Islamic products are pennies on the dollar when it comes to the net investment flow in the world.
By overemphasizing Islam, we in fact are making Pakistan equivalent to the despots of Middle East.
And the result is obvious.
We are close to 200 million people that is roughly 75% of the US population.
Compared to France and Germany we are double if not more.
And we have the same market size as that of Japan but much much more resources.
And yet, thanks to our myopic tendencies in the financial sector, and industrial sector, we are under 1% of the economic activity compared to the leading countries.
The fault squarely lies with us the educated elite who willingly refuse to rid the shackles of old-dilapidated thinking stuck somewhere between 1 hijiri and 100 hijri.
A man is known by the company he keeps, and we are familiar with this adage.
Here is a slight twist on that.
A man is rich by the vision he keeps
----(and the vision of the type of people he surrounds himself with).
Sad isn’t it? that we have to compete on the world stage where the race is on with formula 1, and yet
We refuse to rid ourselves from the use of camels and donkeys.