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Austin ji from recent history http://www.janes.com/article/45976/pakistan-receives-a-squadron-of-surplus-jordanian-f-16s Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has received into service 'a squadron' of Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter aircraft from the Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF), a senior PAF service This news ...

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My suggestion of a le education thread, look east or look deep (bakistani Urdu media, economic crisis etc.) needs to be considered. A Gupta ji has done fine service of look east, unfortunately due to real life issues I have not been able to do the look deep part. I will cut down the pinglish usage v...

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From the link A Gupta posted Public debt of 17 trillion rupees ($163 billion) for the $232 billion economy. We know that the pakonomoney figures have been inflated, this means that the debt to GDP ratio is far worse than being what has been declared. The other main item not discussed in the article ...

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Latest update on the domestic borrowing binge of bakis The banks are short of cash and have been breathing with the help of State Bank’s weekly injection of more than Rs1 trillion. However, they accumulated maximum liquidity to park it in the government papers, preferably in PIBs. PIBs were the mos...

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paki gobarman plans to borrow more than 1.5 trillion pkr from banks in aug-oct period KARACHI: The government intends to borrow over Rs1.5 trillion between August and October, and most of the money would be borrowed through banking system. The State Bank issued the auction calendar of Pakistan Inve...

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The report of "confiscated plane parts" tells you how Quetta has become tellibunniland.

The pic of Khalid on the last page seems to be with~~a LA Fayette class frigate, is the sub in France? Is the pic new or old?~~
Edit: I mistook / as 7. Seems to be another ship.

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Pindigenous drone now known to be chindigenous Pakistan’s first indigenous armed drone is likely to have been supported, designed or supplied by China, according to defence analysts. Neil Gibson, a weapons analyst with a weekly defence-based magazine, IHS Jane’s, said “close analysis of imagery rel...

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F-7PG of fizzleya crashes The F7-PG fighter jet was on a routine training mission when its engine caught fire and crashed on a fray near Mastung Air force officials, Frontier Corps and Levies rushed to spot soon after the crash and cordoned the area, the wreckage of the plane had been confiscated .

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Sshridhar ji your knowledge needs to spread wider.

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Falijee, that is huge. A 2-3 billion dollars hole in paki dekhonomoney is a kick where it hurts the most. Please cross post in pest watch thread.

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The unkil "riot act" reading is more about ghani losing the Afghan government than anything else. Ghani has spent all his political capital on getting pakis to get the tellibunnies to stop. The bad sheriff has been unable to do that. Unkil is holding pakis responsible for this (quite right...

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X-posting from pest watch thread IMF probing the musharraf of paki government as the source of deficit numbers. ISLAMABAD: In a move carrying far-reaching implications for a $6.2 billion bailout package, the International Monetary Fund is investigating Pakistan’s claim of restricting the federal bud...

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IMF probing the musharraf of paki government as the source of deficit numbers. ISLAMABAD: In a move carrying far-reaching implications for a $6.2 billion bailout package, the International Monetary Fund is investigating Pakistan’s claim of restricting the federal budget deficit to 5.3% of the total...

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Jhujarji
The inflated GDP and hidden population of bakistan is a gimmick to make bakistan a "middle income" country (high GDP /low population = higher per capita income) to avail IBRD loans and to have higher deficit by reducing deficit to GDP ratio. If you can find time please look into it.

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Quotes from the link abhay_s has posted link There is a sense amongst many prominent policymakers in Pakistan, particularly the finance minister, that Pakistan’s currency, in particular its exchange rate, is a sign of one’s ego. Official statements such as: ‘we will never let Pakistan’s rupee deprec...

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Do the words "dehati aurat" apply here?

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Meanwhile the liquidity injection continues Govt raises Rs225bn from T-bills The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday sold Rs226 billion worth of treasury bills at an auction, much lower than the target of Rs300 billion fixed by the finance ministry for borrowing from the banks. Two days before...

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The reason for the abnormal strength of pkr is as below Rupee weakens, officials divided on repercussions Rupee declined 2.55% to Rs104.10 at close of the inter-bank exchange trade, coming down from the Rs102 a dollar where it was capped since early 2014. “On one hand, it threatened us with money la...

