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Lisa wrote:I am sorry but I am naïve. What the issue with default?
Default would be best for them (and hence not something that we want either) and their benefactors. The Paki army is against default because it means their gravy train drying up due to the inability to get easy loans and the financial reform measures that would be required after a default.
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Bartji, the real gravy train for Pakistan is the millions of the unwashed working in the Gulf Area, and the money that they send home. Once these countries invest in J&K, their projects there will become untouchable. Any Jehardi attack on them will see the exodus of Paki workers back to their homes.
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If they default PKR will hit 500 , the way things are going they may get a loan from China with Gwadar as a collateral/sold . The PDM govt can then declare victory over IMF and TSPA can once again conquer Isloo

Aam Abduls will realize what has happened in abt 6 months and the whole tamasha repeats
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Been listening this video as a podcast on commute to and from work, quite a nice, unbiased perspective from the gentleman who just returned from an extensive India trip:

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https://www.outlookindia.com/internatio ... ews-271025
"India always wants bet­­ter relations with Pak­istan because we cannot change our geography,” he said.
He said transit trade was extr­emely important as Cen­­tral Asia was a big market and India needed ac­­cess to it. Similarly, Central Asia also needed access to India.
Who is this RAW agent (or Bafoon) who is making Pakis have some wet dreams that India will rent the Pakis to have access to Central Asia? :rotfl:
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williams wrote:https://www.outlookindia.com/internatio ... ews-271025
"India always wants bet­­ter relations with Pak­istan because we cannot change our geography,” he said.
He said transit trade was extr­emely important as Cen­­tral Asia was a big market and India needed ac­­cess to it. Similarly, Central Asia also needed access to India.
Who is this RAW agent (or Bafoon) who is making Pakis have some wet dreams that India will rent the Pakis to have access to Central Asia? :rotfl:
why is this joker sounding so very needy and clingy and desperate...

this "strategic location" nonsense has been the paki USP since before independence and he why is he so desperate to play to their strengths, on their pitch, with their bat and ball, and with their referee.

The perceived threat from imperial russia has long since evaporated, burning away the last vestiges of the delusional paki fantasy of their "strategic location" nonsense and yet we push the same fantasy on their behalf.

Transit is a business deal. nothing more, nothing less.

It is neither romantic, nor is it poetic or even subject to any hidden agenda, save the business agenda and the negotiated transit fees is specifically in return for safe, secure, and guaranteed transit

forget the nonsense about borders cannot be barriers, neighbors cannot be changed, and geography is permanent and such woke BS.

If this all that the clown from the Indian embassy had to say, he should have simply kept mum and instead done a lungi dance and at the lahore chamber of commerce and industry (LCCI) function.
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Doublespeak while drinking chai and smiling at the same time. Keep them off toes and second guessing which translates into inaction on the part of Pakis.
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Manish_P wrote:
chetak wrote:...

while dar and the pakis are left sucking dic...err thumb onlee
Chetak ji, the paki anal-cysts based in bartannia are working out the direct proportion maths on how much the IMF owes pakistan.. whether it is 30 billion or 300 billion

What does your math say?

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Wow, even a nation at war with half its population displaced has better chances than pukistan!

Ukraine to clinch first IMF loan to nation at war

"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it has reached an agreement with Ukraine on funding worth $15.6bn (£12.8bn).

The organisation's first loan to a country at war is expected to be approved in the coming weeks.

It would also be one of the largest financing packages Ukraine has received since Russia's invasion.

The IMF recently changed a rule to allow loans to countries facing "exceptionally high uncertainty"."

P.S. Actual link is haram.
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williams wrote:https://www.outlookindia.com/internatio ... ews-271025
"India always wants bet­­ter relations with Pak­istan because we cannot change our geography,” he said.
He said transit trade was extr­emely important as Cen­­tral Asia was a big market and India needed ac­­cess to it. Similarly, Central Asia also needed access to India.
Who is this RAW agent (or Bafoon) who is making Pakis have some wet dreams that India will rent the Pakis to have access to Central Asia? :rotfl:
The officer in question is quite competent and an old hand on Pakistan. Was in the Pakistan desk in ministry of foreign affairs. Is from a new batch with no nostalgia of "my naani's house was in lahore".

Diplomats are supposed to make WKK statements, which he is doing. I am sure he will work for peace in South Asia, while his colleagues do what needs to be done.
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Admin Note: Folks, do not use this forum as a device to call names at an Indian official handling a sensitive post in a foul country. IFS usually does not sway from script that is prescribed from Delhi, so protest the script being written but not the reader of the script.

