Word: abroader
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Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, must be puzzled. The country's image abroad remains far worse than the reality. The international media give scant coverage to our rapidly expanding economy, with GDP growth of over 8% and so many opportunities that every month another friend of mine seems to join the "brain gain" of those quitting jobs in New York and London to return home. Few stories are written about the dynamic youth culture expressing itself on our new television and radio stations, or through underground events like the massive rave that took place in Lahore last month. Little...
...side with religious bigots opposed to a mixed-gender "mini-marathon" in Lahore and failed to condemn the police harassment of the race's supporters, including leading human-rights lawyer Asma Jahangir. Then he backed a travel ban on gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai, preventing her from rallying support abroad for her cause. Under pressure from the U.S., the government has since granted her permission to leave Pakistan, though now that her case is being heard by the Supreme Court, she will stay for the duration...
...required their permission for anything we wished to do. We could not ask an official: What power do you have to stop me? Instead, they asked us: What power do you have to proceed? Slowly, our economy, schools and cultural life collapsed. Many of those who could leave fled abroad. Many of those who could not leave became radicalized...
...couple of years ago. I had already passed through security, check-in and immigration. But there was a fourth hurdle to be cleared. A young army officer was taking our names to see if we were on the government's exit control list and therefore prohibited from traveling abroad...
...silver lining is our academics abroad,” she said...