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	<title>The News International - <![CDATA[Reviews]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[A grounded return]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:40:04 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Falling in love, it seems, was the easy part. Sustaining love? Go figure &ndash; or, better yet, watch this series.          N        etflix&rsquo;s Nobody Wants This comes back with a second season that feels more grounded, thoughtful and emotionally honest than its first. Created by Erin Foster,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The silent toll of solving crime]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1356594-the-silent-toll-of-solving-crime]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:00:23 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        t&rsquo;s a little dated, but rather than glorifying serial killers, Catching Killers highlights the painstaking investigative process. From early leads to psychological profiling, forensic breakthroughs and, sometimes, investigative failures, the docu-series humanises law enforcement...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Eulogising them]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:54:03 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        he latest edition of Black Mirror, its seventh, takes on the question of morality when it comes to artificial intelligence. It is the question that humans need to ask themselves when they believe they have become gods. Certainly giving birth to something that increasingly seems to take on...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[When television toppled a trade deal]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1355116-when-television-toppled-a-trade-deal]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:40:23 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[&ldquo;Reagan&rsquo;s voice, preserved in grainy monochrome, was once a symbol of authority. In the Ontario ad, it became an instrument of spectacle, an archive mobilised for immediacy.&rdquo;          I        n the age of performative politics, it is no longer negotiators who blow up trade...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[From mother  to motherland]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1354867-from-mother-to-motherland]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:46:48 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A         memoir is like a trial in which the writer is both a prosecutor and an arbiter facing a largely hostile jury of readers. Adjectives seem ineffectual in seizing the body of the memoir. But Arundhati Roy&rsquo;s memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me comes full circle, depicting her...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Foucauldian nightmare]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1353564-a-foucauldian-nightmare]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:45:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[&ldquo;Conformity, when mixed with fear, is the most dangerous drug of all.&rdquo;          A        good psychological thriller was long due on the Netflix. Wayward just delivered that. Mae Martin&rsquo;s eight-episode Canadian-British mini-series defies its tranquil setting to expose the hidden...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[When trouble brews]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1351955-when-trouble-brews]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:02:33 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[S        teven Knight&rsquo;s House of Guinness unfolds like a dark pour of stout. Thick, heady and quietly intoxicating. Set in 19th-Century Ireland and England, the Netflix series traces the dynasty behind the world&rsquo;s most famous brewery. What it really distills is not beer; it is power....]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[T for threat, T for time ]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1350303-t-for-threat-t-for-time]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:44:19 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[P        rime Video&rsquo;s Countdown, created by Derek Haas, enters the crowded world of American crime thrillers with an ambitious promise: a high-stakes manhunt that unites agents from multiple federal and local agencies to stop a citywide catastrophe. At first glance, it has all the right...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Apocalypse behind a paywall]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:04:31 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[W        hen a society collapses, where do the billionaires go? In Billionaires&rsquo; Bunker, the new Spanish thriller series from Money Heist creators &Aacute;lex Pina and Esther Mart&iacute;nez Lobato, the answer is: down. Deep underground into a luxury shelter built to preserve wealth, power...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Between dream and reality]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1348314-between-dream-and-reality]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:51:35 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[R        eading Han Kang&rsquo;s Korean novel in Urdu is like engaging with the novel&rsquo;s globality. This genre surpasses various boundaries, including ideological ones, and encompasses diverse identities, be they racial, religious, linguistic or cultural. The novel unites humanity through its...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Crime that unsettles ]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1346827-crime-that-unsettles-in-1989-two-brothers]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:52:29 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Netflix has released the second chapter of its Monsters anthology, The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, a dramatisation that revisits a case that has remained part of American popular culture for more than three decades. The series focuses on the 1989 murders of Jos&eacute; and Kitty Menendez by...