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Many development projects of the PTI government appear to benefit only the affluent
Development policy under Imran Khan is a saga of revolutionary promises and regressive outcomes. The problem is that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has not moved to direct the country’s development policy and practice to serve the ordinary.
The PTI has shown that it took over without even the minimum preparation needed to deliver what it promised. The lack of preparedness is visible in the fact of unelected experts continuing to chair taskforce meetings to go beyond the documents on Naya Pakistan Housing Programme (NPHP). The parliament has been kept away from taking control of policymaking. There was a possibility, however remote, of citizens’ participation in development policy, especially in the Punjab. It was killed by rolling back the local governments in the province in early 2019. The role of the unelected (bureaucrats, experts and contractors) in development policy has therefore grow
Whatever it takes
February 23, 2021
Recent agriculture data is concerning enough to send chills up one s spine. The food import bill is up a massive 52 percent for July 2020 to January 2021, compared to the same period last year. It presents a formidable amount of $4.64 billion in just seven months.
Spending on import of cotton has increased by a whopping 266 percent to $0.7 billion in the same period. On the other hand, export earnings of basmati rice have fallen by more than 31 percent to just $0.3 billion.
On the domestic front, the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) has risen in the range of 0.32 percent to 0.81 percent, week on week, for the last five weeks in a row to February 18, 2021. On a yearly basis, the SPI has increased by 9.92 percent. The SPI is a reasonably good measure of the change in the cost of a fixed basket of goods and services purchased by a household.
The ‘Data Protection Bill’ which will prohibit social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from using consumers’ data without prior consent and will
The Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication met under the Chairmanship of Member National Assembly (MNA) Ali Khan Jadoon, in