Twirp : Terrorist Wahabi Islamic Republic Pakistan

05-05-2008, 02:28 AM

Nareshji,
Here comes genius of genius idea from Ulta Pulta Sarkar.
QUOTEPranab to press for more buses during Pak visit 
PTI | New Delhi
Keen to take the peace process with Pakistan forward, India is expected to press for launch of more cross-boarder bus services and propose some other confidence building measures during the upcoming visit of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Islamabad.

In the first high-level contact with the new Pakistan Government, Mukherjee will hold talks with his counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi on May 21 during which the Indian side is also expected to propose increasing the frequency of fortnightly Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakot bus services to make these weekly.

During the much-delayed talks, the two sides will review the fourth round of Composite Dialogue and assess progress made on eight issues, including Jammu and Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek and terrorism.

The talks between Mukherjee and Qureshi, which will also set the tone for the fifth round of composite dialogue, will be preceded by the Foreign Secretary-level discussions on May 20.

At the talks, the Indian side is expected to press for launch of Kargil-Skardu and Jammu-Sialkot bus services

05-05-2008, 04:38 AM

Pakistan erects mobile towers near LoC, worries IndiaQUOTENew Delhi, May 4 (IANS) In what Indian security officials find alarming, Pakistani mobile phone service providers are believed to have erected nine mobile towers in their territory along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. In February this year, the Vigilance and Telecom Monitoring Cell of the Department of Telecommunications conducted a survey at 44 locations on the Indian side of the LoC - the de facto borderline that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. It found that at 39 locations, Pakistani mobile signals reached Indian territory.
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Invite Hiramandi girls for Indian minister son's wedding. Chai pani at PMO.
And people call mera desh mahan.

Nareshji.
Mano na Mano, Pakis are very dedicated people.

Naresh · (This post was last modified: 05-05-2008, 05:17 AM by Naresh.)

QUOTE(Mudy @ May 5 2008, 02:28 AM)Nareshji,
Here comes genius of genius idea from Ulta Pulta Sarkar.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTEPranab to press for more buses during Pak visit 
PTI | New Delhi
Keen to take the peace process with Pakistan forward, India is expected to press for launch of more cross-boarder bus services and propose some other confidence building measures during the upcoming visit of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Islamabad.

In the first high-level contact with the new Pakistan Government, Mukherjee will hold talks with his counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi on May 21 during which the Indian side is also expected to propose increasing the frequency of fortnightly Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakot bus services to make these weekly.

During the much-delayed talks, the two sides will review the fourth round of Composite Dialogue and assess progress made on eight issues, including Jammu and Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek and terrorism.

The talks between Mukherjee and Qureshi, which will also set the tone for the fifth round of composite dialogue, will be preceded by the Foreign Secretary-level discussions on May 20.

At the talks, the Indian side is expected to press for launch of Kargil-Skardu and Jammu-Sialkot bus services

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Mudy Ji :

All one can say is Vinaash Kaalay Veepreet Budhi

May be Pranab Mukhopadhya is an Incarnation of Kalidas sitting on the Branch of a Tree...............................

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Naresh · 05-06-2008, 01:01 AM

[center]Inequality - For the rich only : Income and wealth disparities galore in our society <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' />[/center]

QUOTEAccording to a study conducted by the Centre for Research on Poverty and Income Distribution (CRPID), 63 per cent of poor in Pakistan fall in the category of 'transitory poor'. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has also admitted in its annual reports that the standard definition of 'transitory poor' includes those households that are below the poverty line for most of the time, but not always, during a defined period.

The remaining 32 per cent and five per cent of the population that subsist below the poverty line are 'chronic' and 'extremely poor', respectively. 'Chronic' and 'extremely' poor are those households that are below the poverty line all the time during a defined period. Similarly, on the other side, 13 per cent and 21 per cent of total non-poor (above the poverty line) are classified as 'transitory vulnerable' and 'transitory non-poor', respectively.

