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Why the chief selector is larger than life for the PCB..?

Honourable Prime Minister and the Patron in Chief PCB,

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Sahab,

AoA.

Dear Sir,

At the outset, I must say that you deserve full Kudos, for deciding to take the direct command of the daunting challenge of the elimination of the menace of terrorism from Pakistan. You also deserve felicitations that you have successfully rallied all the segments of the society behind you; and the entire nation is totally united and standing behind the government, for this noble cause.

Sir, Now, coming to the subject matter, I take this opportunity to appreciate the decision of Mr. Shahryar Khan, Chairman PCB, in removing the most controversial person namely, Mr. Moin Khan, from the post of the team manager and appointing a very professional, competent, direct, efficient and quite tough person, Mr. Naveed Akram Cheema, as manager for the Pakistani cricket team, for its tour to Australia and NewZealand, to play the ODI World Cup matches.

However, the media reports of today, detailed as below, have provided some very astonishing information about the strange decision of the PCB, to still allow unnecessarily, Mr. Moin Khan (considered as an apple of the eye of the former chairman PCB, who himself told in one of his TV programs that the Prime Minister, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, in a meeting, hand picked him for the post of chairman PCB, by holding his hand in his hand and pleaded to him to accept this position of chairman PCB) to have a joy ride with the team, for its ODI World Cup 2015 journey, to Australia and NewZealand.

– The cost of the visit of the chief selector PCB Mr. Moin Khan, will be around Rs.40 lacs wherein, he will travel full length of the tour in business class and get $700 per day for hotel and other expenses (as reported by the media).

– Neither, there is a past tradition during ANY previous ODI World Cup nor, any requirement of the chief selector, to accompany the team.
Actually, the job of the selectors finishes when they select 15 players for any foreign tour. And, during the currency of the tour the playing eleven is selected by a committee, which is headed by the manager and generally consists of the head coach and the captain.

Moreover, you being a cricketer your self, also know the fact that unnecessary personnel traveling with the team and their presence in the dressing rooms neither, helps building of congenial atmosphere in the dressing room nor, is good for the performance of the team.
Sir, it has been surprisingly reported that during the last tour of Sri Lanka (where we lost Test series 2-0 and ODI series 2-1) a 12 members PCB management and coaching staff toured, with ONLY 15 Pakistani cricketers.

Even Mr. Ishaq Dar Sahab has been reported by the media today, to have stated that now Pakistan needs to change VIP culture and curb prodigal (spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant) expenditures.

In view of the foregoing, you are requested to issue necessary orders to the PCB, to strictly curtail any wasteful expenditures that too, in valuable foreign exchange, by NOT allowing joy rides of absolutely unnecessary personnel, on foreign tours.

With best wishes and kind regards,

Karachi timber market fire tragedy..!

The PM must consider sacking the Sindh government over gross mismanagement and callous inefficiency to the extent that when public paid for the fuel of the fire tenders, they arrived devoid of any water. Media also reported that drivers were also not available on duty for the fire tenders.

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Indian Army Jawans Allowed to Play Golf..!

CHANDIGARH: The hierarchy-conscious Indian Army has opened gates of its golf clubs for jawans for the first time. The privilege was earlier confined to the officer class.

An inter-formation golf championship – the first of its kind — for junior commissioned officers and jawans of the Western Command was organized on Friday at the picturesque Shivalik golf club (Chandimandir cantonment) near here.

While the jawans teed off, the officers enjoyed the game from the sidelines.

The development is seen as an attempt to do away with colonial trappings in 1.5 million strong force and to bridge the gap between officers and other ranks.

The move is the brainchild of the Western Command chief Lt Gen K J Singh, who wants to promote “camaraderie & esprit de corps through this wonderful sport”.

Sources said the annual golf event would promote the game among the lower ranks.

Fifteen teams representing various formations participated in the championship, which Havildar M Sahoo won. Lance Naik PS Bhati was the runner-up.

The Army commander awarded individual winners with cash prizes.

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Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif,

Honourable Prime Minister of Pakistan,

Dear Sir,

Please remember that MAN IS MORTAL HIS GOOD DEEDS ARE IMMORTAL.

