Illustrated magazine of 120 pages, with a newsagent's sticker on the back saying PKR200, about 100 of our pence at today's exchange rate. This one from June, 2018. Given that the sticker is priced in PKR, presumably a newsagent in Pakistan, purchased on a homeland visit by a resident of Raynes Park.
More or less along the same lines as the Herald previously noticed, but with a lot of the copy more or less devoted to the complicated - and sometimes violent - politics of Pakistan. Politics which seem to be dominated by various large and powerful clans, some old, some new, which we might be a bit superior about, but as they point out, not so very different from what we do. Plenty of political clans in both here in the UK and in the US - although we no longer go in for shooting down the people with whom we disagree - perhaps our disagreements are are no longer about the division of the spoils - at least not in such an obvious way.
But also articles about aspects of the lives of those in three of the minorities: Christians, Hazaras and Hindus.
Articles about art.
An article about how Ramazan might be degenerating into an empty ritual, increasingly polluted by the various commercial activities hovering around the margins.
All in all, I come away from these magazines encouraged. Pakistan no doubt has plenty of problems, but its democracy is alive and well and its media are alive and well. So maybe they will pull through.
Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/04/kings-cross.html.
Reference 2: https://newslinemagazine.com/. To judge by the snip included above, leprosy is still a live issue in Pakistan.
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