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Why educated Pakistanis are voting with their feet

By Kazim Alam Published in Dawn on June 21, 2023 KARACHI: Novelist Mohsin Hamid was taken aback by the fact that his co-passengers on a recent connecting flight from Istanbul to Bologna, a city in northern Italy, included about 30 people from Lahore, predominantly young men going to Europe apparently as labourers. The author of acclaimed novels […]

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Pakistan to take up coastguards’ inhuman behaviour with Greece

Published in The News on June 20, 2023 Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said Monday that Pakistan plans to raise the matter of Greek coast guard conduct with their government in the wake of the boat capsizing incident that drowned hundreds of passengers, including Pakistanis. The minister’s comments came after Pakistani survivors of the ill-fated boat blamed Greek[…]

Death at sea

Published in Dawn on June 19, 2023 IT is unlikely that more survivors will be found. That means that at least 600 migrants — out of possibly 750 — on the fishing boat that set off from Libya towards European shores, may have perished when their vessel capsized in the Mediterranean on Wednesday. The details are still[…]