Kindly peruse below a news item published on 16 November, 2014 by the Times of India, which reflects that the Indian PM is talking nothing at the G20 summit in Australia, except about the BLACK MONEY repatriation to India.

Mr. Prime Minister, we are very surprised that although, bringing back the BLACK and STOLEN money of Pakistan stashed in the foreign countries, was the main agenda of the PMLN’s Elections 2013 campaign with the famous election slogan:

اےطائر لا ھوتی اس رذق سے موت اچھی. جس رذق سے آتی ہو پرواز میں کوتاہی

yet, you have personally never ever talked on this issue, since you became the PM in June 2013.

Your Excellency, the nation demands that your government must seriously fulfil its promises on bringing back nations looted money from abroad; and also fulfil another extremely important promise of breaking the bowl of foreign loans.

Moreover, please also ask your finance minister that he should remember that he was the minister of the Pakistani government and not appointed by either the IMF or the Swiss government. He should not callously tell the nation that looted money repatriation from abroad was well neigh impossible; and at the same time our government officials are continuing excursion trips of Switzerland, as if they were employed by the nation to have joy rides.

Everyone going abroad on state expenses, must inform on return to the nation that what tangible benefits materialised for Pakistan, due to his foreign trip.

Mr. Prime Minister, please also stop your ministers and officials from taking the nation on a ride.

Mian Sahab, the nation wants results on your promises of bringing back the black money from abroad and breaking the bowl of the curse of the foreign loans. We Pakistanis do not want to be burdened with useless statements and more and more IMF and world bank loans, repayment of which is now eating up a very major and alarmingly high chunk of the nation’s revenues.

Kindly give the following ONLY Two tasks to Mr. Ishaq Dar for completion, during your current tenure:

– To get rid of Pakistan from the entire foreign debt, either by getting it written off or by any other way.

– Bring back the ENTIRE looted money of Pakistan of ANYONE and EVERYONE, parked anywhere in the world.

And, if the finance minister says that he can not accomplish these two assignments or to him these two tasks looks impossible … then please appointment someone else, as the finance minister, with these monumental assignments, which if achieved, will make the tenure of your current rule not only MONUMENTAL but IMMORTAL as well.

Mian Sahab, history will NOT judge you for how many times you became the PM, but it will remember you for your services to the nation, as is the example of the famous ruler of India, namely Sher Shah Soori. No one knows for how much time he ruled, but he is remembered for his monumental achievement of building the Grand Trunk Road.

MAN IS MORTAL HIS GOOD DEEDS ARE IMMORTAL.

Times of India news report published on 16 November, 2014, is as below:

“G20 summit: Narendra Modi calls for ‘close coordination’ on black money
BRISBANE: As India makes attempts to recover black money from abroad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked every country, especially tax havens, to provide information for tax purposes in accordance with treaty obligations.
Raising the pitch on the black money issue, Modi in his intervention at the summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and major emerging economies called for close global coordination to address the challenge posed by it.
Modi voiced India’s support for a new global standard on automatic exchange of tax information, saying it would be instrumental in getting information relating to unaccounted money hoarded abroad and enable its eventual repatriation. He also extended India’s backing for all initiatives to facilitate exchange of information and mutual assistance in tax policy and administration.
The prime minister made the remarks at the plenary session on the subject of “Delivering Global Economic resilience” on the second and final day of the summit held at the Brisbane Exhibition and Convention centre.
He also expressed the hope that Base Erosion and Profit Sharing (BEPS) system would fully address concerns of developing and developed economies.
BEPS is a technical term referring to the effect of tax avoidance strategies used by multinational companies on countries’ tax basis. BEPS is known more commonly as “Transfer pricing”
This term is used in a project headed by the OECD that is said to be an attempt by the world’s major economies to try to rewrite the rules on corporate taxation to address the widespread perception that the corporations don’t pay their fair share of taxes.
The prime minister also said that increased mobility of capital and technology have created new opportunities for avoiding tax and profit shifting.
Modi underpinned the need for the world community to take coordinated decisions although each country has its domestic priority.
“Need for policy coordination among major economies remains strong,” he said.
“Close coordination is important not just for addressing the challenge of black money but also security issues like terrorism, drug trafficking and arms smuggling,” he said.
Touching upon the resilience of the financial system in the world, Modi said it will also depend on cyber security.”

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