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Mar

Pricking the bubble

By Riaz Riazuddin Published in DAWN on March 31, 2022 IT is well-known that monetary tightening causes misery to borrowers as interest rates go up, making loans costly. An overemphasis on costs is, perhaps, a part of human nature. Observe any child who is about to be pricked with an injection needle; he tries hard to avoid […]

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Mar

THE DEADLY GULF DREAM

By Vital Signs Published in DAWN on March 27, 2022 A deel Riaz was only 22 years old when he died in November 2018 in Saudi Arabia. He had three older brothers and two sisters. His family are farmers in a rural region of Pakistan. And he was part of a team that painted mosques. “There was[…]

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Mar

Sara Suleri’s legacy

By Bina Shah Published in DAWN on March 26, 2022 SARA Suleri, the Pakistani-born writer, academic and critic, passed away at the age of 68 on March 22 in Connecticut after a long period of ill health. She was best known in Pakistan for her memoir Meatless Days, but her importance as a pioneer in the field[…]