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anupmisra wrote:Sialvi demands Shariah in seven days
So, by Sunday, next week...djinnah's dream will be achieved. AoA!!
https://www.dawn.com/news/1384229/sialv ... seven-days
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anupmisra wrote: Six days to shariah (and bliss)....
And everlasting piss.. Martiallaw!
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Rebuked for skipping classes, student kills college principal, accuses him of blasphemy
Pavlonian action.
...censured for skipping school to attend the November 2017 sit-in of religio-political parties in Islamabad's Faizabad area.
the student, while being arrested, appeared to justify the murder saying he believed the college principal had committed blasphemy.
I have been taught... to kill... to not be afraid. Don't be afraid of disrespecting the one who commits blasphemy
"You can kill me," he tells the arresting officers.
"I am not afraid to kill"
the student had been angry that he was marked absent during the days he was attending the Faizabad sit-in.
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Some serious firing is happening at LOC.
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Parents pardon cleric accused of beating their son to death in Karachi seminary
A cleric who allegedly beat his eight-year-old pupil to death at a seminary in Karachi's Bin Qasim Town area on Sunday was pardoned by the victim's family on Monday
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abhijitm wrote:Some serious firing is happening at LOC.
Please do provide context. Is this something from the recent past (e.g. with respect to the Indian High Commissioner being summoned etc) or is it ongoing? If latter, do you have a tweet or other public information to share?
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yensoy wrote:
abhijitm wrote:Some serious firing is happening at LOC.
Please do provide context. Is this something from the recent past (e.g. with respect to the Indian High Commissioner being summoned etc) or is it ongoing? If latter, do you have a tweet or other public information to share?
Must be the BSF exchanging fire with the Paki rangers, must've been the retaliation for the BSF jawan slain recently.. Looks like the whole IB is tense with intense duels in JnK.

BSF pounds paki positions

I see now this story has become the headline in TOI
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Why poverty hasn’t reduced significantly in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Poverty is one of the least discussed issues in Pakistan. While many debates centre around different economic issues, poverty is mostly left out. It is quite odd that local discourse on such a serious issue is very elusive in our country.

Successive governments in Pakistan have also intentionally shied away from this debate. For example, the Pakistan Peoples Party government didn’t release poverty statistics for years it stayed in government.

Similarly, the PML-N hasn’t released poverty rates for its tenure. The poverty rate announced in 2016 by then Minister of Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal was for the year 2013 when PML-N was voted into power. Clearly, political parties don’t intend to land in hot water by talking about poverty.

Academic studies on the subject further confound our understanding of poverty. There is considerable ambiguity around the methodology to estimate the rate of poverty. As a result, there is no single and well-accepted poverty rate in Pakistan. Each academic study on poverty estimation gives its own poverty rate that may be different from others. In some cases, there are significant differences between the calculated poverty rates.

However, according to the latest available official statistics, almost 30% of Pakistanis were living below poverty line of Rs3,030 per adult per month in 2013. This translates to roughly 59 million in absolute terms. The poverty line used by the government is totally absurd. How can we consider an adult as not poor who earns Rs3,030 per month? This casts serious doubts on the poverty rate reported by the government.

A more reasonable poverty line can be the international poverty line of $2 per day. As per this poverty line, a whopping 60% of Pakistanis are poor. Now another type of poverty rate called multidimensional poverty rate is also being calculated in Pakistan, which relies on non-income indicators. Here again, not many are aware of what is multidimensional poverty. In other words as per International Poverty Line Terroristan has 125 Million People living under the Poverty Line!

But poverty is the main reason why international development institutions like the World Bank finance variety of projects in Pakistan.

Pakistan has received millions of dollars in the name of poverty reduction. Varieties of economic policies are framed by the government under the pretext of poverty reduction.

Despite the fact that Pakistan has received a lot of money for fighting poverty from donor institutions; it hasn’t seen significant reduction in poverty levels. This is especially true when comparison is made with India and China. Both of these economies have experienced steep fall in their poverty levels. Pakistan’s progress in this area has been sluggish as best.

