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Opinion: Capital suggestion / Sunday, September 28, 2014

NAYA AUR PURANA PAKISTAN

Dr Farrukh Saleem

Purana Pakistan

Purana Pakistan has six characteristics.

One, elected leaders treat state assets as their personal estates.

Two, elected leaders mutate civil servants into their personal serfs.

Three, taxes are collected and then spent to fulfill rulers’ priorities.

Four, monetary rewards of political power are extremely high.

Five, there is massive under-investment in human capital.

Six, power projects are being inaugurated that would produce power at an astronomical rate of Rs41 per unit.

Here are the proofs of the above six.

One, Rehman Malik had a PIA aircraft wait for him for two long hours.

Two, on June 17, Punjab Police killed 14 unarmed citizens.

Three, budgetary allocation for the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is Rs160 million while the annual budget for the PM House is Rs770 million.

Four, Pakistanis are getting more and more indebted by the minute while assets of the ruling class keep on increasing by the day.

Five, Nigeria is the only country on the face of the planet with more out-of-school children than Pakistan.

Six, the cost of the Nandipur Power Project has gone up from $329 million to $847 million and if diesel is used to produce power it will cost Rs41 per unit.

This is what purana Pakistan is mostly about.

Admittedly, Imran Khan has no comprehensive blueprint for Naya Pakistan; neither does Allama Tahirul Qadri. What they have done, however, is exposed the purana Pakistan to 180 million Pakistanis. And Pakistanis hate what they see in purana Pakistan.

Here are the proofs that Pakistanis hate what they see in purana Pakistan.

One, passengers threw Rehman Malik off the PIA aircraft – something that has no precedence in our political history.

Two, police high-command has now started demanding written orders from their elected leaders in order to shoot at unarmed citizens.

General (r) Mirza Aslam Baig, for reasons only known to him, may want to call it a foreign conspiracy against Pakistan but, to be certain, throwing Rehman Malik out the PIA aircraft is no American conspiracy against Pakistan. To be sure, police high-command demanding written orders from their elected leaders is no Jewish conspiracy against Pakistan. This is all about Pakistani middle class revolting against purana Pakistan.

NAYA PAKISTAN

Naya Pakistan has to be a contractual state. Naya Pakistan has to have a social contract between the voters and their elected leaders. The social contract must cover three things.

One, who will pay taxes?

Two, how much taxes will be paid by each taxpayer?

Three, how will these taxes be spent?

Naya Pakistan has to have three things – elections, accountability and a responsive government (purana Pakistan has had plenty of elections but neither accountability nor a responsive government).

Here are four steps to a naya Pakistan.

One, alter spending priorities as per voters’ needs and demands.

Two, invest in education and health.

Three, invest in justice.

Four, privatize all public sector enterprises in a competitive, transparent process.

The constitution is not under threat.

The democratic system is not under threat.

Yes, the old political order is under threat.

And, yes, the custodians of the old political order are feeling threatened.

The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. Email: farrukh15@hotmail.com

Twitter: @saleemfarrukh

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Fire burns ECP 2013 general election record in Lahore

Monitoring Desk

LAHORE: A major fire erupted in a Central Model school at Rati Gun road, resulting into loss of election commission record of 2013 general election, Local TV reported.

Fire tenders reached the school and the school was evacuated.

The report said fire erupted in the basement where Election Commission of Pakistan’s record was stored. The whole of the record was burnt.

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About time Nawaz Must Step Down.

ECP already made a report as to

2013 election was fraudulent.

shared Insafian Tiger‘s video.

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Insafian Tiger with Ijaz Khan

ماضی کے نواز شریف کا کہنا ہے کہ وزیر اعظم کو پہلے استعفیٰ دینا چاہیئے اگر جُرم ثابت ہو تو گھر جائے اگر بے قصور ہو تو اپنی کُرسی پر دوبارہ آجائے۔۔۔

نواز شریف نے آج سے دو سال پہلے یہ بات کہہ کر عمران خان کے موقف کی تائید کردی۔۔۔ یاد ماضی نورا جی ۔ لازمی دیکھیں اور شئیر کریں

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People do not like their elected representatives to behave like kings.

THE attacks on the government are increasing day by day and the greatest cause of dismay in the speedily shrinking democratic lobby is the combatants’ lack of appreciation of the threat to the democratic polity.

Until recently, all attention was concentrated on the well-orchestrated manoeuvres against a media house and noisy agitation for electoral reforms. Nobody was talking of a possible challenge to the government. Now more and more people are referring to such a threat.

