Don't forget to include PPP also selling out KPK to drones in 2008-2012 and Zardari's famous words "Collateral damage worries you Americans. It doesn't worry me."
We've seen now that the so-called "good administrator" or best CM Punjab, as described by many Lahoris, Shehbaz Sharif turned out to...
And this is why I think the current suffering of people is absolutely necessary. It's the only way the people will learn this lesson that "khata hey tu lagata be hey" is not okay and is the reason why they're suffering.
I would rather talk about these things too, but then I realized we have just been criticizing PA for the same mistakes & outlining steps to remediate those mistakes for a decade or more.
Only Eritrea and maybe Venezuela on this list can be compared to Pakistan. The other countries are far more developed, having a population that pays taxes and is productive. Pakistan has neither. The gameplan is and has always been to borrow new loans to pay the older loans and the interest and...
Debt isn't the problem, rather the decreasing ability to repay it. With PTI, exports & remittances were on upwards trajectory so we thought things were looking bright. Then came PDM to reverse all that and take it down even further.
You have the think tank badge. I'm just a regular member looking to you for answers. But I can say this, we have a few members that make pro-PMLN threads daily, different sections for other countries, and then we have you, defending the PA.
If that answers your question, then maybe you can...
Like I said, no more kicking the can down the road. No more excuses. IMF and other lenders had enough of them. People have to pay the price of voting in PPP & PMLN for 30 years.
That's the problem. There was one party PTI that tried election reform and that was quickly reversed as soon as PDM cam back to power, courtesy of who? The same uneducated masses that gave them more seats than PTI.
PPP has an unsaid policy of ensuring education does not reach interior Sindh...
You have feudal lords in the PPP using their truckloads of slaves in interior Sindh that help them win elections in the province. The feudal lords in Balochistan do the same. They also use the money from Karachi to buy out influential politicians in South Punjab who always win because they have...
As always PTI is slow to read the environment. PDM is gone. The caretaker setup or indirect military rule will remain for foreseeable future. There won't be any elections unless army is forced by economic bankruptcy.
Trading aircraft for aircraft and ship for ship against PLAN will not be effective. It's better to fight asymmetrically.
For example, to counter the larger surface fleet, Indonesia can procure more submarines, smaller surface vessels like fast attack craft armed with AShM and use the unique...
Everyone there gets subsidies. Sometimes indirectly in the form of overvalued rupee. I'm all for ending them across the board, with small exception for impoverished. Either way, I bet the govt won't end subsidies for the elite even if the country is totally bankrupt. Because the elite rule the...
Agreed. Subsidies is one big reason why Pakistan is bankrupt. People need to pay for voting in PPP & PMLN for 30 years. They need to pay the bill or don't use electricity. If you don't punish people for stupidity, they'll keep making the same mistakes.
Sure. Imran Khan was saying the same stuff about how charitable they are, etc. I'm sure his face turned pale when he saw total collected tax revenues.
Pakistan has one of the lowest collected tax revenues on the planet.