Honey moon period

GoldenAsif · May 12, 2013, 5:41am

Re: Honey moon period

There’s a lot of celebration in the air. Nawaz sharif will soon find out that the throne is not a bed of roses.

Some things of immediate concern:

economy: it needs to be seen how his government will manage the economy of the country. They need to raise taxes and maybe renegotiate with IMF and other financial organisations to raise finances and repaying debts. This could further increase the inflation in the country.

energy: punjab has voted for the party as they were successful in convincing people that the energy woes of the province was due to the federation. They’ll need funds to pay back the circular debt and starting new power projects (long term).

external affairs: they’ll have to help the Americans leave Afghanistan as well as try to keep taleban at bay. It would be interesting to see Pakistans relationship with Afghanistan, India and America.

internal affairs: lets see how they deal with the taleban issue, karachi and balochistan. Each is challenging in its own right.

health and education

the people who have voted for the party have a lot of expectations from PMLN. If it does not deliver the people will very quickly get disenchanted with them.

You forgot the most important!

appointing the next COAS on merit (Kayani’s term or extension rather expires in Nov 2013)