Terroristan - 4th Jan 2018

[Falijee]

In a milestone achievement, PIA awarded with international quality certification
March 2, 2018 .

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has been awarded with the international accreditation over its services.PIA has made a transition to the new standard ISO 9001: 2015 – for Quality Management System (QMS).

The flight services department underwent ISO re-certification external audit on New QMS Standard ISO 9001: 2015 by Bureau Veritas Certification Company, said a press release of the national flag carrier. Not sure who is the "issuer of this re-certificate" . Hope , it is not the AXACT UNIVERSITY of the Airline Industry . Did they not find rats running around the aisle

[VinodTK]

Turkey Is Turning Into the Next Pakistan

There isn't much that Turkey's president can do these days to further debase his reputation in the West. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has crushed peaceful protests at home and abroad, closed newspapers, threatened American soldiers, and collectively scapegoated Kurds. But over the weekend, Erdogan managed to go even lower.

At a rally at Kahramanmaras, the Turkish leader brought a trembling 6-year-old girl on stage dressed in military garb and told her she would be honored if she died as a martyr. He sounded like a terrorist. We expect this kind of child abuse from the fanatics in Hamas or Hezbollah. Erdogan though is the leader of an important NATO ally.

Turkey is beginning to resemble Pakistan, a perpetually failing state whose military leadership has tolerated and advanced a vision of political Islam deeply hostile to U.S. and Western interests.
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[Falijee]

Pakis Wooing Chinese With Cricket

Chinese players join Peshawar Zalmi

[anupmisra]

SS, JEM - right you are, Sirs.

The revised list is:
- gubo [US]
- goubough [UK]
- geaubeaux [FRA]
- qu po [CHN]
- al-gubo [KSA]

- Garbo [Gujarat]

[anupmisra]

The Pakistani State's Official Fatwa Against Jihad Is Bogus, Deceptive, And Meaningless; The World Will Be Better Without It
Tufail Ahmed - Middle East Media Research Institute ( Memri )

Fatwa against jihad is fatwa against the baki army. TSPA's motto is: Iman, Taqwa, Jihad fi Sabilillah ("A follower of none but Allah, the fear of Allah, Jihad for Allah")

[RCase]

The Pakistani State's Official Fatwa Against Jihad Is Bogus, Deceptive, And Meaningless; The World Will Be Better Without It
Tufail Ahmed - Middle East Media Research Institute ( Memri )

Fatwa against jihad is fatwa against the baki army. TSPA's motto is: Iman, Taqwa, Jihad fi Sabilillah ("A follower of none but Allah, the fear of Allah, Jihad for Allah")

Er... Wouldn't the IHC consider that blasphemy? Jihad is part of Islam and a fatwa against jihad would be a fatwa against Islam?

[RCase]

In a milestone achievement, PIA awarded with international quality certification
March 2, 2018 .

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has been awarded with the international accreditation over its services.PIA has made a transition to the new standard ISO 9001: 2015 – for Quality Management System (QMS).

The flight services department underwent ISO re-certification external audit on New QMS Standard ISO 9001: 2015 by Bureau Veritas Certification Company, said a press release of the national flag carrier. Not sure who is the "issuer of this re-certificate" . Hope , it is not the AXACT UNIVERSITY of the Airline Industry . Did they not find rats running around the aisle

I guess PIA must be the ONLY airline in the world that has quality processes for:
- asset disposition and write-offs by CEOs (like A-310s)
- transporting concealed drugs in aircraft panels
- landing through hails of AK phyr.
- flying aircrafts without airconditioning
- exemplary behavior of flight crew in foreign countries, especially Bartania.

[Peregrine]

X Posted on the I W T Thread

Tarbela reaches dead level

ISLAMABAD: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Friday said that the Tarbela dam had attained its ‘dead level’ of 1386 feet, and Punjab and Sindh might face shortfall of approximately 70 to 80 per cent in their canal systems in the coming five to ten days.

However, the shortages might be reduced in the wake of impending rainfall and with the increase of temperature being foreseen in catchment areas, says an Irsa press release.

“Today, Tarbela has attained its dead level of 1386 feet; therefore in the next 48 hours, river supplies will be adjusted as under: Punjab will get a share of 4,000 cusecs from River Indus and 14,000 cusecs from Jhelum-Chenab zone; Sindh will gain 14,100 cusecs; Balochistan (4,000 cusecs) and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (2,400 cusecs) so a total 38,400 cusecs will be released.

Seasonal shortages for both Punjab and Sindh would remain at 36 per cent as announced by Irsa at the start of the Rabi 2017-18 season.

In a clarification about a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Water held on February 28, 2018, Irsa said, in addition to other matters, water related issues pertaining to the authority were also discussed threadbare.

In this regard, some section of the press published that the Irsa chairman showed inability to close the Chashma-Jhelum (CJ) Link Canal as well as implementation of the Water Apportionment Accord 1991.

However, it is clarified that the Irsa Chairman took the stance that any member of Irsa or its chairman alone cannot take any decision in the authority, as all the issues in the authority in respect of the implementation of the Water Accord is settled by the votes of majority as embodied under Chapter II, Clause 8(2) of IRSA Act XXII of 1992. As such Irsa chairman single-handedly cannot take any decision in the authority.

Irsa was established in regulating and monitoring of water sources of Indus River in accordance with the water accord among the provinces. Till to date, Irsa is performing its functions vested under IRSA Act XXII of 1992 in true spirit and letter.

Irsa is distributing waters with full consent of the provinces after approval of its advisory committee, comprising all Irsa members, members Water and Power, Wapda, chief engineering adviser, Federal Flood Commission chairman and Irrigation and Agriculture secretaries of all federating units.

Regarding operationalisation of the three-tier formula which comprises para 14(b), para 2 and para 4 of the accord, it is clarified that the formula was derived in 2003 with the consensus of all stakeholders in Irsa advisory committee meeting under the chair of Nasar Ali Rajput, the then member, Irsa, Federal/chairman Irsa who belonged to Sindh.

In the presence of the CCI, discussions at different forums may aggravate the situation and would definitely ignite unrest among the federating units that should be avoided in the best national interact.

Regarding opening of any channel/link, it is clarified that from October 1, 2017 to February 22, 2018, Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal remained closed and Punjab was directed to cater for its Trimmu-Sidhnai and Panjnad Canal systems’ requirements from the Mangla Dam.

But when the dam touched its dead level, the availability in the Jhelum-Chenab zone reduced to 12,000 cusecs against Punjab’s share of 25,000 cusecs; thus, there was no other source, except Indus to save standing crops of southern Punjab.

