I see some good discussion has started taking place;
1. He defintely has the power to do this. You never seem to hear from Buzdar, I also watched an interview where the PM accepted that Buzdars family were doing choti-moti corruption. Why is he sticking with him? Initially there was all this talk of JKT vs SMQ but now Tareen is out of the picture and Qureshi is the FM, he can easily appoint a third party into this post. But who?
2. Needs a 2 thirds majority to do that right?
3. 100% agree with this.
4. I've always suggested state owned farms with full vertical integration right into utility stores. Have a private company manage it all, but all the produce is owned by the state until the point the consumer buys it. Focus on key products which the mafias mess with.
5. You can blame the courts, flimsy prosecution cases and NAB for that. it's out of the states hands.
6. 100% agree. He started and there was this fiasco about opposition to the man he put in place. He should have stood firm then. He lost that battle very early on.
7. Disagree - the mantra needs to be repeated, but as
@Raj-Hindustani pointed out it needs to be backed up by work. When he's talking about the opposition he needs to talk twice as much about his parties achievements. He should talk about what they didn't do and what he has done, rather than just about the corruption.
8. Agree, Even more important than that is to encourage domestic industries to start manufacturing and improving the standards of goods to export quality. Perhaps give e-commerce advice to manufacturers wiling to improve their standards to international quality. I bought a very cheap laptop stand from Amazon yesterday. Chinese company, Chinese branding (albeit in English), arrived the next day as I have Amazon Prime, it was cheap, it's very effective and it was perfectly manufactured. Nothing felt cheap, nothing looked lower grade. I didn't care what brand it was - i needed a laptop stand, not a car. Pakistani's need to be making this sort of stuff. It's very easy to make.
9. I think his media strategy has been wrong. Previous govts paid Geo/Dawn etc to paint a positive picture. This govt ought to do the same, but just to a lesser extent. Also govt makes all these policies but fails to spread the information properly. How do you get a sehat insaaf card? Where can you use it? Who knows. What is the new single curriculum? Where can we see copies of it? These success stories should be plastered everywhere. As for responding to opposition, it is required, but again focus needs to be on govt achievements, rather than the easy open goal of opposition failures.
10. Agree, he needs to go full speed ahead with e-governance. It needs to be everywhere possible, it makes the average persons interactions with govt easier. Also they should consider privatizing govt customer services. Why does the person answering the phones about my parking ticket need to be a govt official? Privitatise the non-essential stuff, the stuff not related directly to national security and pay firms contracts based on hitting KPI's.
This is the sort of thing we need highlighting in this thread. The actual problems.
Pardon my ignorance but...
1. Why was local govt disolved
2. When will it be re-established, if ever?
3. If it is not re-established, who is responsible for it's jobs.
4. How has got allowed this vacuum of duties.
5. wasn't PTI all about supporting local govt?
Kind of off the topic, but TBH apart from in matlabi mullah land, these splits don't matter. Also the diagram is in-accurate, you cannot be a sufi and not be a sunni or a shia, it's not separate. I won't comment on the shia side of the diagram due to lack of knowledge, but the sunni side is not showing different groups, as much as it is showing different options.
For example, Shia and Sunni is today reduced to a difference which identifies which sub-set of Fiqh's you are a follower of. There is no political divide it can be associated with anymore. It's a historical reference.
Next, Hanafi, Hanbali etc is all different imams teaching the same Islam with slight differences, for example - what time asar is, are prawns mukhroo or halal, do you hold your hands on your stomache or your chest during prayer. All of the groups tolerate the difference of the other and consider them valid opinions, just not the ones they consider there to be the most evidence for. Deobandi/Barelvi are just followers of different teachers who taught Sunni islam, of Hanafi fiqh. There are differences, but mainly because molvi need to earn a living.
Finally sufi on that chart is not something different to what is stated above. Sufism is the practice of tassawuf (spirituality) typically under the guidance of a teacher. It is a voluntary part of Islam, it does not replace the shariah or fiqh or anything like that. Consider it an add-on.
