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The BRI is an enormously ambitious project which envisages the linkage of the entire Eurasian mega-continent, and its near and far periphery in Southeast, South and West Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, through interconnected land and sea infrastructure, trade and investment.</p> <p>Thirty-seven heads of state and government, scores of ministers and 5,000 delegates participated in the Forum, reflecting the growing endorsement of the BRI. This acceptance reflects a desire among developing countries to emulate the successful ‘model’ of China’s economic development and a recognition that it can provide an invaluable path towards global economic growth, greater prosperity and peace and stability in developing countries.</p> <p>Reportedly, 175 agreements have been signed under the rubric of the BRI. Projects amounting to $90 billion have been implemented. The planned outlay on infrastructure projects is $1 trillion. This figure is likely to increase as non-Chinese sources of official finance and private sector finance join in funding BRI projects. The scope of the concept now envisages incorporation of various forms of cooperation such as the digital economy, e-commerce and creation of a BR Studies Network linking think tanks.</p> <blockquote> <p>Not one of America’s Asian allies has the stomach to confront China, their largest trading partner.</p> </blockquote> <p>The US has declared its opposition to the BRI and sponsored a political and media campaign to discourage developing countries and its allies from joining it. The US and Western refrain of China’s so-called debt-trap diplomacy, stories of corruption and failed projects have been repeated as nauseam although the basis for such reports has been credibly refuted by the parties concerned.</p> <p>The admonitions regarding the debt owed to China are particularly galling given that over 90 per cent of developing country debt is owed to Western countries and institutions. Servicing this debt consumes around 30pc of annual hard currency outflows from these developing countries. This debt is due to flawed Western development ‘aid’ which has contributed only marginally to the development of recipient countries.</p> <p>The US opposition has a strategic rationale. The initiative trumps the US aim of creating a ring of alliances around China’s periphery and maintaining its domination of the ‘India-Pacific’. The US has yet to acknowledge this is a losing battle. </p> <p>Not one of America’s Asian allies has the stomach to confront China, their largest trading partner. India has declared it values economic cooperation with China. Japan and Australia have stopped joining the US Navy in ‘freedom of navigation’ operations in the South China Sea. Miffed by US tariffs, Japan has joined the BRI as a ‘third party’. A Japan-China Fund has been set up to co-invest in BRI projects. </p> <p>Seventeen Central European countries have formed a group with China to promote economic cooperation including connectivity projects. Italy was the first G7 country to officially join the BRI. Even others, like the UK, France and Germany, who feel compelled by their alliance with the US to critique the BRI, are availing of every commercial opportunity emanating from China’s economic expansion and the BRI. </p> <p>America’s own companies are unwilling to heed the official boycott. Over 150,000 US companies are operating within the Chinese economy. Only a handful are likely to move out. China’s further ‘opening up’ is likely to further reinforce the interdependence of the world’s two largest economies. </p> <p>Pakistan hosts BRI’s flagship component. Prime Minister Imran Khan was one of only seven leaders requested to address the summit. He called the BRI a “model of collaboration, partnership, connectivity and shared prosperity” and “a new and distinct phase — along the path of globalisation”. CPEC is now the principal vehicle for intensification of bilateral ties. Of the $1tr allocated by China to BRI projects, $72bn is envisaged for CPEC. Of the $90bn invested so far, around $27bn was in Pakistan. </p> <p>China values its ‘strategic partnership’ with Pakistan and recognises the imperative of ensuring its security, stability and development. The level of mutual trust between them is unparalleled. Its cooperation is essential to ensure Pakistan’s ability to maintain credible deterrence against India and to stabilise Afghanistan after US withdrawal. If India is ever amenable to normalising ties with Pakistan, China’s, and perhaps Russia’s, intermediation may prove more advantageous than America’s.</p> <p>The opportunity for Pakistan in China is more compelling. China is supporting Pakistan’s infrastructure development and industrialisation. It can be a growing market for Pakistan’s exports. Pakistan must aim not only to emulate the path of China’s growth but to improve on it, by learning from its successes and failures. Pakistan’s aim should be not so much to ‘catch up’ as to ‘leapfrog’ into the 21st-century economy. In its cooperation, Pakistan should not seek the technologies of the past or present but those of the future which China is now introducing and applying: high speed rail (not old systems), AI, electric vehicles, environment-friendly energy, e-commerce, etc.</p> <p>Pakistan needs to be well organised. Islamabad must identify what it wants and needs from China and formulate a strategy of how to achieve it. Such a strategy will need to be coordinated with China at the policy, operational and execution levels. Pakistan must deploy the best available technical and administrative expertise — from the private or public sector, from within and outside Pakistan — in each area of cooperation. The creation of an autonomous CPEC Authority would be useful to achieve the planned outcomes. </p> <p>In an environment of great power rivalry, there must be strategic clarity in Islamabad. India’s enmity is a constant; after elections, it may be reduced to hostility or, at best, rivalry. The US South Asia strategy is predicated on India’s regional domination. There can be no wishful thinking that this can be changed by expressions of goodwill or clever diplomacy. The only way the US will treat Pakistan equitably is if it sees attractive economic opportunities in Pakistan. For this, Pakistan needs China’s cooperation. </p> <p>Pakistan’s best choice now is to “tie itself to China with hoops of steel”, as proposed by the then foreign secretary S.K. Dehlavi in 1962. It would be tragic if we turn away from history’s beckoning finger once again. </p> <p><em>The writer is a former Pakistan ambassador to the UN.</em></p> <p><em>Published in Dawn, April 24th, 2019</em></p> </div> </div>   <div class="template__footer clearfix modifier--open px-1 "> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-12 col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-12 col-sm-11"> <div class="ml-0 ml-sm-6 px-0 px-sm-2"> <hr> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-12 col-sm-6"> </div> <div class="col-12 col-sm-6"> <div class="mt-2 mt-sm-0 clearfix float-left sm-float-right">  <div class="social social--icon social--black social--flat social--facebook social--count float-left mr-1 "> <a onclick="return !window.open(this.href, 'Share on Facebook', 'width=640, height=536')" rel="noreferrer" 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title="2019-04-28T07:26:03+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T07:26:03+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:26am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>What does joining BRI mean ? Does it mean signing free trade agreement and free market access with all BRI countries ? Does it mean taking only Chinese loans and labour and equipments in building infrastructure ? Is it like NAFTA or Europe Union ? How is it different than the trade that existed before BRI ?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Coffee, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009494">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009494">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009521" data-id="2"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Just Saying</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T07:32:49+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T07:32:49+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:32am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>China BRI consists of high interest loans to recycle China's surplus capital. Many countries are waking up ro the debt trap China has laid for them.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Just Saying, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009521">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009521">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009530" data-id="3"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">MAGAMAN</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T07:36:19+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T07:36:19+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:36am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Pakistan's only option is to tie itself to China with steel hoops.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="MAGAMAN, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009530">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009530">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009533" data-id="4"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Moazam Beg</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T07:36:31+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T07:36:31+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:36am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>No point in getting excited as if we are China. China alone cannot lift us out of our morass.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Moazam Beg, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009533">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009533">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009551" data-id="5"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">A shah</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T07:41:42+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T07:41:42+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:41am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>BRI is dead in the water but China doesn’t want to lose face.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="A shah, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009551">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009551">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009568" data-id="6"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Uk </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T07:46:54+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T07:46:54+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:46am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Another verbal diarrhea article from highly delusional author who was thrown out of America for guess what beating his wife. What a loser!!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Uk , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009568">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009568">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009587" data-id="7"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Coffee</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T07:53:15+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T07:53:15+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:53am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>This tall leader has solution to all problems by writing and wishing.