Bharat Rakshak

Anindya wrote:MPs from India, Pakistan hold Track-II dialogue on trade, water, rights issues

ISLAMABAD: An Indian parliamentary delegation led by Mani Shankar Aiyar on Thursday met their Pakistani counterparts here for a Track-II dialogue that focused on trade, water and rights issues.

BEIJING: Chinese security forces shot and killed 12 men and wounded 20 others in a village adjoining Kashgar city, close to the border with Pakistan, according to US-based Radio Free Asia. The area has seen intense movement by Turkmenistan separatists and sporadic violence in recent days. The radio report said the killings took place more than three weeks ago in a small village but details emerged only this week. It quoted local officials as saying that separatists had been building and testing explosives at a desert camp in the village where the incident took place. The camp was raised by dozens of heavily armed security personnel, it said. But the incident has not been covered by the state run media, Xinhua. China has persistently asked Pakistan to check infiltration of Taliban terrorists and weapons from across the border into Xinjiang. A recent article in the state-controlled Global Times expressed unhappiness over Pakistan's responses to Chinese requests. Chinese authorities said they have intensified the campaign against terrorists in Xinjiang. An estimated 100 people have been killed in violence in Xinjiang, home to nine million Uyghur Muslims, over the past three months. A section of Uyghur Muslims are seeking an independent East Turkmenistan by slicing out Xinjiang from China.

It is politically incorrect to argue for efficiency of slavery or its modern form, bonded labour, but ... there is some room to debate the issue in the context of Pakistan.

Before dwelling into pros and cons of bonded labour, it is important to understand the weak legal framework for making contracts binding in commerce, trade and industry in Pakistan. It is a common practice in the private sector that employees leave (or switch) jobs at will, sometimes even not bothering to tell their employers of their decision to quit.

the employers may invest in developing a skill in someone who is subsequently bonded to work for them. The employers benefit in terms of uninterrupted supply of labour in a favourable and cost-effective way.

Ignoring the abuse (which is mostly blamed on the managerial staff with or in most cases without consent or knowledge of the owner-employer), the bonded labourers and their families are taken care of by the employers in terms of shelter and health.

Most bonded labourers have access to credit by virtue of the very arrangement between them and their employers.

The government should also take steps to make up for losses of hundreds of businesses that lost considerable sums of money, which the so-called freed workers owed to their previous employers.

Slavery is good - by Dr. Humayon Dar

Dr Humayon Dar is an Islamic economist, transformational thinker, author, Sharia advisor and Islamic banking expert, focusing on how to create financial solutions that conform with Sharia law.

He is not a classically trained scholar, who has undergone years of training and studying of Islamic sciences, such as Quranic hermaneutics, but describes himself as a sharia technician or Islamic economist. He is considered as one of the most influential advocates of Islamic banking and finance, who directly benefitted from the first generation of Islamic economists..

Dar holds a BSc (Hons) and MSc (both in Islamic Economics) from the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIU), as well as an MPhil and PhD (both in Economics) from Cambridge University.

In addition to his advocacy of Islamic banking and finance, Dar sits on a number of Sharia Advisory Boards, including those of Allianz Global Investors (Luxembourg), Hong Leong Islamic Bank (Malaysia), Hong Leong Tokio Takaful Marine (Malaysia) and Halal Industries Group (UK)

Lilo wrote:

Dr Humayon Dar is an Islamic economist...Islamic banking expert, focusing on how to create financial solutions that conform with Sharia law.

Pakislamic Economic Theory (def.): What is yours by inheritance is mine. What you have built with hard work and intellect is mine.

Pakistani police say assailants hurled hand grenades into a Sufi mosque in the country's northwest in a late night attack that left three people dead.

Police official Misri Khan says the attack late Thursday in Achini Bala village near the Khyber tribal region also wounded 20 people.

Khan said on Friday that three of the wounded were in critical condition. Dozens of worshippers were participating in a religious gathering when the attack took place.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion will likely fall on the Pakistani Taliban and their allies. Hard-line Sunni extremists consider Sufis to be heretics.

