The third coming: Peace in the air

Weeks before the May 11 elections were announced in Pakistan, the $400 m Ittefaq Group of Industries was preparing to dispatch a top official to distant Torangallu, Karnataka, to tie up a deal with the Naveen Jindal-run iron and steel factory there. A Pakistani business associate of Nawaz Sharif in mine-rich Bellary? Once elections were announced, of course, plans to travel to India were scrapped. All hands were needed on deck. But long before the landslide that swept aside the deeply unpopular Asif Ali Zardari...

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