Muhammad Fahim Khokhar

Dec 30, 2023 | dawn.com | Ayaz Khan |Mahira Sarfraz |Muhammad Fahim Khokhar |Abbas Nasir

Towards Peoples’ Histories in Pakistan: (In)audible Voices, Forgotten PastsEdited by Asad Ali & Kamran Asdar AliBloomsbury AcademicISBN: 978-1-3502-6119-8276pp. In the Pakistani context, archiving history has been an immensely laborious and painful affair. After the country’s inception, historiography remained hooked to pre-Partition events, mostly eschewing historicity while shrinking space for multiple voices in archiving the past.

Dec 30, 2023 | dawn.com | Claire Chambers |Mahira Sarfraz |Muhammad Fahim Khokhar |Abbas Nasir

In a literary marketplace saturated with Eurocentric accounts of motherhood, Suma Din’s creative non-fiction work, Dear Mother: Letters from the Heart, is a refreshing collection. Made up of imagined letters, the book explores the challenges and rewards of motherhood from within an Islamic framework. In terms of its genre, Dear Mother is a blend of self-help, life writing and fiction.

Dec 30, 2023 | dawn.com | Amir Khan |Omair Alavi |Mahira Sarfraz |Muhammad Fahim Khokhar

Fight For Your LifeBy Amir KhanCenturyISBN: 9781529907698320pp. He may have retired from professional boxing but Amir Khan still has a lot to offer, both as a sportsman and as a human being. The former world champion, whose philanthropic activities keep him in the news after retirement, had an eventful career about which he hasn’t said much until now.

Dec 30, 2023 | dawn.com | Muhammad Fahim Khokhar |Faisal Siddiqi

WHAT often slips through the cracks of environmental discussions is the staggering carbon footprint of the cement industry, responsible for a considerable seven per cent of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions. This environmental burden places the industry in a unique position, necessitating a collective, international effort to usher in a sustainable era.