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<b>Only in Pakistan</b>
We hear Nawab Akbar Bugtiâs 82 year old wife has been put on the Exit Control List. The ailing lady is bed-ridden and finds it difficult to go from one room to the next without help. This fact has not prevented the agencies from declaring the octogenarian lady a terrorist and a member of the Balochistan Liberation Army. Only in Pakistan â¦
<b>Black magic</b>
The practise of black magic appears to be thriving in Pakistanâs highest income urban areas. One well-known Karachi socialite was spied by surveillance cameras at a rivalâs gate dropping off a decapitated black ram (proverbial kala bakra) and a sprinkling of seeds. Pandemonium ensued, especially since the victim succumbed to a serious illness soon thereafter.
<b>Rape expert madrassa nazim</b>
According to Khabrain administrator of a religious seminary in Sharaqpur, Maulvi Ismail, raped a local married schoolteacher, then made pornographic pictures of her and blackmailed her into giving him money and having more sex with him. When her father in law registered a case against him he attacked him with a gun and ordered that she be divorced so that he could marry her. When the police went to arrest him he attacked the police and tore their uniforms. In his madrassa the police discovered blue films and other nude pictures. Local people reported that Ismail had raped many girls before and was once had his face blackened and paraded on a donkey. There was a case against him in court but he had the support of the police and remained at large also because of religion.
<b>Hold on to half democracy!</b>
Writing in Jang Nazeer Naji observed that dhaandli was a permanent feature of Pakistani elections, but the fact was that always one party won while the other was subjected to dhaandli. In other words no politician in Pakistan accepted defeat gracefully after being beaten in elections. Yet bad democracy was better than military dictatorship and no democracy at all. What the opposition had under Musharraf was bad democracy but they could lose even that while fighting for full democracy.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Rights and wrongs in cricket </b>
Najam Sethi's
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Darrel Hair was wrong on all counts, Inzimamul Haq was right in protesting and the ICC was wrong to charge him but should now try to be right for the sake of cricket. Hereâs why.
The great British umpire, Dickie Bird, remarked after this incident: âAn umpire cannot charge a player with cheating without conclusive proof or evidenceâ. All foreign commentators have repeated that there isnât a shred of evidence to suggest that the Pakistanis tampered with the ball that was in its 57th over. Indeed, not one of the 26 Sky TV cameras or the hundreds of still cameras trained on every playerâs smallest movement saw anything remotely like it. Hair did not call Inzimamul Haq for consultation, did not present any evidence to anyone, unilaterally replaced the ball with the sole approval of the England players, and blithely awarded five runs to England as a penalty against Pakistan. He was wrong on every count, especially the final one of awarding the match to England instead of allowing the Pakistanis to resume play.
If Inzimamul Haq had led his team off the field at that time or, as it happened, delayed his return after the tea interval to lodge his protest, the heavens shouldnât have fallen on him. The gameâs history is replete with spats between players and umpires, including walk-offs in protest, without the match being abandoned or the game being âawardedâ by the umpire. In 1970-71, Ray Illingworth, the England captain, and Lou Rowan, the Australian umpire, got into a finger-wagging clash in Australia and Illingworth led his team off the field despite a warning from Rowan of forfeiting the match. But cooler heads prevailed, the match wasnât awarded to Australia and Illingworth led his team back to the field. The same scenario could have been played out last week if it hadnât been for Hairâs arrogance. In 1973, the British umpire Arthur Fagg and the West Indies captain Rohan Kanhai quarreled on the field. Fagg refused to start the third dayâs play and Kanhai refused to apologise. But the match resumed without recriminations or penalties after Alec Bedser, the head honcho of English cricket, persuaded Fagg to return. In 1979-80, the West Indies had problems with umpire Fred Goodall in New Zealand and refused to play after tea. The match wasnât forfeited and they returned to the field to play. In 1987, Pakistanâs umpire Shakoor Rana and Englandâs captain Mike Gatting had a flaming row on the field and Gatting angrily led his boys back to the pavilion. But discreet negotiations broke the deadlock and allowed the match to continue because Rana did not precipitate a crisis by awarding the match to Pakistan. In 1998-99, following a heated argument between Ross Emerson, the British umpire, and the Sri Lankan captain, Arjuna Ranatunga, the Lankans walked off the field in protest. But reason prevailed and the match was resumed instead of being hastily âawardedâ to the other side. Most significantly, Ross Emerson was sidelined by the ICC after that.
