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    • Saffat (Drawn Up in Ranks)
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    • Darul Ihsan University (DIU)
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    • John Locke
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    • Indira Gandhi
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    • Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    • Desiderius Erasmus
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    • The Leopard and the Rabbit
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    • 18 October
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    • Verse of the week
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    • Ya-Sin
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    • International Islamic University of Islamabad
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    • The Psychology of Religion: A Short Introduction
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    • United Nations Day
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    • Sir Walter Scott
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    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    • John Dewey
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    • Henri Bergson
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    • Disarmament Week
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    • Alfred Nobel
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    • 14 October
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    • Verse of the week
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    • 1- MY GOD
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    • Islamic University of Al-Madinah
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    • As Allah would divide
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    • 7 October
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