Pakistani elite
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Brown Pandas: Rising Toward a Saffron Crescent.
X.T.M argues that India-Pakistan hostility, like that between Iran and Israel, has been generative but miscalibrated, and that Pakistan’s elite chose to dominate a poor country. The post doubts the…
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Book Review: Rivals by Dr Saad Shafqat
Omar Ali’s review, first written for India Today, of Saad Shafqat’s novel Rivals, about Karachi doctors competing for a department chairmanship. He finds it a fun read that avoids poverty…
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Two Videos in Urdu (both having problems with the language)
Omar Ali compares two Urdu videos, one from a Pakistani elite journalist and one from a woman from Kasur, to argue that neither speaker’s Urdu is their mother tongue and…
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Paki Elites & where they live
X.T.M offers an impressionistic guide to where Pakistan’s elites live, placing political and bureaucratic power in Islamabad, the military in Rawalpindi, economic elites in Lahore and the country’s most cosmopolitan,…