The leader of the PML-Q says the government’s days are numbered but his views about his mother party need to be taken with a pinch of salt. Then the PPP indicated a slight shift in its policy of standing by the Nawaz Sharif government when one of its leaders remarked that his party was committed to defending the system and not necessarily the existing government.

The speed with which the Pakistani people forget, or are persuaded to forget, the bitter lessons of history is mind-boggling indeed.

For decades, politicians, students of politics and conscious citizens have been affirming the need for allowing elected governments to complete their term. Frequent disposal of representative governments has often been recognised as the greatest hindrance to the growth of democratic norms. Yet, barely a year after celebrating a democratic transition of authority from one elected government to another we see a revival of the mutual demolition game.

Another lesson the political parties had learnt related to their Himalayan blunder of treating one another as their worst enemies and in seeking the aid of non-political elements for doing in their rivals. The Charter of Democracy signed by the heads of the PPP and PML-N, and in the presence of many other leaders, was rightly hailed as proof of our political parties’ coming of age. Today, the pledge that no political party will be a tool in the hands of extra-democratic forces is all but forgotten.

This is not to deny the opposition’s right to critically scrutinise the work of any government and call for reference to the electorate if its continuance in power poses a threat to national interests. The opposition does not have the exclusive right to determine whether such a state has been reached. That right belongs to the people.

The main line of attack on the government at the moment is the alleged rigging of elections in certain constituencies last year. While there is considerable public support for electoral reform, the demand for regime change lacks justification because the present government was not in power in May 2013 and no proof of the state establishment’s involvement in poll irregularities has been forthcoming.

Besides, one can already see that the field is no longer occupied by democratic forces divided on issues of legitimacy or public interest. Nobody should be unaware of the history of anti-democratic elements’ efforts to demonise political parties by playing up incidents of electoral fraud. The people of Pakistan know better than any other contemporary society how agitation against electoral malpractices can be designed so as to rock the democratic system itself.

The Geo affair, the campaign against civil society and pressure on the judiciary have shown what kind of forces are spoiling to exploit the anti-government agitation. The consequences of ignoring Raza Rabbani’s warning that the country is drifting towards a 1977-like situation could be catastrophic. Those out to destroy the system are holding rallies that are looking like rehearsals for capturing the state through mob power.

What makes the situation extraordinarily grim is the realisation shared by a fairly large section of public opinion that the state has been weakened to an extent that it may not offer another chance for a movement for the restoration of democracy. Any disruption of the existing system is bound to weaken the foundations of the state and spell the end of the federation.

But who will save the system? This task cannot be accomplished by civil society alone, regardless of its capacity to read the situation correctly and the soundness of its advice. Nor are the state institutions strong enough to stem the tide of anarchy. Everything depends on the capacity of the politicians in authority to mobilise the people in support of the democratic system.

Unfortunately, the government is doing little to consolidate the democratic tradition. Indeed the pattern of personal rule the government is pursuing and its disinclination to take parliament into confidence on key issues— be it the military operation in the tribal areas or the trip to Delhi — are doing more harm to the system than the rant of militant adventurers. A government that cannot stop the vulgarisation of the country’s name on automobile number plates is unlikely to have the clarity of vision and the will to defend democracy. As noted by a perspicacious observer the people do not like their elected representatives to behave like kings.

Tailpiece: An Indian friend known for learning and refined sensibility has recalled W.B. Yeats (Second Coming) to describe the situation in India. The lines are equally apt for Pakistan:

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned

The best lack all conviction and the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Published in Dawn, May 29th, 2014

By I.A. Rehman May 29, 2014 07:15am

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SC disqualifies Sumaira over fake degree

