Pakistan, a National Security State, that suspects all, most of all its own | Writings on the Wall

The barbed wire fence is the starkest writing on the wall in Pakistan. And the tragedy is, you have to know neither English nor Urdu to read it and understand the meaning of a ‘national security state’, which suspects all, most of all its own. As fresh tension brews between Pakistan and India in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, Editor-in-Chief @Shekhar Gupta shares experiences from his travels in and around Lahore a decade ago. #WritingsOnTheWall
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