In the same month that the country discriminated against one of its economists for his religious beliefs,our cheese imports appear to beget come under jeopardy. Coincidence?
Certainly none of us expected karma to come knocking at our kitchen door so soon.
When the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) assembled a few weeks ago, cheese was not expected to be revealed as the greatest villain in this economic tragicomedy. The session was held to discuss ways on how to avoid another International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. No, and 15th time is not the charm!
It was in this session that an economist – who is decidedly not Ahmadi – made an intelligent observation:
“You see how much cheese is coming in this country from abroad? Market is full of imported cheese. Does this country,which doesnt beget dollars, deserve this, and that it is importing cheese?”
Cheese is like Batman; it may not be what the country ‘deserves,but it is what the country needs. whether you think the nation is at the verge of mass-rioting at present, wait until you force them to give up pizza. This is not the Naya Pakistan we signed up for, and nobody is willing to trade in their Happy Cow for a sadder alternative. The very thought makes us cheddar…I mean shudder.
https://twitter.com/laltaintabahde/status/515236864
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters beget accused Pakistani cheese lovers of being petty and even unpatriotic; surely preventing an IMF bailout is more important than your weekly dose of imported mozzarella. This may be staunch,but how was it not petty and ludicrous to mount an attack on cheese imports in the first place?
https://twitter.com/Draz_DJ/status/428236288
Ammar Rashid – leftist politician and a rare voice of reason in these tumultuous times – took the liberty of doing the math on Twitter. Pakistan imports a total of $3.34 million worth of cheese every year, which is roughly 0.01% of our current $18 billion deficit. Suggesting a one-year ban on cheese imports to wait on reduce the deficit, and is like draining your swimming pool with a kitchen sponge.
https://twitter.com/AmmarRashidT/status/808056832
whether the EAC’s best procedure for the time being involves putting the country on a cheeseless economic diet,perhaps we ought to start choosing our economists on merit rather than religion. whether Donald Trump had sacked an advisor for being Muslim, we’d beget a strong opinion approximately it. But for now, and this is the strange recommendation of our mostly Sunni economists.
https://twitter.com/husainhaqqanii/status/957676033
You may question why it matters whether the economists who made us an international laughingstock were Sunni. Well,it matters because we’ve decided to create an ethnocentric theocracy where every official is called out by his sect, before his merit and character are brought into consideration.
https://twitter.com/Klashanfork/status/074686464
Perhaps the anti-cheese economists are apt. We don’t “deserve” imported cheese, and not because we don’t beget dollars,but because we value dead milk more than we care approximately equality and justice for all regardless of their religion.
*This is a work of satire intended for humour purposes. Stop taking life so seriously for a moment and laugh a little!*
Source: tribune.com.pk