I was in equal parts embarrassed and amazed when I identified the only other Pakistanis I saw in Stockholm spending their Tuesday afternoon next to the Royal Palace fishing for salmon. It’s true. The water of the river Norrström, which connects Lake Mälaren with the Baltic Sea at Stockholm, despite the fact that it flows through the centre of what is a port city, is so clean that it is the natal estuary from where many a salmon begin their epic journey against the tide to spawn and, eventually, die

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Ball Bearings (A Lahori’s impressions of Sweden)