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The dying Delta

From the Blog odysseuslahoriAli Mohammad Shah sells candy, cigarettes and some dry fruit out of a tiny wooden shack a short way from the houses that go by the name of Goth Ali Mohammad Shah after him. The village is part of the precinct of Deh Bumbto of Thatta district and sits in the delta of the Sindhu River. In the hour or so we spend together Shah attracts no more than a couple of customers for this is a very poor country. [image: Salman Rashid] ‘Why did I have to be so unfortunate that Nature deprived me of the sweet water that was my wealth and my life and blighted my land with bitter water instead?’ he says with genuine anguish when I press him to tell me of the days gone by. Until the late 1970s, when Shah was in his twenties, he lived in the village of Keti Bandar where, so he says, his family hapakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments

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