IMO, even the so-called inclusion of Saudia is just plain "hot air"ISLAMABAD - *Pakistan’s ambassador to UAE Moazzam Ahmad Khan had said that Pakistan would happily share the benefits of CPEC with the UAE.*
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the incumbent government was driving Pakistan to devastation owing to its wrong policies.
Selected Prime Minister is creating a situation which is increasing hardship with each passing day,” said Bilawal.
Contrary to its claims of breaking the begging bowl, the PTI started their government with it, Bilawal said
Selected PM. I see what Billoo did there.“Foreign policy statements are being issued via social media, for God’s sake, do not make such important section a joke,” Bilawal continued.
Gonzo! Now the real ashura (self-flaggelation) on baki streets starts. Let the mayhem begin.anupmisra wrote:Ex bakistanis! Have they no respect for the real pakhanis?SBajwa wrote:Bakistan is 181 for 8 now. Need 56 runs in 6 overs. Looks like bookies are making money as most people picked Bakis to win this match!
The way people are threatening Baki team with bombs and guns I doubt they will go back to Bakistan. Baki team will stay in Dubai for couple of month before trying to go back. Sarfaraz Ahmad will lose is captaincy.Peregrine wrote:Asia Cup 2018 Super Four Match 6 Wed 26 September, Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Bangladesh win by 37 runs
Pakistan - 202/9 50/50 ov RR: 4.04
Bangladesh - 239 48.5/50 ov RR: 4.89
Cheers
bismillahirrahmanirrahim, mashallah we won Champions Trophy, buoys played well.Peregrine wrote:Asia Cup 2018 Super Four Match 6 Wed 26 September, Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Bangladesh win by 37 runs
Pakistan - 202/9 50/50 ov RR: 4.04
Bangladesh - 239 48.5/50 ov RR: 4.89
Cheers
KARACHI: A Chinese crowd caught attention on social media this week as it took on a cleanliness drive in a local park in DHA phase 6.
Taking to social media, a local resident reported that the park was prone to littering quite a while but the issue went unattended until one morning the group took cognizance of the issue.
A footage showing the Chinese persons take on an unprecedented move to call out the littering issue by sweeping clean the litters by themselves, also went viral on social media.
One more manifestation of the relentless Chinification of Paki Society ! Who knows what they will do to "time pass" life in Pakiland !"These people in their last round took out bags, spatula and gloves from the car and started cleaning up the place. By the time they leave the park will be litter free," the post captioned.
"The litter that I see in the park is an eyesore for sure. It bothers me but I’ve become immune to the filth and dirt around as everyone else. Today I saw these guys who have taken ownership of the place they are living in, unlike me."
What a perceptive, deep and profound statement. The Chinese are well and truly on their way to own Pakistan, in more ways than one.Falijee wrote:Chinis Have Started "Cleaning Up" (Dirty) Pakistan
"The litter that I see in the park is an eyesore for sure. It bothers me but I’ve become immune to the filth and dirt around as everyone else. Today I saw these guys who have taken ownership of the place they are living in, unlike me."
As per reports, China is building a city for 5,00,000 Chinese nationals in Pakistan at a cost of $ 150 million in Gwadar as a part of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). This will be the first such Chinese city in South Asia. According to a report by the Economic Times, the proposed city housing half a million Chinese will come up by 2022. It will help China to house its workforce for the financial district that it is planning to set up in the port city of Gwadar.
So, it is very likely that Paki and sharia law will not apply in this enclave !This city is set to be a gated zone, and only the Chinese will live in this zone. This virtually means that China is going to own a colony in Pakistan. China-Pakistan Investment Corporation has reportedly bought the 3.6 million square feet international port city and is going to start building the gated zone for the anticipated 5,00,000 strong Chinese workforce which will be located here by 2022. China already has such sub-cities which exclusively cater to the Chinese nationals in Africa and Central Asia. It is being alleged that it is now acquiring such territories in eastern Russia and northern Myanmar as well. Such exclusive zones for the Chinese have also been led to resentment among the local. It seems that our terrorist neighbour is also becoming increasingly vulnerable to dangerous Chinese influence.
