WILL the ping-pong vis-avis sanctions ever end? Or the US doublespeak, for that matter? The irony couldn’t be more stark. First, the US partially lifted economic sanctions – with a distinct Pakistan bias – and then administered the sting in the tail, by blacklisting a huge Indian institutes and private companies, denying them the right to import US goods for their alleged links with nuclear weapons and ballistic missile development. The same fate befell many Pakistani institutions.