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		<title>Pakistani media circus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a clear divide in Pakistani print and electronic media. On the one hand you have the circus being performed by the likes of Ansar Abbasi, Shahid Masood, Irfan Siddiqui, Zahid Hamid and Ahmed Qureshi. On the other hand, you have Nadeem Farooq Piracha, Fasih Zaka, George Fulton, and many others. The former is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daastaan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4598135&amp;post=160&amp;subd=daastaan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghalib</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lahore O Lahore!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My romance with Lahore started in early 80s when I first visited the city as a seventh grader. It had seemed a world apart  from my small dusty town. Green, urban and clean. I immediately fell in love with the leafy green new campus of the Punjab University where my Uncle was studying. The environment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daastaan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4598135&amp;post=151&amp;subd=daastaan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani Air Cheif Marshal apears in an Indian Government Advertisement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well India might not need Pakistani Cricketers for IPL but it seems they can do with some male models, particularly Pakistan armed forces figures. That seems to be the case as a photo of Pakistan&#8217;s ex-Air Chief Marshal was included in a Ministry of Women and Child Development advertisement.  The advertisement titled &#8220;where would you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daastaan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4598135&amp;post=148&amp;subd=daastaan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Mehdi Hassan Classic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>One of Mehdi Hassan&#8217;s best songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A clip from PTV&#8217;s classic comdy show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Islam &amp; America: Through the Eyes of Imran Khan &#8211; Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>MQM&#8217;s Characteristic Intolerance &#8216;Goon Style&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Karachi Target Killings Count</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 13, 2010 . 10 Comments in Featured Articles Muhajir Qaumi Movement (Amir Group) – 1314 Muhajir Qaumi Movement (Afaaq Group) – 270 Motahida Qaumi Movement (Altaf Group) – 84 Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) – 75 Awami National Party (ANP) – 54 Jamaat-e-Islam (JI) – 51 Sunni Tehreek (ST) – 40 Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daastaan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4598135&amp;post=134&amp;subd=daastaan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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