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		<title>Malegaon at Crossroads</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/01/23/malegaon-at-crossroads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his famous novel Jimmy the Terrorist, Omair Ahmed brilliantly portrays Muslim alienation in the fictional town of Mozammabad in Uttar Pradesh. The protagonist of the novel Jamaal aka Jimmy grows up in the shadow ...]]></description>
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		<title>Maulana with a Difference</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2010/09/10/maulana-with-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a damp summer night of 1976, an 11-year old boy walks inside a tiny classroom of Madrasa Faiz-ul-Uloom located in a narrow lane behind Islampura’s Juni Masjid. An Arabic class led by the late ...]]></description>
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		<title>How Cordoba House became “Ground Zero Mosque”?</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2010/09/06/how-cordoba-house-became-ground-zero-mosque/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2010/09/06/how-cordoba-house-became-ground-zero-mosque/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[G.K. Chesterton, English author and mystery novelist once wrote, “Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive! Seven decades later, Chesterton’s words still stand ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Question of Palestine</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/05/16/the-question-of-palestine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The siege will last in order to convince us that we must choose an enslavement that does no harm in fullest liberty.
(Late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish)
As Palestinians mark Nakba, the catastrophe, signifying the 61st anniversary ...]]></description>
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		<title>India’s Obama Inspires Muslims</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/05/04/indias-obama-inspires-muslims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dalits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI— Just as the election of Barack Obama for African Americans, the rise of Mayawati, India’s star woman politician, from the lowest rung of the social hierarchy is bringing hope of change for Indian ...]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Democracy: Need for a radical change</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/05/02/indian-democracy-need-for-a-radical-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/05/02/indian-democracy-need-for-a-radical-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 20:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boycott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mrs Sonia Gandhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting system]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the electoral dust seems to have settled in Maharashtra with the end of phase III, it’s time we turn our attention to some serious issues plaguing politics, voting and democracy.

The average Indian still ...]]></description>
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		<title>India Muslim District Votes for Attention</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/30/india-muslim-district-votes-for-attention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/30/india-muslim-district-votes-for-attention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KISHANGANJ — While religious and communal lines usually mark election battles across Hindu-majority India, development is the key word in the northernmost district of Kishanganj, India’s largest Muslim constituency.
&#8220;What we need here is an educational ...]]></description>
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		<title>India Muslims See Hope in Regional Parties</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/27/india-muslims-see-hope-in-regional-parties/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/27/india-muslims-see-hope-in-regional-parties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUMBAI — Fed up of the alienating politics of the Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Congress, Muslims are seeing a glimmer of hope in the more reconciliatory regional parties, seen by experts ...]]></description>
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		<title>Master, Queen and Slave</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/22/master-queen-and-slave/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/22/master-queen-and-slave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[L.K. Advani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mrs Sonia Gandhi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Congress only party which works on the basis of master-servant relationship? Sonia Maino Gandhi has challenged that assumption by breaking the sound of silence. All these years, her long and stoic silence was ...]]></description>
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		<title>India Muslim Vote Between Rock, Hard Place</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/18/india-muslim-vote-between-rock-hard-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/18/india-muslim-vote-between-rock-hard-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUMBAI — As India marathon general polls begin, many Indian Muslims find themselves caught between voting for the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an &#8220;open enemy&#8221; to their community, or the ruling Congress party, an ...]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnosing Dr. Manmohan Singh</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/12/diagnosing-dr-manmohan-singh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/12/diagnosing-dr-manmohan-singh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will history judge Dr. Manmohan Singh, India’s non-political prime minister? Will he be remembered as an opportunist who agreed to become prime minister when Sonia Gandhi’s ‘inner voice’ prevailed over her outer voice? 
>> ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Old Men of Indian Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/06/the-old-men-of-indian-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/04/06/the-old-men-of-indian-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old age may be equated with wisdom but in politics wisdom evaporates with old age. “The older I grow”, wrote American journalist and writer H.L. Mencken, “the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age ...]]></description>
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		<title>Varun and the Ghost of Sanjay Gandhi</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/03/21/varun-and-the-ghost-of-sanjay-gandhi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/03/21/varun-and-the-ghost-of-sanjay-gandhi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when the ghosts of a powerful past return to haunt a man whose father was the de facto prime minister of India in the 70s? Varun Gandhi could have learned a lesson history ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cricket and cocktail terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/03/10/cricket-and-cocktail-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/03/10/cricket-and-cocktail-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Murray Walker, the renowned British sports commentator who had once said – you can cut the tension with a cricket stump – should be thinking to retract his verbatim. Murray had probably said this in ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Lucid Dream and Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/28/a-lucid-dream-and-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2009/02/28/a-lucid-dream-and-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mubasshir Mushtaq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 General election is going to witness a dawn of professional politics where political parties will be marketed as commodities to lure potential voters. It will not be merely a traditional competition between Congress ...]]></description>
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