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		<title>Drinking to your health</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿ Maria Tirmizi ISLAMABAD: The white plastic drums immediately catch the eye in Jabri. They are in abundance; sold at makeshift stalls, lugged up the mountains on villagers&#8217; heads, stacked up in the backseat of Suzuki pickups. Their large numbers stick out curiously in the tiny hill top village, with its feeble dirt roads and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=121&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bloody October in Pakistan Amid South Waziristan Operation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be it a rude awakening or the ghosts of collateral damage, the War on Terror has never felt closer to home. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=113&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Asian Immigrants in the US : A Model Minority?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many South Asians living in the U.S. scoff at the label of “model minority” and take great pains in hiding what they call “the shame of their situation” from their extended families back home.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=77&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fasting in the Fast Lane: Celebrating Ramadan in New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Observing a fast in the U.S. for 30 straight days poses special challenges for Muslims struggling to make a life for themselves here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=75&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US 2008 Presidential Election Puts Spotlight on Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appeared in the Queens Tribune Nov 07, 2008 With a Yankees cap on his bedside table and Rocawear shirts flung over the couch, Rizwan Choudhary, 21, watched the first presidential debate in his house in Lahore, Pakistan. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he left New York two years ago to study at a medical school [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=73&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Sikhism on St. Patrick’s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singh, a former Hindu who lived in India most of his life, embraced Sikhism in Ireland thanks to St. Patrick’s Day.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=64&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Integration, Not Assimilation: The Story of Irish Muslim Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even with her Irish passport and professional degrees, Nawal is conscious of being written off as a mute, or even worse, regressive element of society. Her sentiments are shared by a number of Muslim women in Ireland who are struggling to eliminate the popular perception of the “oppressed Muslim woman.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=60&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Turns To Twitter To Express Political Views</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the West, Twitter is used as much by college kids broadcasting their daily lives as by celebrities, journalists and social activists. But in Pakistan, the site is used mainly by professional, urban youths who primarily seek to vent their political views.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=57&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musharraf&#8217;s Emergency Rule Illegal, Pakistan Court Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The court decision is an epic symbolic gesture.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=52&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summoning Musharraf To Court Sends Out A &#8220;Crucial&#8221; Message For Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The court's order could also possibly be the first step towards a one-of-a-kind trial against a former military ruler.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariatirmizi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1589137&amp;post=46&amp;subd=mariatirmizi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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