Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has lost his credibility: Miftah Ismail

[fisher1]

Again your patwari brain is not able to understand words written. I write one thing- your bughz Imran makes you see something else.

PTI had stabilized the economy. After they were removed overseas pulled out their investments and remittances and the rupee started to fall. Miftah let it fall and did the necessary to get back into IMF.

Youthiyas can’t control their gali culture. Ignore

 

[Ssan]

Youthiyas can’t control their gali culture. Ignore

So patwari is a Gali but youthiya is a-ok?

 

[fisher1]

So patwari is a Gali but youthiya is a-ok?

Patwari brain, patwari myopicism

I have been very respectful but when same respect isn’t returned, no point in discussion.

 

[Azad_ Kashmiri]

@fisher1 you are Patwari fart freeze brain.

 

[Riz]

Excuse me, but when exactly did he have any credibility to begin with that would have been lost?

he was brought by the pindi pigs , and you know they are very expert in choosing right person for right job ..hain na ?

 

[VCheng]

he was brought by the pindi pigs , and you know they are very expert in choosing right person for right job ..hain na ?

Their decisions, their responsibility. Such a simple concept, of course.

 

[ziaulislam]

@fisher1 you are Patwari fart freeze brain.

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What about four times ..lol

he was brought by the pindi pigs , and you know they are very expert in choosing right person for right job ..hain na ?

 

[Riz]

Their decisions, their responsibility. Such a simple concept, of course.

they are not taking the responsibility of Bangladesh , what do you expecting from them ?

 

[VCheng]

they are not taking the responsibility of Bangladesh , what do you expecting from them ?

My views on their kartoots and karnamas are well known on PDF for over a decade already, even when no one was willing to listen and treated me horribly. I do not care. Speaking the truth is never a popularity contest. That is why I have the signature line that I do.

 

[epebble]

Excuse me, but when exactly did he have any credibility to begin with that would have been lost?

Dar is just plain incompetent, astonishingly so. I am at best an armchair amateur economist with no credentials at all and even I would have managed the debt crisis far better than him.

 

[VCheng]

even I would have managed the debt crisis far better than him.

An untested (and probably untestable) claim, so I cannot say anything here.

 

[Olympus81]

Miftah probably should have scrapped the subsidy when PDM came in power with help of RCO.

But for some reason PDM didn’t thinking it would be political suicide. Nor did they have any plan to cover for the subsidies.

Things just went downhill from there.

Should have just sticked to his Cocomo factories.

Coming to Dar, what he did to Pakistan’s economy previously, a sane country would have sent their Special Forces to his hideout and taken him out. But this is Pakistan.

 

[Burger_King]

Nothing in Pakistan happens without a reason.

And there is a reason why Dollar Dar, despite his calamitous record, enjoys such a fan following among generals, press barons, journalists, legal fraternity etc. That reason is that Dar provides connected people with a fool proof way of making money.

DD's flagship policy is to keep PKR inflated. Magnitude of PKR over-valuation can be determined by difference between rate quoted on the kerb market vs official rate quoted by SBP. Why does DD follow such a diabolical policy which is a sure-fire way of bringing about financial distress? The reason is that by keeping PKR inflated, DD can gain influence among ruling circles. Parties whom DD wants to bestow favour upon are allowed buy dollars from official channels at a lower rate and sell it at a higher rate at the kerb market. Simple as that. For example, if DD wants a favour from a general, he will ask SBP to sanction USD to the general at official rate lets say @ 100. The general can then sell USD in the open market at kerb rate lets say @150. So the general can make PKR 50 on every dollar risk free. Similarly, parties that want to take their sarmaya out of Pakistan also benefit when PKR is over valued i.e. USD can be bought cheaper.

The other skill Dar posses which is useful for the corrupt elite is that Dar is a master money-launderer. For example, banks in western jurisdictions will not want to transact with politically connected people in Pakistan i.e. politicians, generals, bureaucrats etc because banks know that these people cannot have hundreds of thousands of dollars in their bank accounts because their salaries are simply too low. Banks that operate in western jurisdictions have to pay a huge fine if they get caught for money laundering so they will restrict activities of politically connected people based in banana republic jurisdictions like Pakistan.

These restrictions create a problem for the elite because no one is crazy enough to leave their sarmaya in a country where fraudiyas like DD can become finance minister. So in steps DD who in return for quid pro quo agrees to do the needful. We have DD's own testimony on how he goes upon achieving this.

I got to watch Sharif family ghadaari very early in my professional career when I was a junior at a foreign exchange desk in Karachi. One the eve of nuclear explosion, word got around that Sharifs and their cronies were transferring millions of dollars out of Pakistan at a juncture when the country needed every single dime. Here is how the story was reported in Dawn:

https://asianstudies.github.io/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1998/06Jun98.html#88mi

88 million withdrawn from forex accounts
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Reporter

KARACHI, June 2: A sum of $88 million is reported to have been
drawn from the foreign exchange currency accounts during May 25 to
May 28, banking circles reveal.

On May 28, the day when Pakistan blasted nuclear device in response
to five nuclear explosions by India earlier on May 11 and 13, the
government put a clamp on the foreign exchange accounts.

Banking circles say that a few senior bankers associated with the
privatized, private and foreign banks anticipated the oncoming
measures and informed their clients and obliged them by offering
various outlets for drawing foreign exchange from their accounts.

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Going back to the policy of fixed exchange rates, During the term of IK, GOP had given its word to IMF as well as to commercial creditors that Pakistan will implement a policy of market based exchange rate i.e currency will be free floating. Under directions of DD, GOP simply went back on its commitment. Liars don't pay a penalty in Pak; in fact bigger the liar greater the shaurath. In civilized world however, dishonouring of contract results in serious pain. That simply is a price you have to pay if you want to enjoy the comforts of the modern world. Unfortunately pain is what awam will feel until it develops the ability to discern the difference between patriots and charlatans.