CPEC is "under process" . In the meantime, the Chinese have completely cleaned out Paki Foreign Exchange Reserves due to the CPEC maal currently being imported from China . The so-called promised returns on these projects have not kicked it yet because the projects are way, way behind schedule . But the Chinese suppliers of machinery, equipment, services provided etc etc have "demanded" payment in foreign currency and the Pakis have obliged to such an extent that their day to day imports for survival are now in jeopardy and Imran has rushed to mai bap Saudia for some financial relief. ! The Saudis, according to the Pakis , have only "promised", nothing concrete yetCPEC is the most important project as far as Pakistan’s spluttering economy is concerned. Pakistan is at the mercy of China in order to revive its economy which is in shambles. China in turn is looking at this as an opportunity to gain considerable influence in the region. Beijing has been investing in Pakistan’s pipelines, railways, highways, power plants, industrial areas and mobile networks in order to advance the geographical mid-way link for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Moreover, about 20 CPEC projects worth over $27 billion are under the process of implementation across Pakistan.
Give the benefit of the doubt to the tallel than mountain fliendChina has gained unprecedented influence in Pakistan and now the setting up of an exclusive Chinese zone within Pakistan much like a colony shows how China is directly impinging upon Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty and integrity. The Chinese move of setting up its colony in Pakistani port city of Gwadar resembles to a large extent the manner in which the English came to colonise India. The Chinese exclusive zone in Gwadar could very well turn out to be Pakistan’s Fort Williams. The 70-hectares Fort had turned out to be the foundation of the English imperialism in India and the Chinese colony in Pakistan bears striking similarity to the same.
Land around Gwadar does not belong to the Chinese or the Pakis . It is rightful Baloch territory !The way this gated zone is going will make Pakistanis feel like foreigners/ intruders on their very own soil also suggests the birth of apartheid in Pakistan. The Chinese are going to assert their supremacy over Pakistani locals and natives. But Pakistan will have to tolerate the Chinese excesses and even blatant discrimination. It is too weak to do anything about it. Pakistan which never kept economic and social progress in mind is trapped in a debt crisis and is totally at the mercy of Chinese. In the fiscal year 2017-18, Pakistan received $4.5 billion worth of loans from China apart from $ 1.5 billion trade facility. In the preceding year, China had extended $ 3.9 billion worth of loans from China. Therefore, in the garb of CPEC China has been doling out loans to the Islamic nation and has been crippling its sovereignty. Notwithstanding its shoddy and brief history, Pakistan is moving towards its darkest phase.
There will be more destruction of TVs and clean up by the Chinese; leading to more import of TVs from Cheen. CPEC is a true gamechanger!anupmisra wrote:Gonzo! Now the real ashura (self-flaggelation) on baki streets starts. Let the mayhem begin.anupmisra wrote:
Ex bakistanis! Have they no respect for the real pakhanis?
I was trying to think what the General looks like today. It took me a while. Put some gold chains and rings on him, he has the required cigar and scotch, import some Pak Teenager girls for his stable, and lo and behold: A Pimp Daddy, supplying recreation to the Sheikhs.Falijee wrote:Rajeev Shukla
Verified account @ShuklaRajiv
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Watching indo pak match in dubai with sheikh zaruni Ck Khanna & Parvez musharraf
There were some reports that suggested that Mush "ran away" from the stadium as the match did not go the way he would have liked to
Dr Shakil Afridi is a traitor and the Pakistan government must be restrained from relocating him anywhere outside the country, a lawyer stated in a petition filed in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday, according to a local media report.The PHC bench again sought the federal government’s response on the writ petition, which urged the court to restrain the authorities concerned from transferring Dr Shakil Afridi outside the country.
The petition, filed by a senior lawyer Muhammad Khurshid Khan, ( any ties to Deep State) was heard by a two-judge bench of the PHC, comprising Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim, and issued notices to all respondents. Terming all such moves illegal and unconstitutional, the petitioner requested the court to stop the authorities concerned in this regard.
