@ Farrah

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.




Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.


The emphasis on self-reliance, especially after the deferment of aid to Pakistan by the U.S.A., has figured more significantly in the last few months.

We absolutely accept as true that Pakistan not only can continue to exist devoid of foreign aid it can also boom its economy in a short period of time.

What Pakistan need is right thinking, political will and right economic policies to come out of all the economic mess and grow as a vibrant country. Because it is a fact that if our masses change their own mind-set then this problem can be solved. We can take China as an example how Mao changed the fate of China and transformed the national economy by implementing his phrase RELY ON YOUR OWN RESOURCES in a true sense!

When Mao says that it is the people, and not the things, that are decisive, he is trying in fact to demonstrate that this concept apparently destroyed by modern technology is still a meaningful one!

There are two opposite worlds one is the rigid world of figures and economic policy made by the West and the other is the world praising and acting according to the Mao’s economic thought. According to Mao’s thought the contribution of a dollar from each Chinese would make roughly 800 million dollars and the contribution of a day’s work from each person would mean 2 million extra laborers for one year without cost to the State. When the number is not simply a juxtaposition of persons, but a compact whole, then it tends to become a Power!

Within a few years after the civil war, taking Moscow as a model but drawing also on their own three decades of revolutionary experience, China's new leaders built a strong totalitarian system and instituted a centralized, planned economy. They extended Beijing's power to the grass-roots level to an unprecedented degree, mobilized the nation's resources more effectively than any previous government, launched the most ambitious program of industrialization in the nation's history, and vigorously asserted China's claim to big-power status.

As far as Pakistan is concerned we have polices____we have several times pointed out the steps that Pakistan needs to take to become economically lively country but the problem is implementation and this is indeed the biggest dilemma we are facing!!

The strategy to attain self-reliance involves setting investment, savings, and import and export targets consistent with self-reliance over a specified period of time without jeopardizing the growth prospects, on the one hand, and to devise a strategy which makes the transition from aid-dependent growth to self-reliant growth with minimum pains, on the other.

Pakistan needs to develop economic policies which insure every Pakistani a decent job, a comfortable home, equal educational opportunities, fair business prospects and solid social, cultural, economic and political security for every Pakistani and Pakistan itself.

What government needs to take is to formulate policies which raise the level of poor classes to the middle and also bring down the level of upper classes at the middle level.

This can only happen if entire Pakistani population becomes a middle class. There should be no per se upper or lower classes in the country. Everyone, rich and poor, should have constitutional guarantees of a decent job to provide enough of food on the table, comfortable residence, latest educational facilities for their offspring and permanent financial security.

In this regard, new economic model must provide assurance to the rich classes that their life style will remain intact; however, it would be mandatory for them to invest their extra monies in business activities.

New economic mechanism would be needed to be developed to allow rich classes to maintain their life style by giving those incentives for active participation in Pakistan's infra structure to enable it to grow to the point where our working classes start gaining the benefits of the system and start moving upward to become middle class.

It is doable. However, Pakistan’s current economic managers and corrupt political forces do not have the required political will and necessary skills to move Pakistan on the road to self reliance and prosperity.