<!--QuoteBegin-Harshvardan+Feb 11 2008, 07:28 PM-->QUOTE(Harshvardan @ Feb 11 2008, 07:28 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Nareshji i will check the pdf file and will later comment on the transportation costs of LNG but first about 'Clean Coal'.
Googled the words 'Clean Burning of Coal' and the first link is this
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<b>Harshvardan Ji:</b>
Your quoted Article is dated 18 May 2001.
At that time the Crude Oil Prices were around the USD 25 per Barrel Mark.
Now they have nearly quadrupled!
However the Coal Prices - for Electric Utilities - in USA hetween 2001 and 2006 (I do not have other Data) has possibly doubled.
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Ok Naresh ji the data from the link may be dated but check wiki on Clean coal. It has an detailed write up on it.
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IN your editorial, âThe debt trapâ, you have pointed out that Pakistanâs external debt burden has risen to almost $40 billion from about $33 billion in the last seven years. <b>This shows that the government, led by former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, had merely been fooling the people by claiming repeatedly that our begging bowl has been broken.</b>
What else can be expected from the leaders in whose tenure the expenses at the President House rose from Rs75 million in 1999 to Rs306 million now, on the PM from Rs98 million to Rs367 million and the National Assembly from Rs250 million to Rs1,006 million (Dawn, Jan 16)? The expenditure on the Senate, too, has gone up by nearly five times.
On the other hand, when citizens complain of the price of wheat flour and other essential items, the spin-masters in Islamabad quickly say that these are the cheapest in South Asia and even the world. One would like to tell them that medicines and many other things are cheaper in India and that eggs, for instance, cost nearly twice as much in the UK whereas the wages over there are many times higher than in this poor country.
One wonders if these people have any conscience. If they do, then they ought to remember that âYou donât have to live with the man you cheat, but you have to live with your conscienceâ. For, it is like a fire within, of which our wrongdoing is the fuel. Instead of warming, it will scorch us, unless the fuel supply is cut off, or the tears of repentance cool down its flames.
It reflects poorly on the president who in fact should have taken care of failures of his ministers and other officials.
<b>I. RAHIM
Karachi</b>
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<b>Taliban want to swap Dadullah with envoy</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->PESHAWAR - Despite hectic efforts on the part of political administration of Khyber Agency, the whereabouts of Pakistanâs Ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, who had gone missing from Khyber Agency while going to Kabul on Monday, could not be ascertained till Tuesday.
According news agencies, <b>local Taliban who claimed kidnapping of Tariq have demanded release of Mullah Mansoor Dadullah in exchange for release of the envoy.</b> Officials have been making all-out efforts to trace the ambassador.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pakistanâs Ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, who had gone missing <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Unbroken cycle of violence and state myopia : Shireen M Mazari</span></b>[/center]
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b><span style='color:red'>The extent of the lawlessness prevalent in the country today had never been so stridently evident before May 12 last year with the carnage in Karachi. Since then, violence on all sides has become the hallmark of our state and society.</span></b> <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo--> First there has been the US-led war on terror, in which Pakistan has become a frontline state. Unfortunately, that has meant accepting a US-formulated military-centric strategy which has brought disaster for the US in Iraq and Afghanistan; and has merely increased the violence and mayhem in Pakistan. <b><span style='color:green'>Today, there is a near-anarchic situation that has moved beyond the tribal belt into the settled areas of the NWFP and is creeping into the rest of the country as well. The disappearance of our ambassador to Afghanistan on Monday, 11 February, as well as the kidnapping of two PAEC personnel, reflects the declining security in the NWFP.</span></b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<b>Five hostages killed</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->PARACHINAR, Feb 12: Tribesmen killed on Tuesday five hostages belonging to a rival tribe in the Kurram tribal region.
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HAHAHA LOL
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Rehbar I & II
On June 7, 1962 at 1953 hours (PST) Rehbar-I was successfully launched from Sonmiani. It soared to about 130 km into the atmosphere and thus Pakistan became the third country in Asia and the tenth in the world to conduct such a launching.After such launch all the rest of the launches became failures and pakistan realizes that it cannot develop a technology wihout stealing it from some one or buying it from China or North Korea. It even considered deploying Jehadis for such operations.Jehadis are protectors of islamic world..but could not even steal such technology to bring out a successfull Space programme, Rehbar-II was also successfully launched from Sonmiani on June 9, 1962. The data received from Rehbar-I and Rehbar-II gave scientists information on wind shear and structure of layers of the upper atmosphere extending beyond the stratosphere. The data collected also helped in the study of cloud formation, cyclones and weather over the Arabian Sea and the coastal areas of Pakistan. Similar tests were done in the years after. [1]
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In 2005, President Pervez Musharraf outlined his vision for SUPARCO by laying down a clearly defined agenda for the national space agency to pursue and deliver in minimum time. As an established and well recognized nuclear and missile power the next logical frontier for Pakistan is space. President Musharraf had made it clear that Pakistan would need to catch up to the world space leaders and make up for lost time and neglect in the past.But Prez Mushraff failed to realise that Pakistanis are born Morons to even dream about such space programmes and finally concluded that funding be transferred to building jehadi breeding Madrassas rather than a space programme.[2]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_and_Upp...arch_Commission
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Bomb in Pakistan tribal area kills three troops </b>KHAR, Pakistan, Feb 14 (AFP) - A roadside bomb struck a Pakistani paramilitary convoy in a troubled tribal region on Thursday, killing three personnel including a major, security and administration officials said. The remote-controlled device exploded near Khar, the main town in Bajaur agency bordering Afghanistan, a security official said. The bomb destroyed one vehicle and killed three people including a major from the paramilitary Bajaur Scouts force, he said. Local administration official Mohammad Jamil confirmed the fatalities and told AFP that three soldiers were also âseriously woundedâ. They were receiving treatment at a local hospital. Troops cordoned off the blast site and blocked the road leading to Khar, he said. A suspected US air strike in Bajaur in January 2006 targeted Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, but missed. (Posted @ 12:10 PST)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
02-17-2008, 02:00 AM
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<b>ISLAMABAD : <span style='color:red'>The interior ministry confirmed that at least 37 people were killed in Parachinar suicide blast Saturday outside an election office of an independent candidate backed by PPP.