Pakistan’s approach to poverty reduction

From 1951 till now, there hasn’t been a year when a government-led poverty reduction program wasn’t under way. The initial programmes were completely donor funded with focus on education and health of the rural economy. Overtime, some programmes under public-private partnership mode also started with a more varied focus like housing, roads, and sanitation.

In addition, government also adopted redistribution policies like land reforms, pricing of agricultural products, subsidies, social security payments, high tax rates and direct income transfers.

In the last few years, redistributive policies have become more popular with both people and the political parties. This shift in policy is influenced by a stream of literature which purports that poverty reduction can only be achieved if inequality is reduced using redistributive policies. Many local studies on poverty have also come up with the same idea.

Such policies place the government at the centre of the effort to redistribute economic gains to reduce poverty.

Failure of government

Focusing too much on programmes and redistributive policies has done more harm than good. Almost all of the programmes have fallen prey to government failure and corruption. The most recent example is that of the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP). Stories of corruption in BISP are common knowledge. The problem is that whenever a programme lands into political hands, political considerations always precede sound economic sense.

The BISP forms were given to PPP MNAs for distribution and naturally, those with strong political connections ended up having it over genuine individuals. Although it must be admitted that programmes run in collaboration with the private sector seem to produce better results than those run exclusively under the government’s watch.

On the other hand, the redistributive policies adversely affect the pricing mechanism. Support prices of key agriculture commodities creates glut-like situation which wipe out economic profits. Along with this, increasing tax rates on corporations in order to pay for welfare programs discourages businesses.

It won’t be wrong to conclude that government’s policies have stunted the impact of economic growth to reduce poverty significantly.

If Pakistan is to reduce poverty significantly, it must promote employment opportunities. The surest way to achieve that is by allowing businesses to employ more people. This can only be achieved if predatory redistributive policies are withdrawn.

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Peregrine wrote:X Posted on the PESW Thread

Why poverty hasn’t reduced significantly in Pakistan

However, according to the latest available official statistics, almost 30% of Pakistanis were living below poverty line of Rs3,030 per adult per month in 2013. This translates to roughly 59 million in absolute terms. The poverty line used by the government is totally absurd. How can we consider an adult as not poor who earns Rs3,030 per month?This casts serious doubts on the poverty rate reported by the government.
Let's do a red flag check here.

Per today's conversion rate, that's $27 per month per adult or $330 per year per adult (2013 Vs. 2017). With elderly abba, ammi, a couple of adult wives, and two or three adult sons/daughters shoe horned into a three room shanty, that translates into $2000 per year, which is above average for a family median income in ba(w)kistan. That should actually gravitate them into the lower middle to middle class living. And these numbers are from 2013! Something does not gel right with the pkr 3030 number.

Bakis are as usual trying to an equal equal with the Hindus.
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Another note on the poverty number. How many of these unwashed bakis have toilets in their homes (not access to toilets in the local madrassas)?
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Peregrine wrote:X Posted on the PESW Thread

Why poverty hasn’t reduced significantly in Pakistan

However, according to the latest available official statistics, almost 30% of Pakistanis were living below poverty line of Rs3,030 per adult per month in 2013. This translates to roughly 59 million in absolute terms. The poverty line used by the government is totally absurd. How can we consider an adult as not poor who earns Rs3,030 per month?This casts serious doubts on the poverty rate reported by the government.
anupmisra wrote:Let's do a red flag check here.

Per today's conversion rate, that's $27 per month per adult or $330 per year per adult (2013 Vs. 2017). 1. With elderly abba, ammi, a couple of adult wives, and two or three adult sons/daughters shoe horned into a three room shanty, that translates into $2000 per year, 2. which is above average for a family median income in ba(w)kistan. That should actually gravitate them into the lower middle to middle class living. And these numbers are from 2013! Something does not gel right with the pkr 3030 number.

Bakis are as usual trying to an equal equal with the Hindus.
anupmisra Ji :

I trust you will appreciate that " elderly abba and ammi" don't earn. In addition being of the "dirt poor" mango abdul family, the mango abdul cannot afford a second wife. Not all mango abduls have adult children.

