Container city

EVEN after butchering local ecologies and evicting tens of thousands from their decades-old homes, they insist on calling it Islamabad the beautiful. It really ought to be called Container City. The federal capital — and its twin city, Rawalpindi — once again resembles a loading dock for cargo ships. And as always, we are told that besieging the twin cities is in the greater national interest. The fact that official definitions of the national interest are completely unrelated to popular…