Pakistan

Chinese Model: Pakistan to follow in China’s footsteps

Symbol of immortal friendship - icon of iron brotherhood

APP May 23, 2016

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Ahsan Iqbal said that Pakistan would determine its future by following Chinese model of achieving economic development through political stability, social harmony and solidarity, right economic policies and built-in process of reforms. Speaking at an event titled “Symbol of immortal friendship - icon of iron brotherhood” hosted by the Ministry of Planning and Development in connection with the 65th anniversary of Pak-China diplomatic relations here, he said China achieved a remarkable economic development in decades by adopting these principles.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 24^th, 2016.

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COMMENTS (2)

Khalid Mahmood | 8 years ago | Reply And, can Pakistan and its leaders emulate China's Jiang Zemin, Li Peng and Zhu Rongji who led the nation in the 1990s, wherein under their administration, China's economic performance pulled an estimated 150 million peasants out of poverty? All right no, since Pakistan's political system is democratic. But if Pakistan can bring up a strong leader like Nehru, Pakistan can do land reforms, which is a dire need of the hour. Can NS and the PMLN aspire for an overwhelming mandate in 2018 and if successful can they bring about land reforms in Pakistan?

Khalid Mahmood | 8 years ago | Reply Too much hype about Pak-China relations, which really stem from the strategic needs of China. Also, Ahsan Iqbal should know better that unlike China, Pakistan does not have a history of totalitarian system. China for decades and quite until 1978, when Deng Xiaoping took power, did not even liberalize its economy and its polity is still quite restricted and undemocratic, one-party systems being inherently undemocratic. If Pakistan can sustain its democratic trajectory things are likely to become stable in the future and that would be a good augury for sustained economic development.

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