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Pakistan’s No.1 Terrorist: British drug dealer and extortionist MQM’s Karachi Don Altaf Hussain Spends British Pounds 7,000/month.Gambling in Monte Carlo is his hobby

From Anonymous Karachite: “in Karachi (there) are the Urdu speaking people who want some honest leader like Imran to lift this never ending siege of Karachi by MQM.”

MQMs Altaf Hussains’s One and a Half Million Pound Divorce Settlement.

In his divorce case, he admitted to gambling in Monte Carlo as a hobby. One and half million pounds given to former wife in settlement. This petty thief has created a Pablo Escobar type of empire in Karachi.

Drug Dealing and “Bhattha,” by MQM Extortion in Karachi. Police looks the other way

MQM and Blackwater/Xe are US sponsored mafia style mercenary outfits due to their management structure as it is almost the same both groups’ chiefs are out of Pakistan to start with.

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“There is no difference between Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and MQM because both are sponsored by India and USA. Sawat type operation against MQM’s ‘Clean Shaven Taliban’ who are supporting Blackwater/Xe is a must because people will support.  President Zardari, the ‘Putin of Pakistan’ can he do anything of for Karachi or he has become a cuddly toy now?”

The recent bombings of a religious procession in Karachi and fire bombings of small businesses miles away from the incident reportedly owned by mostly Sunni Tableghie Jamat a non violent religious group, got all the hall marks of ‘private mercenaries’ Blackwater with the support of MQM. According to reports it is physically not possible for any one attending the procession to go miles away, get special fire bombing chemicals and equipment to set fire 300 hundred shops in Bolton Market. It is only possible if one already knows the timing of the bombings and part of the plot. They targeted a Sunni areas where it is almost impossible for an angry ‘Shia protestor’ to reach from the crime scene keeping in the view the distances. So Shia procession was bombed, Sunni business were burnt down and MQM’s fire engines did not arrive. Seems perfect Blackwater Inc style operation?

Blackwater, MQM’s Plus plan was meticulous and well timed. (a) Timing of the bombing few days before the end of the term of City Government Term. So City Government building burnt down with the record to cover-up corruption?  (b) Selection of the venues to be fire bombed (c) Torching of Light House Market predominantly owned by the Pashtuns who did not pay extortion money to the MQM – Score settled, Job done (d) Torching of Bolton Market mostly business are owned by peaceful Sunni Muslims Memon Community. They refused to be relocated outside the city because shops worth millions. High ups of the current regime allegedly President Zardari & Co had interest in the land to develop and build flats and plazas. (Job done) (e) Why MQM leaders both reportedly Shias Haider Abbas Rizvi and Faisal Sabzwari not in the Ashura procession? (f) Why police and rangers did not stop the arsonists and terrorists? (g) Who ordered them not to act? (h) Remote control bomb was planted in an ambulance which might be carrying a head too? (i) Who is Hasham Al-Zafar (central) and what is his role in the bombing and burning of Karachi? (j) What is his relationship with Saleem Shezad alleged master mind of the operation and why he only reports to Altaf Hussain?

MQM and Blackwater/Xe are US sponsored mafia style mercenary outfits due to their management structure as it is almost the same both groups’ chiefs are out of Pakistan to start with. MQM are the local collaborators of Blackwater/Xe in Pakistan?

According to sources similar kinds of chemicals and fire bombing equipments have been used in Iraq and Lebanon. Pakistan’s security agencies must look into the links between MQM lead City Government and Blackwater.  What kind of assistance they are providing to the mercenaries. City mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal and Governor Sind Dr Ashrat Abad Khan recently visited sensitive institutions of the USA related to protection of US national interests aboard. Why would a mayor of a third world country visit US State Department? Did he inform Pakistani’s foreign ministry? He is on the grooming list. “To his credentials it was Mustafa Kamal who opened the door for the assassins came to kill his ‘uncle’ Azeem Ahmed Tariq, leader of the MQM, as it was an inside job. It sounds like nephew shopped his ‘uncle’ according to a source.

Altaf Hussain’s MQM and his mafia have caused more economic and human losses to Pakistan by strikes and terrorist activities then three wars with India. After the incident on Monday December 28, 2009, three thousand shops were burnt; one thousand were burnt after looting which caused loss of Rs. 60 billion to Pakistani economy. Armed men stopped fire engines for over three hours according to reports. Why?

Elements close to MQM were also allegedly involved in the terrorism, arson, and killings after tragic death of Benazir Bhutto on 27th December 2007. Many analysts believe that it was a dry run by the foreign sponsored elements to separate Karachi from the rest of the country. There is another dimension to the burring of some markets with small business. Some people from land mafia were making hostile offers to these old pre partition businesses.

There are reports that MQM has issued thousands of arms licences to its workers and sympathisers in Karachi and some of the licences might have been issued from other provinces. Disarming of the terrorist groups including MQM in Karachi is necessary to avoid future blackmails.

It is also reported that armed gunmen did not allow fire engines to leave the fire stations. All the fire engines and security cameras are under the control of City Government run by MQM whose leader Altaf Hussain controls this group in a mafia style. Within minutes he blamed ‘Taliban’ for the bombings. How did he know it was Taliban and not Indian RAW or Blackwater/Xe? Altaf Hussain deliberately tried to make this a sectarian issue in his live TV broadcast on a news channel, which matches the agenda of private mercenaries and India.

Asia Times Online reported few years ago during Musharraf era, sources says that, “only US diplomatic intervention stopped General Musharraf from taking strong action against the MQM after he received the report on the recent unrest in which the MQM was implicated. Washington indeed has a powerful southern ally in Pakistan’. After September 11, the United States identified even more with the MQM as it was the only party in Pakistan that widely mourned the attacks on the US, openly condemned the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and launched a powerful campaign in support of the US attack on Afghanistan”.

When “President” Zardari speaks about ‘non state & political actors’, probably he also meant Altaf Hussain too? His long distance proactive and dramatic telephonic speeches are more or less what Lord Nelson said, “If you can’t baffle them with brilliance, dazzle them with bullshit!”. He is never been to Pakistan for more then 15 years but did travel to India on his British passport. Most of the members in mafia style ‘Rabita Committee’ are wanted by Pakistani authorities for heinous crimes.  He hides behind this ‘kangaroo committee’.

A political analyst said, ‘to get ‘poodle status’ in US administration Altaf Hussain exaggerates things beyond imagination. For example, he claimed his supporters in Karachi increased by 10 million in just two years because he claimed to have 20 million supporters in an interview with Edgware Times in November 1998. But in 2001 MQM claimed to have 30 million supporters when MQM send a fax to Reuters on 22 September 2001. “(MQM leader) Altaf Hussain has offered the unconditional support of over 30 million MQM supporters to the U.S. president and the international community,” its London-based international secretariat said in a statement faxed to Reuters on September 22, 2001”.

According to sources, ‘Altaf group is planning and preparing for armed fight with other groups in Karachi. There might be a plan to divide Karachi on ethnic zones as Rehman Malik mentioned in Dera Ismail Khan? The alleged transfer of money from Karachi to London, Germany, Dubai, South Africa, Canada, and United States is alarming. There reports of increase in the arms sale in Karachi seem serious but what are the authorities doing?

So what is Altaf Hussain up to that is a crucial question to political and security leadership to think about. His alleged close links with the Indian agency and also acting like a mercenary force getting orders from foreign masters. It is time for the government of Pakistan to approach its friends and allies to have a clear cut answers about the real Agenda in Pakistan? Crimes of Altaf Hussain and his party MQM are so heinous that he wouldn’t dare step in Karachi even the whole period of Musharraf and now Zardari rule?

Until November 1998 Government of Pakistan was reportedly seeking extradition of Altaf Hussain who was said to be wanted in 50 murders and 150 cases of kidnapping and arson. He said in an interview with a newspaper in 1998, “It is my wish that they take me to trial in a British court then I will tell people nationally and internationally what has been happening in Pakistan.” It was Altaf Hussain and MQM who issued a memo to his workers saying,” if there was war between India and Pakistan, MQM workers will be remain neutral”. Why?

MQM’s Drug Dealers

MQM’s deputy chief organiser of district Thatta and his wife were arrested by the police for trafficking 120 kilos of A class drugs   according to a press report on 16th May 2004. Mohamed Ibrahim and his wife Ayesha Soho who is also member of district government were coming from Bolan area of Baluchistan on Jeep number BC 1248 when they were stopped by Dadar Police who discovered 180 kilos of HASH worth millions of from the secret compartments of the jeep. Police has registered a case number 13/2004 report against deputy chief of MQM and his wife for drug trafficking. Area in charge SHO of the area Police confirmed that suspects have confessed they have been also involved in arms trafficking from Kabul and been to Afghanistan three times. Both were sent to Sibi Jail in Baluchistan.

“MQM has been funded with the drug money apart from the extortion money taken from the top businessmen in the name of support” according to a report published by The Frontier Post on December 25, 1998. The report says, “… What is more alarming is that the Narco dollars have been used for funding the (MQM), a responsible source in the provincial government said. He added that such funding was tantamount to fuelling terrorism.” Is the Narco-terror funding still on?

By joining as local collaborator of Blackwater in Karachi MQM has provided the eyes and ears on the ground with smart guns. Even if US-India sponsored ‘Pakistani Taliban’ claim responsibility of Karachi Ashura bombings, the chemicals and smart guns used in burnings of the over 6000 small businesses and loss of Rs. 60 billion have all the hallmarks of Blackwater/Xe.

“There is no difference between Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and MQM because both are sponsored by India and USA. Sawat type operation against MQM’s ‘Clean Shaven Taliban’ who are supporting Blackwater/Xe is a must because people will support.  President Zardari, the ‘Putin of Pakistan’ can he do anything of for Karachi or he has become a cuddly toy now?”

(Dr Shahid Qureshi is award winning journalist and writer on foreign policy & security based in London)

His minions deal in drugs, prostitution, and extortion, while, he enjoys the safety and security of British government. He is still under suspicion of ordering the murder of his right hand man Dr.Imran Farooq, whose killers were whisked away to Karachi and the “brilliant,” Scotland yard appeared as keystone cops during Dr.Farooq’s murder investigation. Pakistan’s Terrorist No.1 is living under the Patronage of Her Majesty’s Goverment. PM Cameron is impotent to extradite this killer to Pakistan. Pakistani immigrant British Parliamentarians are silent, because they do not want to rock the boar or are too afraid of the power of Karachi’s War Lord, Altaf Hussain.
They want freedom and i feel for them because for the last 20+ years this terrorist outfit has got away with brutal violence.” Comment on http://pkpolitics.com

 

 

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MQM Killing Machine & Their Cohorts in Pakistan Politics: Karachi will never find peace until killer Don Altaf Hussain is extradited and tried in Pakistan

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MQM Killers have Political Power in Pakistan
 
These MQM killers have gotten political power through the barrel of a gun. They have intimated Karachi voters and kept the whole city hostage. Many MQM killers or those, who ordered killings are sitting in Pakistan’s National Assembly. They should be tried for International Terrorism. Currently, Pakistan’s No.1 Terrorist was given British citizenship, because he provides India, Israeli, British, US, German governments intelligence on Pakistan nuclear and strategic assets. MQM has infiltrated Pakistan’s security program. They are fifth columnist and waiting in the wings to form a Vichy-like Republic, if Pakistan is invaded by any of the aforementioned powers. They have billions of dollars in cash in foreign and Pakistani banks and are planning subversive activities during Pakistan’s coming election. They are biggest enemy of Pakistan Armed Forces, after the socalled “Pakistani”  Taliban run by Hakimullah Mehsud. MQM is Pakistan’s Devils Brigade run by Altaf Hussain, Britains Devil’s disciple for Pakistan. 
 
 

 

 

 

Members of the Senate

     
1 Ahmed Ali  
2 Babar Khan Ghauri  
3 Nighat Mirza  
4 Abida Saif  
5 Allama Abbas Kumeli  

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Prof. Saeed Siddiqui   
7 Dr Muhammad Ali Brohi  
     
     
 

Members of National Assembly of Pakistan

 
     
1 Abdul Waseem NA 240          
2 Nisar Panwar NA 243
3 Hyder Abbas Rizvi                   NA 244                      
4 Kanwar Khalid Younus NA 245          
5 Abdul Qadir Khanzada NA 242
6 Abid Ali Umang NA 246
7 Israrul Ibad                   NA 247
8 Dr. Amir Liaquat Hussain NA 249
9 Saffwan Ullah               NA 251
10 Nawab Mirza Advocate NA 254
11 Iqbal Mohammad Ali Khan       NA 256
12 Shamim Siddiqui           NA 257
13 Prof. Khalid Wahab                  NA 219
14 Dr. Farooq Sattar                     NA 255
15 Devdas (Reserve Seats for Minority)
16 Shabina Talat    (Reserve Seats for Ladies)
17 Afsar Jehan (Reserve Seats for Ladies)
18 Shamim Akhtar (Reserve Seats for Ladies)
     
     

 

Names of Ministers for Federal Cabinet

 

     
1 Saffwan Ullah Federal Minister for Housing  
2 Baber Ghori Federal Minister for Ports andShipping  
  3 Shamim Siddiqui Federal Minister for Communication  
     
 

Members of Provincial Assembly of Sindh

 

 

 

 

1 Abdul Sattar Ansari                  PS 92
2 Abdul Qudoos                          PS 94
3 Anwar Alam                 PS 95
4 Iqbal Qadri                               PS 96
5 Mohammed Hussain PS 97
6 Sardar Ahmed              PS 98
7 Qamar Mansoor                       PS 99
8 Adil Siddiqui PS 100
9 Bilquis Mukhtar            PS 101
10 Immam Uddin Sheikh               PS 102
11 Idrees Siddiqui             PS 103
12 Mohammad Moeen                  PS 104            
13 Rehana Nasreen                       PS 105            
14 Kanwar Naveed Jamil PS 106            
15 Shoaib Bukhari             PS 107
16 Dr. Aziz Bantwa                       PS 110
17 Syed Tayyab Hussain               PS 111
18 Syed Shakir Ali                        PS 112            
19 Akhtar Bilgarami                       PS 113
20 Rauf Siddiqui                            PS 115
21 Mustafa Kamal             PS 117
22 Faisal Sabzwari                        PS 118
23 Abbas Jaffri                  PS 119
24 Dr. Ali Bin Hamid         PS 120
25 Hameed uz Zafar                      PS 121
26 Jarrar Haider                            PS 123
27 Talib Imam                               PS 124
28 Amir Moen Pirzada                  PS 125
29 Arshad Shah                             PS 46
30 Naeem Ishtiaq  PS 48                          
31 Aslam Pervaiz               PS 49
32 Shabbir Qaimkhani                   PS 64
33 Ponjomil Bheel (Reserve Seats for Minority)

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Yaqoob Ilyas   

(Reserve Seats for Minority)

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Farheen Ambreen        

(Reserve Seats for Ladies)

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Aasma Sherwani          

(Reserve Seats for Ladies)

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Fareeda Balouch         

(Reserve Seats for Ladies)

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Aziz Qazalbash

(Reserve Seats for Ladies)

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Shumailla Nazar           

(Reserve Seats for Ladies)

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Heer Soho                   

(Reserve Seats for Ladies)

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Farzana Saeed             

(Reserve Seats for Ladies)

 42 Yousuf Munir Shaikh   

 

 

 

 

Names of Ministers for Sindh Province

 

 

 

 

1 Rauf Siddiqui           ( Home Minister)  
2 Shabbir Qaimkhani    ( Cultural and Tourism)  
3 Mustaf Kamal          ( Information Technology)  
4 Sardar Ahmed         ( Finance Minister)  
5 Adil Siddiqui            (Labor and industries)  
6 Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari   ( Planning and development)  
7 Qamar Mansoor       ( Sports)  
     
     
     

 

Names of Advisors for Chief Minister of
Sindh Province

 

     
1 Fatima Surray Bajiya  
2 Manzoor Hussain  
3 Mumtaz Hameed  
4 M.A. Jalil                ( Excise and Taxation)  
5 Faisal Gabol            ( Health)  
6 Salahuddin Hyder     ( Information)  

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Waseem Akhtar       ( Local Government)  

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 Noman Saigal         ( Envronment)  

 

 

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Joan of Arc of Pakistan: Malala Yousafzai: Lets Get Our Country Back from Militants,Terrorists, Foreign Saboteurs, and Fanatics

Malala Yousafzai:  Lets Unite against Militancy

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The National Peace Award winner, Malala Yousafzai, who was attacked in Swat, is currently under treatment in CMH Peshawar. Later, Malala were taken to Peshawar via helicopter and admitted in CMH Peshawar.  It is important to mention that Malala had been receiving threats to her life, after which she was provided with a special car and unarmed security personnel. According to the electronic media reports, Taliban (TTP) has accepted the responsibilities.

