A true friend tells the truth

Here’s the last installment of my column in the Books & Authors section of the Pakistani daily newspaper Dawn, which I’ve enjoyed writing the past several months:

“One of my purposes in writing about Pakistan and Pakistani communities is to counter their prevailing image in the West, which is unfairly negative and severely incomplete. The way to do that is not to write only positive things. No reader would find that credible, and it’s neither true nor compatible with my self-respect. True friendship entails telling the full truth, and I’m a true friend of Pakistan.”

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2 Responses to “A true friend tells the truth”
  1. I will feel pleasure in having good friendship on this site.

  2. Well life is like a test on the ground of good and bad deeds, so we must be wise enough to choose and walk on the right path.

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