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This seemingly and absolutely impossible mission of convincing the current PM UK Boris Johnson and his government to NOT to tag Pakistan with reference to terrorism (while a former UK PM Gordon Brown once said ‘Pakistan was epicentre of terrorism.’) in the joint UK-India joint statement only succeeded  by the sheer Mercy and Blessings of Allah (SWT) Who guided me for writing to the *PM of Japan Kishida Fumio* (link:- https://www.snayyar.com/how-japanese-prime-minister-was-befooled-by-india-who-must-now-apologise-with-pakistan.html#sthash.jPmh9DyP.dpbs ) 
and to *the President of the USA Joseph Biden Jr.* (Link:- https://www.snayyar.com/an-open-letter-to-the-president-of-the-united-states.html#sthash.hnG4yROd.dpbs ) 
[explaining in detail that Mumbai and Pathankot incidents were all India sponsored false flag operations and it was in fact India, which was exporting terrorism to Pakistan, as per video evidence of their NSA Ajit Doval and the entire fake passport issue of Kalbhushan Yadev, which India could not even deny at the ICJ hearing] 
*and circulating all over the world particularly to the PM UK Boris Johnson who was the next dignitary scheduled to visit India.*
*By the Grace of Allah (SWT) the above mentioned  efforts bore fruit and India miserably failed to convince Boris Johnson and his foreign office officials to link and mention (in the UK-India joint statement) the name of Pakistan, as a country exporting terrorism, as per entire details given below.*
*Given below is the comparison of the two (Japan-India and US-India) recent  joint statements with the latest UK-India joint statement, wherein, the first two joint statements clearly mentions the name of ‘PAKISTAN’ but the last UK-India joint statement refrained from specifically mentioning the name of ‘PAKISTAN’.*

*23 Paragraphs 19 March 2022 Japan-India Summit Joint StatementPartnership for a Peaceful, Stable and Prosperous Post-COVID World.*
Link:- https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/files/100319162.pdf
*Pakistan was named in the Para # 8 as below:*
8. The Prime Ministers expressed deep concern at the growing threat of terrorism and underlined the need for strengthening international cooperation to combat terrorism in a comprehensive and sustained manner. They called upon all countries to work together for rooting out terrorist safe havens and infrastructure, disrupting terrorist networks and their financing channels, and halting cross-border movement of terrorists. In this context, they also called upon all countries to ensure that territory under their control is not used to launch terror attacks, to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of such attacks. They reiterated their condemnation of terrorist attacks in India, including 26/11 Mumbai and Pathankot attacks and called upon *Pakistan to take resolute and irreversible action against terrorist networks operating out of its territory and comply fully with international commitments including to FATF.*They also concurred to strengthen counter-terrorism efforts in multilateral fora, and to work together on early adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) in the United Nations.

*The text of the following 56 Paragraphs statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and India on the occasion of the Fourth Annual U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue in 2022.*
Link:- https://www.state.gov/fourth-annual-u-s-india-22-ministerial-dialogue/
*Pakistan was named in the Para # 47 as below:*
Counterterrorism and Counter Narcotics
47. The Ministers welcomed the convening of the 18th Meeting of the India-U.S. Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism and the 4th Session of the India-U.S. Designations Dialogue in October 2021.  The Ministers strongly condemned any use of terrorist proxies and cross-border terrorism in all its forms and called for the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, and Pathankot attack, to be brought to justice.  They called for concerted action against all terrorist groups, including groups proscribed by the UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee, such as al-Qa’ida, ISIS/Daesh, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), and Hizb ul Mujahideen. *The Ministers called on Pakistan to take immediate, sustained, and irreversible action to ensure that no territory under its control is used for terrorist attacks. The Ministers committed to continued exchange of information about sanctions and designations against terror groups and individuals, countering violent radicalism, use of the Internet for terrorist purposes, and cross-border movement of terrorists.*The Ministers also emphasized the importance of upholding international standards on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism by all countries, consistent with FATF recommendations.

