[quote name='Naresh' date='21 September 2010 - 01:00 AM' timestamp='1285010568' post='108398']
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SSridhar Ji :
Welcome on Board![/quote]
Naresh ji, thanks.
Regarding the economic tailspin, Pakistan has always been in that comatose state ever since its creation. It has never moved under its own steam. Even during Field Marshal Ayub Khan's days, which Pakistanis tirelessly refer to as the days of economic miracle when South Korea wanted to learn from it and when PIA was the darling-carrier of the whole world etc. etc., it was the munificence of the 3ý friends and some deft book-keeping that created the rubbishly hollow myth of a powerhouse in the making. Around the turn of this millennium, Pakistanis used to proclaim that TSP was economically stronger than India because Karachi Stock Exchange index was higher than the BSE ! The Pakistanis clutch at such straws in the wind to burnish their image. What wimps. Then came Shortcut Aziz who window-dressed the numbers and even tried to fool the World Bank with deliberately wrong data. Wolfensohn was so annoyed that he gave a sound thrashing to the Pakistani team which went begging to him. All the while, they buy gleaming war toys or the US gifts such toys without questioning the apparent incongruity of it all.
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SSridhar Ji :
Welcome on Board![/quote]
Naresh ji, thanks.
Regarding the economic tailspin, Pakistan has always been in that comatose state ever since its creation. It has never moved under its own steam. Even during Field Marshal Ayub Khan's days, which Pakistanis tirelessly refer to as the days of economic miracle when South Korea wanted to learn from it and when PIA was the darling-carrier of the whole world etc. etc., it was the munificence of the 3ý friends and some deft book-keeping that created the rubbishly hollow myth of a powerhouse in the making. Around the turn of this millennium, Pakistanis used to proclaim that TSP was economically stronger than India because Karachi Stock Exchange index was higher than the BSE ! The Pakistanis clutch at such straws in the wind to burnish their image. What wimps. Then came Shortcut Aziz who window-dressed the numbers and even tried to fool the World Bank with deliberately wrong data. Wolfensohn was so annoyed that he gave a sound thrashing to the Pakistani team which went begging to him. All the while, they buy gleaming war toys or the US gifts such toys without questioning the apparent incongruity of it all.