Terroristan - July 27, 2018

[Falijee]

In This Long Interview , Imran Khan Tries To Justify His Use Of "Corrupt Politicians And Money" To Grab Power In Pakiland For His PTI Party !

You can’t win without electables and money: Imran
Dawn
July 5, 2018

n a conversation with Dawn during his election campaign in Karachi on Wednesday, Mr Khan said that although he cannot vouch for each of the near 700 national and provincial-level candidates his party has fielded to contest the upcoming elections, he is playing with what exists in Pakistan’s political class. “You contest elections to win. You don’t contest elections to be a good boy. I want to win. I am fighting elections in Pakistan, not Europe. I can’t import European politicians,” Mr Khan said.

[Bart S]

Pop quiz: what is common in all these pakjabis besides their national origin?

All are Sauth Asians?
No girls under 9 years were harmed?
It was a YYY conspiracy to frame 'innocent' Muslims and defame Malsi?
No proper lobby to present a good image?

To quote the incessant refrain on their TV channels, the civilian government has been unsuccessful at effectively building a strong narrative for Pakistan

[Falijee]

Paki "Con Gang" Arrested By Police ! Tried To Buy " Eid Sacrificial Goat" With Fake Currency ! How Low Can One Get !

Criminals arrested for buying boy's goat through fake currency
News International
Aug 17, 2018

Peshawar police detained, on Friday, the offenders who bought a goat from a young boy in exchange for fake currency earlier this week.
As per reports, Peshawar Police arrested the group on Friday who had been deceitfully buying goats through fake currency, after footage of a weeping boy who had fallen prey to their devices was circulated widely online.The viral video showed the boy sobbing after losing his goat to scammers who handed him phony notes in altercation for the animal.

Eid is just "around the corner". So are Paki con-men to prey on them

The boy was later handed the lost amount of Rs50,000 along with Eid clothes and shoes, through an effort by students and vice chancellor of Peshawar’s Iqra National University who had collectively accumulated the money for him.

So, there was a silver lining in this case . !!!

The act of kindness by the students and the vice chancellor had garnered ample appreciation their way by users online.

Be sure to stay tuned, as this is probably not the last that will be reported . Naya Pakistan anyone ? Imran should start cracking his whip. Specially in his home base of Peshawar , where the locals are now going after the transgenders (aka hijras !) like there is no tomorrow

[Bart S]

Five wars that Pakistan lost: And why India shouldn’t let it lose another one :



From here:

Times Of India

Please read the article in full. Totally pukeworthy and the author is one absolutely delusional effing idiot. Actually perhaps he isn't an idiot nor is he delusional, just involved in something more sinister.

[Peregrine]

FO rejects charges Pakistanis aided Taliban in Ghazni - The Newspaper's Staff Reporter

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office rejected on Thursday allegations that Pakistani citizens had supported the Taliban attack on Afghanistan’s city of Ghazni recently.

“We have not received any evidence to back up these spurious accusations and reject these baseless allegations,” FO spokesman Dr Muhammad Faisal said, rejecting allegations made by Afghan officials and others.

Last Friday, some 1,000 Taliban fighters stormed the city of Ghazni and retreated five days later.

Afghan defence minister Tariq Shah Bahrami had earlier this week said that Ghazni attack had been carried out by Taliban with the support of external elements, including Pakistanis.

Moreover, The New York Times had reported that Afghan officials had claimed the Taliban were aided by foreign fighters, including Pakistanis and Chechens, and even some Al Qaeda affiliates.

Cheers

[Falijee]

ISI Behind Ghazni Attack : Afghan Army Chief Of Staff Gen Yaftali !

Afghanistan, Pakistan at Odds Over Ghazni Assault Claims
VOA
Aug 16, 2018

Afghan officials claim that dozens of Pakistani nationals were among more than 400 militants killed in fierce battles in southeastern Ghazni province in the past several days."During the Taliban attack in Ghazni province, over 400 terrorists were killed, including 70 Pakistani nationals whose bodies are ready to be transferred to Pakistan in Jahangir Bazar, a local market located between Muqur and Gelan districts [Ghazni province]," said Wahidullah Kalimzai, governor of Ghazni province.Kalimzai added that other foreign nationals were among the dead militants during battles. He also said at least 100 Afghan national security forces and dozens of civilians were killed.

"Some of the dead bodies of Chechens remain in the battlefield. Documents found in their position prove they were Chechen nationals," the governor said.The Afghan Ministry of Defense also said it confirmed the presence of Pakistani nationals fighting in Ghazni province, but did not give details pending an investigation."Pakistanis are involved in the southeastern Ghazni battle. The clearing operation is still underway, and we are investigating this issue," Sayed Ghafoor Ahmad Jawid, a spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, told VOA.

Last week, the Afghan army chief of general staff, General Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was behind the five-day siege of Ghazni."Pakistan is the springboard of international terrorism. All terrorists first land in Pakistan, where they get armed, equipped and then sent to Afghanistan to fight," Yaftali told reporters in Kabul. He also said many members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a U.S.-designated terror group, were among those killed in Ghazni province.

Reports from Pakistan's border region in recent days have cited local officials and social media photos and videos appearing to indicate that militant groups have transported dead fighters from the Ghazni battle back to Pakistan for burial.Afrasiab Khattak, a former senator and current senior member of the Awami National Party, asked his own government to explain the bodies when authorities insist no Pakistani nationals were involved. "The dead bodies from the southeastern Ghazni battle that were shifted to Pakistan — some Pakistani groups have posted photos of the dead bodies and have invited people to attend funeral ceremonies of their members on social media. These groups have proudly stated that those men were killed there [in Ghazni]," Khattak told VOA.