*40 Paragraphs UK-India Joint Statement 22 April 2022.*
Link:- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-minister-boris-johnsons-visit-to-india-april-2022-uk-india-joint-statements/uk-india-joint-statement-april-2022-towards-shared-security-and-prosperity-through-national-resilience
*Al-hamd-o-lillah Pakistan’s name was specifically omitted from the Para # 17 of the UK-India joint statement as below:*
17. *Both leaders expressed zero tolerance for terrorism in all its forms – and for all those who encourage, support and finance terrorism or provide sanctuary to terrorists and terror groups – whatever their motivation may be. They called upon all countries to work together to root out terrorist safe havens and infrastructure, disrupt terrorist networks and their financing channels, and halt cross-border movement of terrorists. They reiterated their condemnation of terrorist attacks in India and the UK, including the Mumbai and Pathankot attacks. They emphasised the importance of perpetrators of terrorist attacks being systematically and expeditiously brought to justice, and agreed to work together to take concerted action against globally proscribed terrorist entities and individuals.*
Pakistan Paindabad.
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

President of the United States of America H.E. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

Greetings 

The joint statement of the Fourth India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue on 11 April 2022 has unwarranted and uncalled for reference of Pakistan, which absolutely absurdly mentions Pakistan in an utterly wrong and highly improper and an undiplomatic manner about the 26/11 Mumbai and Pathankot attacks; as if these false flag ops were not arranged by India and that Pakistan was behind such acts. Actually, it is the Indian government which has been in the past and still sponsoringterrorism in Pakistan and also shamelessly and openly admitted by Indian NSA Ajit Doval whose videos are available on the google. Link: -https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2d7pb7

Further proof of Indian sponsorship of terrorism is also proved with admissions of killings and sabotage in Pakistan by Indian serving Navy commander Kulbhushan Yadev who was clandestinely sent in Pakistan for terrorism with changed Muslim name (Mubarak Hussain Patel) and fake passport issued officially by India, which India even could not deny at the ICJ’s hearings at Hague.

Regarding, 26/11 fake Mumbai attack, your honour may peruse the excerpts of a book published in India and written by aGerman national, which proves with irrefutable facts that it was managed by India to defame Pakistan, detailed as below:

‘The Betrayal of India’: German author accuses India of carrying out pre-planned Mumbai attacks

Elias Davidsson, the German author writes that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were pre-planned and executed by India itself while the United States and Israel were also complicit in conceiving, planning, directing and executing the attacks, claimed the German author challenging the official Indian accounts into the events in which 162 people were killed and over 300 others got injured in a 60-hour long operation.

In his book “The Betrayal of India: Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence,” Elias Davidsson, a German author has made startling revelations and claimed that alongside India, the US and possibly Israel were also complicit in conceiving, planning, directing and executing the attacks.

In the introduction of his book, Davidsson has mentioned that a cursory examination of the news reports regarding the Mumbai events reveals immediately four major reasons for subjecting the official account to an exacting scrutiny:

(i) It is puzzling that it took 1,000 police officers, security forces personnel and trained commandos more than 60 hours to subdue ten gunmen scattered over several locations.

(ii) The Indian authorities, including India’s prime minister, immediately blamed Pakistani entities for the attacks, i.e., before any investigation had even started.

(iii) No organization is known to have claimed responsibility for the complex operation conducted in Mumbai.

(iv) The political class of the United States showed immediate and inordinate interest in the events, although they were occurring 8,000 miles away and were not directed at Americans or at an American target.

The above excerpts of the book published by Pharos Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, is critical evaluation of the official narrative of 26/11, as reflected in court documents and news reports in India.

Your Excellency, about the Pathankot attack you and the American government were very deceitfully misled about this yet another false flag operation by the Indian government for which you must demand an apology from Mr. Modi after you have read the following article written by an Indian writer Rohan Venkata Ramakrishnan and published in India on 4 January 2016 reproduced below, for your personal information that how the Indians not only be fooled your Honour, but the entire State Department of US government, which is an insult to the great American nation, as well.

Pathankot terror attack: Eight crucial unanswered questions from honey traps to a confusing Punjab Police story to the role of Ajit Doval, almost everything about this incident is murky.

Rohan Venkata Ramakrishnan Jan 04, 2016 · 09:15 The authorities have said that Pathankot terror attack, which was prematurely declared over on Saturday, and then on Sunday, has finally ended as of Monday afternoon. 

An official from the National Security Guard said that five terrorists who entered the air force base have been killed, after three days of operations which have left 11 security personnel dead and more injured. 

