Pakistan’s army is to blame for the poverty of the country’s 208m Citizens- The Economist Article

[shujauddin]

LOL indians and patwaris like the piece of crap.

Looks like written by a RSS worker, who is opposing Pakistan Army knowing of the fact they cannot even dare to do anything wrong in the presence of Pakistan Armed Forces and get their pants wet even when they think about the cons of it. Pakistan Armed Forces ka hona hi Pakistan ki salamati ki muhafiz hai, warna hindu madarchod bhadwe to kab ka Pakistan ko nigal chukay hotay

sure what is your skype id? u want to do c2c?

Yea tht same civilian lines from where Nawaz shareef has been elected 5 times and still people cant have clean drinking waters or ghari khuda bhaksh where bhutto is zinda but poor people r dying because of mad dogs like u causing rabies. And definitely army is responsible for creating all these red ass baboons whom u been worshipping for ur bones....

Pakistani should tame bootwalas, and stop bootpolishi .

Check the difference :

Bilal Colony Karachi ( Civilian Residential Area)

DHA ( Pakistan Arm Residential Area)

My Question : Where is all this water coming from to maintain these Lush green frontals !

 

[AhmadSaleem264]

Army is responsible for every evil that Pakistan is facing now

I didnt know army is also responsible for your birth.

 

[AhmadSaleem264]

Check the difference :

Bilal Colony Karachi ( Civilian Residential Area)

DHA ( Pakistan Arm Residential Area)

My Question : Where is all this water coming from to maintain these Lush green frontals !

We have seen Tanker mafia is behind the water shortage backed by sindh govt fortunately they cant dare to stop the water of DHA

 

[shujauddin]

We have seen Tanker mafia is behind the water shortage backed by sindh govt fortunately they cant dare to stop the water of DHA

Tanker Maafi is operated and controlled by the Army.

 

[fnaeem]

not a fan of army business empire but how difficult was it for pmln and ppp to create/improve 1 or 2 small medium areas in karachi/hyderabad/lahore as a show of this is what we can do, and put all dha/cantt things into their place. they had 10 years, what do they have to show.

 

[sensible]

پاکستان آرمی پاکستان کی حفاظت کا ایسا مضبوط حصار ہے اس قسم کے آرٹیکل اس پر تھوکنے والوں کے منہ پر واپس گرتے ہیں

 

[Reason]

Pakistan army is the most criminal corrupt mafia that uses national security to oppress civilian population.

 

[Reason]

Article is from Jan 12th 2019

share some new venomous article by foreign media or Pakistani bloody liberals

When you ban and censor local, then you will get articles from foreign press.

Yeh jo dehshatgardi hai, iss ke peechee wardi hai

 

[kakamana]

Check the difference :

Bilal Colony Karachi ( Civilian Residential Area)

DHA ( Pakistan Arm Residential Area)

My Question : Where is all this water coming from to maintain these Lush green frontals !

And as always like paid bot ur running away, tusking ur tail in ur legs... there is no army in ghari khuda bhaksh,larkana and Nawaz, shahbaz constituencies so y people still at this time deprive of basic amenities or life?

 

[shujauddin]

And as always like paid bot ur running away, tusking ur tail in ur legs... there is no army in ghari khuda bhaksh,larkana and Nawaz, shahbaz constituencies so y people still at this time deprive of basic amenities or life?

that's because the Army gets the lion share of the funding, leftovers are for us ( Pakistanies) including the poor people of larkaana etc. Whats so difficult to understand here?

 

[A.jokhio]

It HAS FOR so long been a country of such unmet potential that the scale of Pakistan’s dereliction towards its people is easily forgotten. Yet on every measure of progress, Pakistanis fare atrociously. More than 20m children are deprived of school. Less than 30% of women are employed. Exports have grown at a fifth of the rate in Bangladesh and India over the past 20 years. And now the ambitions of the new government under Imran Khan, who at least acknowledges his country’s problems (see Briefing), are thwarted by a balance-of-payments crisis. If Mr Khan gets an IMF bail-out, it will be Pakistan’s 22nd. The persistence of poverty and maladministration, and the instability they foster, is a disaster for the world’s sixth-most-populous country. Thanks to its nuclear weapons and plentiful religious zealots, it poses a danger for the world, too.
Many, including Mr Khan, blame venal politicians for Pakistan’s problems. Others argue that Pakistan sits in a uniquely hostile part of the world, between war-torn Afghanistan and implacable India. Both these woes are used to justify the power of the armed forces. Yet the army’s pre-eminence is precisely what lies at the heart of Pakistan’s troubles. The army lords it over civilian politicians. Last year it helped cast out the previous prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and engineer Mr Khan’s rise (as it once did Mr Sharif’s).


Since the founding of Pakistan in 1947, the army has not just defended state ideology but defined it, in two destructive ways. The country exists to safeguard Islam, not a tolerant, prosperous citizenry. And the army, believing the country to be surrounded by enemies, promotes a doctrine of persecution and paranoia.

The effects are dire. Religiosity has bred an extremism that at times has looked like tearing Pakistan apart. The state backed those who took up arms in the name of Islam. Although they initially waged war on Pakistan’s perceived enemies, before long they began to wreak havoc at home. Some 60,000 Pakistanis have died at the hands of militants, most of whom come under the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The army at last moved against them following an appalling school massacre in 2014. Yet even today it shelters violent groups it finds useful. Some leaders of the Afghan Taliban reside in Quetta. The presumed instigator of a series of attacks in Mumbai in 2008, which killed 174, remains a free man.