Unlike Hair, some umpires in the eye of a storm have behaved with dignity. Frank Chester, the great British umpire, had issues with the Australians from 1948 onwards. In 1953 matters worsened during the Ashes series in England. The Australians objected to him. So he diplomatically stood down in the 1956 series citing bad health. Much the same course was adopted by Tom Brooks, an Australian umpire, who voluntarily quit on the fourth day at lunch in the Sydney Test in 1978-79 between England and Australia after giving a series of controversial decisions.
Under the circumstances, the ICC and its match referees should have played a positive role last Sunday in cooling tempers and nudging everyone back to the field. Instead, the ICC precipitated the worst crisis in cricket history by donning the garb of the prosecutor and judge after siding with Hair and trying to drag Inzimamul Haq to a âhearingâ on Friday. This provoked Pakistanâs captain and coach to warn that if Pakistan were adjudged guilty without evidence and any further punishment applied, the Pakistanis might boycott the ODIs. Hair didnât do his cause any good when he dug his heels in and told the Australian media that he was âready for battleâ. The stakes were suddenly raised when Pakistanâs President General Musharraf and the chief of the Bangla Desh Cricket Board weighed in publicly on the Pakistani cricket teamâs side and the Australian and Pakistani media and players rose to defend their respective compatriots.
But money walks the talk. When the NatWest sponsors of the ODIs, contacted their lawyers on Wednesday to ascertain what damages they could legitimately impose on the ICC in the event of a cancellation of the ODIs, the ICC took the first sensible step in the entire episode. It postponed the Friday hearing on the pretext that one of its members was unwell. The next step is obvious enough: the ICC should do whatever it takes with dignity and diplomacy to keep the ODIs on track. There will be time enough for a full and impartial inquiry later against all the parties. Meanwhile, <b>if Hair insists on being pig-headed, he should be let out to pasture in Australia, or England if he so prefers</b>.
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<b>UK, US get access to Dawa chief </b>
Rajnish Sharma and Rahul Singh
New Delhi, August 24, 2006
<b>Pakistan is reported to have allowed the American FBI and the British intelligence agency, M15, to question Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammed Sayyed, currently under house arrest in Lahore</b>.
Sources here said the American and British agencies quizzed Sayeed about Al Qaida operative Matiur Rehman, who is said to be the brain behind the mid-air terror plot â thwarted by British intelligence agencies â to blow up planes taking off from Londonâs Heathrow Airport.
<b>A Turkish national, Rehman, has been a close associate of Sayeed and had even visited the Lashkar-e-Tayyebaâs camps near Muridke to training its cadre. </b>
Indian intelligence agencies have also been keeping a close watch on Rehmanâs activities as he is said to be monitoring LeTâs operations in the Valley as well. <b>âRehman is very important for India as he is using the LeT as Al Qaidaâs outsourcing agency to carry out subversive activities in India</b>.
There is information that he is planning big strikes in India on the scale of 9/11 and the London Metro bombings,â an intelligence source said. This Al Qaida operative also has close ties with Rashid Rauff of Jaish-e-Mohammed, who was picked up from his Bhawalpur residence after the London episode.
Rauff is the brother-in-law of the younger brother of Jaish chief Maulana Masood Azhar. He assisted Rehman in planning the London incident. Though Rauffâs whereabouts are not known following his arrest, Rehman is also not believed to be in Pakistan now.
