Imtiaz Gul's recent column titled 'Planning Commission or Graveyard of Fantasies' is a thought-provoking read — sharp, eloquent, but ultimately a portrait painted without perspective. It presents Pakistan's planning journey as a string of "dreams that died", blaming Vision 2025 and now Uraan Pakistan 2035 for our industrial and economic woes. It's a familiar argument — rhetorically powerful, but factually unconvincing.

Vision 2025 was not a fantasy. It was a serious, evidence-based national framework crafted through hundreds of consultations with provinces, industry, academia and civil society. It translated the aspirations of a young, restless nation into seven pillars of inclusive growth and modernisation. The first manifestation of that vision — the 11th Five-Year Plan (2013-18) — rema

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