Piper's tune (2).

Byline: Shagufta Alizai - Karachi

THIS refers to your editorial (Dec 18) concerning Pakistan not attending the summit in Malaysia. It echoes sentiments of many Pakistanis like me, who are wondering why a free nation is not so free as to take its decisions on its own. Do we continue to dance to the piper's tune as it calls?

Hazrat Ali exhorted '...do not make a slave of anybody. Allah has created you a freeman.' But are we a free, independent nation?

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