Therefore, Irsa decided with majority votes in an authority meeting held on February 22, 2018, to immediately open the CJ Link Canal with a discharge of 4,000 cusecs as long as water is available in the Tarbela Dam.

This season, the provinces of Punjab and Sindh received excessive water with respect to allocations made by Irsa while Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa received less water despite the fact that both the provinces, being smaller, are exempted from sharing of shortages.

Irsa categorically clarified that the authority is implementing the Water Accord 1991 in letter and spirit without any external pressure. Any province, if aggrieved from any decision of Irsa may approach the Council of Common Interest (CCI).

Irsa emphasised that against the backdrop of climate change, less capacity of Tarbela and Mangla dams to store water, the water availability situation would remain volatile and the country’s water economy would remain prone to unexpected flash floods, and sudden droughts.

Cheers

[Falijee]

Deep State Could Be A Suspect In Pindi's Journo's Death In A High Security Zone

Journalist employed by local daily shot dead in Rawalpindi's high-security zone

A subeditor working for a local daily in Islamabad was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the late hours of Thursday in a high-security zone of Rawalpindi, police said.Anjum Muneer Raja, 40, was returning home after work at Urdu newspaper Qaumi Pukaar when unknown attackers riding a motorcycle opened fire on him at Bank Road in the jurisdiction of Civil Lines police station, before midnight. The site of the incident is minutes away from GHQ, the Pakistani military's national headquarters.

Raja, who was riding a motorcycle as well, was shot six times in the neck, torso and head and died on the spot, police officials told DawnNewsTV. The assailants fled after the attack. Pakistan is one of the most dangerous country for journalists to work in . They have disappeared and in many cases have been killed by Security Agencies because of their so called anti national reportings.

After being alerted about the incident, police reached the site and shifted the victim's body to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital. The body was handed over to the relatives after a postmortem.

A first information report of the incident has been registered on a complaint of the victim's maternal uncle.While speaking to DawnNewsTV, Raja's uncle Tariq Mehmood said that his nephew did not have a personal enmity with anyone. Terming the killing an incident of "terrorism", he expressed shock that Raja was murdered in such a highly secured area. More details will likely emerge . !

The journalist community condemned Raja's murder and demanded the immediate arrest of the attackers. While demanding protection for all journalists, the journalist groups threatened that they would resort to protests if Raja's killers are not apprehened soon.

[anupmisra]

How did we all miss this sun-sunny-khel khabar?

'India-backed' terrorist group busted in Hyderabad, police claim

Hyderabad police on Friday claimed to have busted a gang which was reportedly getting funding from India to sabotage China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and target security personnel in Sindh.

The official said that the five-member group was led by the self-proclaimed chief of Sindhudesh Revolution Army (SRA), and it was targeting security personnel and Chinese nationals.

The suspects were running a sub-nationalist group to launch a separatist movement in the province and, according to their own confession, they were trained and sponsored by India

"suspects used to frequently visit India by crossing the border near Badin district"

Odho mentioned that suspect Muzaffar Hussain Nanjrajt, who travelled to India under codename Pankhaj, had confessed to his involvement

Take that Raa!

https://www.dawn.com/news/1392745/india ... lice-claim

[Falijee]

Quacks And Hakims Playing With Paki Lives !

Unqualified medics playing with mothers, infants’ lives in Punjab
The Express Tribune

LAHORE: As the clock struck midnight at Lady Wellington Hospital, a 23-year-old expectant mother was brought to the medical facility with severe labour pains. She was immediately rushed into the operation theatre where doctors, after two hours of exhaustive efforts, managed to save her life.Unfortunately, the child who was to be the latest addition to her family was lost in the process. In fact, the woman would never be a mother again.

Dr. Wajiha Nadeem, who operated on the woman, told The Express Tribune that “These are frequent cases. Actually, quacks are playing with the lives of people. The mortality rate of patients is too high.” Probably is a very common phenomenon ; Pakjabi lives at stake! Therefore made the news.

Expressing her utter dismay over the fact that unqualified medics were allowed to continue practicing, the doctor pointed out that surgical malpractice can lead to the intestine getting cut and cause bladder damage. She added this results in the patient losing her reproductive capabilities and many can never be mothers again. Dr Nadeem claimed that almost all the cases of women referred to the hospital in this condition were a result of quackery.

A Punjab Healthcare Commission spokesman agreed with the notion. Talking to The Express Tribune, he agreed that many gyneacology centres of quacks had become functional again due to the alleged involvement of some people from the medical community. Defining the modus operandi of these unqualified practitioners, he said even if PHC closed their dens or imposed fines, they would come to the commission’s office with qualified doctors who would claim the clinics as their own. He added that as a result, PHC’s case was weakened and it had to grant permission to reopen the clinics. This practice is continuing around Punjab, especially low lying areas of the centre,” he complained. “Without political will, the menace cannot be eliminated.” The political parties- and their leaders -could not care less . They head straight to Dubai or Londonistan to get the best medical help . Ganja Sharif had a hair transplant in Londonistan. He did not "trust" the local hair transplanter based in LaWhore

“Since last two years, they have closed down 7,500 clinics around Punjab and most of them have become functional again. This is a dilemma and raises question marks over the efficiency of PHC’s working,” he continued. “The PHC law should be more powerful for the sake of our mothers and children,” he concluded.

[Falijee]

Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui believes Pakistan puts too much emphasis on minority rights & not enough on majority rights

With "Justices" like Siddiqui sitting on the bench, the majority community is well assured that no "injustice" will be doled out to them

[Falijee]

Pakistan's Way Of Getting Even With India

Elite Pakistan club snubs Indian envoy amid rising hostilities

NEW DELHI: The prestigious Islamabad Club, the favourite watering hole of the Pakistani elite and foreign diplomats, has put Indian high commissioner Ajay Bisaria’s membership on hold.While Indian and Pakistani diplomats routinely, and privately of course, accuse each other of not showing even a modicum of civility in dealing with their respective missions, it’s rare for a high commissioner of either country to be treated like this. This is Pakistan's way of getting even with India, what with all that is recently happening - the FATF decision, the mounting foreign debt,the pitai at the LOC, the protest by the Balochis in NYC, Geneva and other places

The club is where all foreign envoys hang out in Islamabad and it’s customary for an ambassador or high commissioner to seek membership after landing in Pakistan’s capital.Bisaria took over as Indian high commissioner late last year and applied for membership soon after. Not only has the club so far not approved his membership, it is also threatening, as TOI has learnt, to not renew the membership of other Indian diplomats. In "Diplomacy", reciprocity rules. Indian Clubs in New Delhi should do likewise or cancel the existing membership, citing violation of some rules . Decent behaviour is not expected from the Pakis !

