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It depends on one's party affiliations, I suppose, as to how such an article would be perceived.

People who live in glass houses ... ... Let him who is without sin ... ... etc. etc. :D

Will go through them as time permits, thank you for posting.

Unless the mandated goal is to create and enforce an echo chamber by design.

^^^ The previous post of mine in this thread above has perhaps the highest ratio of Likes to the number of characters in the post. :D

x10!

There is simply no such thing as "brotherhood" in international geopolitics, only alignments of national interests, for as long as they may stay aligned.

CPEC and China is another one of those taboo subjects where the manufactured opinion overshadows the reality by intent and design, at least to a domestic audience. Give it sometime and the whole edifice will show its true colors. China is a very different john than USA, for sure.

Madams and Johns, and the odd donkey show down in Tijuana! :D

All of this can be regarded as "hostile" only if one ignores certain acts and events from the Pakistan side. This is a four lane highway with traffic on both sides.

Let me hazard a guess: All the hoarse crying wolf over "Kushmeer the nukklar flashpint" will not be realized? :D

Assuming the design goals are met successfully. Aircraft engines are a nontrivial endeavor.

How can Turkey export US engine technology without US approval? Domestic technology is untested at this point of being able to deliver the performance required.

If I may be succinct, yes China is progressing, but in real terms it still has a long ways to go before it can claim to be catching up. One cannot mandate creativity by decree.

Cricket eh? I don't follow Murrikan Hand Egg either. :D

Given the above, it merely reinforces what I have said earlier: It is in Pakistan's national interests to implement the FATF plan for its own benefits.

Not really. It is in Pakistan's national interests to implement the FATF plan for its own benefits. What they are asking is the correct thing, and delaying it for as long as Pakistan has is increasingly counter-productive.

Not entirely unexpectedly, FATF decided to keep Pakistan in the grey list for now.

How does further inflating the real estate bubble count as productive investment?

You edited my post for no good reason, but whatever, my point still stands. :D Moving the topic along, Karachi is as much an asset as it is a problem for the whole country. The inability of the powers that be to accentuate the positives and eliminate the negatives, as the old song goes, is the...