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This is a societal problem. Too many people in Pakistan don't want to work hard so they look for easy ways to make money even if it's theft or bribes. That's one big reason why your exports are low, productivity is low One of the reasons the US in its early history was economically strong was...

Even if they sold assets for a lot, it wouldn't make a difference if the country is generating significantly less revenue. Exports and remittances have fallen over $7 billion. That means country is making even less money, but has to payback even more loans.

Logistics includes parts, spares, infrastructure, but also pilot training & tactics. You have American, Russian, French, and Korean platforms. That is a disaster. I mean you guys couldn't even maintain submarine.

Problem here is how many platforms does Indonesia have and can they handle the logistics? You don't want to end up like Egypt, essentially doing window shopping for jets like women grabbing purses.

As usual, PTI has no balls, they're cowardly. So what if the lawyer criticized the military? Didn't Nawaz & Maryam criticize them on international media? Didn't Zardari lobby against them in foreign capitals? PMLN & PPP can break any law and commit however much treason without being questioned...

Actually, I don't sympathize with retailers. They don't pay taxes and do strikes like this whenever the government tries to tax them. They are one big reason Pakistan has high imports and very low tax revenues. I hope the police beat the daylights out of them.

Real estate & land ownership. These are vehicles for money laundering, tax evasion & fraud, extremely unproductive industry, and are the main component of the black economy. For example, imagine one guy owns 4-5 flats inherited from his father. He receives rent in cash, doesn't declare rental...

Why make these threads? Hasn't it become clear PMLN has bankrupted and ruined Pakistan?

This what thirty years of voting for PMLN & PPP gets you. People have to pay for their vote.

This wouldn't be happening if the ISI was separate from the military. Army control over the ISI is what allows any fool who becomes COAS to become a Pharoah.

I hope Imran Khan is contemplating in jail how his so-called friends betrayed him. Once he does get out, he needs to cut all these people off, including the founding members, and surround himself with the young generation.

Time for solutions has come and gone. I expect economic & maybe governance collapse by end of this year. Even if Imran Khan is brought back, Pakistan will probably default on its loans and restructure its debts. Constitution has to be discarded. Many institutions have to be dissolved because...

Where were those guys like bragging about the Pakistan Army and how there's nothing the population can do? This is looking worse than those Banana Republics in Africa. Ever country has an army, but the Pakistan Army has a country.

Exactly. Those who voted for PMLN, their children are paying for that mistake now onwards. They can't kick the can down the road anymore. PPP voters have already paid for and will continue to pay for voting for PPP, with their freedom & future.

You will see people kill their children or set themselves on fire. Yet none of them would dare to attack politicians like Zardari or Sharifs. No one will drive up to Bilawal House and give him slightest bit of trouble. Pathetic.

Historically speaking, most of those decisions that have tied Pakistan to foreign powers, were made by the establishment. Each era, resulting in even more long-term damage than the previous. While Khan was not able to deliver on all promises, economic conditions had stabilized and improved. The...

The only solution is to let people suffer the consequences. For decades, the people kept voting in PPP & PMLN who would give lollipops in form of roads & drugs in form of subsidized rupee. The plan was to push the debt to later generations to pay off, but enjoy today and screw your kids future...

I think talk of privatization itself is a trap. We heard the same talk during Musharraf's era. It did improve, but then came Zardari to reverse that. Asad Umar came in with talks of privatization of SOE, but to fetch top dollar, the SOE would be put under an umbrella organization and...

The relationship status with China, Saudi or whoever is for the people of Pakistan to decide with their votes. It's not the domain of the establishment. This myopic view of the establishment- to completely depend on foreign powers like China, Saudi, or US is precisely what has ruined Pakistan...

People need to pay for decades of voting for PPP and PMLN. Let the bills climb. People wanted the government to subsidize their lives and leave the debt for later generations to pay. When PTI tried to take corrective measures, it was cursed. Well, now the later generations are here and they...