When thinking about the cost of this kind of arrangement, many people would focus on the interest rate on the bond the government is issuing (just as they focus now on the interest rate on the promissory notes).

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"At present all the focus, the attention is on the election arrangement, " Sufi told reporters in Islamabad.

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"This pension arrangement became a symbolic issue, and the focus of unprecedented media and political attention, " he said in a statement.

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This focus in turn determines a number of other business decisions, including store locations and internal arrangement.

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