PAKISTANI politicians love to punch above their weight. With the return of the PML-N to power, it was but natural to expect the comeback of large infrastructure projects that could capture the public imagination and keep people in thrall at least for an entire election cycle. It does not matter whether the government has the money for such fancy projects or whether they are actually executed. The ‘bullet train’ project has that kind of power of pushing unsuspecting voters in Punjab to pursue an illusion. Recently, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz formed a working group to look into the........

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