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Pakistan’s Jingle Trucks
f you travel the precipitous mountain roads of Afghanistan or northwestern Pakistan, sooner rather than later you’ll find yourself stuck behind a huge old Bedford truck, overloaded with sugar, cows or refugees, creeping uphill at five kilometres/hour and belching thick black diesel…
Life in a Gilded Cage
It was late spring in Havana in 1969 when there was a knock on our door. There stood a short, elderly grey-haired gentleman whom we recognized after a moment as the doorman from the hotel we had stayed in some months earlier…
Bureaucratica
As a species, civil servants are not renowned for their sense of humour. The South Asian variety are, if anything, generally viewed as solemn, self-important bores so imbued with the nobility of their calling and their position in society that nothing would…
The Prisoner
“I am sorry, but we must be sure that there are no mistakes,” said the Deputy Superintendent (DS), sensing my irritation and fatigue. It was dusk, and I had returned, once again, for the Prisoner. I found the DS in his underwear…
Brian Richard Hambleton
Born in Ottawa in 1948, Brian Hambleton was educated at Carleton and Queen’s Universities, joining the Department of External Affairs in 1974. Over the course of his career, he served in Ottawa in the U.N. Institutional Affairs Division, USA Division, US Transboundary…