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Coffee, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009587">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009587">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009639" data-id="8"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Sha b</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:16:40+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:16:40+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:16am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>After reading the article i had a feeling that the writer wants pakistan to become chinas another province. World will realise very soon this bri is nothing short of ponzi scheme.look at srilanka..maldives..malasia..Bangladesh..venezula..african countries. Dont be osrtich.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Sha b, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009639">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009639">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009642" data-id="9"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">IMF</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:17:15+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:17:15+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:17am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>It may be wishful of leap frogging to 21st century or CAVE AGE too.When it comes to performance , Pakistan does NOT have it. Prediction of Bankruptcy higher than the 21st century dream.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="IMF, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009642">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009642">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009645" data-id="10"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">KohliFan</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:17:49+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:17:49+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:17am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Too biased in favour of china, completely ignoring the many problems.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="KohliFan, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009645">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009645">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009648" data-id="11"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Sat </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:19:23+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:19:23+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:19am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Almost 20% of 21st century is over and you are talking of leapfrogging into 21st century. Wake up please.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Sat , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009648">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009648">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009666" data-id="12"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Gordon D. Walker</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:25:34+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:25:34+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:25am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>A positive and encouraging article propelling the country forward to meet the challenges of the day...</p> <p>Gordon D. Walker</p> <p>Canada</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Gordon D. Walker, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009666">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009666">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009667" data-id="13"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Sat </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:26:04+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:26:04+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:26am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Just tell the world how much money Pakistan got from the US and China since 1962.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Sat , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009667">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009667">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009679" data-id="14"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Raj</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:28:54+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:28:54+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:28am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>We thought that Pakistan would he able to provide loans not only to U. S. And Japan but to people on saturn ; Neptune and Pluto after so called cpec. But you are going to western IMF for repaying Chinese loans. Keep it up Munir Aram.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Raj, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009679">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009679">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009683" data-id="15"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Dadeeji </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:31:13+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:31:13+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:31am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Extremely well analyzed with deep insights of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Pakistan’s opportunity and what Pakistan needs to do to make this opportunity a game changer for our country.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Dadeeji , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009683">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009683">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009687" data-id="16"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Hamed A. Jarwar</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:33:02+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:33:02+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:33am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Sharing technologies is not something countries or corporations necessarily do.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Hamed A. Jarwar, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009687">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009687">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009689" data-id="17"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Gopal Patel</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:33:05+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:33:05+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:33am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>The author starts with BRI/CPEC and ends up discussing geostrategic affairs.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Gopal Patel, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009689">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009689">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009770" data-id="18"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Raghu Bamdi</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:50:12+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:50:12+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:50am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Why take so much trouble. Declare Pakistan as province of China. Rest they will take care.!! One should have some self respect as a nation please..</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Raghu Bamdi, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009770">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009770">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009771" data-id="19"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">KP Singh</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:50:18+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:50:18+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:50am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>You have to do your own growing up no matter how tall your father is. China's growth doesn't mean automatic prosperity for Pakistan. Pakistan has to make several difficult choices along the way.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="KP Singh, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009771">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009771">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009777" data-id="20"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Pride</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:53:51+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:53:51+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:53am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Agree with Mr. Munir.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Pride, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009777">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009777">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009780" data-id="21"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Mansur Ul Haque</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:54:56+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:54:56+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:54am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>BRI is great project. It will be game changer for Pakistan. All depends how Pakistan use it's position intelligently and prudently to get maximum benefit from this project. How our export and industry, education, development in science and technology is going to improve from this project is dependent on us. Without any prejudice we have to be honest with our self. Pakistan should come first should be our top priority. Put your personal interest behind and reap the benefits for your country. Good luck Pakistan.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Mansur Ul Haque, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009780">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009780">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009784" data-id="22"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Irfan Malik</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:56:17+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:56:17+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:56am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Begani Shadime Abulla Diwana. Munir Saab is singing praises for China is Ok. But he forgets Pakistan is in no position to benefit from all what he is describing above. On the contrary Pakistani industry and trade will be heavily damaged in the bargain.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Irfan Malik, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009784">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009784">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009795" data-id="23"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Pakistani </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:57:57+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:57:57+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:57am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>History tells that Pakistan should not 'tie' itself to a single country. Rather it should keep a balance in realtions with all the countries</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Pakistani , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009795">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009795">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009797" data-id="24"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Kris</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T08:58:23+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T08:58:23+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:58am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>CPEC has already pushed Pakistan to the 21st century. In future, BRI will push Pakistan to leapfrog into the 22nd century.