Paper success of Pakistan's economy doesn't fill bellies

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AFP , KARACHI
Monday, Nov 10, 2003,Page 12

Sitting outside a government-administered zakat (charity) office, Parveen Naz waits her turn to cajole a desk worker for the paltry grant to feed her four children and ailing husband.

Naz, 32, a telephone operator who suffers tuberculosis and looks a decade a older due to malnutrition, has been struggling to keep herself and her family alive since she and her spouse were laid off more than two years ago.

"I would have committed suicide, because at times it becomes intolerable to see my children's famished faces," Naz said, despairing of getting much help from the corruption-riddled zakat office. "But it's their existence which prevents me from doing so."

Her husband began sniffing heroin after protracted unemployment, and has left all family responsibility to Naz.

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Musharraff has put on about 60 pounds since his illegal Junta Coup which The Bush Crime Family legitimized. Just think if Clinton had done that what the GOP Whore Media would be saying!!!