Although, initial reports suggested the attackers might have been members of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, the same terror outfit that was responsible for the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, another group called the United Jihad Council – actually a conglomerate of several terrorist organizations – has now claimed responsibility for it.

A National Security Guard official told the media that though the fifth terrorist had been killed, combing operations were still on to ensure that the base was secure. The official also said that all air force assets, including the personnel and their families were safe. 

Reportage on the issue has so far been relatively restrained, considering the operations were still ongoing for much of the last few days. In some cases the media has deliberately not put out information, having learnt from its follies during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks when some of the coverage was blamed for having spread panic and even assisted the terrorists. 

Despite this though, questions about the entire ordeal are starting to crop up and, once the dust has settled in Pathankot, authorities will have to take a long, hard look at the way India handles terror.

The Mumbai attacks comparison is instructive. That incident involved armed terrorists walking around highly populated areas in a big city and running into a police force that wasn’t trained to take on militants. The 26/11 attack would end up going on for four days.

This one took place at an air force base very close to the Pakistan border, which was already on high alert because of immediately actionable intelligence. The Pathankot attack has taken three whole days.

The coverage, mostly by reporters covering national security, has started to draw out exactly how many unanswered questions there are about the whole episode.

Unanswered questions

1. First there is the story about the Honey trap. An air force official had reportedly been conned into working as a “defenseanalyst” with a magazine in the United Kingdom, when in fact he was allegedly passing on information to intelligence agencies in Pakistan. Authorities have arrested the air force official and now intend to find out whether he also provided any information about the base in Pathankot. 

2. Then there is the thoroughly confusing story about a Punjab Superintendent of Police, Salwinder Singh, who says he was abducted by some of the terrorists while he was driving back from a religious shrine on Friday early morning, along with two others – his jeweler friend and cook. The abductors, he says, were five heavily armed terrorists in army fatigues.

According to the cook, Madan Gopal, they were overpowered by the terrorists and tied up in the back of the car. Gopal says they were eventually dumped by the terrorists, who drove away with Singh’s car, which had a blue beacon on top of it. 

Questions are being raised about what Singh – who had been transferred from Gurdaspur only recently because of sexual harassment complaints from five female constables – was doing out that late. Equally confusing is the decision of the heavily armed terrorists to simply dump Singh and the others, when they had reportedly earlier killed a taxi driver to use his car.

3. What follows is even more confusing. A note supposedly found in the car was what gave the media an initial idea that Jaish-e-Mohammad had been behind the attack. The note, which was circulated to the media as well, includes the words Jaish-e-Mohammad in English, and claims that the attack was done as retaliation for India’s decision to hang Afzal Guru, a convict in the Parliament attacks case.

4. Next there is the question of strange providence. Firstly, because the SP was let off, he was able to alert authorities about the terrorists being at large. Almost farcically, Punjab Police did not believe his story at first, in part because of his “colourful background”. Gopal, his cook, even claims that he was tortured by police, who kept asking him for the real story about what happened to the car.

Secondly, one of the terrorists is said to have used the SP’s phone to make phone calls, including one to his mother where he reportedly said that he was heading for martyrdom. This has apparently given authorities some evidence that they can now use to pin blame on elements in Pakistan, despite the Kashmir-based UJC taking credit for the attack. 

5. Next is the question about sending in the team of National Security Guard.

Once the Punjab Police came around to believing that the SP’s story was real, and that it was connected to terror, alarm bells were rung. Delhi was informed about the concerns, at which point National Security Advisor Ajit Doval reportedly swung into action.

According to Ajai Shukla, who covers national security for the Business Standard, Doval didn’t let the army run the operation and instead moved a team of the National Security Guard to the Pathankot base. This left security of the air base in the hands of the existing Defense Security Corps, mostly retired military veterans, the air force’s Garud commandos who lacked a specific operational brief, and the NSG. 

Intent on directly controlling what he anticipated would be a walk in the park, and without anticipating that there might be more than one group of terrorists, Mr. Doval led with his trump card – he ordered 150-160 National Security Guard (NSG) troopers to be flown down immediately from New Delhi. The army was placed on the side-lines….

