Originally published in Dawn on February 3, 2019
You attended an elite legacy school – the kind your grandfather and father went to, and your kids someday would. Consequently, your peers are the offspring of notable bureaucrats, industrialists, politicians and landlords. An expensive private education paves your way to a prestigious university, where its professors use the abundant resources at their disposal to shape you into an analytical thinker. By the time you graduate, you have morphed into a self-starting individual capable of abstract thought, not to mention developed a strong network of influential compatriots — your brothers in arms, if you will.
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