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I think that the statements being copied from NOKO. After all if the rockets can be painted and used, why not foreign policy.

More and more they have started to resemble their ding dong supplier.

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the link to forum guidelines is not working.

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friends please don't talk about withdrawing mfn status. that would be an insult to pvnr. we can start a case at wto, to ensure that mfn is given else baki wto membership is withdrawn. this is possible as per wto charter and hits where it hurts most. so i request all brfites to promote that line of t...

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I thought the ballast was going to be replaced with an internal jammer?

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Suraj and other econ gurus please give inputs on the "liquidity crisis" issue on PEST watch thread

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Data on the Open market operations (OMO)s conducted by SBP. Please note that the data is not complete and some links have been lost, but is a good indicator of trend. All figures in PKR billion October 12, 2012 608 February 8, 2013 600 in December 2013 241.1 Link August 9, 2014 59 in 2014 upto Augu...

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In the last page's heritage foundation's report , one small tidbit is interesting For the last quarter of 2014, at least, the Pakistani government had met all the conditions set by the IMF, meeting performance criteria that included a Net International Reserves target, Net Domestic Assets target, re...

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Thanks gagan.

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Request gagan to post link of the Urdu news on urdu media thread in page 2 of GDF. Will be a much needed start of analysis on the thread.

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X-posting here from tsp thread CSF may not be possible beyond 2015: US BAQIR SAJJAD SYED ISLAMABAD: The United States has indicated to Pakistan that further extension in the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) beyond 2015 may not be possible. The issue about the future of CSF, according to a defence source...

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I think OROP might be the nudge needed to start making the army leaner and also hopefully mechanization.

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OK.
Regarding 1 the thread is a specific namo govt coverage thread, we need a thread to discuss the regional issues etc. The thread by arshyam is an excellent focused thread, let's not dilute the focus.

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I want to know if it is OK with the mods to open the following threads 1 local/regional language/ vernacular media watch thread, where articles of interest with an English summary are posted. 2 Indian urdu media watch. I feel the need especially after the YM janaza pics. 3 international Urdu media w...

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To SSji and other gurus, The simple fact that the entire first family of lej was present at a single location with inadequate security points to the higher levels of deep state. The lone shia or group of shia theory does not hold water. This news seems to have greater importance than the amount of d...

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@Paul the place is nathiagali beach krachi. That houses their seals. Note the antique Atlantique above the base. From http://www.paknavy.gov.pk/chron_history.html 18 Nov 2006: Sea Air Land (SEAL) Group Base Camp of Navy Seals (Naval Commandoes) at NATHIAGALI was established. Pasni and ormara etc are...

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Are you guys that gullible to believe that this pandering of the khan elites has been happening against the wishes of the amriki establishment? In fact it is happening under their guidance. In which case how wise is it to increase their access to the army? Use intelligence department to cultivate th...

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Regarding the schedule of "load shedding" http://tribune.com.pk/story/902676/repercussions-power-companies-take-flak-for-eating-up-billions/ overview of the schedule of power outages being implemented in urban, rural and industrial areas. On average, power companies are resorting to load-s...

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Continuing the budget discussion The revenue is supposed to increase by ~18% from 2.9 trillion PKR to 3.4 trillion PKR, while last year there was a shortfall of ~10%. My estimate is that this year at least 0.3 trillion PKR shortfall will be there along with 0.1 trillion PKR shortfall in provincial s...

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Request to posters including arun, falijee, rcase to cross post "load shedding" related news to pest watch thread. @sum The collective punishment for such acts can now be inflicted on the hostage population belonging to families of the freedom fighters, they are being held hostage in camps...

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@a Gupta ji no idea, have not looked into it. Only thing I know is that it will be through public or foreign debt.
Both of which are huge already.

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Analysis of baki budget 2015-6 by a non-economist : The baki budget 2015-6 is supposed to be of PKR 4.4 trillion ~$ 44 billion. My guesstimate is that it will be around 4.3 trillion PKR or less. The figures below show the amount shown in the baki budget (**- my guesstimate) All figures in trillion ...

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Dishaji you mean to say Karachi will be having real baking heat this time?

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