EVEN judging by the uncivil levels to which political discourse has sunk in recent years, the ugly outburst by railways minister and PTI senior vice president Azam Swati on Friday has few precedents.... Such institutions, he thundered, should be set on fire.... The two ECP members present on the occasion walked out in protest....

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