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The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

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Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

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In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.

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Biography

Nationality: Pakistani

Type: Historian

Born: October 21st, 1943

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