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A new book of essays edited by parliamentarian Sherry Rehman offers insight into the past, present and future of the country’s women’s rights movement ....
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Funeral prayers for rights activist I.A. Rehman being offered. White Star LAHORE: Leaders from across the political spectrum, several civil society members and cultural bodies mourned the loss of the country’s most prolific and iconic journalist and a long-time human rights champion, Ibn Abdur Rehman, commonly known as I.A. Rehman, who passed away here on Monday morning. Rehman sahib was 90 and suffering from various health issues such as diabetes and high blood pressure. The HRCP, in a statement, said it was devastated at the loss of its honorary spokesperson and former secretary general. Rehman served as the commission’s director from 1990 to 2008 before being elected its secretary general in 2008 a post he held till 2016. He was also a co-founder of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, a bureau member of South Asians for Human Rights and former chairperson of the South Asian Forum for Human Rights. ....
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Often, when I’m bored with the books I’ve been reading or with the enforced solitude of lockdown, I return to my shelves for collections of fables, folktales and wonder tales from many cultures and in many languages. I have a special predilection for Chinese tales of the uncanny, particularly because so many of those such as Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio are not retold from traditional or oral sources, but written in a finely calibrated style, long before the modern short story established its formal hegemony in the realms of world literature. Today, though, I’ve finished the last story in Midnight Doorways, by our very own fabulist Usman T. Malik. This book, for which I’ve waited for a year, arrived in my mailbox three days ago and has been beside me ever since. I call Malik a fabulist here because he’s subtitled his first collection Fables from Pakistan. The stories in it may well be described as tales, but however we choose to descr ....