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05-07-2008, 01:42 AM

QUOTEArmy official hurt as Taliban resume attacks

LAHORE: An army official was injured when the Baitullah Mehsud-led local Taliban launched their first attack on the army after peace talks in South Waziristan failed, BBC Urdu reported on Monday. Security forces shelled various suspected positions in the Jandola and Manzai areas after the attack. However, no causalities were reported. According to the local administration, the Taliban attacked a Baloch Regiment patrolling team in the Sankai Raghzai area at about 12pm on Monday. An army official was seriously injured as a result. He was taken to the Jandola Scouts Hospital. According to the BBC, there were also reports of people fleeing certain parts of South Waziristan after the attack. daily times monitor

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Naresh · 05-07-2008, 02:16 AM

[center]The Army, Allah, and America - Part II : Shuja Nawaz[/center]

In the 1950s, the US and Pakistan became close in the battle against the communist threat, or so Pakistan portrayed it to the Americans. Pakistani politicians and military leaders rather adroitly painted themselves as partners in the defence of the Middle East and against the communist threat worldwide, in sharp contrast to India's neutral and at times pro-Soviet stance.

As Pakistan's domestic political situation deteriorated, then army chief Gen Ayub Khan began formulating a plan to reorient the state. He had in mind a leadership role for the military. The US went along, as Pakistan played the communist card to acquire arms and equipment and to expand the army. Under the cloak of this argument, Pakistan's army grew with US help to become a dominant player and coercive power on the national scene.

The US fully understood that Pakistan needed arms to defend itself against India and was not capable of fighting outside its borders against any future Soviet threat to the Middle East. Pakistan continued to believe that US aid could be used against India, and so long as it paid lip service to the fight against communism, it would meet all the criteria for continued aid. The Pakistanis were unaware that President Dwight Eisenhower himself was raising doubts about the military relationship, favouring economic aid. Chairing a meeting of the National Security Council in January 1957, President Eisenhower said that "this was perhaps the worst kind of a plan and decision we could have made. It was a terrible error, but we now seem hopelessly involved in it."

But the pendulum was already swinging away from blind friendship towards a more pragmatic relationship on the part of the United States. This was captured succinctly in the new US ambassador James Langley's letter to William Rountree, the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, near the end of 1957 : "I fear that it would not be to difficult to make a rather convincing case that the present military programme is based on a hoax, the hoax being that it is related to the Soviet threat."

The US saw then, as it does now, that the army was "well disciplined" and had a "high degree of morale and loyalty to their leaders and constitute the most stable element in Pakistan today." Thus when President Iskander Mirza conveyed to the US ambassador in Pakistan that he was getting ready to impose martial law in October 1958, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles responded by advising Langley to convey to Mirza that the US favoured democratic government. But he added that "there may be exceptions which can be justified for limited periods. That decision must be left entirely for Pakistan's leaders and people to decideâ¦.only as a last resort." In effect, the green light was given for martial law.

The US needed Pakistan on its side, regardless of what was good for Pakistan's internal political development. As a result, the US condoned or abetted Pakistan's slide into martial law and repeated cycles of military rule. It propped up Gen Ayub Khan and then deserted him in the1960s after his war with India. President Richard Nixon, in effect, supported his illegal successor Gen A M Yahya Khan's repression against East Pakistan, paying him back for Yahya's help with opening up the doors to China for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Nixon. But Yahya ended up losing a war to India and losing half his country, as East Pakistan became Bangladesh. Needing an ally against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in 1979, the US learned to live with and love the dictator General Zia-ul-Haq for a decade, but once the Soviets were defeated and General Boris Gromov's tanks rumbled across the Amu Darya in February 1989, the US packed its bags and left. Pakistan had to deal with the blowback of the ensuing Kalashnikov and drug culture.

That is the history of political breaking-ups that Musharraf and many of his countrymen and generals remembered vividly, as they put themselves and Pakistan first in their dealings with the United States.

