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The Engineered Silence

How Pakistan's elite turned poverty into a political weapon

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Feb 22, 2026
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The silence of the Pakistani public is not contentment. It is the silence of people who have been stripped of every avenue to push back.

When a dhaba wala in Lahore raises his price and lets his assis…

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