While membership for other Indian diplomats, too, has been delayed in the recent past, this is the first time that the Islamabad Club has stalled the membership of the Indian high commissioner. Memberships for envoys are normally approved within weeks, if not days

Membership is not given gratis even to top bureaucrats and diplomats. This is the latest in a series of hostilities Indian diplomats in Pakistan have been subjected to at a time when the bilateral relationship is in a downward spiral, not least because of the daily ceasefire violations+

[Falijee]

Paki MP Makes A Shocking Claim : Chinese Prisoners Are Working On CPEC Roads !

Chinese prisoners working on CPEC in Pakistan: MP

ISLAMABAD: A lawmaker claimed that China had sent a large number of its prisoners to work as labour on the $60 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) development projects in Pakistan.

Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur, a National Assembly member of opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), said at a recent meeting of parliamentary committee said, "I have learnt that prisoners have been brought from Chinese jails and they are constructing roads. They can be involved in crimes so there should be proper security arrangements."

Talpur who was quoted by Dawn, questioned the authorities to explain if they had entered into any tacit agreement with Beijing to use the country for penal settlements. "I contacted a concerned official who confirmed that prisoners had been working in Pakistan. My doubt was strengthened by an ambiguous response from the ministry of interior which rather than rejecting my claim just said it was not in the knowledge of the ministry," he said. China should step in and categorically deny this accusation ( if it is false! )

The PPP member said that he assumed that a secret or unannounced agreement had been made between the two countries "because prisoners cannot be sent from one country to another without taking the host nation into confidence." The lawmaker pointed out that a number of Chinese nationals had been arrested in ATM fraud cases, especially in the port city of Karachi.

must be "swept under the carpet" by the Paki Govt !

he home ministry reportedly showed ignorance about the presence of Chinese prisoners in Pakistan. Rizwan Malik, the Special Secretary for Interior, told the parliamentary committee that Chinese workers were being given a three-layer security. "There is a separate security for Chinese nationals who have been working on CPEC projects. Separate arrangements have been made for those who have come for electricity projects," Malik said, adding that arrangements had also been made to provide security to Chinese students and business people.

[Jits]

Pakistan's Way Of Getting Even With India

Elite Pakistan club snubs Indian envoy amid rising hostilities

NEW DELHI: The prestigious Islamabad Club, the favourite watering hole of the Pakistani elite and foreign diplomats, has put Indian high commissioner Ajay Bisaria’s membership on hold.While Indian and Pakistani diplomats routinely, and privately of course, accuse each other of not showing even a modicum of civility in dealing with their respective missions, it’s rare for a high commissioner of either country to be treated like this. This is Pakistan's way of getting even with India, what with all that is recently happening - the FATF decision, the mounting foreign debt,the pitai at the LOC, the protest by the Balochis in NYC, Geneva and other places

The club is where all foreign envoys hang out in Islamabad and it’s customary for an ambassador or high commissioner to seek membership after landing in Pakistan’s capital.Bisaria took over as Indian high commissioner late last year and applied for membership soon after. Not only has the club so far not approved his membership, it is also threatening, as TOI has learnt, to not renew the membership of other Indian diplomats. In "Diplomacy", reciprocity rules. Indian Clubs in New Delhi should do likewise or cancel the existing membership, citing violation of some rules . Decent behaviour is not expected from the Pakis !

While membership for other Indian diplomats, too, has been delayed in the recent past, this is the first time that the Islamabad Club has stalled the membership of the Indian high commissioner. Memberships for envoys are normally approved within weeks, if not days

Membership is not given gratis even to top bureaucrats and diplomats. This is the latest in a series of hostilities Indian diplomats in Pakistan have been subjected to at a time when the bilateral relationship is in a downward spiral, not least because of the daily ceasefire violations+

It's good that it is pakistan who nowadays calls Indian ambassador to protest and denies membership of elite club etc. These are actually acts of impotency, it shows that they cannot do anything else except such meaning-less symbolic acts. It is just amazing how roles have actually reversed in just short time. Earlier we used to do such acts (protest to ambassador, visa denial to artists, digging of cricket fields etc.) after each terror attack during manmohan- sonia days and pakistanis used to laugh. It's time for pakistanis to do kadi ninda and for us to laugh !!
I am loving it

[anupmisra]

Hail SeePack or, shall I say, See & Pack?

Supreme Court bans 'Chinese salt' across country, declares it 'hazardous to health'

The Supreme Court (SC) on Saturday ordered a ban on the sale, import and export of 'Chinese salt' (monosodium glutamate) — popularly known as Ajinomoto — all over the country, declaring it "hazardous for health".

https://www.dawn.com/news/1392939/supre ... -to-health

[anupmisra]

30 Pakistani doctors aspiring to attend conference in India await visas

Anxiety among 30 Pakistani doctors who want to attend a conference related to liver diseases in India is increasing as New Delhi has so far not issued visas to them.

it will provide them an opportunity to understand the Indian medical system and make them able to guide Pakistani patients who want to travel India for liver transplantation.

There is only one weekly flight from Lahore to New Delhi

Weirdest excuse to seek an entry visa, I must say.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1392919/30-pa ... wait-visas

[anupmisra]

In guns we trust

Pakistan was, as of 2016, the ninth-largest arms importer in the world. We’re awash in guns because the laws are lax, the culture is conducive, and the border is ‘porous’.

Yet the state is in the business of propping up such armies wherever it chooses. First come the banned outfits our military establishment can’t help but hem and haw over, even as we get slapped with global grey-lists. Never has the fate of so many human beings been tied up with the fate of so few hardened criminals.

On Aug 9, 2011, then interior minister Rehman Malik claimed Karachi would be deweaponised in phases. By 2013, he had promised arms licences to lawyers, traders, and political parties, and admitted issuing 69,473 prohibited bore licences to MNAs alone.

The KP government issued 161,416 licences in its first two years, whereas Sindh’s ex-home minister bragged he’d doled out 300,000.

In sum, Pakistan has a major gun problem, and no one wants to talk about it.

“Stand outside parliament and a new militia will pass by every two minutes”

As for militias, ‘proscription’ shouldn’t mean giving them better disguises, and both our culture and curriculum need to be weaned away from guns and glory, Ghori and Ghaznavi.

Finally, a state that cannot provide security is no state at all. There can be no greater indictment of this country than the fact that Bacha Khan University’s teachers seek arms training.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1392883/in-guns-we-trust

[chetak]

30 Pakistani doctors aspiring to attend conference in India await visas

Anxiety among 30 Pakistani doctors who want to attend a conference related to liver diseases in India is increasing as New Delhi has so far not issued visas to them.

it will provide them an opportunity to understand the Indian medical system and make them able to guide Pakistani patients who want to travel India for liver transplantation.

