Gus wrote:
good one..well argued and referenced.
can be a sticky/first post in this thread.
Yes. It should go on post 1 of this thread
Gus wrote:
good one..well argued and referenced.
can be a sticky/first post in this thread.
pankajs wrote:This is *said* to have been agreed between Bhutto and Gandhi except that Bhutto wanted to delay the announcement lest he be hung from the nearest lamp post on reaching Bakistan
Mosharraf Zaidi retweeted
M Ansari @ansarim 21h21 hours ago
How should Pakistan handle trolling by India's rightwing govt? Ignore it dont take the bait. @mosharrafzaidi right on http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9 ... ndle-India …
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projectKASHMIR @_projectkashmir 20h20 hours ago
#Pakistan's strength lies in its ability to absorb #India's provocations | Brilliant by @MosharrafZaidi http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9 ... ndle-India …
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Sameen Khan @sameenhkhan 17h17 hours ago
@mosharrafzaidi on how PK should deal w/ IN (inc. excellent advice on dealing w/ everyday, real-life trolls) http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9 ... ndle-India …
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I talked today with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan regarding a recent increase in the tensions publicly between India and Pakistan. It’s of enormous concern to all of us for all the obvious reasons. These are two very, very important countries playing a critical role with respect to regional interests, and it’s very, very important that there be no misinterpretation or miscalculation with respect to any of the back-and-forth and the empowerment some entities might feel as a result of that. The prime minister was extremely forthcoming. He could not have been more direct. He had actually just finished a conversation himself with the prime minister of India. And we welcomed some thinking together about how we can work, all of us, to try to reduce those tensions over the course of the next days and weeks.
partha wrote:Madame Fair's article is good but do notice that she is pushing for LOC as the international border instead of full POK becoming part of India. She has been pushing this line ever since she took the blue pill.
arun wrote:US Secretary of State talks to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s Prime Minister regarding relations with India.
Trust that if the US Secretary of State does take it upon himself to provide any unsolicited advice to India on relations with US’s Major Non-NATO Ally, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the US will be sent packing with a flea in the year by India.
SSridhar wrote:Ms C. Fair says that "Pakistan has been able to get away with relying upon Islamist militants to prosecute its policies with respect to India with impunity due to its nuclear weapons.". It is certainly true. However, Pakistan had conducted jihadi terrorism against India since 1947 as she herself admits at one point (though certainly the scope and scale of the terrorism increased dramatically after 1989 and most especially after 1998). So, what prompted it to do so, a country whose CINC (Composite Index of National Capability) has always been about a sixth of its adversary? That's something that Ms. C.Fair has not talked about. She needs to talk about it at some point so as to complete the circle and fill the gap. I say this because she openly admits that the US behaves the way it does due to Pakistani coercion and therefore she can discuss the US-Pakistan or the UK-Pakistan relationship as well candidly.
In another news flash, our Sino friends invested $218 million in 11MFY15, which is quite a drop from an inflow of nearly $600 million last year
In what was supposed to be a year of "stability", foreign direct investments nearly halved in the eleven months ending May 2015; from $1.5 billion in 11MFY14 to $803 million in 11MFY15.
Gus wrote:gilgit and baltistan in northenr areas that are still shia heavy is probably in the realm of realism, but the mirpur to prolly upto skardu is lost to pakjabi pasand population.
SSridhar wrote:Ms C. Fair says that "Pakistan has been able to get away with relying upon Islamist militants to prosecute its policies with respect to India with impunity due to its nuclear weapons.". It is certainly true. However, Pakistan had conducted jihadi terrorism against India since 1947 as she herself admits at one point (though certainly the scope and scale of the terrorism increased dramatically after 1989 and most especially after 1998). So, what prompted it to do so, a country whose CINC (Composite Index of National Capability) has always been about a sixth of its adversary? That's something that Ms. C.Fair has not talked about. She needs to talk about it at some point so as to complete the circle and fill the gap. I say this because she openly admits that the US behaves the way it does due to Pakistani coercion and therefore she can discuss the US-Pakistan or the UK-Pakistan relationship as well candidly.
KARACHI: The foreign direct investment (FDI) fell to negative $7 million in May compared to $612m in the same month last year, while the foreign private investments (FPI) were just $35m against $671m a year ago, said the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Tuesday.
The government, for the last two years, has been expressing hopes of huge foreign investment in the country, particularly from China.However, the data indicates that so far it has failed to mobilise foreign investors.
The government, which presented its third budget recently, has been making tall claims about the economic growth and foreign investments, but it appears that it is leaning on Chinese investment for fast-paced development.
KARACHI: The Rangers’ visit to the Sindh Building Control Authority on Monday remains shrouded in mystery as the official reason being put forward for the visit does not match the way the personnel were dressed and had entered the civic agency offices, and then remained there for a considerably long time.
