Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
sadly one of the bad pints of the musharaf era is that luxuries such as mobile phones, internet, technology has become much cheaper while bare necessities such as certain types of food, housing has become much more expensive
maybe thy should start eating mobile phoneS?
lol now you are going to deny this is well, any dumb person knows that purchasing power has risen and thats why you see consumption of daily comoditys has more then doubled in last 8 years, cars sale, mobile sales, motor cycles sales have more then tripled. so again you are wrong.
for the first time in pakistans history motocycles are selling in villages,
Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
sadly one of the bad pints of the musharaf era is that luxuries such as mobile phones, internet, technology has become much cheaper while bare necessities such as certain types of food, housing has become much more expensive
maybe thy should start eating mobile phoneS?
Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
... you are quite funny sometime.. So you mean only people outside of Pakistan has their house bricked...? Classy ..I wonder what will you say about "construction all over Pakistan" ..
What is the education level of villagers ? how they can even apply for jobs.
Solution: Don't talk about politics, leave mushi as he is.
Am I quite funny? I dont hear you laughing though? Where your laughing emoticon?
What I mean is that villagers didnt see any substantial development in the Mush era.. Their incomes have remained static at best...
From my own expoerience, those who have bungalows in Pak or have upgraded their house have relatives who live outside the country... So you cant distoute personal experience... I know a lot of these people personally..
Construction all over PAKISTAN is NOT all over Pakistan... Its limited to large cities in Punjab, Karachi and Hyderabad to some extent... We already discussed this point, that development has been high concentrated among regions and among economic classes.
Education level is not relevant... Most Pakistanis that are now outside of the country are working jobs that dont require a high level of education... Some that were educated outside the village in large cities, leave the country and send home money to build homes in their villages.
Im not talking about politics... People dont want Musharaf, they are fed up with him... This instability wont stop until Mush is out of power and everything is back to what it was prior to the emergency.
Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
Well, not anymore. Now they have 12 hrs blackout daily. These are signs of industrial boom according dictator's supporters.
Yeah.. I know.
My area I will dmit has had some boom times. Im from the same village tha the governor of Punjab was from, the last one that is.. So we saw a lot of development at the time... Also, every other house has someone in the Army...
Two Years back the govt opened a huge cement factory to take advatage of the lime deposits in the area which has created job oppurtunities...
But this growth is very limited... I didnt see this sort of investment in to many other villages. So I cant imagine what village or areas that dont have the Army on their side have to do to get even the smallest investment in their well being.
Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
What other way foward is there... Musharaf should step down, all parties should take part in free and fair elections, the Chief Justice should be reinstated and all bans on media lifted...
Might not be smooth sailing, but thats all that can be done at this point...
And that will reduce the price of atta? You should get the nobel prize for economics.
Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
And that will reduce the price of atta? You should get the nobel prize for economics.
You dont get it...
Im talking about a lot of problems in general... Atleast democractic systems offer better governance and accountability. Under the current system, bad governance has lead to this state, and under this current system, not own is held accountable for this crime.
Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
Gov announced the price of 20kg atta at 295rs, and double the supply to provinces. What's the problem now if local shop owners are selling it at 400 rs its not gov fault. Our awam is also baigaraat they care about profit more.
Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
Isn't govt responsible for keeping control of the prices and make laws to prevent people from injustices?
Price control is govt responsibility and they should put check in place so no one gets extra profit. Prices should be labelled and anyone gets caught selling at higher price should receive hefty fines.But unfortunately there is no system in Pakistan....no one cares at higher level.
Re: Atta crisis deepens as country faces famine like situation
Isn't govt responsible for keeping control of the prices and make laws to prevent people from injustices?
Price control is govt responsibility and they should put check in place so no one gets extra profit. Prices should be labelled and anyone gets caught selling at higher price should receive hefty fines.But unfortunately there is no system in Pakistan....no one cares at higher level.
Actually the government does care, but unfortunately it is using 500 years old method to control a 20th century problem.
Zafar bro! And that 500 years old method is called "government fixed prices". In today's global economy, you cannot fix the price lower than what free market wants to charge.
The problem with Pakistan is not price fixing by the government. Pak government fixes the price for sure. The real problem is with the monopoly of wheat or flour suppliers that stops the flow of commodity if they don't get their desired price.
But we the people demand that the government must create monopoly (utility stores) to fight the monopoly of the flour wholesale market.
That vicious circle of monopolies creates shortages, smuggling, and hoarding. This will go on until Pakistan's retail sector is too small to fight the whole sale sector.
In free market economy, government keeps the hands off of fixing the prices. Instead it punishes those who collude and monopolize the trade.
Unfortunately we need a huge change in our mind set to move forward from 500 years old "price-fixing-fixation".