Bharat Rakshak

seriously...his name also has a joke Shahid Latif(a)
Lateef or lateefa was a VCAS

Air Marshal Shahid Lateef joined the PAF in September, 1971 and was commissioned in April, 1974. As the top appointment holder in PAF Academy, he graduated with top honours, and was awarded the coveted Sword of Honour. Due to his outstanding performance on the Chinese F-6 aircraft, he converted on to the French Mirages at an early stage of his career. Then he was selected in the elite group of first six PAF pilots to undergo F-16 conversion in the USA. Shahid Latif was the first pilot to ferry the F-16 from USA to Pakistan in 1982, and subsequently, formed part of the pioneer team for training pilots in Pakistan on the F-16 weapon system. He along with these very pilots flew numerous combat missions in defense of the country at the height of Afghan war in the 1980s.

He was sent to UAE where he was entrusted with the command of a Mirage squadron

; this honour is unprecedented in the Arab countries as only the locals are given such sensitive and prestigious appointments. With this high- profile record, he was selected to command a fighter squadron, fighter wing and a fighter base in the PAF.

In 1980s the Arab countries had a very small educated pool and hence Pakis dominated Govt jobs, in the last 15 years things have changed dramatically.

9/11 was probably where the Pakis used Arabs specifically Saudis for their own purposes was probably an eye opener. Saudis got the bad name while Pakis got the rewards money and weapons to "fight" terrorism while OBl enjoyed himself at Abotabad.

ArjunPandit wrote:seriously...his name also has a joke Shahid Latif(a)
Lateef or lateefa was a VCAS

Air Marshal Shahid Lateef joined the PAF in September, 1971 and was commissioned in April, 1974. As the top appointment holder in PAF Academy, he graduated with top honours, and was awarded the coveted Sword of Honour. Due to his outstanding performance on the Chinese F-6 aircraft, he converted on to the French Mirages at an early stage of his career. Then he was selected in the elite group of first six PAF pilots to undergo F-16 conversion in the USA. Shahid Latif was the first pilot to ferry the F-16 from USA to Pakistan in 1982, and subsequently, formed part of the pioneer team for training pilots in Pakistan on the F-16 weapon system. He along with these very pilots flew numerous combat missions in defense of the country at the height of Afghan war in the 1980s.; this honour is unprecedented in the Arab countries as only the locals are given such sensitive and prestigious appointments. With this high- profile record, he was selected to command a fighter squadron, fighter wing and a fighter base in the PAF.

Wasnt there an incident where this guy (an AVM no less!!) literally shat in the cockpit during a flying incident?

Vips wrote:

ArjunPandit wrote:seriously...his name also has a joke Shahid Latif(a)
Lateef or lateefa was a VCAS

Wasnt there an incident where this guy (an AVM no less!!) literally shat in the cockpit during a flying incident?

details sir?

Pakistan falling victim to Islamophobia again. Perhaps the joint TV channel by Pakistan, Turkey and Malaysia proposed by Dimran can take this up.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1601655/pia-p ... al-dispute
PIA passenger aircraft 'held back' in Malaysia as part of legal dispute

Only in Pakistan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax61dBu-x6E&t=646s

Malaysia impounds PIA plane
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/775076 ... -pia-plane

ISLAMABAD: Malaysian authorities Friday seized a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing-777 airplane at the Kuala Lumpur Airport.

The PIA plane was seized on the orders of a local Malaysian court over the non-payment of aircraft lease dues, Geo News reported while quoting sources.

According to PIA sources, Flight 895 took off from Karachi and reached Kuala Lumpur and was supposed to fly back to Islamabad immediately because of which it had more crew members on board. “Passengers were already on board and the pilot was about to take off but Malaysian civil aviation authorities directed the pilot to stop the plane and get off it along with all the passengers,” PIA officials said, as per sources.

According to sources, the leasing company had filed a case against the PIA in a UK court in October 2020 for its failure to pay the leasing fee worth about $14 million, which had been pending for a period of six months.

In response, the PIA had maintained that since the COVID-19 pandemic had seriously affected the aviation industry, there should be a reduction in the overhead charges.

In the meanwhile, the leasing company kept an eye on the activities of PIA, and as soon as it received the information of Flight 895’s scheduled landing in Malaysia, it appealed to the Malaysian court to seize the aircraft as per the international civil aviation leasing laws, the sources added.

Anoop wrote:Only in Pakistan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax61dBu-x6E&t=646s

Yes case where reality is stranger than fiction and one cannot make stirs stuff up any better. Shows the reality of Pak and its spiral down.

