THIS week is the final run up to the general elections to elect the new federal and provincial governments in the country. As the country nears the date of polling on the 8th of February all major political parties such as the PTI, PMLN, PPP and others have announced their manifestos with pomp and show promising the moon to their voters.

All the grandiose plans and promises of all the major political parties have been met with a lot of doubt and skepticism by economic experts political analysts and finance managers. Most experts are of the opinion that the promised plans of the political parties are extremely doubtful to be fulfilled considering the extremely grave economic conditions and the absence of any plans to raise the required capital in order to deliver on the promises in the election manifestos.

Political parties are now closing their election campaigns with tall claims, hollow promises and unrealistic claims with no substance at all. The offer of free electricity, cheap housing, employment and other benefits sounds too good to be true in the face of the ground realities faced by the nation today. Political parties are just making hollow promises without telling their supporters where the money is going to come from to fulfill their promises, with the present state of the economy providing large scale relief to the electorate sounds like a pipe dream in the complete absence of a realistic........

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