… At the Karachi Literature Festival 2020 ... The Political Character Of Pakistani Middle Class...
February 29, 2020 This morning’s session at the KLF with Dr Asad Sayeed, Ghazi Salahuddin and Dr Huma Baqai (moderated very capably by Yasir Qazi), like a lot of discussions on Pakistan’s civil (and social) direction, was pessimistic … unfortunately and, I believe, rightly. Several questions emerged from this discussion – i) Where is the Pakistani civil voice? ii) Who is the cause of the destruction/silencing of this civil voice? iii) Why does the middle class - the backbone of any society – stay silent [numb] over atrocities that are committed in society over and ove...