There is only one weekly flight from Lahore to New Delhi

Weirdest excuse to seek an entry visa, I must say.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1392919/30-pa ... wait-visas

I hope that MEA is not foolish enough to grant the visas.

Enough is enough.

[VKumar]

Hail SeePack or, shall I say, See & Pack?

Supreme Court bans 'Chinese salt' across country, declares it 'hazardous to health'

The Supreme Court (SC) on Saturday ordered a ban on the sale, import and export of 'Chinese salt' (monosodium glutamate) — popularly known as Ajinomoto — all over the country, declaring it "hazardous for health".

https://www.dawn.com/news/1392939/supre ... -to-health

No country with science based food safety system has banned MSG.

[Peregrine]

After Iron Brother Kicks the Terroristanis in the FATF now Turkish Brother Kicks them in their BUTTS

Pakistan's free trade agreement talks with Turkey nearing collapse

KARACHI: The commerce ministry has asked the government for clearance to take a long simmering dispute with Turkey to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after prolonged discussions on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries have hit an impasse.

At issue is grant of GSP+ status by Turkey that Pakistan argues is an obligation given that Turkey and the European Union are part of a customs union. The ministry is arguing that out of the countries that enjoy GSP+ status with the EU, Turkey has extended the same status to all except Armenia and Pakistan.

Also, Pakistan has asked for a reversal of a set of additional duties that the Turkish government imposed on Pakistani products having high export potential in the Turkish market back in 2011.

In the seven rounds of FTA talks held since February 2015, Pakistan has repeatedly raised the matter of additional duties but no breakthrough has been achieved.

The products in question are cotton fabrics, apparel and home textiles, carpets, manmade fibres, plastics and footwear. The additional duties range from 20 to 50 per cent, bringing the total duties on these critical products to between 28 and 67pc when combined with other duties also applicable on them.

As a result, Pakistan’s exports to Turkey plummeted from $906 million in 2011 to $282m in 2017, a decline of 69pc.

The commerce ministry believes that the Turkish government is under an obligation to extend GSP+ status to Pakistan because the former is a member of the EU customs union, a demand that was first presented to the Turkish authorities in 2014. It was in response to this demand that the Turkish government proposed an FTA instead, talks for which were launched the following year.

In the seventh round of FTA talks in June 2017, Pakistan asked either for an extension of GSP+ status by Turkey or for the two countries to grant tariff concessions to each other, extending the lowest tariff that they may have granted to any other country under any FTA. For its part, the Turkish side, according to a source from the Pakistani team present at the meeting, proposed a 25pc reduction in the additional duties imposed in 2011, with the reductions spread over a five-year period and some of the duties possibly phasing out over 11 years.

Pakistan rejected that proposal, and the commerce ministry asked the top political leadership to intervene and press the Turkish side to show greater flexibility.

It suggested that if the intervention failed retaliatory tariffs could be imposed on Turkish products. None of the two recommendations were, however, adopted.

In December last year, the matter was again discussed at the meeting of the Pakistan-Turkey Joint Working Group, which is different from the FTA talks.

The Turkish side, according to the source present at the meeting, said it is not offering GSP+ status to other countries beyond those that already enjoy it.

Another attempt was made to achieve a breakthrough on the sidelines of the WTO ministerial meeting later that month in Buenos Aires, Argentina, again without any success. In fact at that event no meeting between the Pakistani and Turkish trade delegations could take place.

The FTA talks between Pakistan and Turkey have been extended twice. Originally they were supposed to conclude in 2016, but the date was extended to May 2017.

At present, no further meetings are scheduled, and the commerce ministry has formally asked the cabinet for permission to take up the Turkish refusal to either reduce its additional duties or extend GSP+ status in line with the EU, with the WTO, thereby elevating the issue to a trade dispute between the two countries.

Cheers

[Vips]

Turkey is ok with supporting Pakistan at FATF, but refuses to stop raping it economically.

The commerce ministry has asked the government for clearance to take a long simmering dispute with Turkey to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after prolonged discussions on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries have hit an impasse.

At issue is grant of GSP+ status by Turkey that Pakistan argues is an obligation given that Turkey and the European Union are part of a customs union. The ministry is arguing that out of the countries that enjoy GSP+ status with the EU, Turkey has extended the same status to all except Armenia and Pakistan. Also, Pakistan has asked for a reversal of a set of additional duties that the Turkish government imposed on Pakistani products having high export potential in the Turkish market back in 2011.

The products in question are cotton fabrics, apparel and home textiles, carpets, manmade fibres, plastics and footwear. The additional duties range from 20 to 50 per cent, bringing the total duties on these critical products to between 28 and 67pc when combined with other duties also applicable on them.

As a result, Pakistan’s exports to Turkey plummeted from $906 million in 2011 to $282m in 2017, a decline of 69pc.

[Falijee]

"Shameless Pakis" Feeding And Drinking Themselves At The Foreign Public Trough At Foreign Taxpayers' Expense !Living in a mental ward (pakistani in europe)

Living in a mental asylum, fighting the darkness within
By Sher Khan,Published: February 27, 2018
Express Tribune

When I was about five or six-years-old, I did something I am deeply ashamed of. It is the most shameful act I have ever committed, and even recalling it makes me shudder. It’s something that I have never confessed to anyone before. It was recess time in school and all the kids were playing. I stood somewhere in the middle of the sandy ground and looked around for pebbles. I was just fascinated by their shapes and sizes, and was excited to be examining the ants alongside them. I picked up a pebble and all of a sudden an idea popped in my mind. I saw Hamid, a classmate, standing alongside one of the walls and looking towards something to my right. I immediately lifted the small stone in front of my eyes to take aim. I closed one eye, carefully aimed for the temple and threw it at him. I was not expecting anything to happen. I thought it would be like a dream, where everything starts to float, just like a feather.However, this was reality – the pebble smashed right into his head and he began bleeding. The teachers came and asked me why I had done it and I said I was only throwing pebbles at the wall and Hamid had come in the way. They seemed to be satisfied with the explanation, but the reality is much grimmer. I had consciously aimed at him just to see what would happen. From that day till now, I have never hurt anyone willingly again, but I know that there is a darkness within me and it makes me greatly ashamed of myself.

It was in my 30th year that I found myself in a mental asylum in Stockholm while pursuing my graduate studies. I had been there before but this time I was to stay longer. I had overdosed on prescribed anti-depressants and sleeping medication, and had been taken in for observation for a few weeks before the new medication began to take effect.

