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Pakistan
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If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.
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― Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
― Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
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Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellowcake uranium. The name was Wissam Zahawi. He was the brother of my louche gay part-Kurdish friend, the by-now late Mazen. He was also, or had been at the time of his trip to Niger, Saddam Hussein's ambassador to the Vatican. I expressed incomprehension. What was an envoy to the Holy See doing in Nig
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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