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Kris, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009797">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009797">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009816" data-id="25"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Ajmal </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:02:22+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:02:22+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:02am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I have always wondered why a brilliant mind like MunirSaab is sitting in US instead of China or Pakistan.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Ajmal , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009816">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009816">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009842" data-id="26"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Kashmiri</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:08:21+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:08:21+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:08am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>this is a masterpiece i just read in the morning ...Thank you ambassador for your thoughtful insight.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Kashmiri, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009842">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009842">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009850" data-id="27"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Human</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:10:46+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:10:46+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:10am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Once again, top notch from Munir Sahib. Pakistan is well on its way.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Human, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009850">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009850">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009862" data-id="28"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Sweets</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:15:43+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:15:43+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:15am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Another fantasy story.Why do Pakistanis ride on somebody's success? Whatever China is today it's due to its hard work and Pakistan has nothing to do with it. It's like subordinate of bully behaving as hero using his leaders name.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Sweets, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009862">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009862">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009876" data-id="29"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">MANISH</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:23:56+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:23:56+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:23am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Well the rate at which the Chinese debt increases is the main concern. For example Pakistan's foreign debt was 70 billion without CPEC, with CPEC it's 100 bill and will exceed 120 bill in a few years. Further the Chinese debt is for infrastructure that the recipient doesn't need and the mentainance of the said roads will cost more then any monetary gains they provide. In most cases infrastructure follows growth and is always below par, but it's sustainable because of the growth. In CPEC infrastructure precedes growth and it is unsustainable if the growth doesn't materialise, that will wreck the country's economy immeasurably. But Pakistan has a habit of trusting the benevolence of others and paying the price. Just because warned Chinese communist party is responsible for the death of 30 million Chinese citizens, just how much they will care for Pakistan's people is anyone's guess.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="MANISH, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009876">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009876">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009888" data-id="30"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Kabroo</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:29:15+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:29:15+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:29am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Hello? Dreaming again?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Kabroo, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009888">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009888">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009904" data-id="31"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Chinaman</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:34:35+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:34:35+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:34am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Daydreamer of the century.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Chinaman, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" 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class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>We are very far behind and dreaming we have modern technology.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Ali Sabir, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009914">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009914">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009951" data-id="34"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Vimal</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:48:45+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:48:45+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:48am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Well the municipality sub official of Beijing city seems to have given these hints to Imran khan</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Vimal, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" 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this. And he us capable to do this.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="CHELFLS, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009961">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009961">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009978" data-id="36"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">VRPatil</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:55:18+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:55:18+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:55am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>What is Pakistan's financial status after 27 billian investments in CPEC...?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="VRPatil, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009978">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009978">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009987" data-id="37"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Jalaluddin S. Hussain</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:57:27+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:57:27+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:57am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>While Munir Akran, a former ambassador of Pakistan to the UN, makes a lot of sense , Pakistan still need to necessary by introducing radical land reforms and establishing heavy industries. There is no doubt that Pakistan is rich in manpower and natural resources.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Jalaluddin S. Hussain, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009987">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009987">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7009989" data-id="38"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Daskalos</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T09:57:43+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T09:57:43+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 09:57am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Munir Akram has written another inane column which bears no relevance to reality. One truly doubts that the BRI or any such artifical measure can help Pakistan to 'leapfrog' into the 21st century. That process will take time and lots of sincere effort and hardwork. No shortcuts.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Daskalos, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009989">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7009989">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010015" data-id="39"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Ibraheem abbas </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:08:09+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:08:09+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:08am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>The writer of this article is either a paid Chinese spokesman or completely ignorant of global reality. BRI is a new form of colonialism... Just research what the Chinese did to Sri Lanka.. (Google سری لنکا port lease) if you want proof.. In fact Pakistans financial issues are only due to the massive loans Pakistan had to take for Cpec... Please wake up to reality</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Ibraheem abbas , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010015">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010015">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010025" data-id="40"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">zunaid, India</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:11:15+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:11:15+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:11am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Nothing will change until Pakistan moves from security state to economy state. i have seen his views many times. He writes as if world revolves around Pakistan.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="zunaid, India, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010025">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010025">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010050" data-id="41"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Prabhash Jha</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:16:29+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:16:29+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:16am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I will ask you the same question when Pakistan falls into the debt trap and accedes some part of its territory to China</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Prabhash Jha, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010050">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010050">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010054" data-id="42"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Hairybukhari</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:18:37+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:18:37+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:18am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Rest assured, when the payments become due, don't say no one warned you about it.