It is revealing that not a single Pathankot casualty is from the army. The hapless DSC [Defense Security Corps] jawans took most of the casualties. The NSG took unacceptable losses, including an officer killed from a booby-trapped terrorist body. The army knows this ploy well and approaches terrorist bodies in J&K with caution, knowing the jihadi’s dying act could have been to activate a grenade and lie on it.” 

6. Manu Pubby’s story for the Economic Times suggested that a lack of a proper command-and-control system in place made the response haphazard. “Constant calls from the centre sent confusing messages and led to a lack of clarity over the status of the operation,” his story says, which is why the home minister and the defense minister tweeted about the success of the operation before it was actually over. 

7. Harinder Baweja in the Hindustan Times echoes the same concern, raising the main question: Despite advance intelligence, how did India allow terrorists into a base located so close to the border, take three whole days to neutralize the situation and lose 11 people in the process?

8. And Praveen Swami in the Indian Express points out issues with every element of the operation, which will need to be probed once the dust has settled, including the one about the lack of adequate security at the base.

Even though terrorists have successfully attacked several Pakistan Air Force bases in recent years, taking advantage of poor perimeter security, Pathankot had not installed electronic perimeter surveillance systems, further complicating the task of watching out for an intrusion. 

Then of course there are the broader questions of how the government responded in New Delhi, why it did not have clarity in its approach to briefing the media and what this now means for relations with Pakistan. Answering those questions will be hard if we’re not able to pin down just what has hit us in Pathankot in the first place.

Link: – https://amp.scroll.in/article/801374/pathankot-terror-attack-eight-crucial-unanswered-questions

Now, Your Excellency, let us have a cursory look of how Pakistan as the most trusted friend of the United States has served the cause of friendship with your great nation and also weigh its worth of services in USD terms to determineand calculate whether in the past almost 75 years who owes how much to whom?

In this regard, kindly peruse below the two messages dated 22 August 2017 (link:- https://www.snayyar.com/america-pakistan-a-saga-of-love-hate.html ) and 24 January 2016 (link:- https://www.snayyar.com/mr-president-obama.html ) to former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama respectively.

America & Pakistan – A Saga of Love & Hate to Donald Trump

1. Which peace-loving country created

Al-Qaeda & ISIS? Was it Pakistan or America?

2. Which country (Pakistan or America) recently ferried ISIS to Tora Bora mountains on unmarked helicopters in Afghanistan? And what was the purpose of bringing ISIS terrorists, near to the Pakistani borders?

3. Why India & Afghanistan, right under the nose of the US government forces, are using Afghan territory, for un-leashing state sponsored terrorism in Pakistan, which was also confirmed by the former US Secretary of defense?

In this regard, Pakistan has already provided a dossier on Kulbhushan Yadev, giving details of the Indian state sponsored terrorism, which is an irrefutable proof of India’s state sponsored terrorist activities in Pakistan.

4. Why India is protesting against Pakistani efforts of constructing wall/fencing on Pak-Afghan borders, to stop terrorists being launched from Afghanistan into Pakistan? Are the Indians and Afghans afraid that with the building of wall/fencing, the excuse/propaganda that the terrorists are coming into Afghanistan from Pakistan’s territory, will no longer be tenable?

5. Why India is not protesting against Donald Trump’s plans of constructing wall along the border of Mexico?

6. Why and with which intentions US senators are meeting Indian sponsored terrorist, Altaf Hussain, in London, knowing fully well that he was the top fugitive of Pakistan, responsible for thousands of targeted killings and innumerable terror activities in Pakistan? Should Pakistan take these meetings as acts of friendship from the US, with which it has joined hands, for the last many decades, against fighting the Russian invasion of Afghanistan; and later on, in the WOT, which has so far caused loss of lives of over 60,000 Pakistanis killed, many more injured and cumulative financial losses of over a trillion dollars to its economy?

7. What will be the reaction of US government, if Pakistani law makers meet US’s enemy sponsored terrorists?

8. US must come clean and let the world and Pakistan, very clearly know, whether US is with Pakistan or with those terrorists and terror sponsoring countries, who are spreading terrorism, chaos and instability in Pakistan?

9. US must also tell the world, what it has done and is doing, to stop terrorists, launched by the Indian and Afghan governments, from Afghanistan into Pakistan?

