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This is a great idea. What turns expats away is poor sanitation, no electricity, poor schools, poor internet service, poor shopping choices, lack of law & order, etc. Why not build a modern small city or separate development, for expatriates, that solves these problems with luxuries at par or...

Exactly. 240 million people can't just leave.

There's no argument on leadership, granted it has failed. However, the bolded part of your argument interests me as it applies to the middle class as well in other fields. IMO we need to stop blaming leadership and look at the societal, cultural issues. I've seen Pakistanis being content with...

Like I say, people have none to blame but themselves. They steal power, don't pay taxes, and vote for PPP & PMLN for 30 years.

Agar khata hai toh lagata bhi hai.

I'm talking from pure economic point of view, not politics. The problem with Pakistanis is that they wait for a messiah to come solve all their problems instead of doing it themselves. Why wait for Imran Khan to solve joblessness? Why not try to acquire skills that people are willing to pay for...

My issue is why do Pakistanis choose to leave instead of confronting their issues head on? Compared to India and Bangladesh, which do have high immigration but less compared to Pakistan when stacked against total population. There is corruption & misgovernance in Bangladesh & India too, but...

Brain drain is one of the main reasons why Pakistan never progresses.

If this was some other country, you would be right. Unfortunately, military dictators in Pakistan, despite having unchecked power at their disposal, still failed to bring reforms. Musharraf, like Imran Khan, tried to bring traders under the tax net but capitulated after shutter-down strikes...

How can there be a thirty-year strategic plan when the rulers, both civilian & military, have palaces & bank accounts outside the country? For them, Pakistan is to be milked for its money and discarded like toilet paper. If you have Corp Commanders or even DG of sensitive organizations leaving...

I strongly believe Pakistan should be under British rule. They need the white man's danda to function properly.

I'm not sure, but I think Dar overvaluing the PKR along with restrictions on imports helped deliver a fatal blow. Now the electricity rates are going up too.

Buddy I'm not asking for his extension. I'm hearing he has plans of extending his tenure. He's going to become the next decade long reigning dictator.

Exports & remittances being at historical high gave hope that maybe not now, but at some point Pakistan would no longer need the begging bowl. But I remember people cursing Imran Khan even then. Now, this has all been reversed and even worse than when PTI first took over. So people deserve...

SIFC and $100 billion investments are an even bigger pipe dream than CPEC & Gwadar. Nothing will come out of this. However, there may be a chance of the tax net being broadened under army rule with the barrel of a gun. I wouldn't bet on it because informal economy depends a lot on real estate...

Sounds great, but as long as the masses continue voting for feudal lords, you can't touch them. Even the judiciary has become rotten due to their influence. If land reform was done just like in India, these feudal lords wouldn't exist and you would have true democracy.

Pakistanis are excellent con artists. They are great at selling pipe dreams & scams. They package these scams sometimes using acronyms. SIFC is one of these scams like CPEC, and Gwadar. I'll leave this here for you guys

Sure, but what about the groups operating in Punjab? Or the networks in Karachi? Why were these provinces spared from drone strikes despite numerous attacks on civilians & military? Shehbaz Sharif on record asked TTP to spare Punjab from attacks, as if the rest of the country meant nothing to him?

I feel debt restructuring is inevitable. The IMF loan is not enough and I'm sure Pakistan, with its decreasing cash flows and increasing debt servicing, will run out of money soon. Imran Khan shouldn't come back to this bankrupted country. Fixing it requires painful decisions enforced by the...

That is fine. Even if the quote is taken out of context, he still authorized a surge in drone strikes, far more than Musharraf had tolerated. It's clear Zardari did not have the lives or interests of Pashtuns at heart when making these decisions driven by money.