If you doubt my figures, you can always exercise your right to fact finding.
Trade Deficit was less in PPP era as there was no CPEC and very low Military related procurements; both were high in PML tenure and hence the higher Deficit. However, both were temporary, especially the former, and was always going to subside.
Remittances were more or less always growing, the only difference is that currently the Government has statistics being produced by Banks instead of Hawala/Hundi (documented vs undocumented remittances). Exports during Musharraf were in decline, under PPP there was a shock to the export industry, especially textile related due to mega shortage of electricity. PTI Government, thanks to PML, has surplus energy due to which there can be mushroom growth of new industry, which was not there during PML tenure who was busy in setting up the dozen or so power plants.
I recall the so called experts and analysts also repeatedly calling Musharraf's tenure as a bubble and he too was blamed for keeping the USD artificially down. And I simply do not understand the support or logic for USD @ 160 PKR.
You must be in HR, right? The way you have beautifully placed the explosive figures to make PTI good is excellent. However, please allow me to interject, while you very craftily hid behind % of increase rather than the actual figure difference, you have failed to take into account the growth in GDP during the previous tenures. Is it too hard to understand that a wealthy person can afford to take bigger loans as he has the capacity to pay them back but a shrinking economy does not have the capacity to pay back loans. PTI has actually shrunk the economy and hence in relative terms the 50% additional debt so far, on the back of an economy small than what PML left, is a major disaster.