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...India's Muslims in 1947, the multicultural and multiracial Adventures was even regarded as vaguely suspect. "It reminded Pakistanis of a cultural identity that undercut their religious one," says Farooqi. "It needed to be ignored." But Farooqi, thankfully, could not ignore it. After a stint in journalism in Karachi, he moved to Canada in 1994 and, while dabbling in children's fiction, set up the Urdu Project, an online journal of translations and literary criticism. Then, on a wintry night in 1999, Farooqi says that a "horse-headed gent" and an "elephant-eared lady" - figures from the dastan - came...
...that Bhutto doesn't have support, says Awan, but simply that Islamabad has never been a place where crowds gather. "It's not like Sindh," he says, referring to the southern province whose capital, Karachi, saw some 200,000 supporters gather to greet Bhutto upon her return from exile last month. Bhutto's Pakistan's People Party (PPP) leaders still claim the number was closer to 3 million. "People in Islamabad are not willing to get arrested. The Punjabi police [who are in charge of the capital] are notoriously brutal. And there have already been so many arrests - people...
...fact they just bought time, and then suddenly when I was in Dubai they announced martial law. I caught the first plane back to be with my people who have suffered so much. My people who had sacrificed 158 lives - the final death toll of the Karachi blasts...
...planned to launch her election campaign with a procession to her hometown of Larkana, the source of her most fervent support. Now she has been forced to rethink her strategy. "We have to modify our campaign to some extent because of the suicide bombings," Bhutto told reporters at her Karachi residence shortly after visiting Lyari. "But we are not going to stop our campaign to reach the public. We will not be deterred." Some PPP workers are not as enthusiastic. "I won't go to rallies anymore," says Banno. "Anything can happen...
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