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  • Londonistan Dreams: London’s Pakistani Community

    Londonistan Dreams: London’s Pakistani Community

    By the time you’ve walked from Whitechapel to Southall, you’ve already wandered through Pakistan. Not geographically — the 4,000 miles still stand between Heathrow and Lahore — but spiritually, culturally, gastronomically. London, that churning dream of empire and arrival, has folded Pakistan into its fabric so deeply that unpicking it would mean pulling out threads…