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I ran aid programmes for 25 years – getting my car fixed at an Islamabad market taught me why they don’t work | Mohammad Altaf Afridi
The donors meant well, but in Pakistan I saw funds poured into professional, unaccountable NGOs rather than authentic, grassroots civil society
↗ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/16/aid-programmes-donors-pakistan-ngos-civil-society