Privatisation of SOEs?

It is quite interesting to note that the PTI government too is not much different from its predecessors as far as the privatisation of white elephant government-owned entities in the country is concerned. According to media reports, Prime Minister Imran Khan has constituted a seven-member Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP) to review the privatisation process of state-owned entities (SOEs).

What is this? There had been no privatisation process at all during the entire five-year tenure PML-N government while its predecessor, the PPP government of Asif Ali Zardari, was openly averse to privatisation. Where is the PTI government’s privatisation agenda? Isn’t it sheer political expediency on the part of the PTI government?

Karachi Sabir Nasir