Asad umar... No matter what people may call him was a gud finance minister...
He just didnt get enough time to do anything.
Hafeez Sheikh is a time tested and a failed person for this role. He can but continue the same things asad umar started especially reforms in fbr and tax amnesty and reap the benefit from it.
Honestly speaking there isnt much that he can do other than that
That's was what he could do , and There is always another way in the financial world.
We do not have great economics advisers than our Indian counterpart like Raghuram G. Rajan & Manmohan Singh.
what we had Ishaq Darr and some MBAs like Shaukat Aziz and Asad Umar form IBA.
our economist LACK in research. They go by the BOOK. & it never fly well without economical research.
where most of Pakistanis including media , professors in institutions and economist by themselves rely on research hand out given by the World Bank.
Their ( world Bank ) prospective is to Focus on those areas where they want you to see.
Have world Bank projected Development Sector.
& yet they dont give us money for Dams , For mining, For Oil Gas and Energy
They do give us good Bailout when you Tax per capita, When you spend billions on roads , metros
and shit that is not going to give Economic boom.
What needed to be seen , being fragile to IMF conditions wont make you man of principles.
In financial world "Face Value".
Either He was too naive or he picked the easier chords on the RESET BUTTON.
we do have great minds but they are no where to be seen near gov.
HDI was developed by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq.