Category: Constitution
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Costs of General Zia’s Dictatorship in Pakistan
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] This post lists major cost elements of General Zia’s Dictatorial 11-year rule from 1977-1988. It identifies five major cost categories: costs related to ideology of Pakistan, economic costs, governance costs, foreign policy costs and costs of…
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Costs of Sham Democracratic Governments in Pakistan
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Sham Democracy vs Real Democracy: Discusses the question of whether we ever had a real democracy in Pakistan, and why our democracies have been sham. In this post we look at the costs of having a…
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Remembering East Pakistan: We look before and after, And pine for what is not
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] It is early 1970s. I am in 4th grade and in Islamabad. One day I saw my father with tears in his eyes holding a letter in his hands that he had received from Bangladesh from…
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At What Cost! Fazle Hasan of IBA and our Computation of Economic Costs
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] At What Cost! Fazle Hasan of IBA and our Computation of Economic Costs Fazle Hasan in his office 1981 Mr Fazle Hasan (1939-2006) was teaching us Financial Management in 1986 at IBA. During each class session,…