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Brad Goodman wrote:Pakistan's export to India up 2.8% in Q1

exported cement, construction material, fruits, cotton yarn & surgical instruments {wtf is paki exporting as surgical instrument? Dr saab any ideas? }

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, chairing a cabinet session on Wednesday, suggested: “We can print currency notes and pump capital into the electricity sector in order to overcome load-shedding.”

Jhujar wrote:If Poaqs are selling Sialkoti Surgical equipment then most probably they are using Jallandhar connections.

WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan on Wednesday raced to conclude a deal to reopen key supply routes for the Afghanistan war before next week’s Nato summit, with Washington hopeful of an imminent deal but Islamabad insisting that the US pay more to repair relations and end the blockade.Pakistan closed the routes after American airstrikes in November that killed 24 Pakistani troops on the Afghan border. Since then, supplies have taken a far more expensive route through eastern Europe and Asia.”We have had some progress,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.”While the Pakistani political leadership hasn’t yet authorised the reopening of the ground transportation routes, we understand that they did endorse the conclusion of the negotiations.”Nuland declined to describe what details remained to be worked out, but American officials had previously spoken of lingering differences over security arrangements, caressing fees and other taxes that would be paid to Islamabad for hosting the routes and guaranteeing safe passage.
But those issues appeared to have been largely ironed out by Wednesday, according to an American official, who said a final deal hinged only on the two sides formalizing a written memorandum of understanding.Haggling by Pakistan could reflect a last-ditch effort to get a higher price

JAIPUR: Dr S M Khalil Chishty, who has returned home to Pakistan late Tuesday after spending about 20 years in Ajmer, including in jail as a convict, was embroiled in a fresh controversy. Few hours after the Supreme Court ordered his release from jail and allowed him to go back to Pakistan last Thursday, a Hindi news channel showed him ridiculing the Indian judiciary during a conversation.

Based on the telecast, Ajmer lawyer Devendra Singh Chauhan filed a petition on Monday in a fast track court accusing Chishty of scandalizing Indian judiciary. The court will hear the petition on May 28 to decide if the case is admissible.

The telecast showed Chishty saying the Indian judiciary was replete with ill-informed (ganwar) and uneducated people, which delayed disposal of cases. The Pakistani virologist was critical of the lower judiciary, which he alleged, could not decide his case in 20 years.

On Tuesday, Chishty released a statement saying he has high regard for the Indian judiciary and he had no intentions to demean the judicial system. "I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to all those concerned over some remarks that were made by me during an interview after my release from prison. I wish to clarify that I did not mean to be disrespectful to the Indian judiciary, I am a law abiding man with utmost respect for judiciary. If my remarks hurt anyone, please accept my deepest apology," Chishty said in the statement released after reaching Pakistan.

Chishty came for a wedding to Ajmer on April 9, 1992. During an altercation on April 19, 1992, one Syed Mohammad Idris died. Chishty was one of the accused in the case.

Since then, he was not allowed to move out of Ajmer. He was in judicial custody and released on bail after 15 days. On January 23, 2011, he was convicted and handed a life sentence. Last Thursday, the SC allowed him to return to Pakistan on humanitarian ground.

Husain Haqqani started his political career as president of the extremely militant Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami. A far-right Islamist political party, the Jamaat advocates religious fundamentalism and a theocracy-based government system in Pakistan. The MQM then not being in existence, the Jamaat virtually ruled Karachi. Haqqani’s academic brilliance was recognised by Ziaul Haq’s martial law regime, which assiduously promoted his career as a journalist.This scribe has a state-run TV’s video showing Haqqani weeping at the time of the death of his mentor Ziaul Haq. Haqqani accuses the Supreme Court judges of carrying out their ‘own partisan agenda.’ What he calls an agenda is actually the blowback of his own party government’s massive corruption, loot and plunder, which Mr Haqqani conveniently refuses to see. Noorani adds: “Haqqani says the Pakistani media has done little to help generate support for eliminating extremism and fighting terrorism. What the media has done for him, he will never talk about. Can he tell us how many hundreds or thousands of calls he has made to each and every media person to push his point of view? How many fake websites he and his cronies, getting funds from one secret fund or other, have been running to malign his opponents and promote him as a victim and as a hero

WASHINGTON: The White House has strongly opposed recent congressional moves to impose restrictions on reimbursement of Coalition Support Funds for Pakistan as well as requirements of certification.Reacting to a series of proposals made by the House Armed Services Committee in National Defence Authorisation (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2013, the White House budget office objected to several of the proposals. he White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) argued that limiting reimbursement of funds for Pakistan at such a sensitive time would have negative repercussions for counter-terrorism efforts in the region.
The administration strongly objects to the restriction in reimbursement for Pakistan from Coalition Support Funds and the associated certification requirements in Section 1211,” the OMB said in a statement.
Taken together, the reimbursement and certification restrictions – some of which require the US defence secretary to certify Pakistani cooperation on issues outside of his purview – are proposed at a particularly sensitive time and would severely constrict the Defence Department’s ability to respond to emergent wartime coalition support requirements, putting at risk the success of the Afghan campaign, and increasing the risk that al Qaeda and its associates would be able to again enjoy a safe haven in Pakistan, the statement added. app

It was the sixth Pakistan Air Force crash in seven months and the second in a week, raising concerns over the safety of its largely Chinese and locally made fleet.

“We will fight (Hindia) for a thousand years!” Declared chairman of the Bakistan Beables Barty (BBB), Zulfikar Ali Bruto. A couple of years later he was in Hindia trying to negotiate the release of 90,000 Bakistani prisoners of war.