Gagan wrote:And if all else fails, (I will not work hard and build anything for myself)
I will say "Jeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaad"

I will say "Jeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaad"

Lilo wrote:

Gagan wrote:And if all else fails, (I will not work hard and build anything for myself)
I will say "Jeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaad"

Anyway even when "all else + jeehard" fails one can at any point rent hijj pehind in exchange for Baksheesh

The agreement, however, has a caveat. The two sides agreed that if policy adjustments failed to achieve quantitative benchmarks, including those relating to reducing fiscal deficit to 5.8pc of GDP, the government would advance policy measures like tax expansion, subsidy reductions and expenditure controls in the current fiscal year which were originally planned for the next two fiscal years. This includes a further increase in energy prices, over and above those envisaged for the current year, and more withdrawals of tax exemptions.

The government committed that besides these initiatives to widen the tax base, it would finalise a comprehensive plan to separate the existing statutory regulatory orders either by eliminating those granting exemptions or concessions through SROs by the end of this year.

Sattar Buksh is the latest addition to the list of cafes opened up to cater to the insatiable Karachi appetite, which is ready to engulf everything as people reach new heights of desperation in the entertainment-starved, terror-stricken metropolis. The new place has opened up in Clifton Block 4, that is fast picking up as the next swanky lane catering to the discerning and privileged. It has restaurants such as China Kitchen, Hook, Line & Sinker and the newly opened, Monte Cristo. The Sattar Buksh team says it wasn’t their first venue choice; the cafe was supposed to be in another location in Clifton.The café has a tongue-in-cheek feel that combines desi elements with an upscale twist, with a sprinkle of humour and wit that set the menu apart. The interior is meticulously crafted, combining an array of various local pop culture influences, including the beaten truck art. The dishes have names like ‘Topless Besharam Burger’ and ‘Jheenga La-La’.The same zing, however, seems to be lacking in the food. It may be the result of an overwhelming response much before they officially opened their doors to the public, but there is a serious effort as the owners offer two distinct cuisines — it offers burgers as well as Bunn khwabs, and gulabo jaananus as well as lices on Butt cheesecake.

sanjaykumar wrote:http://www.dawn.com/news/1042828/india- ... er-not-yet

It is difficult to explain. For us – the post-partition Pakistanis – going to India was not like returning home. India is another country. And yet it is not like any other country. It is a country we left behind more than half a century ago, yet we still share so much. And India is also the country we have fought in three wars.

We do see India as a neighbour – rather a powerful neighbour – and want good relations, but nothing beyond that. There is no desire for reunification, no craving for merger.



Hell, why do they bring in this reunification gratuitously. They should first talk about reunification with....wait for it Pakis....Bangladesh.

“Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi BJP’s new candidate for PM,” I read the next story.

“What a shame,” said Aasha. “Now they want a mass murderer to be India’s next prime minister. No surprise they cannot talk peace.”

Later he (his Sikh taxi driver) found his own statement very amusing and once, thinking about it, he had a fit of laughter and had to stop the rickshaw. "Look at me. I am a pukka (solid) Indian and I say I may have Pakistani chemical in my veins," he said.

I asked him what would his parents say if they heard him say this.

"They would probably be amused," he said.

Then he told me that when India and Pakistan played a cricket match his parents prayed for the Indian team to win, but also wanted players from Pakistani Punjab to play well, "but only the Punjabi players, not other Pakistanis," said the Sikh driver.

