Constantly increasing salaries will kill the economy...

Bring down inflation

Help people buy more with the same money!
It hurts when you hear politicians for petty gains talk of increasing salaries and anchors and guests gloating about it. Have they any idea how dangerous inflation is?

Concerned countries and governments dread inflation because it only destroys the economy. What is the point of increasing the salaries of people that only adds to the cost of production resulting in making our products uncompetitive in the world market. Besides, any amount of increase is not going to help as the prices will keep going up offsetting any increase - vicious circle. Better thing is to take deflationary measures. Bring prices down.

I wish our authorities had a moratorium on increase in wages and took steps to bring down costs which any day is better than increasing salaries only contributing to inflation. I was shocked to see salaries being used as a tool to get political mileage. Shahbaz Sharif did in Punjab and The Prime Minister did it for the whole country. This is deadly dangerous. What about the bulk of the employees who are not in the government. While increase in salaries may help some only temporarily, deflationary measures will help all for a long long time.

Remember how Margaret Thatcher the iron lady, resisted a coal miners strike for months on end only to ensure that an inflationary trend does not set in. And here we are unabashedly promoting inflation. Sorry. Do something positive. I urge the media also to take it up on a daily basis just as they took up a cause to push Musharraf out of power. Persistent media paid off.

Bringing down prices helps exports and makes the economy healthy...

If you live by the sword you die by the sword...

Revenge politics has got you nowhere Mian Saheb... Stop living in the past... understand the new ground realities and don't be fooled any more...
It is high time you realised Mian Saheb that Allah does not like revenge. He says all the time "forgive as I forgive you". My father had issued an Eid Card once and sent to every body saying - Make forgiveness your creed.

The only constant in this world is change. So times change things change. One should realise that. Grasp the new realities. You were so transfixed on what Musharraf did to you in October 1999 that you could not grow beyond it and comprehend the new realities and opportunities to take advantage. Instead of doing something good for the country which you are fully capable of, you were stuck on revenge with Musharraf.

The result was Mr. Zardari took full advantage of you. He literally fooled you as is the universal perception. He got every thing and you got nothing. And now he has got your government dismissed. That was the height. Even now Mian Saheb, millions love you, try to understand the situation. The president is way too smart for you. I strongly urge you to play real politics, not revenge politics if not it will hurt you and your party more and more.

First forget and forgive then see The Pakistan situation in new light. There is a lot you can do. A lot. You must have new agendas. This judiciary thing is fine. Judiciary must be free and without judicial activism but you must have other important issues too Mian Saheb. Like what? Read on this blog I have written earlier, something on economy and let me briefly repeat here.

You have public appeal so do things for the public. One thing you must do is release the people of Pakistan from the yolk of the landlords and sardars. One way to do is to bring land ceiling. You see land is limited and people unlimited. Let there be more ownership of land. More people should be owning land than few. That gives self employment opportunity to more people. More people become affluent than few. With their new found wealth they want things. Don't import. Make them locally and give them. You set in an industrial revolution.

I propose no more than 60 acres per person including no more than 15 acres of irrigated land if under a canal. Under a dam more people should have access to water than few after all it is the nations wealth that is being used to build a dam. So why should only a few benefit from a mega project? Maximum number of people must avail of the facility that will also ensure better productivity. Mian Saheb campaign for it. You will sweep the polls from Kashmir to Sindh.

Mian Saheb campaign for making the economy a manufacturing one unlike the trading one the banker Shaukat Aziz made it. Make policies such that people are encouraged to manufacture and market it nationally and internationally. Give free land outside towns with roads, electricity and water and some export incentives then see how the economy booms. We may have to bring labour from abroad like in Saudi Arabia (but without their terrible laws of course).

Campaign for conservation of foreign exchange and import substitution. Give a few years of this dose, Pakistan will be the most prosperous country in the world. Then don't be selfish help others in need. Muslims all over the world need our leadership. You can then provide it and help them in so many different ways.