One of the two-seater propeller Mushshak planes crashed on a house, injuring a girl and an elderly man, and the second fell in nearby fields in the Rashkai area, 160 kilometres (100 miles) northwest of the capital.

Human Rights Watch, on Thursday urged the President of Pakistan not to sign a bill to authorize a newly formed national human rights commission until it is revised to “authorize investigations of the military and the intelligence agencies for human rights violations.”
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“Pakistan’s military and its intelligence agencies have a long and well-documented history of serious and systematic abuses,” said Adams. “A primary reason to create a national human rights commission should be to address longstanding impunity for the army and intelligence services.”
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“A strong and independent National Human Rights Commission can be a key institution in aiding Pakistan’s transition to a truly rights-respecting democracy,” he said. “But a commission that cannot take on cases involving the army and intelligence agencies would perpetuate a cruel joke on Pakistanis whose rights have been violated.”

As part of efforts to strengthen Indo-Pak trade ties, Railways is mulling to provide 50 diesel locomotives on hiring basis to Pakistan.

As per the plan, railways is likely to give at an approximate rate of Rs 1,500 per hour per locomotive of 3000 HP to Pakistan for leasing purpose.

Besides leasing out, railways will also provide training facilities for Pakistan railwaymen to run Indian locomotives.

“The Ministry of External Affairs has already okayed the proposal and now the modalities of supplying locomotives are being worked,” said a senior Railway Ministry official.

“If the supply takes place then it will be for the first time that Indian Railways will come to the aid of Pakistan,” the official said.

Though railways regularly supply locomotives to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Myanmar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Ghana, it will be for the first time that railways will supply locomotives to Pakistan, said the official.

“Railways supply about 10 locomotives on an average in a year. Generally, we sell locos on outright purchase basis to other countries but this will be for the first time that we are considering to give it on hiring basis because Pakistan Railways is preferring leasing to buying,” said the official.

Currently, railways manufacture about 250 diesel locomotives in a year. With the continuous growth in traffic volume, there is a demand for the production of more locomotives.

The three-member team of the Pakistan Railways Advisory and Consultancy Services Limited (PRACS) had earlier held preliminary discussions with the officials of Railway Infrastructure, Technical and Economic Services (RITES).

RITES have received request from Pakistan Railways regarding the supply of locomotives from India. “A formal agreement will be signed between RITES and PRACS after the finalisation of modalities,” said the official.

Pakistan is facing an acute shortage of locomotives as it has about 520 locomotives out of which about 450 are under repair.

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Brad Goodman wrote:Pakistan's price: US to pay $365 million more a year to reopen supply lines

A US-Pakistan deal to reopen a key NATO supply route through Pakistan, closed for nearly six months, would raise the cost of the war effort in Afghanistan by about $365 million annually.

In return, the US-led coalition will pay Pakistan a still-to-be-fixed fee of $1,500 to $1,800 for each truck carrying supplies, a tab that officials familiar with negotiations estimated would run nearly $1 million a day. The officials requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to reveal details of the agreement.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani negotiators have proposed a fee of about $5,000 for each NATO shipping container and tanker that transits its territory by land into and out of Afghanistan.

Nonetheless, the notion of payment for using what are known as the Pakistani GLOCs, for Ground Lines of Communication, has been difficult for the Pentagon to swallow, because access previously was considered free. But other U.S. officials have pointed out that the United States has given Pakistan billions over the past decade as compensation for its counterterrorism efforts. That money is expected to be discontinued as the new arrangements are put in place.

Prominent American lawmakers have asked the Obama administration to cut off every cent of its aid to Pakistan terming the country a "black hole" where the US has already "sunk" a whopping $24 billion since 2004

Britain needs an open debate about 'issues around culture' that may explain why men from Pakistani backgrounds are over-represented among offenders prosecuted for grooming white girls for sex, a Government minister has said.

He said that nothing was gained by 'shying away from taking this issue and debating it head on' and warned that the sexual exploitation of children in Britain had been swept under the carpet 'like a guilty secret' for too long.

The minister's comments come only days after the chairman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips said it would be 'fatuous' to suggest there was no racial link in the Rochdale case.

He said it would be a ‘national scandal’ if it emerged that social services and schools had not acted on reports of abuse for fear of ‘demonising’ minority communities.

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RajeshA wrote:Roperia ji,

How does giving locomotives to Pakistan helps our economy or our strategic cards?

pankajs wrote:Cut off every cent of aid to Pakistan: US lawmakers

Prominent American lawmakers have asked the Obama administration to cut off every cent of its aid to Pakistan terming the country a "black hole" where the US has already "sunk" a whopping $24 billion since 2004

“Our tax dollars go in, our diplomats go in – sometimes, our aid professionals go in – sometimes, our hopes go in, our prayers go in,” {Gary} Ackerman said. “Nothing good ever comes out.”

“We should cut Pakistan off of every cent because it has been used for evil purposes,” {Dana} Rohrabacher said, including killing American troops.

Asking Pakistan to subscribe to the concept of good neighbourly relations, the government on Thursday said forces hostile to India there were going scot-free which was not helping improve bilateral relations. …………………..

"We have consistently conveyed peace and progress....It is imperative for Pakistan to fulfil its solemn commitment of not allowing forces and terrorists... against India," he said.

Krishna noted that it has come to the government's notice that "some forces, which are hostile are going scot-free to carry hatred towards India. We have conveyed to Pakistan. This will not help in bettering relations."

He did not make any specific reference but was apparently citing the case of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, the main accused in Mumbai attack, who is roaming freely in Pakistan.

Stressing that there is an imperative need for the two countries to live as good neighbours, Krishna said, "That is possible only when Pakistan subscribes to this concept of good neighbourly relations."