Twirp : Terrorist Wahabi Islamic Republic Pakistan 3

Naresh · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2009, 04:20 PM by Naresh.)

Pakistanâs Steady March to Economic Prosperity thanks to the Economic Miracle Makers Ex-El Presidante De La NaÃ§ion Al Jamhooriya Bakistania Generalissimo (Retired) Pervez Musharraf and Ex-Prime Minister (International Banker) Shaukat Aziz :

Pakistan's External Debt and Liabilities

31/12/07

Total External Liabilities : U S Dollars 42.931 Billion
Official Liquid Reserves : U S Dollars 13.372 Billion

31/12/08

Total External Liabilities : U S Dollars 50.850 Billion
Official Liquid Reserves : U S Dollars 06.616 Billion

It is pertinent to note that the âRealâ Debt â after allowing for âForeign Exchangeâ is as follows :

International Investment Position of Pakistan

International Investment Position â net - Stock as on 31-12-2007 : U S Dollars (50.883) Billion

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Naresh · 02-07-2009, 04:08 AM

52 militants killed in Khyber operation

QUOTEPESHAWAR - The security forces Friday launched a high-profile operation against militants hiding in the Khyber agency and killed 52 in the region surrounding Peshawar.

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Naresh · 02-07-2009, 04:30 AM

The Swat debacle

QUOTEThe situation in Swat is deteriorating by the day, and the suffering of the poor people is being witnessed by all of Pakistan courtesy our many TV stations, with commentators highlighting the miseries of the poor Swatis. The perplexed look on the faces of the displaced persons is sad, for these once peaceful people do not understand the cause of their plight.

QUOTEThe US will ensure that the PM and the army for its part will work in tandem to ensure that the writ of the state is established - again. Only this time the laws of the land will have to be enforced, strongly. <!--emo& Confused

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Naresh · 02-07-2009, 07:48 PM

Water shortage ruins Pakistanâs wheat, cotton crops

QUOTEDADU, Feb 6 : Inequitable distribution of irrigation water has affected wheat and cotton crops standing on thousands of acres of land at the tail end of Dadu Canal and Johi Branch. This was revealed in a survey conducted by this correspondent.

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02-08-2009, 10:22 AM

CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US QUOTEThey believe that a British-born Pakistani extremist entering the US under the visa waiver programme is the most likely source of another terrorist spectacular on American soil.

Intelligence briefings for Mr Obama have detailed a dramatic escalation in American espionage in Britain, where the CIA has recruited record numbers of informants in the Pakistani community to monitor the 2,000 terrorist suspects identified by MI5, the British security service.

A British intelligence source revealed that a staggering four out of 10 CIA operations designed to thwart direct attacks on the US are now conducted against targets in Britain.

And a former CIA officer who has advised Mr Obama told The Sunday Telegraph that the CIA has stepped up its efforts in the last month after the Mumbai massacre laid bare the threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group behind the attacks, which has an extensive web of supporters in the UK. 

The CIA has already spent 18 months developing a network of agents in Britain to combat al-Qaeda, unprecedented in size within the borders of such a close ally, according to intelligence sources in both London and Washington.

Naresh · 02-10-2009, 02:37 PM

Pakistan is complicit in killing by Taliban, a Polish official says

WARSAW: A day after a video appeared purporting to show the beheading of a Polish engineer by Taliban militants in Pakistan, the Polish government promised Monday to issue international arrest warrants for the militants, and officials charged that elements within the Pakistani government shared blame for the killing.

Without a body, the Polish authorities were unable to confirm the death of the engineer, Piotr Stanczak, 42, but they said a seven-minute video delivered Sunday to journalists in Pakistan appeared to be authentic.

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski condemned the killing as a "bestial execution" and said the government would issue arrest warrants for the killers.

"A crime was committed," he said, "so there has to be an investigation, a search for the culprits, and if possible putting them before the justice system, and an exemplary punishment."

It was not immediately clear what impact the warrants would have, because Poland does not have an extradition treaty with Pakistan.

