Ali Malik's blog

Many of the people around have put forth the idea of returning to the system of hey-days of khilafat as cure to all our ills. For them, reverting back to that era and its ideals is the silver bullet we require for werewolf of our state of insignificance and misery. One can hardly blame the ordinary Muslims for it. For over the centuries, they have been bombarded with a constant and continuous propaganda of "Hail Khilafat", just when at the core of it lie the vested interests of religious clergy and the subsequent monarchies that labeled themselves as Khilafats. And even to this modern age, religious clergy sees it as the most potent tool in its bid to absolute power in the proposed theocratic state they envision. Even today organizations like Islami Tehrik, Hizb-ul-tehrir, Taliban and AlQaeeda declare establishment of a Khilafat as there prime objective. The intensity of the propaganda has been such that in the Sunni World, Khilafat has become as holy as Oneness of Allah or P...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29 just look at this and you will realize that it's easier than many of us thought... and yet at the same time, it makes us realize that how important it is to have priority based policy making, fiscal discipline, stronger corporate law infrastructure, corporate regulation and reducing the size and influence of government leading to liberalization of economy.... 26th to top 10, is 500% increase... something that is achievable in 2 decades of sound fiscal planning and economic and political stability.... the experience of china tells us that it's not about per capita as it is about the overall size of economy.. for money attracts money or as the Newton once said about gravity, mass attracts mass.... opportunity await us... it's for us to grab it.... ensuring an economic growth balanced with social responsibility....