Open season

From the Newspaper Published November 11, 2020

IT seems that in the wake of a speech by an opposition leader in the National Assembly, there is an open season to call people ‘treacherous’ and ‘unpatriotic’. Those treating the political opposition as sworn enemies and maligning them on every pretext are not doing any favour to the future of democracy in Pakistan.

Akbar Jan Marwat
Islamabad

Published in Dawn, November 11th, 2020

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