For a bunch of inexperienced incompetents, the present govt has only managed to:

- Stabilise economy

- Avert BoP crises/default due to PMLN policies

- Renegotiate obscene IPPs contracts by previous govts

- Reverse Karke $1bn penalty

- Stay $6bn penalty award on RikoDiq
...
- Controlled Covid19 crises such Pakistan is an exemplar nation as per WHO. Also kept fatalities lower than most similar populated countries & managed to minimise damage to the economy

- Implemented necessary AML measure and enacted FATF laws necessary to come out of grey list..
- post Covid19 Pak Exports have contracted much less than competing EM countries (eg India)

- Revival in FDI, which is 40% up YoY in first 2 months of current Fiscal Year

- Completely negate Modi’s much trumpeted goal of isolating Pakistan. Playing major role in Afghan peace..
- Got Madrassas to be registered and accept expansion of curriculum to include subjects beyond religious studies only - something all previous governments have failed to do

- Implemented a transparent cash transfer mechanism to the poorest section of society
If this is what inexperience & incompetence looks likes than the country needs much more of this.

It certainly does not need such competence that almost bankrupts the country & gets it placed on the FAFT grey list. Let’s not even talk of cuckoo crazy IPP contracts & corruption

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UK High Court Hon Mrs Justice Moulder’s #Broadsheet 2018 judgment leaves no doubt that at least $100mn of Sharifs assets were of unexplained origin. Had they been legally acquired & declared to tax authorities as claimed by a lawyer, no UK court would treat them as RECOVERABLE
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Even if he does so, the middle man will buy up the stock and smuggle it across. There’s no point moralising about farmers receiving subsidies and that they should sell at a lower rate than what they get elsewhere. Even if they comply other intermediaries won’t.
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