Melding religion and state has other costs, including the harsh suppression of local identities—hence long-running insurgencies in Baloch and Pushtun areas. Religious minorities, such as the Ahmadis, are cruelly persecuted. As for the paranoia, the army is no more the state’s glorious guardian than India is the implacable foe. Of the four wars between the two countries, all of which Pakistan lost, India launched only one, in 1971—to put an end to the genocide Pakistan was unleashing in what became Bangladesh. Even if politicking before a coming general election obscures it, development interests India more than picking fights.

The paranoid doctrine helps the armed forces commandeer resources. More money goes to them than on development. Worse, it has bred a habit of geopolitical blackmail: help us financially or we might add to your perils in a very dangerous part of the world. This is at the root of Pakistan’s addiction to aid, despite its prickly nationalism. The latest iteration of this is China’s $60bn investment in roads, railways, power plants and ports, known as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The fantasy that, without other transformations, prosperity can be brought in from outside is underscored by CPEC’s transport links. Without an opening to India, they will never fulfil their potential. But the army blocks any rapprochement.


Mr Khan’s government can do much to improve things. It should increase its tax take by clamping down on evasion, give independence to the monetary authority and unify the official and black-market exchange rates. Above all, it should seek to boost competitiveness and integrate Pakistan’s economy with the world’s. All that can raise growth.

Yet the challenge is so much greater. By mid-century, Pakistan’s population will have increased by half. Only sizzling rates of economic growth can guarantee Pakistanis a decent life, and that demands profound change in how the economy works, people are taught and welfare is conceived. Failing so many, in contrast, really will be felt beyond the country’s borders.

Transformation depends on Pakistan doing away with the state’s twin props of religion and paranoia—and with them the army’s power. Mr Khan is not obviously the catalyst for radical change. But he must recognise the problem. He has made a start by standing up to demagogues baying for the death of Asia Bibi, a Christian labourer falsely accused of blasphemy.

However, wholesale reform is beyond the reach of any one individual, including the prime minister. Many politicians, businesspeople, intellectuals, journalists and even whisky-swilling generals would far rather a more secular Pakistan. They should speak out. Yes, for some there are risks, not least to their lives or liberty. But for most—especially if they act together—the elites have nothing to lose but their hypocrisy.

This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "Pakistan’s army is to blame for the poverty of the country’s 208m citizens"

Source : https://www.economist.com/leaders/2...forthepovertyofthecountrys208mcitizensleaders

One year old article...completely irrelevant and useless...they have one pain..throw religionout of Pakistan...the force that unite us together...secondly..its not army , its our corrupt political and administrative mafia that cause poverty in Pakistan....

 

[shujauddin]

One year old article...completely irrelevant and useless...they have one pain..throw religionout of Pakistan...the force that unite us together...secondly..its not army , its our corrupt political and administrative mafia that cause poverty in Pakistan....

It is not our politicians but our army. You are mistaken. Think for a while and decide. Who ruled us more Army or the civilians? the answer is 40 yrs of Army rule and weak civil governments always harassed by the military. This is the tale of our Destruction !

 

[A.jokhio]

It is not our politicians but our army. You are mistaken. Think for a while and decide. Who ruled us more Army or the civilians? the answer is 40 yrs of Army rule and weak civil governments always harassed by the military. This is the tale of our Destruction !

nothing new ....same false victim card always....Who had billions of property inside and outside Pakistan...who destroyed corruption...why always institutions prospered during army rule and declined in civilian Govt...bcz of incompetency, corruption and nepotism of corrupt previous civilian Govts.....Army has nothing to do with general economy of the county one the budget is allocated to them....our corrupt politicians has made army an escape goat of their sins...but Pakistan understands what is going on....

 

[shujauddin]

nothing new ....same false victim card always....Who had billions of property inside and outside Pakistan...who destroyed corruption...why always institutions prospered during army rule and declined in civilian Govt...bcz of incompetency, corruption and nepotism of corrupt previous civilian Govts.....Army has nothing to do with general economy of the county one the budget is allocated to them....our corrupt politicians has made army an escape goat of their sins...but Pakistan understands what is going on....

Bull crap if we give weightage to your logic then one can say " OOO army has always made civilian government of Pakistan as escape goats "

This just show how low of an IQ u have got !

 

[atensari]

ہر ملک میں فوج ہوتی ہے اپنے ملک کی نا ہو تو غیر ملک کی ہوتی ہے

 

[kakamana]

that's because the Army gets the lion share of the funding, leftovers are for us ( Pakistanies) including the poor people of larkaana etc. Whats so difficult to understand here?

so ur think head logic is that patwari, zardari, madari can make avenfield, surrey palace & at tht time army can't take their budget/funding to do corruption, but yes when it comes to use tax payers moneys for tax payer then army took all the funding.... i got which bone grabber factory u belong to!!!!

 

[A.jokhio]

Bull crap if we give weightage to your logic then one can say " OOO army has always made civilian government of Pakistan as escape goats "

This just show how low of an IQ u have got !

Your response reflects your mental status...since had no argument to rebut...to opted to attack personally...same pattern as of your masters and political criminal mafia.....

 

[asifA1]

Its ironic how international opinion about our country gets super promoted in global views BUT anything from our country opinion gets demoted as lies.