A BIG opportunity to industrialise Pakistan has just passed us by. This has been reconfirmed by the investment minister who confessed that Pakistan had lost a chance to attract over $8bn in foreign direct investment, mostly from China, and generate half a million industrial jobs between 2018 and 2024. What he said is also an indictment of successive governments that have remained in power since the launch of the multi-billion-dollar CPEC initiative. By not paying sustained attention to building the industrial infrastructure, they have consistently failed to attract foreign investment and facilitate the promised relocation of Chinese industry. While........

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