Some petty folk are more outraged by cricketers speaking up for Imran Khan than by the complete undermining of democracy and human rights in the Pakistan.
Humanity & justice transcend every forum & every field. Only deeply prejudiced minds can object to that.
Which is worse?
Losing an election and forging FORM 47 and becoming CM? or
Losing an election, getting on a reserved seat and becoming PM?
PMLN has both varieties of UNELECTED now. Take your pick.
Only a govt elected by the ppl & accountable to them will deliver on governance. It will be self correcting & self improving. A truly representative govt will also mend the regional fault lines developed by alienation & autocracy. Establishment selected puppets are a disaster.
ہارڈ سٹیٹ ہے بھائی۔۔
ووٹ کی نہ وقعت، نہ کوئی ویٹ۔۔
آواز اٹھاؤ تو آواز بند،
عدالت اپنی، فیصلے من پسند۔۔
نمونے وزیر، کرپشن عام۔۔
کارکردگی صفر، تمغے ہزار۔۔
عوام جائے بھاڑ میں، حکمران مہنگے جہاز میں۔۔
سوال کرو تو غدار ہو،
ٹاؤٹ بنو تو وفادار ہو۔
ہارڈ سٹیٹ ہے بھائی
Creating smaller provinces with the democratic process suspended is about control..not performance.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioun. This is supposedly the most developed city in Pak, administered by the fed govt and not by provincial govts responsible for 120 mn ppl in Punjab or 60 mn in Sindh. Yet even here this tragedy could not be prevented. This is criminal negligence and kills the argument that just creating smaller units guarantees better governance.
This unelected govt is national tragedy itself. Everyday millions of Pakistanis are suffering from rising poverty, dysfunctional governance, inactive ministers & hard state idiocy. Even some regime touts feel forced to distance themselves from this horrible experiment. Its over.
🚨The establishment blames PMLN for utterly failing to manage the economy or to create a face saving narrative even. PMLN on the other hand is readying to lay the blame on establishment. Insider sources close to its leadership reveal that when the time comes, PMLN leaders will allege that they were not allowed to work due to constant interference, dictation from above & relentless undermining of their authority by ‘favourites’ planted within the cabinet.
Next question that will be raised logically; Why PMLN continued to be a part of this facade? Answer prepared by PMLN; in order to save the constitution from complete subversion & martial law. They may even go on to claim they were hostages trapped in the system (they can go to any lengths when the time comes, as per the informed source).
Now they also concede that this may not sell totally but will make the waters murky enough & prevent the establishment from moving cleanly away from failure of PDM years towards any new experiment.
How this plays out in reality is yet to be seen. But one thing is glaringly obvious; the collapse is massive and there is a search for a scapegoat.
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Bringing this again on the TL as the rent seeking & extraction by the sugar mills is never ending.
Read this below and prepare to be amazed:
In April of 2020, a high powered sugar reform commission was established on the orders of Prime Minister Imran Khan. I was nominated as its head and the commission was tasked with studying the sugar industry and proposing reforms for this sector that would be completed by the end of the PTI govt’s tenure. With representations from all fed govt institutions like SBP, FBR, FIA and all provincial govt departments, the commission convened multiple sessions with representations from all industry stakeholders, farmer community and govt departments. Some measures that were deemed immediate, like the penalties for failure to start crushing by the mills and thereby blackmailing govts to allow subsides on exports were undertaken immediately. Similarly, the customs duties, taxes and prohibitions on import of sugar into the country were removed in order to align the local market with the international. My portfolio was changed in the midst of this process but nevertheless we had conducted enough study into the subject that I can share with you some of my findings that are extremely startling:
Refined sugar can be stored but Sugar Cane itself cannot be stored beyond a couple of weeks. Now this may seem like a mundane fact to the reader but in fact this is the very dynamic that Sugar Mills have used to leverage their bargaining power with the govt. Just before the crushing seasons starts (November) millers often start complaining of excess unsold stocks and tied up liquidity that needs to be exported before they can start buying sugar cane from farmers. The farmers cannot store their sugar cane once its harvested and even otherwise they need to free up the land to plant crops for their next season. This puts pressure on the govt to yield to the millers demand. The pressure works wonders if the PM himself is a sugar mill owner and even subisides are doled out to millers if the price of sugar in the international market is below that of the cost of producing sugar in Pakistan. Once the “excess” sugar is exported, the price of sugar in the local market invariably starts rising because there was no excess in the first place. Our commission found that the stock figures that the govts have been using to allow export were provided by the millers themselves who had in interest in pushing the govt to export sugar (often on the back of a hefty subsidy). So the millers rake in the profits twice! Once on export of sugar and then on the resultant price increase in the local market. Hence the PTI govt introduced legislation at the provincial level that forced millers to start crushing or pay steep fines and even risk losing their license. However that alone doesn’t fix the problem. Read on.
