That is the fundamental problem with Pakistan. The "real" decision makers are GHQ and they only understand the world in the context of "giving" orders for things to happen, and then assume they can grow and manage an economy and society on that basis alone. That is why Pakistan has this "nonsense" of "targets" for tax revenue collection rather than policy formation to increase documentation of the economy and effective taxation policies.
GHQ fail to understand that the world of
investors where the "money is",
do not like engaging with Generals, they do not like engaging with puppet crooks on the "uncle" network who collaborate with GHQ to sit in the "chair", who are
not empowered to make any decisions as they will have to relay questions back to GHQ. The global world of investors want to know the person sitting across the table is an intellectual who can offer them the framework to engage with at an
civilian institutional level, and not generals. If people understood this, then the whole nonsense of SIFC would never have been attempted.
All this nonsense of "MOU's" for JF17 sales is all GHQ have got left. There is not much else in Pakistan to "market" overseas, and not much to invest in Pakistan either. India has secured new trade deals with the EU, UK, and now the USA that will move the overall economy forward for India and Pakistan has not.
What has GHQ achieved in terms of actual new trade deals ? They are the decision makers, and should be held to account for this failure of not being able to grow Pakistan's economy, for the weakening of the judicial system in Pakistan that has now scared away ALL investors from Pakistan.
Indian economic and civil service professionals can literally dance across the world as civilians representatives who are empowered to make decisions that can benefit their country, they are allowed into places that Generals are not and for that reason, they are successful. They can engage with industrialists, economic experts, politician's, economic think tanks, political systems on a global scale as the people who are interacting with them know that these professionals are part of an ecosystem that actually works and functions and therefore they can engage with them. They can embed themselves in all the places that won't allow in generals, and that works in India's favour a lot. This cannot be said of Pakistan, where all roads lead to polished military boots.
(rant over ...).
This thread should be merged with this :
https://defencepk.com/forums/threads/india-us-tariff-and-relations-news-updates.25521/page-181
@Fatman17 ?
