Pakistanis reacted with similar scorn when their capital was moved from the historic city of Karachi to characterless Islamabad.

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From the terrible staging (all the poor contestants looked completely lost on that huge, characterless stage) and the ridiculous drivel spoken by the poor hosts (who should have ditched their dialogue and ad-libbed) to the bizarre, neighbourly voting.

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