Review of Musharraf's Era on 12th Anniversary of 1999 Coup
Musharraf's policies helped create 13 million new jobs, cut poverty in half and halved the country's total debt burden in the period from 2000 to 2007. Musharraf Government's Accomplishments: Thanks to the dynamic economy under President Musharraf's rule , Pakistan created more jobs, graduated more people from schools and colleges, built a larger middle class and lifted more people out of poverty as percentage of its population than India in the last decade. And Pakistan has done so in spite of the huge challenges posed by the war in Afghanistan and a very violent insurgency at home. The above summary is based on volumes of recently released reports and data on job creation , education , middle class size , public hygiene , poverty and hunger over the last decade that offer new surprising insights into the lives of ordinary people in two South Asian countries. It adds to my previous post on this blog titled "India and Pakistan Contrasted in 2010" . The cu...