Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting. - Tariq Ali

The Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province had been through a brutal process of ethnic cleansing.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

I did, however, wonder aloud as to why it was that those who treated the Quran as a divine monopoly in Pakistan, the Jamaat-i-Islami, were also on the payroll of the American embassy. This led to a loud roar of approval and chants of ‘Death to the hired mercenaries’, etc.