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There have been anti-government protests in Islamabad for weeks, with protesters camping out in front of the parliament, demanding the elected prime minister's resignation. Many of the demonstrators are young, and may not remember the 1990s when governments changed repeatedly. But as Shahzeb Jillani explains, while there is much about the political system that is wrong, such as a deeply flawed electoral process, there is also much that has improved since that 'lost decade' of the 1990s.

In the US, Reggie Nadelson takes a holiday in Sag Harbor on Long Island, just north of the fashionable Hamptons. Sag Harbor has been favoured by African-Americans for decades, especially by Black professionals from the New York area. But the African-American history in the town goes back much further, as far as the Revolutionary war. Then in the early 19th Century, it was one of two main whaling ports, along with Nantucket. But is it starting to lose its character now?

(Photo: A young female protester outside Pakistan parliament in Islamabad. Credit: AP/Anjum Naveed)