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		<title>Countdown Interviews &#8211; Asma Jahangir: 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; Asma Jahangir on her early life:“I went to school here [in Lahore] and then college &#8211; Kinnaird College [in Lahore] &#8211; and then I took my law here. I am completely indigenous. I was born in a household where my father was in politics and he was always in the opposition. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown Interviews &#8211; Asma Jahangir: 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; AG:What can be done about human rights? Asma Jahangir:“A lack of institutions, and an institutional response. &#160; At some point you have to depend on state institutions for relief. You can take a movement that far but not beyond; beyond that is a wall if you’re not getting discussion in parliament; if you’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown Interviews &#8211; Asma Jahangir: 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; AG:“When these blasts happened in Pokhran, did you feel that they were an act of hostility directed at Pakistan?” &#160; &#160; &#160; Asma Jahangir:“Well frankly I felt angry. I felt angry at the Indian leadership because I felt that they were going to start a nuclear race in the region. And yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown Interviews – Asma Jahangir: 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; AG:“Would you say Kashmir is the principal problem between India and Pakistan or would you say that problems would remain even without Kashmir?” Asma Jahangir:“I think if the Kashmir issue is solved tomorrow we would still have problems: &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; we would have problems on our water disputes; we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown Interviews &#8211; Asma Jahangir: 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; AG:“To come to Kashmir, how do you think this issue could be settled between India and Pakistan?” Asma Jahangir:“Frankly, I don’t think the two governments are sincere about settling the issue. On the one hand, it’s a complicated issue whether Pakistan should be interfering or not. Pakistan gives the example of Bangladesh where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown Interviews – Asma Jahangir: 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 12:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Shortly before August 29, 1998, when I interviewed Asma Jahangir &#160; in Lahore, a Constitutional Amendment was introduced in Pakistan’s Parliament, the Majlis-e-Shoora, proposing the establishment of sharia’a law in Pakistan. Over several days, there were protests by lawyers and other related groups. I asked Asma Jahangir what she thought of the proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown Interviews – Asma Jahangir: 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 13:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; [This is part 2 of an interview with the Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist, Asma Jahangir. It was conducted in Lahore on August 29, 1998, f0r my essay Countdown, which was published as a book by my Indian publisher, Ravi Dayal, in 1999.] &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; AG: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown Interviews &#8211; Asma Jahangir: 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 21:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; My essay Countdown,  was written against the background of  the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests of  May 1998. It appeared in The New Yorker  of October 19, 1998. &#160; In 1999 my Indian publisher Ravi Dayal issued an expanded version as a short book, under the same title (Countdown, Ravi Dayal, New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agha Shahid Ali Journals &#8211; &#8216;Bearer of Arms&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=6027</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; [This is an excerpt from the journal on which my essay on Agha Shahid Ali is based. Shahid was under treatment for cancer at the time when it was written.] &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; May 5, 2001 Strange irony that Shahid only recently got his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Laskari Lexicon &#8211; 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; There are several striking differences between the Laskari dictionary of Lt Thomas Roebuck[i] and Anthony Vaz&#8217;s Vocabulary Of Nautical Terms[ii]. The most important perhaps is that Roebuck was attempting to make the case that ‘Laskari’ was, if not a language, then certainly a dialect in its own right, created out of [...]]]></description>
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