By Ayaz Amir Times may be hard but why add to the sum of national misery? Some of our afflictions, like the economic downturn and the war raging along the Afghan frontier, may be beyond anyone’s control. But some are entirely self-created. We are not a police state in the political sense of the term. [...]

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