Rafiq Tarar Given Government Residence

Posted on: July 16, 2008 4:47 am Written by: Leave a Comment print for hard copyEmail This Post

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Rafiq Tarar, an Ex. President and buddy of Sharif family has been given government residence and he has moved from his private home to government provided housing according to GEO TV Channel .

Rafiq Tarar said that according to rules and regulations any ex. president is entitled to live in government housing for the rest of his life after leaving the office. I don’t know the rules. But the question is if that was his entitlement, or for any ex. president for that matter, then why he did not demand that earlier? Or better yet, why he moved out of the presidential housing when he left the office?

Is it not something also called nepotism?

Sometimes back, Shaikh Rashid Ahmed said in a GEO TV program 60 Minutes that the judges who did not take the oath according to new PCO on November 2, 2007 and took the option to leave the office and now want to get the job back are presently paid their salaries from the special fund of Prime Minister.

Are there any such rules and regulations to pay salaries to judges who voluntarily did not take the oath and preferred to leave the job?

What you would call this bribery, social welfare or helping the poor unemployed judges?

Speak up your mind and write in Comments what ever you think on this subject.

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Pakistan’s Political Scene – Part 1

Posted on: July 16, 2008 2:34 am Written by: Leave a Comment print for hard copyEmail This Post


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Let us see first to what agony people of Pakistan are going through at present.

Prices of daily commodities are going sky high
Prices of petroleum products are going out of control
There is load shedding of electricity to the full extent all over Pakistan Terrorism.

Five months ago people of Pakistan elected their representatives but they turned out to be incapable to comprehend and control the situation.

In my opinion these are the core problems. Particularly the last one. And that is the biggest problem.

Nawaz Sharif told to one packed election rally when his party will come to power they will make the price of Atta, petrol and electricity to half. Was it verbose, ignorance of economic facts and realities or telling us total lies. Nawaz Sharif party has all the powers in the Punjab province why they are hesitant to do that what they said. Why he is not putting pressure on federal government on this subject.  After all this is his promise to people particularly to the people of Punjab. But after the elections, he himself or none of his party officials talked on this subject. Chaudary Fazal Ilahi of PML-Q reminded PML-N in the opening session of National Assembly  about their half price promise.

All members of the government are telling us that these problems were hand over to them by the previous government. Fine. We hear you. But nobody is telling us what they are going to do NOW to alleviate the problems or at least improve the situation. On the subject of electricity, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (PPP) minister once threatened KESC (Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation which is a private  company now) if they did not increase the output government will take over the Corporation. The question is, was there any clause like that in the agreement of privatization. Or by threatening KESC generators will start producing more electricity. These are our problem solver. What will be its effect of foreign investment in Pakistan, if somebody is still interested. That is the professionalism of our leaders.

Part 2 will continue.

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Qazi Courts Set Up in Mohmand Agency

Posted on: July 15, 2008 4:56 am Written by: Leave a Comment print for hard copyEmail This Post


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The following news has appeared today in the daily DAWN newspaper of Karachi.

GHALANAI, July 14: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has set up Qazi courts in four places in the Mohmand tribal region.

Taliban spokesman Dr Assad told Dawn on Monday that the Qazi courts had been set up to settle disputes in accordance with Sharia. He said that Mohammad Ziad had been appointed chief Qazi. Other Qazis would be named later. He said the courts had been established in Pandialai, Khwezai, Lakaro and Dawezai.

Taliban have established similar courts in the adjacent Bajaur agency.

This would be interesting to see how the federal and provincial governments as well as opposition parties react to this news.