Now that a new democratically elected government is back in power, the United States needs to review this history too, to see how this time it can come out unequivocally in favour of the people of Pakistan, to regain their trust and friendship. If not, then Iraq and Iran may seem, in retrospect, to be minor challenges compared to what might emerge in a fractured, nuclear, and Islamist Pakistan in the years ahead. In the final analysis the security of Pakistan's nuclear stockpile and the security of the region rest on a return to normalcy to the political system, and economic and social development that would meet the aspirations of its 165 million inhabitants.

The writer is the author of Crossed Swords : Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within which will be released in Pakistan this month by Oxford University Press. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and can be reached at www.shujanawaz.com

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Naresh · 05-07-2008, 02:21 AM

[center]Foreign investors remit US Dollars 580m profit, dividends[/center]

QUOTEISLAMABAD : Foreign investors remitted $580 million profit and dividends during the first nine months of the current fiscal with the biggest outflow of $126.5 million from the power sector followed by communications ($88.2 million) and oil and gas exploration sector with $60.5 million.

During July-March 2007-08, total outflows of $580.1 million were about 5.1 per cent more than what it was recorded in the corresponding period of the last fiscal ($551.8 million), the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Monday.

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Naresh · 05-09-2008, 04:17 AM

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QUOTEOverall the national reserves of the foreign exchange have dropped to 12.255 billion dollars by May 3, 2008, showing a decline of 4.205 billion dollars when compared with 16.46 billion dollars total reserves in October 2007. The forex reserves with the domestic banks amount to 2.255 billion dollars by May 3, 2008, as against 2.242 billion dollars in October 2007, showing a slight improvement.

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**acharya** · 05-09-2008, 06:39 AM

India will be ENDIA one day!!!!We muslims were the ppl who had builted all the historical places in India like Taj Mahal etc. Hindus were just praying among snakes,monkeys and rats
We were the people who bring the awareness of life standards in india.However the muslims of endia are in a worst shape, having no political background,no dignity nothing,but still these ppl are tryin to insult PAK and toï»¿ become a part of endia
Grow up Muslims of Endia and gain your dignity by having a party atleast

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if only bangladesh had a strong military and is allaince with pakistan, india would lose any war they fight with either countries because it would be a double sided war. its the indian hindus that r the fucked up one not the muslim ones.

1965 War?I personally believe that Pakistan won the 1965 war as India invaded war against Pakistan and Pakistan army successfully defend their country. For instant if I accept the Indian claim that 1965 war was a level war, no one win no one lose than I am afraid Pakistan won the war as they fight with 10 time bigger country/army.

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India will divide very soon like divided in 47 just let pakistan and other countries become more stronger then hindus will find no place on earth

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indians seem to be very proud of cheating by attacking Pakistan duringï»¿ it's 1971 civil war...we could have attacked india in 1984 and freed khalistan but we know better than fighting like cheats

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this is the only war where i can say that pakistan did well against a neighboring country. India outnumber pakistan 3 to 1 and pakistan managed to stop india from invading major cities like lahore etc.
As an american i do salute pakistan for a well done effort in the 65 war.ï»¿

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pakistan won 2 out of 3 warsï»¿ from india

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idc wat the indians say 1947 pakistan captured 1/3 of kashmir. CLEARLY shows we won.

1965 india did not win otherwise they would be in pakistan right now and would be ruling it. thnx to our mujaheed that blew all 300 of there tanks out of our border.

and kargil? bill clinton BEGGED pakistan to command cease-fire otherwise thousand of indians would have died. and PAKISTAN hadï»¿ 16 dead INDIA had 527 PAKISTAN had 8 POWs INDIA had 1.

in kargil pakistan could have captured the entire region including kashmir!!! nd it was really amazing how 6000 pakistani soldiers went against an army of nearly 31 000 indians ndï»¿ in their territory!!! also india who mobilized 200000 men in that region weren't able to even operate due to the heavy artillery!!!

