Why “the mall” in Pakistan is too important to ignore
March 28th, 2014

Haroon Ullah is a Pakistani American scholar and diplomat. In The Bargain from the Bazaar: A Family's Day of Reckoning in Lahore
, he gives us a picture of a slice of Pakistan today. A county both a key part of and deeply removed from the world.
In fact in that contradiction lies the very reason we need to understand Pakistan. It has the power to upend the world even while it and its people try desperately to find a place in it.
My conversation with Haroon Ullah: