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The last letter writers of Lahore
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The last letter writers of Lahore

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Wanderline Staff

August 25, 2026 · 1 min read

Outside the old post office, a handful of professional scribes still write love letters and legal petitions by hand.

Ghulam Rasool has been writing other people's words for forty-two years. His small wooden desk sits exactly where his father's did, outside the General Post Office, where illiterate clients still come to have letters written and read aloud...

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