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		<title>The Glorious Judge, the Evil Zardari and the lawyers</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/the-glorious-judge-the-evil-zardari-and-the-lawyers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Frantz Fannon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a passionate and rather heartfelt piece from our young contributor Shaheryar Ali
Re-throne Iftikhar Chaudhry and hang Zardari, and sing all Faiz and Jalib on Geo. It will be the same. That&#8217;s the bitter truth&#8230;
&#8220;What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Children</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/three-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kashkin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/?p=439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early in the morning with blurred looks,
The only clothes,the hardships and fate
In Sahara, where an ocean meets the desert
Sit three with wooden tablets and verses of Quran
Not much to lose, but enough to learn
As this ice melts when viewed from a distance
The only conversation is the old expression
Of wonder and resolve, as faces emerge
One day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feudalism</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/feudalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kinkminos</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Bonded labour]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Ishtiaq Ahmed]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Mansabdari system]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Muslim caste system]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[We don't want no education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/?p=506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ishtiaq Ahmed
In a debate article in the Dawn of April 30, 2008, Haider Nizamani seeks to dispel the widely held view that feudalism exists in Pakistan. He asserts that feudalism never existed in South Asia. To consider honour killings and exploitation of peasants by mighty landlords as indicative of feudalism he finds untenable because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>broadband and glue</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/broadband-and-glue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[key to the universe?]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/?p=505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[why couldn&#8217;t you have told me the night before
as we lay there sweating in our separate beds
me swearing undying allegiance
to machiavellian notions of honour
some tossing and turning
some sincere advice
some illicit ideas of noble intent
no less of a blessing for
black sheep who&#8217;ve always believed
in the sponsored redemption of servants of god
who may have been sinning idiotypecast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruining Pakistan&#8217;s Capital Islamabad&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/ruining-pakistans-capital-islamabad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 18:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Contribution by Isa Daudpota
The past 5 years have seen massive unsustainable &#8216;development&#8217; in Islamabad. This has been spearheaded by its municipality, with the backing of the bureaucracy and military high-ups. No public input is sought or accepted. The character of the city has changed through ill-thought-out projects that have ruined the environment of the city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>coughing up for drinks at the booderbah</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/drinks-at-the-buddha-bar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 12:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kinkminos</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/?p=501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[if you were to clam up at that stage
i could remind you
of the rust and almond coloured ghagra that you wore
on the night of the good deed you did for me
and her
that i swore never to speak about
to anyone but you and my peek-a-boo partner
who&#8217;s waving to us as we speak
in thrall to all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inhabitants of Words</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/inhabitants-of-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kashkin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/?p=435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of what we are and how we see this world
Our lives and its portion, spent in to reflect
This old desire from years of its isolation
The words and its effect roam in its might
We all have stories from our granted lives
Of grandeur and of squalor, like days and nights
Of fiction and of poems, of prose and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mullahs and Heretics</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/mullahs-and-heretics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 06:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[musings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Allah]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Tariq Ali]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Tariq Ali found here
I never believed in God, not even between the ages of six and ten, when I was an agnostic. This unbelief was instinctive. I was sure there was nothing else out there but space. It could have been my lack of imagination. In the jasmine-scented summer nights, long before mosques were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immersed in deliberations</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/immersed-in-deliberations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kashkin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Of all those moments we cannot see
What lies beyond, all we see is fiction
Of our shortcomings, of our failures
Issues we cannot resolve, we blame
On someone else, not our burden,
Incapable, barren like the land
From years of wasteful efforts
Find them we all everywhere
In streets, these signatures of their crime
Immersed in deliberation, the old plots
To reincarnate the old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK REVIEW: Saqi’s unrepentant sinfulness</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/book-review-saqi%e2%80%99s-unrepentant-sinfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Khaled Ahmed
 Aap-Beeti/Paap-Beeti;
By Saqi Farooq;
Akademi Bazyaft Karachi 2008;
Pp176; Price Rs 300
Saqi’s gravitation to Habib Jalib was natural in a way too because he saw the anarchist in him where others saw a revolutionary, and the quarrels that took place were incidental to the way they related