Malala Yousaf zai is one of the best-known schoolgirls in the country and the world. Young as she is, she has dared to do what many others do not – publicly criticise the Taliban. According to BBC, Malala’s confident, articulate campaign for girls’ education has won her admirers – and recognition – at home and abroad. She has appeared on national and international television, and spoken of her dream of a future Pakistan where education would prevail. Even by the standards of blood-soaked Pakistan, there has been shock at the shooting. It has been condemned by Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, who sent a helicopter to transfer Malala to hospital in Peshawar. The head of Pakistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, Zohra Yusuf, said “this tragic attack on this courageous child” sends a very disturbing message to all those working for women and girls.

All segments of society are praying for her health and are condemning activists, those desire to enforce their own agenda against the will of general public. 

There could be the possibility that firing on courageous Malala has been carried out by Afghanistan sponsored anti Pakistan Taliban.  CIA and her allied agencies quite notorious in using dirty tricks for completion of their own designed agenda against Pakistan and in other countries. images-28Earlier, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit of Islamabad in 2011, agreed with Pakistan’s stance, saying, “Now US is realising that launching new military operation in North Waziristan does not suit Pakistan’s situation.” Replying to a question that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was involved an assault on the US embassy in Kabul on September 13, 2011, she categorically pointed out, “We have no evidence.” She also requested for Pakistan’s help to “encourage Taliban to enter negotiations in good faith” including the Haqqani fighters.  Pakistan’s top civil and military officials have repeatedly disclosed that training camps are presence in Afghanistan, and supply of arms and ammunition to the Baloch separatists and Pakistani Taliban keeps on going by the external elements as part of a conspiracy against Pakistan.

The internal dynamics of Pakistan, however, dictate that a detailed and comprehensive strategy be formulated to cleanse areas infected by terrorism through shrewd corrective measures and judicious action with least collateral damage. Such strategy has to be indigenous one with blend of native society.

In short, we must get united to support security forces in elimination of all type of militancy whether foreign or   locally sponsored.  We must take the example of Sri Lanka where people fought for 30 years with a single aim of defeating terrorism since they believed that terrorist “foreign or own”, remains terrorist.  At the same time we must also condemn U.S. and her allies India and Israel those justify their state terrorism in Islamic countries.

We must salute to courageous daughter of Pakistan “Malala Yousaf Zai” and pray for her health, safety and unite ourselves for continuation of her innocent but beautiful dreams regarding girls’ education and rooting out of terrorism from our motherland.

The writer can be approached through [email protected]

 

 

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While India Gloats! Pakistan’s economy hit hard by war on terror: Is the World Listening?

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Pakistan’s economy hit hard by war on terror

Terrorism in Pakistan has killed thousands, injured tens of thousands – and cost the country billions

By Sohail Ahmed

2010-06-18

 
 

 Terrorism in Pakistan cost the nation 6% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2009-10, and has killed nearly 9,000 Pakistanis in the past eight years. (report dated 2010, Pakistan’s death toll has reached over 30,000 civilians killed include by drone strikes)

  • A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands beside a road during a strike against a suicide bomb attack in Karachi  January 1. Pakistan’s financial hub has been widely affected by terrorist activities. Pakistan’s Economic  Survey report says terrorism has taken a heavy toll on the economy. [RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images]

    A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands beside a road during a strike against a suicide bomb attack in Karachi January 1. Pakistan’s financial hub has been widely affected by terrorist activities. Pakistan’s Economic Survey report says terrorism has taken a heavy toll on the economy. [RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images]

Terrorism has taken a heavy toll on Pakistan’s economy since 2001, according to Pakistan’s 2009-2010 economic survey report released earlier this month by the Ministry of Finance.

Militants intensified their campaign in 2009, specifically targeting Pakistan’s urban centres, according to the interior ministry’s National Crisis Management Cell. Officials recorded 1,906 terror attacks in the country, resultng in 1,835 deaths and 5,194 injuries, from January 2009 to April 2010.

Pakistan has become an epicentre of terrorist activity since late 2001. At least 8,141 terrorist attacks have killed 8,875 civilians and law-enforcement personnel, and injured 20,675, between the end of 2002 and April 2010.

