Does the urban Punjab represent the whole Pakistan? Does the motorway party (i.e., PML-N, whose popularity is limited to cities on the motorway from Lahore to Rawalpindi) represent the majority of Pakistan? Do the motorway journalists (i.e., Dr. Shahid Masood, Irfan Siddiqui, Kashif Abbasi, Ansar Abbasi, Hamid Mir etc) represent the opinion of the people of Sindh, Balochistan, NWFP and the Southern Punjab?
Abbas Ather asks some valid questions in the following op-ed.
Monday, 2 March 2009
Abbas Ather: The Motorway Party as the saviour of Pakistan?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
1. You are very welcome to comment, more so if you do not agree with the opinion expressed through this post.
2. If you wish to hide your identity, post with a pseudonym but don't select the 'anonymous' option.
3. Copying the text of your comment may save you the trouble of re-writing if there is an error in posting.