10. US must also tell Pakistan, why it reneged from its promise with Pervaiz Musharraf’s government, in lieu of Pakistan’s total cooperation in WOT; that India will not have any role in Afghanistan’s war?

11. Does Donald Trump thinks that peace in south east Asia is possible, without resolving the Kashmir issue, according to the UN resolutions and wishes of the Kashmiris?

12. Why Donald Trump does not condemn state sponsored terrorism of Indian government, over the Kashmiris and why India is not censured and threatened with US sanctions, over its war crimes in Kashmir, genocide/lynching of Muslims in India (as a state policy to please hard liner Hindus and terrorist organization RSS), over cows’ issue; and grave human rights violations, against minorities and low caste Hindus, all over India?

13. Why Donald Trump is embracing Narendra Modi, whose hands are soaked with the blood/genocide/holocaust of thousands of Muslims, brutally killed in Gujarat, under his direct orders, which immediately resulted in ban on grant of US visa, to Narendra Modi?

14. Donald Trump and the US government must not forget that any aid it gave to Pakistan’s military, was not a favor, but to enable Pakistani military, to fight the US IMPOSED WOT.

15. Donald Trump should also not forget that the few billion dollars it paid to Pakistan for GLOC (ground lines of communications) was not a favor or charity, but were reimbursements.

16. Rather, it was Pakistan which gave to the US a big favors/charity of many more billions of dollars, by charging extremely low rates for the GLOC, as compared with the Russian States; and also don’t forget Pakistani huge charity to the US (about which Pakistan never mentioned unlike Donald Trump) for not charging a single penny, for the use of Pakistani air space. Hope the US government knows very well how much it paid to the Turkish government, for use of the Turkish air space, during Iraq war, for a very short time.

17. Hope the US government and Donald Trump knows how much it owes to Pakistan, for saving US troops from being lynched in Somalia?

18. Moreover, America cannot raise any objections over Pak – China close relations and the CPEC project, when China itself is the biggest partner of the USA in not only in trade, but loans, as well. What is good for gander is good for goose.

19. Last but not the least, for decades and decades, almost every American/world civil and military leader has appreciated Pakistan’s role and its unparalleled sacrifices, as a front-linestate during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and during the ongoing WOT, for the last over sixteen years.

20. In view of the foregoing, it is now for Donald Trump and his government to decide, once for all, whether the US is a friend or foe of Pakistan? But remember, from now onwards, the US can not be a foe of Pakistan, pretending to be its friend, as well.

Pakistan, America and President Barack Hussein Obama to Barack Obama

Dear Mr. President Barack Hussein Obama

Greetings

Media has reported on 24 January, 2016 a statement attributed to you, quoted as below:

Quote. “Pakistan can and must do more to dismantle terrorist networks” Unquote.

Sir, your priceless words of wisdom for your non-NATO ally, are very well appreciated and are on our head and eyes.

Hope, you will also appreciate that your non-NATO ally, which played it’s more than due part, in making your great country a sole super power, was ditched (after becoming the sole super power) by your country, to live and sort out with all those people or Hydras (Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow one or multiple heads), who were created, raised and armed by your country, (this fact is on record to have been openly admitted by Ms Hillary Clinton) to defeat the invading forces of the USSR in  Afghanistan.

Mr. President, you will also appreciate that in the 9/11 episode, no Pakistani was involved; and if your agencies had been vigilant enough in the first place, the twin towers and Pentagon, would never have been attacked.

Sir, you will also appreciate that your non-NATO ally, whole heartedly participated in your Afghanistan war, along with around 50 other countries.

However, it is a different story that Pakistan suffered more than 10 times more men and material losses (and still continues to suffer) than the combined losses of all the about 50 countries, which took part in your chosen Afghanistan war. And quite surprisingly, you still expect from us to do more.

On the the other side, no one from the West, even offered support to Pakistan, for righting-off of its foreign loans, or allowing without any preconditions, Pakistani products for sale, in their own markets.

Sir, during your Afghan war, you visited Afghanistan more than once.

However, you decided never to visit Pakistan, which was your so much staunch non-NATO ally that it didn’t even charge a single penny, from the USA, for use of Pakistani air space. Whereas, your country offered $20 billion to Turkey, for use of its airspace, during the Iraq war.

