PTI news, updates and discussions part ll

[Pakistanithinktank]

Amazing analysis, could not have put it better myself. Who do you think is this retired general ? Is it Tariq Khan ?

Four Names are out. If things move forward, our patriotic journalists/anchors, Najam Sethi, Sohail Warraich and Hamid Mir, one of them will mention their names.

 

[Watandar]

Four Names are out. If things move forward, our patriotic journalists/anchors, Najam Sethi, Sohail Warraich and Hamid Mir, one of them will mention their names.

To my disappointment, Mr Talat Hussain, who I considered to be THE best journalist in Pakistan, also turned out to be a patriotic anchor.

I still respect him though, it's about survival and access for journalists in Pakistan.

 

[Goenitz]

کیا @OfficialDGISPR
انجینیر صاحب کے پاس اسکا کوئی جواب ہے؟
یہ معاملہ تو مداخلت سے آگے کا ہے
ایک گریڈ ۱۹/۲۰ کا سرکاری ملازم کیسے صوبے کے منتخب وزیراعلی کو ایسے دھمکی لگا سکتا ہے؟
کیا یہ آئین کے حلف کی خلاف ورزی نہیں؟؟؟
کیا اس بریگیڈیئر >:'

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[Pakistanithinktank]

Nice churan, but the day PTI officially announce that the Riyasat e Medina churan was just a hoax and watch PTI popularity take a nose dive to its grave. Right now people are still going through IK hangover, just give it another 1 or 2 years max. It took me 1 year to realize what a drama he was.
Btw, establishment has not been finding IK replacement for yearssss. They just got rid of him not even 4 years ago. Remember it took them nearly 10 years to find replacement for Bhutto with Sharif and then another 2 decades to find replacement for Nawaz with IK. Give it another 5 years and people will remember IK as zio failed project.

I don’t have faith in Pakistan’s current political system. To me, the parliamentary model simply doesn’t fit Pakistan’s realities. Unless the 18th Amendment is rolled back, the country can’t move forward. Provinces should be ceremonial at best with very lean government, and real governance should run through an Economic Zone structure that manages districts and cities directly, Tax collection should be given to economic Zones instead of FBR. I’ve already laid out a detailed post on how tax collection would work under the Economic Zone model. The basic idea is pretty straightforward: the federal government keeps an oversight committee, but the actual tax collection happens inside each Economic Zone through a digital filing system. Everyone files, no exceptions. That includes military personnel, who would get certain tax breaks depending on their bracket, but they still have to file like everyone else. The whole point is that nobody gets a free pass. And under EZ mode, IPP contracts can't be enforced on EZ, they have choice to build their own electricity.

The most practical and proven model, in my view, is a 34‑Economic‑Zone system, the same kind of structure that has driven success in China, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Vietnam.

I’m not an Imran Khan fanboy, but if you ran a clean, pressure‑free survey in Pakistan today, around 85% of people would still choose IK/PTI over the traditional political mafia. That’s just the public sentiment.

But even then, IK never had a magic wand. You can’t fix an economy that’s been neglected for 70 years in a single term. The establishment didn’t give him the space to stabilize the country, his government got hit with COVID, and he himself was too rigid at times. If he had focused more on building alignment with the establishment to push structural reforms instead of spending energy fighting PMLN and PPP, Pakistan’s economic trajectory could have been very different.

And let’s be realistic, even Today (August 9, 2026) if the establishment brought in the top 100 economists in the world, gave them supercomputers, AI, and unlimited analytical tools, they still couldn’t fix Pakistan’s economy in five years. Stabilization alone would take 10 to 15 years. Only after that would you start seeing real, meaningful growth.

People celebrate a 1% to 4% increase in exports, but they ignore the fact that the trade deficit keeps growing every single year and total debt has grown to 400 billion dollars. That’s not progress, that’s survival.

Ask yourself, why all of the sudden establishment is in Panic? China, Pakistan's lifeline, own 28% of Pakistan's total debt, has clearly asked establishment to fix their house and bring things in order. They have threatened to stall CPEC projects. No more free money, no more CICI Pizza franchise, no more lavish trips.

 

[Goenitz]

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کیا @OfficialDGISPR
انجینیر صاحب کے پاس اسکا کوئی جواب ہے؟
یہ معاملہ تو مداخلت سے آگے کا ہے
ایک گریڈ ۱۹/۲۰ کا سرکاری ملازم کیسے صوبے کے منتخب وزیراعلی کو ایسے دھمکی لگا سکتا ہے؟
کیا یہ آئین کے حلف کی خلاف ورزی نہیں؟؟؟
کیا اس بریگیڈیئر >:'

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