Dr Shakil Afridi, who was serving as a surgeon in the Khyber Agency, has been languishing in jail since 2011 when he was arrested for running a fake vaccination campaign ostensibly to identify Osama bin Laden’s residence and helping the US forces to track down and kill the al-Qaida terrorist.
Afridi was produced before a four-member tribal court, headed by the then political agent of Khyber Agency, and was sentenced to a 33-year-long jail term in May 2012.
POTUS himself has taken a personal interest in Afridi's fate . And the ISI agent, who walked into the US Embassy and supplied information to Massa about OBL , has been given a new identity by Massa and is safely ensconced somewhere in USAAfridi’s lawyer contended that Afridi had served his sentence and sought the court to immediately free the man, adding that as a free man, he had the right to live wherever he wanted.“Dr Shakil Afridi is a traitor. He worked in Pakistan as a US operative,” the petitioner alleged. “This is one of the reasons (why) the American government is pressing Pakistan for his release,” the petitioner stated.
Accusing the Pakistani government of striking a deal with the US government for Afridi’s release, he requested the court to restrain the government from acting on any such deal.
Subsequently, the two-judge bench directed the provincial home minister and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government through the chief secretary and the federal interior minister to submit a response by the next hearing.
nterior Minister Shehryar Afridi on Wednesday informed the National Assembly that about 35 cases of dengue fever had been reported in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) this year.
The German Amb Herr Kobbler recently drew the attention of Isloo authorities to the unsanitation like conditions near the German Embassy and a result of his "complaint" the area was clean up . So, he deserves some credit as well for "only" 35 cases of Dengue feverThe minister said this while responding to a calling attention notice regarding an outbreak of dengue fever in Islamabad Capital Territory. He said that during last year about 103 cases of dengue fever were reported in the federal capital. The minister said that peak time of the dengue fever in the country is from October to mid of November.
But...but...but...Yawn published this yesterdin and quoted qureshi:Falijee wrote: Why the Eff they are peddling fake news
To do an = = just because Sushma-ji met The Donald yesterday
Even Qureshi did not "boast" about this meet on his Teeter Account !
And there is no photu to back up this (fake ) news !
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who is in New York to attend the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), on Tuesday met US President Donald Trump in New York and discussed matters relating to bilateral relations.
Talking to the PTV, Qureshi said that President Trump, during an informal meeting at a luncheon in New York, extended good wishes for Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The foreign minister said he apprised the US president about the persistent need to "rephrase the historic relations between Pakistan and the US", adding that during the meeting he found the attitude of President Trump to be positive.
So, who is lying? Qureshi, Yawn, or Fawad Rehman?Qureshi said he also met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife
The episode happened on Tuesday at a luncheon on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting
US President Donald Trump had a handshake with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi during a luncheon in New York, the White House said, but Qureshi described it as an "informal meeting" when they discussed bilateral ties.
Qureshi in an interview to the official Pakistani media described it as an "informal meeting" with Trump during which, he claimed, they discussed matters relating to bilateral relations.
Several Pakistani media outlets, including Dawn and Pakistan Tribune, reported the "informal meeting" citing the PTV report.
However, the White House said only a handshake happened between the two at the luncheon.
"It was a handshake at a luncheon with other world leaders," a National Security Council spokesperson told PTI.
Informed sources in New York tracking Trump's engagement confirmed to PTI that Trump had no meeting with Qureshi and that it was never planned.
The pool of reporters who follow Trump and report about his meetings with the world leaders did not mention the US president's meeting with Qureshi either.
Ouch, that's an insult of mega size.So qureshi (and by extension PTV and yawn) lied.The White House pool, which covered the luncheon, also did not mention Trump having a long chat with Qureshi, which would have had come to the attention of the reporters.
It is a hot and humid day and the electricity is out in the small village of Chak 76-5R. Local lambardar, Tariq Tufail, is sitting on a charpoy outside his house surrounded by other villagers. They are using Chinese handheld fans to cool themselves. The irony is that the village is located under the shadow of a newly set-up coal power plant owned by a Chinese firm, Huaneng Shandong Ruyi.