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Hairybukhari, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010054">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010054">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010060" data-id="43"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">sam</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:20:08+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:20:08+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:20am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Pakistan has played a part of America strategic objective in past and paid a heavy price. Once again the CPEC obsession has closed everyone's mind. Pakistan should rather focus on setting up its own export promotion zones and infrastructure.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="sam, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010060">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010060">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010074" data-id="44"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Canadian</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:25:09+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:25:09+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:25am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Sounds like marketing/sales agent of China !</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Canadian, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010074">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010074">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010093" data-id="45"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">brr</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:32:28+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:32:28+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:32am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Such is the HOPE for the future - hitching hopes onto another's wagon! Parasitic.</p> <p>Time and again this writer and others like him express "servitude" and slavish mentality as the only means to survive.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="brr, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010093">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010093">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010108" data-id="46"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Anoop</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:36:57+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:36:57+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:36am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Pak has been in BRI for many years now and completed its first phase and after all that in the words of your own FM Pak is on the verge of bankruptcy.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Anoop, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010108">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010108">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010144" data-id="47"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">TBH</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:46:57+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:46:57+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:46am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>"Pakistan’s best choice now is to “tie itself to China with hoops of steel”</p> <p>A nation cannot grow just based on a tie up with a big power. So your only hedge is by making a new master</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="TBH, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010144">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010144">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010155" data-id="48"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Zain</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:49:04+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:49:04+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:49am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Thank You Mounir. Always insightful and hopeful! Structured thought process.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Zain, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010155">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010155">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010170" data-id="49"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">VIKRAM jha</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:51:14+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:51:14+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:51am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I hope everything goes as planned for Pakistan. As far as India is concerned, it is the fastest growing major economy in the world. Having a strong economic foundation with humungous growth opportunities as stated by IMF and world bank as well as independent trade relations with almost all the major economies, India is not in a hurry unlike many others. It may be a debt trap, it may not be ! why to take risk especially when BRI is still in its nascent stage. Anyways in future china and India are going to compete for the same markets. So India would wait till it catches up china in manufacturing</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="VIKRAM jha, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010170">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010170">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010187" data-id="50"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">RAJESH GOPINATHAN</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:54:39+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:54:39+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:54am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I know only one country who has gained from BRI, that is CHINA !!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="RAJESH GOPINATHAN, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label 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class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:57:09+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:57am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Well written and analyzed and hope Mr, PM is with the same understanding.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="khalid, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010200">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010200">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010201" data-id="53"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">jamil Ahmed</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T10:57:11+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T10:57:11+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 10:57am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Very informative article. Thank you Munir saheb for keeping us updated about the currents events in Pakistan and in the region.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="jamil Ahmed, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010201">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010201">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010240" data-id="54"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Shy Guy</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T11:13:53+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T11:13:53+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 11:13am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Please provide polio drops to your children doing this big talk.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Shy Guy, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010240">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010240">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010245" data-id="55"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Bhaktawar</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T11:15:12+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T11:15:12+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 11:15am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Why is Pakistan always looking to ride on someone else coatails? when are you guys going to do something of your own?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Bhaktawar, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010245">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010245">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010287" data-id="56"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">R Shafkey </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T11:31:36+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T11:31:36+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 11:31am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Spot on. Thank you Ambassador Akram!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="R Shafkey , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010287">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010287">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010290" data-id="57"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Raman Kumar</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T11:33:12+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T11:33:12+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 11:33am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>If BRI/CPEC is so big an idea for Pakistan then why Pakistan is in precarious situation after first phase of it is completed?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Raman Kumar, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010290">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010290">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010324" data-id="58"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Lost cause</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T11:42:54+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T11:42:54+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 11:42am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>For gaining strength, you have to stand as a tree and not a creeper. US China trade is not part of BRI that is trans- Pacific and is on mutual terms. But there is no problem in hoping for the best.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Lost cause, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010324">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010324">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010328" data-id="59"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Katrina Mirza</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T11:44:15+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T11:44:15+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 11:44am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>"Of the $90bn invested so far, around $27bn was in Pakistan."</p> <p>Where is the $27 billion "invested"? -- where? -- which factory or industry in pakistan is because of CPEC?</p> <p>2 power plants and 3 roads is what imran khan said -- $27 billion for 2 power plans and roads?</p> <p>Sorry -- but CPEC has to be more transparent and show where the money has been invested?