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Adibul Hasan Rizvi

Shahbano Bilgrami

This is a graphic story based on the life of the renowned Pakistani philanthropist and founder of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi. Dr Rizvi is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the Hilal-i-Imtiaz from Pakistan and the Ramon Magsaysay from the Philippines. More than that, he is admired for his compassion, selflessness, and devotion to duty. This book highlights his numerous achievements and contributions to the country.

Ibn e Khaldun and his Muqaddimah

Written and compiled by Fahmida Riaz

This book is the fifth offering in the Literary Heritage Series for Young Readers and its purpose is to introduce the remarkable and amazing Muslim intellectual, Ibn e Khaldun, to our young readers and help them know about his person, life, and works. A historiographer and historian, Ibn e Khaldun is known as the founding father of modern sociology. The Muqaddimah, meaning ‘An Introduction’, was written for a history book towards the end of his long and varied career. However, as it contained the very essence of his life’s experiences, observations, and analysis, it outshone the rest of his scholarly work. Today, Ibn e Khaldun is universally acknowledged and is important for our young generation as a link between the past and the present.

This Truck has got to be Special

Anjum Rana

This Truck has Got to be Special says truck artist Zarrar to Chinar Gul, a truck driver from Pakistan. Gul, who drives along the mountain roads of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush, has finally bought his own vehicle and wants it painted beautifully. As Zarrar gets to work, Gul waits in the yard, thinking about his many journeys, the splendour of the hills and the intricacies of truck art – until everything is at last ready and it’s time to be off, on the road again! A richly imagined collaboration between a Pakistani writer, Pakistani truck artists and an Indian illustrator, this book celebrates the energy and joy of Pakistani truck art, as well as the artists whose skill and labour breathe life into it. All along, the bold graphic vigour of truck art tells its own story.

Partition

Amina Azfar

The narrative in this book will tell a story that began with the arrival of the British in India and ended in the creation of Pakistan. Much of this is probably familiar to children from what they have read in their history textbook at school. But in this book there are, besides the narrative, two inquisitive children who want to know more. They discuss why this or that happened and why one person did this and not that. Sometimes they pose these questions to their grandfather, and sometimes they look for answers themselves by putting themselves in the place of the people in the narrative.

A Children’s History of Gilgit-Baltistan

Hamida Khuhro

This is the last title of the Children’s History series, which introduces young readers to Pakistan’s principal regions. A Children’s History of Gilgit-Baltistan is about the beautiful northernmost region of Pakistan—home to some of the highest peaks and plateaus, and the famous Silk Route—visited by two young children with their parents. Their grandmother’s description of Gilgit-Baltistan, with its awesome landscape and fascinating history, leads to the trip to this region with their parents. They not only see and enjoy the sights in this wonderful part of northern Pakistan, popular with tourists and mountaineers, but also learn about the various personalities that contributed to its history as well as people who are helping to preserve its cultural heritage.

Published in Daily Times, May 22^nd 2018.