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Adil Najam

This photograph from the Swat region needs little commentary, but deserves much thought.

The caption from Associated Press (photograph by Sherin Zada), reads in part:

A youngster sits beside his belongings as he waits for his parents to cross a river as they flee from a troubled area in Imam Dheri near Mingora, the main town of Pakistan’s Swat Valley, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009.

One wonders what is going through the child’s head. With the Taliban after his body and soul, with civilian casualties in the military operation in Swat mounting, with American drone attacks in the tribal belt further away, and with a polity in chaos in the rest of the country, it is not as if he has too many options to fall back on. He seems to be looking pensively (possibly across the river); but to what?

The vice president of Pakistan Peoples Party Lahore, Malik Imtiaz Shahid, was shot dead by unknown assailants here Saturday.

Atif Gulzar

I took this picture near Kalma Chowk, Lahore. The person on a tiny cart was taking aid from Rikshaw for riding. I was stunned by his courage. The cart was very small and vulnerable compared to his own size. And the most sarcastic thing is the writing behind the Rickshaw ‘tenooN rab diyaan rakhaaN’ (May God’s protection be with you). I must admit when I took this picture through my mobile phone camera I was also riding a bike at around 40 kmph.

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