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hnair wrote:Admin Note: Folks, do not use this forum as a device to call names at an Indian official handling a sensitive post in a foul country. IFS usually does not sway from script that is prescribed from Delhi, so protest the script being written but not the reader of the script.

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noted saar. apologies onlee
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A sensational statement by Pakistan Finance Minister in the Pak Senate, followed by press release and tweet from the PM, Shahbaz Sharif has led to the speculation that IMF is seeking to seize Pakistan's nuclear weapons and long range missiles.

Sree Iyer joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss this and other Pakistan woes.

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Dar did downhill Ski-ing on his statement.

Basically IMF is held up because of two reasons

1) Current dispensation wants leeway in their economic policies to dole out goodies. Look up the latest 100rs subsidy for petrol for motorcycles, but not for cars (what will happen if I take my motor cycle, fill it up, bring it back home and fill my car? What will happen if I say I will split 75-25 the subsidy at the pump to the pump attendant so he can fill up my 4 wheeled "motorcycle" with a steering wheel). The reason for that is Kaptaan is genuinely popular and the awaam hate austerity. IMF on the other hand wants permanent policies to avoid balance of payment crisis

2) Dar went and told IMF that "friendly countries" are standing in queue to do loan rollovers and give fresh loans. IMF wanted letters from them. Turns out "friendly countries" did not say any of it.

Dar cannot go out and admit publicly that he is unwilling or incompetent. So to a question "Why is IMF loan taking so much time" he thundered "Nobody can take Pakistan's missiles and nukes!!!!!!"

He didnt say IMF wanted Pakistan to give up nukes.

IMF denied saying it. Dar downhill Ski-ied.
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Anujan wrote:Dar did downhill Ski-ing on his statement.

Basically IMF is held up because of two reasons

1) Current dispensation wants leeway in their economic policies to dole out goodies. Look up the latest 100rs subsidy for petrol for motorcycles, but not for cars (what will happen if I take my motor cycle, fill it up, bring it back home and fill my car? What will happen if I say I will split 75-25 the subsidy at the pump to the pump attendant so he can fill up my 4 wheeled "motorcycle" with a steering wheel). The reason for that is Kaptaan is genuinely popular and the awaam hate austerity. IMF on the other hand wants permanent policies to avoid balance of payment crisis

2) Dar went and told IMF that "friendly countries" are standing in queue to do loan rollovers and give fresh loans. IMF wanted letters from them. Turns out "friendly countries" did not say any of it.

Dar cannot go out and admit publicly that he is unwilling or incompetent. So to a question "Why is IMF loan taking so much time" he thundered "Nobody can take Pakistan's missiles and nukes!!!!!!"

He didnt say IMF wanted Pakistan to give up nukes.

IMF denied saying it. Dar downhill Ski-ied.
the ameriki controlled IMF has become more practical and wise. They are "acting with consensus" and the consensus view is that the cheenis who created this set of crises for the pakis should be forced to help out. The goras are not going to budge.

IMF bailing out the pakis is like subsidizing the cheeni adventures in the paki CPEC, hence all the goras are waiting for the cheenis to loosen their purse strings first. In any case, the goras will give as little as they can possibly get away with, leaving the cheenis to carry the can which the cheenis will not do and sooner or later, the pakis are headed for the septic tank

A paki default will hit the cheenis first and foremost because of their massive CPEC investments and that is no skin off the gora's nose.

The goras want to leave a scorched earth pak for the cheenis and a crazed nuke rogue jehadi state in India's neighborhood. एक तीर से दो शिकार...

Everybody knows exactly what's happening regarding the default. The goras don't need to say anything, the cheenis will not say anything and the pakis have nothing to say.

and, retired bajaowa must be laughing his ass off..
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Diyar pakis grass is the easiest substitute for 'meet'.
Inflation-hit consumers struggle to find substitutes for costly cooking ingredients
KARACHI: During the month of Ramazan, people experience price hike in food products every year, particularly of those that are commonly consumed at homes, restaurants, cafes and caterers during this period.

According to data issued by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the food inflation rate in February, on year-on-year basis, rose to 47 per cent in rural areas, whereas in urban areas it was recorded at 41.9pc.

Dawn asked caterers whether it was possible to use alternatives or substitutes to basic cooking ingredients like cooking oil, onion, and tomatoes.