Local sources in Pakistan told VOA that bodies have been transported to different provinces of Pakistan, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Baluchistan, from across the border.
According to these sources, Usman, a militant commander; Haq Nawaz, a militant from Hangu district; and Rashid Badini, a militant from southwestern Baluchistan province, were among those killed in Ghazni, and people were visiting their families to offer condolences.

Local Pakistani officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, told VOA that many Pakistani militants killed in Afghanistan allegedly belonged to Mullah Nazir, an allegedly pro-government militant group.

They also said dozens of dead bodies were taken to Punjab's Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur and Khara areas. The dead bodies allegedly were brought from Wana from Afghanistan, where they were transported to southern parts of Punjab province. VOA could not independently verify these claims.

In January, U.S. President Donald Trump charged that Islamabad had failed to take action against terror safe havens in Pakistan and suspended military aid to the country.

Pakistani officials deny the charges and maintain that the country has equally targeted all militant groups and suffered enormous losses.Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the United States, told VOA in an interview in May that his country had done the most against terrorism in the region and that no country could accuse it of not doing enough.

An ambassador is by definition a person who lies for the good of his country. IMO, it is the case here !

[Falijee]

Najam Sethi Predicts That The Noose Is Now Tightening Around Dus Percenti And His Cronies Plus Against The Ganja Clan Sycophants And The Corrupt Bureaucrats !

All Hail the Chief!
17 Aug 2018
Friday Times

NAB, FIA and the Courts are making headlines every day. What’s the message? On the eve of the election of the PM in the National Assembly, Asif Zardari’s business partner Anwar Majeed et al were arrested by the FIA in a case of money laundering via dozens of fake bank accounts after the Supreme Court denied them pre-arrest bail. This spells trouble for the PPP. Earlier, Mr Zardari and his sister Feryal Talpur’s lawyer had to submit to some harsh questioning in the same case by the SC, suggesting that both are living on borrowed time.

The PMLN is also on the spot. Fawad Hasan Fawad, the civil servant who has served both brothers Shahbaz Sharif and Nawas Sharif by turns, is already in NAB custody. So, too, is another civil servant, Ahad Cheema, who was close to ex-CM Shahbaz Sharif and lorded it over the Lahore Development Authority which is the hot spot under scrutiny for corrupt land grabs. Now comes the news that Ali Siddiqui, the PMLN-appointed Pakistan Ambassador to Washington, has been summoned again to appear before NAB in a case for investigation initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan. Not to be forgotten is PMLN stalwart and ex-Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique whose hand is perceived in dubious land deals under investigation. A far more sinister move centers on the outcome of the Model Town police massacre in June 2014 in which another civil servant, Dr Tauqeer Shah, who was close to ex-CM Shahbaz Sharif, is being grilled with the aim of implicating the Sharifs.

What about PPP , and PML MNAs and MPPs who switched sides are are now sitting as PTI legislators. Would they be "booked" as well for corruption and abuse of authority , while as legislatures under the previous regimes

Meanwhile, the shoddy treatment being meted out to ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should not be missed. The courts from top to bottom have treated him harshly by denying him a fair hearing in due process. To add insult to injury, the spectacle of dragging a popular ex-Prime Minister to court in an SUV used for transporting high value terrorists is meant to reinforce the same message. Wow! And this the "guy" who defied western pressure and did the Islamic Bum Blast ( with Chini help of course )

The message to both PPP and PMLN is: Behave or else.

Imran's Naya Pakistan

Dutifully, the PPP has refused to cooperate with the PMLN in Punjab and Islamabad. In Punjab, the two could have jointly wooed the Independents and cobbled a coalition government led by the PMLN but the PTI was handed the coveted prize when the PPP announced its decision not to join hands with the PMLN. Indeed, the PPP went so far as to even deny support to the PMLN nominee for the Speaker of the Punjab Assembly. Much the same sort of non-cooperative stance has prevailed in Islamabad. The PPP has refused to stand with Shahbaz Sharif on fielding him as their joint candidate for prime ministership despite the fact that the PMLN supported the PPP in fielding its Syed Khurshid Shah as their joint candidate for Speakership. Indeed, the PPP was conspicuous by its silence when the PMLN protested in parliament after the election of the PTI Speaker. It is significant that the PPP has changed its stance of joining hands with the PMLN to make a strong opposition in Punjab and Islamabad following the overnight trials and tribulations of Mr Zardari, Feryal Talpur and Anwar Majeed.

No less significant is the stance adopted by Shahbaz Sharif which is at odds with that of Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz wanted his party to make a determined bid to form a government in Punjab and a strong, united and vociferous opposition in Islamabad. Yet Shahbaz made no serious attempt to woo the Independents or the PPP in Punjab and opted for Islamabad rather than Punjab as his home for the next five years. Nor did he whip up crowds to protest the shoddy treatment meted out to Nawaz Sharif during his comings and goings to NAB courts in police custody. Clearly, he too has got the message to behave or else.

The "clever brother" turned out to be a "showbaaz" after all ! Ganja, appears to be made of much "sterner material, IMO

The media is also in the same boat. As the fate of GEO demonstrates, those channels which don’t behave and toe the line will be sorted out. The few independent journalists left have been gagged by their employers or threatened and browbeaten into submission. After successful censorship on Facebook and YouTube, the last frontier on the internet of freedom for citizens and political parties — Twitter — is about to fall too. Pak Telecom Authority has informed a Senate Standing Committee that Twitter has refused to oblige the government’s request to block “objectionable commentary targeting the state and its institutions”. Not unsurprisingly, the PTA told the Committee that “the Islamabad High Court is determined to teach Twitter a lesson”.

