Naqvi urges 'all political parties' to settle issue of more provinces, says current 'system' has collapsed

[Pakistanithinktank]

General losing the grip and thing getting out of control. Now they are trying to disassociate themselves from elite ruling mafia...... those came in power by the blessing of form 47 and our generals.

The truth is, Pakistan’s power players don’t have many options left and deep down, they know it. They keep doing the same things over and over again, hoping that somehow the outcome will magically change. They rotate faces, shuffle parties, and call it “reform.” It’s not reform. It’s panic dressed as strategy.

They genuinely believe that if they just change the packaging, new province, new system, new slogan, the economy will fix itself. It won’t. Even a presidential system won’t fix anything on its own. These are surface‑level adjustments to a problem that sits deep in the foundation.

Right now, the entire political and institutional elite operate with two or three policy buckets and every single bucket is full of holes. Instead of repairing the holes, they keep throwing the bucket away and picking up a new one, expecting the water to stay inside this time. It never does.

And let’s be honest about the biggest hole of all….
Provincial government.
It is the deepest cut in the system, and Pakistan has been bleeding from it for more than 70 years. Oversized provinces, bloated bureaucracies, and centralized provincial control have suffocated local governance and blocked real economic reform. This wound has never been treated only bandaged.

So here’s my challenge to the establishment and the entire political class:
Fix Pakistan’s economy without deep structural reforms.
Try it.
If you succeed, you’ll buy yourself another five years.
But you won’t.
You can’t.

And when 2030 arrives, we’ll still be sitting here having the same conversations, repeating the same frustrations, watching the same cycle play out again.

The solution isn’t complicated. It isn’t ideological. It isn’t tied to any personality.
Pakistan needs deep structural reforms and then 15 years of uninterrupted stability for those reforms to settle.
Only then will you see real growth, real productivity, real sovereignty.

And PTI supporters need to hear this too, Imran Khan doesn’t have a magic wand. No leader does. Pakistan could hire the top seven economists in the world, and even they would tell you the same thing, no one can fix Pakistan’s economy in five years. Not with the current structure. Not with the current incentives. Not with the current governance model.

Fixing the economy isn’t about speeches, slogans, or personalities.
It’s a 15 year engineering project that demands discipline, continuity, and structural redesign.

 

[HAIDER]

Biggest blunder committed. Since the 1990s (recent history) PPP, Pmln were propagated as traitors, corrupt and incompetence, governments were removed, leaders exiled and post 2021 they want the awaam to accept them as patriotic Pakistanis and saviours. Not sure who is the mastermind behind this, the great mind of Pakistan. Slowly the narrative is being lost, and its heartbreaking since Pakistan will be harmed in this process. The establishment needs to understand its not their job to come on tv and make statements like this, the representatives of the people are needed and they need to work extra hard at grassroot level to counter anti state propaganda, to counter extremism, radicalism, separatism etc. Creating more provinces will fix some issues but the budget which is eaten by current big mafias will be eaten at local level by local mafias in each constituency. In Pakistan the MNAs get the budget, after everyone takes their cut money is given to local contractors and they eat the rest of the pie so only fraction is actually used on the project. How can we fix this issue when everyone wants to fill their own pockets.

Agreed, they fail to understand , a country can t live for long without massive exports, a judicial system and respect of public mandate.

 

[PakAl]

Agreed, they fail to understand , a country can t live for long without massive exports, a judicial system and respect of public mandate.

A normal citizens doesnt know much about imports and exports, economy etc. The first thing he wants is job/career, health, education, justice. Everything in the above list except maybe health is controlled by the MNAs, they get you government jobs, they ring police, judges to help you (if they choose to do), they use the same system to make your life hell, a normal citizens cannot approach the police, judiciary for justice. Regarding economy, imports, exports etc a country like Pakistan will always struggle but yes the situation can be improved with better governance, we can import cheaper gas oil from Iran but then our brotherly master GCC nations will take our pants off, plus Yanks will do us over, I think its unfair to point fingers at Pakistan government for this, however rule of law, justice, security, accountability, education is the government's job. Just start with giving basic facilities and rights.

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

A normal citizens doesnt know much about imports and exports, economy etc. The first thing he wants is job/career, health, education, justice. Everything in the above list except maybe health is controlled by the MNAs, they get you government jobs, they ring police, judges to help you (if they choose to do), they use the same system to make your life hell, a normal citizens cannot approach the police, judiciary for justice. Regarding economy, imports, exports etc a country like Pakistan will always struggle but yes the situation can be improved with better governance, we can import cheaper gas oil from Iran but then our brotherly master GCC nations will take our pants off, plus Yanks will do us over, I think its unfair to point fingers at Pakistan government for this, however rule of law, justice, security, accountability, education is the government's job. Just start with giving basic facilities and rights.

your post shows, you are naive and too straight forward and honest person.