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Make this a separate thread, please. More need to read it. Tag me when you do as well. I would speak there.

Strategy being?

pride :D

We have to do all in our power to fan the flames of communal strife in India as citizens since our deep state has given up on making the best of this historical opportunity. Many fear for their co-religionists in India, but I for one see it as a historic opportunity (perhaps the last one before...

I am glad people are finally beginning to see "how" Pakistan has been hollowed out by a power-hungry cabal of generals who have hijacked the state. I also agree with what you have said regards to the system of governance. I would however add that the worst democracy still has the seeds for...

A superiority complex is an overcompensation for an inferiority complex.

PTI's "mandate" was as engineered as this coalition government that has been cobbled together. Both are the handiworks of establishment that remain the eternal enemy of Pakistan's prosperity, stability (political and economic which stems from political stability), and lastly but more...

That too. Like afsar shahi, our land armed force was never truly de-colonized. Airforce and PN were conceived post-partition and therefore, do not have the same superiority complex. Airforce in particular despite being the only armed force that has acquitted itself in each war/conflict still...

A very disturbing comment. Do you want civil war in the country? The right to peaceful protest is everyone's. Try to protest peacefully in front of GHQ gate #4 instead of D-chowk, please. That's the center of all mischief, instability, and impoverishing Pakistan.

Not only that but the super flood of 2010 and a cavalier supreme court as well. However, none of that takes the spotlight away from breaking the bank part towards the end of the tenure to spend all their way to an unlikely electoral triumph.

Actually, the PPP govt received more American assistance (Kery Lugar bill), but we still ended up needing another IMF program by 2012/13 due to the spending spree PPP went on in its final years of the stint. No need for anything as fancy. A whole of nation approach where a broad-based national...

It's a clickbait but the larger emergent economic picture points at much to despair. IMF would bail Pakistan out eventually (again). However, that would be us getting a pain-numbing IV for a 3rd stage cancer. Fixes despite political will might not be as easy as these might have been once...

Atif Mian's position in EAC would have been advisory. At the end of the day, the political class is the one that has to take tough economic decisions at the cost of its own political capital. A world-class academic sitting in the US could only offer solutions, but implementing these by a...

Not only Musharraf but every military ruler's reign in Pakistan has been underlined by Western financial support. Imperial powers fancy one window operations just like foreign investors looking to make a quick buck in a frontier market.

Wrong prescription. A whole of nation response might have a shot. I say might because we may already be too late and the forces of history might not be on our side anymore, for the foreseeable future at least.

The economy had started doing that during the last few Khan months. The crisis precipitated when political instability also became a reality. Last straw that broke the camel's back if you will. Dar burnt dollar reserves to keep imports cheap to enable quick resolution of the power crisis that...

A common theme; consolidation for 3 years and then going bonkers producing just enough economic activity to get reelected regardless of the imminent collapse of the engineered growth bubble. A 4.3 TRILLION DEFICIT budget at that! #CameFromTheBudget

The usual verbal onslaught of a political partisan. Best not to engage altogether if you are incapable of deconstructing what you disagree with objectively. Thanks for wasting your time and my writing that.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2347212/budget-deficit-to-touch-record-rs43tr 4.3 trillion DEFICIT budget you mean?

The country needs a charter of economy more than any self-proclaimed messiah. Each government since the Musharraf years has broken the bank as the elections neared (in the case of PTI's govt formed by a handful of seats cobbled together by the establishment assets, as the departure signaling...