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Katrina Mirza, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010328">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010328">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010329" data-id="60"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Saif Zulfiqar</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T11:44:19+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T11:44:19+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 11:44am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Very well presented article.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Saif Zulfiqar, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010329">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010329">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010373" data-id="61"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Facts matter</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T11:58:16+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T11:58:16+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 11:58am</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Leap frog away.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Facts matter, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010373">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010373">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010381" data-id="62"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">tushar chakravarty</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:02:32+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:02:32+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:02pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Typical one sided views by former ambassador. Toeing and endorsing government line without comparing various alternatives available for cooperation across the world. Hinging every thing with one country and total dependence for all solutions will only lead to submissive behavior.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="tushar chakravarty, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010381">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010381">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010385" data-id="63"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">PonderThis</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:04:10+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:04:10+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:04pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>You mean Pakistan will be able to completely skip 20th century? Wow! That’s quite impressive!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="PonderThis, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010385">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010385">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010408" data-id="64"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Angry Pitbull</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:11:46+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:11:46+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:11pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Please wake up and smell the coffee</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Angry Pitbull, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010408">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010408">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010415" data-id="65"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">JustSaying</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:13:17+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:13:17+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:13pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>"China's BRI presents a compelling opportunity for Pakistan to leapfrog into the 21st century" You cannot leapfrog my friend, it takes decades of Planning, Policies, Dedicated People, Project implementation, Hardwork, Persistence, Education etc...you cannot piggy back on someone for a long time...</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="JustSaying, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010415">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010415">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010420" data-id="66"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Aimal</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:14:37+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:14:37+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:14pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>The author quotes S. K. Dehlavi : Pakistan’s best choice now is to “tie itself to China with hoops of steel”. This is the biggest flaw that Pakistan has made in foreign policy. The nation should not bind to any one pole solely, rather it should diversify its foreign relationship based on its national priorities and interests that may vary from time to time. The BRI may bring prosperity but it can also push a nation into the abyss with a heavy burden of debt. Every project must be carried out with a cool calculation on the return of investment. When it is driven by only one country, China, with bulk of the money coming from it and other participating nations are mostly in tatters, one may ask questions about the difference between actual profit and perceived profit.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Aimal, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010420">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010420">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010452" data-id="67"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">fact</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:25:43+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:25:43+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:25pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Pakistan makes the mistake of considering chinese diplomatic success as her own success. What happens to other components of BRI, has italy and Japan joined etc etc has hardly any bearing on pakistan. No point becoming happy with that. Is pakistan a colony of China? Well in that case, Pakistan can feel happy. Otherwise, think of what 4 years of CPEC have done to your economy. Thats the sole criteria of judging it</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="fact, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010452">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010452">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010467" data-id="68"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Raj</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:32:33+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:32:33+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:32pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Wow. Day dreaming is such a good thing. Just keep going. Dont come out of your slumber.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Raj, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010467">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010467">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010506" data-id="69"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Witchdoctor</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:48:31+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:48:31+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:48pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>...“tie itself to China with hoops of steel”</p> <p>Thank you! You have finally found the cure.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Witchdoctor, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010506">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010506">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010509" data-id="70"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">SRK</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:50:10+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:50:10+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:50pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Can Pakistan not be on their own? Always want to be associated with a big power?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="SRK, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010509">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010509">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010516" data-id="71"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Mark</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:53:24+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:53:24+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:53pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I read the author coz his writings reflect the static n predictable line that has brought Pak to its current state of despair. If he is looking at India, he has to be reminded that every year India adds one Pak GDP to its own n the gap is widening n not closing. Development doesn't come from strategic partnerships but sustained efforts in many sectors but mostly education n health. His continuos prostrations in front of the Chinese can give them only one idea!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Mark, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010516">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010516">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010527" data-id="72"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Iamdumb</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T12:58:24+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T12:58:24+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 12:58pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Mr.Akram seems to be a cheerleader for China than a diplomat.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Iamdumb, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010527">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010527">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010587" data-id="73"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Smart Zak</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T13:30:23+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T13:30:23+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 01:30pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>yes, Pakistan should solicit China to take Pakistan as one of its provinces. What other better way to tie Pakistan to China?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Smart Zak, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010587">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010587">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010625" data-id="74"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Syed Hani</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T13:45:17+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T13:45:17+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 01:45pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Excellent Munir Akram. Certainly Indians would be spewing hate here but don't worry, it is a well balanced and a transparent analysis.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Syed Hani, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010625">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010625">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010636" data-id="75"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Vikas</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T13:49:06+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T13:49:06+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 01:49pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Pakistan is currently in the 19th century if not the 18th. It first has to graduate to the 20th century before it can evn think about the current 21st century. Although I appreciate the authors acknowledgement that Pakistan still has to get into the 21st century.