While the acting SBCA chief maintains that the Monday visit of the Rangers to his office was to generally discuss the illegal construction, the way the fully armed personnel wearing balaclavas entered the SBCA does not conform to the reason put forward by the SBCA.
Answering another query that the issues mentioned could hardly take 10 to 15 minutes, and how he accounted for the two-and-a-half hours stay of the Rangers officials in his office,he said during the rest of the time tea was served and the weather was discussed.
In reply to a question regarding the whereabouts of SBCA DG Manzoor Qadir and if he had been informed of the Rangers’ visit,
he said Mr Qadir had been suffering from hypertension and had a high sugar level for the past few weeks and was on a month-long sick leave, so he had not been informed about it.
Anujan wrote:The funny thing about Mosharraf Zaidi is that he tries to describe India and pefectly describes Pakistan.
Apparently India is causing "instability in South Asia". Pakistan has sponsored terrorism/killings in Iran, Afghanistan, India and Bangladesh on an industrial scale. Why no mention of that?
There is a possibility of a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the annual summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Russian city of Ufa next month with an aim to move forward and normalise ties.
There is a view that yesterday's telephonic call by the Prime Minister to Sharif has "lowered the temperatures" between India and Pakistan which have been involved in a war of words over Modi's critical remarks about Pakistan during his Dhaka visit recently and in the wake of India's military action in Myanmar.
However, no official request for a meeting has been initiated from either side so far...
The annual SCO summit will be held in Ufa from July 9-10 and both India and Pakistan are likely to be granted full membership of the China-backed grouping.
In his telephonic conversation, Modi had also conveyed to Sharif India's decision to release detained Pakistani fishermen on the "pious" occasion of Ramzan.
ISLAMABAD: After the anti-military remarks made by Asif Ali Zardari yesterday, the prime minister was left with no option but to call off today’s meeting the PPP co-chairman, said Federal Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid.
A day after Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairperson and former president Asif Ali Zardari unleashed his tirade against the military leadership, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday stepped in to defend the armed forces.
Speaking to Dawn.com after the Senate session, Babar said that Zardari is expected to meet PM Nawaz today to discuss the overall situation of Sindh. Later, PPP sources told Dawn.com that the meeting would not take place due to personal engagementsof the two leaders.
Falijee wrote:Foreign investment falls in negative territoryKARACHI: The foreign direct investment (FDI) fell to negative $7 million in May compared to $612m in the same month last year, while the foreign private investments (FPI) were just $35m against $671m a year ago, said the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Tuesday.
"This was one of the most exciting moment we experienced today. calling it Thrilling is an understatement. Riding in the Arabian desert on a beautiful Arabian horse one transcends the history and enters the Qurun e Aula, the golden age when Muslim armies marched out of Arabia! It was a mystical experience, Mashllah!" Syed Zaid Hamid 6th July 2011
manjgu wrote:https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz8QIHjmNNXBMVo0VDNfWGhVNUE&authuser=0[url][/url]
ArmenT wrote:What does it mean when the FDI goes negative? Does that mean people started to pull their money out of Pakistan, instead of investing in it?
SSridhar wrote:On that article by Ms. C.Fair, we have to realize that probably only two countries (apart from of course India and Pakistan), the UK and the US, are aware of the complete story and how dangerously false is this equivalency. Unfortunately, they have chosen to ignore that. the other countries would tactically take a position, if at all they have to. Most others are plainly sick and tired of this dispute. From among the 3½ Friends, only Ms. C.Fair has both understood and articulated the Pakistani perfidy. The other who comes nearest is Cohen but he has been uneven as we know.
Comer wrote:It seems like only yesterdin that Jahil was riding horses in Barbaria. Now probably the horse would be riding his behind.
Comer wrote:http://www.dawn.com/news/1187952/missing-necklace-found-but-plot-thickensSLAMABAD: The mystery of the ‘missing’ necklace, donated by the wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the flood-hit people of Pakistan in 2010, appeared to be resolving on Friday as former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani admitted that it was in his possession.
However, talking to Dawn, the former prime minister and former National Database and Registration Authority chairman Ali Arshad Hakeem offered conflicting accounts.
Mr Gilani said he had close ties with the Erdogan family and Mrs Erdogan was like a sister to him. “The necklace belongs to my sister and is with me.”
He said that after the necklace was donated by the Turkish first lady, he expressed a desire to visit a flood-relief camp in Sindh where a couple was getting married. He said he was invited to a camp and to his surprise, was greeted by eight girls waiting to get married.
He said he had the necklace evaluated and the market price was put at around Rs200,000. He said he o had taken the necklace there with the intention of gifting it to a bride, but since there was only one necklace and eight couples, he decided that each couple should be given Rs200,000.
The whole story sounds so conphusing like reading Bakistan economy report.
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