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A peach  of a tale]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1346747-a-peach-of-a-tale]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:03:18 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Shaayad shireen tareen shaftaalv-i-darakht baashiImma barkhi az mardum shaftaalu dost nidarand          I        I first came across the short-lived Iranian writer Samad Behrangi  in Sibte Hasan&rsquo;s classic work on the Iranian Revolution, Inquilab-i-Iran . While describing the suffocating...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Training for  transformation  ]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1345058-training-for-transformation-kiran]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:56:14 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        he intellectual roots of modern management education can be traced to military institutions, where the cultivation of judgment, discipline and decision-making was paramount. In 1801, the Senior Military Department of the Royal Military College was established in Britain, eventually...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Being and other objects]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:30:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Encyclopedia series: the garden.          A        rt exhibitions and fashion shows are not entirely dissimilar, though some differences exist. Both serve as spaces of negotiation between a creative product and a prospective - often prosperous - client.Artworks in a gallery, whether hung on a...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Realism just called in sick]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1343394-realism-just-called-in-sick]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:05:28 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[N        etflix&rsquo;s Hostage is presented as a political thriller spread over five episodes. It features Suranne Jones as British Prime Minister Abigail Dalton and Julie Delpy as French President Vivienne Toussaint. The series opens with Dalton&rsquo;s husband, Alex, kidnapped while working in...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Duplicity and desire  ]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1341586-duplicity-and-desire-dealing-in-desire]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:35:24 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[S        Saba Karim Khan and Sarmad Khoosat&rsquo;s Dealing in Desire is a layered cinematic exploration of systematic marginalisation, duality of human nature and the taboos which societies often repress. Drawing on the inter-textual resonance of Saadat Hasan Manto&rsquo;s short story Hatak and...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[In defiance of power]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1341531-in-defiance-of-power]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:33:28 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[J        ulien Benda once wrote that &ldquo;real intellectuals are supposed to risk being burned at the stake, ostracised or crucified. They have to be in a state of almost permanent opposition to the status quo.&rdquo; Such figures are rare but they exist. In Pakistan, Hussain Naqi is one of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[An alternative to business as usual]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1340195-an-alternative-to-business-as-usual]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:50:14 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Mueenuddin&rsquo;s film traces the Indus River from glacier to inundated plain, lingering on submerged homes, waterlogged fields and silent survivors whose lives were swept away.          D        ocumentaries on disasters like floods cannot change the ground realities - rebuild embankments or...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[An artist's mind]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1339959-an-artists-mind]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:36:53 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Power Lion.          I        n Authors Space of No Physical Action is the title of Basir Mahmood&rsquo;s 00:09:00 video, part of his recently concluded solo exhibition In-Between Spaces of Energy and Consumption. Mahmood, an alumnus of the School of Visual Art and Design, BNU, and recipient of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Still keeping the flame alive]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1338625-still-keeping-the-flame-alive]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:22:48 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[&ldquo;Few films in Indian cinema have transcended generations the way Sholay has&mdash;its dialogues and characters, even silences, are etched into popular culture.&rdquo;                                                            &mdash;Subash K Jha in Economic Times, August 14          H       ...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The thrill is back]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1336336-the-thrill-is-back]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:22:41 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[N        Netflix&rsquo;s Dept Q arrives at a time when the platform&rsquo;s crime drama offerings have been more misses than hits. Viewers have sat through many flashy thrillers that promise suspense but end up forgettable. This one is different. The nine-episode series takes its time, digs into...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Border patrol]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1336334-border-patrol]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:20:46 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        here is a rare quietude in The Gringo Hunters; a hush that is not the absence of noise, but the thoughtful stillness that follows a gunshot or an arrest made in the shadows. Throughout the series, this silence feels intentional, a space carved out for the weight of what is left unspoken:...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dissonance in  our times]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1334453-dissonance-in-our-times]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Aug 2025 17:35:03 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        t is obvious from the hype around the world since Severance came out that there is something controversial about the show. When people start talking so much about a show that it becomes a sensation, one can be certain that controversy is involved. 
