Pakistan is a semi-presidential republic, meaning it has both a President with execuitive powers, and a Prime Minister who is the head of government.
In Pakistan, the president is elected via electoral college, and the Prime Minister via universal adult sufferage. The electoral college is composed of people in the National Assembly, the Senate, and the four Provincial assembiles as well as representatives from areas like FATA, AJK etc. In France, which too is a semi-presidential republic, the President is elected by popular vote, and then he chooses the Prime Minister.
Point is that different countries have different systems of elections and Musharraf is currently a legal civilian ruler according to Pakistani law.
You are trying to justify a coup..
His detractors will always be against him, and his supporters support him.
From an outside point of view Musharraf did not use correct methods without bringing into play the role of earlier heads..
Let us end this point of debate here.
The UAE is not a singular entity like Pakistan. It is composed of 7 emirates, Dubai being one of them. So when you speak of Dubai's economy, you're only talking about the economy of that tiny emirate, not of the entire UAE.
Dubai;s economy has increased by more than 50% though overall UAE's economy has grown by 35% but that is beside the point it was a top-of the mind example other examples are mentioned in the list.
And gasoline and natural gas are infact still the most important products of all of UAE, so you were wrong on that count too.
Not for Dubai though but for UAE yes..
Simply displaying ONE macroeconomic indicator does not tell anything. The country's size; both population and area have to be taken into account. One must see how big the economy already is because it becomes impossible to achieve more than 2-3% growth rate once the economy is at an advanced stage.
I shall give you an illustration US economy is around 10-12 trillion dollars and 3% increase here is equivalent to 3 new Pakistan economically created yearly.
Countries like Equatorial Guinea are not achieving anything of note, their economy is only growing that fast because NOTHING WAS THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. It's an illusion, their rate of growth will slow down soon.
Agreed but look at China it is achieving excellent growth look at India, Ireland, Russia, Brazil, Azerbejain etc. etc.
Also, there are 165 countries above the United States in terms of GDP growth rate. Your point?
as you beautifully explained it is a developed economy.
Developing nations clock higher growth rate.. Pakistan is a developing nation.
Pakistans economy has grown at 7.5% since the last several years (open the document in the first post). And again, what's your point? inflation is a normal reaction to a growing middle class in a developing country.
When Inflation is higher than growth rate then what would you say?
What I'm saying is that 7% growth is pretty impressive for an economy the size of Pakistan. We can eliminate poverty in it's entirety if this rate continues to 2020-2025.
See don't take me wrongly 7% growth is stupendous, what Musharraf has done is great too but why are you satisfied??
And once again, what do you expect Musharraf to do? Build Rome in a day? I have already told you that it's pointless to mention puny countries with almost non-existent economies that are clocking those double digit growth rates. Look at where the US, Germany, UK and France are. It shows you that the more developed a country's economy gets, the lower it's growth rate falls.
What you are not realizing is that Musharraf right now yields enormous power, he can initiate infrastructure projects at the snap of a finger this is impossible in a democracy, look at India all govt projects are delayed because of reasons peculiar to democracy this can be side stepped by Musharraf.
Honestly what Pakistan needs is 2027 vision.. and tough measures should have been taken and with ushering of democray these will be side stepped..
Musharraf could have taken tough decision like the Chinese to initiate reforms which would yield results later and in a more sustained and accelerated manner.
all the govts will be shortsighted do you think any govt with a fragile majority initiate a 20 yr vision? they will try to build things achievable during their tenure to secure more votes..
You need a leader like in Musharraf's position to initiate reforms with far reaching consequences which are impossible usually in a democracy.
I would rather 80 paise of my every single tax rupee be spent on what it's meant for under a non-democratic goverment instead of 7-8 paise under a democratic government.
I wouldn't but then again it doesn't take long for people to become demons from angels eg Sadan Hussein, Hitler etc. in extreme cases but it is possible.
Democratic govt implies that there is accountability.. non-democratic means no accountability..
You conveniently forget that the corrupt Nawaz Sharif tried to sumarily fire him, and did not hesitate to put innocent lives in danger in order to kill Musharraf. It was the army senior officers, and not Musharraf himself, who actually took part in the coup. It was Nawaz Sharifs bizarre actions that led to Musharraf coming to power, so if anything you should blame your favorite poster boy of democracy for all the "illegal" things that happened since then.
I actually admire Bhutto but I am not a Pakistani citizen to pass judgements.
Musharraf seized power fine, he held it for close to a decade fine, he is giving it up fine, but has he laid a solid foundation? has he done anything that will help Pakistan 20-30 years from now?? Could he have done more?
I notice you completely ignore all the illegal activities (corruption etc) that took place under Pakistan's democratic governments.
No comparable country has achieved the same growth rate as Pakistan since 2001.
before 2001 nor India nor most nations were clocking this high a growth rate..
and since 2001 nations have generally accelerated...
and what do you mean by comparable country why is there a need for comparision with similar compare with greater.. If Japan had a mentality compare is with any comparable sized country they would have been behind..
Competiton should be with the best.
He is letting the people decide. Vote on Jan 8
Yes, what he did with the judges was wrong. But in the long run, Mushys good will outweigh his bad.
I hope so his goods outweight the bad.. sorry to see such a great nation in turmoil.. Hope all turns out well...
Malang
