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Anagrams
By Shah N. Khan, Editor Weekly Fraternity Briefs
(Retd General Manager and Executive Director of State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan)

An anagram is a rearrangement of the letters of one word or phrase to form another word or phrase. For instance from Satin to stain. Anagram also means a  game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly picked letters.

The anagram of "George Bush" comes out as "He bugs Gore"! And anagram of "Osama Bin Laden" may be "Old man in a base" among thousands of other permutation of the letters in these names but most of them would merely be meaningless jumble of words.

For "President Saddam Hussein" you can come up with the anagram "Dispensed human disaster". 

I have been composing anagrams for the last 5 years for my weekly Quiz Corner column for Weekly Fraternity Briefs. Now people have developed software that spares you of the trouble of brainstorming over permutations and you can come up with anagrams for different words and names within few seconds. Like puzzles and quiz the anagrams are composed just for fun and mental exercises but help in improving English. The following anagrams for our leaders and politicians are quoted in sporting spirit and if anyboldy's feelings are injured my apologies in advance.

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From the following anagrams try to find the names of famous personalities by rearranging the letters in each anagram separately. Answers are given below.

1. 'Intruder's sharp fame.'
2. 'Zero in bathtub.'
3. 'Harm an ink.'
4. 'Satirize amaze skin triumph.'
5. 'If a lush Satan.'
6. 'I am a shah and quiz'
7. 'Unharmful, anal amazer.'
8. 'Prize inadequate lush.'

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. 9. 'Heathenism primming in ransom.'
10. 'Draining had.'
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1. 'President Musharraf' anagrams to 'Intruder's sharp fame.'
2. 'Benazir Bhutto' anagrams to 'Zero in bathtub.'
3. 'Imran Khan' anagrams to 'Harm an ink.'
4. 'Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz' anagrams to 'Satirize amaze skin triumph.'
5. 'Altaf Hussain' anagrams to 'If a lush Satan.'
6. 'Qazi Husain Ahmad' anagrams to 'I am a quiz and hash.' Or 'I am a shah and quiz'
7. 'President Ziaul Haque' anagrams to 'Prize inadequate lush.'
8. 'Maulana Fazlur Rehman' anagrams to 'Unharmful, anal amazer.'
9. 'Prime Minister Manmohan Singh' anagrams to 'Heathenism primming in ransom.'
10. 'Prime Minister Tony Blair' anagrams to 'I'm Britain's Tory peril, men!'
11. 'Indra Gandhi' anagrams to 'Draining had.'