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Countries in western Europe are always looking to modernize. Recently in the U.K they retired their rolling stocks which are capable of speeds of 200km/h. If only we had a standard guage and electrified tracks, a country like Pakistan could have been at the receiving end for discounted prices.

I've been advocating for a while to make our rail lines standard guage. Most of the world uses this system and so do our neighbours except India. Moreover, I hope we electrify the whole rail system. Diesel run trains are expensive to operate and maintain and bad for the environment. Believe me...

I don't see that happening. Afghanistan is a failed state, too dangerous, backward and a gov. led by Taliban only care about fighting wars. I know it's a bit bold but I believe at some point Pakistan has to conquer eastern part of Afghanistan. Only then we will see peace and the time we can...

Not sure in what form it would be from China. Could be either loan or build operate transfer

I seriously doubt it would cost $58-100 billion. At the moment we are in the final stages to negotiate a deal to rehabilitate the Karachi-Peshawar ML-1 (1,687 km ) line which is estimated to be at around $10 billion. That will be our priority first. It is something like 3 billion from ADB, 1...

If the Swiss can do it, so can the Chinese.

This project must go ahead and be built at whatever cost. It will give a huge boost to Pakistan's economy and geostrategies

Pakistan’s prime minister on Tuesday congratulated the Turkish president over the successful flight of Turkiye's first domestic supersonic aircraft. “Congratulations to my brother President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the successful maiden flight of Hurjet, a light combat aircraft,” Shehbaz Sharif...

Pakistan's problems are its own people who are uncivilized, disorganized, unpatriotic, exitermists, hypocrites, and most notably cowards lacking balls. They are not and can never be like the Turks so please stop. If you want to make a comparison make one with Egypt.

I don't see any significant issues in the coming years. If China, Russia, Brazil, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc are starting to ditch the US Dollar, you can expect Turkey and Pakistan whose currencies have lost most value to do the same.

flyimran is a perfect name because he has already become a cult

Even countries like U.S and Canada have debt of trillions dollars, above 70% of nominal GDP and yet their economies grew 6% and 4.5% last year respectively. At least loans are used to invest in people, in infrastructure development. Did you forget the loadsheding days? PML-N spent those loans...

Corruption: https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-is-pm-khans-government-more-corrupt-than-previous-administrations/a-60559804 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2021, the Berlin-based watchdog ranked the South Asian country 140th out of 180 countries, with 180th being the most corrupt country in...

Please write so we can all know. I can write whole lot of stuff too

This is where the problem lies. Politicians are suppose to be voted on policies. Not due to pretty face. The reality is this man has become a cult. He hardly attended assemblies which a politician must do, let alone enacted anything in public's interest. A sane voter in a sane country...

Nothing new. We saw the same thing when Musharraf took over. People here are either too young or just forgot post Kargil. Like the post 2019 situation, deals were made with india on LOC, trade, cricket, Pakistanis getting visas to visit India for medical treatments, celebrities getting...

Since when is "Reuters" Express Tribune? See my previous post again lol

Agree. I've always said this. Establishment is loyal to no one but itself. Niazi used them as well. First he gained support from certain elements within the establishment to crush opposition i.e. put them behind bars etc. When that happened the expectation from the establishment was he would...

Pakistan is not the only country in the world where oil prices are expensive. Its a global issue. Even here in North America its unaffordable and people are angry Don't do that. If you are going to do political comparisons then it's never ending and one could even argue that oil was cheaper...

China for sure due to CPEC and work already started on that by building Karachi-Lahore pipeline in the first phase. Afghanistan is not viable because they already have a border with Iran. India isn't a bad idea because it's a huge market. We can hit 2 birds with 1 stone. Make profit and make...