Justice Minister Andrzej Czuma said Polish intelligence had identified the kidnappers as members of a Taliban group. He said intelligence had "described the leadership of the group, their relatives, where they are located, their friends in Pakistani government structures."

Czuma said the extremists enjoyed the favor of some Pakistani officials. "A lot of people among Pakistan's authorities sympathize with these bandits," he said on a television news channel.

Pakistan's top diplomat in Poland rejected the accusation, saying his country was doing everything in its power to combat terrorism.

"Suicide attacks are being carried out against the security forces, and we have lost not only common citizens but our security forces in tribal areas," said Malik Farooq, the chargÃ© d'affaires at the Pakistani Embassy in Warsaw. "Pakistan has been a great victim of terrorism and extremism."

Stanczak was kidnapped near the Afghan border on Sept. 28 by armed men while he was surveying oil and gas fields for a Krakow-based geophysics company. The gunmen killed three Pakistanis traveling with him.

His killing, if confirmed, would be the first of a Western hostage in Pakistan since Daniel Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was beheaded in 2002.

A spokesman for the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan said Stanczak was "slaughtered" because the Pakistani government missed a deadline to release 26 prisoners. The Taliban had also demanded that the government withdraw troops from tribal areas.

The video shows two hooded men taking a dagger in turn and running it along the victim's neck. One of them then cleans his blood-soaked hands with the victim's shirt.

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02-11-2009, 10:56 AM

'Free' A Q Khan won't rejoin our nuke plan: Pak

He can help Iran.

Naresh · 02-11-2009, 09:52 PM

Taliban threaten attack on Islamabad - Hamid Mir
QUOTEISLAMABAD : The local Taliban leadership has decided to send its fighters to Islamabad as a reaction to the operations in Darra Adamkhel and Swat Valley and in this regard chalkings on the walls of Islamabad are already appearing, forcing the Islamabad administration to whitewash these messages quickly.

Many religious scholars in Islamabad have also received messages from the Taliban that they have only two options, either to support the Taliban or leave the capital or they will be considered collaborators of the âpro-American Zardari governmentâ which, they claim, is not different from the previous Musharraf regime.

It is also surprising that the Taliban of Swat and Bajaur have included the names of some religious and Jihadi leaders, who are not ready to fight inside Pakistan against their own countrymen, in their hit lists.

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Some diplomatic sources have revealed that initially Pakistan was ready to release some arrested Taliban fighters in exchange for the abducted Polish and Chinese engineers but the US authorities raised objections and a deal could not be finalised.

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âWe are no more fighting the secular insurgents, we are fighting with the Taliban and they are demanding the enforcement of the Islamic law in Swat and all the local secular political leaders are supporting this demand under public pressure.â

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02-12-2009, 10:27 AM

In Swat, Pakistan army faces 1971-like situationQUOTEA furious Taliban leadership has decided to send their fighters to Islamabad [Images] as a reaction to the army operations in the Swat valley on the troubled border with Afghanistan. The Taliban have already started painting walls in Islamabad with its threats, compelling the administration in the capital to erase these messages quickly.

Many religious scholars in Islamabad have received messages from the Taliban that they have only two options: They must support the Taliban or leave the capital else they will be considered collaborators of the 'pro-American Zardari government' which they consider not different from the previous Pervez Musharraf regime.

It is also astonishing that the Taliban in Swat and Bajour have included the names of some religious and jihadi leaders in their hit-lists only because they are not ready to fight against their countrymen.

The Taliban have accused some militant leaders in the tribal areas and some leaders of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba , the Harkat-ul Mujahideen and the Hizbul Mujahideen of trying to stop youngsters from fight against Pakistani forces. The Taliban have declared all these pro-Pakistan militants as their enemies.

It is learnt that the names of Maulvi Nazir from South Wazirastan, Hafiz Gul Bahadur from North Wazirastan, Lashkar founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Maulana Farooq Kashmiri and Syed Salahudin of the Hizbul Mujahideen have been included on the Taliban hit-list. The Taliban have threatened some Hizbul Mujahideen leaders in Swat and Dir to leave the area soon.

