Re: Recent violence and Foreign Investment [split from: Pakistan plans all-out war]
As someone who does not participate here very often but who is fascinated by Pakistan for many reasons (my mother was born in Hyderabad and did her schooling in Karachi before the family moved to India) I have a few takes on the economic issue being discussed here. I work with a company that has done business in Pakistan in the past and which is working on plans to re-enter your country in association with a Paistani-American business. The tragedy of innocent people being killed by murderous madmen has not affected the plans to do business in Pakistan as the American entity is aware of the potential to do business and of the need for their machinery in Pakistan.
Yes, the horror of violence is something that needs to be addressed and hopefully, your army would achieve this as soon as possible. But, I don't foresee, at least from the example of the companies that I am working with, that the plans of foreign companies to come to Pakistan to do business have been affected.
Hopefully, peace and prosperity will flourish in Pakistan and in the whole world.