After a few days, I had a bit more freedom and was allowed to leave the building by myself for a few hours in the afternoon. During these times, I would just sit outside drinking coffee and stare at the people walking around the small island of Gamla Stan. The "student route" is the most common route taken by young Pakis to escape the "hell in their homeland". Due to factors beyond their control, they end up anxious and alienation in the new place, due to financial and social stress. In extreme cases, (like this one !) they fall on the mercy of the "haram" state for medical treatment and become a burden on the Taxpayers !. Otherwise, many others "migrate" to Al-Qaeda or ISIS to "get even", while a few others, "try to integrate" in a "Pakistan in Sweden, Norway or wherever"

Generally, the nurses there were quite friendly and helpful. Overall, I lived a much healthier lifestyle than I did before and feel that I became a bit more stable to slowly face the world again.

In the end, I would like to give a message to all those suffering from depression. It is often a life-long battle which one has to endure silently. Sad story, but then the GOP is also "encouraging" their young to export themselves and "send some money back to their homeland" . Just the other day, there was the story of an elderly Paki couple , living in Syria since 1973 and asking for international mercy to help them escape hell there !

The author is an outsider artist ( homeless ) based in Stockholm

[Falijee]

More Pressure Being Applied Against The Besieged Ahmedis Of Pakiland. The Concept Of "Taqiyya" Is Not Meant For You

'Court can order govt to legislate against non-Muslims pretending to be Muslims in paperwork'

Senior lawyer and expert on law affairs Akram Shaikh on Friday told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that a constitutional court has the authority to direct the government to legislate against those non-Muslims who purposely pretend to appear Muslim on paper when they are not, DawnNewsTV reported. Generals Zia and Bajwa and other "senior Paki politicos like ZAB and Ganja " can use the concept of Taqiyya to "save" Pakiland and Malsi from USA, India and other "kuffar" countries, but the "poor Ahmedis" are denied this "Islamic loophole" to save their hood and livelihood from the extremists of Pakistan

He was assisting the court during Friday's hearing of a petition filed by Maulana Allah Wasaya ( In Pakistan, there is always a Maulana behind such "mischief". Might be a proxy for "Deep State" !) on the identification of alleged non-Muslims in government, semi-government and autonomous organisations who identify themselves as Muslims.

In his remarks, IHC's Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui ( This notorious "My Laard" recently stated that Pakistan should focus on the Rights of Majority rather than be obsessed with the Rights of the Minorities !) reiterated that more than 10,000 people have changed their religious status from Muslim to Ahmadi in their Computerised National Identity Cards. He said a majority of these people had shown themselves as Muslims in a bid to have a government job and then changed their official religious status after retirement once they reached the age of 60.

Further citing a government report, he said that out of the total number of those who changed their status from Muslim to Ahmedi, more than 6,000 had left the country. The government had already been directed to produce their travel history, he added. How such people come to wield such power in Islamic Pakistan is anybody's guess !

Akram Shaikh expressed his concerns over what he called revelations regarding Ahmadis in the government's report. "Ahmadis can't be allowed to exercise Islamic rituals," he said, adding that it could hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims. Ahmedis were in the forefront of the "Demand For A Separate Homeland For The Muslims. Now they themselves have been deemed Non-Muslims. What an irony

Shaikh, however, said that Islam and the Constitution of Pakistan ensured the provision of rights to minorities. A separate religious identity of Ahmadis is essential for the safety of their religious rights as a minority, he added.Submission of an affidavit on Khatm-i-Naboowat (finality of Prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad PBUH) should be made mandatory for issuance of a CNIC, he suggested. Ahmedis can still play "taqiyya" and submit a false affidavit, but if caught ultimately they invite the wrath of the Mullahs ( General Bajwa- suspected Qadiani should take due note )

He further said that "strict action should be taken against [those] Ahmadis who changed their religious status [from Muslim to Ahmadi]". So, the Ahmedis are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place

The IHC has been hearing the case on daily basis. Earlier, the court had directed the Federal Investigation Agency to submit the travel history of all those who had changed their religious status on CNICs. United Nations and UNHRC ( of which Pakistan is a member !) should take due note of this harassment tactic and do the needful . India should seriously consider taking up their cause in world forums !

Ahmadis were declared non-Muslims in Pakistan through a constitutional amendment in 1974 during the tenure of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. This measure was later followed with Gen Ziaul Haq making it a punishable offence for Ahmadis to call themselves Muslim or to refer to their faith as Islam. For once, Zia ,in his grave must be "thankful" to his nemesis (ZAB ) for doing this favour - declaring Ahmedis Non Muslims - to him

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The Farce Of Paki Senate Elections Begins Today !

Untangling the mystery: All you need to know about Senate elections

But, despite the Senate elections holding immense importance in the national debate right now, little is known about how they are actually held or how the process works. So, it is not a transparent process , like in other democracies . IMO, makes sense. This is Pakistan after all

The Senate — the Upper House of Parliament — is a body of 104 lawmakers. Each serves a term of six years, barring resignation, disqualification, or other extraordinary circumstances. They are not all elected at the same time: rather, half are elected at one time, and the other half three years later. In 2018, 52 senators (who were elected in 2012) are slated to retire. The other 52 were elected in 2015 and will retire in 2021. Copy from Kuffar Mai Baap Massa. No Malsi here

Among the candidates, 20 are from the PPP, 14 from the MQM, 13 from PTI and four from Pak Sarzameen Party. In addition to this, 65 candidates will be contesting as 'independents', which includes the 23 candidates nominated by PML-N who cannot contest polls on their party ticket anymore. Ganja's party , PMl-N have been debarred and cannot stand under its own name !

Punjab (46 votes* elect a senator)

Sindh (21 votes* elect a senator)

KP (16 votes* elect a senator)

Balochistan (9 votes* elect a senator)

Federal (114 votes* elect a senator)

One Readers comments, IMO, sums it up
rauf about 23 hours ago
good report. One thing missing. How much it costs to become a senator? Who gets the money. I have a few million US$ in my account and will be happy to buy a seat.

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30 Pakistani doctors aspiring to attend conference in India await visas



Weirdest excuse to seek an entry visa, I must say.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1392919/30-pa ... wait-visas

I hope that MEA is not foolish enough to grant the visas.

Enough is enough.

I think after Kulbhushan Yadav episode we should grant this visa Strip search them take away their medical instrument and make them go to venue in blacked out prison vehicles to attend tea ceremony for 30 minutes throw funny questions on how does it feel to be a terrorist and bundle them up and throw them out of country on a night flight via Dubai or Iran or Turkey.

This will help those as#ho*** realise how not to humiliate people who are on your soil.

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BALUCHISTAN LAND IN GWADAR BEING OFFERED FOR SALE IN CANADA !