Casualty tolls do not capture the cumulative effects of terrorism on the country, however.

Lives, homes and incomes have been disrupted, and education jeopardized for virtually a whole generation of school-age children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal, according to the report.

Terrorism cost Pakistan more than US $43 billion between 2001 and 2010, the ministry reported. Its impact on the economy has greatly increased since 2007-08, according to the report, as the Pakistani army has begun large-scale military operations in the country’s tribal areas.

A decline in GDP growth, reductions in investment, lost exports, unemployment and the depreciation and inflation of incomes and exchange rates are the most affected areas of Pakistan’s economy.

The price of security-related and civil relief operations, for instance, demonstrates the magnitude of terrorism’s direct costs: Pakistan has spent an additional US $4 billion since 2007, the ministry reports, or 2.4% of the average GDP.

The government has also spent US $600m during this fiscal year to help the more than 3m people displaced by terrorism and counter-terrorism operations.

Pakistan may face a “permanent” degree of welfare loss due to the diversion of development spending toward the security budget, capital flight and brain drain, and due to the trade diversion it has suffered since 2001, according to the report.

Total energy consumption declined 5.2% in 2009 versus 2008, and consumption in the industry sector fell by 11.7%, as a result of the energy crisis, according to the report.

Electricity use in the industrial sector fell by 6.5% while gas consumption by the industrial sector declined by 8.2%.

 

COMPLETE REPORT

Summary

Pakistan is facing the menace of terrorism that is eroding the social structure, economic developments and political system. The immediate costs of terrorist acts are loss of human lives, destruction of property and infrastructure and depression of short-term economic activity. Additionally, terrorism creates uncertainty, reduces confidence and increases risk perceptions leading to lower rates of investment and lower economic growth. Pakistan has not only lost precious lives and infrastructure, but also has borne a loss of around $ 35-40 billion since 2001-02. Both the war on terror as well as rehabilitation of internally displaced people (IDPs) consumed a big chunk of the government’s financial resources, thus widening the fiscal deficit and halting economic growth. With the threat of terrorism, normal businesses require more time and extra security for their dealings and consumption activities. Thus, terrorism typically leads to a general slowdown in economic activity. The absence of primary data makes estimating the cost of terrorism to Pakistan even more complex. The present study should thus be treated as an attempt to fill the knowledge gap in this area, encouraging more sophisticated analyses for better frameworks and conflict cost estimations. In analyzing the costs of terrorism, this paper focuses on economic cost of terrorism in Pakistan from a multi-dimensional perspective while highlighting the impact on GDP growth. Additional emphasis will also be placed on FDI, tourism, as well as the social sector.

 

 

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Critical Thinking is Critical for Pakistan to Progress in the 21st Century

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 

Dr.Margaret Mead 1901 – 1978 American anthropologist

 

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Is Pakistan a Nation of Sheep?

 
 

Default Allah will not Change the Condition of a People until They Change Themselves

Surah No. 13, Ar Raad, Part of Ayat No. 11

إِنَّ اللّهَ لاَ يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُواْ مَا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَإِذَا أَرَادَ اللّهُ بِقَوْمٍ سُوءًا

o فَلاَ مَرَدَّ لَهُ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن دُونِهِ مِن وَالٍ

Translation :

Verily ! Allah will never change the condition of the people until they change it themselves (with state of Goodness). But when Allah wills a punishment for them, there can be no turning back of it, and they will not find a protector besides Him.

 