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PAKISTAN ZINDABAD. I M PROUD TO BE A PKISTANI.
ANDï»¿ LET ME TELL ONE MORE THING PAKISTAN OWNS india.

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when it comes to 1965 war, indians have onlyï»¿ one thing to say, Asal Uttar. those morons dont understand that it was just one battle in the whole war. the largest tank battle after WWII was NOT asal uttar, it was CHAWINDA you indian morons. and your asses got fucked in Chawinda!!!

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This video clearly indicates the successes of the Pakistan Army in 1965. I have to agree with many points. Wikipedia is biased (mainly due to Indian editing). The Indians nationals are only getting frustrated because this video isn't made up like your dis-tasteful Bollywood movies! Finally in regardsï»¿ to the 1965 war!

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I heard weï»¿ lost less than 70 planes in 1965 wheras the blacks lost over a hundred jets

the kill ratioï»¿ was 3:1 in Pakistan's favor.
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difference between armies whichï»¿ fight on reliance on God versus those who fight for land for their governments on paryroll

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Naresh · (This post was last modified: 05-09-2008, 06:08 PM by Naresh.)

Pakistani rupee slides to record low against US dollar as economic problems mount <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /> KARACHI, Pakistan, May 9 (AP) - Pakistan's currency slumped to a record low against the U.S. dollar on Friday as rising oil prices exacerbate concern about its yawning trade deficit and high inflation. The dollar was worth 69 Pakistani rupees in official interbank trading on Friday afternoon compared to 67.70 rupees the previous day. Rising oil prices and falling foreign investment are fueling Pakistan's balance of payments problems and inflation, both of which undermine demand for and confidence in the rupee. Officials have already slashed costly fuel subsidies, leading to a hike in the price of gasoline and heating oil for ordinary Pakistanis. Food price inflation is also running well into double digits. (Posted @ 16:30 PST)

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Naresh · 05-11-2008, 02:56 AM

33pc of exports are fake, minister told

QUOTEKARACHI, May 9 : The federal commerce minister was briefed about the issue of fraudulent exports in a meeting of the Export Advisory Committee held in Islamabad recently to discuss the new trade policy.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was informed that certain exporters mis-declared their goods to take undue advantage of the export incentives. They are sending cotton/textile waste in the name of leather garments to claim higher rate of duty drawback, a source privy to the meeting told Dawn.

They said that the mis-declaration was possible because under Customs Administrative Reforms (CARe) no physical examination of goods is carried out by the customs officials.

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Naresh · 05-11-2008, 03:26 AM

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KARACHI : Pakistanâs trade deficit hits unprecedented level of 16.8 billion dollars till April in the current fiscal year.

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Chairman Federal Board of Revenue, Abdullah Yousuf has said the trade deficit could not be born forever and therefore the tax net target will have to be raised to Rs1500 billion

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05-11-2008, 05:36 AM

Nareshji,
All this is for 9-13month timeline. Now we will hear very bad news from all front. Military junta will tell everyone that civil government is corrupt and another coup.

For us this will give some exact information of financial and other status. I think Pakistan is surving on AID from West.
Now question is - when things go really bad, what Pakis always do, they create problem on border and LOC. They use civilan government for cover.

Capt M Kumar · 05-11-2008, 09:24 AM

<img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blow.gif' /> Two much: Pak may get 2 Supreme Courts
11 May 2008, 0141 hrs IST,AGENCIES
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan may end up having two Supreme Courts to break the deadlock between the two ruling coalition parties over the restoration of higher court judges sacked last year by President Musharraf.

With the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) locked in a row over the judges, the formation of two Supreme Courts has been proposed, The News reported on Saturday. The proposal envisages a Supreme Court to be headed by deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to deal with criminal and civil cases and the other by incumbent chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar to look after constitutional matters. Dogarâs Supreme Court would also have all the suo motu powers.

Leaders of PML-N and PPP have failed to resolve the issue of restoration of sacked judges despite talks between PPPâs Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in London.