Tarek Fatah
‏Verified account @TarekFatah
7h7 hours ago

#China's #Pakistan pimps coming to Toronto to sell real estate (akin #BloodDiamonds) built on land stolen from the #Baloch in #Balochistan and drenched in their blood. Stay away from these carpetbaggers.
#BalochistanNot4SaleInCanada
#EndTheOccupationOfBalochistan

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Paki CEO Shows His Pakistaniyat In Ummah Dubai

Leading investment firm’s Pakistani chief steps down over customer complaints

UBAI – Arif Naqvi, the founder of the world’s leading equity company, Abraaj Group, (tall claim this, without citing any reference ) stepped aside after clients lodged complaints regarding alleged misuse of investor money in healthcare businesses.It was announced by the company on Friday that Naqvi, a native of Pakistan, would no longer handle the company’s asset management business.In the statement, Abraaj said that Omar Lodhi and Selcuk Yorgancioglu, two senior executives, would manage the $14 billion in assets as co-chief executives of the firm, replacing Naqvi, who had earlier handled every aspect of the firm.

However, Naqvi, would retain a nonexecutive role as a member of the firm’s investment committee, Abraaj added. Looks like a Paki infested joint

The development comes after customers claimed that the Dubai-based company was involved in misusing of the funds, New York Times reported, adding that the World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were among the prominent investors that, over the past year, have been questioning the firm’s governance practices So Bill Gates, the world's richest man was taken for a ride !

The clients fear that Abraaj might have used fund, allocated for investment in hospitals in Pakistan and Kenya ( so, he is an "equal opportunity" fraudster !) for other unauthorized purposes.

The complaints surfaced after the investors got known that over $200 million, which were to use in 2016, had not been invested. Money making its way back to Pakiland

The Abraaj Group previously clarified that the investment in the both countries could not be made due to regulatory holdups. But the customers denied accepting the reason and demanded the audit of the firm from an independent accountant.

Arif Masood Naqvi (born 13 July 1960 in Karachi, Pakistan) ...

Naqvi founded the Group in 2002. It started with 60 million USD in assets under management and as of 2017, manages US$13.6 billion

It was Naqvi’s pitch that investing in markets like Egypt, Turkey and India would earn great profits and have a positive social impact as well, the US media outlet said.

The WB supported Naqvi’s idea to replace traditional financing techniques to boost economic development in developing countries. One more blow to Dubai reputation to upgrade itself to First World Status. The fact of the matter is that Dubai has a long time history of hosting con men, fraudsters and other persons of shady character

[AlapArya]

https://www.thestatesman.com/india/pak- ... 94911.html

Pakistani Army resorted to unprovoked firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri sector in Jammu-Kashmir. The violation comes a day after Pakistan summoned the India’s envoy to Pakistan to complain against ‘unprovoked firing’.

According to reports, houses in Rajouri received extensive damage due to the ceasefire violation by Pakistan on Saturday, 3 March.

Indian Army was reportedly retaliating effectively to the violation by the Pakistani Rangers.

This is the second violation by Pakistan on the same day. A civilian was injured in Nowshera due to indiscriminate firing of small arms, automatics and mortars.

On Friday, 2 March, Islamabad summoned the Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh for the second consecutive day over the “unprovoked firing by Indian troops” along the LoC.

The Pakistani Foreign Office claimed that the firing led to the death of a civilian and injured his wife and son.

Islamabad accused India of carrying out more than 415 ceasefire violations along the LoC and the Working Boundary so far in 2018 resulting in the killings of 20 civilians and injuries to 71 others.

Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and as many Indians were injured, including two army men and two civilians, in border hostilities in Jammu and Kashmir in the last 48 hours.

India has said that four Pakistani soldiers were killed in retaliation on the LoC in Poonch and Rajouri districts in 48 hours since Thursday, 1 March.
Theej are just liej by the toiletless, cow-loving terrorist Yindoo Army. Mard-e-Momins are not martyred that eajily yejpecially by 7 lakh Kashmir occupying Hanoomun Fauj. Typical Bharti Jee Newj propaganda who doctor footage of their own bodies and posts and put a Pak Sarzameen phlag on it. Just for domestic Bharti conjumpchun so they are proud of their chappan inj seena Moojlim murderer Narender Mooody.

“The Pakistani Army has been using 120 mm and 82 mm mortars to target defence and civilians facilities. Two of our soldiers and two civilians were injured during this period in Pakistan shelling and firing,” sources reportedly told IANS.

At least half a dozen residential structures have been damaged completely or partially in the shelling.

In the style of Peregrine ji (I'm you're biggest fan),

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Old article but things can change in the future !
How Balochistan Could Change Iran-Pakistan Relations. In a Way That’s Not Good for India.
By Prateek Joshi
27/09/2016

In his Independence Day speech at the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted Pakistan’s atrocities in Balochistan and expressed his solidarity with its people in their struggle for self-determination. This new policy shift – seen as a response to Pakistan’s proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir – alarmed the Pakistani establishment.

The initial signs of India’s policy shift appeared when AIR launched a website and a mobile application of a Balochi radio service on September 16. Although the radio service was launched way back in 1974 by AIR’s external services division, the website and application are aimed at reaching out to the Baloch diaspora settled in different parts of the world. The development of an email facility, which will help the audience send their feedback, is in progress.

Another development on these lines is the application for asylum by Switzerland-based leader of Baloch Republic Party Brahamdagh Bugti – grandson of the late Nawab Akbar Bugti and the leader of Baloch Republican Party. His application is being considering by the home minisrty.

Another exiled Baloch leader, Hyrbyair Marri, has also expressed his desire to seek asylum in India. Interestingly, a representative of Marri was in New Delhi last year to speak on the Pakistani army’s atrocities in Balochistan at an event where defence analysts Major General G.D. Bakshi and Colonel R.S.N. Singh were the chief guests.

This duel over Balochistan – which was hitherto confined to the two nations – reached the global audience when external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, in her address at the UN General Assembly on September 26, censured Pakistan. Swaraj termed its policies in Balochistan as the “worst form of state oppression”.With tensions rising in Pakistan over India’s policy shift, there are signs that Pakistan is seriously rethinking over Balochistan, especially with regard to its relations with Iran, which also controls a part of the Baloch territory. There are indications that a rapprochement among the two nations is on the horizon.

