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To the Editor: The Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA) strongly protests the publication of Dr Panwalker's review of Germs of War by Ketan Desai.¹ Panwalker quotes portions of the book that denigrate Pakistan and its people. The passages chosen present slavery as a norm in Pakistan and talk of a group of slaves among whom the protagonist, a future Pakistani physician, learns to inflict "unspeakable acts of cruelty." Subsequently, this capability catches the eye of "the sinister head of Pakistan's intelligence service" culminating in the protagonist's admission to a medical school in Lahore. Finally, Pakistan (a very poor country) is found to be funding US medical research at the Mayo Clinic! Slavery is obviously not practiced in Pakistan; admissions to medical college are not based on recommendations of the Pakistan's secret service, and research on biological weapons is not being carried on in any US university at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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