Paki Army is killing tribal Muslims, destroying schools and homes.
Why Pakis are so distressed about Indian Muslims? They should love and protect their own Muslim first. I was under impression killing muslim is against Koran.

Husky · 02-12-2009, 10:29 AM

QUOTE(Mudy @ Feb 12 2009, 10:27 AM)In Swat, Pakistan army faces 1971-like situation
Paki Army is killing tribal Muslims, destroying schools and homes.
Why Pakis are so distressed about Indian Muslims? They should love and protect their own Muslim first. I was under impression killing muslim is against Koran.
[right][snapback]94492[/snapback][/right]Mudy, you kaffiri Hindoo.

Murdering people - kaffirs if they can get them, islamics otherwise - IS the essence of christoislamism.
Of course you don't understand.

02-12-2009, 10:36 AM

It means Paki Army control terrorist are staying away from Swat, they are only working to destroy India. It also means , Pashtun and agency crowd will bump some of these Paki Army supported leaders and Paki Army bosses.

Husky,
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Paki Army is making good money but they are still begging.

Pakistan wants more from USQUOTE* WP report says Gilani emphasised the need to âexpediteâ new US aid package after meeting with Holbrooke
* Kayani likely to press requests for increased military aid

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QUOTE(Mudy @ Feb 12 2009, 10:36 AM)Husky,
When I am Paki thread, I think like Paki pious person.Â <!--emo& Big Grin

--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />[right][snapback]94495[/snapback][/right]Mudy, your Hindooness is showing through ("they should love and protect their own Muslim first"). You evidently need more practise.

I will show you how a pious islami (say Paki) person thinks. Am illustrating it with an appropriate picture of the famous islamic Rage Boy who, frankly, looks like every other terrorista/islamic 'protesta'.

Faithful, of the Religion of Peace:
<img src='http://www.jihadwatch.org/capt.sri10209151139.india_kashmir_pope_protest_sri102.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Caption: "Kill Kill Kill!"

Dog.
"Stone it! Kill Kill Kill!"

India.
"Jihad! Kill Kill Kill! Dar-ul-islamizzze!"

Hindu.
"Jihad! Kill Kill Kill!"

Kaffir.
"Jihad! Kill Kill Kill!"

Female.
"Where's your burqa? Kill Kill Kill!"

Another islami.
"Sufi? Shia? (Sunni?) Ahmadiyya? Not a Punjabi islami? Whatever! I don't care. Kill Kill Kill!"

Shadow.
"Kill Kill... Hang it. It won't die."

Mirror reflection.
"Kill Kill K... Wait. There must be a dog or kaffir I can kill, surely."

"My, look at the time. Another good day's work. Allah pleased, mohammed proud, me happy - a day closer to my promised 72 houris, even if I can't count to 72."

Should someone tell him .... about the 72 virginal raisins?
Oh no. Too late.
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Uh-oh. Now he's really mad. Same old song though:
"Kill! KILL! KILL!"

More hysterical pictures of Islamic Rageboy are at
http://snappedshot.com/archives/976-Islami...dy-Roundup.html

Like this one:
<img src='http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa99/limey079/irageboy_f.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

02-12-2009, 11:58 AM

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**acharya** · 02-13-2009, 08:55 AM

The question is: which is the real Pakistan?

By David Pilling

Published: February 12 2009 02:00 | Last updated: February 12 2009 02:00

Rakesh Maria, the tall and lean joint commissioner of police in charge of investigating the Mumbai bomb attacks, allows himself few doubts about Pakistani involvement in the November assault that killed more than 180 people and traumatised a subcontinent. Speaking in his tightly guarded office last night, he left little room for ambiguity when he declared: "This thing has been planned in Pakistan; these people have been trained in Pakistan, have been equipped in Pakistan, and this thing has been launched from Pakistan."

As to whether such malicious activities could have been undertaken without the direct knowledge of Pakistani authorities, he snorted: "I am saying these groups were operating in Pakistan. How can you say they don't know? Either I am deaf, dumb or blind, or [they are] conniving absolutely."