wouldn’t have done it myself but I could understand why she did what she did, I thought to myself. I also silently conceded that had there been more intense Pakistani company in the vicinity she could’ve easily earned herself a clip across the ear and a mouthful of a few authentic taunts. It was the first time I heard a Pakistani call herself an Indian. But why was I not shocked?I guess there is less risk of a stampede when you are seated in a fairly sparse Virgin Atlantic train en route to London on a Monday mid-morning, when most people are at their desks high on coffee beans. I can’t even remember what I was doing on the train to London that day, one of my many random escapades I’m sure, but more interesting were the travels of this confident young girl on her way to New Delhi. Well, kind of.“Yes, I have lots of family there,” she continued to tell an unsuspecting smartly dressed Englishman who seemed humbled by her plans to spend two months working for orphanages in India, her ‘homeland’. Not quite the Karachi orphanages she had so passionately been telling me about before he had boarded the train and started enquiring about her mammoth sized suitcase.Why despite being a proud and passionate Pakistani through and through, was I not entirely shocked at her sharp and defiant leap across the border? Well, being a British-born Pakistani can come with its growing pains. Living in both segregated English and Pakistani communities within the UK produces both its fair share of ‘coconuts’ (with the tagline of brown on the outside and white on the inside), and on the other end of the spectrum the ‘inbreds’ (who look as though they’ve literally jumped off a plane from Mirpur despite being born and bred in the UK). That leaves a good few at varying levels in between these two extremes and it is in this grey area you may find those comfortable and content with both their eastern roots and western abode, and it is only these that hold some hope for Pakistan in an otherwise dying breed overseas.
Anyhow, this bright girl on the train, whom I will name Kiran, appeared to be from the former category, until of course she started telling me about her compelling plans for Karachi. I was pleasantly surprised at this discovery, after having had a half-an-hour conversation with her in her staunch Queen’s English, where Pakistan, being brown or anything of the sort did not come across at all. Sadly, my hopes of interrogating what could’ve been a rare or mutated breed of the ‘coconut’ were washed away the minute the Englishman sat opposite us and started probing into her trip, which much to my shock, she chose to tell him was to India. “It’s safe for me to travel there,” Kiran reassured the probing stranger. “No, no, the bombs are going off in Pakistan, not India,” she corrected him. It was almost as though I had vanished into thin air. I knew she knew what I was thinking, because now she did not look at me. Day to day parts of Pakistani life in the UK has at face value demonstrated some penetration into the British culture, but to a negligible degree. Chicken tikka masala was, in recent years, the nation’s favourite food and western fashion has of late taken many influences from the Indian subcontinent. But dodgy kormas and embroidered sandals are probably where the similarities end and the ‘confusion’ of the so-called ‘British Born Confused Desi’ or ‘BBCD’ begins. The lay Englishman would not be able to distinguish to a significant degree the difference between Indian and Pakistani culture, thus diffusing the argument that Indian culture has made more of a mark in the UK and, therefore, it is easier to be Indian, so why did Kiran pretend to be just that?Our passive relief was a testimony itself to the dismal state of our affairs, when we were ranked as the 42nd most corrupt country out of 184 countries worldwide by the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions index in 2011. With corruption in the country as ripe as a Jamaican mango, the layman would expect the ranking to be a lot higher. Less was the relief and more was the shame however, when the BBC global poll in February 2012 ranked Pakistan as the second most negatively perceived country within those in its survey, with Pakistan also being the only country having a negative perception of itself.
Several hours west, for many that cannot even name the capital city of Pakistan, negative perceptions of the country have cast a shadow over their day-to-day lives. Pakistani heritage has become an embarrassing and awkward liability for many British-born Pakistanis, including Kiran, so it appeared. Unfortunate when you think of some of the positive contributions that Pakistanis have made in their communities and professions abroad.The last half-hour of my journey was an awkward one. The Englishman looked at me flittingly in between nodding his head to animated stories of Kiran’s childhood visits to India, or to my Pakistan, shall I say. To be honest, I wasn’t angry; her identity crisis made me feel sorry for her. And for us. My heart sank when I thought of the future of Pakistan. Despite their deep attachment, natives cannot get out of the country quick enough to escape the gaping holes in the governance and welfare systems, many even for fear of their lives. Most first-generation migrants for the same reasons no longer take their children to Pakistan in the holidays. With visa processes getting tougher and less travel either way, we have become more and more isolated from our roots and one another. The vast majority of second-generation Pakistanis abroad, or BBCDs, wear, speak and eat Pakistani (albeit at a sharp decline) but without any desire for themselves or their future generations to visit or take an interest in their country or its people.

Currently, one in five overseas Pakistanis is residing in the UK, a total of 1.2 million of a total 62 million UK population. The Daily Telegraph estimates by 2031 there will be 2.63 million people in the UK of Pakistani Arab ancestry. But what will this mean to Kiran’s children? Or to mine? Towards the end of the journey she had actually started to get on my nerves a little, but I was even more annoyed at these little gems that would pop out amidst her stories every so often. Now one thing that she did not deny was that she was a Muslim, or that the future of culture was in jeopardy full stop. “In these difficult circumstances living abroad,” she told the fascinated stranger, “for us second-generation Indians,” she continued, “the future will be about saving and preserving our religious identity. Religion will become our identity.” This time I turned to glare at her. What? Saving Islam at the cost of Pakistan. A devastating aftertaste stayed with me the whole day.