Chak 76-5R is part of Sahiwal district where canal-irrigated farming is the mainstay of the local economy. Many farmers in the village, however, had to give up their farmland to make way for the power plant.
“It was coercion,” claims Tufail as he recalls the process of land acquisition. Farmers, he says, were “blackmailed” into giving up their land. “The government officials came one night, put the resisting villagers in a van and took them to a police station where anti-terrorism cases were registered against them,” he alleges. “Some of them are still fighting those cases in court.”
During the plant’s construction there were plenty of jobs for local young men to work as labourers. Once the plant became functional, their services were no longer needed since running it required specialised and skilled labour that the villagers could not offer.
Then there came an additional worry: the water table in the area started falling due to its usage in the plant’s operations. The villagers claim water has receded by about 15 feet since construction for the plant began two years ago.Hain.. are they sure it is not the Evil baniyas across the border who are responsible
Syed Akhtar Ali, a former member of the Planning Commission of Pakistan, says the investment required to set up a power plant is very high — to the tune of two billion US dollars. Since most Pakistani investors do not have this kind of financial pull, the government announced that it will exempt foreign investment in electricity generation from various taxes. The investors were also allowed to bring the required machinery into Pakistan at just five per cent import tax. To make the investment opportunities more attractive, the government guaranteed that it will pay the power producers as per their capacity rather than actual generation of electricity by them.A private power producer will, thus, get paid even if it produces no electricity at all
The usual case of Pakistani’s being Pakistani’sanupmisra wrote:Lets dig a little deeper and ask googlechacha.
Just a handshake at lunch: US on Pak's claim of 'informal meet' with Trump
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Ouch, that's an insult of mega size.So qureshi (and by extension PTV and yawn) lied.
https://www.business-standard.com/artic ... 111_1.html
. Ohh . . . it is all meant to be a scam, like the huge funds being collected by the Pakistani CJI et al for the Kalabagh Dam!Manish_P wrote:The high price of producing electricity with coal. . . To make the investment opportunities more attractive, the government guaranteed that it will pay the power producers as per their capacity rather than actual generation of electricity by them.A private power producer will, thus, get paid even if it produces no electricity at all
CheersISLAMABAD: International creditors have given loans of $716.5 million to Pakistan in the first two months of fiscal year 2019, which were sufficient to meet only 35% of estimated foreign debt servicing requirement of the first quarter, further draining the foreign currency reserves.
If, this is believable than Imran's trip to Saudia two weeks ago was only "empty Saudi promises" ( that is how the Saudis operate, at least IMO !) . They might throw some crumbs to the First Islami Atomi Takat by selling them "concessional oil" !Pakistan’s government will meet with International Monetary Fund officials on Thursday with a potential bailout looking increasingly likely, according to a member of the country’s Economic Advisory Council.
An IMF visiting delegation will sit down with Pakistani officials at 11 a.m. in Islamabad, according to the finance ministry. While the talks are part of routine Article IV discussions, Pakistan’s need for external funding and its widening current-account and fiscal deficits will likely loom over the meeting.
And the IMF will extract their pound of flesh no doubt : full disclosure of CPEC agreements, privatization of ( white elephants like) PIA , increase in water and electricity rates, robust tax collection methods etc etc !“Pakistan’s economy has never been in such a bad shape,” Ashfaque Hasan Khan, an economic adviser to the government and the dean at the business school of Islamabad’s National University of Sciences and Technology, told Bloomberg. Khan said the lack of drastic changes or spending cuts in a revised budget presented this month suggested “perhaps the government has decided to go to the IMF.”
