Word: pothook
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...nine, eight are printed in Urdu, the other in English. Seven are strictly one-man shows in which the proprietor hustles ads and copy, cribs items from the old newspapers arriving by train, cuts by hand the pothook stencils of the Urdu script. Then he makes the rounds of Quetta's three print shops, pursuing the lowest print rate of the week. Advertisers are rare, since Quettan merchants prefer to do all their pitching over a hookah at the bazaar, so the publisher must seek revenue from other sources. From Baluchistan's maliks (tribal chieftains), the shrewd editor...
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