Shankas wrote:Malaysia impounds PIA plane
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/775076 ... -pia-plane

...its failure to pay the leasing fee worth about $14 million, which had been pending for a period of six months.

In response, the PIA had maintained that since the COVID-19 pandemic had seriously affected the aviation industry, there should be a reduction in the overhead charges.

Now, there's a justifiable reason for packistan to sue its iron birathers and demand the chinis pay the $14M lease charges.

I heard that the company that leased this plane to Pakis is owned by Indians.

Loss incurred by Pakistan due to Malaysia not starting the TV channel with Pakistan and Turkey is $30 million so it is Malaysia which owes $16 million to Pakistan.

HEC’s new PhD policy sparks concern in academic circles.

A major aspect of the new policy is that it enables candidates to undertake PhD studies directly after four years of the BS programme.

A Pakistani PHD at 26 or 27 years of age Take that you yindoo.

The policy removes the requirement to send PhD dissertations to foreign experts for review and dissertations can now be sent to Pakistani experts too for the purpose

Binori Madrasa teacher will now issue a fatwa declaring Abdul/Ayesha as Doctor - AOA

HEC stating that a MS or MPhil degree leading to a PhD programme will be defunct henceforth

Fatafat PHD - Paki ishtyle

Dr Hasan Kazmi of the University of Karachi laid emphasis on the importance of research and funding. “It is an uphill task to pay the salaries of the employees from the grant being provided to the university by the HEC. The university lacks laboratories, research facilities and an adequate grants.

Jaahil Doctor does not know funds are required for more important matters like buying Soo-ci jackets.

Vips wrote:HEC’s new PhD policy sparks concern in academic circles.

The policy removes the requirement to send PhD dissertations to foreign experts for review and dissertations can now be sent to Pakistani experts too for the purpose

Binori Madrasa teacher will now issue a fatwa declaring Abdul/Ayesha as Doctor - AOA

HEC stating that a MS or MPhil degree leading to a PhD programme will be defunct henceforth

Fatafat PHD - Paki ishtyle

Most welcome development! If this comes to fruition, not one p*ki will get hired by any university, outside p*kiland. Ever again. But again, who wants to see these t*rds in a place of higher learning

la.khan wrote:

Vips wrote:HEC’s new PhD policy sparks concern in academic circles.


Binori Madrasa teacher will now issue a fatwa declaring Abdul/Ayesha as Doctor - AOA


Fatafat PHD - Paki ishtyle

Most welcome development! If this comes to fruition, not one p*ki will get hired by any university, outside p*kiland. Ever again. But again, who wants to see these t*rds in a place of higher learning

there is a biden admin proposal to award US permanent residency to PhDs or PostDocs - this may be an attempt to try and get those for some esteemed Puki jernail kids or such. it was similar with our 'elite kids' getting or thinking they deserve posts no less than harvard asst prof

bharathp wrote: there is a biden admin proposal to award US permanent residency to PhDs or PostDocs - this may be an attempt to try and get those for some esteemed Puki jernail kids or such. it was similar with our 'elite kids' getting or thinking they deserve posts no less than harvard asst prof

The Relative Citation Ratio(RCR), publication lists, grant funding, and other metrics are quite depressing coming out of Pakistan. There are exceptions like LUMS, where a lot of dual nationals get 'visiting lecturer' privileges, where they teach primarily, and increase the SCOPUS rankings of the institution. I've seen several academics from PK who deliver papers at conferences, and the agony is excruciating. I can't think of any institution that will put its reputation on the line to molly coddle the new admin. The US academia community is an eco-system by itself with high barriers to entry.

bharathp wrote:

la.khan wrote: Most welcome development! If this comes to fruition, not one p*ki will get hired by any university, outside p*kiland. Ever again. But again, who wants to see these t*rds in a place of higher learning

there is a biden admin proposal to award US permanent residency to PhDs or PostDocs - this may be an attempt to try and get those for some esteemed Puki jernail kids or such. it was similar with our 'elite kids' getting or thinking they deserve posts no less than harvard asst prof

Not sure but i think this was for STEM graduates/PHD's from US Universities.

Vips wrote:

bharathp wrote: there is a biden admin proposal to award US permanent residency to PhDs or PostDocs - this may be an attempt to try and get those for some esteemed Puki jernail kids or such. it was similar with our 'elite kids' getting or thinking they deserve posts no less than harvard asst prof

Not sure but i think this was for STEM graduates/PHD's from US Universities.

that is true.. but tier 3 univs get postdocs from other countries as support staff in research etc. these folks get h1s and J1 visas just by validation by universities that they have the required credentials.