As noted earlier , in this Forum, with Twitter, it is a case of the Echendee factor, no "dictation" will be tolerated from Twitter , India !!!

The PTI is also being “managed” behind the scenes. This much is obvious from the nominations approved by Imran Khan for key posts in government and parliament despite popular disgruntlement in the party. Indeed, Imran sheepishly shook hands with Mr Zardari and Bilawal but not with Shahbaz Sharif.

So we now have a loyal government, a loyal opposition, a loyal media and a loyal court. All Hail the Chief!

So, Imran is doing the "dirty work" of the Deep State . But will that help him in the long run , in making his "beloved" Naya Pakistan a reality . Time will surely tell

[Peregrine]

Non-bailable arrest warrants issued for Zardari in money laundering case - Arshad Baig

KARACHI: A banking court issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and 15 other accused in the fake bank accounts case.

During the hearing of Rs35 billion money laundering case, the prosecution stated that arrest warrants were issued in an earlier hearing for the accused who were declared absconders in the charge sheet submitted by the investigative agency in July. Former PSX chairman Hussain Lawai is among the accused.

However, a statement issued by the PPP said Zardari’s counsel Farooq H Naek denied that the court had issued arrest warrants for Zardari.

Those who were declared absconders include the former president, his sister and MPA Faryal Talpur, chairman of a private bank, Anwar Majeed, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Aslam Masood, Mohammad Arif Khan, Adeel Shah Rashidi, Nasser Abdullah Hussain, Mohammad Ashraf, Adnan Jawed, Mohammad Umair, Iqbal Arain, Qasim Ali, Shahzad Ali, Azam Wazir Khan, Sher Mohammad Mugheri, Zain Malik, Mohammad Iqbal Khan Noori, Nimr Majid and Mustafa Zulqarnain.

The authorities have been instructed to present the accused before the court on September 4.

It is pertinent to note that Talpur had been granted bail on July 23 by a lower court against a surety bond of Rs2 million and submission of her passport.

The FIA also requested the banking court for a 14-day remand of Anwar Majeed. The accused’s counsel, Naek, opposed the appeal.

After hearing arguments from both sides, the court granted physical remand of Omni group’s chairman and his son Abdul Ghani Majeed until August 24.

Speaking to the media, an FIA representative said the remand was to further probe and obtain documents from the accused in the money laundering case.

The hearing has been adjourned till August 25.

Cheers

[Falijee]

According To This Jemima Tweet, The Kaptaan Disappoints His Own - Suleiman And Kasim :

emima Goldsmith
‏Verified account @Jemima_Khan
Replying to @maryamshabbir64 @On_Crack407

They wanted to be there. Their father asked them not to come.

Just wondering - The Peerni Effect ? Is there still room for bonding between him and his kids ?

[anupmisra]

FO rejects charges Pakistanis aided Taliban in Ghazni - The Newspaper's Staff Reporter

What evidence is the paki FO looking for? What will satisfy their ever cynical minds? One of their genrails got hallaled and its not good enough. "He went there on a private capacity".

[anupmisra]

‏Jemima_Khan:
They wanted to be there. Their father asked them not to come.

Nope. Not safe for them, especially when the randy pakhtoons are around.

[anupmisra]

Air Chief flies a mission in concluding phase of exercise Saffron Bandit

Saffron Bandit? Is that an indirect swipe at the Hindus?

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/35651 ... ron-bandit

[Peregrine]

Will bashing Pakistan help? - By Riaz Khokhar

The US has not only failed in eliminating terrorism from Afghanistan but also has been unable to eradicate opium production, rid the country of ‘irredeemable corruption’ and inefficiency of Afghan officials. It has also ceded vast swathes of territory, especially in rural areas, to the Taliban, guided arguably by its ‘force protection’ principle.

Training and equipping the Afghan security forces is the linchpin of the US Afghan policy, for which it has reportedly spent at least $78 billion. But according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, as many as 1,500 soldiers and police and hundreds of reinforcements have failed in ousting the Taliban from Ghazni, which the Taliban have occupied since August 10, 2018.

According to the July 2018 report of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, terrorist violence in Afghanistan has resulted in more casualties in the first six months of 2018 than at any other time in a decade. A BBC report in February 2018 concluded that the Taliban are actively present in 70% of Afghanistan. The opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan too ‘reached a record high’ in 2017, as it increased 63% from 2016. The Taliban have funded themselves from the rapidly expanding illegal economy of opium and heroin that was worth 20-30% of the Afghan GDP.

Regardless of taking into account all these factors for its Afghan debacle, the US has played up Pakistan’s alleged sanctuaries for the Taliban as the excuse to shift blames elsewhere. The US has resorted to diplomatically coercive techniques to punish Pakistan with economic and diplomatic costs. It also lobbied in the Financial Action Task Force to grey-list Pakistan, and recently, voiced opposition to the IMF bailout to Pakistan.

Arguably, the increasing diplomatic coercion by the US is bound to prove a desultory grail. Daniel Byman and Mathew Waxman in their book The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might state that coercive threats are less likely to succeed if the coercer does not achieve escalation dominance. That is to say, the success of coercion depends on the ability of the coercer (the US) to increase the ‘threatened costs’, while simultaneously, ensuring that the target (Pakistan) does not neutralise those threats (counter-escalation).

In the light of this framework, it can be argued that Pakistan has had a diverse availability of alternatives if the US, for instance, refuses to provide high-tech defence equipment or chokes the security and financial assistance.

