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Pakistani culture

Pakistan’s culture of exemptions

With successive civilian and military governments living beyond their means, unwilling to mobilise domestic resources and averse to economic reform, that fact alone contributed to miring Pakistan in perpetual financial crisis, with virtually every government in the past five decades leaving the economy in much worse shape for its successors to manage.

Dowry season in Pakistan

The assumptions in the negotiations have remained the same through the ages: the bride is a burden being passed off from one family to another, so a trawler of goods, none too big and none too small, must be handed over.

Pakistan disowns history

Till very recently, Sindh or ‘Mehran’ was an  oasis within  Pakistan’s undeniably syncretic past, a melting pot that gently hosted…