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Vikas, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010636">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010636">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010646" data-id="76"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">BK</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T13:54:12+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T13:54:12+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 01:54pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>When will Pakistan stand on its own leg, ever?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="BK, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010646">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010646">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010657" data-id="77"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Kharkhowa Kalita</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T13:57:09+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T13:57:09+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 01:57pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Will someone explain isn't BRI anything but connectivity? Does the World as of now terribly lack connectivity? Is Pakistan's current economy suffering due to lack of connectivity? Are Pakistan's proposed industrial zones a part of BRI? Are the loans under BRI (CPEC) to Pakistan from China competitive enough?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Kharkhowa Kalita, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010657">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010657">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010659" data-id="78"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">ABCD</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T13:57:24+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T13:57:24+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 01:57pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>The author is brilliant in creating hopes after hopes in his writing for day dreamers like me.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="ABCD, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010659">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010659">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010663" data-id="79"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Kharkhowa Kalita</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T13:58:45+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T13:58:45+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 01:58pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Coffee, nobody seems to know. This author could have explained here but he preferred to romanticise the whole idea of BRI</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Kharkhowa Kalita, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010663">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010663">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010669" data-id="80"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Vikas</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T13:59:44+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T13:59:44+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 01:59pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I have been saying this for long as a great solution to all of Pakistan's woes. It will be the biggest "game changer" which can actually happen unlike the previous ones. Why does not Pakistan sign a "colonial agreement" with China for let's say 99 or 199 years on the lines of Hong Kong used to be. This way the Chinese can run the entire country and the people of Pakistan will get an improved quality of life, better health and education and good infrastructure. There will be a little loss of pride and Pakistanis may have to sacrifice for China and fight their wars and feed them but doing it for the US for so long Pakistan must be used to it. And eventually this will anyways happen. At least here through a negotiation Pakistanis can have a slight say in the agreement. Nut Pakistan will prosper and people would be happier. No one in Pakistan can govern Pakistan. They have failed since '47 and no one could do it.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Vikas, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010669">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010669">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010719" data-id="81"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Zak</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T14:18:31+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T14:18:31+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 02:18pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>China's prosperity, technological advancements ,space colonization will all spill over and Pakistan will benefit from it vastly.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Zak, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010719">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010719">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010726" data-id="82"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Irfan Malik</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T14:22:15+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T14:22:15+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 02:22pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Human, Once again, top notch from Munir Sahib. Pakistan is well on its way.</p> <p>Yeah indeed top notch. Pakistan is well on it's way to bankruptcy for sure.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Irfan Malik, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010726">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010726">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010747" data-id="83"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Md. Asghar</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T14:31:46+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T14:31:46+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 02:31pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>To ensure the success of the CPEC as a part of the B&RI, Pakistan has to do its part accountably in a time bound frame.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Md. Asghar, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010747">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010747">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010862" data-id="84"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Puneet</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T15:12:50+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T15:12:50+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 03:12pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>In a nutshell, he is asking Pakistan to become subservient to China.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Puneet, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010862">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010862">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010910" data-id="85"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Aby</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T15:26:06+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T15:26:06+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 03:26pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Pakistan should take as much loans from Chinese as it's on non returnable basis. Chinese will also help Pakistani in deradicalasition. Also athiest culture will help Pakistan.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Aby, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010910">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010910">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010912" data-id="86"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Patriotic Pakistani</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T15:26:41+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T15:26:41+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 03:26pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>China's BRI presents a compelling opportunity for Pakistan to leapfrog into the 7 th century</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Patriotic Pakistani, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010912">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010912">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010915" data-id="87"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">M. Emad</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T15:27:07+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T15:27:07+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 03:27pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>“Pakistan tie itself to China with hoops of steel” ----- Pakistan foreign secretary S.K. Dehlavi (1962).</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="M. Emad, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010915">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010915">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7010918" data-id="88"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Patriotic Pakistani</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T15:27:50+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T15:27:50+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 03:27pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>China's BRI presents a compelling opportunity for Pakistan to leapfrog into irrecoverable bankruptcy</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Patriotic Pakistani, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" 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title="2019-04-28T15:29:33+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T15:29:33+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 03:29pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>China's BRI presents a compelling opportunity for Pakistan to leapfrog into the quagmire of debt</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Patriotic Pakistani, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010926">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth 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Pakistan's interests clearly highlighted. I am bit shocked by the personal attacks on the author in some of the comments. Munir Sahib has clearly ruffled some feathers by speaking his mind!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Salman UK, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010980">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7010980">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011037" data-id="92"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Sandip</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T16:14:34+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T16:14:34+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 04:14pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I am surprized that the khakhis have not made this Munir their FM yet. The Asad Umar show would be like a boring saas-bahu serial compared to what we would get to see after that.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Sandip, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011037">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011037">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011038" data-id="93"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Haramullah Khan</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T16:15:39+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T16:15:39+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 04:15pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>What's the basic purpose to CPEC is to increase trade . Whose trade ? Chinese !