Now one thing that she did not deny was that she was a Muslim, or that the future of culture was in jeopardy full stop. “In these difficult circumstances living abroad,” she told the fascinated stranger, “for us second-generation Indians,” she continued, “the future will be about saving and preserving our religious identity. Religion will become our identity.”

. The Daily Telegraph estimates by 2031 there will be 2.63 million people in the UK of Pakistani Arab ancestry. But what will this mean to Kiran’s children? Or to mine? Towards the end of the journey she had actually started to get on my nerves a little, but I was even more annoyed at these little gems that would pop out amidst her stories every so often. Now one thing that she did not deny was that she was a Muslim, or that the future of culture was in jeopardy full stop. “In these difficult circumstances living abroad,” she told the fascinated stranger, “for us second-generation Indians,” she continued, “the future will be about saving and preserving our religious identity. Religion will become our identity.” This time I turned to glare at her. What? Saving Islam at the cost of Pakistan. A devastating aftertaste stayed with me the whole day

"PMLn >>>> , (N)asty League has taken 660bln loan from IMF in just 100 days, they are record breaker of PPP , who took 550bln in 60 months...talk about "Fast & Furious 6" as this is 6th time Nooora has kidnapped Punjab & 3rd time Pakistan.

So it means all the loan they are getting from IMF , is being transferred into Hussain Nawaz accounts.

The Royal Family of Pakistan has also gone into mega construction deals with the Indian Ghandi family and they put up 3 billions pounds each.

Hussain Nawaz has gone into major partnership with Robert Vadra Son in law of Sonia Ghandi. New businesses while our soldiers die on border.

Arvind Kejriwal a major anti congress political activist is about to disclose major deals between the two and how they escalate tension.

Border tension is escalated so that all businesses are stopped except for the 2 families across the border.A new Sugar deal in progress.

Kazakstan's President's son in law Taimur nazarbayer and Hassan and salman Shabaz formed an oil n Gas company based in London.

They formed a company to get all gas and oil contracts in Pakistan and claim foreign investment is coming into Pakistan.

Additionally I discovered a how a new bank is being formed with the members of Royal Family as shareholders to buy out PSO and PPL

Now one thing that she did not deny was that she was a Muslim, or that the future of culture was in jeopardy full stop. “In these difficult circumstances living abroad,” she told the fascinated stranger, “for us second-generation Indians,” she continued, “the future will be about saving and preserving our religious identity. Religion will become our identity.”

The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has banned a science book for Grade VI students of a chain of elite schools for containing material that could provoke "sexual desire".
The textbook used by the Lahore Grammar School was banned after authorities received complaints from parents.
"We have banned the book after receiving complaints from parents," provincial Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmad told PTI.
The science book had material that could provoke "sexual desire", which could not be tolerated, he said.

MurthyB wrote:

Now one thing that she did not deny was that she was a Muslim, or that the future of culture was in jeopardy full stop. “In these difficult circumstances living abroad,” she told the fascinated stranger, “for us second-generation Indians,” she continued, “the future will be about saving and preserving our religious identity. Religion will become our identity.”
The danger here she can pretend to be an Indian RoPer and talk about the difficulty of preservation when people like NaMo walk free etc and kill two birds simultaneously. Take a leaf out of the self hating psecs...

The minister added that Article 25 of the Constitution of Pakistan was quite clear about the provision that no Pakistani citizen should be taught a religion other than his own. Similarly, provocation of sexual sentiments was also cognizable under Pakistan Penal Code Section 293 and Section 298, he added.

Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan reiterated that the Punjab government would not allow anyone to make our youth hostage of foreign mindset by teaching them material having topics which are against our social norms, values and religious beliefs.

venug wrote:Pakistani authorities ban science textbook, say contents could provoke 'sexual desire'

The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has banned a science book for Grade VI students of a chain of elite schools for containing material that could provoke "sexual desire".
The textbook used by the Lahore Grammar School was banned after authorities received complaints from parents.
"We have banned the book after receiving complaints from parents," provincial Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmad told PTI.
The science book had material that could provoke "sexual desire", which could not be tolerated, he said.