"The death toll is now 37," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema said after the attack in the northwestern tribal town of Parachinar, bordering Afghanistan.</span></b>
The ministry confirmed that the blast was suicide attack.
"Twenty-one people died and 93 were injured. It's a very severe emergency, a lot of the wounded are in a critical condition," a doctor at the main hospital in Parachinar was quoted as saying earlier.
A correspondent of an international news agency present at the hospital said he had counted at least 21 dead bodies.
Talking to media, a security official earlier said that a suicide bomber attacked a Pakistan People's Party meeting outside the party office in Parachinar.
"A man with long hair drove a car into the crowd and blew himself up," a witness added.
Another security official said the blast happened outside the office of local PPP candidate Riaz Hussain in Parachinar, the main town in the Kurram tribal region.
<b><span style='color:red'>In a separate incident in the nearby Bajaur tribal area militants blew up a polling station with a timebomb, police said.</span></b>
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<b>Jihad industry - Khalid Hasan</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><i>Leaders of Salafi-jihadist organisations hypocritically preach about the benefits of martyrdom, but rarely, if ever, conduct suicide operations themselves, or send their loved ones on such missions. It is a fact that Al Qaeda and associated groups offer no vision for Muslims other than perennial jihad, hardly an appealing prospect</i>
<b>Jihad is now an industry among scholars, including those who masquerade as scholars but are actually in the service of more shadowy outfits, and those who believe that by blowing up people praying in mosques or families out shopping, they will not only serve God but win a point-to-point ticket to the pastures of heaven where seventy-two swooning virgins await their arrival.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<b>Men get Naughty</b>
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[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Forty Six</span></b>[/center]
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[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>An indictment of the United States : Khaled Ahmed</span></b>[/center]
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b><span style='color:red'>Pakistan cannot afford to oppose the âmonocultureâ of globalisation with culture since it got rid of its own culture long ago through Islamisation.</span> <span style='color:green'> What is passing for culture in Pakistan is Indiaâs video entertainment, a target for Talibanisation</span></b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Election result -
King's party will form government.
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<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Feb 17 2008, 11:21 PM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Feb 17 2008, 11:21 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Election result -
King's party will form government.
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<b>Mudy Ji :</b>
Two examples confirming your statement :
<b>1. PML-Q, allies to have majority in polls : President Musharraf</b>
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<b>2. Pakistan's Attorney General Malik Qayyum</b>
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Leave Nawaz Sharif(PAUSE)....I think Nawaz Sharif will not take part in the election (PAUSE).... If he does take part, he will be in trouble. If Benazir takes part she too will be in trouble(PAUSE)... They will massively rig to get their own people to win. If you can get a ticket from these guys, take it (PAUSE).... If Nawaz Sharif does not return himself, then Nawaz Sharif has some advantage. If he comes himself, even if after the elections rather than before, â¦..yesâ¦.
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Pakistan's Attorney General Malik Qayyum gestures during a news conference in Islamabad November 15, 2007
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Three top US Senators -- Democrats <b>Joe Biden and John Kerry and Republican Chuck Hagel </b>-- will be in Pakistan on Monday for a reality check: To see how free and fair the country's much-awaited parliamentary elections are. Before leaving Washington, Biden, who heads the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a no-nonsense message to the Musharraf Government, warning that any rigging will be an invitation to rioting on the streets.
Meanwhile, a passenger bus veered off a bridge while passing another vehicle early on Sunday in eastern Pakistan, killing 14 people and injuring 31 others, police said.
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How they can watch election?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>If Musharraf rigs this election, Pakistan will spit into many small rogue states with nuke capabilities </b>
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Tania Mirza
Feb. 17, 2008
The moment of truth is here. Musharraf is confident of narrow hairline win. He learnt the technique from American Republican party. You can win my manipulating the mandate slightly to just win it. He wants to follow the example of George Bush in year 2000 and 2004.
On the eve of parliamentary polls in Pakistan, PPP co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari is 100 per cent confident of garnering a majority but warned President Pervez Musharraf-led government not to rig the election which will force him to launch massive street protests leading to the break-up of the nation.
<b>Al-Queda and other militant groups want Musharraf to stay in power and manipulate election. That will eventually break Pakistan into several small rogue states with nuke capabilities. That will make it easier for the terrorists to take control of Pakistani nuke infrastructure. </b>
Musharrafâs plan is just to win by a little margin like George Bush did. Polls show a clear victory for PPP. But most international think tanks believe Musharraf has already rigged the election and the results will come as split decision with a hairline majority for Mushharfâs people.
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