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PRIME MINISTER Shehbaz Sharif recently visited China to further strengthen the ‘Pakistan-China All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership’. Besides a three-hour meeting with President Xi Jinping and another one with Premier Li Qiang, dozens of MoUs and agreements were signed. A joint statement described the bilateral relationship “as unshakable as a mountain”, “solid as a rock”, and “ironclad friends”.
A key takeaway of the visit was a decision to upgrade CPEC by building several new corridors, including growth, livelihood, innovation, and green corridors. There is also a commitment to rehabilitate the Karakoram Highway and optimise the use of the Gwadar port.
The Chinese side will train 1,000 young Pakistanis in tech and agriculture. Huawei will train 200,000 Pakistani youth annually in IT. This would help towards digitalisation of the economy and promoting e-governance.
Although the joint statement did not mention financial liquidity issues, it is well-known that Pakistan often seeks the roll-over of funds loaned by China.
“as unshakable as a mountain”, “solid as a rock”, and “ironclad friends”.
I am very disappointed. These terms are staid, mundane, insipid and not as romantically evocative as 'rosier than a red rose', 'sweeter than the sweetest honey' et al. I remember a video clip where a flustered PM Nawaz Sharif turned to his Punjab CM brother Shehbaz to correctly recall the phrase ! Those were the days. What happened to those phrases?
I am very disappointed. These terms are staid, mundane, insipid and not as romantically evocative as 'rosier than a red rose', 'sweeter than the sweetest honey' et al. I remember a video clip where a flustered PM Nawaz Sharif turned to his Punjab CM brother Shehbaz to correctly recall the phrase ! Those were the days. What happened to those phrases?
I am very disappointed. These terms are staid, mundane, insipid and not as romantically evocative as 'rosier than a red rose', 'sweeter than the sweetest honey' et al. I remember a video clip where a flustered PM Nawaz Sharif turned to his Punjab CM brother Shehbaz to correctly recall the phrase ! Those were the days. What happened to those phrases?
Wonder if you came across the famous:
چینی و پاکستانی دوستی کا کیا کہنا
جس نے روزے سے بھی زيادہ شیرینی پائی
خوشبو کی तरह لبروں میں بھی محفوظ ہے
ایک دوسرے کے لئے جان کا حلف لے کر ہے
مائی کے لئے لڈو کی طرح چپکتی ہے
ناان کی طرح طاقتور ہے یہ دوستی
کراچی کی رات میں گانے کی طرح ہم آہنگ ہے
لاہور کے ٹریفک کی طرح روکنا ناممکن ہے
پیکنگ ڈک کی طرح مزے دار ہے یہ دوستی
حلیم کی طرح لذیذ ہے یہ پيار
گلگت بلتستان کی طرح لجینڈری ہے یہ سیر
چینی و پاکستانی دوستی کا کیا کہنا
My attempt of Translation:
A friendship so strong, so sweet and so fine,
Rosier than red roses, sweeter than honey's shine.
Fragrant as lavender, in the sun's warm light,
Unbreakable bond, like a mother's grip so tight.
Sticky as rice, strong as garlic naan's might,
Harmonious as karaoke, in the Karachi night.
Synchronized as dragon dance, with steps so neat,
Unstoppable as Lahore traffic, with horns that repeat.
Delicious as Peking duck, satisfying as haleem's zest,
Legendary as Gilgit Baltistan's treks, that put the rest to test.
China and Pakistan, ironclad friends so true,
A bond that's unshakable, as a mountain, solid as a rock, through and through!e.
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A-o-A Bakistan should aim to reach 72% within the next 5 years. And for 100% by 2047. Then it can be classified as a true gulf birather state. And digging of wells will result in finding oil.
Pakistan is facing expanding desertification and recurring but intense droughts, Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Romina Khurshid Alam highlighted on Sunday, stressing that the country stands at a critical juncture in its fight against desertification and land degradation.
Over 68 per cent of Pakistan’s land area was classified as arid or semi-arid, making it vulnerable to desertification, she underlined, adding that soaring desertification levels in recent years had resulted in loss of fertile topsoil, soil erosion, water scarcity, lower agricultural, loss of agriculture-based livelihoods, increase in rural poverty, hunger and malnutrition, rural-to-urban migration, habitat loss, degradation of natural ecosystems.
Meanwhile the world owes 6.8 Billion USD to bakistan for turning it into a desert
Furious lynch mob snatch tourist from a police station and beat him to death then set him on fire after accusing him of desecrating the Koran in Pakistan
Unknown gunmen are back in the news as a retired Pakistani brigadier was shot dead in Punjab's Jhelum district late Monday (June 17), as per media reports. Amir Hamza, who was also an operative of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), came under attack by four unidentified gunmen riding on two motorcycles. The four men opened indiscriminate fire on the ISI member and fled the scene after ensuring their target was dead. Hamza was travelling in his car, along with his wife and daughter, when the attack took place and they also received minor injuries.
