• CHEQUERED PAST, UNCERTAIN FUTURE

    A 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

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  • KING OF THE CASTLE

    This 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 considering how secular societies attempt to possess their citizens, body, and soul, and how, as a consequence, 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 ultimate destiny. The author’s thesis is a passionate yet incisive plea for restoring the sacred norms of religion, against the debilitating and falsifying aims of a profane worldview based on no more than recent scientific and technological achievements.
    ISBN: 9789696402053
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: CHOICE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE MODERN WORLD
    Author: GAI EATON

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  • NARRATING PAKISTAN

    Narrating 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

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  • GRIEVING FOR PIGEONS

    In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad creates a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present and recalling different eras of Lahore’s neighborhoods 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

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    The 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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  • 1984


    ISBN: 9789696400066
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle:

    Author: GEORGE ORWELL

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  • GAMES PEOPLE PLAY


    ISBN: 9789696401674
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP

    Author: M.D.

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  • QAUM, MULK, SULTANAT

    After 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

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  • DIL KO ZINDA KAR DOBARA


    ISBN: 9789696403005
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle:
    Author: YASMIN MOGAHED

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  • ALLAH KI MUHABBAT KAY RAAZ


    ISBN: 9789696402879
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle:

    Author: A. HELWAT

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  • THE EMPEROR WHO NEVER WAS

    The 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

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    The 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

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    14. The Secret Seven decide to help an old gentleman, General Branksome, retrieve his stolen medals. He is very old now, and has lost his most prized possession, his medals from his time in the service. They are worth a lot of money now. With almost no clues to follow, how will the Secret Seven find them?
    ISBN: 9789696401902
    AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
    ISBN: 9789696401902
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: LOOK OUT, SECRET SEVEN
    Author: ENID BLYTON

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    The Secret Seven have their first major quarrel. Peter and Jack fight and Jack resigns from the Secret Seven. They write him an apology note that even Scamper signs. They desperately want Jack back, especially when a dog-thief appears to be on the loose and they want to catch him before he can get to Scamper!
    ISBN: 9789696401896
    AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
    ISBN: 9789696401896
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: SHOCK FOR THE SECRET SEVEN
    Author: ENID BLYTON

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    The Secret Seven are most excited about Jack’s new telescope! But sharing it with Susie and Binkie is ruining the experience. Once calm is achieved, Janet notices some strange activity in an abandoned castle far away. It seems as though someone is hiding there. Who can it be and what are they hiding?
    ISBN: 9789696401889
    AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
    ISBN: 9789696401889
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: GOOD OLD SECRET SEVEN
    Author: ENID BLYTON

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    11. The Secret Seven discover the shed is full of onions. They wanted a space to start making a fantastic guy for Bonfire Night. But Susie and her new society are making things unbearable. Meanwhile, Colina’s grandmother’s house has been robbed. How will the Secret Seven manage everything?
    ISBN: 9789696401872
    AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
    ISBN: 9789696401872
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: SECRET SEVEN FIREWORKS
    Author: ENID BLYTON

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    The Secret Seven hold a very important meeting. A young school girl has gone missing. Peter and Janet’s father tells them about the information given in the papers. Now it is up to the Secret Seven to gather more clues and find the girl before it’s too late.
    ISBN: 9789696401858
    AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
    ISBN: 9789696401858
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: SECRET SEVEN MYSTERY
    Author: ENID BLYTON

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    The Secret Seven are very excited. Jack’s sister, Susie, has received a wonderful new toy aeroplane. During their flying adventure, the plane goes into the neighbour’s house and they discover that someone else is living in their neighbour’s home. Who is it and why are they living there?
    ISBN: 9789696401841
    AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
    ISBN: 9789696401841
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: THREE CHEERS, SECRET SEVEN
    Author: ENID BLYTON

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    The Secret Seven shed is being painted. Now they need to look for a new place to hold their meetings. They discover the perfect cave and decide to settle into it. But they suspect that someone else is using their cave at night. Who is it and why are they hiding themselves?
    ISBN: 9789696401834
    AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
    ISBN: 9789696401834
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: SECRET SEVEN WIN THROUGH
    Author: ENID BLYTON

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  • THE SECRET SEVEN

    The Secret Seven discover a battered notebook that is written all in code. It could be connected to a theft that recently came in the papers. But then Peter and Janeta’s father’s car is suddenly stolen. What is happening? Is this all connected?
    ISBN: 9789696401827
    AUTHOR: ENID BLYTON
    ISBN: 9789696401827
    Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
    Subtitle: GOOD WORK SECRET SEVEN
    Author: ENID BLYTON

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