Thus for this family a of Seven only say 4 people earn. So now they earn $ 1,320 per year thus bringing the family's annual Income to about US$ 190 Per Capita i.e. US Cents about 53 Per Day!

That, my dear Sir, is abject Poverty!

You are being charitable by considering that the Married Couple having only two or three ADULT sons/daughters. The Muslim norm is a "line of Children from the inner Bed Room to the Outer Door"!

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What is bothersome is that labour in Pakistan is apparently three times the cost in India. Of course there is much regional and seasonal variability. This would imply that in fact India is generally the poorer society.
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I have recently begun to notice that two words or phrases have suddenly crept into the baki vocabulary and are used ad nauseam.

1. Game changer - generally used by screeching, overly manicured motormamas on TV talk shows, and used generally in conjunction with SeePak.

2. Narrative - pronounced n'rative (by pakjabis), nah-rative (followers of altaf bhai) - used by chacha bakistanis when they start to question their raisin dey itr.
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With respect to Indian response to Paki shelling, I have noticed atleast 2 Indian reports indicating that we are now also destroying fuel depots. If true, this might be an escalation by India to increase paki pain. Several months ago it was reported that we were shelling paki officers houses near the border, that too was designed to increase paki pain. Now kadi ninda is saying we must respond 5:1, until last year he was satisfied with 2-3:1.

With the GOI purchasing weapons, rifles etc, war is on the horizon with the pakilanders.
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I think there has to be a ladder of shelling in response to:
1. Random shelling to infiltrate terrorists
2. Shelling across Loc on military positions
3. Shelling across LoC on civilian homes
4. Shelling on military positions across IB
5. Shelling on civilian homes across IB
6. BAT action resulting in casualties
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X Posted on the J&K News and Discussion Thread

UN chief asks India, Pakistan to resolve issues through talks

UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Antonio Guterres has ruled out any mediation to resolve the Kashmir issue unless all parties agree to it and asked India and Pakistan to address their outstanding issues through dialogue.

The UN Secretary-General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that in principle good offices of the UN chief are always available for mediation, but everyone needs to agree on involving the world body.

Asked about escalating tensions between India and Pakistan due to ongoing skirmishes and firing along the border, Dujarric said, "We're obviously aware. We're following this... what's been going on, really for the last 10 days."

Asked why the Secretary-General is not so keen to involve himself in this crisis, Dujarric said, "In principle good offices of Guterres are always available for mediation, but everyone needs to agree on involving the UN."

"As a matter of principle I'm not talking specifically about this issue, but about any issue where there is conflict between parties, the Secretary-General's good offices are always available," he said.

"As in any issue, both parties or more than... you know, if there are multiple parties, everyone needs to agree on involving the UN. That is true of any mediation effort," Dujarric said.

"The Secretary-General would encourage both sides to address any outstanding issues through dialogue," he said.

In Video: Huge setback for Pakistan, UN chief rules out mediation on Kashmir

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Is this the 'largest war on terror in the world'?

NEW DELHI: This may be hard to believe of a place that lets Hafiz Saeed roam free, but Pakistan's prime minister has said his country's battle with militants is the "largest war on terror in the world", reported Reuters news agency.

Shahid Abbasi, Pakistan's PM, said that any sanctions against Pakistan - like the US has threatened - would be counter-productive to the country's own battle against Islamist militants, which he then proceeded to describe to Reuters as "the largest war on terror in the world".

As retaliation for US President Donald Trump's blistering attacks on Pakistan for providing "safe havens to agents of chaos and terror", Abbasi raised the possibility of charging the US money to use its airspace for supplies to Afghanistan.

Both 26/11 Mumbai terror mastermind Saeed and his Jamaat-ud-Dawa organisation are on designated terrorist lists of the US as well as the United Nations (UN). Still, Lahore high court in November ordered Saeed be set free from house arrest. Then, last week, Abbasi said Saeed can't be prosecuted because there is no case against him.

