The sell-off of these enterp­rises will bury the corrup­tion commit­ted earlie­rMULTAN: It has taken the government quite a long time to signal the privatisation of PIA and the Pakistan Steel Mills. This point has not been reached overnight; it has taken decades of mismanagement and embezzlement to turn these national units into loss-generating entities. As the condition of many other state-owned entities is no different, so privatising them is not a solution. The sell-off of these enterprises will bury the corruption committed earlierAzam AhmadPublished in The Express Tribune, February 19th, 2018. Like Opinion & Editorial on Facebook, follow @ETOpEd on Twitter to receive all updates on all our daily pieces.

Source: The Express Tribune February 19, 2018 05:15 UTC