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Interview with Dr Asiya Saif Alvi - an analyst

Profile:

Dr Asiya Saif Alvi is a dynamic young political analyst from Lahore. After finishing her school and college education, she went to Islamabad for Masters from Quaid-e-Azam University. After doing her Masters, she joined a local college in Lahore for teaching. Simultaneously, she got admission in Government College Lahore for her MPhil in the political science department. Meanwhile, she quit her job of the college and started working at the Virtual University of Pakistan. After doing her MPhil, she got enrolled in the PhD program in the University of the Punjab. While doing her PhD, she worked as a Lecturer in the UET Taxila for one year and then moved to Lahore College of Women University. After six months, she selected as an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and IR in the University of Sargodha. In the University of Sargodha, she has attended more than a dozen National and International conferences.

The University of Sargodha, where she is serving at present, sent her to China in 2017 for a teaching diploma. She has written more than a dozen research articles in Pakistan's renowned journals.

PAKISTAN and GULF ECONOMIST had an exclusive conversation with Dr Asiya Saif Alvi. Excerpts of the conversation are as follows:

It has been two years since Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) came in power. Today there exist two popular thoughts about PTI's performance as yet. One blames PTI for having been "an unmitigated disaster" (Shehbaz Sharif, former chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan) and that it "has given us the worst economy in our country's history, foreign policy failures from Kashmir to Saudi Arabia, democracy and human rights suffering, unemployment at an all-time high, transparency international has said corruption is higher than before" (Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairman of the Pakistan People's Party). The other popular opinion says that PTI has emerged as a savior in this by far corrupt and inertia-stricken system. That it has not only rooted out corruption, it has also uplifted the image of Pakistan before the entire world.

Surprisingly, both the popular opinions are correct if analyzed in depth. The two-year odyssey of PTI presents a potpourri of successes and failures, ups and downs, brilliant initiatives and blunders.

Let us analyze first, the failures, downs and blunders committed by the PTI government, so far. Fairly speaking, the PTI tenure is imbued with...