Hasnain Haider, manager of Burns Road’s famous “Food Centre” said that they could not use any alternative to tomatoes, onions and cooking oil, because any alternative would affect the taste of their dishes.
Similarly, Mohammad Wasim, owner of a Pakwan centre named “Rohaib Pakwan centre” located in North Karachi, said the “costliest ingredient these days is the cooking oil and ghee, for which we are trying our best to save as much as we can”, and to do it we are utilising “ :D meet that is full of fat”.

“By doing so, the fat of the meet turns into oil and then it helps to have the food cooked nicely, making its smell and taste more enhanced than with normal cooking oil/ghee,” said Wasim, adding that he even suggested to buy fatty meet :D to those customers who themselves brought meet :D after buying it from somewhere else.

When asked about what could be used as a substitute to the milk while making desserts that required milk in abundance, he remarked that “dry/powder milk has become our priority in order to save the cost of desserts, especially with Kheer and Cocktail,” he added.
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^ Soon dogs will become an endangered species in Pakistan
When asked about what could be used as a substitute to the milk while making desserts that required milk in abundance, he remarked that “dry/powder milk has become our priority in order to save the cost of desserts, especially with Kheer and Cocktail,” he added.
Easier to add and mix urea powder as well..

Adulterated milk mixed with urea, detergent being sold in Pakistan's Sindh
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Dilbu wrote:Diyar pakis grass is the easiest substitute for 'meet'.
Inflation-hit consumers struggle to find substitutes for costly cooking ingredients
KARACHI: During the month of Ramazan, people experience price hike in food products every year, particularly of those that are commonly consumed at homes, restaurants, cafes and caterers during this period.

According to data issued by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the food inflation rate in February, on year-on-year basis, rose to 47 per cent in rural areas, whereas in urban areas it was recorded at 41.9pc.

Dawn asked caterers whether it was possible to use alternatives or substitutes to basic cooking ingredients like cooking oil, onion, and tomatoes.

Hasnain Haider, manager of Burns Road’s famous “Food Centre” said that they could not use any alternative to tomatoes, onions and cooking oil, because any alternative would affect the taste of their dishes.
Similarly, Mohammad Wasim, owner of a Pakwan centre named “Rohaib Pakwan centre” located in North Karachi, said the “costliest ingredient these days is the cooking oil and ghee, for which we are trying our best to save as much as we can”, and to do it we are utilising “ :D meet that is full of fat”.

“By doing so, the fat of the meet turns into oil and then it helps to have the food cooked nicely, making its smell and taste more enhanced than with normal cooking oil/ghee,” said Wasim, adding that he even suggested to buy fatty meet :D to those customers who themselves brought meet :D after buying it from somewhere else.

When asked about what could be used as a substitute to the milk while making desserts that required milk in abundance, he remarked that “dry/powder milk has become our priority in order to save the cost of desserts, especially with Kheer and Cocktail,” he added.

Dilbu ji,

the onlee "meet" full of fat is pork

is jenab rohaib actually doing to his paki customers and unsuspecting paki peoples what one thinks that the “Rohaib Pakwan centre” located in North Karachi, is doing....

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So we are back to polk fly lice once again. Or is it donkey meat?
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g.sarkar wrote:So we are back to polk fly lice once again. Or is it donkey meat?
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donkey meat no flatty enough for speshul occasions, sirji...


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Just realized that a "stable Pakistan is in India's interests" is dead, buried and probably rotten beyond redemption.
Any one who brings it up will be seen as a clueless fool
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The dominoes ...the decline in 3 months is rapid.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1743925/no-ga ... of-ramazan
No gas for hearth or home on first day of Ramazan
Although the government had announced that gas would be available to consumers for sehr and iftar, citizens from areas across the country complained of low and no gas pressure throughout the day.
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https://www.dawn.com/news/1743848/expor ... s-dip-18pc
Exports to nine regional states dip 18pc
The country’s exports to Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives dipped to $2.414 billion — just 12.92pc of Pakistan’s total exports of $18.bn in July-February FY23.
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Since the talk of the economic town in the past couple of weeks is failure of Western banks, how come there seems to be no banking crisis in Pakistan?
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One killed, eight injured in stampede over free flour in Charsadda
One person was killed and eight others injured during a stampede for free flour in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Charsadda on Thursday, the first day of the holy month of Ramazan.

The price of basic food items has rocketed in recent months, with inflation at a near 50 year-high as the country grapples with a balance of payments crisis that has seen it forced back into negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.

"Nine people were trampled and were taken to hospital where one person died," said Muhammad Arif, police chief for Charsadda.
Millions of low-income families across the country are registered under the scheme.

