Pakistan’s Independence Will Begin When Its Masters Disappear

Seventy-nine years after independence, Pakistan’s real struggle is against the modern slavery built into the way we govern, work and treat one another.

Today marks seventy-nine years since Pakistan became independent, and you may raise the flag over your home, watch your children pin a green-and-white badge to their clothes, stand for the national anthem, quote Iqbal and Jinnah, talk about sacrifice and tell them that this country was created so its people could live with dignity. I want to believe eve…