Five Pakistani soldiers were killed on Friday when a bomb detonated as their vehicle passed through the restive northwestern region bordering Afghanistan, the military said.
Gravitas: CPEC in danger? China sets conditions on Pakistan for new BRI investments
The video is 8:34 minutes long
During an event in Islamabad, China's Minister of the International Department, Liu Jianchao, said "Business environment cannot improve without security.'
Recently, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also returned nearly empty-handed from a trip to China where he had hoped to secure major investments for Pakistan, especially through a revival of CPEC.
But with the flagship project of the BRI suffering in Pakistan due to internal turmoil, is China growing tired of Pakistan? What else does this
message from the Chinese Minister want to convey to Pakistan?
Furious lynch mob snatch tourist from a police station and beat him to death then set him on fire after accusing him of desecrating the Koran in Pakistan
chetak wrote: ↑
... During an event in Islamabad, China's Minister of the International Department, Liu Jianchao, said "Business environment cannot improve without security"
...
Bas is that's all?
Ye Io.. pakistan promptly announce launch of a new anti terrorist operation - Hajam-e- Isabgol or something like that....
chetak wrote: ↑
... During an event in Islamabad, China's Minister of the International Department, Liu Jianchao, said "Business environment cannot improve without security"
...
Bas is that's all?
Ye Io.. pakistan promptly announce launch of a new anti terrorist operation - Hajam-e- Isabgol or something like that....
Manish ji,
The cheeni have never been attacked like they have been in pukestan
The hans simply cannot handle such a scenario, a situation far beyond their experience, because usually, the hans are the ones terrorizing the locals and the cheen authorities have no answers for their own people who may well be refusing to work in in the sharia paradise of djinnah, thereby leaving the cheen authorities high and dry
good going for the paki katoras, halalling out the alms givers themselves, while begging for aid from them is a tried and tested malsi strategy, which they first applied on the amrikis
The minister highlighted that while the TTP vowed to “introduce an Islamic system”, the BLA on the other hand was their “ideological opposite”. “Their nexus only means that their investor is the same who is using them from two angles,” he asserted.
“If you look at the financial [support] or the intelligence of the BLA and the TTP, or their members sitting abroad, there is no doubt that RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) is funding them,” Langau stated.
Terroristan is not too happy after the passage of key resolution that calls for "impartial probe in recent Pakistan elections" by USA....
Says "such resolutions are therefore neither constructive nor objective. We hope that the U.S Congress will play a supportive role in strengthening Pakistan-U.S ties: Pakistan foreign ministry over US resolution"..
India would not appreciate such a resolution about India in the US Congress. But Terroristan doesn't realize the natural alliance on real issues and all the issues of the "Global South". Islam, Islam, Islam trumps everything.
It was in 2001 that the military-led government of Gen Pervez Musharraf launched the so-called Operation Enduring Freedom in the former tribal regions in the wake of the American invasion of Afghanistan.
A series of CT campaigns followed: Al-Mizan (2002), Zalzala (2008) Sher Dil, Rah-i-Haq, and Rah-i-Raast (2007-2009), Rah-i-Nijaat (2009), Zarb-i-Azb (2014) and Raddul Fasaad (2017).
Given the questionable success of the previous campaigns, the deep scepticism over more kinetic action is not surprising. The trust deficit has been widening, as the state is seen to be making dubious compromises with militant outfits it claims to be fighting. An example of this was the secret deal with the TTP in 2022, which allowed thousands of armed militants to return home and regroup.
I think the stage is being set to get soybean milk out of the lizard.
Back to the battlefield
...
The prime minister approved a “reinvigorated and re-energised national counterterrorism [CT] campaign through the launching of Operation Azm-i-Istehkam, with the consensus of all stakeholders ..
Last, but not least, there is also the issue of expense. The extensive military operations in the past took place at a time when aid from the US in the form of coalition support funds was still making its way to Pakistan. At present, with no such aid and the cash crunch the country is dealing with, any planning for military operations will also have to consider how they will be financed.
Gentlemen, it's time for a battle between the Lending Lizard and Begging Donkey. Will the lizard agree to pay for anti-terrorism? Will the beggar decide to amputate another limb to increase earning? Will the TTP and BLA play along? Will the Evil Yindu and the RAA continue their villainous plans?
Please watch yet another sequel in the neighbourhood franchise: Bheekh-ki-Vasooli
Seems like a redux of the scam that Bhikaristanis are good at. We have seen this movie before with the Americans paying TSP to fight the terrorists and TSP in turn funding the terrorists to create more terrorists and bopping off an occasional '3rd in command' terrorist. I think they are using the same template to sucker the lizard.
