07

Could this be the start of a “burgundy revolution”, asks Time. Over the past week the country’s Buddhist monks have kept up their protests against the Burmese junta...
Twenty20 somethings

Tuesday 25 September '07

If you are confused about this new distraction called Twenty20, it does help that bewilderment is rampant.
What the world is reading

Monday 24 September '07

Travel in the Arctic has tended to be the domain of mavericks and loners. Time (Who owns the Arctic?, October 1) details a new kind of activity in the region.
On October 6

Saturday 22 September '07

A date at last,” began The News in its editorial after Pakistan’s Election Commission announced that the presidential election would be conducted on October 6.
What the world is reading

Monday 17 September '07

As Japan braces itself for a new prime minister—expected to be announced by Wednesday—there is still bemusement over exactly how Shinzo Abe’s tenure went so wrong.
Hopping flight to Jeddah

Saturday 15 September '07

Once former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was on a plane to Jeddah after touching down at Islamabad airport on September 10, editorial reactions came thick and fast.
What the world is reading

Monday 10 September '07

The Economist takes into account nuclear energy’s new appeal. Countries like France already get three-quarters of their electricity from nuclear sources...
Articles of contention

Saturday 8 September '07

Sources indicated that Pakistan’s presidential election would be on October 8.
Huma, Hillary’s secret weapon, very very much in Vogue

Wednesday 5 September '07

32-yr-old daughter of Indian father, Pak mother, has triggered a heady adjectival rush: from Clinton to Oscar de la Renta
What the world is reading

Monday 3 September '07

Tried being on the Internet for a day without using any of the Google’s services? In a cover leader and an accompanying article...
Master of numbers returns with his magic: On stage, in a novel

Sunday 2 September '07

It has been seen as the unlikeliest friendship. In 1913, when Srinivasa Ramanujan, then a 25-year-old working as a clerk in the Madras Port Trust Office, sent pages of mathematical proofs to the greatest living mathematician of the time...
Lunch with Aitzaz Ahsan

Saturday 1 September '07

Nawaz Sharif has announced that he will return to Pakistan on September 10. But as he finalises plans for the journey, he’s been hosting very interesting visitors in his London exile, one confirmed and the other speculated about.
what the world is reading

Monday 27 August '07

Old shadows could be re-appearing around the Kremlin. As Russian President Vladimir Putin once again enlists nuclear bombers on patrols...
Sharifs’ poll vault

Saturday 25 August '07

The Pakistan Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday has again reset political calculators. The court stated that Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz
When Chris Was Mike

Sunday 26 August '07

Hari Kunzru’s novel about the post-’68 generation is also a chilling psychological thriller
What the World is Reading

Monday 20 August '07

The September/October issue of Foreign Affairs carries essays by two more American presidential candidates.
Deal markers

Saturday 18 August '07

It’s a “deal” not everyone is still admitting to. On Friday, Dawn reported from Faisalabad: “President Gen Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any deal or power-sharing with the Pakistan People’s Party
What the world is reading

Monday 13 August '07

Is America turning left?” asks The Economist in its main leader. By all accounts.
A register of reports and views from the Pakistan press

Saturday 11 August '07

It was a charged 24 hours. On Thursday morning newspapers were abuzz about an impending declaration of emergency.
Short sum of Booker longlist

Friday 10 August '07

Stories of cultural contact dominate the 2007 ‘Booker’s dozen’ — from Malaysia during World War II and Lahore after 9/11 through the conflicted soul of an Indian prodigy in Wales
What the World is reading

Monday 6 August '07

Time looks at India 60 years after Independence through intergenerational life stories to take stock of improved opportunities and those that still need to be created for millions more.
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