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Cover Story: “Naya Pakistan = Neoliberal Pakistan” by Sania Sufi…………………………..3 Opinion: “Honesty Is the First Chapter in the Book of Wisdom” by Bilal Mohsin.………….6
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COVER STORY: “Naya Pakistan = NeoLiberal Pakistan” by Sania Sufi…………………………..3 OPINION: “Honesty is the First Chapter in the Book of Wisdom” by Bilal Mohsin.………….6 POET’S CORNER: “MY Mind Says” by Abu Bakar Attique……………………………………………..6 HUMANITY: “Memoirs of a Palestinian Kid Under Israeli Occupation” by Mehrunisa Ijaz…7 MOVIE REVIEW: “V for Vendetta” by Taimoor Vakil……………………………………………………8 ART WORK: “Reading Each Day Keeps Illiteracy Away” by Adiba Ashraf ………………………8 OPINION PAGE: “Elections 2013: Vote Aur Soch” by almost everyone…………………………9 ADVICE: “Rash Driving” by Fatima Khalid Gill …………………………………………………………..11 BOOK REVIEW: “The Alchemist” by Sohaib Abdullah………………………………………………..12 INTERVIEW: “ Lawyer of Substance: Sanah Ashraf, a PCL Alumuni”…………………………..13 PICTORIAL: “Pictures of our students on and off campus” by Mian Azeem………………….14 NEWSFEED: News and Events and all the Happenings………………………………………………16 PCL CONFESSIONS: Anonymous Confessions by our students………………………………….19 Editor and Permanent faculty member, Pakistan College of Law Welcome to another issue of the Legal Maxim! I will keep this note short. This is going to be my second Maxim and from the response of the last Maxim, I realized that you guys don’t mind me as an editor. Hence I stayed  This issue however, is going to be a different one. It will highlight the recent election, stories from our students, a piece by an international freelancer, PCL Confessions submitted anonymously by our students and much more! So please stay tuned and brace yourselves for so much more that has been happening in our lives! Kind regards, Maryam Akram,

It is very inspiring for me to see the four contestants of Pakistan College of Law go all the way to Hong Kong and we were, at the Islamic University, praying for and keenly awaiting news of their success. And I believe they won because they represented Pakistan at such a venue so as to dispel all doubts in those attending that Pakistan is a
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