Pakistan’s envoy to the US, Masood Khan, has urged Washington to provide small arms and modern equipment to the country to ensure the success of Operation Azm-i-Istehkam, a newly approved counter-terrorism initiative.
The federal government recently greenlit the reinvigorated national counter-terrorism drive, however, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif clarified that this initiative would not be a large-scale military operation and would not displace local populations. #the jihadi terrorists will just be moved about..
“Pakistan has launched Azm-i-Istehkam […] to oppose and dismantle terrorist networks. For that, we need sophisticated small arms and communication equipment,” said Ambassador Khan while addressing US policymakers, scholars, intelligentsia, and corporate leaders at a Washington think tank, the Wilson Centre, earlier this week.
Lee Kuan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore and the architect of the tiny country’s giant economy, first visited Pakistan in 1988.
According to the celebrated columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee, when Yew was leaving, a Pakistani journalist asked him if he had any advice to offer to Pakistanis. Yew stated his inability to do so in the case of a nation that was more interested in the afterlife than life on Earth.
Manish_P wrote: ↑29 Jun 2024 10:44
Wallah... asking Murica to give them small arms (looks like they have given up hope of big-ticket items) to 'protect' the chinese
Why can't they ask the Chinese to give them small arms to protect Chinese personnel posted in p@kiland? They don't want to because Chinese weapons have a Chinese quality to them? They should know, after all, they handle both US/western & Chinese hardware.
Manish_P wrote: ↑29 Jun 2024 10:44
Wallah... asking Murica to give them small arms (looks like they have given up hope of big-ticket items) to 'protect' the chinese
Why can't they ask the Chinese to give them small arms to protect Chinese personnel posted in p@kiland? They don't want to because Chinese weapons have a Chinese quality to them? They should know, after all, they handle both US/western & Chinese hardware.
Well Khan saab, after all the chinese did the ultimate uno reverse play... they scammed the Nigerians.
Nigeria’s Military Is Furious: Imported China’s Advanced VT4 Tanks Fire Just One Shell per Half Hour
Karachi (AsiaNews) – The Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology (SICHN) has been forced to put on hold Pakistan's first human milk bank due to controversy on social media where many claim it does not comply with Islamic precepts.
To solve the issue, SICHN said it would seek guidance from Darul Ulum Karachi (DUK), a traditional Deobandi madrasa, and the Council of Islamic Ideology, which provides the government with legal advice on Islamic issues.
DUK had already issued a fatwa (a legal ruling) in December that guaranteed "the necessary religious endorsement" for the institute, saying the human milk project complies with Islamic law (Shari‘a).
The fatwa set out the preconditions for the milk bank. It said: “Complete data of women contributing to a ‘lot’ of milk should be maintained and shared with mothers whose babies are provided that milk so that a kinship record is maintained.” At the same time, “this service should be provided free of cost and [. . .] Muslim children should only be provided milk from Muslim mothers”.
However, following a review made public on 16 June, shortly after the inauguration of the milk bank, DUK said it was very difficult if not almost impossible to implement all the conditions mentioned in the December fatwa, which has led to the initiative to be put on hold.
In a statement, SICHN said that DUK and the CII are “esteemed institutions” and “pillars of religious scholarship and their insights will be invaluable in navigating this complex issue. We are dedicated to ensuring that our healthcare initiatives are not only scientifically sound but also religiously compliant”.
Nevertheless, as a SICHN representative said, “We have 30 to 35 premature babies out of the 50 children admitted to our hospital at a given time. These babies needed mother’s milk to save them from complications that would in turn increase their chances for survival. Unfortunately, however, some mothers don’t have enough breast milk to support their nutrition.”
Asked by the Karachi-based newspaper, Dawn, about the controversy that blew up on social media, the representative went on to say that human milk banks operate in several Muslim countries, including Iran and Malaysia.
“Unfortunately, our society has lost the ability to debate like educated people,” he added in a reference to the “misinformation” on the social media.
The crux of the matter concerns the relationship between the newborn and the donor mother and between the different infants who received milk from the same woman.
Such relationships would be the equivalent of those between biological mother and child and between siblings, which in Islam are called "mahram", and banned because they would be considered incestuous.
According to Islamic jurisprudence, relationships of this type must be clearly delineated to avoid incestuous marriages between children who have received the same mother's milk.
For this reason, the practice is forbidden in most of the Muslim world because donors usually remain anonymous.
> According to Islamic jurisprudence, relationships of this type must be clearly delineated to avoid incestuous marriages between children who have received the same mother's milk.
Huawei will train 200,000 Pakistani youth annually in IT.
to them?