Re: Pakistan’s top judge is suspended (Merged)
I m not sure how u say that the economic situation is better.. For just 6 months WTO was implemented in textile industry.. and u could have read the result that our textile exports dropped more than 20%..
In sports Nike has left Pakistan…
Itesallat was not ready to take over PTCL even after paying the 20% deposit.. i have heard the chariman of Itesallat (sorry for the spellings) even said to the prime minister that they keep the 20% money but they r not going to come to Pakistan due to corruption and mishandling by the acting (R) army officer of the PTCL…
Similar reaction was shown by the KESC buyer
Our trade deficiet increased to 13 billion from less than 2 billion in last 7 years. The current govt. has fullfilled this deficiet by selling our best assets like PTCL but how the next govt. will look handle this shortfall?
We were lucky by the turmoil in the bangladesh else the picture would have been far more bleak.
We have not made any new power plants in the last 8 years… we have not done any work to reduce the power cost to the industry… just remember 8 years is a lot of time and no democratic govt. got this much time.
Originally i read the article in Dawn, but seems like i can’t find it now..
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\02\23\story_23-2-2007_pg5_1
I think i can write a lot more on this but don’t have much time.