And yet my original post was a response to transit fees.
Sure, I do agree the spillover and returns on investment is what needs to be looked at towards any cost-analysis. But then again we're talking about Pakistan. Chugging by on loans from WB, IMF, ADB, China. $36 Billion are due this year, too bad it's Foreign reserves of $20 or whatever are built on loans too.
Perhaps with your consultation towards the ADB and World Bank, you could advise Pakistan rather than ranting on a forum....
Reading your rhetoric about Pakistan and your buddies for political reasons, it is pretty obvious that using logic, economics, or common sense to people who can't comprehend basic knowledge is useless. Pakistan is ALREADY being advised from top advisers from the US, the WB, the IMF and from the ADB. And ALL of these international institutes are actually happy with the progress Pakistan had made in just three years.
But to people like you, it is more like "what progress?"!! By closing your eyes while standing in front of a power plant either already working or getting ready to provide electricity soon to eliminate the power outages, or a metro bus stations that helps hundreds of millions poor people every month, or in front of a Road promising economic growth, or in front of a Kidney transplant center or a Hear research institute, these things don't go away. The progress is still there.
Had your nation paid taxes all 70 years, you wouldn't need loans. But every nation takes it and pays them back as their economy progresses. The US did it (still has a huge debt), the Europeans did it, the Indians are still doing it and the Chinese have a huge debt problem. But if their economies work the way they anticipate, they'll pay the loan back.
People like you and your friends with a certain political agenda, ONLY want one thing. That is, to do NOTHING and complain about everything being done. Yea, that wouldn't produced an Egg by itself, let alone, building a nation. You should always respect progress as it changes nations and countries for the better. In this case, its your country we are discussing. So you should have some appreciation for the work being done. ONLY criticizing makes you a critic, and no one really cares about these people. Take a look at IK, he's pretty much become irrelevant with whatever rhetoric he now says to the public!! People want a better Pakistan, a modern, economically growing, terrorism free Pakistan. And they see who is doing the work and who wants to stop that progress. And they won't let anyone stop it this time!