The News, quoting sources close to the presidential camp, said the new court to be headed by justice Dogar, whom Musharraf and Zardari like, would be called the Federal Constitutional Court. It will be empowered to deal with all constitutional issues such as the interpretation of the constitution, the National Reconciliation Ordinance, and the legality of President Musharraf.

The court to be headed by Iftikhar Chaudhry would be a sort of appellate court on the high courts of the four provinces. But it is the court headed by Dogar that will handle issues that worry the presidency and Zardari. Dogarâs court would have seven judges. Chaudhryâs would include the sacked judges.

Naresh · 05-11-2008, 02:18 PM

Mudy Ji :

In mild language, Pakistan has been Born in Sin.

All the Pakistani Leaders faithfully follow in the footsteps of Qaid E Paedophilia i.e. each one wants to be the Qaid - be it Awam,Azam, Momin, Pipliya or whatever.

As such Pakistan will not make Economic Progress, which, in todayâs times needs a reasonable representation of the People.

Thus, a vast Majority of the Leaders of Islamic Countries in General and those of Pakistan in Particular have always kept their Muslim Constituents with an abject lack of knowledge and education therby hindering the country's Development to an absolute minimum. In this respect there was an Article in the Pakistani Press wherein the writer moaned about the Muslim Leadership keeping the people away from the portals of Modern-Universal-Secular Education.

However here are the contents of the Article Feudalism from the News International of Saturday, May 10, 2008 by Ishtiaq Ahmed which partly highlight this situation :

QUOTESindhi, Punjabi and Pakhtun Muslims lagged behind the Hindus and Sikhs because while the latter opened schools the Muslim landlords did not allow schools to be be established in their domains. Ayub Khuhro and many other Sindhi leaders were educated in schools established by Hindus. In the late 1960s, when I was associated with the Mazdoor-Kissan Party of Major Ishaq, some of our comrades tried to provide free literacy classes to peasants in the stronghold of the Mazaris and Legharis in southern Punjab. They were harassed out of those areas.

History tells us that many nations to divert the attention of their population from domestic chaos tend to cause conflicts and even wars with their neighbours so as have the âForeign coloured events-chaosâ overshadow the Domestic one.

As such I, for one, would agree with you that there will in all probabilities - basing on past Pakistani Form - a Pakistani Border incursion in the form of a âMini-Warâ wherein Pakistan will be roundly thrashed and at the most in Three Weeks or so Pakistan will beg for a Cease Fire.

As Faiz wrote : Hum Dekhaingay!

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05-11-2008, 08:46 PM

Nareshji,
I agree with you. I think we have to watch situation in India after Karnataka election. Before GE, Pakis may try some stunt on India. If you watch history of terror attack in India, it is over 3 months now, very peaceful and Indian agencies are back to spying opposition party before GE. This I called opportunity for Pakis and stupidity of Indians. Now Pakis are with label "Democracy", I think this will encourage them for "mini war". As of now Moron Singh is sleeping and will wake up when Indian Muslim do terrorist attack outside India and they get caught or Queen turn her neck towards him. To create problem in Kashmir, it is now or never time frame. Even something is happening we may not know. So I stongrly suspect this time it will be West Bengal and Raj/Gujarat region.

Naresh · 05-12-2008, 02:55 AM

QUOTE(Mudy @ May 11 2008, 08:46 PM)Nareshji,
I agree with you. I think we have to watch situation in India after Karnataka election. Before GE, Pakis may try some stunt on India. If you watch history of terror attack in India, it is over 3 months now, very peaceful and Indian agencies are back to spying opposition party before GE. This I called opportunity for Pakis and stupidity of Indians. Now Pakis are with label "Democracy", I think this will encourage them for "mini war". As of now Moron Singh is sleeping and will wake up when Indian Muslim do terrorist attack outside India and they get caught or Queen turn her neck towards him. To create problem in Kashmir, it is now or never time frame. Even something is happening we may not know. So I stongrly suspect this time it will be West Bengal and Raj/Gujarat region.
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Mudy Ji :

Manmohan Singh - a very capable administrator - is nothing but a âSeat Warmerâ for Raol Gandhi. He is a Member of the Rajya Sabha as he was unable to get elected to the Lok Sabha in view of he not having any Political Constituency.