In a nearby district, a man died and four others were injured when a wall they were sitting on collapsed as crowds amassed for free flour.

Authorities told AFP it was not clear why the wall collapsed. :shock:
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Pakistan has to repay close to $3bn in next quarter
ISLAMABAD: Amid dwindling foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the country’s external debt servicing requirements for repaying principal and mark-up in dollar amounts will be standing at approximately $3 billion in the last quarter (April-June) of the current fiscal year, reported The News.
Pakistan will have to repay close to $3 billion in the last quarter (April-June) of the current fiscal year as part of its external debt obligations. Pakistani authorities will have to devise a plan B if the IMF does not offer the staff-level agreement.

When contacted, an official said, “We would devise a Plan B if Plan A does not work. Plan A is reviving the IMF programme.”

According to details available with The News, Pakistan would have to repay in the shape of principal and mark-up amounts of $316 million in April 2023. This external debt repayment amount would increase up to $753 million in May 2023. In June 2023, the total external debt servicing requirements will jump up to $1.894 billion.

This external debt servicing requirement does not include IMF’s repayments. However, sources said that these were tentative numbers of external debt repayments which might vary due to exchange rate movements.
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Showbaaz knew that the IMF would never clear it but wanted to dangle it to the awaam in case the ECP buckled in and called for elections.

Now that they have postponed it he is ok with the news coming out..

Yawn - Pakistan’s new fuel subsidy scheme needs to be agreed before deal: IMF
A long-awaited loan agreement between Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be signed once a few remaining points, including a proposed fuel pricing scheme, are settled, an IMF official confirmed on Friday.

The latest issue is a plan, announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif last week, to charge affluent consumers more for fuel, with the money raised used to subsidise prices for the poor, who have been hit hard by inflation, which in February was at its highest in 50 years.

Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik told Reuters on Thursday that his ministry had been given six weeks to work out the pricing plan.

But the IMF’s resident representative in Pakistan, Esther Perez Ruiz, said the government did not consult the fund about the fuel pricing scheme.

Ruiz, in a message to Reuters, confirmed a media report that a staff-level agreement would be signed once a few remaining points, including the fuel scheme, were settled. :mrgreen:
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Chetakji,
I find donkey eating by Pakistanis uncomfortable and deeply disturbing. It reminds me of cannibalism. Two legged donkeys eating captive four legged ones.
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^ Is there any chance the Gulf can send camels to Al bakistan? Given the rate of deforestation camels will be very useful.

Maybe Australia can send kangaroos. I read that millions of them are killed every year.
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Manish_P wrote:^ Is there any chance the Gulf can send camels to Al bakistan? Given the rate of deforestation camels will be very useful.

Maybe Australia can send kangaroos. I read that millions of them are killed every year.
Manish ji,

Both camels and roos are eaten quite commonly

Many Australian supermarkets now stock various cuts of kangaroo including fillets, steaks, minced meat and 'Kanga Bangas' (kangaroo sausages). Many Australian restaurants serve kangaroo meat. Kangaroo meat has been exported since 1959
The camel is special to Arabs. As a resilient beast of burden that can survive long treks through the desert with little access to water, it enabled the region to develop as a trading hub. Its meat is prized in the Middle East with the best part famously being the hump.
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the pakis will eat anything.

camel meat is also fairly easily available in several parts of India too.

In other places like bigger Indian cities, it is commonly sold on their festival days
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^ right sir, hence my query.

China is buying aussie land, China is buying paki land...

Pakistan Australia being humsaya mulks can cook up an alliance 'PAKAU'.
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https://tribune.com.pk/story/2407927/ye ... ak-at-4665
Yearly inflation hits another peak at 46.65%
Record increase attributed to rising food prices
Our Correspondent, March 24, 2023

ISLAMABAD:
The yearly short-term inflation rose by 46.65% – highest ever in the country’s history – measured on the basis of the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) during the week that ended on March 22, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Friday reported.
The highest-ever increase was recorded on account of the rising food prices.
The weekly inflation witnessed a hike of 1.80% during the period under review.
Last week, the yearly short-term inflation stood at 45.64%.
During the week under review, the prices of 26 essential items went up, 12 declined and 13 remained unchanged.
The rates of tomatoes increased by 71.77%, wheat flour by 42.32%, potatoes by 11.47%, bananas by 11.07%, branded tea by 7.34%, sugar by 2.70%, pulse maash by 1.57%, and Gur (jaggery) by 1.03% during the week.
The prices of items the prices of which declined included chicken meat the rate of which fell by 8.14%, powdered chillies by 2.31%, LPG by 1.31%, mustard oil by 1.19%, garlic by 1.19%, cooking oil by 0.21%, pulse moong by 0.17%, pulse masoor by 0.15%, and eggs by 0.03%.
As per the short-term yearly inflation, onions registered the highest increase by their price going up 228.28pc%. They were followed by cigarettes by 165.88%, wheat flour by 120.66%, gas charges for Q1 by 108.38%, and diesel by 102.84%.
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Allhumdulillah. But Dil mange more. With a little effort they can beat the German inflation of 1923.
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A-o-A Pakis have gone 1 better than the halal 72

