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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Pakistan had a democratically elected government. Now it's a military dictatorship. Where's the progress? By free market reforms, are you talking about how the market found a way for Pakistani nuclear technology to end up in the hands of North Korea?
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Seventy percent of Pakistan is illiterate so they have to put symbols or logos on the voting ballots. As you can imagine the potential for fraud there is huge. Like India, Pakistan for many years rejected the free market. They saw capitalsim as a British Imperialistic tool to control them. The result is one of the poorest countrys in the world. Unlike India, they have also not been very good at holding onto democracy.
Mushariff has instituted many economic reforms and they have been working. The economy is growing. Incomes are rising across the board. - so yes - i would say that is progress.
