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Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as novel western ideas but as ones indigenous to Pakistan, as a part of its very creation.
Steve Inskeep
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Steve Inskeep
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 16
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