<b>Sources claim American and British agencies have also probed Sayeed on the funding of Jamaat-ud-Dawa that has been carrying out relief activities following the earthquake in Pakistan- administered-Kashmir. </b> [ht -lying]
It is suspected that a major part of Jamaatâs funds were routed through an agency called Mercury in England.The ISI reportedly agreed to give access to the FBI and MI5 only after an assurance that they will not interrogate Sayeed and will only pose pointed queries on Rehman and the funding of Jamaat. âHad Sayeed been interrogated at length, he would have revealed a lot, which would have made ISI very uncomfortable," a source said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<b>Muslims alarmed over redrawn map for Islamic world </b>
Web posted at: 8/27/2006 3:0:18
Source ::: Internews
WASHINGTON ⢠Muslim circles have expressed alarm and disgust at the publication of a redrawn map of the Islamic world in a journal closely linked to the US armed forces.
The Armed Forces Journal, which has published the redrawn map of the world of Islam along with a long explanatory article, is published by the Army Times Publishing Company, a part of Gannett Company, Inc, the world's largest publisher of professional military and defence periodicals.
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<b>The proposed scheme places Pakistan on the chopping block. According to the plan, "Iran, a state with madcap boundaries, would lose a great deal of territory to Unified Azerbaijan, Free Kurdistan, the Arab Shia State and Free Balochistan, but would gain the provinces around Herat in today's Afghanistan â a region with a historical and linguistic affinity for Persia. </b>
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"Iran would, in effect, become an ethnic Persian state again, with the most difficult question being whether or not it should keep the port of Bandar Abbas or surrender it to the Arab Shia State.
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<b>" What Afghanistan would lose to Persia in the west, it would gain in the east, as Pakistan's North-west Frontier tribes would be reunited with their Afghan brethren Pakistan, another unnatural state, would also lose its Baloch territory to Free Balochistan. </b>The remaining 'natural' Pakistan would lie entirely east of the Indus, except for a westward spur near Karachi. "The city-states of the UAE would have a mixed fate â as they probably will in reality. Some might be incorporated in the Arab Shia State ringing much of the Persian Gulf ⦠Since all puritanical cultures are hypocritical, Dubai, of necessity, would be allowed to retain its playground status for rich debauchees. Kuwait would remain within its current borders, as would Oman."
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The redrawn map claims to "redress the wrongs suffered by the most significant 'cheated' population groups, such as the Kurds, Baloch and Arab Shia, but still fail to account adequately for Middle Eastern Christians, Bahais, Ismailis, Naqshbandis and many another numerically lesser minorities."
It adds that "one haunting wrong can never be redressed with a reward of territory: The genocide perpetrated against the Armenians by the dying Ottoman Empire."
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The author, Ralph Peters, argues that even those who abhor the topic of altering borders would be well-served to engage in an exercise that attempts to conceive a fairer, if still imperfect, amendment of national boundaries "between the Bosporus and the Indus."
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According to him, "We are dealing with colossal, man-made deformities that will not stop generating hatred and violence until they are corrected. As for those who refuse to 'think the unthinkable', declaring that boundaries must not change and that's that, it pays to remember that boundaries have never stopped changing through the centuries. Borders have never been static, and many frontiers, from Congo through Kosovo to the Caucasus, are changing even now. Ethnic cleansing works."
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Peter argues that for Israel to have any hope of living in "reasonable peace" with its neighbours, it will have to return to its pre-1967 borders, with essential local adjustments for legitimate security concerns.
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He writes that the most "glaring injustice" between the Balkan Mountains and the Himalayas is the absence of an independent Kurdish state. There are between 27m and 36 m Kurds living in contiguous regions in the Middle East.
He calls Iraq an unnatural state and calls for a greater Kurdish state, which will include Turkish, Syrian and Iranian Kurds. A Free Kurdistan, stretching from Diyarbakir through Tabriz, would be the most pro-Western state between Bulgaria and Japan, he adds.