Sir, we the nation of Pakistan, are still fighting the full might of Hydra, which is not even sparing our school kids and young students, for being your non-NATO ally.

Although, most of the NATO countries have left Afghanistan yet, for Pakistan, the 15 years war against terror, is continuing unabatedly.

Sir, under the circumstances, how much prudent and appropriate it would have been for you, to repay the services of your most staunch friend (since, Korean war and CENTO/SEATO era), which was blown to smithereens, during your imposed Afghan war, by asking the Afghanistan’s government to DO MORE and to hand over to Pakistan, the terrorist master minds taking refuge in Afghanistan, where some US forces are still present.

Moreover, even more appropriate action from you, would have been to demand from India, to immediately stop acts of terrorism against your most friendly and ally country (whose soldier gave ultimate sacrifice to save the lives of American soldiers captured by the rebels in Somalian city of Mogadishu) through India’s old policy of sponsoring mercenaries to destabilize Pakistan; which doesn’t need any proof.

Because firstly, Indian PM Mr. Narendra Modi, himself, proudly admitted Indian role in the dismemberment of Pakistan; and secondly, its National Security Advisor Mr. Ajit Doval, openly confessed sponsoring TTP mercenaries in Pakistan, for defensive offensive operations.

Sir, just to refresh the memory, it is hoped that America will never forget the following acts of Pakistan, which no other country has done, as a friend of the United States:

Allowed U-2 planes to use our airspace and airport for flights over the USSR.

Allowed U-2 planes to use our airspace and airport in East Pakistan, for flights over China.

Pakistani efforts in bringing your country closer to China.

Pakistani security forces risked their lives to save the lives of Americans, in the burning US embassy in Islamabad.

Sir, we Pakistanis, who have put our survival and lives at stake, more than once, to honour the needs of friendship with your great country, are still looking forward, to warmly receive you and your family, as our most revered guests.

Best Regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

Link:- Pakistan can and must do more to dismantle terrorist networks: Obama..http://tribune.com.pk/story/1033362/obama-urges-serious-action-against-extremists-in-pakistan/

Your Excellency, while concluding it can never be forgotten that how Pakistani government keeping with its tradition of peace and international cooperation opened its air and geographical space to ensure safe evacuation of thousands of European and American civilians from Afghanistan during the extremely precarious and sensitive days of August 2021 onwards.  

As far as the Indian government is concerned it absolutely wrongly maligned your government in their own sordid affairs with this false flag operation against America so that to hide their own grave human rights violations (which now has turned into a full-fledged GENOCIDE against Indian Muslims and Kashmiris as per the findings of Prof. Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch) and nuclear provocation of INTENTIONAL firing, as Indian inquiry has confirmed thatthere was no technical fault in the nuclear supersonicBrahMos cruise missile which landed 124 Km’s deep insidePakistan on 9 March 2022, wherein a nuclear holocaust was only averted because of the alertness and cool mindedness of the highly confident and responsible Pakistani civil and military leadership. 

In view of the foregoing, it is incumbent upon you as the President of the great super power of this planet, to come out clean and order your State Department to apologize to the government and people of Pakistan, for the wrong and incorrect mention of Pakistan, in the 11 April 2022 Indo-US meeting joint statement.

