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For the past several years, Pakistan remains caught in the vortex of low growth and high inflation. Its widening fiscal deficit is creating an unsustainable debt. Its surging number of unemployed remains a cause of social unrest. Its deteriorating law and order has shattered the public confidence on the state institutions and the government. To sum it up, the overall mood and sentiment in the country remains depressing. Is this state of affairs going to help the incumbent political parties at the centre and provinces? If not, why aren’t they taking the decisions that will put things right?

This disconnect arises because most politicians look at the forest rather than trees to gauge their popularity. They may be enamored by the superficial lush green vegetation as exports are expanding, remittances rising and foreign reserves remain at a comfortable level. This may give them a sense of false complacency without realising that the trees that form the forest are decaying from within or are being gradually chopped off.

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10-17-2011

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