Vips wrote:
A Pakistani PHD at 26 or 27 years of age Take that you yindoo.

25 Saar. 3 years minimum after Undergrad. 18+4+3. Validation done by Pakis experts so no more time need to be wasted.

Diyar dost Mullahs,
I em glad to infarm ju all that I hab recievd my PhD degree on Modern Cave Paintings of Tora Bora cave complex under Professser Lal Mullah. Bismillah.All time i ws wodering abot paintin af love salam of mullahs and animals. Puri dunia has to see this dekho it. Salam

Dr Rasullah Pindiwala

The Pak program at bachelor level, Daura-e-Aam and the masters level program Daura-e-Khaas are unique and unbeatable. The West cannot match them. Unfortunately, they could not develop a PhD course for this subject.
Gautam

Hope we sell the Chinese virus vaccine to Paks. .. at 2-3 times the normal prices.

Let make them subsidize some of the cost of savings lives, in return for the ones their terror network has taken so far.

No matter how they want to showoff the Chini vaccine, they would like to get hold of AZ vaccine from SII.

nam wrote:Hope we sell the Chinese virus vaccine to Paks. .. at 2-3 times the normal prices.

Let make them subsidize some of the cost of savings lives, in return for the ones their terror network has taken so far.

No matter how they want to showoff the Chini vaccine, they would like to get hold of AZ vaccine from SII.

If you sell the Vaccine to the Pakis make sure you get payment in advance!

You can be sure that they will get their money's worth by first inoculating the LET, JEM and other terrorist outfit cares and then infiltrate them into India to wreak havoc.

Giving/selling vaccine to pakistan is akin to Prithviraj Chauhan letting Ghauri live after defeating him.

In fact infiltrators are biological weapons. Only India will be largely immune in 6-7 months, Pakistan will see an endemic viral situation with continued vulnerability. Unless they can get onto the vaccination programs meant for Lesotho or Niger etc.

Uighars? In China.




No. Hazaras. In Pakistan. Niazi can't see them there either.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1602706
Farewell Roosevelt Hotel
Khurram Husain Published January 21, 2021
LET me start with an apology. If you’re still busy absorbing the full magnitude of the sheer stupidity that went into the making of the Broadsheet scandal, I have more bad news for you. The Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan as well as the Scribe Hotel in Paris, both iconic landmarks in their respective cities and prized assets of the national airline, have been seized (or ‘charged’ in legal language) by a court order in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) as settlement of the liability to the Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) to whom Pakistan lost an international arbitration case after cancelling the contract that awarded them the Reko Diq gold and copper mines.
Here is what the BVI court said. “The following property in the Territory be provisionally charged … to secure the sum of $3,114,339,607.50 namely a) 100% of the shares in the capital of PIA Investments Limited BVI Company … b) 100% of the shares in the capital of PIA Hotels Limited ... c) 40% of the shares in the capital of Minhal Incorporated….”
It continues: “To the extent that the Shares yield or pay income, dividends or other forms of value, the provisional charge shall extend to” all of these as well. The court has scheduled a hearing on this “provisional charging order” for March 15, and the Attorney General’s office is already on record saying they will fight the order. PIA is a listed company and has not yet made any announcement to its shareholders via the Pakistan Stock Exchange website about this provisional charging order. But the order itself is public information.
In July, plans were finalised for a joint venture under a long lease via a cabinet committee decision and the Roosevelt Hotel was placed on the active privatisation programme. By August, they were talking about a proposed transaction structure, hiring of financial advisers and inviting expressions of interest from domestic and international parties for interest in a long lease on the Roosevelt Hotel and making the investments necessary to convert it into a mixed use facility. Some reported estimates that fluttered through the news flow during these days said the required investment could approach $1 billion. This was no small transaction they were seeking to undertake.
In September, the Economic Coordination Committee, another cabinet body, approved the allocation of $142 million for settling various “financial requirements” of the hotel. By October, the news broke that the hotel would be closing its doors permanently, fixed on their website along with a sentimental farewell note. The news was denied vehemently at first, the notice on the website removed, but later it proved to be true. A few weeks later, the CEO of PIA told a Senate committee that the hotel will be closed for “renovation” on Dec 31.
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Gautam

Pakis want 0.5M doses as gift? With an average price of $3/dose this amounts $1.5M. For $1.5M whole Paki cabinet is praising iron blothel China. Pakis are sure cheap..

