Today, for us young citizens, Pakistan feels like a country empty of dreams

December 17, 2014 11:40

Writer, columnist and the niece of former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto writes: "There is no word for a parent who buries a child. No equivalent of widow or orphan in any language that I know, we do not have the language to describe a parent who lays his child into the earth before his time. So with what tongue do we speak of the dead now? It is a sorrow too large to bear. But with sorrow, there is anger in Pakistan today." Read her column here

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