Articles of the year 2020

Pakistan Is truly unfortunate that our leadership has indeed cost our country an unbelievable loss that has been stolen from the people who have had to do without these huge amounts due to a reduced development budget.
It is becoming abundantly clear that Pakistan and these crooked politicians cannot coexist.
Imran must rid the country of this cancer before it consumes the country.

To see the American behemoth awaken from its corona induced slumber is to witness the awakening of a giant industrial state. Consisting of thousands of successful businesses and industries.
These are run by hugely successful entrepreneurs.

They will restart their businesses and come back to their pre-corona production labours. Even then some may not make it.
Pakistan Is a different case! Here in Pakistan a system has evolved whereby the money earned is directly proportional to corruption.

We have already seen the world suffering in the corona lockdown. In Karachi the touts were offering to lift a corona curfew at a price. A truly sad picture.

For our industry to function, it is important to understand these circumstances. We will have to include a corruption index which does not exist in other countries and will make our products in-competitive in International markets. The vicious circle of corruption based businesses will inevitably will lead to a downward spiral and only those industries will survive will be those with their highly criminal actors. Only the illegals will survive.

The sugar mafia has shown how it thrives on a huge subsidies in the form of export subsidies which are paid without the physical export.
A ripoff in every sense. The government (the people) are the losers.

Competitive industries such as textiles and leather may find it difficult to compete with China and the global market. We will eventually become a wastrels state of the Chinese and be reduced to agriculture only.