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" The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government. "

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" The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides. "

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