Foreign direct investment (FDI) fell by 31 per cent during the first 10 months of the current financial year, reflecting Pakistan’s continuing struggle to attract foreign investors.
Every time a PMLN supporter says “PTI destroyed the economy,” show them this: PTI governed 3.5 years and added Rs18 trillion to debt, Rs14.5 billion/day. The PDM government, led by the same Sharif dynasty convicted in the Panama Papers case and disqualified for life by Pakistan’s own Supreme Court, added Rs18.5 trillion in just 15 months, Rs41 billion/day. Nearly 3x faster, in less than half the time. And here’s what they don’t tell you: PTI borrowed ~Rs14.6 trillion externally but repaid Rs10.4 trillion of it. PDM borrowed at record speed and has no comparable repayment record, they were barely covering interest payments.
The human cost? Under PTI, poverty held at 21–24%. Under PDM it exploded to 40.5%. 60 million Pakistanis below the poverty line. Real wages fell 20% while inflation outpaced income by 50%. Unemployment hit a 21-year high. Average household income dropped Rs4,000/month in real terms.
Sources:
For the debt numbers (Rs14.5B/day PTI vs Rs41B/day PDM) via Express Tribune:
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2431050/debt-soars-rs185tr-during-pdm-govt
For poverty (40.5% under PDM):
https://www.dawn.com/news/1866389
This is the lowest score in our history and is worse than the score we had during Musharraf's marital law. Pakistan has been classified under a authoritarian regime since 2023.
This puts us just slightly worse than the likes of Egypt and slightly better than the likes of China.
I understand that this index has received a lot of criticism but I think we can all acknowledge, anecdotally, the depreciating condition of the Pakistani democracy.
Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Economist\_Democracy\_Index
20 March 2022,
ARY news reported.
Karachi: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz senior leader and former Sindh governor, Muhammad Zubair has said that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan after the success of no-confidence motion against Prime minister Imran Khan.
And they mock Imran Khan while their own leader ran away from the country.
The government knows that protests can happen due to unfair electricity prices and high cost of petrol, so they've made a plan to spread fear and terror in advance. We should never forget that it was Pakistan Army who brought these corrupt criminals despite Pakistani nation voting against them. Of course, they brought them because they wanted to use them as a shadow while they commit their own national level robberies.
Just Before Eid day they may lower the prices little bit & call it big relief. Billions of PKR of ads will be guven to media. "Showbaz Sharif"
عمران خان دور کا صحت کارڈ بھی تو یہی تھا، انشورنس کمپنی back پر تھی، کارڈ پاس ہوتا تھا تو جہاں سے مرضی علاج کراؤ۔ نیا کیا کرنے جا رہے ہیں؟ یہی کام عثمان بزدار کر چکے ہیں
Lol IMF having to step in to make sure the gov doesn’t just sell all profitable state assets off in shady backdoor deals. And the continuous reluctance by this military puppet govt shows they just wanted to get a slice of those SOEs for a huge discount.
This comes in just a day after 3 IHC judges were transferred to other High Courts.
The transferred judges were among those who had written a letter to the SJC about military interference in judicial affairs and had boycotted LHCs Injustice Dogars elevation to IHC chief justice.
And now that he has gotten rid of some of his critics in the IHC, Cheap Justice Dogar can continue making a mockery of the court and justice.
Out of power > Make deals with estab > get power > loot country > estab help you run to london again and again Just to come back and repeat same cycle again. Is this the final and forever fate of Pakistan? Two families looting Pakistan since decades.