As it becoming more evident that New Delhi has begun engaging with the Baloch issue, some new trends are worth noticing on part of the Pakistani policy makers in the light of the geography of Balochistan that spans across Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. The territory of western Balochistan, which is controlled by Iran, was annexed in 1928.At present, the Baloch in Iran, who are predominantly of the Sunni origin, form only about 2% of Iran’s total population. Relations between the state and its Baloch subjects have been bitter, and the Sistan and Baluchestan province has witnessed episodes of protracted insurgency. These fissures were first exploited during the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s, when the Iraqi agencies began aiding the movements that were demanding Baloch autonomy from Iran. During the time of ZAB, (in the early 70's) the Paki Govt claimed that arms were stored in the Iraqi Embassy, meant to fuel the Sunni Balochi insurgency against Shia Iran

Later, led by brothers Abdolmalek Rigi and Abdolhamid Rigi – who belonged to the Baloch Rigi tribe – Jundallah (a Sunni extremist group) was formed in 2003. Jundallah gained notoriety following incessant attacks on Iran’s civilians and military establishments. It is worth noting that Abdolmalek (who was hiding in Pakistan) was arrested by the Pakistani authorities in 2008 and handed over to Iran, and was later executed. Pakistan’s help to Iran was celebrated as a rare feat of cooperation between the two nations, which otherwise is characterised by Iran accusing Pakistan of supporting Jundallah.

Having said that, the Iran-Pakistan relations over the Baloch issue have several complexities. For instance, unlike the Baloch movement in Pakistan, which is devoid of any religious or sectarian overtones, the Baloch insurgency in Iran, especially the activities of Jundallah and other affiliated groups, are avowedly sectarian. Abdolmalek was himself a product of Karachi’s Jamia Uloom-e-Islamia (Binori town), a seminary that had produced many Taliban leaders.

This aspect is significant in light of the Pakistani establishment’s signs of ending patronage to extremist organisations (a policy which began under President Zia ul Haq’s rule), where in recent years its authorities have gone after those sectarian outfits that have become detrimental to Pakistan’s internal stability.

In addition to handing over of Abdolmalek to Iran in 2008, the killing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Malik Ishaq last year and operation Zarb-e-Azb against the Tehreek-e-Taliban are some developments that signal that Islamabad and Rawalpindi’s war against the forces are now seen as threats. Therefore, this also insinuates that Pakistan is paying heed to Iran’s concerns over the separatist movements and sectarian extremism emanating from across the border into Sistan-e-Baluchistan.

There are several reasons to believe that Pakistan’s quest for a stable Balochistan might find a new ally in Iran, which also wants to stabilise the part of Baloch territory that it controls. At present, the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) offers an incentive for both the nations to cooperate towards the common cause of a stable Balochistan.

As expected, besides upsetting Islamabad, Modi’s announcement to support the Baloch cause has not gone down well with the Chinese, with some scholars and think tanks expressing their disappointment saying that the New Delhi’s policy would be detrimental to Sino-Indian ties.With China pumping in the bulk of investments in the CPEC, as well as enjoying excellent diplomatic and economic ties with Iran, a possible push for Iran to be a part of CPEC is not unexpected.Iran's complete rapprochement with Pakistan, if it ever occurs in the future , will have some repercussions on the Chah bar Sea Port project as well .

This article was written in 2016. Much has happened since . The Chahbar Port is running Does not look that Iran-Pakistan ties are on the mend. Pakistan is firmly on the Saudi side in the Sunni- Shia divide. Raheel Sharif has been seconded to fight the Shias of Iran

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Hafiz Suar Sounds Warning To Pakistan On His Release

India - US have encircled Pakistan: Hafiz Saeed
March 3, 2018

LAHORE - The leader of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba Hafiz Saeed has claimed that India is using the Afghan soil against Pakistan as his controversial release late last year resulted into growing US pressures on Pakistan as Saeed is accused of major terrorist attacks including the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack.
In a gathering at Masjid Al-Qadsia on Friday, Saeed claimed that India and America have encircled Pakistan and are specially targeting Balochistan for terrorism. Released on Friday morning . Ready for speech on Friday afternoon . Deep State facilitator !

He went on to claim that India is plotting against Pakistan by using Afghan soil and said efforts were being made to make Pakistan a battlefield.

Saeed was released on Friday morning from house arrest after a court rejected to extend his detention on Wednesday. Pakistan courts are "independent", so where is the problem on his release

In reaction to his release, the White House said “Saeed’s release, after Pakistan’s failure to prosecute or charge him, sends a deeply troubling message about Pakistan’s commitment to combating international terrorism and belies Pakistani claims that it will not provide sanctuary for terrorists on its soil.”“If Pakistan does not take action to lawfully detain Saeed and charge him for his crimes, its inaction will have repercussions for bilateral relations and for Pakistan’s global reputation,” the White House added. IMO, this is Pakistan's way of getting even with USA ( and India ) with reference to the recent FATF decision to put it on the grey and ultimately the black list as a pariah of financial world !

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Immy Mad ! Questions Paki Senate Results In KP Province

How PPP with 7 MPAs won two Senate seats from KP, asks Imran Khan
March 3, 2018

He added that “this sort of electoral farce raises some serious ethical questions”.“Senate elections yet again witnessed shameful horse trading where MPAs bought & sold their votes as country witnessed this sale of their "elected" ppl to highest bidder,” he said.

Ayesha Gulalai claims to have voted for PPP candidate in Senate elections

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) renegade Ayesha Gulalai said on Saturday that she cast her vote in Senate elections 2018, held today, in favour of a candidate of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).While addressing media outside National Assembly (NA), Gulalai criticised PTI chief Imran Khan for skipping polling and not arriving at the assembly to cast vote. She referred to Khan as the lawmaker who cursed upon the parliament. This is how Gulalai took "revenge" upon Imran, voting for PPP, instead of her own party . Imran, as many have claimed, likes to be a "hands off " CEO ( Brown Sahib and Badshah ) of the PTI party. Making grand pronouncements left and right, but rarely has the inclination to attend parliament (like Ganja, the ex Badshah of PML ) , not casting vote as today, letting underlings do his bidding. If he is above dirtying his hands like one Chaiwalla In India , then he should not be in Paki politics - which is very dirty, very horse trading and very violent also.

[ashish raval]

Hafiz Suar Sounds Warning To Pakistan On His Release

Looks like time is ripe for RAW + CIA = No Suar on the puke soil.

Iron is hot to forge now.

[Peregrine]

India refuses to grant Pakistani pilgrims visas

Scores of Pakistani pilgrims intending to travel to Ajmer in connection with the Urs of Hazrat Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti have not been issued visas by the Indian High Commission.

According to Express News, hundreds of pilgrims travel every year from Pakistan to India to attend Chisti’s Urs. New Delhi is bound by a bilateral protocol on visits to religious shrines to grant 500 Pakistani pilgrims visas for the event.

