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Budget & Poverty alleviation
Guest Post by Uncle in a Pickle
A short story; strangely similar in principle followed by our bureaucracy and financial managers year after year, while preparing the annual budget.
Again, to understand it fully, I narrate it in Urdu: Kai barson ki baat hae, aik nagri ke log bohat khush haal aur pur sukoon zindagi basr [...]
“Halwa pakao”
Guest Post by Uncle in a Pickle
This is a short story that depicts the unfortunately sad 60 years of Pakistan. It is written in in a mixture of English and Urdu (italics) to fully understand.
In a bygone era, when, instead of large countries there were small Bastis owned and ruled by Raja’s. The Raja [...]