    

Helly R. wakes up lying in the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Terror, mood and mystery]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1332717-terror-mood-and-mystery]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:00:11 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[U        Until Dawn is the kind of horror film that pulls one in with a chilling premise and holds one with tension, gore and the creeping dread of repetition. Directed by David F Sandberg and inspired by the cult-favorite 2015 video game, the film does not merely adapt the original...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A theatrical prognosis of a generation in emotional flux]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1331068-a-theatrical-prognosis-of-a-generation-in-emotional-flux]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:56:06 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Through song, dialogue and movement, the young performers presented themes of peer pressure, parental neglect, surveillance in digital spaces and academic anxiety. &mdash; Images: Supplied          O        n July 13, Alhamra&rsquo;s Hall 2 transformed into a space for revelation and raw...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[No saving grace]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1331056-no-saving-grace]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:35:18 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[U        ntamed, the show, wants to be important. It wants to be slow, serious and full of quiet pain. What it actually is is poorly written, badly paced and deeply out of touch with how real people act and how real investigations work. Over six long episodes, it manages to take a solid premise...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Red tape]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1329477-red-tape]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:28:55 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        n Netflix&rsquo;s 2025 breakout thriller Exterritorial, the walls do not just close in, they close in legally, psychologically and morally. Directed by Christian Z&uuml;bert, the film takes a mother&rsquo;s primal fear and wraps it in layers of geopolitical red tape, post-traumatic echoes...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[An insider account]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1329431-an-insider-account]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:16:43 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[F        Farhatullah Babar&rsquo;s The Zardari Presidency: Now It Must Be Told is an account of his time as spokesperson to President Asif Zardari during his first term . It includes eyewitness testimony as well as the author&rsquo;s insights on the tug of war between the mighty establishment,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hopelessly smitten]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1327977-hopelessly-smitten]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:39:59 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[N        etflix&rsquo;s The Gardener is a Spanish-language limited series that unspools like a slow-burning thriller wrapped in poetic melancholy. Set against the lush, rain-soaked landscapes of Galicia, it tells the story of Elmer, a young gardener who is also a contract killer&mdash;dutiful,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rethinking  a literary giant]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1327770-rethinking-a-literary-giant]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:41:14 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        t is difficult to trace the intellectual history of the Indian subcontinent without an understanding of Arabic and Persian literature. Prior to Partition, literary production in Urdu, whether original or adapted, was inextricably shaped by these two classical languages. One reason may be...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[This aged well]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:33:36 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[W        hen people think about retirement homes, a quiet, unspoken stereotype often forms in their mind. This is especially true of those who do not have much contact with elderly people or who have not visited such places. They might imagine a dull, gray space filled with people just sitting...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Manhood under review]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1326629-manhood-under-review]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:28:25 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[N        etflix&rsquo;s Alpha Males  does not make excuses for its characters. That is exactly what makes it work. Across three seasons, the Spanish comedy follows four men as they reckon with a world that no longer validates the version of masculinity they grew up with. But unlike many series...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A 'trippy' letdown]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1325247-a-trippy-letdown]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:24:36 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        It opens in the Alps, not with a whisper but a hallucination. A bear may or may not be talking and Nicole Kidman&rsquo;s Masha, ghostlike and glowing, returns to orchestrate yet another spiritual odyssey for a new crop of damaged strangers. But the real question haunting Season 2 of Nine...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Carried by the cast]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1325245-carried-by-the-cast]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:19:26 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[N        etflix&rsquo;s The Waterfront is not flashy. It does not rely on gimmicks or over-stylised visuals to grab attention. It takes its time to build tension, flesh out its characters and let the story unfold in a way that makes it easy to get invested. It starts slower than one might expect,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Where the  heart writes first]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1325079-where-the-heart-writes-first]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:30:49 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[I        In The Tides of Emotion, Daima Hussain charts a poetic journey through faith, fear, love and identity, a tide that carries both the scent of matar chawal  and the shadow of a crow&rsquo;s wing. The debut collection is divided into six thematic sections. Each pulls the reader deeper into...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Between desire and duty]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1325078-between-desire-and-duty]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:28:46 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Y        ounus Hussain is widely regarded as one of the foremost short story writers in the Balochi language. He is known for enriching the landscape of regional fiction with compelling narratives and literary depth. His stories, including Not Chaste as Mahnaz; The Armless Scarecrow; Plastic...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Darkness in the basement]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:42:58 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A         British version of Brooklyn nine-nine set in Edinburgh? Set me up. There is a chilling stillness that lingers in Netflix&rsquo;s latest crime drama Dept Q; a stillness that settles into the bones after the screen fades to black. Adapted from Jussi Adler-Olsen&rsquo;s bestselling...