Assessing Musharraf's Rule on the Twelfth Anniverary of the 1999 Coup

[Khalidr]

Well the correction has to be made "Fire all members of Parliament"

Exile Nawaz, Bilawal + Zardari and CO , Altaf Bahi is already away in Luxury in UK

Freeze the assets of all these non tax payers

Fire all these Parties , and their loyalist

Put in Army and Imran Khan in power this is what people want and put Musharraf back if possible as well

yes the only solution for our country .. let the Imran Khan be prime minister and Pervez Musharaf President

 

[Faiez]

yes the only solution for our country .. let the Imran Khan be prime minister and Pervez Musharaf President

Imran Khan is a thing?

 

[RiazHaq]

Circular debt origninated under Mush regime because he opend the floodgates of credit and loans with no future in sight. As well freezed the rates of electricity which means that many power units may be been operating in loss.

With all due respect, I don't think you know what energy sector's circular debt means. Let me give you a clue: It has nothing to do with consumer debt.

The key players in this "circular debt" trap are the federal and provincial governments as the biggest deadbeats, the power distributors like KESC, the power producers like Pepco and Hubco, and the fuel suppliers like government-owned Pakistan State Oil (PSO) and partially state-owned Pak-Arab Refinery Ltd (PARCO). This debt circle begins with the government as the biggest debtor and ends with a government-owned entity as the biggest creditor. So the obvious question is: If the government is both the biggest debtor and the biggest creditor, then why is it that the government leaders can not solve the problem? Is it the lack of will? or the lack of competence? Is there a personal profit motive of the top leader of the ruling PPP, who is allegedly pushing rental power plants (RPPs) contracts ahead of the speedy resolution of circular debt? Is it a combination of corruption and incompetence? The answer to these questions depends on who you ask.

Haq's Musings: Pakistan's "Circular Debt" and "Load Shedding"

 

[Faiez]

^^its just that they fail to collect enough tax revenue and then they dont have the cash to pay for the power companies. Its just simple non-payment.
They could simply issue more money, but that wud inflate prices eventually and we'll be back to where we started from, except awam will be much more unhappier and the power you'll get will be unaffordable...

The only way to solve this problem without creating more problems is to fix the problem with the tax reforms. We need to START collecting taxes. No company in Pakistan honestly pays tax and that is the problem. That is the problem with this country, when things dont look good, no one invests and no one pays taxes, resulting in a declining economy, declining tax revenues ( at constant prices, real tax money ) and unemployment, cuz business men dont invest due to fear that they will loose money and government doesnt have the money to pay for the salaries of gov. workers, let alone hire more to create employment..

So thats wat happens here, no one does anything and we keep loosing time and patience , then election comes, we vote for the wrong people again hoping they would do something better this time and same sequence starts again..

 

[RiazHaq]

Musharraf created 13 million new jobs, highest as percentage of population in South Asia in the last decade, according to World Bank:

Read more at Haq's Musings: Pakistan Tops South Asia Jobs Growth 2000-2010

 

[third eye]

I find it strange when people find positives in a dictator.

Seen from the Military stand point here was another General :


- Who bit the hand that fed him and institutionalised the idea that peoples will takes a back seat over his self interest.

- Who violated the law of the land by overthrowing an elected Govt not by the ballot or mass movement but by using the powers & resources he was given to protect the nation.

- Who set a poor example for those who shall follow him in uniform by violating the Army Act yet expecting others to follow rules, even possibly punishing those who didnt.

- Who added another link in the line of dictators who prevented democracy and national institutions from taking root.

Politically:

- He perfected U Turns by dropping the Taliban who was a national asset

- Helped nurture a system that gave OBL a safe haven even while swearing that he & the nation would not support him.

- Had to leave not of his own will when he lost relevance.

- Joined the long list of Pak politicians who cannot live in the nation once out of power and rush to self imposed exile.

Economically:

- He possibly achieved things close to what any leader would if they had stayed in power that long.

 

[RiazHaq]

In my view, the best way to usher in genuine and successful democratic rule in any developing nations is to first unleash East and South East Asian style rapid economic growth which was brought about by dictators like General Park Chung-hee of South Korea, Mahathir Mohammad of Malaysia and General Suharto of Indonesia. Each of these autocrats served long enough to bring their nations in to the modern industrial era and created a large urban middle class which is now sustaining democratic rule. Until such time as Pakistan has a well educated and politically empowered urban middle class making up more than half of its population, the electoral process will continue to result in patronage-based feudal democracy of the kind that exists today.

Haq's Musings: Twelve Years Since Musharraf's Coup