He is basically a âFactum Factotumâ of the Illegal Indian Citizen of Italian Origin. Thus all Manmohan Singhâs Actions are as per the Diktat and Whip of the Illegal Indian Citizen of Italian Origin.

Now to Pakistanâs Intention : I could not have put more succulently, the course of action to be followed the Satanic Leadership of the Islamic Terrorists in Twirpistan, than you have elaborated.

I, for one, cannot believe that the Indian Leadership - Bureaucratic, Military or Political - is a bunch of Lotos Eaters lost in somnolence and feel that they do have an âIndia Centric-Firstâ Goal - eventually.

When that âEventuallyâ is reached one cannot say!

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05-12-2008, 08:19 PM

Over 2000 women raped in Pakistan in 2007QUOTEOver 2,000 women were raped in Pakistan in 2007, while 428 cases of rape have already been reported in the first quarter of 2008.

According to a report submitted to the Pakistan government, a total of 2,256 cases of rape were reported last year in the country, out of which 260 were cases of gangrape.

Punjab province reported the maximum cases of violence against women with 1,509 women being raped and another 233 gangraped.

The statistics for the first quarter of 2008 reveal that 428 women have already been raped across the country, while 42 cases of gangrape have been registered. Of these, 330 rapes and 32 gangrapes were reported from Punjab province.

While Punjab seems quite unsafe for women, the fair sex doesn't seem safe in other provinces too. The number of rape cases stood at 170 for Sindh province, 152 for NWFP, 33 for Balochistan and 76 for Islamabad Capital Territory.

During the last three months alone, 32 rapes were reported from Sindh, 25 from NWFP, 3 from Balochistan and 27 from Islamabad Capital Territory, a report in the News said.

Can you believe this is happening in Islamic nation? above are only fraction of reported case.

05-12-2008, 11:36 PM

1- PML-N withdraws its minister from the federal cabenit

2- Ishaq Dar, Finance minster, was more involved in politics than looking after the country

3- PML-N needs to stop spreading lies that they have the "mandate" from 160 million Pakistanis to restore the judges. PML-N received only 19.75% of total vetoes

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05-12-2008, 11:38 PM

QUOTESell-off list: Privatisation Commission directed to drop PSO, PS and OGDC
ARIF RANA
ISLAMABAD (May 12 2008): On the direction of PPP co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari, the government has redefined the term 'National Strategic Assets', and directed the Privatisation Commission to drop a number of short-listed entities, including Pakistan State Oil (PSO) and Pakistan Steel Mills, from the sell-off programme.

Sources said the Privatisation Commission has been asked to strictly follow the 'national strategic assets' principle before offering any public sector entity for strategic sell-off.

The short-listed entities, which on Zardari's direction have been dropped from the sell-off programme beside PSO, PS and OGDC, are Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Company (SNGPL).

These entities were short-listed by the Shaukat Aziz government and some of them had become extremely controversial. One may recall Pakistan Steel Mills sell-off which the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) later on scrapped with the direction to refer it back to the Council of Common Interests (CCI) for deciding the issue of its strategic importance.

Similarly, some key forces are opposing PSO sell-off, already in litigation, on the ground that it is a strategic asset which needs to be retained by the government to make sure that a public sector player remains in the market to check the private sector's monopoly in downstream petroleum industry. However, the Privatisation Commission can offer shares of the national strategic assets in the local market through public offering.

The Finance Ministry has also been conveyed the decision with the instruction to not to offer OGDC shares for 'exchangeable bond' since it falls in the category of the 'national strategic assets'. The Finance Ministry has been asked to wait and see for appropriate time for issuing sovereign bond. Pakistan's high spread for any future sovereign bond was restricting the government to go to the international market for any new issue.

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