You don’t know what kind of irreverent sinner you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>he was but a shadow of my former sylph</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/shadow-of-my-former-sylph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 05:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kinkminos</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[sylvan psychogenesis mighta been traced]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[oh the dreams that i dreams
of one day dreaming sunday&#8217;s dreams
on fry day instead&#8230; break
the cycle so to speaking of
which do you know the witch
who went under the wire and
in between the howitzer and the
why it&#8217;s a mystery to you i
don&#8217;t know him who did not know
the history of these daisies
growing wild beneath my toes
cushioning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chillchinga, the US Soldier</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/chillchinga-the-us-soldier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 12:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kashkin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/?p=441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a café, at the airport
In the corner
Sits there, Chillchinga
The young US soldier
With cigarettes and an empty look
Tired from those battles
Easily seen, the scars
Gained and given
From confrontations
In a distant land
The only desire now
To go home
To converse few words
In Spanish as he pays the price
For migration and adventure
In the distant time
Sit three in the corner
McMillan and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s Lawyers: Pawn of the moment or tool forever?</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/pakistans-lawyers-pawn-of-the-moment-or-tool-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 18:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Khaled Ahmed writing in the weekly Friday Times
The lawyers are passionate, the retired judges are angry, and those who absent themselves from the country’s biggest display of righteous anger in history keep their mouths shut. The political parties are divided over how to interpret the phenomenon but are clearly grinding their separate political axes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss Austen Regrets. What?</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/miss-austen-regrets-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 21:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>soniahkamal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Soniah Kamal
&#8220;Jane Austen was described by her contemporary, writer Mary Russell Mitford, as the &#8220;prettiest, silliest, most affected husband-hunting butterfly ever&#8221;
rest here.
In Jane&#8217;s case the bimbo has brains. Unless the brothers were writing the novels and did not want to be known as the authors of husband hunting drawing room dramas  Miss Austen Regrets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking in different directions in Dubai?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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A brilliant photo from the Daily Times, Pakistan. A related story by DAWN&#8217;s Amir Wasim below:
Top leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N ended their marathon talks in Dubai on Thursday with an announcement that they had agreed to reinstate the deposed judges through a parliamentary resolution in accordance with the Murree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK REVIEW: A non-futile life in bureaucracy</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/book-review-a-non-futile-life-in-bureaucracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 09:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOOK REVIEW: A non-futile life in bureaucracy by Khaled Ahmed
 Fard-e-Hayat;
By AK Khalid;
Allied Press Lahore 2006;

He went on to do his MA in History and Persian, and collected those tough degrees in Persian and Arabic known as Adeeb Fazil, Munshi Fazil and Maulvi Fazil. A cowherd from Gujrat had come to Lahore with nothing in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>go your own way</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/go-your-own-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kinkminos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;never mind the flight
uptight
unendingly unbending
was the miserable bender
(never-ender)
always alive to the possibilities
open to men of hope and good will
but will not the flowers
will not the blossoming of
autumn&#8217;s auto-immune deficiencies
compensate for deadpan expressions
on the faces of mother figures
covertly ovulating as is nature&#8217;s
way of having its way
the way i almost had mine the other day 
minos - april 2008
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zardari given credit for post-election conduct</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 08:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Khalid Hasan comments on the report by Washington Times citing a US election observer who was surprised by PPP co-chairman’s ‘almost total lack of bitterness’WASHINGTON: Asif Ali Zardari, according to an article published in the Washington Times on Monday, deserves much of the credit for not letting Pakistan descend into corruption and mismanagement following elections.
 
Thomas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s Civil Service Entry Exam Fails to fill Vacancies</title>
		<link>http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/pakistans-civil-service-entry-exam-fails-to-fill-vacancies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Raza Rumi
Is it the case that finally the centuries old steelframe is getting irrelevant in the fast changing urban Pakistan. In a country of 170 million, there were not enough competent and interested candidates to fill up the vacancies for the competitive examination. If on one hand, this trend betrays the decline of institutions, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rainbow Catchers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kashkin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
One in combination of blue with straight hair
The other draws her picture in search,
For objects of life, around her and its sounds
The other in rainbow colours, with curly hair
As the animals come into existence- alive
With elaborations by hands and gestures
The rainbow colour, says through expressions
Close to their mountain, as both play
As eyes shifts its gaze [...]]]></description>
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