Pakistan in Media

The federal and provincial governments have finally decided to inform the Supreme Court of the “reality” factors that have delayed the implementation of a Lahore High Court order regarding the sale of sugar at Rs 40 per kg in the country. The prime minister having failed to tactfully by-pass the High Court order, the only course left to avoid contempt of court was to engage the Supreme Court in some kind of dialogue.

We don’t know what the four governments have resolved but the argument will have to realistically describe the much curtailed capacity of the state to control a free-market situation complicated by profiteering at all levels. In India, such a situation was resolved by arranging a meeting between all the chief ministers and all the judges of the higher judiciary. The chief ministers’ bottom-line plea was: run the provinces yourself!
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