Pakistan is facing massive and acute social and economic challenges. Had public spending been judicious and pro-people or pro-poor, people would not have been in long queues for water at various water filter points – even in the federal capital Islamabad – and well-educated people would not have preferred to move out of the country in a brain drain.
Taxes and utility bills are skyrocketing. Lower income families are finding it even harder to meet both ends meet. Our economic conditions will continue to be in a pitiful state unless the authorities concerned take remedial steps and introduce such policies that alleviate the suffering of the poor.
Hashim Abro
Islamabad
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