Happy V-Day all. Remembering the schoolchildren in Khairpur, Sindh, who presented my mother with Valentine’s Day cards many years ago. And this piece I wrote in 2009 about a cheeky initiative – Peaceful Pink Panties to Tame Rightwing Goons, published by InterPress Service, a global syndicated service based in Rome, for which I was the principle correspondent in Pakistan for several years. Posting to this website for the first time for the record, though I had linked it to an earlier post about ‘vigil-aunties’ No to vigil-aunties: thousands protest media’s moral policing in Pakistan (Jan. 2012)
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Journeys to democracy 