Pakistan’s relations with China have deepened and expanded from formerly defence relations to currently increasing economic cooperation through CPEC. China has replaced the US as the largest import origin of Pakistan’s defence equipment during the 2012-17 period. Pakistan has also diversified its defence purchases as it made a defence agreement with Russia in 2015. Both the countries have also been conducting joint military drills. Full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has progressively strengthened its economic and defence relationship with both these countries.

Saudi Arabia is another alternative that invariably helps Pakistan in the times of crisis. Recently it agreed to infuse $2 billion and backed the Islamic Development Bank to provide $4 billion to Pakistan’s central bank to shore up its foreign reserves and give the country a quantum of solace from the ongoing balance-of-payments crisis.

Thus, Pakistan’s ‘counter-escalation’ moves have neutralised to a considerable extent the US efforts to hurt Pakistan with the threatened financial and security costs. Thus, the coercive diplomacy alone isn’t going to help the US’s Afghanistan fiasco. There is a need for adopting a “more flexible diplomacy, which involves rational persuasion and accommodation” along with coercive threats.

The US needs, in the words of Vali Nasr, Dean of John Hopkins, to accommodate Pakistan’s “deep security concerns in Afghanistan” with respect to India, instead of “bully[ing] a country of [208 million], with nuclear weapons, on whose roads, ports and facilities and military support it depends to fight the war in Afghanistan.”

Cheers

[sanjaykumar]

Thus, Pakistan’s ‘counter-escalation’ moves have neutralised to a considerable extent the US efforts to hurt Pakistan with the threatened financial and security costs. Thus, the coercive diplomacy alone isn’t going to help the US’s Afghanistan fiasco. There is a need for adopting a “more flexible diplomacy, which involves rational persuasion and accommodation” along with coercive threats.



Sure Mac, and threatening to lighten the US of another few billion through the IMF has them quaking in their boots.

[Bart S]

^Isn't that Vali Nasr guy the one behind Holbroke's pandering to Pakis and being biased against India?

Air Chief flies a mission in concluding phase of exercise Saffron Bandit

Saffron Bandit? Is that an indirect swipe at the Hindus?

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/35651 ... ron-bandit

It's as direct as it can get, they aren't even pretending to hide their bigotry anymore.

[Falijee]

Will bashing Pakistan help? - By Riaz Khokhar

Cheers

Too many "Riaz Khokhars" floating around in Isloo circles . For a moment I thought that this was the KHOKHAR "expert" on India ( Ex Amb !) Belongs to a different "Khokar Club" . "Specialist on Saudia, Afghanistan and Chin", this one

PS: Biradari might be same

[sum]

^Isn't that Vali Nasr guy the one behind Holbroke's pandering to Pakis and being biased against India?

Air Chief flies a mission in concluding phase of exercise Saffron Bandit

Saffron Bandit? Is that an indirect swipe at the Hindus?

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/35651 ... ron-bandit

It's as direct as it can get, they aren't even pretending to hide their bigotry anymore.

I believe they have always called it Saffron bandit and they dont really bother hiding what it is supposed to mean

[chetak]

^Isn't that Vali Nasr guy the one behind Holbroke's pandering to Pakis and being biased against India?

Air Chief flies a mission in concluding phase of exercise Saffron Bandit

Saffron Bandit? Is that an indirect swipe at the Hindus?

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/35651 ... ron-bandit

It's as direct as it can get, they aren't even pretending to hide their bigotry anymore.

just like the names of their naqli missiles and almost every "exercise" of theirs has an anti India name and stance.

Nothing new.

The external green paint on them may be paki.

The names of some of the naqli missiles are:

Ghaznavi Missiles: Ghaznavi is a surface-to-surface short range ballistic missile named after Mahmud Ghaznavi, an 11th century Persian invader of Turkic origin who was the ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire, which consisted of modern day Pakistan, Afghanistan and eastern Iran. During his rule, the Mahmud of Ghazni invaded India 17 times and attained notoriety for destroying and looting the Somnath Temple (revered by Hindus).

Ghauri Missile: This series of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles is named after the Mohammad of Ghor, a 12th century ruler of Afghan Ghurid Empire, who attacked and defeated a Hindu ruler Prithiviraj Chauhan in 1192. Later, one of his slaves, Qutab-ud-din Aibak went on to conquer North and Central Indian territories and founded the Delhi Sultanate, the first Islamic empire in India with Delhi as its capital.

Babur Missile: A medium range subsonic cruise missile, it was named after Zahiruddin Mohammad Babur, a Chagtai Turk from Ferghana valley in Central Asia, who dethroned the Afghan Lodi dynasty ruling India in 1526. Babur established the Mughal Empire in India and became India’s first Mughal emperor.

Abdali Missile: This short-range supersonic ballistic missile is named after Ahmed Shah Abdali, an 18th century Afghan king who is also founder of the modern state of Afghanistan. By mid 18th century, the Mughal Empire had been severely weakened and Delhi began to be dominated by the Maratha Empire. In 1761, Ahmed Shah Abdali declared war on the Maratha Empire (which ruled Central India), known as the third battle of Panipat in which the Maratha Army was routed. He is also known for the holocaust his army carried out on the followers of Sikh faith. Between 1748 and 1765, Abdali invaded India 7 times and is also known for the humiliation he brought to the then Mughal dynasty.

Taimur Missile: It is speculated that Pakistan is working on an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), again named after a 14th century Turkic King whose empire spanned across Persia, Central Asia and Mesopotamia. Taimur (or Tamerlane as he is popularly called) invaded Delhi in 1398 and his invasion is said to have followed by one of the brutal massacres which Delhi saw in the medieval ages.

