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Article: ARTICLE: Trivia in the age of denial.
- Article from:
- The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2009
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By AMINA JILANI July 4 (THE NATION): In these fraught times, with a civil war being waged between the army and the armed militias of the Taliban forces up in Pakistan's 'wild west', the province of the NWFP and its adjoining tribal areas, some of the literate few of the 170 million odd citizens who have access to the internet and the press are still able to focus upon what could, under the prevailing circumstances, be deemed relatively trivial matters. One widely circulated trivia is the outrage expressed at the fact that in recent times, in shots taken in the splendiferous Aiwan-e-Sadar that appear in the press or on television, the obligatory portrait of the country's ...