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Daily Archives: July 12, 2016

Living with the media — II

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The civil service is a profession that throws up unpredictable events and one can find one’s career taking unexpected turns. In the early nineties, as secretary information, Punjab, I was quite unexpectedly given an assignment to which a normal run-of-the-mill civil servant is always averse. It is not the huge wish-list of the political bosses […]


The heart of Edhi sahib

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There is heartbreak at the start of A Mirror to the Blind, the memoirs of Abdul Sattar Edhi. In 1992, a train bound for Rawalpindi crashed into another at Ghotki Railway Station. Hundreds were reported dead. Edhi sahib set out for the site, telling us that, in times of tragedy, “I was always lost to […]