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Archive for December, 2014

“I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache — it’s a given. What’s not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.”

— Rashida Jones

My Twitter message to the H’able Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif:

Sir, people found guilty of corruption in China are given death penalty.

Similarly, in Russia the penalty for food adulterators is death.

Why criminals, their collaborator government employees and owners of marriage halls, restaurants and shops in Pakistan, who are in the business of selling and serving meat worse than poison to the general public, in the shape of dead, diseased & Haram meat of animals and birds, can not be publicly HANGED?

Dear Mr. Chief Minister,

AoA.

Although, you are famously known to be a very strict and non-compromising person, in the matters of public interest yet, somehow, the following extremely important public welfare message, seems to have been ignored by you, for the reasons also best known to you.

As such, you are once again requested for issuing kind URGENT orders to stem the rot in the extremely important public health safety matter, as explained below in the Twitter message dated 11 December, 2014.

Quote.”Sir, sale of dead & diseased Halal & Haram animals and birds is now a ROARING business in LHR as well as in the whole province of the Punjab.

Kindly sack & arrest the Punjab government’s concerned & responsible senior as well as junior staff, under whose nose meat of dead & diseased animals & birds is being sold OPENLY with impunity all over Lahore, as well as, in the entire Punjab.” Unquote.

“The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

This must be another ignominious world record in an ODI match that Pakistan has scored 50 runs with the help of just one boundary.

“Life doesn’t always go according to plan. Sometimes heading in a new direction can be scary until you realize you’re headed toward a new and exciting destination.”

— Susan Gale

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ”

—Martin Luther (1483-1546)
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Father of all scams..?

As received.

By Haider Mehdi
December 11, 2014

Here’s another super cracker scandal right in the heart of the Capital Islamabad and that too on Constitution Avenue.

The Grand Hyatt land on Constitution Avenue in Islamabad has been sold to the Bismillah Group for Rs. 1.9 Billion.
But wait.

Here’s the brilliant move. The payment to CDA is to be made in very easy installments over 13 years.

And Here’s even more brilliance.
Not a single Rs has been paid to CDA as yet but the Authority has very generously transferred legal ownership to the Bismillah Group.
And the final piece in this brilliant broad daylight highway robbery is this.

This outstanding very well connected group in cahoots with all the powers that be then uses this land as collateral for a Rs. 5 Billion loan from the Bank of Punjab to develop the Project.
Who says money doesn’t grow on trees and cannot be created out of thin air.

Apparently the Public Accounts Committee was apprised of this huge white collar daylight robbery by the Auditor Generals office.
It is said that even the likes of Syed Khurshid Shah were heard to say ….” this is too much even I haven’t seen such blatant and brazen corruption and misuse of power and authority”.

Result no action. No article in any paper.

No talk show. No Khara Such.

Bismillah group must have really long arms and bucket fulls of envelopes.

Apparently all this is available in the records of the Auditor General of Pakistan’s office.
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Can anyone shed more info please ?

“In a world of comparison and conformity, make your own statement. Honor your own truth. Have the courage to be yourself; risk speaking your own thoughts and claiming your emotions. Share your vulnerabilities, tears, doubts, and insecurities; let others experience the real you. Have the courage to be yourself and realize that you are a wonderful person.”

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