While this comment of Abbasi's isn't mentioned in the interview report by Reuters, the Pakistan PM did talk about taking over Saeed's so-called charities. That must mean Pakistan is worried, especially after the US has blocked as much as $2 billion in military aid to it.

"Yes, the government will take over the charities which are sanctioned and not allowed to operate," said Abbasi, 59, to Reuters in an interview at the prime minister's chamber in Pakistan's Parliament in Islamabad.

Abbasi didn't say by when this would happen, except that it would.

"Everybody is on board, everybody is on the same page, everybody is committed to implementation of UN sanctions," he said.

Still, when a UN team monitoring sanctions visits Pakistan later this week, Pakistan won't give it access to Saeed or any of his organisations, a prominent Pakistani newspaper reported yesterday.

The UN imposed sanctions on Saeed and his organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa soon after the Mumbai terror attack. In November, Saeed petitioned the UN asking that his name be struck off the list of sanctioned terrorists. The UN didn't comply.

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anupmisra wrote:I have recently begun to notice that two words or phrases have suddenly crept into the baki vocabulary and are used ad nauseam.

1. Game changer - generally used by screeching, overly manicured motormamas on TV talk shows, and used generally in conjunction with SeePak.

2. Narrative - pronounced n'rative (by pakjabis), nah-rative (followers of altaf bhai) - used by chacha bakistanis when they start to question their raisin dey itr.
Pakistanis seem to give extreme importance to and have a lot of belief in, two things: Lobbying and Narrative. This is generally irrespective of the facts on the ground, in fact they think that it isn't the reality of the situation that is the problem but the lack of effective narrative and lobbying. I think this is partly psychological i.e escapism/denial when faced with the reality, but also the legacy of the 70s and 80s (and even the 90s) when they could rely on folks like Charlie Wilson and Robin Raphael and their ilk to leverage an already pro-Pak deep state in the US against India.
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anupmisra wrote:
anupmisra wrote:Sialvi demands Shariah in seven days
So, by Sunday, next week...djinnah's dream will be achieved. AoA!!
https://www.dawn.com/news/1384229/sialv ... seven-days
Six days to shariah (and bliss)....
Five days to shariah (and bliss)....
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Paki style of diplomacy.Drop your pants and and beg to be rogered, why it worked for so long over decades.The moment Yanqui forces entered the region almost 2 decades ago,and body bags and coffins started returning home,the pleasure of rogering Pak as the pain increased thanks to the disease picked up of associating with terror,
began to diminish. It's now more pain than pleasure and the stick has been exposed, but expecting the Pakis to obey its one-time master is like expecting the sun to rise in the West.The Paki worm will turn and unleash its terror networks in even greater force.The only medicine is for B-52s to appear over 'Pindi and 'Slam-a-bad.
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Hafiz Saeed seeks protection from arrest ahead of UN team's arrival

LAHORE: Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed on Tuesday filed a petition in the Lahore high court seeking protection from arrest ahead of the arrival of the UNSC's sanctions monitoring team , saying the government wants to arrest him at the behest of India and the US.

The monitoring committee of the United Nations Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee will be visiting Islamabad this week for an assessment of Islamabad's compliance with the world body's sanctions regime. The two-day visit is likely to begin from Thursday.

A media report yesterday said Pakistan will not allow the committee any direct access to Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Saeed or his entities.

Saeed, anticipating a possible action against him and his organisations, filed the petition through his counsel A K Dogar seeking the court's direction to the PML-N government restraining it from arresting him and taking action against JuD and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation.

The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) said the government of Pakistan has plans to take adverse action against him.

"The PML-N government wants to arrest me at the behest of United States and India," he said, adding that the US and Indian lobby for the last many years has been trying to prove that he was "somehow involved in Mumbai attacks".

Saeed further said the Punjab government of Shahbaz Sharif had detained him for 10 months without any legal ground. A judicial review board, however, ordered his release after the government's failure to justify his house arrest.