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<b>Iraq's three Sunni-majority provinces might eventually choose to unify with a Syria that loses its littoral to a Mediterranean-oriented Greater Lebanon. </b>
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<b>The Shia south of old Iraq would form the basis of an Arab Shia State rimming much of the Persian Gulf. Jordan would retain its current territory, with some southward expansion at Saudi expense.</b> For its part, the unnatural state of Saudi Arabia would suffer as great a dismantling as Pakistan. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>India should address its own problems instead of interring in Pak business: Pak </b>
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28 (Online): Strongly rejecting the statement of Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesman on the situation of Balochistan Pakistan said the statement is not only against the well established norms of interstate relations but also a blatant interference in the internal affairs of the neighbouring country. A Pakistan foreign office statement said India's purported concern for the peoples of other countries is ill-advised especially when India remains afflicted with several insurgencies including in<b> Arunchal Pardesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, nagaland, Tripura, Bundel Khand, Gorkhaland , Bodoland and Khalpang</b>, which are being suppressed by force. India should focus on putting its own house in order rather than commenting on the internal affairs of other countries. (Posted @ 21:30 PST)
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->* Three people were killed and over 50 others injured and a curfew was imposed on Nushki town.
* At least 45 vehicles, scores of shops, banks and government buildings were ransacked or set on fire
* Police have arrested around 600 protesters in Quetta on charges of attacking government buildings and vehicles
* 12 police personnel, including four officers, were injured in clashes with protesters.
* All Quetta-bound flights coming from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad were cancelled. Passenger trains coming to Quetta from different parts of the country were stopped at Sibi and no train left Quetta for any destination as Pakistan Railways had suspended the service.
* A group of students smashed the door and windows of the offices of the warden of Balochistan Universityâs hostel. They entered the varsity garage and set on fire 16 buses.
* In Nushki, the administration imposed a curfew after protesters had attacked a Frontier Corps checkpost and set it on fire.
* Two bombs were exploded in Kalat. A device was planted in the building of Nadra that went off, destroying its offices. A hand grenade was hurled into the T&T offices, damaging the telephone exchange.
* The district offices of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League were set on fire in coastal towns of Pasni and Gwadar. A police post also came under attack in Gwadar.
* In Khuzdar, six banks, the offices of the House Building Finance Corporation, over 24 shops and several vehicles were set afire.
* Ten people were injured in Khuzdar and incidents of firing between police and protesters were reported from the town.
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* On Monday, five people were injured in clashes between protesters and police in the town of Pasni where several shops were set ablaze in the bazaar.
* In Gawadar, nearly 1,000 protesters set a bank and two shops on fire
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<b>Two barred from returning to US</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 27: The US government has barred two relatives of Hamid Hayat, a Pakistani-American convicted of supporting terrorists from returning to the country after a long stay in Pakistan.
<b>Mohammad Ismail, a 45-year-old naturalised citizen born in Pakistan, and his 18-year-old son Jaber Ismail, who was born in the United States,</b> have not been charged with any crime. However, they are the uncle and cousin of Hamid Hayat, 23, who was convicted in April of supporting terrorists by attending a Pakistani training camp.
US authorities said that the men, both Lodi residents,<b> would not be allowed back into the country unless they agreed to FBI interrogations in Pakistan</b>. An attorney representing the family said agents have asked whether the younger Ismail trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan.
The men and three relatives had been in Pakistan for more than four years and tried to return to the United States on April 21 as a federal jury in Sacramento deliberated Hayatâs fate.
<b>But they were pulled aside during a layover in Hong Kong and told there was a problem with their passports, said Julia Harumi Mass, their attorney</b>.
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<span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> Pak will be failed state by 2015: CIA</span></span>
Pakistan, affected by civil war, Talibanisation and a struggle for control of its nuclear weapons, will be a 'failed' state by 2015, premier US intelligence agencies have said in an assessment report.