</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Haramullah Khan, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011038">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011038">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011110" data-id="94"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Thiru</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T16:51:53+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T16:51:53+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 04:51pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@MANISH, While growth may sustain infrastructure improvements and maintenance, the after-thought infrastructure will be limited in scope. Look at the traffic jams in Bangalore, flooding in Chennai due to river beds being built on. Even look at the town centres of Cambridge and Oxford, unable to broaden roads in town centres as businesses crowd in. Far better to have roads, drains, internet connection etc first.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Thiru, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011110">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011110">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011125" data-id="95"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">fairplay</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T16:58:48+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T16:58:48+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 04:58pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Raj, you just provoke china in the china Sea and watch the reaction.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="fairplay, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011125">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011125">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011128" data-id="96"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Thiru</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T16:59:05+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T16:59:05+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 04:59pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Mark, Western loans will be written off as will be those from ME as Pakistan is a nuclear power. Due to its huge investment, China will sooner or later take direct interest in the management of Pakistan for the betterment of its people.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Thiru, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011128">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011128">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011145" data-id="97"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">fairplay</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T17:03:00+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T17:03:00+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 05:03pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@KP Singh, agree.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="fairplay, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span 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leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T17:25:13+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T17:25:13+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 05:25pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Just Saying, And the western loans and debt is free?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="farid, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011210">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011210">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011233" data-id="100"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">fairplay</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T17:33:43+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T17:33:43+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 05:33pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Raman Kumar, no infrastructure investment bears fruit in a few months.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="fairplay, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer 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pakistan have to go IMF for funds?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="watchman, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011344">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011344">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011360" data-id="102"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Ahmed Khan</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T18:15:29+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T18:15:29+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 06:15pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@A shah, Wishful Indian dreams!</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Ahmed Khan, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011360">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011360">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011421" data-id="103"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Abhishek</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T18:38:00+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T18:38:00+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 06:38pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Unless the investment is made on human capital and institutions are strengthened Infrastructure building cannot alleviate poverty</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Abhishek, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 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Fida Hussain</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T19:00:27+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T19:00:27+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:00pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Coffee, </p> <p>BRI is different because it is not run by neo-colonial world order where a gang of nations has formed a wolf pack at the expense of others. They sanction those who don't accede to their predatory privileges.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="M. Fida Hussain, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011513">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011513">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011601" data-id="105"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Bipul </div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T19:26:28+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T19:26:28+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:26pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Participants of BRI desperately look for more loans which is denied by IMF.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Bipul , " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011601">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011601">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011694" data-id="106"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">F35</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T19:59:12+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T19:59:12+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 07:59pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>CPEC means supplying obsolete chinese technology to Pakistan....first coal based power plants and now a railway sytem that can only chug at 160 kmph</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="F35, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none 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title="2019-04-28T20:04:27+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:04pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Zak, like the way you got benefitted with US....</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="RAja Raman, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011713">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011713">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011717" data-id="108"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">F35</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T20:05:59+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T20:05:59+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:05pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>Did China become China thru CPEC offerred by another country?</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="F35, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray 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title="2019-04-28T20:17:56+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T20:17:56+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:17pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Syed Hani, no dear, we are happy with pak-China friendship. Please carry on.</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Jacky, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011753">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011753">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011760" data-id="111"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">Gopal</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T20:22:16+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T20:22:16+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:22pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>@Ajmal , he is in Pakistan</p> </div> <div class=""> <input type="button" value="Reply" data-name="Gopal, " class="button p-t-one-eighth p-b-one-eighth px-2 mr-2 comment__reply bg-transparent text-grey size-two border-0 rounded-none border-none hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray"/> <div class="button p-0 no-underline inline-block list-reset cursor-pointer relative whitespace-no-wrap align-middle bg-white border leading-normal size-three hover-bg-image-linear-gradient-lightgray select-none" title="Recommend this comment"> <span class="button__label p-t-one-eighth px-2 text-grey size-two votejs__cast" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011760">Recommend</span> <span class="button__count border--left p-one-eighth text-grey size-two votejs__count" data-vote-key="1478902/up-7011760">0</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comment pb-4 mb-4 border--bottom" id="7011807" data-id="112"> <div class="row no-gutters"> <div class="col-11"> <div class="comment__author font-bold font--playfair-display size-five float-left mb-1">anu</div> <div class="timeago comment__date text-grey size-three leading-none clear--left" title="2019-04-28T20:44:35+05:00"><span class="timestamp--time timeago" title="2019-04-28T20:44:35+05:00">Apr 28, 2019 08:44pm</span></div> <div class="comment__body mt-2 size-four clearfix"><p>I dont understand if china wants to use pakistani land for improving its trade, china has to pay Pakistan. 