ocr: base has shrunk-quite literally- beneathi their feet. Some, like Omer, have no interest in ap political career; they simply want to farm. HAT NIGHTWE sat in the garden ofOmer - and Ayesha's dehra, a modest stucco structure with a shady veranda that had fallen into neglect before Omer's arrival. Sit- ting on stiff wooden chairs dragged our from the four-room house, we gathered around a Hungry for ways bonfire, eating kebabs cooked on the flames. t0 energize their Sitting with us were Ghulam Ali Baloch, a economy, Pakistanis tall, bearded man who works as Omer's recently revised their farm manag ...
