DawnMostly Factual111d ago
After the Raj, the most powerful weapon in Pakistan's arsenal is a name
At 5:13am on May 10 last year, Pakistan launched the retaliatory ‘Operation Bunyan um Marsoos’ against India. Footage aired by state broadcaster PTV showed fireballs lighting up the sky moments before the sun appeared as the air filled with cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’. The war had begun, and everyone was talking about it—inside Pakistan, on the other side of the border and across the world.
But in the Dawn newsroom, and several others as journalists recall, another kind of editorial panic had bee...
By [email protected] (Muzhira Amin)
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