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Raising the bar like never before]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1321234-raising-the-bar-like-never-before]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:03:28 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[S        Season Three of Ginny & Georgia is easily the strongest the show has ever been. It is darker, slower and far more personal. It is focused on emotional fallout rather than plot twists. This time, it does not feel like the show is trying to prove itself. It knows what it is; and it is more...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[One more time, YOU]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1321230-one-more-time-you]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:45:58 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[W        hen Netflix&rsquo;s favourite serial killer and twisted romantic, Joe Goldberg comes back for a final bout, everybody watches. Fans have been strung along since the first two explosive and brilliant seasons . Nobody quite knew what a final season could have in store. It is difficult to...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Does wealth  guarantee peace?]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1318811-does-wealth-guarantee-peace]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Jun 2025 18:15:40 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        here was a clip making the rounds on Instagram last week that left most people not only unsettled and uncomfortable, but also depicted a grey area that some professions can fall into. A young personal assistant to a rich lawyer turned housewife is seen checking the boss&rsquo;s breath and...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Background noise]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1318810-background-noise]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Jun 2025 18:11:54 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[B        enito Skinner&rsquo;s Overcompensating, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is a show that wants to be many things at once. It wants to be a queer coming-of-age tale, a satire of college culture and a glossy, stylised look at masculinity in crisis. Unfortunately, it does not succeed at...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Missing]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1317191-missing]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:27:39 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[N        Netflix&rsquo;s The Glass Dome is a gripping Swedish psychological thriller that weaves together mystery, trauma and the darkest corners of the human psyche. Created by crime novelist Camilla L&auml;ckberg, the six-episode limited series plunges viewers into the unsettling story of Lejla,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rewriting the rules]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1317161-rewriting-the-rules]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:37:15 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        he book Game Changer: The Story of Dr Yasmin Amarsi and the Profession of Nursing in Pakistan, written by veteran journalist Kamal Siddiqi, belongs to the genre of biography within the discipline of history. It celebrates and commemorates the life and legacy of iconic nurse Dr Yasmin...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beyond hope]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1317160-beyond-hope]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:31:02 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[D        r Noman Said&rsquo;s The Heart&rsquo;s Compass: Navigating Dreams is not a typical rags-to-riches story. It is a quiet, deeply personal reflection on the human spirit, drawn from the author&rsquo;s own journey through life, love, failure and, ultimately, fulfilment.What makes this story...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[His last bow]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1312186-his-last-bow]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 18 May 2025 18:28:12 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[O        baidullah Aleem, one of the finest Urdu poets of the 20th Century, died 27 years ago. Leafing through his final poetry collection, published recently as Ik Zamana Khvab Ka , one is struck by the contrast. During his lifetime, he was a darling of the mushairas. His verses were sung by some...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A city  remembered]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1312185-a-city-remembered]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 18 May 2025 18:25:29 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[W        hose history is being recorded and whose is being erased? This question served as the central theme of a recent panel discussion at Karachi&rsquo;s The Second Floor , where a group of academics, including Kamran Asdar Ali, Adeem Sohail, Zoya Sameen and others, explored contemporary...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Imaginary lives of real objects]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1312166-imaginary-lives-of-real-objects]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 18 May 2025 17:28:20 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[C        hildren often state facts so obvious that we fail to register them. Not long ago, Amos, a five-year-old boy, was playing with Lego. I said, &ldquo;It looks like you&rsquo;re making a crane.&rdquo; His reply was instant: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not making it, I&rsquo;m fixing it!&rdquo;The line...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Culture, war,  diplomacy]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1310295-culture-war-diplomacy]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 11 May 2025 18:15:04 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[S        hogun is one of the shows that can take their audience on an immersive journey to a strange, almost fantastical world. In this instance, that world happens to be Japan in the 1600s, away from the Western civilisation, with deeply entrenched cultural values native to the land and...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Netflix's reckoning with history]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1307873-netflixs-reckoning-with-history]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 04 May 2025 16:55:37 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[T        urning Point: The Vietnam War, the latest Netflix docu-series from Brian Knappenberger, arrives at a moment when history feels dangerously cyclical. Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the five-part series is not just a chronicle of one of America&rsquo;s...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[On finding,  leaving and carrying home]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1307542-on-finding-leaving-and-carrying-home]]></link>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 04 May 2025 18:49:29 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[H        Home #itscomplicated is a collection of essays edited by Saba Karim Khan, an author, award-winning documentary filmmaker and educator. Her debut novel, Skyfall, published by Bloomsbury in December 2020, explored themes of love, identity and the resilience of the human spirit. Set against...]]>
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