Yet, 10 weeks after the bloody and audacious assault on India's throbbing commercial centre, India has not responded, either diplomatically or militarily. Ask Indian officials and academics about Pakistan and the slightly disarming response that comes back is: "What is that?" One senior official in New Delhi, describing what he said was Islamabad's incoherent and contradictory response to the Mumbai attacks, said Pakistan was not so much a failed as an "unfinished" state. More frightening almost than the idea that some elements of the Pakistani state or military may have succoured terrorism is the suspicion that Pakistan may not exist at all in any meaningful sense.

Certainly, Islamabad has not offered a coherent response. It initially denied that Amir Kasab, the sole survivor (now in Mr Maria's custody) alleged to have been involved in the attacks, was of Pakistani origin, but later seemed to cede the point. According to Indian authorities, nor has Islamabad ever responded to a dossier detailing the police investigation, despite the fact that it was handed over weeks ago.

Worse, last week Pakistani courts released from detention Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme suspected of spreading nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. That can either be interpreted as underlining the weakness of Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's president, appeasing hardliners at home; or as a provocation to the US days before the arrival of Richard Holbrooke, special representative. Probably it was both.

Venting frustration at the multiple personalities of the Pakistani state, the senior Indian official says: "There has to be someone on the other side of the table to deal with." Pakistan, with its shaky civilian government and a Jihadist-infiltrated military, does not provide that stable interlocutor. When it comes to Pakistan, the question for India - and by extension the rest of the world - is: what precisely are we dealing with? Mr Holbrooke, the bombastic and brilliant representative released on the streets of Islamabad only days after Mr Khan, must ponder the same question. He needs to assess the new US administration's strategy of tripling aid to Islamabad.

The question he faces is: which Pakistan will receive the money? The seemingly moderate one represented by Mr Zardari, who has rhetorically reached out to India? Or the one that denies Pakistan had anything to do with the Mumbai attacks and that regards Mr Khan not as an international threat, but as a hero of the anti-western cause? It matters. If the Pakistan that India suspects has sponsored terrorist attacks in India and Afghanistan is to receive the loot, then rather than killing the beast, the US will be feeding it.

Viewed from India, Pakistan is such a scrambled egg of a nation, with moderate and extremist elements fused, that it is impossible to say where one ends and where the other begins. Increasingly, the US is drawing a similar conclusion.

Over and above the terrible ambiguity is the suspicion that Mr Zardari, widower of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto, is not actually in charge. Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research, referring to the fact that large swaths of the country are outside government control, says: "Zardari and [Hamid] Karzai [president of Afghanistan] are more like mayors of their capital city. They are powerless and helpless."

Yet the only positive thing to have come out of the past 10 weeks has been India's relatively calm response, echoed by an electorate that has not been easily whipped up into frenzied anti-Pakistani sentiment. In recent state elections, voters did not punish incumbents - as the opposition Bharatiya Janata party invited them to do - for their supposed lack of action against Pakistan. In part, Delhi's restraint has been pragmatic. It does not want to rise to the terrorist bait by engaging in limited or, God forbid, all-out confrontation with its nuclear-armed neighbour. But in part it has held back because it does not know what it is dealing with. As George W. Bush discovered in his "war on terror", fighting an abstract concept - even one with a flag and seat at the United Nations - is like chasing shadows.

david.pilling@ft.com

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009

Shambhu · 02-14-2009, 11:07 AM

The new normal in Pakistan 

Rafia Zakaria

Lulled into catatonia by pervasive helplessness, Pakistanis can do little except deny that violence exists or stubbornly insist that even if it does, it means little.

Officials estimate that the Taliban has either burnt down or blown up more than 140 educational institutions in the past two years. The picture shows students outside a school after it was destroyed in the Kundar village of Swat Valley.

A small bomb blast does not make the headlines in Karachi anymore. The ensuing dialogue is always followed by the same question: how many killed? One, two or even 10 does not merit a pause in the conversation, let alone a prayer for the departed. These stoic rejoinders are not limited to Karachi. Similar reactions punctuate news of bombings all over Pakistan, perhaps with even more pronounced restraint when the incidents take place in the tribal areas. Just as the news of a bomb blast is met with little incredulity, Pakistanis, confronted with an Islamist insurgency spanning into its third year, continue to insist that their daily lives remain unaffected by the upsurge in Islamist violence around the country. The twin symptoms, resignation and denial, are denominators of Pakistanâs new ânormalâ â defined as it is by violence so commonplace and insecurity so routine that it no longer registers shock or protest.