Saeed requested the court to restrain the government from "acting in a manner which is not permitted by law and direct it to enforce fundamental rights of the petitioner under Article 9 of the Constitution at remain at liberty".

Saeed also boasted that he is "founder/chairman of JuD and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) and has established 142 schools, three universities and for the last many years is engaged in activities of public welfare".

Talking to reporters here, Saeed said he would welcome the UN team to visit the JuD and FIF centres in the country.

"The UN team will come to know our public welfare work if it visits our centres," he said.

The UN team's visit is taking place amid increasing pressure on Pakistan from the US and Indian governments with respect to inadequate implementation of the sanctions on Saeed and entities linked to him.

The State Department had said last week that the US had clearly conveyed its concern to Pakistan on Saeed and called for his prosecution "to the fullest extent of the law".

It also said that Saeed's name was on the UN list of designated terrorists.

READ ALSO : Refusing UN team access to Hafiz Saeed 'makes world more suspicious': Former Pak diplomat

Saeed was listed under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008. The UNSC sanctions list includes the names of JuD, Lashkar-e-Taiba, al-Qaida, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, FIF and other groups and individuals.

The UNSC monitoring committee oversees the sanctions measures imposed by the Security Council under the rules. The member states are required to freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources of designated individuals and entities.

Last week, Pakistan banned companies and individuals from making donations to the JuD, the FIF and other organizations on the UNSC sanctions list.

Saeed was released from house arrest in Pakistan in November. He was under detention since January, 2017.
The JuD is believed to be the front organisation for the LeT which is responsible for carrying out the Mumbai attack that killed 166 people. It was declared as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US in June 2014.

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Embassy official missing with sensitive papers booked
An army official appointed as a clerk at the Pakistani embassy in Austria some five months ago disappeared along with some sensitive documents
appointed as a clerk at the Pakistani embassy in Vienna, Austria, in August last year. He was given a sensitive assignment by the defence ministry (a spy, eh?)
He was made an official in charge of some important and sensitive national affairs there, it stated, adding that “it was very important duty, besides sensitive for country’s sovereignty”.
According to his wife, her husband left the embassy of his free will and will “return after five years”.
“It is suspected that he might have become a tool in the hands of enemy of the country(all Einsteins)
Have they tried asking for the missing clerk/sepoy at the Indian embassy?

http://www.dawn.com/news/1384889/embass ... ed?preview
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This is too important to ignore.

Lord Nazir's house robbed, documents, valuables stolen
In an unusual case of robbery, important documents and other valuables were reportedly stolen in wee hours of Wednesday from the residence of British-Pakistani Lord Nazir Ahmed in Rotherham
Ahmed said, “There's a possibility that it could be aimed to sabotage a campaign in Kashmir against Indian aggression and brutality,” adding that theft was carried out in an organised manner, smashing the closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras installed at the residence.
Lord Nazir further said that he was working against an anti- Pakistan campaign in London (the cab affair?).
"It is an attempt to deliver me a warning"
:rotfl:

A brit-paki lord working on behalf of a foreign government. There must be a law against that in the english constitution. Imagine that!

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/27247 ... ble-stolen
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Baki health care delivery system is better than the US health care system. Don't believe me? Read on...

