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The writer is a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington, D.C. In a country where negativity and cynicism reign supreme, critics and detractors of all kinds are revered, and emotional outbursts and fabricated stories dominate the air waves and social media, it is difficult to present a dispassionate analysis of national issues. Since China announced the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), more time and energy has been spent in finding faults, poking holes and raising doubts based on speculation and conjecture. Had this investment been announced in another developing country, the national reaction would be: how do we plan to ensure maximisation of benefits to the economy? What are the weaknesses and deficiencies in the existing set‐up we need to overcome? But this type of thinking is not in our DNA. We are either in a mood for celebration and self‐congratulations or outright condemnation and depiction of exaggerated pitfalls.

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Dawn

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1-3-2017

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1-2

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