This redefinition of ordinary has not been gradual. Even a mere five years ago, the Taliban was an idea relegated to beyond the western border in Afghanistan, and tourists continued to swarm areas like Swat for summer vacations. Ski lifts were crowded and guesthouses remained full all season. The death of that Swat is now old news, no longer reported by journalists, either in Pakistan or abroad.

Yet the magnitude of violence and fear unleashed tells a story of how, in a short span of time, a population can be so vastly terrorised that it is rendered effectively mute. Officials estimate that the Taliban has either burnt down or blown up more than 140 educational institutions in the past two years, leaving nearly a million of the children without access to education. With nearly 30 per cent of the girls having withdrawn from schools and colleges anyway, the news of the announcement by Mullah Shah Doran, the Talibanâs second in command, that all girls would be forbidden from attending school from January 15, 2008 was relegated to the inside pages of most newspapers.

If the girls in Swat are bearing the brunt of the Taliban campaign against education, the girls daring to go to school in the urban centre of Lahore are not spared either. The bomb squad in the city reported nearly 50 threats to various schools and colleges in the past few months. The threats were part of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistanâs effort to expand its activities into the cultural capital. As part of this campaign, nearly five âcultural blastsâ took place on January 9, 2009 outside theatres which were accused of spreading immorality. The incidents were connected to blasts that took place in the city last year near the Al-Hamra Arts Centre and Garhi Shahu ice cream parlours. The last time the area was threatened, in the form of an anonymous letter written to Shabbir Labha, head of a local traderâs organisation, the writer said the area would be bombed if the sale of pornographic CDs was not halted immediately. One day later, traders voluntarily burned 60,000 CDs in a pragmatic move to avert an attack on their market. This most recent âcultural blast,â however, came without warning, costing millions of rupees in damage to the theatres.

Singular incidents such as these come and go, but their cumulative effect on the maimed psychology of people is far from being of âlow intensity,â the term used to describe the explosive used in the most recent Lahore attack. In the past year, Pakistan has overtaken both Iraq and Afghanistan in the number of suicide attacks, with casualties numbering over 600.

No category of targets â from schools to juice shops and from fancy hotels to barber shops â has been spared. The victims have been security officials, businessmen, poor trader women, shopkeepers and, of course, even former Prime Ministers. Television audiences have become used to watching clips of decapitated heads of suicide bombers, which are regularly made available to TV crews after attacks. Everyone knows that when a suicide bomber detonates his explosives, his head pops off and is usually found intact.

The visibility and constant onslaught of violence has a peculiar effect on those witnessing it. As the grasp of the insurgency widens, from the remote tribal areas always, relegated to the recesses of the Pakistani geographical imagination, to the streets of Karachi and even the cultural centre of Lahore, the world of the individual Pakistani constricts further and further. The web of concern and empathy, once expansive enough to encompass fellow countrymen, gets ever narrower, stretching only to include those in ever smaller circles. In contracting their radius of concern, Pakistanis look only to their near and dear, finding solace in the small group that may still remain untouched, and insulating themselves from the assassinated, the kidnapped, the looted and the threatened.

As a result, it is not just bomb blasts that merit little attention, empathy or protest from Pakistanis. Ever worsening crimes â from the live burial of five Balochi women by the relative of a Minister to the unleashing of dogs on a 17-year-old pregnant girl â prompt little mass protest other than by token womenâs groups and journalists. In a mental exercise engaged in only by the most traumatised, Pakistanis routinely slice their much taxed sympathy into those few that matter and the millions that donât. In the words of one Karachi-ite, âI look down, do my work, pick my children up from school and donât worry too much about what is happening. Itâs the only way I can survive here.â

And then there are the moral conundrums permeated by violence that strategically attacks a set of confused ideological premises which have long plagued the moral conscience of Pakistanis. One area where this confusion is glaring is the regulation of cultural practices considered un-Islamic under the draconian Taliban rubric. It is thus not just the Taliban threats that have an impact on local populations but their reverberations. One example is the Lahore High Courtâs recent decision to ban âmujra,â the age-old dance form practised in Lahore for nearly 400 years.