Chinis even ask them to bring their own plane to carry it:)

The doses will go to Gernails and Fauj first...

g.sarkar wrote:https://www.dawn.com/news/1602706
Farewell Roosevelt Hotel

stripped out literally..no assets to sell.they are emptying from inside out

ArjunPandit wrote:

g.sarkar wrote:https://www.dawn.com/news/1602706
Farewell Roosevelt Hotel

stripped out literally..no assets to sell.they are emptying from inside out

There are no valuable assets inside the building (most of which would have gone when refurbished anyway). The valuable part is the prime real estate, famous landmark and the historic building/architecture.

Watch out for these Pak police commandos. They are real gangbusters!

Is this a joke?

Mort Walker wrote:Watch out for these Pak police commandos. They are real gangbusters!

the comments section was lit. and pakistan's roller skate police will be most useful if those robbers/theives were running on paved roads. no grass of gravel.

best comment on youtube so far!

BendOfMind
9 hours ago
10 stairs going up and you escaped.

bharathp wrote:

Mort Walker wrote:Watch out for these Pak police commandos. They are real gangbusters!


the comments section was lit. and pakistan's roller skate police will be most useful if those robbers/theives were running on paved roads. no grass of gravel.

Mort Walker wrote:Watch out for these Pak police commandos. They are real gangbusters!

Reminds me of the PRC segway commandos.

someone made a lot of money importing those roller blades. and only one guy was wearing a mask(name ke waste)

anishns wrote:best comment on youtube so far!

BendOfMind
9 hours ago
10 stairs going up and you escaped.

bharathp wrote:

the comments section is a gold mine.

i like this one.

"In a couple of weeks, Salma will be using those rollerblades to fetch groceries and kids will be doing Ertugul video on TikTok."

Mine is..

Salman Ahmed 10 hours ago
Feeling proud as a pakistani. this project has been unrolled. Whole police of karachi and Islamabad city going wear this rollers.

China and Pakistan fall out over Belt and Road frameworks

China and Pakistan are embroiled in their most serious disagreement relating to the Belt and Road Initiative, causing the annual bilateral summit of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to be delayed.

"China is reluctant to lend money for ML-1 because Pakistan has already sought debt relief to meet G-20 lending conditions and it is not in a position to give sovereign guarantees," Nasir Jamal, a senior journalist in Lahore covering business and the economy, told Nikkei. He said Beijing's appetite for lending money for large infrastructure projects has diminished because these projects are vulnerable to local politics that delay returns on investment for China. That has hindered agreement on the finance framework for ML-1.

Andrew Small, a senior trans-Atlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund, a U.S. think tank, said China tends to base its decisions about interest rates for loans to Pakistan on a couple of criteria. Firstly, do low-interest rates encourage projects that do not make sense financially? Secondly, what precedents are set for other countries looking for similar concessions?

"China is much more comfortable deferring payments or providing new financing than it is offering concessional rates in the first place," Small told Nikkei. He said this approach provides Beijing with greater leverage and control even if they are willing to be very flexible at the back-end.

With host countries under pressure to repay at higher rates, China trades payment deferments in return for influence, which helps it get more favorable arrangements.

The other major disagreement between Beijing and Islamabad delaying the JCC meeting relates to SEZs. In the second phase of CPEC scheduled for 2020 to 2025, Chinese companies are due to start producing goods in Pakistan and exporting from there.

Currently, the industrial cooperation framework for the SEZs is limited to a memorandum of understanding without detailed modalities. Matters such as tax exemptions and requirements for employing local labor have not been finalized. These need to be agreed by China for confirmation at the JCC. The Board of Investment of Pakistan submitted the draft agreement for the industrial cooperation framework to the Chinese government last month and is still awaiting a response.

The seriousness of the delay is clear from China's unprecedented reluctance to schedule a JCC meeting. In the past, JCCs were always held in time, and China agreed to Islamabad's requests most of the time. Some experts believe the delay is evidence that CPEC is derailing.

According to Small, there were plenty of announcements about CPEC last year, but actually setting deals in motion was another matter. "The optics do matter to China so I still expect them to figure out terms in the end, and certainly to keep some narrative of continued progress alive," Small told Nikkei. "But that doesn't mean they're willing to agree on something that doesn't make sense for other reasons just to speed things up a little."

Pakistan is currently renegotiating its $6 billion extended fund facility with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which was suspended in April 2020. The IMF reportedly will only resume the program if Pakistan does not take out any new commercial loans, and that is one of the reasons it is looking for concessions on loans for the ML-1 project.

An important long-term implication of this case for other BRI countries could be that China will be more wary of lending to countries that have entered loan agreements with global lenders such as the IMF.

The rising costs of China's Pakistan project

Now Pakis can play their old game with the new US admin., play off "Dick" to play Chan , after all they are the original whres