Who is pulling our strings?
Published in The News on May 31, 2022
Recent politics in Pakistan
has aptly proven the adage ‘the more things change, the more they remain the
same’. When the present government ministers were in opposition, they used to
rail against high inflation and hikes in petrol and energy prices. Now that
they are in power, the first thing they did was to raise the prices of petrol
and electricity.
Their excuse is that the previous
government made an agreement with the IMF to do this. The question then arises:
if everything is to be done on instructions from the IMF, why have elections at
all? Wouldn’t it be logical to have a small cabinet to make the federal budget
with defence, foreign and other ministers acting under instructions from one of
the superpowers? The billions thus saved could be distributed among the poor.
Shakir
Lakhani
Karachi
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