Yawn - Bank advances to private sector plunge 73 pc
Bank advances to the private sector plunged by 73 per cent during the first 8 months of the current fiscal year suggesting a painful economic slowdown leading to massive retrenchments in key industrial sectors.

The current financial year started with many troubles and all sectors after one another are facing a severe production slump amid falling demand triggered by unprecedented inflationary pressures pushing up the cost of production to unstainable levels. The record inflation has already created survival risks for all businesses while the high cost of production makes it impossible for the exporters to compete with their rivals on the international markets.

The steep decline in the credit offtake to the private sector indicates that industrial and business activities are slowing down causing massive layoffs across all sectors. The World Bank and IMF do not expect Pakistan to achieve an economic growth rate of even 2 pc in FY23.
Not even pious sharia-compliant islamic banking seems to be helping ?
However, the Islamic banks’ lending to the private sector was Rs 75bn compared to Rs 127bn in the same period of last year. It also reflects the slowdown of the economy. The total lending in FY22 by the Islamic banks was Rs 239bn.
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OT but very relevant to this thread in terms of the global perception of the greedy pakis

Tiny SL walks the talk, and repays some of India's credit line that was extended to it when she was in grave need

Despite crisis, Srilanka repays $120 million loan to India. Srilanka uses the very first tranche of IMF loan to repay Indian loan.

https://www.outlookindia.com/business/s ... ews-272989


24 MAR 2023 8:28 PM

Sri Lanka has settled part of India's credit line from the first tranche of the IMF bailout programme it received a couple of days ago, state minister of finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said on Friday.

Sri Lanka on Wednesday received USD 330 million as the first tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme, which will pave the way for the debt-ridden country to achieve better "fiscal discipline" and "improved governance," according to President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

"We have settled USD 121 million as part of India's credit line using the first tranche of IMF's bailout programme," Siyambalapitiya told reporters.
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Some video of Paki parade day.
Pakistan Strategic Forum
https://twitter.com/ForumStrategic/stat ... 0509915138
@ForumStrategic
Dragons over the skies of the Capital of Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Video Credits: Military Enthusiasm
The comments are gold.
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@MeghUpdates
VIDEO
https://twitter.com/MeghUpdates/status/ ... 3699358722
Another truck carrying ‘atta’ / flour is looted in Peshawar, Pakistan.
But according to propagandists and haters- India ranks 126th on the World Happines Index, while Pakistan is at 108 in the same rankings.
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Neela wrote:
@MeghUpdates
VIDEO
https://twitter.com/MeghUpdates/status/ ... 3699358722
Another truck carrying ‘atta’ / flour is looted in Peshawar, Pakistan.
But according to propagandists and haters- India ranks 126th on the World Happines Index, while Pakistan is at 108 in the same rankings.
Multiple such videos being shared by credible Pakistani sources on social media where people are fighting for atta or are in long queues to receive free atta. How come pictures of this situation not on front pages of NYT, BBC etc? A "nuclear power" on the brink of default and serious law and order break down. No coverage in mainstream Paki media as well.
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Do you bad mouth your errand boy?
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That is because it is hatred and contempt for the Hindus. They look for all ways and means to disparage Hindus. The more India (and by extension Hindus) achieve, the more they will hate. The more Hindus manage our destiny the greater will be the hate. Hindus neeed to understand this.
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Multiple such videos being shared by credible Pakistani sources on social media where people are fighting for atta or are in long queues to receive free atta. How come pictures of this situation not on front pages of NYT, BBC etc? A "nuclear power" on the brink of default and serious law and order break down. No coverage in mainstream Paki media as well.
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Multiple such videos being shared by credible Pakistani sources on social media where people are fighting for atta or are in long queues to receive free atta. How come pictures of this situation not on front pages of NYT, BBC etc? A "nuclear power" on the brink of default and serious law and order break down. No coverage in mainstream Paki media as well.
No Pulitzer Prizes for this.
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