Let us hope that the new year would be much better than the year which we have just left behind us. Let us hope that Imran Khan’s prognosis that 2020 would see improvement in Pakistan’s economy would turn out to be true.
Let us admit that the prime minister had inherited an economic mess of the first magnitude. It required an Herculean effort to set the economic house of the country in order. We are not yet out of the woods. Imran Khan needs time and the Nation is willing to provide him space and time to right the economic wrongs committed by the previous governments. He should, however, keep this in mind that every step which he or his ministers are taking is being closely and critically watched by his countrymen. They will have to deliver or else their fate won’t be much different from that of the PPP which was once a national level political party but which has now been reduced to a party of Sindh only —— thanks to the rampant corruption in its rank and due to its gross indifference to people’s problems.
Not only will the government have to bridge the ever_widening gap between the rich and the poor, it has to make the corrupt cough out the nation’s money siphoned off by them in kickbacks in mega developmental projects. Some of the members of the elite class have gobbled up hefty bank loans by getting them waived off through their political clout also. This money will have to be also recovered by the government. The present rulers shouldn’t forget that they had contested the 2018 election on one_point agenda only and that was that it would bring to book the looters of Nation’s money and recover it from them. Quite naturally when they would go to the people in the next elections the electorate would judge them on the basis of the extent of fulfillment by them of their promises.
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