So far, Prime Minister Imran Khan has signaled reluctance to seek aid from the IMF, which may come with considerable constraints. After Khan’s July election victory, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he would oppose the use of IMF funds to pay off billions of dollars of opaque Chinese loans that Pakistan has taken on. The former cricket star has been trying to drum up cash from friendly countries -- including China and Saudi Arabia -- as well as making appeals to its diaspora as he seeks to roll out an“Islamic welfare state.”Islamic Farewell State
Not to speak of the political problems: dispute with India, Iran and Afghanistan. Alienation of non -Pakjabi sections of the populace, etc etc !The government has deep problems to fix. Less than 1 percent of the nation’s more than 200 million people file tax returns, foreign-currency reserves have plunged by a third this year to below $10 billion, the current-account deficit stands at more than 5 percent of gross domestic product and the rupee is down 12 percent against the dollar this year. It’s a familiar pattern for South Asia’s second-largest economy, which has taken 12 IMF loans since the late 1980s.
The economic adviser said the government and IMF will probably address the external gap and size of a possible bailout package size in this week’s meetings, though a final decision is unlikely to be taken, he said. Officials at the IMF in Islamabad declined to comment, while Noor Ahmed, a spokesman for the finance ministry, said “all options are on the table, nothing has been ruled out.”
The IMF meetings come ahead of a central bank meeting on Saturday, where the State Bank of Pakistan’s Monetary Policy Committee is expected to raise interest rates by 50 basis points to 8 percent, according to a median estimate of 13 economists in an ongoing Bloomberg survey.
ISLAMABAD . A citizen from Islamabad bought one of the buffaloes put up for auction by the prime minister house on Thursday at an exorbitant price. Qalab Abbas, who belongs to the Jhangi Syedan area of the capital, successfully won the bid at Rs 3,85,000 to purchase the buffalo and when asked why he splashed so much money for the purchase, the bidder came up with an interesting reason.‘I have purchased the buffalo at this price as a memorial of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif,’ said Abbas.
As many as 8 Nili-Ravi buffaloes were put up for auction by the PM House as part of the austerity drive promised by the incumbent premier Imran Khan.Two more buffaloes were handed over to the successful bidders for price Rs 3,00,000 and Rs 3,30,000 respectively; interestingly, all three of the bidders are Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz loyalists.
Another buyer Haji Imdad Ali told private media that he had bought the buffaloe out of affection for his leader Nawaz Sharif.I will keep these animals at my farmhouse and then gift it to Nawaz Sharif, he said.
With the sale of these animals, there is no need to approach the IMF or the Saudis with a "begging bowl"The auctioning is being carried out in the PM House and the money collected through the process would be deposited in the national exchequer. The auctioning of buffaloes comes on the heels of auctioning of ultra-luxury vehicles of the PM House that were handed over to the successful bidders on September 17th. As much as Rs 200 million was reportedly raised in the first phase.
Of course , the "rejection" is good for public perception ( we do not do special favours blah blah blah !)ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Asad Umar rejected a summary forwarded to him by the Cabinet Division for relaxation of rules, allowing former Sindh Governor Mohammad Zubair to receive pension, Daily Jang reported Thursday.
When the "current heat subsides" (in the winter months! ) a way will be found- legal or otherwise - to "accommodate" the elder Umer . After all, blood is thicker than waterAccording to details, a summary was prepared to be presented before Prime Minister Imran Khan for approval of ex-governor Zubair's pension release against rules by relaxing the set terms and conditions for the provision.
In Pakistan rules are meant to be broken !Under the rules, a governor is only eligible to receive pension if he has served in the same capacity for at least two years but Zubair, who is also brother of the finance minister, remained in the office for just 18 months from Feb 02, 2017 to Aug 03, 2018, thus ineligible for the facility.However, the concerned official prepared a favourable proposal citing examples from the past in this regard when during Pervaz Musharraf and Pakistan Peoples' Party regimes a few governors were facilitated, among them was former Punjab governor Latif Khosa.The Cabinet Divison forwarded the summary through Finance Ministry where it was put before Asad Umar for approval but he rejected the summary right away (Optics my friend, nothing but opticsPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf vows to prefer merit over nepotism, however, a few important tasks have been assigned to Imran Khan’s friends.Jang Group is one of the two media houses in the cross hair of the Deep State !British national Syed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari, commonly known as Zulfi Bukhari, is the latest induction in Imran Khan’s official team, while some other friends have already been given cabinet berths, either at the center or in Punjab.Khan's friend and British-Pakistani entrepreneur Aneel Musarrat recently made headlines when he was allowed to attend a cabinet meeting in Islamabad on Monday. Musarrat subsequently told The News that he would provide free advice to PM Imran Khan on his plans to build five million low-cost homes, but would not take up any formal role in the cabinet.
