By Toheed Ahmad* I arrived Brussels in end August 1987 to report for duty at our Embassy for Belgium which also doubled as our Permanent mission to the European Union besides looking after matters relating to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. I was brimming with the Allama Iqbal idea – the success of my project […]
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By Toheed Ahmad* Abstract Muhammad Asad (1900-1992), an Austrian born Jew who converted to Islam, was an accomplished scholar of Arabic and Persian. He spent several years in Saudi Arabia, where he befriended the royal family, and then moved on to British India and lived mainly in Lahore, Abbottabad, Srinagar and Dalhousie. Upon a suggestion
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By Toheed Ahmad[1] Abstract Ireland is the only country in the world to have completely leapfrogged from the Agricultural Age to the Information Age. Within a generation this “last island of Europe” has progressed from being a poor, backward agrarian society to a prosperous high-tech economy. Today it is the world leader in computer software
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By Toheed Ahmad [*] Abstract (Pakistan does not seem to have grasped the meaning or significance of translation. A close nexus exists between translation skills and national development. The promotion of a translation culture is also important to foster values of tolerance and peaceful coexistence among faiths, races and countries. The paradigm of Dialogue/Clash of Civilizations
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Toheed Ahmad is a former Ambassador of Pakistan. His writings for Criterion Quarterly: Of Tongues and Languages: The Tao of Translation Nation of Saints and Scholars: A Portrait of Ireland Balti Tandoori and Chicken Tikka Masala: Culture as National Power Desert Carrots: Baghdad’s House of Wisdom Muhammad Asad: The Story of a Story of a