October 29, 2013

ISLAMABAD – Disqualifying Sumaira Malik as a member of National Assembly in a fake degree case for life, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to proceed against her in accordance with law.
A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, hearing all the parties on October 9, 2013, had reserved the judgment which was announced on Monday in the courtroom.
The 39-page judgment, authored by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, declared the notification of March 1, 2008, declaring Sumaira Malik as a returned candidate from NA-69 (Khushab-I) in the general elections held on 18-2-2008 void. She was declared to be disqualified from becoming an MNA with all its consequences. “The court noted that as a disqualified person she has no right to represent the electorates of the country,” it added.
A supporter of Sumaira Malik, Muhammad Riaz who was present in the apex court, had a heart attack when he heard the news of her disqualification. He was taken to Polyclinic Hospital, Islamabad, where the doctors pronounced him dead.
The judgment noted: “On account of such qualification she would not be entitled to contest election in future as well and if she does contest election and is declared successful, the Election Commission shall be bound to de-notify her.”
The judgment noted: “She had obtained a BA degree by way of impersonation and, depending upon the same educational qualification as it is normally disclosed by candidates in their nominations papers, she proved herself not to be a truthful person.”
She was elected an MNA on the ticket of PML-Q in the 2008 general elections. A losing candidate from the constituency, Malik Umar Aslam Awan, had filed a petition, challenging Sumaira’s victory and had alleged that the lawmaker had done her intermediate in 1981 and, in order to avoid her ineligibility, she had managed to obtain a fake BA degree.
The court has allowed appeal.

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Pakistan Think Tank will expose the rats, who have stolen the bread crumbs from 180 million Pakistanis. We will shine a light into their rat holes, where they are hiding. These people have existed in relative anonymity. They stolen from national treasury through unsecured loans from the State Bank of Pakistan. They have given kick-backs to bank officers. They have converted these loans to foreign currencies like dollars and punds

We ask our readers from Pakistani backgrounds, members of Pakistan Think Tank Organization, and our global friends to expose these criminals to the world. So, they cannot hide anywhere in the world in cognito. Their children cannot get Ivy League school education paid by the money stolen from poor and indigent 180 million Pakistanis, who do not have the basic life’s necessity like clean drinking water. The biggest thief is EURO GULF ENTERPRISES, who have stolen the monies paid to them for laying down these pipes

Dear Pakistanis and friends go to the website of these thieves and on their feedback page, demand that they return Pakistan’s money. We will write to Attorney Generals and Justice Departments of other countries, if they have money laundered. We are also concerned that Gulf States like Dubai is the hub of their money laundering activities. The Sheikhs of UAE are protecting them, so the money stolen from Pakistan is kept in UAE Banks.

Here is the URL of their company:

http://www.egpipes.com/contact.php

If Pakistanis have concrete proof of other defaulters, no on this list, we will publish it for all the world to see. Your Privacy will be protected, your name and location will not be exposed.

Please e-mail to:

agamjd@gmail.com

(Report by Daily Jang, 21.10.2010)

The State Bank of Pakistan presented a list of loan defaulters before the Supreme Court on Wednesday October 20, 2010.

Company	Rs. in mil.
Eurogulf Enterprises	5.342.55
Younus Habib	2.476.40
West Pakistan Tank Terminal	1.977.38
Mercury Garments Industries	1.565.89
Siraj Steels Ltd Muridke	1.412.66
Spinning Machinery Co	1.387.60
Saad Cement Ltd Karachi	1.265.97
Pakistan National Textile	1.166.45
Mehr Dastagir Spinning Mills	1.160.50
Karachi Property Investment	1.003.19
Mohib Textile Mills	1.117.49
Redco Textiles Ltd	1.116.77
Chaudhry Cables	1.050.58
Abdullah S Al Rajhiest	1.031.90
Quality Steel Works	981.60
Mekran Fisheries	960.12
Kohinoor Looms	945.41
AH International Private Limited	901.21
Coral Cast Ltd	900.92
Aziz Spinning	864.95
Rashi Testile Mills	859.17
Farooq Habib Textile	827.15
Northern Polythene	825.59
Firdous Spinning Mills	780.14
Muhammad Ibrahim Murad	748.15
Metropolitan Steel	747.67
Tristar Polyester Ltd	737.02
Bindder Insad Tourism	734.44
Commodore Industries	722.76
Target Readymade Garments	696.46
Balochistan Foundary Ltd	663.54
Tawakkal Group of Industries	642.22
First Tawakal Muzarba	628.65
Synthetic Leather Industries	620.56
Nabchoon Garments Factory	597.52
Golden Textile Mills	589.72
Mian Muhammad Sugar Mills	584.90
Saadi Cement	584.11
Service Fabrics Ltd	571.23
Punjab Cooperative Board for Liquidation	538.23
Glamour Textile Mills	533.88
Punjab Road Transport Corporation	524.15
Ravi Agri Dairy Products	509.73
Pakistan Concrete	477.70
Pakpattan Dairies	467.12
AlJamia & Alquasi Trading	462.67
Fabri Tex Limited	454.32
Apparel Trading Establishment	454.00
Adamjee Industries	448.84