thank you shaukat aziz

[Sa1eem]

Re: thank you shaukat aziz

@saint_devil

So if the only problem according to you is that prices have gone up and that too, just slightly then why all this hue & cry all around the country?

And just how many people do you really think are able to afford this price hike? Obviously not too many cuz then again why newspapers are plastered with news about people standing in long lines in hope of being able to buy ataa at subsidized price? You claim about pay raise in the past 8 yrs but conveniently forgot to adjust for the inflation & price hike of other daily use commodities, supplies & utilities including food items, clothing, medicines, patrol/gas, electricity etc or do you think people in Pakistan live in some kind of vacuum where they just eat ataa, cover their bodies with leafs & go to sleep under a cardboard box on a sidewalk ?

Its really pathetic how people would go to shameful extents to deny ground realities & failures of the government just cuz they worship an individual as God.

Your earlier post is simply disgusting and reeks of hypocrisy. Those hepless poor masses are suffering due to government’s apathy, systematic corruption & inefficiency and all you’ve to say is that those people are not willing to pay an extra ruppee or two and hence should start eating rice. Good job my friend !

If you do not read my post and claim the way you did than I can only say that … … … I better should not …

Anyhow … I have mentioned in many of my post that during last 8 years, wages have gone up by at least 350 percent and prices have gone up by 60 percent. That means:

Anyone earning Rs 2000 in 1999 is earning at least Rs 7000 today.

On other hand, basket of goods that use to cost Rs 2000 in 1999 is now costing Rs 3200.

That means average Pakistanis on most jobs are twice better off today in real terms than what they were in 1999.

As for queing for atta to save Rs 100 … well, I know that for you it may not matter that much, but for those at low wages … and for whom government has opened up utility stores, who might have 8 to 10 people in household, using 60 to 80 Kg of flour a month (as on average, one Kg of atta may feed 4 people in one day), ceratainly saving Rs 300 to Rs 400 a month on Atta is good saving … and for that they are willing to que (4 times a month if they have to).

Ideally it should not be long queue but unfortunately atta prices in open market has gone up too high, else it should be nominal difference in price between open market and utility stores. Reason is that, atta in world market has gone up too high … around Rs 30 a Kg (I believe that 20 Kg bag going for Rs 550 to Rs 600 in Afghanistan … against Rs 440 to Rs 460 in Pakistan … against government want utility store to sell at less than Rs 350).

For detail inflaton figures and how inflation is calculated in Pakistan: Please find my other post. ‘Risk to economy growing … State Bank’ … Here is link for your convenience:

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showpost.php?p=5590657&postcount=26