Foreign tobacco, local smokescreens
What would you say to an argument that it wasn't desirable to let Johnny Walker manufacture its famous brand of scotch in India because there was a lot of smuggling of its whisky into India? Or that Levi's should be kept out because their secret aim was to produce jeans at the very low end of the market?

Character certificate
The bumbling havaldar waving a lathi and perpetually slipping on banana peels has long been the stuff of the Bollywood comic routine. Now it appears that this same individual is being allowed to run riot in the highest levels of government administration and is causing untold embarrassment in the process.

Not the place you knew
For many outsiders Peshawar conjures up images of the Wild West: grim-faced people with guns swinging in holsters casually slung over their shoulders. Yet despite old quarters such as the Kisa Khwani bazaar where narrow lanes snake through places lost in time and its proud and armed inhabitants.

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