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Pakistan versus Democracy

Mohammed Ajeeb London: Yesterday when I was browsing through my archive I came across a quite lengthy article which was written by me about 10 years ago and published in the International Daily News London in two instalments. It…

Back To lanterns

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The entire country was submerged in darkness, but according to the Minister for Energy, Khurram Dastagir, this was ‘business as usual’, a minor glitch and nothing to worry about but a ‘voltage fluctuation’.…

Dignity on sale for a bag of flour

Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: They are poor. They are hungry. They have very little money even to buy a bag of flour. They suffer indignity of standing in queue for hours to receive a bag of flour at a government rate.
They live

The Young Lad Carrying Tree Trunks

Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: Winter has arrived and with each passing day the temperature drops. Pakistan is faced with a plethora of problems but has no one to blame but itself as it failed to instill the thought in people