Healthcare in the US and Pakistan
It is interesting to compare the healthcare systems of Pakistan and the USA, since both healthcare systems are not welfare oriented.
The common perception is that public sector hospitals in Pakistan provide free medical care to every citizen of the country. If this is the case, then Pakistan is more of a welfare state than the USA, which spends 8.3 percent of its GDP on healthcare compared to Pakistan’s 0.42 percent.
American healthcare is bankrolled by a complex and uncoordinated amalgam through the federal, state, and local governments supported by private insurance. Yet, there is no consolidated system of health insurance. In stark contrast to Pakistan, the prevailing practice in the USA is insurance coverage for employees managed by their employer with emphasis on government intervention limited to the most vulnerable segments of society such as the elderly, disabled and unemployed.
In Pakistan, electronic or tele-medicine, involving basic geographic information systems (GIS), is spreading as a platform, albeit without any regulatory umbrella. Things are different in the USA being focused on a formal and conservative prescription approach.
Basic medical diagnostic tests in Pakistan are not so costly as compared to the USA and health tourism is increasing with Pakistani origin patients coming from the United Kingdom
In this sense the citizen of Pakistan appears to be in an enviable position compared to the USA, :lol: as every citizen has access to free medical care even if the quality of medical care is not comparable to that in the private sector whose charges are exorbitant.
So there! Ordinary baki momeens and momeenettes do not need to travel to the US (or to India, for that matter) for health care service because quality health care is available in ba(w)kistan.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/187286/health ... -pakistan/
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^^Are they including their neem haqeem and those maulvis who cure patients through ruhani powers?
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Next time we see any baki begging for medical visa to SS, we should quote this link to SS
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According to his wife, her husband left the embassy of his free will and will “return after five years”.
The Paki spy who came in from the cold ( after 5 years)
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Ahmed said, “There's a possibility that it could be aimed to sabotage a campaign in Kashmir against Indian aggression and brutality,” adding that theft was carried out in an organised manner, smashing the closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras installed at the residence.
Kudos to Indian intel if they pulled this off
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anupmisra wrote:Embassy official missing with sensitive papers booked
An army official appointed as a clerk at the Pakistani embassy in Austria some five months ago disappeared along with some sensitive documents
appointed as a clerk at the Pakistani embassy in Vienna, Austria, in August last year. He was given a sensitive assignment by the defence ministry (a spy, eh?)
He was made an official in charge of some important and sensitive national affairs there, it stated, adding that “it was very important duty, besides sensitive for country’s sovereignty”.
According to his wife, her husband left the embassy of his free will and will “return after five years”.
“It is suspected that he might have become a tool in the hands of enemy of the country(all Einsteins)
Have they tried asking for the missing clerk/sepoy at the Indian embassy?

http://www.dawn.com/news/1384889/embass ... ed?preview
Very interesting. Vienna postings are very sensitive due to the IAEA headquarter location.
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X Posted from the Pakistani Role In Global Terrorism thread.

A case of “Good Terrorists” being plausibly deniably backed with COTS explosives by the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate aka ISID aka ISI, the notorious intelligence arm of the Uniformed Jihadi’s of the Military of the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Afghanistan’s Tolo News reports that Afghan intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), have announced that initial investigations show that the explosives used by Mohammadden belief motivated group, Taliban, in the attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul on Saturday unsurprisingly came from the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan:
Explosives Used in Hotel Attack Traced Back To Pakistan: NDS

National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday announced that initial investigations show that the explosives used by Taliban insurgents in the attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul on Saturday came from Pakistan.

The NDS also recovered the vehicle that attackers used to enter the hotel compound.

“The explosive materials seized in the vehicle shows that the material is made in Pakistan,” said the NDS in a press release.

According to the NDS statement, the explosive chemical used by the insurgents was produced by a company in Islamabad called Biafo Industries Limited.

According to Biafo’s website, the company is a modern state of the art explosive manufacturing company. It states it is highly automated and can produce more than 2,500 metric tons of explosives per shift annually.

Saturday’s deadly attack left at least 43 people dead and many more wounded. However, government has only confirmed the death of 29 people so far.
From Tolo News here:

Explosives Used in Hotel Attack Traced Back To Pakistan: NDS
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anupmisra wrote:
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arun wrote:“The explosive materials seized in the vehicle shows that the material is made in Pakistan,” said the NDS in a press release. According to the NDS statement, the explosive chemical used by the insurgents was produced by a company in Islamabad called Biafo Industries Limited.
From Tolonews link:

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From barfo's website: http://www.biafo.com/blaster.htm

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Meanwhile...

