But what about the Pakistani masses, what’s happened to them? There was a time when Pakistani students demonstrated on the Mall in Lahore when Patrice Lumumba, leader of Congo, was killed in an air crash, still largely unexplained. The Pakistani intelligentsia used to be involved emotionally in distant affairs, including the Vietnam War. There were no television channels then and few independent newspapers. But the Pakistani student, the newspaper-reading man, the professor and academic, the lawyer, the trade unionist, was more aware of what was going on in the world – of what was happening in Cuba, Angola, the streets of Paris during the student uprising of 1968 – than his counterpart today.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:03:02 +0000
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