[Peregrine]

Why Chinese banks are wary about lending to Pakistan

HONG KONG: Chinese banks are increasingly cautious about lending to Pakistan as emerging markets currency volatility threatens the incoming coalition govt's efforts to near an exterior financing gap, amid mounting US opposition to a conceivable IMF bailout.

China's banks have already extended tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure loans to support the $57 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a centrepiece of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative which seeks to increase its geopolitical affect.

Pakistan's foreign currency echange reserves are dwindling and it is expected to hunt a bailout of more than $10 billion in a while from the IMF and additional funding from allies, together with China and Saudi Arabia, to avoid a currency crisis.

However, the newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party best has a skinny majority in parliament and the plan faces robust home and world opposition.

The IMF would possibly search to impose conditions on any new borrowing and America has voiced robust opposition and worry that any funding will have to no longer be used to pay off Chinese lending.

"As a commercial bank we will of course use extra caution when considering new loans to Pakistan," one Beijing-based banker mentioned.

The 40 per cent devaluation of the Turkish lira up to now this year amid a deepening financial crisis, along with force on the Russian rouble since early August, has amplified Chinese issues about security in Pakistan as Beijing defends the worth of the renminbi amid a business conflict against the United States.

'Our financial institution has just tightened all sovereign loans to non-developed nations and we at the moment are reassessing nation dangers. We are on shut watch against any longer black swan events,' a second supply mentioned.

Pakistan's new govt is due to pay off a $255 million sovereign loan in late September. The one-year bullet loan used to be signed with 4 banks, together with sole bookrunner Credit Suisse and two Chinese lenders, in September 2017, consistent with data from Loan Pricing Corp.

Chinese banks have larger their commitment to Pakistani sovereign loans lately and coverage lenders China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China (Chexim) are playing a leading position in financing CPEC's construction of ports, power stations and transport hyperlinks.

These loans are at the centre of a debate on whether or not the IMF will have to lend a hand Pakistan for the second time in 5 years. Pakistan could also be searching for financing from alternative assets and is lining up a $4 billion loan from Saudi-backed Islamic Development Bank, consistent with media stories in early August.

Defending Ties

Pakistani officers have attempted to shrug off US issues and decouple the conceivable IMF bailout from Chinese loans for CPEC.

Pakistan's ex-finance minister Miftah Ismail told Reuters previous this month that overall Chinese debt reimbursement and profit expatriation through Chinese firms blended would keep underneath $1 billion in step with annum until 2023.

The loans, which have 30-year tenors and five-year grace periods, are a mix of zero-interest debt, concessionary and a few market-rate borrowings, with weighted-average rates of interest of about 2 in step with cent, he mentioned.

Reuters also reported in July that in the first 10 months of the fiscal yr, China lent Pakistan $1.5 billion in bilateral loans, along side $2.9 billion of business financial institution loans mostly from Chinese lenders.

Official data on Chinese lending to Pakistan isn't available. CDB authorized 10 projects in Pakistan and dedicated US$1.3bn in loans as of the tip of March 2015, consistent with its web page. That figure had risen to 16 projects and $4.6 billion loans through mid-June 2016, a document through the authentic People's Daily mentioned.

CDB has become more prudent and rejected some loans for Pakistan more recently, a third supply mentioned. Most of CDB's loans are extended below govt instructions, nevertheless it makes some industrial loans. CDB was not immediately available to comment.

The policy bank does not have a branch in Pakistan, but China's state-owned commercial lenders are increasing their presence.

Bank of China opened a Karachi branch last November. ICBC used to be the first Chinese bank to start out operations in Pakistan in 2011, and now has 3 branches in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore.

ICBC is the most active Chinese lender in Pakistan's syndicated sovereign loans. It was the mandated lead arranger and bookrunner along side Credit Suisse of Pakistan's newest $565 million one-year bullet deal signed in July and took a final hold of $225 million.

Other banks that have commiyed to Pakistan's sovereign loans include Bank of China, Bank of Zhengzhou, China Minsheng Banking Corp, Chexim and Postal Savings Bank of China.

"We are worried if our existing loans will get repaid in a timely fashion, " the second sorce mentioned "We'll be closely watching the negotiations between Pakistan and IMF to see what restrictions the fund will impose."

Cheers

[Falijee]

Dus Percenti Escapes Jail Time . At Least For Now !

IHC accepts protective bail of Asif Ali Zardari in money laundering case
Aug 18, 2018
In The News

[Falijee]

Unofficial Announcement Of The Imran Khan Cabinet . Qureishi Gets "Foreign Affairs Post" . Jalebi Given "Human Rights Portfolio" As Consolation Prize

PM Imran Khan finalises names of 20-member cabinet
Dawn
Aug 18, 2018

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday announced that Prime Minister Imran Khan has finalised the names of his 20-member cabinet, DawnNewsTV reported. According to a list issued by the party's central media department, out of the 20 names announced 15 have been given the portfolio of a minister while five others will perform their duties as advisers to the premier. The newly announced cabinet is expected to take oath at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Monday.

Ministers
Law and Justice: Dr. Muhammad Farogh Naseem
States and Frontier Regions: Chaudhary Tariq Bashir Cheema
Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony: Noorul Haq Qadri
Human Rights: Dr Shireen Mazari
Petroleum Division: Ghulam Sarwar Khan
Defence Production: Zubaida Jalal
Information and Broadcasting Division: Fawad Chaudhry
National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination: Aamir Mehmood Kiyani
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Ministry of Defence: Pervez Khattak
Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs: Asad Umer
Ministry of Railways: Sheikh Rashid Ahmed
Inter-provincial Coordination: Fehmida Mirza
Information Technology and Telecommunication: Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui
Federal Education and Professional Training; National History and Literary Heritage Division: Shafqat Mahmood

According to the 18th Constitution Amend­ment, the size of the federal cabinet should be not more than 11 per cent of the total strength of the National Assembly and Senate.

