Musharraf is often accused of selling Pakistan by his political opponents. How can pro-Musharraf or Musharrafites 
show that Privatisation is good for Pakistan in the long run?
Re: How has privatisation helped Pakistan?
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.... How can pro-Musharraf or Musharrafites :) show that Privatisation is good for Pakistan in the long run?
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It is not Musharraf's stance! Ever since Bhatoo-MAToo nationalized Pak industry, things have gone downhill.
Banks, industry, and educational institutions are bloated and your "taxes" are being gobbled up by these inefficient white elephants.
Commie lefties want these white elephants alive at YOUR expense. It is upto you to keep feeding them or kill them.
I dont know what a bhatoo-matoo is. Is it benazir and nawaz sharif?
Read your post again. I mean what do you mean by this:
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It is not Musharraf's stance! Ever since Bhatoo-MAToo nationalized Pak industry, things have gone downhill.
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Is Privatisation not Musharraf's stance? In the same line you're against Nationalisation.
Why don't you reply again and this time make sense.
Raihaan, nationalization was carried out by Bhutto from whereby the Government acquired most of the industries in the country, and his policies failed due to various reasons. As a result gave birth to many sick industries, and drived away all the investors who had owned these industries before. Privitization was the only option to revive these sick industries, and if you read a little more about Pakistan's history, its not Musharraf who started privitization, it was started after Bhutto. This process does not occur overnight, for instance, look at how long PTCL is taking to fully privitize.
antiOBL, Bhutto wasnt a MAtoo
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Spock,
To commit a crime and to remain silent upon witnessing the crime are both the same. So Musharraf has the authority to stop the Privatisation of PTCL etc and he hasn't done anything about it.
Wouldn't it be better for Pakistan to go up the road of self-sufficiency?
Musharraf says he is trying to bring about an economic revival in Pakistan but instead he is just selling off Pakistan's assets. I'm not a supporter of the other two either I support thoughts not personality.
The problem with Pakistan is not in the economy but it is in the politics and it has always been in the politics. It is a common tactic for the muslim rulers to divert attention from themselves and blame america or the west for our problems. Many are duped by this argument failing to see our leaders' hands in our problems. Its not the snake's fault it bites thats its nature. The one who throws us into the snake pit is the one who is at fault.
Agriculture is something Pakistan can be proud of and yet it suprises us all that this has been achieved without modern technology. With modern technology our agriculture will be amazing.
We need Visionary Politicians who will bring about an Ideological Revival. Who will effectively manage a state which is not dependent on anyone and will refuse to be little brother to anyone.
We want a system that we can be proud that others would want to imitate and that is the system RasulAllah(saw) established in Medina not the one Musharraf wants to implement.
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Spock,
To commit a crime and to remain silent upon witnessing the crime are both the same. So Musharraf has the authority to stop the Privatisation of PTCL etc and he hasn't done anything about it. Ppl cant wait for this monopoly to end, prices will go down, revenues will go up, competition will emerge, jobs will open up!
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Rehan bhai, seems to me that you have not studied Pakistans history. Why in the world should the privitization of PTCL be stopped all of a sudden? The people are already getting sick and tired of the monopoly PTCL has, and with a telecom world, its not easy to pay PTCL loads of money for an international call where as the rest of the world is making it so cheap (just one example).
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Wouldn't it be better for Pakistan to go up the road of self-sufficiency?
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Yeah, and privitization has nothing to do with it, infact it helps self sufficiency.
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Musharraf says he is trying to bring about an economic revival in Pakistan but instead he is just selling off Pakistan's assets. I'm not a supporter of the other two either I support thoughts not personality.
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I suggest you go compare his era with the previous two governments, and look at the reserves right now
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Agriculture is something Pakistan can be proud of and yet it suprises us all that this has been achieved without modern technology. With modern technology our agriculture will be amazing.
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Who in the world said that? The RAPID mechanization and one of the best laid out irrigation systems of the world was introduced in Pakistan which resulted in such a nice agricultural system. You shoud study about the massive irrigation schemes and mechanization, following the indus water treaty stipulations. Ofcourse, now there are growing problems due to salinity and waterlogging, but they are taking care of that, its not an overnight process.
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We need Visionary Politicians who will bring about an Ideological Revival. Who will effectively manage a state which is not dependent on anyone and will refuse to be little brother to anyone.
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So basically you wanted to start a thread against musharraf, but the subject of this thread has nothing to do with what youre saying.
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We want a system that we can be proud that others would want to imitate and that is the system RasulAllah(saw) established in Medina not the one Musharraf wants to implement.
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We are in the 21st century. Just because there is no khalifah ruling us right now does not mean we get all depressed and start whining about it. I mean its right to criticize Musharraf, I do that too, but you have to chose some valid things that you can attack, not things such as privitization.
The primary drive to privatise PTCL is the belief that the private sector will be able to provide a better, more efficient, telecommunications service than the government can.
This will benefit the government of Pakistan in particular, because it frees up resources away from inefficient running of a business (the logic being that any state-run enterprise will always be inefficient due to having the resources from the government available to cover up any shortcomings). These government resources can then be put to better use in areas where the private sector cannot do as well as the government, such as defence, education and public health, thereby helping the people.
The self-sufficiency route which you referred to is an expense which Pakistan simply cannot afford. The government only has a limited pool of resources, and getting rid of sectors such as telecommunication allows more resources to be spent elsewhere, for example, as I have already mentioned, on education, healthcare, and debt reduction. The only alternative way to spend more in these areas is to raise taxation, which would harm the people, or print more money and thus raise inflation, also harming the people.
The important thing to do would be to make sure that the selling of PTCL is accompanied by allowing competition in the telecommunications field. The past few decades in other countries have shown that privatisation without competition in bad for the People, whereas privatisation with competition generally drives down prices whilst improving quality of service.
Pakistan's privatisation policies lately appear to have been successful in freeing the government from having to support expensive, inefficient businesses and thus enabling it to use its available resources more efficiently. I'm therefore fully supportive of them.