Kalat: The Khanate of Kalat was a princely state that existed from 1666 to 1955 in the centre of the modern-day province of Balochistan, Pakistan. ...It was briefly independent from August 1947 till March 1948, when its aging Khan, falling for djinnah's subterfuge and guile, reluctantly acceded his state to the new Dominion of Pakistan. It remained a princely state of Pakistan until 1955, when it was forcibly and illegally incorporated into the country. Hundreds of thousands of Baloch have vanished or perished in their fight for freedom since then.Falijee wrote:Two soldiersmartyredDie in operation againstterroristsBaluch Freedom Fighters in Kalat
Disappointed Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed has revealed he lost sleep for six days during his team´s flop at the Asia Cup.
Sarfraz said the pressure of captaincy and not scoring runs led to some disturbed nights.
Pakistani captains, whoever they are, always have pressure. (Try a stool softener, pal)
The truth is that if I say I haven´t slept for the last six nights nobody will believe me
I will say again we don´t need to press the panic button.
Now, if only Herr Genraile AAK Niazi had owned up like the paki kaptaan, that would have been something.My performance isn´t good so the team lost. The team lost because of me.
So he is complaining that international lenders did not give them enough by the way of fresh loans to cover the interest payment of the existing loans? Highly absurd, but he is a Paki after all.Peregrine wrote:Pakistan receives insufficient foreign loans worth $717m - Shahbaz RanaCheersISLAMABAD: International creditors have given loans of $716.5 million to Pakistan in the first two months of fiscal year 2019, which were sufficient to meet only 35% of estimated foreign debt servicing requirement of the first quarter, further draining the foreign currency reserves.
Sorry for my weak understand of economics, but can someone clarify what that means exactly?Peregrine wrote:Pakistan’s economic growth likely to slow down to 4.8% - Shahbaz Rana
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has cut its economic growth forecast for Pakistan to only 4.8% and increased the inflation estimate to 6.5% while urging the new government to take immediate corrective measures to take pressure off the budget and external account.
Peregrine wrote:Pakistan’s economic growth likely to slow down to 4.8% - Shahbaz Rana
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has cut its economic growth forecast for Pakistan to only 4.8% and increased the inflation estimate to 6.5% while urging the new government to take immediate corrective measures to take pressure off the budget and external account.
Bart S Ji :Bart S wrote:Sorry for my weak understand of economics, but can someone clarify what that means exactly?
Does it mean that they will grow by 11.3% and their real growth rate will be 4.8%, or is 4.8% their nominal growth rate with negative real growth once inflation is factored in?
I agree, but my doubt is about what their real growth rate is? Is it 4.8%? Or was the nominal figure?Peregrine wrote: The real economic growth rate, also referred to as the growth rate of real GDP, is a more useful measure than the nominal GDP growth rate because it considers the effect of inflation on economic data.
Cheers
Peregrine wrote:The real economic growth rate, also referred to as the growth rate of real GDP, is a more useful measure than the nominal GDP growth rate because it considers the effect of inflation on economic data.
Cheers
Bart S Ji :Bart S wrote:I agree, but my doubt is about what their real growth rate is? Is it 4.8%? Or was the nominal figure?
If that is indeed their real growth rate, are they really growing at over 10% nominally?
Of course, their increase in population negates most of their growth anyway.
Right on both counts.Bart S wrote:I agree, but my doubt is about what their real growth rate is? Is it 4.8%? Or was the nominal figure? If that is indeed their real growth rate, are they really growing at over 10% nominally? Of course, their increase in population negates most of their growth anyway.