So, if this above is to be believed, Jalebi ( Mazari ) has been sidelined from "Defense" and given "Human Rights " instead . In theory, she should be looking into missing persons, C and D grade treatment of minorities, dealing with press abuses, censorship etc etc , but in practice, she will be assigned to "defend" the Deep State and become a "mouthpiece" on the Core Issue ( AKA so-called Kashmir Cause !) . Do not rule out her presence at UN Forums !!!

[Falijee]

An Example Of Imran's NAYA PAKISTAN .Murder Charges Can Be Dropped If You Pay Blood Money . ! The CM ship Of Pakjab Province Is At Stake

Punjab CM candidate paid blood money to drop murder charges
Aug 18, 2018
The News International

MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate for Punjab chief minister slot, Sardar Usman Buzdar had paid blood money to drop murder charges against him, Geo News reported on Saturday.The CM-nominee along with his father was involved in the case of a murder scheme that was registered against him following the death of six men that were slain amidst the 1998 polls.

Reports citing sources revealed that over 20 people were involved in the murder, who had started firing during Buzdar’s campaigning.

Furthermore it was revealed that Buzdar along with the others involved were declared guilty in the case by a court, however the charges were dropped against the father and son after they paid Rs750,000 as settlement.

On the other hand, the Punjab CM nominee is also bearing allegations of making 300 phony ("ghost" ) appointments during his time as nazim. ( and pocketing the money, like ghost teachers on paper onlee )

The allegations, however, were discharged by Buzdar’s brother who stated that they were ‘baseless’ and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was unable to find evidences to support them after which the case was closed.

Prime Minister Imran Khan had announced the name of Buzdar as nominee for the Punjab CM slot in a video message released on Friday.

. Seems like another example of "same old , same old ", belying the claim of "Naya Pakistan ". How, did this "guy" get the coveted certificate of "Sadiq and Ameen" from CJP Nisar . Here, you have a PM who (if rumours are to be believed ) has "lots of garbage" in his past life and yet has succeeded in becoming PM . While an Ex PM is "sitting in Adiala" on unverifiable charges of fraudster - ism

[Falijee]

The Pakis Are Complaining Here Of The "Powerful Clout Of The So-Called Indian Lobby"

Literally all of the Indo-Pak war articles on Wikipedia say Pakistan lost the wars. It's been flooded with Indians on the discussion pages and consensus changed to India's favour.

Another "To Do" Item on Imran's NAYA PAKISTAN

[sunnyP]

Sidhu skips Vajpayee's funeral so he can go and hug Paki generals and praise the Pakis.


https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 451988.cms

[Bart S]

Unofficial Announcement Of The Imran Khan Cabinet . Qureishi Gets "Foreign Affairs Post" . Jalebi Given "Human Rights Portfolio" As Consolation Prize

It would be a great boon to humanity if she didn't show her face anywhere. What better way could there be to promote human rights?

Her rebellious daughter otoh is a genuine advocate of human rights, at least those suppressed by the PoakArmy.

[anupmisra]

First lady and head peerni at the oath taking ceremony.

[anupmisra]

Foreign investment plummets 45pc

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plunged 45 per cent year-on-year during the first month of fiscal year 2018-19, the State Bank of Pakistan reported on Friday.

The country received a total of $128 million in FDI during July compared to $233.8m same month last year.

Political uncertainty

On the other hand, amongst those who pulled their money from Pakistan, Kuwait was at the top taking away $20m in July.

Pakistan’s total inflows during FY18 clocked in at $2.76 billion

Pakistan has been relying heavily on remittances and foreign borrowings to fill the widening current account deficit.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1427703/forei ... mmets-45pc

[Peregrine]

Circular debt of Rs1.1tr passed on to new govt - Zafar Bhutta

ISLAMABAD: Though the previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government claimed to have brought about improvement in power production, it still passed on a gigantic circular debt of Rs1.148 trillion to the new government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which faces a bumpy road ahead.

The PML-N had come up with a slogan in 2013 that it would bring load-shedding to an end during its five-year tenure. It solely focused on setting up thermal power plants to increase electricity production, but failed to streamline and upgrade the transmission and distribution network, which could not bear the load of additional power generation.

Of late, the circular debt has become a mammoth challenge for all governments, including the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which ran the government from 2008-13. The situation is no different for the new government which will have to deal with a debt burden of over Rs1 trillion.

In a meeting of the Senate special committee on circular debt on Friday, officials of the Ministry of Energy (Power Division) revealed that out of the total circular debt, Power Holding Private Limited (PHPL) had borrowed Rs582.86 billion whereas Rs566 billion was borrowed to cover receivables of power distribution companies.

The meeting, chaired by Senator Shibli Faraz, was informed that PHPL was to pay Rs153 billion in annual interest on the loans.

The Power Division had also requested the power-sector regulator to include the amount in consumer tariff, but the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) dismissed the plea. Nepra argued that the loans were not part of the development budget and were acquired for smoothly running the distribution companies.

The committee was told that the power sector was to receive Rs817.5 billion from private and government clients. On the other hand, power consumers were paying Rs159 billion on account of taxes in electricity bills.

It was revealed that the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) was receiving Rs66 billion out of the Rs100 billion charged in electricity bills.

During the meeting, the committee chairman and Senator Musaddik Malik traded allegations.

Faraz held the PML-N government responsible for the mess in power sector, to which Malik responded by saying he would walk out if his opinion was not heard. The committee chairman told Malik that he was disturbing environment of the meeting.

