Run by foreigners
Published in Daily Times on August 27, 2013
Sir: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently said that special laws could be
introduced to grant Gwadar a similar status to that of Hong Kong. Perhaps he
does not know that Hong Kong got its special status by first being handed over
to a superpower for 150 years, and that it still has its own currency, laws and
administrative setup that it inherited from Britain. Are we ready to have,
within our own country, a place that is entirely run by foreigners? Oh, I
forgot, virtually the entire country is presently controlled by foreign
elements such as Uzbeks, Chechens and the US, etc. Hence I suppose it will not make
much of a difference having an entire city in Pakistan where Pakistanis are
regarded as foreigners.
SHAKIR LAKHANI
Karachi
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