Pakistan, April 25 -- After weeks of intense speculation over about his possible exit, Asad Umar resigned as the Federal Minister for Finance. Subsequently he refused the offer of joining the Cabinet and becoming the Energy Minister. For the record, Asad deserves kudos for husbanding Pakistan's economy from what was essentially a no-hope economic situation. The irony of it was that Asad Umar faced unrelenting attacks by the Opposition, more particularly the PML (N), for the horrific situation that they were responsible for. Vocally critical about almost every policy or proposal that Umar formulated, a motivated section of the media, most of them armchair economic experts, supported the Opposition in successfully obscuring the fact that it w...