Re: The Ultimate Losers in Pakistan!
SB: pot calling the kettle black..simple questions, what do you think AT present is the ethnic breakup of Pakistans army(not formation commanders please..if i wanted a ethnic breakup of the corp commanders that would be a different question)? Does the ethnic breakup of the Army represent disproportionate representation of those ethnic groups in comparison to population? Do those same ethnic groups in the Army dominate the politics of the country? If the answer is yes to the last two questions..the groups which are under represented (or not represented at all) are the ultimate losers. As such whatever I said..in my first post was true and the rest of the disputes were people posting pics of generals to confuse the discussion.
Anti: I agree increased tax collection would obviously allow greater investment, however there are a few issues, Peshawar has no control over the FCR..that is under federal control, Faisal Bari in his article writes that in fact the overall investment climate in NWFP is fairly good...also the other requirement for investments to happen are ..one to have proper infrastructure..which again is in the hands of the feds, secondly the locational disadvantage issue could easily be solved by deregulationg power generation, by virtue of its nearness to production centres the costs of electricty would drop..giving NWFP based industries some benefit over the locational disadvantage they face..