Malik argued that it was not possible to stop theft without installing smart meters, adding the loan offered by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the purpose had some drawbacks.

He emphasised that the government would have to bring improvement and efficiency in those power distribution companies where theft and losses stood quite high.

The committee noted that the circular debt would rise further after the production of electricity by new plants. Responding to that, Power Division officials said the government would have to enforce load-shedding in areas where losses and theft were high.

Cheers

[nam]

First lady and head peerni at the oath taking ceremony.

You have to give it to the dimmer. You could put anyone in there.Man, woman, next wife etc..

No one would know.

[saip]

Ghosts and goblins are invited for the swearing :o) ceremony?

[Falijee]

"Toy Boy" Of Deep State And Fellow Traveler Of Jahil Hamid Now Says That It Is High Time That Pakiland Starts "Courting" Israel

Pakistan and Israel: Time for a fresh start
Ahmed Qurieshi
Aug 14, 2018

Pakistan has suffered leadership stagnation for years. But Imran Khan has changed it. The troubled country received some of the best international coverage after word got out he swept the July 25 election. Even in countries with little or no interest in Pakistan, newspapers and TV stations devoted space and airtime to Pakistan and Imran Khan.

Imran Khan offers a smart, globalist face of Pakistan to the world. His election is an opportunity to push a new global narrative and restore the country’s activist role regionally and internationally.

The "intro" to the "sensitive topic" from an agent of The Deep State

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Israeli leader to publicly send a message of friendship to Pakistan from the Indian soil. A senior Indian journalist nudged Netanyahu during a television interview in New Delhi, in January this year, to say something against Pakistan.“We (Israel) are not an enemy of Pakistan and Pakistan should not be our enemy either,” said Netanyahu, much to his interviewer’s dismay. He went out of this way to emphasize the economic nature of Israel’s cooperation with India and that it is not military and not directed at Pakistan.Netanyahu’s Indian hosts may not have been very pleased with the Israeli leader using a visit to India to flirt with Pakistan. This bold Israeli move prompted some discussion in Islamabad on whether Pakistan should publicly welcome the Israeli statement.Earlier this year, Palestine withdrew its ambassador in Pakistan on Indian request after he was photographed with a Pakistani clerical leader wanted in India. The Palestinians ignored Pakistani request to keep the ambassador.

Of course, Imran is ready to use Jemima as a condom conduit in sending some feelers to the "Zionist Entity" if Deep State, Maulana Fazl ( now a political non-entity ) , Peerni and the rest of the Islam Brigade agree to his "trial balloon

Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi delivered hard hitting speeches, linking Kashmir and Palestine. In return, the Palestinian envoy failed to show reciprocity by mentioning Kashmir. Do the Palestinians consider Pakistan- an Islamic Takat, an important player in the equation . Not, IMHO

I like the Turkish policy in this regard. Ankara robustly supports the Palestinian right to self-determination and simultaneously maintains a profitable business relationship with Israel.

There are many "admirers" of Turkee in Pakiland , including Mehdi Jahil Ham-Eid and this "gay-boy" from the Deep State Dept

[RCase]

The Pakis Are Complaining Here Of The "Powerful Clout Of The So-Called Indian Lobby"

Literally all of the Indo-Pak war articles on Wikipedia say Pakistan lost the wars. It's been flooded with Indians on the discussion pages and consensus changed to India's favour.

Another "To Do" Item on Imran's NAYA PAKISTAN

Yup, they should be using sources from Brass Tacks and Jahil HamIED videos.

[RCase]

First lady and head peerni at the oath taking ceremony.

Halloween arrived a little early in Pakistan!

[Peregrine]

Karachi sinking in its own sewage - Naeem Sadiq

In 1994, less than 15% Istanbul’s residents had access to waste water treatment. By 1998 this figure had climbed to 65%. By 2016, 100% of Istanbul’s sewage was being sent to the treatment plants before being released into sea. Today the 15 million citizens of Istanbul can feel satisfied that they are no longer a burden on environment. There are 154 treatment plants that effectively process the entire 326 million gallons/day (mgd) sewage produced by Istanbul residents.

In yet another country, an unfortunate city chose just the opposite route. It decided to take a downward plunge to sink deep in its own effluent. Karachi started with three sewage treatment plants with a combined capacity of 150mgd. By 2005 their treatment capacity had been reduced to about 50mgd. By 2015 all three treatment plants were dysfunctional and their capacity to treat sewage had shrunk to zero. Thus from 2015 onwards Karachi’s 15 million citizens have been criminally discharging 100% of their raw sewage into the nearest coastal waters. There may be few parallels of a population so vociferously engaged in engulfing itself in cesspools of disease and degradation.

A Judicial Commission headed initially by Justice Iqbal Kalhoro and then by Justice Hani Muslim may have been the finest gift received by the effluent-ridden province of Sindh for a very long time. Ably supported by an outstanding petitioner Shahab Usto, they began to question the colossal negligence that had sunk the province into its own excreta. The Judicial Commission did an excellent job at shaking up the sleepy provincial administration for ignoring peoples’ water and sanitation requirements for past many decades. The Commission even managed to operationalise at least one sewage treatment plant (TP-III Mauripur) that will hopefully treat 77mgd.

There are, however, some fundamental flaws in the Greater Karachi sewage treatment plans as envisaged in Project S-III. The plan is based on upgrading the existing three sewage treatment plants and building two new ones to create a total capacity of 500mgd. This was initially proposed to be executed in 2007 at a cost of Rs8 billion. By 2009, the PC-I cost of the project had escalated to Rs13 billion and by 2015 it had risen to an unmanageable figure of Rs39 billion. A few more years and the cost will easily touch the 100 billion mark.