Next comes the regulation of entry into However the sugar milling business. Not everyone can set up a sugar mill. It’s a privilege that is doled out to the well connected political families. The competition commission also found ample evidence of collusion and price setting between the mill owners. But it doesn’t end here. Keep reading..
You see in India the sugar regime is different. Its fully regulated. The price of sugar is set by the govt as is the minimum price of sugar cane. Hence its not a very profitable let alone rent seeking business in India. In Pakistan, everything else is regulated in the sugar industry that suits the mill owner apart from the final price of sugar. That does not suit the mill owner hence its allowed to float freely. Hence it’s the choicest line of occupation for politicians. However, our commission was of the view that complete regulation or deregulation is not the way forward as the problem is one of market failure and negative externalities. What these economic terms and how they work in practice in Pakistan is written below. Continue to be amazed.. 1/2
A welcome addition to our national discourse. Good-luck.
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Atta Tarrar has basically admitted all facts on how the sugar millers were gifted a windfall profit by the unelected govt of sugar mill owners.
When sugar is exported in any given year, the projections for incoming stock from the upcoming crushing season is taken into account. During 2024 when sugar was exported, many had raised alarm that it was a policy to favour sugar millers and sugar should not be exported. It would create a shortage and prices (read profits of sugar mills) will go through the roof in the upcoming year 2025. Yet sugar was exported and as expected, sugar prices rose.
Then sugar had to be imported to stabilise prices that had crossed Rs 200/kg.
Now it is being reexported to create another windfall for sugar mills.
Mr Ismail, please do not distort facts or try to mislead the people. As a matter of record, sugar was exported in 2024 without any subsidy because there was surplus.
Last year sugar was imported timely due to lower yield of sugar cane to protect the consumer and maintain a balance in prices.
This year 100,000 tonne surplus sugar from the last year’s import is now being re-exported, once the market conditions are perfectly stable. This is without any adverse effect on the market and the grower & the consumer both remain protected. You will gain nothing by twisting facts.
Would you like to say a word or two about FBR's enforcement measures through which an additional Rs 60 billion were collected from the sugar industry and no ex exceptions were made.
Imran Khan was to be SHIFTED to a specific hospital. Instead, unelected govt played out a drama by making him VISIT a different hospital briefly. This is as clear a contempt of court as can be.
The judiciary must step in now to prevent whatever is left of its sanctity.
نون لیگ کی خوف پر مبنی سیاست نے اسے پوری قوم کے سامنے بے نقاب کر دیا ہے۔ جب یہ خود بیمار اور قید میں تھے تو ڈاکٹر عدنان جیسے شخص سے میڈیکل رپورٹس بنوا کر بیرونِ ملک جانے کا مطالبہ کرتے تھے، اور ان کے مطالبات مانے بھی جاتے تھے۔ آج قوم کے حقیقی لیڈر کی مستند میڈیکل رپورٹ پر عدالتی فیصلہ ماننے کو تیار نہیں۔
نون لیگ کی صفوں میں عمران خان کا خوف اپنی بلندیاں چھو رہا ہے۔ شاید اس 17 رکنی جماعت کو یہ احساس نہیں رہا کے یہ اپنے خلاف کتنی گہری رنجشیں پیدا کر رہیں ہیں۔
shameful how a former PM is being denied medical treatment even after a court has ordered it. Even more shameful, that leaders of both parties PMLN and PPP have spent the better part of their convictions in private hospitals, domestic and foreign.
Yet most shameful has been Law Minister announcing on national television that “authorities” have decided that SC order is outside “legal parameters”.
as hybrid defense minister loves to say:
کوئی شرم، کوئی حیا، کوئی گریس ہوتی ہے
Imran Khan is the person who the public voted for with a landslide majority. He is the true leader of Pakistan. His health is the biggest priority & issue for Pakistanis. The state, govt, regime or whatever you call this facade needs to ensure his physical well being immediately.
Most if not all of these politicians were not elected by the people. All products of forged form 47s or establishment appointees. What a sad state of democracy in Pakistan.
And what a sad selection by establishment. They handpicked the most notorious out of the political lot.
