Despite healthy economic growth, two thirds of Pakistanis earn under $2 a day, 60 per cent of adults are illiterate, and the country is in the grip of a food and fuel crisis. No wonder the frivolity of Islamabad's wedding season feels a little forced this year.
Writer: Bronwyn Curran
Pakistan
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