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"I am very disappointed... The Khan's team is going by the PPP principle which as I said is extremely disappointing and..."

"PPP as in public-private partnership is widely acknowledged as one of the best ways to implement projects in the infrastructure sector and let me assure you..."

"As a diehard Khanzadeh..."

"As a Khanzadeh looking at it purely on merit; Razzak Dawood is an honourable man and he gave away the directorship of Descon to his son and the two never ever discuss Descon business at home, never..."

"Two things my friend: first, by PPP I was referring to Principle of Preferential Pick and two, businessmen turned politicians are a breed apart, if you don't believe Nawaz Sharif's claim that his daddy and sons are the business brains and he merely benefits from their business acumen, if you don't believe Zardari sahib's claim that he resigned from Omni groups as soon as he became the president, if you don't believe Donald Trump that he has nothing to do with his business since he became president then how come you believe Dawood sahib?"

"OK, there are some issues but..."

"I am reminded of a famous Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci who said and I quote the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born: in the interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

"Never heard of him!"

"Really, that's what gets you?"

"OK, so the New Pakistan is still in the works and..."

"The old methods continue - selections for key posts are being made by one man, The Khan, instead of putting in place a system of merit that could continue after him, then there is his LSE economic team that is taking the same actions as previous administrations..."

"London School of Economics is a good school and..."

"LSE as in Lazy or Languid School of Economics."

"Oh dear."

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Anjum Ibrahim has a BA in Economics from Vassar College and an MSC from the London School of Economics. She has worked in a multilateral institution and has been associated with Business Recorder for a long time and currently holds the post of Resident Editor in Islamabad. She also hosts a show on Aaj TV "Paisa bolta hai" (money talks).


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