To the concern that he criticized IK for being too ‘Islamic’ at that forum. What does he want to achieve by doing so: portraying himself as a Liberal slave and portraying his political rival as an Islamic extremist? Well actually, he is not ridiculing a basic Islamic concept, he is ridiculing PTI’s cynical use of a Quranic verse to paint your political opponents as the embodiment of Vice. And Shireen Mazari’s response to this is identical to rightwing parties that paint all criticism of them as attacks on Islam. This is the use of religion and that’s what IK violently opposed and had similar thoughts on Maulana Fazl ur Rehman. Now, if his opponents are accusing him of this, why feel offended?
Rest as for IK that’s totally his own opinion and he also has the right to freely express his opinion as amar bil maroof wa nahi anil munkar means “enjoin what is good and approved, and forbid what is evil and disapproved”, this is completely based on the people who have to decide what is good and wrong for them
Don’t know about his performance but definitely a finance minister we needed. Finally seeing someone coming from the background of economics, instead of accounting/MBA/finance people. I like the fact he is democratic and engages with economists who don’t belong to any party. Furthermore, this guy listens to the opinion of different economists on Twitter and is humbled enough to take the opinions of twitter economists. Recently he had a discussion with everyone on ProfitPk.
Finally, Miftah who is the current “bloody finance minister” or Federal Minister for Finance, Revenue, and Economic Affairs at the Government of Pakistan, could be reached at: miftah.ismail@candyland1.com unlike PTI ministers where you educate them on something and boom, they raid your social media and murder the stats. He has the guts to listen and respond.
