Actually no. You see the problem with Pakistan’s agriculture sector is not that it can’t produce high yield crops that are worth billions of dollars. It does that already.
ITC - International Trade Statistics by Country and Product - Pakistan - Exports 2001-2005
If you look at that data table you will see our agriculture sector exports have increased over those 5 years. The difference is that there is no trickle down effect. This is why I consider Nehru a brilliant leader. He destroyed the hold the Feudal landlords had on the agriculture sector in India. We on the other hand made them politicians. Our agriculture sector produces on average 2 billion dollars worth of exports. Yet the real value income of our farmers has not increased since 1960 in real terms. SDPI has an interesting article on it. If you care to read up on it.
I am of course excluding cotton and cotton based products from that 2 billion dollars. In Pakistan the profit in the agriculture sector is high. Disproportionately high compared to other countries while the tax rate is extremely low compared to countries in our bracket. Now on to terrorism. I again disagree. Our economic woes are not linked to terrorism at all. They are linked to:
- A lack of education and independence in the rural areas due to feudalism
- An ageing and decrepit infrastructure system. Hell our rail system dates back to colonial times and has not been upgraded.
- In ability of government to implement necessary land reform to promote the necessary social aspects like education for all in areas like interior Sindh, Balochistan, FATA and southern Punjab.
[quoteThere were no independent political governments in our country’s history of 62 years…they were just puppets in the hands of army mafia…unable to do anything on their own without the consent and approvel of their army masters…
Even today Zardari is installed by same mafia by giving him NRO…and when he tried to end this isolation we are facing in the world today by normalising releations with India suddenly an incident in Mumbai occured…it is too much of a coincident to believe our army mafia’s version and lokking at their past record…[/quote]
Wow. I have no idea how to respond to that. If you believe that, I got a bridge I want to sell to you and Firzene.
Sorry. But the fact that the political parties have taken kick backs and stolen money that belongs to the people of Pakistan is by far the largest single group we are to blame. If you are not going to blame those who instil a society that is corrupt and based on absolute power with nothing but contempt for law and order, you really need to take off those rose tinted glasses.
If you are patriotic then tell me what’s wrong in supporting our men and women in the army? I have millions of reasons to mistrust the army. Yes. I have billions of reasons to consider the Bhutto family as the single biggest insult to the Pakistani people and those who have given their lives during partition and afterwards.
As for Ayaz Amir. Never did like the man. Considering his political past and linkages with nearly every corrupt SOB in politics.