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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Pakistan: "The pipeline path''

From Dawn

"AT a time when Punjab’s cities are witnessing violent demonstrations against power outages, when the Supreme Court has declared all RPP contracts void ab initio and when each fortnight we see a fresh ‘circular debt’ crisis, it is understandable that everyone is looking to the Iran-Pakistan pipeline as a panacea.

We are all ready to make shrill noises about Pakistan’s sovereign right to go ahead with this project despite the threat of possible US sanctions. Since the question of sanctions looms large in the Pakistani imagination little heed has been paid, in the public discourse, to other aspects."

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