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Colonial-era police stations in ruins
With his sleeves rolled up, Sub-Inspector Ali Akbar sits hunched over his desk at a police station some 55km west of Chakwal city, writing the history of a case with a pencil.
Except for the uneasy look he wears, not much distinguishes him from the police officers who would have worked at the same desk at the 125-year-old Neelah police station. Ali Akbar occasionally gives a worrying look to the crumbling ceiling of his office.
Though the British colonialists often used coercion to hold their writ on India, the services they rendered and the facilities they built still stand as testimonies of their vision and aesthetic sense.