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Sofia Ashraf

Sofia Ashraf

Knightsbridge, London, SW1

Purchase Price: £2.1m

Secret to looking and feeling young...

Everybody wants to defy age and if possible to age back in time, imagine what wouldn't people do to look fresh and young again

A few days after the Gurdaspur terrorist attack mounted by three jihadi gunmen from Pakistan, Christine Fair, the American academic whose meticulously researched book on the Pakistan Army, eulogized in this column last week, made a prescient prediction in the Times of India (August 2). The attack, she said, was designed to test the resolve of the Modi government, and would be followed by another such assault. How right she was. A four-man jihadi squad struck again, one terrorist was killed, another captured and two escaped. Usman Naved, captured alive, has been singing like the proverbial canary (see page 12); he owned up to his Pakistani origins, giving the names and location of the village and identifying his father by name. 

While the 24-7 news channels have completely taken over people’s lives in India, some news stories tend to stay on with viewers for a long time. They follow it like a soap opera and are well-versed with each and every development in that case. It won’t be wrong to say that the media plays a very important life in influencing its viewers’ perceptions.