Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq CPI basket includes luxurious items while SPI based on basic necessity items. About 60% of the population falls in the “transitory poor” category (Bukhari and Haq, 2019) it means a substantial population has no…
Budget & Ashrafiya
Dr. Ikramul Haq Pakistan is controlled and ruled by ashrafiya (elites)—comprising indomitable military brass, top civil bureaucracy, higher judiciary, landed upper crust and their cronies in politics, industrialist-turned politicians, religious and so-called spiritual leaders (sic), media tycoons…