Allah will not Change the Condition of a People until They Change Themselves

Quite often the servant of Allah is granted abundant blessings but he becomes bored and longs to change it for another which he claims is better. In fact, Allah, the Merciful does not deprive him of this blessing, and He excuses him for his ignorance and bad choice until the servant is unable to bear the blessing, feels discontent, and complains about it. Then Allah will take it away from him. When he gets what he wished for and sees the great difference between what he had before and what he has now, he is filled with worry and regret and he wishes to have what he had before. If Allah wishes good for His servant, He would make him see that whatever blessings he now has is from Allah and He will show him that Allah is pleased with him, and the servant would praise Him. If he is deceived by his soul to change this blessing, he would ask Allah for guidance.There is nothing more harmful to the servant than becoming bored from the blessings of Allah; as he neither sees them as a blessing, praises Allah for them, nor is happy with them but he becomes bored, complains, and considers them as a means of distress. He does not think that these things are from the greatest blessings of Allah. The majority of people are opposed to the blessings of Allah. They do not feel the blessings of Allah, and moreover, they exert their effort to drive them away because of their ignorance and injustice. How often is a blessing bestowed on a person while he is exerting his effort to drive it away and how often does he actually receive it while he is pushing it away, simply because of his ignorance and injustice. Allah says, “That is so because Allah will never change agrace which He has bestowed on a people until they change what is in their ownselves.” (Al-Antal, 8:53) And He, the Almighty says,”Allah will not change the good condition of a people as long as they do not change their state of goodness themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allah).” (Ar-Ra’d, 13:11)
What can be worse than the enmity of a servant toward the blessings he has received? In so doing, he supports his enemy against himself. His enemy arouses fire in his blessings and he increases the fire unawares. He enables his enemy to light the fire and then he helps his own enemy to blow on it until it
becomes strong. Finally, he seeks help against the fire and blames fate. 

 

We are the best of Creation but are we living up to our Creator’s expectations

Lack of critical thinking skills in Pakistan has kept the whole nation backward in all aspects of life. Pakistan’s social, political, economic, health, and religious problems can be traced back to a lack of critical thinking. Pakistanis tend to accept every trauma as part of fate, without thinking that Almighty Allah has endowed man with free will and intellect, by which man can become “Master of his own Fate, and Captain of his own Ship.” Man is a Creation of the the Ultimate and Everlasting Intellect, Allah Almighty. Are we defying Almighty Allah or disappointing Him by not utilizing our capabilities to the maximum. As his Creation, do we not trust our individual God given capabilities, embedded in the ‘hard drive’ in our head?  The human brain has been chiseled by none other than the Master Creator of the Universe. It can perform quadrillion upon quadrillion functions in a life time, including controlling the performance of all human faculties. But, Man cynically depreciates his own abilities through negative and cynical thinking. Thereby, denigrating the Masterwork of his Creator, The Al-Musawir. 

Pakistanis stoically accept political malfeasance and incompetent governance as a fact of life

 Pakistanis as a nation,meekly accept corrupt mediocrities to rule us and guide us throughout our national life?  Our fear of sticking our necks out or standing for Truth and Justice has made us into a retrogressive society. This is no different from sheep or goats who can be led by a goading with a stick by the herder or shepherd. Pakistanis can only change Pakistan, if we can master nuclear and missile technology, then changing the fate of the nation is a piece of cake. Wake up, my Pakistani sisters and brother! Throw down the yoke and breathe the freedom of a technologically,politically, economically, and socially advanced nation. We are 180 million strong, WE CAN DO IT! Change Pakistan. Change your world. otherwise, no one will come around and change it for you. Get rid of “luteraas,” like Swiss Bank Account Thief, Zardari, Raja Rental, drunkard Bilawal, Mehran Bank Robber Nawaz Shariff, and paindoo crooks like Malik Riaz, and the rest of the feudal shahi.  Let us not be empty “gharas,” which make much noise, but are hollow from inside. If we do not reform ourselves, no one will reform us. Allah will abandon us to our fate, because, we are not using our brains to make critical national decisions. The followers of the Greatest Man, who ever lived have become an ignorant and corrupt Nation of Sheep. Whenwe can’t BEAT the Corrupt, we throw our hands in despair or become part of them. What have we become? What malaise is eating our souls? Are we a nation of “Phaydoos,” or a nation of sheep?

 

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The brutal “control freaks,” in our primary and secondary in rural and inner city education systems

Pakistani educational system is for the most part based on rote learning and bowing to whims of dictatorial and control freak “masterji” and “ustaniji.” Most of our primary and secondary school educators are charlatans or “drop-outs,”from other more lucrative or challenging professions.   They put young minds in their vise grip in which individualism and creativity is stifled. Challenging the accepted rules and concepts are a taboo in our mostly rural society. On the other hand growth of urban centers have resulted in blind acceptance of Western ideas and concepts, without whetting them through a filter of critical thinking.

