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Pakistan: Dumbed down deliberately
 [Dawn] What PM Shehbaz Sharif blurted out recently isn’t quite a national secret. Though none in high office can admit it publicly, in a moment of despair he admitted that wherever he visits, disdain is written on the faces of hosts. Respecting those who keep asking for loans and rollovers is hard. This, said he, is no way to live and so, "today we have to decide whether to live uprightly or by begging".Begging is a foul word. But a second whammy followed: "India has progressed ahead but we have been left behind due to our own faults." This understated the truth: Pakistain is seen everywhere as problematic even as major world powers cosy up to India; foreign companies are fleeing skill-empty Pakistain but high-tech semiconductor manufacturers woo India; and Pakistain’s space programme has faded away even as Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan elevated India to the world’s top four space-faring nations. Posted by: trailing wife 2023-08-06 |
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