KARACHI: Shabbar Zaidi, the former chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), has said that the country has gone bankrupt and the government’s claims are all wrong that the country is progressing and achieving success.
He shared his thoughts at a recent speech he gave at a private university in Karachi. But Zaidi later took to Twitter to say that “only three minutes of his speech have been cherry-picked” and circulated. He said he spoke about the solution as well.
Using the accounting term “going concern” (which assumes that an entity has no plans to liquidate or reduce the size of its operations in any significant way, as per ACCA Thinkhead) as a reference point for the audience, Zaidi said that he believes the country, at the moment, has gone bankrupt.
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Zaidi added that it is better to accept that a country’s economy has gone bankrupt and find solutions rather than deceive people by claiming that it is doing well. It may be recalled that Zaidi served as the FBR chairman in the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan from May 10, 2019 to April 8, 2020.
