RE: is Pakistan Socialist?

[Charudatt <charu@iced.com>]

Sanjeev Sabhlok[SMTP:sabhlok@almaak.usc.edu] wrote:
>
>Now, more to the point: I think we can argue about it ad-nauseum, but
the
>fact remains that each of these three South Asian models have adopted
the
>Fabian Socialiast model, through their actions, which are amazingly
>similar: nationalization, government subsidies, huge bureaucracies
handed
>down from British times but not improved, etc. There are also major
>commonalities in feudalism.

I believe this is factually incorrect.

Someone with better information on Pakistan, please correct me if I'm
wrong, but the last time I checked, Pakistan was an oligopoly- all
business is controlled by some forty(?) families. The country never went
through the cycle of nationalization and creation state owned and
subsidized industries.

-Charu