Books Publisher In Pakistan Karachi

There are a tonne of books about Prince out there and the publisher originally wanted me to write a biography.

“There are a tonne of books about Prince out there and the publisher originally wanted me to write a biography...

His documentary Generation Jihad was nominated for the BAFTA and he is the winner of the 2011 pan-BBC ideas competition Pitch to Win, as well as a Foreign Press Association nominee for Inside Gay Pakistan and a One World Media Award nominee for The Trouble with Pakistan’s White Stripe...

Publisher apologises for ‘offensive’ content in sociology textbook

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The government of Punjab has ordered an inquiry into the publication of offensive content in a sociology textbook, even after the publisher tendered a public apology on Sunday...

The book in question, ‘Sociology of Pakistan’, written by Abdul Hameed Taga and Abdul Aziz Taga, generated quite a controversy after excerpts from a chapter on the Baloch people were circulated on social media...

Secular publisher killed in Bangladesh

DHAKA: A Bangladesh publisher who worked with atheist writers was hacked to death in the capital Dhaka on Saturday, his father and police told AFP, just hours after two secular bloggers and another publisher were attacked in a separate incident...

The incident came just hours after unidentified assailants attacked two secular writers and another publisher, leaving one of them in a critical condition, according to police...

Bangladesh arrests publisher for 'offensive' book on Islam

DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested and charged a publisher after demonstrators warned of violent protests over one of his books which they deemed offensive, an officer said Tuesday...

Manik was the translator and publisher of the book...

Book publisher's disappearance in China causes furore

Rights campaigners slammed as “appalling” Tuesday reports that dissident publisher Gui Minhai has been snatched again in mainland China, the latest person ensnared in Beijing's crackdown on civil society...

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrm had summoned China's ambassador to a meeting and had been promised information about what had happened to the publisher, Nilsson added...

Detained in China, book publisher accuses Sweden of using him like a 'chess piece'

Detained book publisher Gui Minhai has surfaced nearly three weeks after disappearing into police custody in China, confessing wrongdoing and accusing his adopted country Sweden of manipulating him like a “chess piece”...

He eventually re-emerged at an undisclosed Chinese location, confessing to involvement in a fatal traffic accident and smuggling illegal books into mainland China...

NY Times publisher tells Trump anti-press attacks ‘dangerous and harmful’

WASHINGTON: The publisher of The New York Times has warned Donald Trump in a White House meeting that the president’s escalating attacks on the news media are “inflammatory” and “dangerous and harmful to our country”...

Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times,” Trump said on Twitter...

Bangladesh publisher arrested on defamation charges

A prominent lawyer and newspaper publisher who is tied to Bangladesh's political opposition was denied bail on Tuesday after his arrest on defamation charges, heightening concerns about a crackdown on dissent ahead of national elections...

Hosein is the publisher of the English-language New Nation daily and heads its editorial board...

IoK police arrest newspaper publisher over 1990 case in midnight raid

Police in Indian-occupied Kashmir arrested the publisher of one of the most widely read newspapers in the area in a midnight raid over a decades-old case, police and his brother said on Tuesday, highlighting the difficulties plaguing media in the region...

Ghulam Jeelani Qadri, 62, a journalist and the publisher of the Urdu-language newspaper Daily Afaaq, was arrested at his home in the region's main city of Srinagar, half an hour...

Author Mohammed Hanif says Urdu publisher of his bestseller raided

Celebrated writer Mohammed Hanif on Monday said that some people claiming to be from an intelligence agency had raided the offices of his Urdu publisher today and confiscated all copies of the translated version of his 2008 bestseller A Case of Exploding Mangoes...

Publisher, two politicians charged over Hong Kong protests

KONG HONG: Outspoken Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai and two prominent opposition politicians were charged ON Friday with illegal assembly over a pro-democracy march last year as the territory’s Beijing-backed government appeared to move to settle scores over the protests...

Two books on Karachi launched

KARACHI: Two books titled Reimagining Karachi — Perspectives and Reimagining Karachi — Memories on the different historic facets of the city was launched at a hotel on Monday evening at an event organised by SEED Ventures and the I Am Karachi campaign...

Introducing the books, SEED Ventures’ Sadaf Mahmood said they were in English because the publishers had a certain target audience in mind...

Islamic loan books shift towards profit-sharing in Pakistan, Indonesia

DUBAI: The make-up of Islamic banks’ loan books is changing in Pakistan and Indonesia with the growing use of profit-sharing contracts that could help Islamic finance win more customers in the two largest Muslim-majority countries...

Over the past year Pakistan and Indonesia have stepped up efforts to develop their Islamic finance sectors, with regulators and religious scholars addressing criticism that the industry often merely...

Shaping histories: The most influential books in Pakistan

The books listed and reviewed below, all authored by Pakistanis, went on to construct socio-political narratives of large sections of Pakistan’s polity, and also abetted in the shaping of policies of the various governments since the inception of the country in August 1947...

Abul Aala Mawdudi (1932)[English translation: Towards Understanding Islam (1959)]Pakistan emerged as a Muslim-majority state in 1947...

Malik returns in style, Younis in record books as Pakistan take charge

ABU DHABI: Shoaib Malik hit a fighting hundred to cap an impressive return to Test cricket after five years as he led Pakistan’s charge in the first Test against England in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday...

Malik was unbeaten on 124 for his third Test hundred — his first against England — to guide Pakistan to 286-4 at close on the opening day at Sheikh Zayed Stadium...