Following the ruling, the theatres where the dancers performed went on strike, prompting the court to reverse the ban and order the dancers to âwear shawls covering their necks and wear shoes.â Necks and bare feet were considered too erotic, and hence impermissible. The moral of the story is clear: in a society unsure of the religious merit of its culture and unable to articulate the place of religion, all ills can be blamed on the guilty pleasures that can produce moral shame, and hence justify terror. In this case, the misogyny heaped on female entertainers and the guilt of those selling and consuming their product are effectively used to valorise even the terror produced by the Taliban. When those enjoyments relegated to the guilty recesses of consumption are attacked, their elimination, however crude, is painted as purification rather than denigration of society.

In the years and months since the Taliban insurgency has taken hold, its measure has been taken in lives lost and property damaged. Little effort has been made, however, to evaluate how the incursion of religious extremism has altered civil and social life in Pakistan. The indirect effects of the constriction of empathy, the tacit acceptance of insecurity and the self-imposed moral monism that is intolerant of all differences are effects that have a longer and much more drastic effect. This can already be seen in the muffled non-existence of civil society that can no longer organise or conceptualise a position on any political or legislative issue.

If Pakistan does not have a national, organised movement of civil society groups against terror, it is not because Pakistanis are not suffering. The conglomeration of a survivalist indifference, in which caring is reserved not for the larger world but for the chosen few of oneâs immediate circle, and the confusion of faith and its role as a moral regulator are ultimately giving birth to a new, more menacing definition of normalcy.

In a country where the population is inured to violence and has resigned itself to persecution, there can be little expectation of political organisation or representation beyond the most illusory. Lulled into catatonia by such pervasive helplessness,

Pakistanis can do little except deny that the violence exists, persecutes and targets them every single day, or stubbornly insist that even if it does, it means little and that life â simply if uncertainly â goes on just as before, with a new definition of normal.

Corrections and Clarifications

An article "The new normal in Pakistan" (Op-Ed, February 10, 2009) had the word "catatonia", in the blurb and text, leading to queries. It is a term in psychiatry that means the abnormality of movement and behaviour arising from a disturbed mental state (typically schizophrenia). It may involve repetitive or purposeless over activity, or catalepsy, resistance to passive movement and negativism. It is derived from Cata ("badly") and tonos ("tone or tension").

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02-14-2009, 12:25 PM

Suspected US missile kills at least 20 in PakistanQUOTEÂ Â ISLAMABAD, Pakistan â Pakistani intelligence officials say the death toll from a suspected U.S. missile strike by a drone aircraft near the Afghan border has risen to 20.

The officials say at least 15 people have also been wounded in Saturday's attack in the troubled South Waziristan tribal region.

02-15-2009, 11:02 PM

Poverty rate jumps to 37.5 percent from 23.9 percent in three years

02-16-2009, 11:50 PM

Islamic law to be imposed in parts of Pakistan

02-17-2009, 04:45 AM

Any moderators deleting posts in this thread???????

Naresh · 02-17-2009, 04:56 AM

Debt servicing to reach Rs700bn : official

QUOTEISLAMABAD : The plan of the government to go for borrowing of over $12 billion just from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will expose the country to huge debt servicing that will eat up 44 per cent of tax collection leaving meagre resources for defence expenditures and for paying salaries of employees, a senior official at Ministry of Finance told The News.

âPakistan is to utilise its resources of Rs700 billion on just debt servicing in the current financial year. This year the government is likely to collect tax revenue of Rs1,260 billion and if Rs700 billion is consumed on just debt servicing and 2.9 per cent of GDP which is Rs300 billion on defence expenditure and the remaining amount is utilised on salaries and pensions of government employees, then the country would have nothing for development except loans.â

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