Forecasting a 'Yugoslavia-like fate', the US National Intelligence Council and Central Intelligence Agency, in a jointly prepared Global Futures Assessment Report, have said Pakistan would be ripe with civil war, bloodshed, and inter-provincial rivalries.
"Pakistan will not recover easily from decades of political and economic mismanagement, divisive policies, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction," the report said.
The former Pakistan high commissioner to United Kingdom, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, quoted the report in an article titled Will the Pakistan army invade Balochistan as per the NIC-CIA Plan? in the South Asia Tribune.
Hasan said, "The military operation that has been put in motion in Balochistan would further distance the Baloch people from rest of the country."
"Nascent democratic reforms will produce little change in the face of opposition from an entrenched political elite and radical Islamic parties. In a climate of continuing domestic turmoil, the Central government's control will be reduced to the Punjabi heartland and the economic hub of Karachi," the former diplomat of Pakistan quoted the report as saying.
Hasan wondered, "Are our military rulers working on a similar agenda or on something that has been laid out for them in the various assessment reports over the years by the National Intelligence Council in joint collaboration with CIA?"
His article comes in the backdrop of growing violence between the Balochis and the Pakistani security forces stationed in the gas-rich province.
The recent moves by the security forces to evict all residents within a 15-km radius of Pakistan's biggest gas plant, Sui, and the decision to create a cantonment near it has given a fillip to the anti-Islamabad insurgent activities of Balochi groups like the Balochistan Liberation Army, media reports said.
They said Pakistan was taking the 'most drastic step yet' in its bid to crush a deadly tribal rebellion by forcibly evicting all residents from around 500 dwellings.
<b>Pakistan lodges protest with India over LoC firing </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pakistan said Monday that it has lodged formal protest with India over violation of ceasefire on the Line of Control (LOC), which divides the two countries in the disputed Kashmir region.
Pakistan military says that Indian forces twice violated ceasefire in less than two weeks, which resulted into civilian casualties.
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<b>Pakistani court orders release of militant leader</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A court in Pakistan on Monday ordered the release of a militant leader, who was detained earlier this month to stop him from addressing a public meeting.
Hafiz Saeed, chief of Jumaat-ud-Daawa formerly known as Lashkar-e-Tayyeba was detained on August 10, was scheduled to address a public meeting on the occasion of Pakistan Independence Day on August 14.
The government, in the detention order, had stated that Hafiz Saeed can ignite people against the government in his address and that is why he was detained to maintain peace and order.
The Indian government had suspected Saeed's group of masterminding the last months Mumbai train blasts. Jumaat-ud-Daawa had denied any involvement.
Memoona Saeed, wife of the militant leader, had challenged the detention, describing it as illegal and unconstitutional.
The petitioner had also referred to the welcoming statement about Hafiz Saeed detention and said that he was detained to appease India.
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<b><i>* Former foreign secretary Riaz Khokhar says govt needs to analyse Chinese plan for energy import through Gwadar Port, as Beijing is negotiating five oil and gas pipelines with CARs</i><!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->
ISLAMABAD : Former foreign secretary Riaz Khokhar has said the government needs to analyze the Chinese plan for energy import in future <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>as Beijing is negotiating around five oil and gas pipelines with Central Asian Republics.</span></b><!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->
There must be a careful study to examine whether China would require Gwadar Port facilities for future oil and gas import, he added.
He said this while taking part in a discussion on a research paper presented by Gulfaraz Ahmed, Executive Director of the International Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IIPCR), an institute of National University of Science and Technology (NUST). The roundtable discussion, was jointly organized the IIPCR and the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), on Monday.
In his paper, Mr Gulfaraz said Gwadar Port is one of the suitable options for east-bound oil trade for South Asian, Southeast Asian and Asia Pacific markets as it would be impracticable from 2020 onwards to ship increasing quantity of oil through the present route of the Strait of Hormuz.