Kind Regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

+92 321 9402157

Lahore – Pakistan

nayyarahmad51@gmail.com

Reform Agenda for Pakistan

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq

Pakistan needs all out fundamental structural reforms in all areasof governance and not in tax system alone (already elaborated in our book published by PIDE). The salient points for consideration of all political parties and national debate to evolve National Reforms Agenda, beyond party affiliations,before next elections can be: 1. Creating new province—South Punjab Province—for which constitutional amendment bill is already lying in National Assembly, filed on March 24, 2022.  2. Making Karachi federal territory to ensure that it gets due funds and best administration. 3. Carrying out fundamental reforms in the justice system and in administrative/governance apparatuses to eliminate the causes of litigation. Ensuring efficacy and accountability of all institutions.  4. Revamping of education system to end ignorance and illiteracy, and make people skilful rather than distributing paper degrees and diplomas. Focal point of education should be creating a society that is tolerant, disciplined, courteous and knowledgeable—capable of making innovations and technological advances.5. Holding direct elections of Senate and giving it powers to vote on Money Bill. 6. Decentralising political, administrative and financial responsibility to local governments. Education, health, housing, local policing, and all civil amenities should be provided through elected representatives of the local governments that should have powers to raise taxes for these purposes.7. Digitizing, enforcing transparency and accountability in the governments at all levels to enable citizens to understand and participating fully in the process of national integration. 8. Reforming civil services, ensuring fair deal for employees with effective and across the board accountability. 9. Eliminating terrorism, sectarianism, bigotry, intolerance and violence through enforcement of law and by taking concrete measures to ensure social development of society based on higher values of life and humanity.10. Implementing strict laws to curb terrorist financing, money laundering, plundering of national wealth, political write off of loans and leakages in revenue collections. 11. Devising long-term and short-term strategies to break the shackles of debt-trap, making Pakistan a self-reliant economy and ensuring social security and economic justice for all citizens.12. Reforming and strengthening of management of public finances. Transparent public sector spending coupled with efficient performance.13. Controlling wasteful, non-developmental expenditure.14. Reforming of technical, institutional and organizational dimensions of public finance.15. Ensuring good governance and corruption free administrative and judicial structures.16. Federal government should only collect income tax and customs duty. Harmonised sales tax on goods and services should be in the provincial domain. All federal, provincial and local taxes should be collected through one agency (National Tax Authority) which should also disburse pensions and other social security payments to all citizens.17. Reducing excessive marginal tax rates making them compatible with other tax jurisdictions of the world, especially in Asia.  Substantially reducing corporate rate of tax. Eliminating onerous taxes and other regulations for corporate sector that are main stumbling blocks for domestic and foreign investments. Simplifying tax laws and procedures.

Dr. Nadeem Ul Haque, Vice Chancellor of PIDE, in HowPakistan Became an Asian Tiger by 2050 has offered an optimistic, futuristic and realistic perspective for a prosperous Pakistan. Unfortunately, this work has yet not been given the attention it deserves by policymakers, legislators, academicians, businessmen and administrators. Our politicians, administrators, intelligentsia and entrepreneurs keep on complaining about multiple and complex challenges faced by Pakistan but seldom strive to implement even the available and workable solutions by local experts. We want IMF, World Bank and others to reform us. This is our real tragedy and dilemma. We must appreciate and implement the indigenous research-based solutions after debate in public and in national and provincial assemblies and Senate. The Standing and Special Committees should invite (through virtual platforms if needed) experts for assisting and there should be live telecast so that public learnsthe process of legislation for beneficial reforms.

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Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq are  lawyers, Adjunct Faculty at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), members Advisory Board and Visiting Senior Fellows of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE). 

They can be contacted at: huzaima@huzaimaikram.com[mobile: +923008463310] and ikram@huzaimaikram.com[mobile: +9230084962025]

Respected Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif Sahab.

AoA.

Sir,

Please accept profound felicitations to you, your family and combined opposition parties on your extremely hard earned almost certain election as Prime Minister of Pakistan by the National Assembly on Monday 11 April 2022 and for being the spearhead of the concerted efforts of the combined opposition parties of Pakistan to get rid of the previous government, which completely enslaved our motherland with the chains of the unimaginable harsh conditions for getting hardly $ 3 billion loans from the IMF.

By the Grace of Allah, it is hoped that with the sheer dint of your hard work, integrity, unwavering ability to relentlessly focus on an issue and unflinching commitment, you will also get miraculous success in the next most hard challenge of your life, of reinvigorating economy of Pakistan, virtually from the ashes.

Hope you know the secret of success of the arduous nation building task, which lies in the selection of the most competent right person for the right job, selected purely on merit, without any personal likes and dislikes.

However, kindly remember, no nation building task can succeed, without uniting a badly divided nation and the secret of uniting a nation lies in fairly dealing with all segments of society with justice.

Japan, China, France and Germany are the living examples of how countries, which were totally reduced to the stone age by the devastation of atomic bombs and the ravages of the world war II were rebuilt by their visionary leaders, using the magic of unity and inculcating discipline in the society.

In unity lies the strength and our huge manpower is our biggest asset.

Wishing you and your team the best of luck in your future endeavours to rebuild Pakistan, as per your personal commitment with the nation.

Kind Regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad