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Pakistan Air Force jets were spotted flying low through Lahore’s residential and market areas all week in what the PAF is calling patrols. Not to be beat, Indian statements suggesting that air strikes in Pakistan are necessary have been given airtime since the massacre in Mumbai. In Lahore, the ....Read more

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There can be hopeBy: Junaid Akhlaq | Friday , 9 Jan '09 23:31:40 PM Reply | Forward Ah Basim, my man... don't despair yet bro.You are not the only one who feels the apathy in the Lahoris, but the real reason people in Paksitan don't seem to care is that more than 80% of the Pakistani population lives under or just over the poverty line.They don't have time to protest anything. They have to use that time to earn a couple of rupees. They have to feed their children. They can't afford a day out of work because they fear that they might get fired the next day.If anyone wants to change the attitude of our people, we have to get them out of the iron-grip of poverty.

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