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8/17/2018 Tehelka Issue 15 August 2018
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INFLATION dOes
hurT NATION
With reference to the report “Fuel on fire” by Bharat Hiteshi
(June 15)
With crude oil prices going
upwards, it has direct impact on
trade deficit and retail inflation
as well. Not to mention, the US
is also putting pressure on India
for cutting oil intake from Iran.
We also know that there
are few States which are yet to
pass the recommendations of
Seventh Pay Commission which
will further raise inflation.
So with this backdrop it is
welcome that the Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) has raised the repo
rate second time in succession,
to keep inflation under check.
BAL GOvINd
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Half-baked measures the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
add to victims’ woes (PTI), prospered in terms of
With reference to the report “Anti-Human popularity and fame. Therefore,
Trafficking Bill: Comprehensive or flawed?” his emerging victorious from all
by Pari Saikia (August 15)
five constituencies in the 2018
The magazine carries incisive election was no fluke. No leader
and very analytical reports, in Pakistan’s history has won
especially on human trafficking, five seats after contesting from
which is as rampant as drug as many of them.
peddling. Our government Despite allegations of rigging,
takes only half-baked measures Imran Khan’s party winning 115
to tackle any problem. The of the 270 seats is a tribute to the
mandarins in the Law Ministry man’s patience, determination
come up with such ill-worded and fighting qualities. The
laws that result in more of the general impression outside
misuse than use of a benign Pakistan is that he is a man of
provision of law. the military. Within his own
More and more of the so- country, Imran’s support base
called regulatory authorities is admixed — conservative,
created under any new liberal and hardliners. He seems
enactment are toothless, to have begun well before the
clawless and useless engines formal oath taking, by deciding
not to invite any SAARC leaders
of ostensible power insofar as
beneficiaries are concerned, to the ceremony because the
deep financial crisis engulfing
but they provide definite
employment to superannuated, Pakistan is everybody’s
senile and favourite bureaucrats knowledge. Imran Khan,
for fixed terms. therefore, has sent a message
The problem to be addressed that he believes in austerity.
remains where it was, prior of Ganapathi Bhat
the new enactment and the India and Pakistan should
beneficiaries continue to suffer
as before. Litigation before high wage an all-out war against
courts and supreme court is poverty, hunger, malnutrition,
compounded in this process. unemployment, child labour,
illiteracy, tuberculosis, malaria,
Yk kalia
dengue and other diseases
Imran Khan, it seems, in their own countries and
believes in austerity
not against each other. For
With reference to the report “Is Imran Khan’s win best results, both India and
a victory of Pak army?” by Syed Nooruzzaman Pakistan need to start a
(August 15)
Imran Khan was known to ‘rule’ healthy competition in human
development.
his team by the scruff of the India and Pakistan are the
neck when he commandeered
the Pakistan cricket team. He backbenchers in the class of
human development. The
was, however, off-the-record former is at 131st position and
described as authoritarian and
dictatorial by some of his own the latter at 147th in the Human
teammates. Development Index rank.
Indeed, a new welfare
Once a Pervez Musharraf
aficionado, the former cricketer diplomacy is the need of the
described how Musharraf hour. The bottom line of the
had offered him the Prime diplomacy will be to say the
Minister’s post in 2002 but he truth loud and clear that in the
had politely declined the offer. case of conflict, it is the weapon
From 2011, Imran and his party, sellers who always win at the