The Forgotten Islamic concept of Critical Thinking

Therefore, we present the kernel of concepts which form the basis of critical thinking and which have lead to the advancement of Western societies in science, technology, and social values. Islam taught Muslims to debate and discuss all ideas, but, after the fall of Spain, Muslims became insular and isolationists. Debate and discussion became dormant. New ideas became a rarity. Demagoguery became the source of all knowledge. This lead to development of learning institutions, who were mostly centered around faith and dogma, and the concepts of taqiq fell by the wayside, leading to the the dark age of Muslim society, which has yet to merge into the bright sunshine or Renaissance of Critical Thinking during the glory days of Islam, when streets of Europe were in darkness or ignorance, the lamps of Baghdad were lit with the beacons of knowledge. Critical thinking were intrinsic part of Muslim culture.  This was the period of enlightenment from streets of Cordoba to souks of Baghdad. Critical Thinking is the Engine of Economic Prosperity and Social Advancement. It starts in early education and continues throughout life.the West learned it from Muslims, now the Muslims have to revive it in their own societies.

Critical thinking I

Strategies for critical thinking in learning and project management

Critical thinking studies a topic or problem with open-mindedness.
This exercise outlines the first stage of applying a critical thinking approach to developing and understanding a topic. You will:

  • Develop a statement of the topic
  • List what you understand, what you’ve been told 
    and what opinions you hold about it
  • Identify resources available for research
  • Define timelines and due dates
    and how they affect the development of your study
  • Print the list as your reference

Here is more on the first stage:

Define your destination, what you want to learn
Clarify or verify with your teacher or an “expert” on your subject

Topics can be simple phrases:
“The role of gender in video game playing”
“Causes of the war before 1939”
“Mahogany trees in Central America”
“Plumbing regulations in the suburbs”
“Regions of the human brain”

  • Develop your frame of reference, your starting point,
    by listing what you already know about the subject
  • What opinions and prejudices do you already have about this?
    What have you been told, or read about, this topic?
  • What resources
    are available to you for research
    When gathering information, keep an open mind
    Look for chance resources that pop up!
    Play the “reporter” and follow leads
    If you don’t seem to find what you need, ask librarians or your teacher.
  • How does your timeline and due dates affect your research?
    Keep in mind that you need to follow a schedule.
    Work back from the due date and define stages of development, 
    not just with this first phase, but in completing the whole project.

Summary of critical thinking:

  • Determine the facts of a new situation or subject without prejudice
  • Place these facts and information in a pattern so that you can understand them
  • Accept or reject the source values and conclusions based upon your experience, judgment, and beliefs

Critical thinking II

Second stage exercise in critical thinking:

Critical thinking studies a topic or problem with open-mindedness.
This exercise outlines the second stage of applying a critical thinking approach to developing and understanding a topic.

With the second stage:

  • Refine/revise the topic
    either narrowing or broadening it according to outcomes of research
  • Rank or indicate the importance 
    of three sources of research
  • Clarify any opinion, prejudice, or bias their authors have
    While an opinion is a belief or attitude toward someone or some thing, 
    a prejudice is preconceived opinion without basis of fact
    while bias is an opinion based on fact or research.
  • Identify key words and concepts that seem to repeat
    Is there vocabulary you need to define?
    Are there concepts you need to understand better?
  • In reviewing your research, are there
    Sequences or patterns that emerge?
    Oposing points of view, contradictions, or facts that don’t “fit?”
    Summarize two points of view that you need to address
  • What questions remain to be answered?

Critical thinking, first stage helped you to

  • Develop a statement of the topic
  • List what you understand, what you’ve been told 
    and what opinions you hold about it
  • Identify resources available for research
  • Define timelines and due dates
    and how they affect the development of your study
  • Print the list as your reference

With this second exercise, 
think in terms of how you would demonstrate your learning for your topic
How would you create a test on what you have learned?
How would you best explain or demonstrate your findings?
From simple to more complex (1-6) learning operations:

  1. List, label, identify: demonstrate knowledge
  2. Define, explain, summarize in your own words:Comprehend/understand
  3. Solve, apply to a new situation: Apply what you have learned
  4. Compare and contrast, differentiate between items: analyze
  5. Create, combine, invent: Synthesize
  6. Assess, recommend, value: Evaluate and explain why

 

Summary of critical thinking:

  • Determine the facts of a new situation or subject 
    without prejudice
  • Place these facts and information in a pattern
    so that you can understand and explain them
  • Accept or reject your resource values and conclusions 
    based upon your experience, judgment, and beliefs
  • Reference

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