Pakistan Calls For “Credible Probe” into Kabul Hotel Attack
Reacting to the attack, the Pakistani ministry of foreign affairs rejected allegations by some Afghan circles that Pakistan-based militants were behind the attack.
"Reports about attack having being carried out by terrorists of internationally proscribed Haqqani Network are a matter of serious concern and bring to fore once again the need to effectively deal with safe havens and sanctuaries that these terrorists find in our shared neighbourhood"
https://www.tolonews.com/index.php/afgh ... tel-attack
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US drone attack: Haqqani network commander, two others killed in strike in Pakistan
A top commander of the Haqqani network along with two others were killed today when a US drone struck a home near Pakistan’s restive tribal Kurram agency bordering Afghanistan, media reports said. Two missiles were fired from the drone at the house in Speen Thall area – on the confluence of borders between Hangu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Orakzai agency.
Weren't the pakis supposed to shoot down all drones?

http://www.financialexpress.com/world-n ... n/1028372/
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Pakistan’s agriculture productivity among the lowest in the world

KARACHI: Pakistan’s low crop yield per hectare has not gotten any better for a long time and now it has sunk to one of the lowest levels in the world, according to a report released recently by the Pakistan Business Council – a business policy advocacy group.

A major part of Pakistan’s economy relies on the agriculture sector, which had a 19.5% share in the gross domestic product – the total size of the economy – in 2016.

Pakistan’s agricultural productivity ranges between 29% and 52%, far lower than the world’s best averages for major commodities, the report says.

Pakistan produces 3.1 tons of wheat from one hectare, which is just 38% of the 8.1 tons produced in France – the world’s best productivity.

Similarly, Pakistan produces 2.5 tons of cotton per hectare, which is 52% of the 4.8 tons produced in China.

Sugarcane yield stands at 63.4 tons per hectare in Pakistan, which is 51% of the 125.1 tons Egypt produces from every hectare while maize productivity is estimated at 4.6 tons per hectare, 41% of the 11.1 tons that France is producing. In the case of rice crop, Pakistan produces 2.7 tons from every hectare, which is merely 29% of the 9.2 tons per hectare in the US.

“Low crop yields hamper Pakistan’s ability to realise its full potential; Pakistan is not an agriculture country any more,” comments Gada Hussain, founder of the Sindh Abadgar Board – a lobby group of farmers.

Agricultural commodities, particularly cotton, provide critical inputs for Pakistan’s major manufacturing industries. However, lower harvests translate into low industrial production and higher costs, says the report.

Pakistan exports a number of agricultural commodities and their value added products. Sugarcane is used to make sugar and confectionery items that are exported. Rice and maize are also exported.

According to the report, the low productivity acts as a major barrier to Pakistan becoming a major player in the world’s processed food industry.

The agriculture sector employs around 42% of the labour force. A thriving and more efficient agriculture sector will help lift living conditions of a large number of people and also improve competitiveness of the industry, the report says.

However, 50% of the agricultural products are wasted in Pakistan due to unavailability of sufficient cold chain, logistics and processing facilities.

“Absence of efficient, new seed varieties, intermittent water supply and unenthusiastic marketing are killing our agriculture,” says Hussain. Urbanisation is also gaining pace as a lack of basic facilities like safe drinking water, health care and children education is compelling farmers to move to cities.

After toiling for four to five months to grow a crop, a farmer earns less than Rs100 per day, which is far lower than the Rs600 to Rs800 he can earn in cities as a labourer, according to Hussain. “So, we are losing agriculture which is the main driving force behind the economy.”

Media reports suggest the Chinese government is looking for avenues to enter Pakistan’s agriculture sector. The Chinese state and banks are expected to provide capital and loans to the Chinese companies interested in setting up ventures in Pakistan.

China is going to set up a fertiliser plant that will produce 800,000 tons per year. It plans to establish meat processing plants in Sukkur with annual output of 200,000 tons and two milk processing plants to produce 200,000 tons a year.

Chinese will also invest in high-yield seeds and aim to build a nationwide logistics network, warehousing and distribution system from Gwadar to Islamabad.

China will also install vegetable processing plants with annual output of 20,000 tons along with fruit juice and jam production plants with a capacity of 10,000 tons.

“Though self-sufficiency is desirable, there are fears Chinese investors may dictate their terms due to their huge investments,” says Hussain.

