Ghairat has nothing to do with it; rather government incapable of governing, enacting institutional, economic reforms.
MASSACHUSETTS: The editorial essentially boils down to continue ‘pleasing the US’ in order to keep the ‘aid flowing’. All of the economic development and infrastructure ills outlined are accurate and need to be resolved, but they are not going to be miraculously taken care of by opening Nato supply lines any more than they are going to be resolved by speeches calling for the kashkol to be broken.
The actions taken by Pakistan in the aftermath of the US attack on its soldiers, are not responsible for the current situation that the country finds itself in on the economic and energy front — these conditions have existed for a while and have exacerbated during the last few years. Ghairat has nothing to do with this; rather, it has to do with a government incapable of governing and enacting institutional and economic reforms.
The liberal media would do all of Pakistan a huge favour by stopping this ‘flogging of a dead horse of the establishment’ and focusing on the necessary institutional and economic reforms that need to be implemented by the government.
Zainul Huda
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2011.
