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CHEQUERED PAST, UNCERTAIN FUTURE
₨ 2,499A sweeping journey through the ebbs and flows of Pakistan s history, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization to contemporary times, this book not only uncovers the influences from Turkey, Persia, Arabia and Britain that have shaped this South Asian nation, but showcases the region s diverse, rich tapestry of peoples, and Pakistan s pluralistic, multicultural society. Chequered Past, Uncertain Future also describes the post-1947 shift – following the partition of India and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as the country became more religiously conservative and autocratic, intensifying sectarian and ethnic divisions. For most of the country s history, the people of Pakistan have found themselves under the control of military dictators who suppress civil liberties and freedom of speech and action a trend that persists today.
ISBN: 9789696403043
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: THE HISTORY OF PAKISTAN
Author: TAHIR KAMRAN -
KING OF THE CASTLE
₨ 699This book examines closely many of the unquestioned assumptions by which we live our lives, comparing them with the beliefs that have shaped and guided human life in the past. It begins with a consideration of how secular societies attempt to possess their citizens, body and soul and how, as a consequence, the necessity of redefining human responsibility becomes an ever more urgent imperative. The book continues with a presentation of the traditional view of man as ‘God’s Viceroy on Earth’, with an eye to its practical implications in a world that has all but forgotten, under the pressure of mass social persuasion, that man must always be free to choose his own ultimate destiny. The author’s thesis is a passionate yet incisive plea for the restoration of the sacred norms of religion, as against the debilitating and falsifying aims of a profane world-view based on no more than recent scientific and technological achievements.
ISBN: 9789696402053
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: CHOICE AND RESPOSIBILITY IN THE MODERN WORLD
Author: GAI EATON -
NARRATING PAKISTAN
₨ 999Narrating Pakistan is an attempt to explore the idea of Pakistan through contemporary stories-the term, the country, the nation, the identity, the idea, the boundary, the border, the story, the history, the arch, or the absence thereof. What are some of our stories? What demands to be written? And what remains unsaid?
The stories, fictional and nonfictional, show multiple perspectives on what constitutes a Pakistani writer or a Pakistani narrative. The characters range from truck drivers in interior Sindh to Muslim boys growing up in the suburban United States, from young men arriving in Sydney and Frankfurt battling cultural shock to women in urban Islamabad fighting patriarchy. Interweaved among the surrealistic imaginations of diasporic writers are reflections on memory, language, disease, death, and belonging. All the writers gathered here share a contemporary cosmopolitan sensibility. The last author in the anthology is a digital entity and problematizes the idea of a storyteller with a distinct geographical region and acknowledges the posthuman future awaiting all of us.
A momentous coming together of brilliant young writers. The writers in this anthology are narrating a different story of Pakistan-a richer, truer, more nuanced Pakistan than can be found in any newspaper or column. A book to help us feel more deeply, and see farther. Bilal Tanweer
ISBN: 9789696402756
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE WRITING
Author: SAEED UR REHMAN -
GRIEVING FOR PIGEONS
₨ 799In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories. Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination. home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling different eras of Lahore s neighbourhoods and the communities that define them. These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions of this region s history reverberate through the stories, evident in the characters. their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.
ISBN: 9789696402527
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: TWELVE STORIES OF LAHORE
Author: ZUBAIR AHMAD -
THE SECRET SEVEN
₨ 350The Secret Seven go to a funfair and enjoy themselves thoroughly. Alas! Something goes wrong and they witness a poor woman’s house burn down. In the process of helping her family, the Secret Seven suspect her husband may be involved in a recent robbery. How do they prove he is guilty?
ISBN: 9789696401865
AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
ISBN: 9789696401865
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: PUZZLE FOR THE SECRET SEVEN
Author: ENID BLYTON -
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GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
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ISBN: 9789696401674
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
Author: M.D. -
QAUM, MULK, SULTANAT
₨ 1,999After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life. While leadership in India claimed the anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilizational legacy in the subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim history and political tradition from a millennium long history of cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence. Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping history of the country s formative period. Qasmi paints a rich picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while simultaneously narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state?such as the exact color of the flag, the precise date of birth of the national poet of Pakistan, and the observation of Eid as a “national festival”?providing an illuminating analysis of the practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history in the subcontinent.
ISBN: 9789696403012
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONAL BELONGING IN PAKISTAN
Author: ALI USMAN QASMI -
DIL KO ZINDA KAR DOBARA
₨ 999
ISBN: 9789696403005
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
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Author: YASMIN MOGAHED -
ALLAH KI MUHABBAT KAY RAAZ
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ISBN: 9789696402879
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
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Author: A. HELWAT -
THE EMPEROR WHO NEVER WAS
₨ 1,599The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Although the Mughals did not practice primogeniture, Dara, a Sufi who studied Hindu thought, was the presumed heir to the throne and prepared himself to be India s next ruler. In this exquisite narrative biography, the most comprehensive ever written, Supriya Gandhi draws on archival sources to tell the story of the four brothers-Dara, Shuja, Murad, and Aurangzeb-who with their older sister Jahanara Begum clashed during a war of succession. Emerging victorious, Aurangzeb executed his brothers, jailed his father, and became the sixth and last great Mughal. After Aurangzeb s reign, the Mughal Empire began to disintegrate. Endless battles with rival rulers depleted the royal coffers, until by the end of the seventeenth century Europeans would start gaining a foothold along the edges of the subcontinent. Historians have long wondered whether the Mughal Empire would have crumbled when it did, allowing European traders to seize control of India, if Dara Shukoh had ascended the throne. To many in South Asia, Aurangzeb is the scholastic bigot who imposed a strict form of Islam and alienated his non-Muslim subjects. Dara, by contrast, is mythologized as a poet and mystic. Gandhi s nuanced biography gives us a more complex and revealing portrait of this Mughal prince than we have ever had.
ISBN: 9789696402770
ISBN: 9789696402770
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: DARA SHUKOH IN MUGHAL INDIA
Author: SUPRIYA GANDHI -
THE SECRET SEVEN
₨ 350The Secret Seven invite over Bob, who has something very important to share. Old Tolly has run into money problems because of his horse. He is unable to fully pay the fees on time and his employer is being very bossy and mean. If Old Tolly can’t pay, he will go to jail. How will the Secret Seven help solve this problem?
ISBN: 9789696401919
AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
ISBN: 9789696401919
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: FUN FOR THE SECRET SEVEN
Author: ENID BLYTON