Let me recount his achievements;
1- Kept country out from Covid (Pandamic) once in a century witnessed by world
2- despite Covid Poverty rate reduced
3- 2/3.5 years posted more than 6% growth
4- Exports and agriculture production all time high
5- Sehat card started in Punjab. More than 4.2mn families beneficiaries. Approx 130 billion spending per year
6- Record remittances from 19 billon to $32 billon.
7- Highest industrial & agriculture growth posted after 2005
8- construction of Dams started
9- introduction of single syllabus
10- Billion tree Tsunami
11- Austerity in public schools expenditures
12- Improve credit ratings from 2018
13- Reserves accumulation to $25 billon
14- Introduction of Visa on arrival
15- resolution of IPPs agreement, rental power plant, RekoDiq
16- first time formation of sugar commission
17- Introduction of textile, construction and agriculture package
Now please mentioned achievements of your beloved parties
He is once again presenting his resume to GHQ. Remember, this guy claimed he would bring PayPal ( a broke company) services to Pakistan. He also said Stripe was coming. Oh yeah, I also remember him claiming that Pakistan was working on manufacturing semiconductor chips to compete with Nvidia and TSM etc. The list goes on.
In the year 2000, Pakistan’s per capita GDP, at purchasing power parity, was $2880, higher than India’s at $2010 and Bangladesh at $1620. We were 43% richer than an average Indian and 77% richer than an average Bangladeshi. Today we are at $6480, Bangladesh at $9180 and India at $12,560. So an Indian is 94% is richer than us and an average Bangladeshi is 42% richer than us. This is the most important story of our national governance system over the last 26 years.
In the last 4 years we have taken debt of Rs 40,000 billion. In the first 75 years we took debt of Rs 45,000 bn. Our tax revenues have doubled over the last four years and yet people today are poorer than in 2014/15 and 2018/19. 29% Pakistanis are poor (with monthly resources of less than Rs 8485). We eat less of all commodities, including atta and rice, meaning Pakistanis are going hungry. Of course we spend over Rs 400 crore to run the PM house and the President house.
Over this period we have seen Gen Musharraf, President Zardari, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan and Mian Shehbaz Sharif at the helm, along with a few caretakers. We have seen military, civilian and hybrid governments. What we have not seen is progress. None.
Education: 39% or over 2 crore 60 lakh kids are out of school. And a majority of kids in school cannot read, write or do arithmetic at their class level. Our education system is failing our kids and we are just spectators at this dismal state of affairs. Is there anyway a nation can develop without its kids being educated? Also Sindh govt just released billions in media ads.
Health: 7500 kids have been infected in Pakistan with HIV (that causes AIDS). Mostly due to used needles and unscreened blood. Pakistan has the second highest neonatal mortality rate in the world, worse than South Sudan, Eritrea and Chad. 40% of our children are stunted. 42% of our women have iron deficiency. 1 in 5 people in the world with Hepatitis is a Pakistani. Also Punjab govt recently bought a Rs 1100 crore plane and 4 Mercedes cars for over Rs 100 crore.
Our provinces are under civilian control since 2008. The NFC making them flush with cash came in 2009. The 18th amendment giving them new authorities came in 2010. But there isn’t a Provincial Finance Award in a single province. No political party (PTI, PPP or Noon) has established empowered local government. They won’t let go of power and cash.
Our system of governance has failed and failed completely. Awaam Pakistan party has been saying it from the day the party started.
Where do we go from here.
Empowered, federally financed and constitutionally protected LGs. Failing which smaller provinces. But now. We cannot afford to wait forever.
Direct elections to all executive offices in local governments and provinces. Essential for breaking the hold of fossilised political parties.
Reform of NFC. School vouchers for all poor kids. Forming of school boards with hiring and firing powers all in govt schools composing of parents and officials. Badly run govt hospitals to be transferred to trusts and govt to keep funding at current levels. Ending of lifetime employment for bureaucrats. You work, you stay. Or go home. No ghost workers or teachers.
Reduce the size of government. Move to economically efficient way of pricing power and gas so they become cheaper.
But parties that are part of the problem and beneficiaries of the system will not want to change. So they need to be removed from the govt. They weren’t fairly elected anyway.
National reconciliation.
Continuous and major reforms.
Otherwise our relative decline will continue. Hunger and illiteracy will become more widespread.
At least 20 people have been killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after security forces fired guns and tear gas at people protesting over regional elections.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports.
Thousands gathered in Rawalakot before marching towards Muzaffarabad as protests over governance and electoral reforms continued ahead of regional elections.
More than 45 people have been killed and hundreds injured since the unrest began in June.
btw this has been happening in Kashmir for the past 50 days; you just got to know today because the internet was blocked and the media was not reporting anything.
The AJK situation is a top example of mishandling and mismanagement. The PPP-N fighting it out politically is a sad side show at best and at worst a stupid attempt to create temporary distraction from the real issue. Media and information blackout has compounded the crisis. Never thought we would witness such a sorry state of affairs. Terrible.
میر پور ڈویژن کے انتخابات میں شاندار کامیابی پر مسلم لیگ ن کی تنظیم، کارکنان، امیدواران، کوآرڈینیٹ��ز مبارکباد کے مستحق ہیں۔ مسلم لیگ ن کی یہ کامیابی عوام کے اعتماد کا ثبوت ہے۔
میں میرپور کے بہادر عوام کا دل سے شکریہ ادا کرتا ہوں جنہوں نے ترقی، خوشحالی اور خدمت کے ایجنڈے پر مہر ثبت کی۔ یہ جیت پاکستان اور آزاد کشمیر کی ترقی کے سفر کی علامت ہے۔
We inch closer and closer to the mango crate. I don��t even wish anything else at this point. Anyone with the playbook of “mowing grass” (where you allow periodic violence and killing to keep populations at a baseline fear) should find his end in that pretty sweet crate.