This is not the first time we have gone to the IMF. We had gone to it 20 times before also. It is also not the first time that we have borrowed the services of leading officials of the international financial institutions. Didn’t we utilise the services of persons like Shoaib, Shamshad Akthar, Moeen Qureshi and Sartaj Aziz in our Finance department in the past ?It is, therefore, ridiculous if somebody faults the present rulers on this score.
Nobody sees the elephant in the room. Aren’t we living beyond our means?When some foreign dignitary visits the office of Germany’s chancellor she feels honoured to serve him with a cup of coffee with her own hands. On the contrary we consider it to be infra-dig to do so and have employed waiters dressed in special livery to perform this act.
We cannot find enough money to impart education to 23 million illiterate children of the country but somehow or the other do manage to arrange enough money to construct motorways so that the filthy rich enjoy ride on them in their luxury motor cars.
How can our economy find its feet when our imports are to the tune of 60 billion dollars whereas our exports amount to only 22 billion dollars.
One remembers the former finance minister saying on the eve of his departure to Bali a couple of months back that the government has plugged deficit. If that was the position how come we knocked the door of the IMF then?
POSTSCRIPT :To win the World Cup this time round would not be an easy task . Our boys would have to work hard. Their fielding leaves much to be desired . It is said catches win watches.
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