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Excerpt from Press Briefing by US Whitehouse Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders

Issued on: January 22, 2018 ……………………

In Afghanistan, where terrorists attacked a hotel in Kabul, such attacks on civilians only strengthen our resolve to support our Afghan partners. We commend the swift and effective response of the Afghan security forces. Afghan forces, with our support, will continue to relentlessly pursue the enemies of Afghanistan, who also seek to export terror around the world.

We call on Pakistan to immediately arrest or expel the Taliban’s leaders and prevent the group from using Pakistani territory to support its operations. …………………………….
From the US Whitehouse website:

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
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anupmisra wrote:US drone attack: Haqqani network commander, two others killed in strike in Pakistan
A top commander of the Haqqani network along with two others were killed today when a US drone struck a home near Pakistan’s restive tribal Kurram agency bordering Afghanistan, media reports said. Two missiles were fired from the drone at the house in Speen Thall area – on the confluence of borders between Hangu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Orakzai agency.
Weren't the pakis supposed to shoot down all drones?

http://www.financialexpress.com/world-n ... n/1028372/

800% correct. The Uniformed Jihadi’s of the Punjabi Military Dominated Deep State of the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan via their Air Force head Air Chief Marshall Sohail Aman indeed made the belligerent though braggart claim about a month and a half back that any further visit by the Islamic Republics National Bird would not be tolerated and the visiting National Bird would be dispatched to Jannat to enjoy 72 Virgins, 72 Raisins, 72 Mohammadden Terrorists or 72 of whatever turned on the National Bird.

Looks like the US has made an attractive enough offer of Jaziya to allow the Uniformed Jihadi’s of the Punjabi Military Dominated Deep State of the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan to sell their Afghan Mohammadden Momin Ummah “Brothers” down the river to the US Kaafir Dhimmi’s:

PAF to shoot down US drones breaching airspace
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^^ Doesn't that also invalidate pak ambassador's claim that there is no taliban in pakistan. As I rememberer he challenged/demanded the US to give proof just couple of days back. Looks like US complied.
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anupmisra wrote:
Weren't the pakis supposed to shoot down all drones?
Comments in Pawki websites reminding Air force Chief of his bluster, promptly vanish.. like their Forex reserves..

Through him, Pakistan now has earned it's air-borne musharaff.. spews hot air and nothing else..
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The poverty elephant

Undiscussed elephants in the room do not get much bigger than that labelled poverty. No government of the last three decades has been willing or perhaps more importantly able, to put a figure on the numbers of people living in poverty in Pakistan. Part of the problem has to do with complexity and the shifting nature of poverty — it is a shape-changing moving target. Poverty is constantly evolving and it is today recognised as being multidimensional — a family of elephants of different sizes with some permanently resident and others transient, in the room periodically. That said it does not excuse this or any government the task, indeed duty and responsibility, of quantifying and objectifying poverty in its many manifestations.

The last time there was anything close to a government-driven evaluation and enumeration was in 2016 when figures for 2013 were released. They were based on a poverty bottom line of Rs3,030 per month ($27.41 at current exchange rates) translating into around 59 million out of a population that then was estimated (pre-census) as about 190m. Broken down that is about 90 cents US a day and clearly unsustainable. International poverty lines are generally closer to $2 per day which when laid across today’s population indicates that 60 per cent of Pakistanis are poor.

Most of the aid received by Pakistan is in some ways designed to reduce poverty, yet there is scant evidence that it has done so, and government policies are at least nominally designed to reduce or alleviate policy yet with few exceptions they do not. Similar poverty reduction activity in India and China has both seen dramatic declines in levels of real poverty. Today in Pakistan the focus is on redistributive policies that aim to reduce inequality, but this is doing more harm than good opine some analysts as good intent falls afoul of poor governance and corruption and seemingly without exception poverty-reduction initiatives die a death whenever a programme falls into political hands. Those run in collaboration with the private sector seem to fare better. The real key to poverty reduction is employment, and who holds the key to more jobs? The government.

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