Coconut Seller

Posted on January 9, 2008
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Pervaiz Munir Alvi Traveling on the GT road some where near Hassan Abdal we pulled into this filling station. The tank was almost empty and had to be refilled. A moment later this child appeared at the car window. A beautiful child who could not be more than twelve years old. His face was devoid […]

Thatta Kedona – A Self Help Project

Posted on January 7, 2008
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S.A.J Shirazi The cluster of mud and brick houses in the plains of Punjab, Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka (TGD) looks like a typical Pakistani village about 80 kilometres away from Lahore and 40 kilometres from Indus civilization ruins in Harappa. There is no gas or telephone in the village. No asphalt roads lead to it. Yet […]

Pakistan Elections 2008: Who Do You Support, and Why?

Posted on January 4, 2008
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Adil Najam We want to do a blogging experiment (which requires us to put all comments under moderation) and really let our readers write this post on Pakistan’s Elections 2008. What we are doing is not unique, but there is a twist to how we wan to do it. First, here is the question we […]

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