Böcker av Shahida Wizarat

Different articles in the book reveal that Pakistan's policies are made abroad, governments are made abroad and strategic routes and natural resources are given free or at nominal rates. Nothing seems to have changed since 1947 when Pakistan gained 'independence'. And after giving our resources and routes for free, we go to the IMF for budgetary support. Excessive borrowing from the IMF started in the late 1980s causing decline in the growth of output, investment and employment, creating imbalances in income distribution, increasing poverty, with very adverse impact on the social and political fabric of the country. The book brings to the fore how state power is being used to demolish the state to take us to the colonial world order that existed prior to 1945. "Alternative to the IMF" offers out of the box solutions to agriculture, industry, balance of payments, public finance, natural resources, political economy, education, governance, privatization and liberalization problems afflicting the state of Pakistan. The strategies formulated for Pakistan are applicable to other countries in Asia, Africa, LatinAmerica, etc. that are facing similar problems due to borrowings from the IMF. I have also looked at the problems of Jammu and Kashmir and Afghanistan that have affected our economy, politics and society very severely and offered solutions.

"Fighting Dependence" shows how the formulation of economic policies by the World Bank (WB) and the IMF, foreign policy by the State Department and military policies by the Pentagon are making a mockery of Pakistan''s sovereignty. And execution of these policies by "selectees" drawn from a network extending from the bureaucracy,military,politicians, technocrats, to the media have brought Pakistan to its present predicament. The "selectees" are heading institutions which have now become dysfunctional, as they continue to be abused in the pursuit of American interests or personal gains of the "selectees". Moreover, the imposition of an alien war which is killing Pakistani''s poor through cruel bombings, financed by people who do not even have the money to buy their food, being waged behind the smokescreen of the "war against terror", whose main objective is to take us to the colonial world order as it existed prior to 1945. In order to meet this existentialist threat Pakistan needs to reverse the path dependent approach and proclaim sovereignty. The book is recommended to the warriors fighting dependence, oppression and exploitation.