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Why Pakistani media fails to report early such type of morale boasting news..?

Shell fire kills Israeli soldier near Gaza Strip: Army
AFP | Jul 27, 2014, 10.13 AM IST

JERUSALEM: An Israeli soldier was killed by shell fire near the Gaza Strip, taking to 43 the number of troops killed since the start of ground operations on July 8, an army spokeswoman said on Sunday.

“The soldier was killed by a shell that was fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli territory,” she said.

A Times of India Report.

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”

— Dennis Waitley

Gaza Crisis – An opportunity for Pakistan and Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to lead..!

Why can’t Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and Syria and the TALIBAN announce to send their troops to secure the Muslims from the genocide being committed by the Israeli forces, who have not even spared the UN safe heavens and hospitals in Gaza?

These Muslim forces should also ensure breaking years old Gaza blockade by the Israeli Navy, in effect, since last 8 years which has never happened in the entire history of the mankind.

What can Israel do against the Muslim forces?

Israel will immediately beg for a cease fire, even on the announcement of this Muslim forces plan.

Pakistani military commander should get the honour to be the Commander in Chief of these Muslim forces.

Why our MNA’s and Senators are mum in the parliament over the eye opening Nandipur power plant fiasco as revealed by the following editorial of the daily “The Nation”.

The Nandipur Fiasco

July 25, 2014

It’s been in the air for a long time, that the Nandipur Power Project is a doomed project, bound to fail, a fake, a fraud. We have been duped again with promises of energy provision amounting to naught. PTI was the first on the scene to protest the project earlier this month and now it seems with good reason. The project has been an example of how not to set up an energy project lacking logistical and infrastructural planning. The Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali has said that the plant is in working condition and only one turbine had to be shut down due to technical reasons; that the PTI was just spreading propaganda against the government as usual.
All lies. The National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has revealed that the Plant generated electricity was shut down after only five days of operation. The first units of the plants to come online was run on diesel fuel for five days after its inauguration, but closed down for being too expensive. The cost of the Nandipur project also went up to Rs59 billion compared to the initial estimate of Rs23 billion. The plant was supposed to generate electricity at the most at Rs24 per unit by consuming high-speed diesel, it has produced it at Rs42 per unit. NTDC has said that the plant was taken online too soon, the project was not ready and technical and legal criteria for operation were not fulfilled. Again, publicity stunts in place of real progress by the Sharif brothers. What else is new? How can they spend money the country doesn’t have, that too, on failed projects that produce no power or income?
The system is wrought with inefficiency and bad planning. There are four power plants of over 800 megawatts available in Lahore but are closed most of the time. The policy on the construction of dams including Bhasha and Kalabagh is a political landmine. The Nandipur Project Director Muhammad Mehmood was already hired on controversial grounds. The whole system is broken, and anything fair or unfair that comes out of this bureaucracy seems to be illegally achieved. And then, the bestowing of a Tamgha-e-Imtiaz on Mehmood… for what exactly? Nandipurs success? It is almost unimaginable that the government and bureaucracy can spend this amount of time and money so irresponsibly and with so little accountability.

Why can’t Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the TALIBAN announce to send their troops to Gaza, to secure the Muslims from the genocide being committed by the Israeli forces, who have not even spared the UN safe heavens and hospitals in Gaza.

These Muslim forces should also ensure breaking the years old Gaza blockade by the Israeli Navy, in effect since many years, which has never happened in the entire history of the mankind.

What can Israel do against the Muslim forces?

Israel will immediately beg for a cease fire, even on the announcement of this Muslim forces plan.

Pakistani military commander should get the honour to be the Commander in Chief of these Muslim forces.

“I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.”

— Cindy Morgan

Why can’t Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and Syria and the TALIBAN announce to send their troops to secure the Muslims from the genocide being committed by the Israeli forces, who have not even spared the UN safe heavens and hospitals in Gaza.

These Muslim forces should also ensure breaking the Gaza blockade by the Israeli Navy, in effect, since many years which has never happened in entire the history of the mankind.

What can Israel do against the Muslim forces?

Israel will immediately beg for a cease fire, even on the announcement of this Muslim forces plan.

Pakistani military commander should get the honour to be the Commander in Chief of these Muslim forces.