If the reasons that caused the near-destruction and occupation of the existing three sewage plants are not addressed, then the Greater Karachi plan (S-III) will surely meet the same fate. Pakistan does not have the managerial acumen, the maintenance skills, the professional competence and the business ethics to manage and maintain large infrastructures. It is also an obsolete concept to have a handful of large treatment plants and try to lay a network of hundreds of miles of pipes to link them to every home of the city.

Consider two successful examples of sewage treatment. The Turkish province Bursa has a population of only three million people. It has, however, 109 sewage treatment plants that treat 100% of its 37mgd sewage output. Istanbul, another Turkish city, with a population of 15 million has many water and sanitation needs similar to that of Karachi. As opposed to Karachi’s five proposed sewage plants that have been under discussion for the last 12 years, Istanbul has already built 154 sewage treatment plants to treat 100% of its 326mgd sewage before it is released into sea.

Karachi and other cities of Pakistan must begin to think of developing a number of small, simple and indigenous treatment plants. Preferably, there ought to be a treatment plant for every 60,000 to 100,000 persons. These can be designed and built locally without banking on foreign funding or expertise. The rich experience of Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) could be emulated for building about 150 to 200 sewage plants, much needed to process Karachi’s 500mgd of sewage. The treated water could be used for vegetation, trees, plants, urban forests and growing vegetables or simply released into sea.

The industrial establishments in Pakistan not only consume a phenomenal amount of fresh water but also act as the biggest destroyer of our lakes and water systems by indiscriminate release of untreated effluent. Of the 20,000-plus industries in Sindh, less than 200 comply with the National Environmental Quality Standards. The Environmental Protection Agencies (EPAs) either collude or simply look the other way. This must come to an end. Our biggest challenge is to restructure and empower the EPAs and make it mandatory for industries to treat their effluent before discharge. The EPAs ought to adopt a zero-tolerance policy and shut down industries that discharge effluent not meeting the National Environmental Quality Standards.

Cheers

[RCase]

The first couple of Pakistan! Taliban Khan!
Now he needs to sport the goofy muslim beard sans mustache.

[Falijee]

Is The Peerni Driving A Wedge Between The Kaptaan And His "English Born" Two Sons

Imran Khan barred his sons to be at oath taking event: Jemima

ISLAMABAD – The recently elected Prime Minister, Imran Khan took the oath of his office as the 22nd Chief Executive of the country, on Saturday.

The oath-taking ceremony took place at the Aiwan-e-Sadar which started with the National Anthem and recitation of the Holy Quran. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to Imran Khan, who had donned a Black Sherwani for the event. So, Prez Mamnoon, a Ganja appointee, just kept a finger on his nose, and spite of his "disliking" for Imran administered the Sharia Compliant Oath, and did not "fly away" to Bartania and Ireland as was earlier rumoured

The social media is ripe with comments of felicitating Imran Khan and his family including his proud sons who did not attend the oath-taking ceremony.To this PTI chief’s ex-wife, Jemima Goldsmith said that Imran did not like his sons to be there but the children had a keen desire to attend oath taking of their father.

IMO, the Peerni is muddying the waters between Imran and his "beloved boys"

Imran Khan clinched victory with 176 seats while his opponent, PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, secured 96 votes in the polling that took place in the National Assembly. Imran was selected not elected

[Falijee]

Foreign investment plummets 45pc

Rest snipped...

https://www.dawn.com/news/1427703/forei ... mmets-45pc

Anupmisra-ji : Intended "target is 99.99% "

[Falijee]

Zardari Maintains His Cool Under Pressure .

Asif Zardari quips about his money laundering case after IHC hearing (Video)

Dus Percenti a "veteran" of the Paki Jail System has always been known for keeping himself calm and not losing his temper under pressure. He , one time did lose his temper was "when he challenged Raheel Sharif to give some answers to the Paki public" in a big meeting in the PPP backyard of Lyari Karachi. Later on he had to hastily beat a temporary retreat to Dubai , when the Deep State goons were after him. When things calmed down, he returned back .

[Falijee]

POTUS Is Not Among World Leaders Who Have Congratulated Imran Khan On Officially Becoming PM Of Pakiland

World leaders congratulate Imran Khan on becoming Pakistan’s PM
Aug 18, 2018

ISLAMABAD – Leaders from across the world are felicitating Imran Khan as he took the oath for Prime Minister of Pakistan on Saturday.

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang...

British Prime Minister Theresa May...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres...

President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan ...

The Hurriyat forum Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq...

PS: Honeymoon is still on

POTUS Is Busy With His Own Internal Problems, So The Congratulation Is Coming In From A Spokesman From The US Department Of State

[anupmisra]

Riddle me this.
Please help this paki motormama with her dil-e-amma and help her out of her "coil".

Dear Professor Nadine,

I am a 23-year-old girl. My problem is that I am in love with my best friend's husband. I am engaged to my cousin and my wedding date was set only last month, but how can I marry my cousin when I love H? I saw H for the first time at his wedding with my college friend, R. For me, it was love at first sight. I think of H all the time; he is good looking, smart, well-spoken and well-groomed. I am a lot better looking than R, and my fiance is just an ordinary looking guy. I don't know what R has that I lack; H seems to be in love with her, and treats me like a younger sister. I have tried to impress him with my beauty, but he has not given any sign that he finds me attractive. R, I think, has become suspicious of me. She does not invite me to her house anymore and is cold towards me when I go to meet her. Should I tell H how I feel and leave the decision on him? Kindly suggest a way for me to get out of this coil.

Helpless Lover

https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/you/354663-letters