what ignorance... you should read the following book (by Econ Nobel prize winner: Stiglitz) to get a better idea of contradicting economic ideologies! This guy served as a Chief Economist of World Bank and also worked in the Advisory Committee of Clinton. He will tell you exactly why some of the...
ya that was one of the understanding in the policy circles. Since the Planning Commission estimates for the absolute poverty were quite low (around 17% or so), everyone was of the opinion that govt is not interested in officially publishing these figures. The logic being, low poverty figures...
I read the 50%+ figure for Pakistan from one of these reports 3 4 years back. i didnt know about this govt index. Probably this index is the official launch of the same thing with now govt taking the responsibility of officially providing the number. Interestingly, we dont have official figures...
the statistics he is quoting are for Multi dimentional poverty which is 50%+ in Pakistan. It includes basic health, education, sanitation and obvly food plus several others.
awesome crowd and awesome speech! this country needs institution buildings and that is exactly why im supporting PTI! People cannot become free from the clutches of feudals etc unless they are provided with public friendly institutions which could serve them and solve their problems! In the...
@mr42O whom are you trying to convince? the duplicity of PMLN and its supporters in hypocritical.
They dont have any principle stand which they support. If it was bad precedent for the PM to resign, then likewise it is a bad precedent for rigging allegations to go without investigation. Had it...
There is no JC as yet. And now that the demand for the resignation is no more, govt is simply back tracking from what they themselves agreed to during the talks.
you want to take me down the path which will serve your purpose. Your argument is that since ISI and MI belong to the military and since military is not allowed to take part into politics, hence proven this is illegal. And this logic circumvents the question of assisting the JC in the Judicial...
From my understanding, IK doesnt want that. His words were: "Let there be a commission under the SC which investigates into the riggings and includes in it the members of ISI and MI as well. Furthermore, let us choose with mutual agreement that who will head this commission."
No where does he...
Ok. So where in law are you getting this distinction between civilian and military agencies in the matter of assisting the JC towards fulfilling its mandate? Show me where it says that only civilian agencies must assist the JC in any judicial investigation.