Besides Gwardar Port, the new Iranian deep-sea port at Chabahar and some ports on the coast of Oman are other likely choices for oil trade as the present choke point of oil trade at Hormuz is becoming congested and it could affect global energy security as well as regional peace.
He said around 60 million barrels per day oil is imported, which represents the scale of global oil trade. At present oil is available and maritime routes are able to handle the required shipping flows. The availability of oil is, however, shrinking due to declining reserves and a number of oil-surplus countries such as China, Malaysia and Indonesia. They would become net importers of oil in coming years. Around 57 percent of global oil reserves are concentrated primarily in a few countries of the Gulf, which are likely to outlast many other sources of the world oil supply. It is generally visualized that the global reliance on the oil reserves of the Gulf countries will continue to increase in the foreseeable future.
<b>The Oman option would be suitable for south-bound oil meant for European and US markets. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The Iranian Chabahar Port is suitably located for south and east bound oil movement, he said.</span></b>
The Gulf countries are expected to export around 22 million barrels of oil daily in 2006. Nearly 90 percent of the exports, 20 million barrels daily, would be transported through the narrow Strait of Hormuz, which constitutes a big choke point for the global oil trade. The oil trade from the same sources, in a little over a decade, could be around 34 million barrels per day. The projected increase of 14 million barrels of daily oil flows in just about 13 years through the already congested choke point could affect the smooth flow of oil affecting the reliability of oil supplies and increasing the freight and shipping costs.
By 2020, the world demand for oil is estimated to cross 110 million barrels daily. The export of Gulf oil is expected to rise to about 34 million barrels, of which around 32 million barrels would have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz on daily basis.
This is close to twice the quantity of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz at present. The increase in the eastbound oil in 2020 is expected to go up to 10 million barrels daily, of which the export to China alone is likely to go up by over five million barrels daily, Mr Gulfaraz said in his paper.
The Gwadar Port can handle very large crude containers of up to 0.5 million tons dead weight, which form crucial part of the international oil movement. For every one million barrels daily outlet capacity at Gwardar, Pakistan could possibly net over a third of a billion dollars a year in revenues besides other indirect economic benefits, including employment opportunities. This will generate substantial resources to boost Pakistan's efforts to develop the vast and backward province of Balochistan, according to the paper.
Some of the participants, who are retired officials from the civilian and military bureaucracy, however, expressed doubts over the thesis made in the paper. Since other choices are available through Iran and Oman ports, the Pakistan government must be required to declare Gwadar Port an open port with open policy. There must be speedy cargo handling in place at the new port. There must be an environment, which is entirely improved from the outdated facilities being provided at Karachi Port.
Some of the participants, including Lt-General Talat Masood (retd), said much importance should be given to the commercial importance of Gwadar. If we continue to stress on strategic position of Gwadar, then the proposed port will lose its commercial and economic benefits. There must not be a surrender of strategic place to anyone, he said without much explaining.
The roundtable conference was attended by Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Engineer Dr Akram Sheikh, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Energy Mukhtar Ahmad and other senior serving and retired government officials. fida hussain
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Why Paki rupee is doing good?
Every other factors are going south?
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Every other factors are going south?
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<b>Mudy Ji :</b>
1. The USA pays its rent on time.
2. Huge amount of Foreign Exchange being sent by the Charitable Organizations, which are being channelled in, to Terrorism
3. All the Pakistani "Drugs" Earning which were "Banked" in Western Havens are being sent to Pakistan "Post Haste"
In addition we have the USD 6 Billion Loans-Aid for the âReconstructionâ in Pakistani Occupied Indian State of Jammu & Kashmirâ
It seems that Pakistanâs Foreign Debt will ânudgeâ the USD 45 Billon Mark next year. It is presently about USD 37 Billion.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sources in stock market told The Nation that the countries like <b>USA, UK, UAE, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Hong Kong and BV Island, which were major investors </b>in Pakistanâs stocks market, had ejected their investment because of turbulent sentiment of the KSE.
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Where is BV Island?
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