In 2017, India stopped Pakistani pilgrims from attending the Urs of Khawaja Nizamuddin Aulia in Delhi. Another 200 hundred Hindu pilgrims were stopped from proceeding to Pakistan in connection with a Hindu festival earlier in February, 2018.

The pilgrims were set to take part in Maha Shivratri celebrations, according to a Hindu leader. He said the move constituted a violation of the aforementioned protocol

Cheers

[Sumair]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4bJcooiZHY

watch 9 minute onwards, this person is admitting that pak army is using civilian as shield on the LOC

[Peregrine]

Capital suggestion: Alarm bells

Current account deficit: our current account deficit surged by a whopping 48 percent to an unmanageable $9 billion in the first seven months of the current fiscal year. The SBP’s foreign exchange reserves are down to $12.7 billion in spite of the multi-billion dollar loans that the SBP has taken over the past year. Red alert: the SBP has reserves that would cover around two month’s worth of imports.

In February 2017, the SBP had imposed restriction of mandatory 100 percent cash margin on the import of 404 items. In October 2017, the FBR slapped a regulatory duty on 731 import items (including diapers, shampoo, tomato paste, chocolates, dairy items, dog food and vehicles). Red alert: the current account deficit still surged.

Budget deficit: the Ministry of Finance has completely failed to ensure even a semblance of fiscal discipline. The National Assembly had approved a budget deficit of 4.1 percent of the GDP or Rs1.480 trillion. The current trend suggests a budgetary deficit of over six percent or Rs2.2 trillion.

Power sector: in 2013, the power sector’s line losses stood at Rs120 billion. Red alert: the power sector’s line losses have since surged to Rs360 billion. In July 2013, the PML-N government paid Rs480 billion worth of outstanding circular debts. Lo and behold, the circular debt has once again surged to Rs520 billion.

Let’s not forget that on top of the Rs520 billion the government has parked an additional Rs450 billion in a shell company that the government calls Power Holding Company (Pvt) Limited. Lo and behold, Power Holding Company (Pvt) Limited has no money to pay even the interest due on what the government has parked in it. As a result, Power Holding Company (Pvt) Limited has started to borrow even more money just to be able to pay interest on what the government has parked in it. Red alert: the power sector’s accumulated losses stand at a colossal Rs970 billion (and these losses are kept hidden under the mattress).

In another shocking development, Pakistan State Oil’s receivables have surged to Rs334 billion. Lo and behold, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines has defaulted on Rs15.9 billion. Lo and behold, PIA has defaulted on Rs26 billion.

We are a twin-deficit economy. Lo and behold, the historically high current deficit and the multi-trillion rupee budget deficit have indebted each and every Pakistani family to the tune of Rs1 million. He that dies pays all debts – William Shakespeare

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[Falijee]

Farooq Abdullah " Tilts" Towards Pakiland In This Video Address

Farooq Abdullah: Jinnah did not want separate country for Muslims

Triggered yet another controversy, former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah said that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel were responsible for the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and not Mohammad Ali Jinnah. "Even today it is on the record that it was said that we will not divide India. We will keep a special representation and a special dispensation for minorities like Muslims and Sikhs, but we will not divide the nation. Jinnah accepted, but Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad and Sardar Patel did not accept it. Then, Jinnah again demanded Pakistan. The partition would not have happened – today there would be no Bangladesh and Pakistan, it would have been one India,” Abdullah told a gathering.

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According To This Report, Pakistan Is Building A Nuclear Weapons Storage Site In "Occupied Balochistan" .

Potential Nuclear Weapons-Related Military Area in Baluchistan, Pakistan
by David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Frank Pabian. Institute For Science And International Security
August 10, 2017

Pakistan has constructed a hardened, secure, underground complex in Baluchistan Province that could serve as a ballistic missile and nuclear warhead storage site (see figures 1 and 2). The underground complex is near a possible ballistic missile base, first identified in 2016 by Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and Colonel Vinayak Bhat (Ret.), a military intelligence veteran of the Indian Army.1

The purpose of the hardened underground complex is not yet available publicly, but it could serve as a hardened underground storage site for strategic reserves and hence a means of protecting a counterforce nuclear strike capability. Given that Pakistan’s preferred delivery vehicle for nuclear weapons is missiles with warheads and given the physical characteristics of the site, this site is an ideal, probable storage site for parts of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Although the site is located in the province of Baluchistan, which has endured many local insurgencies, Pakistan is likely more focused on having a secure area in a remote mountainous area in the middle of the country, as far as possible from its international borders, including India.

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Afghanistan No More A "Paki Client"

Pakistan loses 50pc market share in Kabul

KARACHI: India has succeeded to penetrate in Kabul slashing the market share of Pakistan by more than 50 per cent in the last two years, Chairman Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry Zubair Motiwala told Dawn on Friday.

Motiwala who recently visited Kabul said the penetration of India and China has limited Pakistan’s option to retain its market share while India subsidises heavily on its exports. He said Pakistan’s trade with Afghanistan fell to $1.2 billion from $2.7bn within in the last two years and the country has been losing even the traditional markets of flour, men and women’s clothes and red meat. Media reports in the past had stated that India has resorted to air freighting as an alternative to Pakistan's disallowance of its territory to Indian traders who want to ship goods by road via Wagah [/quote

India has been providing goods at subsidised rates to capture the market and are providing air tickets with a 75pc rebate, said Motiwala, adding that Afghans find it easy to travel to India with cheap tickets and free multiple visas without police checks.

Each year thousands of Afghans used to visit Peshawar for medical treatment but now they prefer India due to cheaper treatments and other attractions like concessional treatments. “Medical tourism of Peshawar, which was mainly due to Afghans, is now at zero level; hospitals in Hayatabad are empty,” he continued.

He said Peshawar is the main victim of the declining trade with Afghanistan where people have lost their businesses on a large scale. Out of 200 flour mills, about 100 have been closed down due to a drastic fall in the export of flour to Afghanistan, he added.

...India and China are now supplying the readymade suits which are traditionally Pakistani products. Hope it is not a "joint India-China conspiracy" to hurt Pakiland

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Fazl Not Diesel

Geo writes Maulana Diesel instead of Fazl-ur-Rehman, Later apologizes

JUI-F to hold protest after a TV channel ‘accidentally’ refers to party head as ‘Maulana Diesel’

Riled Up Fazl Supporters Will Take To The Streets And March To Geo, If Action Is Not Taken Against Against Those Who Referred To Fazl As "Maulana Diesel"

History Of The Moniker "Diesel"

During the government of late Benazir Bhutto (1993-1996), Fazalur Rehman who was serving as the Minister of Petroleum had shown his keen interest in receiving diesel quotas (AKA making money on the side ) from all over the country, which earned him a title of ‘Maulana Diesel’.