Wait what??? Inflation was aboust 15-20% in Jan-March 2008, our forex reserves were dying out at the rate of $0.5-0.75 billion per month. Oil prices werent adjusted to reflect global prices. We had a wheat crises, the biggest power shortage in the last 2 decades. Musharraf declared emergency in Nov 2007 with the one reason being "deteriorating economic conditions"
sorry dude, but you can't get away with saying stuff like this, it's called propaganda. musharraf's time period saw incredible and stable economic growth. it's only towards his end, where you saw the lawyers' movement and jahel ignorants running around burning everything after BB died, the economy was affected. yet, it was still resilient, and only a few days after BB's death, the stock market went back up again. that's where Pakistan was declared a "resilient economy", even after political instability thanks to democratic movements, suicide raids, and the death of benazir, pakistan's economy was still growing rapidly.
wheat prices and oil subsidies did not harm the economy, at most it took out a billion dollars from the reserves, but it was still managed properly. that's why we saw the rupee stay stable. the rupee fell only after shaukat aziz left, there's no possible argument you can make on this subject, trust me.
the power crisis has nothing to do with shortage. both govt's, musharraf and zardari, are just giving the public relief with news of power generation. the real problem with loadshedding lies with circular debt. the govt. hasn't paid its bills to WAPDA, which in turn can't pay the power generation companies, and then oil companies, and so on. most of your electricity is lost thanks to both govt.'s incompetence, and so far, the new govt. hasn't really done much to fix it. the new power plants being set up right now, were inked during musharraf's rule, although they are barely going to help.
No they are not, Pakistani awam is f-ing happy about what he has done in Swat, Waziristan, Bajuar etc, how he got Mullah Omar, Baitull-Mehsud etc to put their arms down and become pro-Pakistan is amazing. I like many Pakistani's salute Zardari for handling the situation like he did. Since 2004 it was a genocide in NWFP, everyone wanted it to stop.
you fail to mention that it was the same zardari you're glorifying here who was delaying the peace deal in swat. he only fell in line after increasing pressure from his govt. which is getting tired of his tyranny, even gillani his puppet is getting rebellious. ANP has been pushing this deal for a while now, the federal govt. has only recently agreed.
also,
please do not make up the mullah-omer part, he had nothing against pakistan to begin with. he denounced baitullah years ago, during musharraf's rule. second, mullah-nazir and gul bahadur have already had a pro-pakistan stance.
again, please do not lie about this stuff, you are making this up. the swat peace deal has NOTHING to do with baitullah falling in line with the others and dropping plans against pakistan. there was no 'genocide' in NWFP. you know I'm trying hard to ignore rants and propaganda on this forum for a while now, but the one thing I will not tolerate is a lie of this magnitude and blind support for zardari, one of the most corrupt men in the history of man. his rise to power is due solely to deceit and treachery,
and the fact that he has become the leader of pakistan, fulfills the prophecies in the ahadith that the worst amongst us will rule us near the day of Judgement.
