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[url="http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=50914&Cat=9&dt=6/5/2011"]Capital suggestion : Dr Farrukh Saleem[/url]



Any ‘fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well’. The truth is that America isn’t Pakistan’s friend – never has been, never will be. The truth is that Obama, Clinton, Kerry and Mullen are all floating around the world to advance just one thing – America’s national interest, and nothing else.



The truth is that our budget drafters have allocated an amount of Rs5.5 million per day, every day of the year for foreign junkets of our president and the prime minister. [color="#FF0000"]At the same time, Budget 2011-2012 has projected a budgetary deficit of Rs950 billion.[/color] To be sure, Ambassador Cameron Munter is not behind the biggest budgetary deficit ever presented in the history of this country.



The truth also is that Pakistanis need at least 18,000 megawatts of electricity but we are only generating 12,000 megawatts. Loadshedding in urban areas routinely lasts for 8 to 10 hours a day, while rural areas get no more than 8 to 10 hours of electricity a day. To be sure, neither Clinton nor Mullen has ever been an adviser at the Ministry of Water and Power. The truth has it that Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was born in Sanghar and elected from his constituency of Gujar Khan.



According to a survey conducted by Gallup Pakistan, 100 million Pakistanis consider that public enemy number one is inflation. Prices in Pakistan are skyrocketing because [color="#FF0000"]the PPP-led government is printing Rs1 trillion a year, every year.[/color] The truth is that in the 2008 general election a total of 10,606,486 voters voted for the PPP. To be sure, neither Obama nor Kerry was among them.



The truth is that 106 million Pakistanis are under the age of 30 and the rate of youth unemployment is approaching 30 percent. Budget 2011-2012 was announced two days ago and had next to nothing in terms of generating employment for these unemployed Pakistanis. To be sure, neither Clinton nor Mullen has been advising our budget drafters.



Can Imran Khan claim that America is behind our loadshedding? Hamid Gul is convinced that America was behind PNS Mehran but was it Hillary’s idea to jack up the price of onions by 300 percent? Mirza Aslam Baig can prove that the Osama incident was a hoax but can he prove that Obama was behind the price of sugar going from Rs33 a kilogramme to Rs80 a kilogramme – a 150 percent jump? Those really are the issues of the common man. The wise say, “It is always the best policy to speak the truth – unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”



America is arrogant and egocentric. American foreign policy is self-serving and self-centred. But, is there any doubt that our problem of ‘public money, private greed’ is our own? The sugar barons, the cement cartel and the banking cartel are also our own creation – I am yet to hear a jointly-launched conspiracy by the Embassy of the United States in Islamabad and the Competition Commission of Pakistan.



The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. Email : farrukh15@hotmail.com



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