Hidden cost of street politics
Hidden cost of street politics
At dawn on a weekday that should have hummed with commerce, the GT Road and Motorway stand frozen. Multi-ton shipping containers, requisitioned overnight by relevant authorities and dropped onto thoroughfares like giant iron dominoes, choke the entry arteries to Islamabad. Barbed wire glints under streetlights, police vans idle with tear-gas launchers primed, and millions of workers across the urban corridor wake to...