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AMONG the many developments this month that Pakistanis can take pride in is the news that one of their own will soon be heading to space. Two candidates, Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Daud, have been selected for China’s manned space programme after clearing multiple rounds of selection procedures. They will be travelling to that country soon to start training. One will eventually join a Chinese flight mission as a payload specialist and become the first foreign astronaut to board China’s space sta...

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