Muslim countries can’t even think of sending troops to Gaza for securing the suffering humanity…

While….

Australia to send troops to MH17 crash site in Ukraine: Tony Abbott

SYDNEY: Australian troops plan to join a police contingent in helping secure the Flight MH17 crash site in Ukraine, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday, while stressing that the mission would be humanitarian in nature.

Abbott has been highly critical of the response on the ground to the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which was carrying 298 people when it was apparently shot down in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.

Some 90 Australian Federal Police have already been deployed to Europe for a planned international mission to help secure the wreckage and retrieve bodies.

A further 100 will leave on Friday to participate in the operation and “do the right thing by the grieving families”, Abbott said, adding that Canberra was close to finalizing an agreement with Ukraine for deployment of the Australian officers.

“Many of the (police) deployed won’t be armed, some of them could be armed,” Abbott told reporters.

“And, yes, there will be some ADF (Australian Defence Force personnel) as part of this deployment, should it go ahead,” he added, without putting a figure on how many.

Abbott’s office later confirmed the defence personnel were troops. The majority of those on MH17 were Dutch, but 28 Australians and nine permanent residents were also on the plane.

“This is a humanitarian mission with a clear and simple objective, to bring them home,” Abbott said. “All we want to do is to claim our dead and to bring them home.”

He added that given human remains were still be recovered, it was “more important than ever that the site be properly secured”.

“I expect the operation on the ground in Ukraine, should the deployment go ahead, to last no longer than a few weeks.”

The prime minister said he had spoken twice to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the incident since it happened last week.

“President Putin has been full of sympathy, as you would expect from another human being, for what’s happened to 37 families in Australia,” Abbott said.

“And he certainly has been publicly and privately supportive of securing the site so that the full impartial investigation … can be completed and all of the bodies can be brought home.”

@nayyarahmad: My comments on the below mentioned news: If I were the PM, would first replace the finance minister before giv… http://t.co/YlY2RGx3iU

AN EYE OPENING LETTER FOR THE PM PUBLISHED BY THE DAILY “THE NATION” TODAY.

PMLN HAS ALWAYS CONSIDERED THE BUSINESS CLASS AS ITS CONSTITUENCY.

LOOK HOW THIS CLASS IS SUCKING THE BLOOD OF THE POOR MASSES AND ALSO OFFERING NAMAZ AND PERFORMING UMRA AND HAJJ.

MIAN NAWAZ SHARIF SAHAB WHY YOUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT CRACKING DOWN ON SUCH UNSCRUPULOUS BUSINESSMEN WHO NEITHER PAY TAXES NOR THE BILLS?

MIAN NAWAZ SHARIF SAHAB WHY YOUR GOVERNMENT IS HELL BENT CRUSHING THOSE HONEST CITIZENS WHO ALWAYS PAY 100% TAXES AND BILLS?

MIAN NAWAZ SHARIF SAHAB ON THE JUDGEMENT DAY YOU WILL HAVE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION BEFORE ALLAH ALMIGHTY THAT WHY YOU WERE SO CRUEL WITH THE POORS AS A RULER AND YOU WERE EXTREMELY LENIENT WITH THE LOOTERS AND PLUNDERERS OF THE NATION?

Letter:-

Renaming sin

July 25, 2014

Yesterday, I met up with a friend who has a large gold shop in a very famous shopping mall. Upon reaching his shop I was surprised to see so many lights and three air-conditioners running. There were no customers present, so I asked him how he could afford using so much electricity. He is an average person, who fasts regularly, says his namaz and goes for Hajj occasionally. We have known each other for 20 years. He told me that the line man of his area had made a deal with him to charge him only Rs 10,000 every month. This is a common practice in Pakistan and I should not have been surprised. But what astonished me was that I did not expect this from him.
As I went back home, it made me aware of the moral dilemma we all face, how things we would have labeled as theft have now become business transactions. The things we wouldnever have touched, ‘sooth’ (interest)is now infiltrating our lives, whether we want it to or not. We all have to make a distinction and draw lines. We need to make sure that we are not renaming sin and accepting it in its new garb. I hope that we can become better human beings as becoming better Muslims does not seem like much of a reality.

Lala Rukh Paracha,
Lahore, July 24.