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data-id="1478956" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--stretch col-12 px-0 "> <div class="media__item "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478956/hayatabad-operation-the-story-behind-an-unsuccessful-assassination-attempt"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc53ac04c023.jpg" alt="Hayatabad operation: The story behind an unsuccessful assassination attempt"/></a></div> </figure> <div class="clearfix"></div>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478956" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478956/hayatabad-operation-the-story-behind-an-unsuccessful-assassination-attempt" class="story__link">Hayatabad operation: The story behind an unsuccessful assassination attempt </a></h2>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">New evidence shows how a militant group had planned to kill a key KP cabinet minister and failed. </div> </article>  </div> </div><div class="clear--both"> </div></div> <div class=" slideshow--list px-0 col-sm-8 col-12 float-left mt-2"> <div class="clear--both"> <div class="slideshow--row__item active pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="0" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478951" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478951/chinas-bri-presents-a-compelling-opportunity-for-pakistan-to-leapfrog-into-the-21st-century"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc519193c6b9.jpg" alt="China's BRI presents a compelling opportunity for Pakistan to leapfrog into the 21st century"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478951" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478951/chinas-bri-presents-a-compelling-opportunity-for-pakistan-to-leapfrog-into-the-21st-century" class="story__link">China's BRI presents a compelling opportunity for Pakistan to leapfrog into the 21st century </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "></span> </div></article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="1" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478948" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478948/smokers-corner-so-you-think-a-presidential-system-would-be-better"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc546058e862.jpg" alt="Smokers' Corner: So, you think a presidential system would be better?"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478948" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478948/smokers-corner-so-you-think-a-presidential-system-would-be-better" class="story__link">Smokers' Corner: So, you think a presidential system would be better? </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "></span> </div></article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="2" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478978" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478978/the-more-things-change"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc5c3dacc2f9.jpg" alt="The more things change..."/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478978" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478978/the-more-things-change" class="story__link">The more things change... </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/authors/2064/ahmed-yusuf">Ahmed Yusuf</a></span> </div></article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="3" style="float:left;width:24%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478947" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478947/editorial-the-hiv-outbreak-in-larkana-must-be-treated-as-a-health-emergency"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc5166816772.jpg" alt="Editorial: The HIV outbreak in Larkana must be treated as a health emergency"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478947" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478947/editorial-the-hiv-outbreak-in-larkana-must-be-treated-as-a-health-emergency" class="story__link">Editorial: The HIV outbreak in Larkana must be treated as a health emergency </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "></span> </div></article>  </div> </div><div class="clear--both"> </div></div> </div> <div class="border-3 border-r-0 border-b-0 border-l-0 border-solid border-black mx-sm-2 mx-0 clearfix"> <h3 class="my-2"><a class="font--playfair-display size-nine leading-tight text-black-light" href="/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/opinion">Opinion</a></h3> <div class=" slideshow--list px-0 pr-sm-2 col-sm-4 col-12 float-left mt-2"> <div class="clear--both"> <div class="slideshow--row__item active pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 palm-border--bottom border-grey-lighter equalize float-left" data-id="0" style="float:left;width:99%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478907" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--stretch col-12 px-0 "> <div class="media__item "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478907/vaccines-work"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc4db06609e0.jpg" alt="Vaccines work"/></a></div> </figure> <div class="clearfix"></div>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478907" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478907/vaccines-work" class="story__link">Vaccines work </a></h2>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">There are a series of interlinked reasons for the disparity in coverage. </div> </article>  </div> </div><div class="clear--both"> </div></div> <div class=" slideshow--list px-0 col-sm-8 col-12 float-left mt-2"> <div class="clear--both"> <div class="slideshow--row__item active pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="0" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478905" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478905/employment-for-all"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc4dab7bb8bd.jpg" alt="Employment for all"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478905" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478905/employment-for-all" class="story__link">Employment for all </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/authors/8201/asad-zaman">Asad Zaman</a></span> </div>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">We must create jobs tailored to the people. </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="1" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478904" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478904/a-long-term-forest-policy"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc4da0edeab7.jpg" alt="A long-term forest policy"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478904" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478904/a-long-term-forest-policy" class="story__link">A long-term forest policy </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/authors/8443/haseeb-ahmed">Haseeb Ahmed</a></span> </div>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">Forest conservation should feature prominently in our scientific and political discourse. </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="2" style="float:left;width:24%;margin-right:1.3333333333333%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478902" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478902/bri-a-historic-opportunity"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc4d90c8590d.jpg" alt="BRI: a historic opportunity"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478902" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478902/bri-a-historic-opportunity" class="story__link">BRI: a historic opportunity </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/authors/368/munir-akram">Munir Akram</a></span> </div>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">Not one of America’s Asian allies has the stomach to confront China, their largest trading partner. </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="3" style="float:left;width:24%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478675" data-layout="story">  <figure class="media media--focus media--stretch col-sm-12 col-3 mr-sm-0 mr-2 sm-float-none px-0 "> <div class="media__item media__item--100 "><a title="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478675/bombs-backlash"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538im_/https://i.dawn.com/medium/2019/04/5cc3ab42ad1ba.jpg" alt="Bombs &amp; backlash"/></a></div> </figure>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478675" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-five sm-size-five leading-tight py-0 "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478675/bombs-backlash" class="story__link">Bombs & backlash </a></h2> <div class=" mt-1 "><span class="story__byline size-three text-black "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/authors/271/irfan-husain">Irfan Husain</a></span> </div>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">There is no history of discord between Sri Lankan Muslims and Christians. </div> </article>  </div> </div><div class="clear--both"> </div></div> </div> <div class="border-3 border-r-0 border-b-0 border-l-0 border-solid border-black mx-sm-2 mx-0"> <h3 class="my-2"><a class="font--playfair-display size-nine leading-tight text-black-light" href="/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/opinion">Editorial</a></h3> <div class=" slideshow--list mt-2"> <div class="clear--both"> <div class="slideshow--row__item active pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="0" style="float:left;width:15.666666666667%;margin-right:1.2%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478900" data-layout="story"><span class="story__time size-two text-grey font--arial ">April 28, 2019</span>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478900" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-four sm-size-five leading-tight "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478900/kashmirs-example" class="story__link">Kashmir’s example </a></h2>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black 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By all... </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="1" style="float:left;width:15.666666666667%;margin-right:1.2%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478899" data-layout="story"><span class="story__time size-two text-grey font--arial "><span class="timestamp--label">Updated</span> April 28, 2019</span>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478899" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-four sm-size-five leading-tight "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478899/hiv-cases" class="story__link">HIV cases </a></h2>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">IN a shocking development, 18 new HIV-positive cases were detected by the Sindh AIDS Control Programme during... </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="2" style="float:left;width:15.666666666667%;margin-right:1.2%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478898" data-layout="story"><span class="story__time size-two text-grey font--arial ">April 28, 2019</span>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478898" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-four sm-size-five leading-tight "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478898/pre-ramazan-prices" class="story__link">Pre-Ramazan prices </a></h2>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">WITH Ramazan round the corner, the mercenary and cynical characteristics that can often motivate traders’ dealings... </div> </article>  </div> <div class="slideshow--row__item pr-0 pr-sm-2 mb-2 lap-and-up-border--right border-grey-lighter palm-border--bottom equalize last-child-border-none float-left" data-id="3" style="float:left;width:15.666666666667%;margin-right:1.2%;">  <article class="box story mt-1 mb-1 mb-sm-2 mt-sm-0 pt-0 pb-1 pb-sm-2 pt-1 pt-sm-0 pr-0" data-id="1478671" data-layout="story"><span class="story__time size-two text-grey font--arial ">April 27, 2019</span>  <h2 data-layout="story" data-id="1478671" class="story__title font--playfair-display text-black-light size-four sm-size-five leading-tight "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1478671/polio-tragedy" class="story__link">Polio tragedy </a></h2>  <div class="story__excerpt size-four text-black font--georgia ">IT started with a rumour. 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