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Recent Elections

Posted on: March 11, 2008 9:33 am Written by: Leave a Comment print for hard copyEmail This Post


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In recent elections which were held on February 18, 2008, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has emerged as the largest party with highest number of seats in the National Assembly. Pakistan Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif (Nawaz League) is the second largest party in the Assembly. In the beginning Nawaz Sharif openly said that his party will boycott the election. The reason he gave was that elections will be rigged. Peoples Party had also some revservations but decided to participate in the elecions. When Nawaz Sharif saw the situation going into favor of PPP he immediately took a u-turn and said will participate in the elections but they know the elections will be rigged in favor of Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam (PMLQ). So much so that Nawaz Sharif himslef, Shahbaz Sharif his brother, Iqbal Hasan and Chaudry Nisar openly and repeatedly said naming the persons, places and times about the plans going on for rigging the elections. And they continued all the way upto February 18, 2008. Even in the early hours when election results were compiled.

My interpretation is that:

Nawaz Sharif and his party were not expecting that they will win to such a landslide.

So they were making a lot of noise about rigging.

Preparing ground for agitation at a later stage.

Other parties namely, Jamat e Islami and Imran Khan etc were also playing the same tune.

Now the question is:

There is no doubt that PMLQ has done a lot of development work. Absolutely clear.
Todays’ problems of shortage of electricity for example, stem from the Nawaz Sharif and Benazir era
Nawaz Sharif was outside the country for 7 years. Pakistani nation knows he is a convicted person (that is why his nomination papers were rejected). He also lied openly when he said there is agreement of his pardon deal. Everybody knows about that.
Benazir was out of the country for 8 years. Zardari was allowed to leave the country out of a deal Benazir and Nawaz Sharif when they were out of Pakistan they behavior was anti-Pakistan.

Then:

Why the Pakistani nation elected them. That is the discussion point for today.

You can write your comments in the comments section or you can record your comments in Urdu or English.

Primary purpose of the discussion is to bring out what people think about their leaders and how they interpret the political situation. That will also show the maturity level of the nation.

Share with other people what you think.

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Welcome To Pakistan Forum

Posted on: March 1, 2008 5:48 am Written by: Leave a Comment print for hard copyEmail This Post

Pakistan Forum is an independent entity and does not belong to any political or religious party, government or non-government organization (NGO). Pakistan Forum does not support or favor any particular political or religious view or philosophy.

Primary purpose of this Forum is to provide a place where people can discuss and talk about political, economic and social issues related to Pakistan. This is the place where they can speak up their mind.

We strongly believe in collaborative journalism. What does that mean?

Almost everybody in this age of internet and digital media (100’s of TV channels) have access to news and information about events happening not only in Pakistan but all over the world which may effect Pakistan or people of Pakistan directly or indirectly.  People form their opinion on political, economic or other issues on the basis of their own analysis, commentaries they watch on TV Channels or what they read in digital (internet) or print media.

When you share your thoughts or opinion on a given issue with other people no matter where they are physically located you are participating in collaborative journalism.

In traditional journalism the correspondent of a newspaper go out and get the news. He adds his own analysis and opinion and gives it to his editor. Editor reviews it and check against the newspaper owner’s policy for his financial return. If he feels appropriate he publishes it. If not, either he will drop the news or edit it to make it ‘appropriate’. The art of news crafting is part of history now but unfortunately it is still practiced in Pakistan. That is why people read international newspapers (not all of them but select few) who have established their credibility for truth. You may agree or you may not agree with the way they see the picture but you have a view point.

Here comes the Pakistan Forum. We will publish your view point.  It is not the question of right or wrong it is the way you see things happening. That is the beauty of collaborative journalism. You can read the opinion of many people on the same subject or issue at one place. We want to make Pakistan Forum that one place.

For collaborative journalism in Pakistan we are providing the platform.

Everybody is welcome to write. You can write an article or a post on any subject of your choice and we will publish it with your name.  You can also write comments on articles or posts published here.

You can also write about the political events happening in your town, city if you are living in Pakistan or a country if you are living outside Pakistan.

This Forum can also be useful not only to share political views but also business opportunities existing anywhere in the world.

Let us make this place a real community. You are welcome to this community.

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