IT need not have come to this. A week ago, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi had to issue a formal guarantee to foreign investors that their investments would be “secured at all costs”.

According to news reports, the interior minister assured a delegation of foreign investors that the authorities had taken notice of recent “attacks by miscreants” and that “legal action was being taken” against them. While details were scant, it seemed from the minister’s remarks that violence targeting foreign fast-food chains was a major discussion point on the investors’........

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