One now understands why Mian Shahabaz Sharif is in the habit of acting before taking any advice.
LAHORE: Dr Miftah Ismail’s article of September 20, “Defending the PML-N’s performance”, written in response to my column of September 14 titled “Punjab’s economic performance” only puts the PML-N on the defensive. One can’t seriously be making the argument that Punjab is consciously following a policy of cutting provincial taxes.
As for the period of growth analysis, let the Government of Punjab produce its own data for the five years of the PML-N government first, before challenging the available estimates. After reading Dr Ismail’s article, one now understands why Mian Shahabaz Sharif is in the habit of acting before taking any advice.
Dr Pervez Tahir
Published in The Express Tribune, September 24th, 2012.
