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Greatness of a general doesn’t lie in waging and winning a war. Rather, in avoiding the war.

Indian Army chief opposes PM’s trip to Pak ( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Army-chief-opposes-PMs-trip-to-Pak/articleshow/16482507.cms?#write )
The full news item titled “Indian Army Chief opposes PM’s trip to Pak”, published by the Times of India on 21 September, 2012 is also reproduced at the bottom of this write up dated 21, September, 2012.

Here, I remember what Winston Churchill said about the generals, “war is too serious a business to be left to the generals”. Adding to that I will say “peace is even more serious a business to be left to the nincompoop Indian Army’s generals, who by their training are mostly prone to their myopic and tunnel vision.”

I wonder, if the Berlin wall would ever have been removed, if the decision was left to the generals of the Indian Army.

So, Gen. Bikram Singh should also know that it’s not Siachin, but the future of 1.5 billion humanity of sub continent which is at stake. If, the blood has shed on a foolish act in the past, why not take action to stop further shedding of blood, for the noble cause of peace & eradication of ignorance and poverty, in the sub continent.

The thinking of such Indian generals, can delay the emancipation of Indians and Pakistanis, but can never permanently deny the divends of peace to such a large world population, which is no more interested in continued acrimony, between the two neighboring countries.

Now,the peace loving people of both the countries have decided once for ever, that they will no more remain the prisoner of the past.

If any body wants to observe the dividends of peace between the neighbors, just look at Europe, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

Please read the Times of India report dated 21 September, 2012 reproduced below:

Army chief opposes PM’s trip to Pak
Indrani Bagchi, TNN | Sep 21, 2012, 01.17AM IST

NEW DELHI: Any hope Pakistan may have nurtured that a visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could open the door for a “deal” on Siachen has been dashed, with Army chief Gen Bikram Singh being as opposed to the idea as all his predecessors before him.

In his maiden interaction with the press, Gen Singh clearly stated the ground rules on a border agreement. And they don’t include any troop withdrawal from the Siachen heights. “There is no change in our view at all. We must continue to hold that area…We have lost lot of lives and shed a lot of blood there. The positions are of strategic importance to us. We have conveyed our concerns to the government,” he said. It will be difficult for the Indian government to accept anything less.

Pakistan is hopeful of Singh’s visit before it goes to the polls. Singh himself is keen to visit Pakistan, and has not shied away from making his interest known. With this in mind, Islamabad has pushed New Delhi hard this year to do a deal on Siachen. Pakistan has even delayed talks on the Sir Creek issue in order to mount pressure on India for a Siachen pact.

Returning from Iran after the NAM summit, the PM hinted that a Sir Creek agreement was “doable” but he was silent on Siachen. There is little chance of Singh going to Pakistan this year. His position is very different from Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had visited Pakistan twice in his five years despite a Kargil and a Parliament attack as well as a disastrous Agra summit between them.

Primarily, it’s because the nature of terrorism from Pakistan has changed substantially in the past decade. But mostly, it’s because Mumbai changed the discourse in a way that will make it difficult for a summit level visit without Pakistan taking demonstrable steps against terrorism. The political atmosphere in India is fragile enough that a concession to Pakistan would be interpreted as a betrayal. The UPA has already taken several knocks after the Sharm-el-Sheikh joint statement with Pakistan in 2009. In the forthcoming state elections, political managers fear a PM visit to Pakistan could be battered on nationalistic lines.

There is cross-spectrum acceptance on trade concessions and people-to-people contacts with Pakistan. But there is no room for a concession on Siachen because it ties in with India’s larger strategic outlook, particularly regarding the China-Pakistan nexus. India’s occupation of the Siachen heights gives it a unique advantage that it does not want to relinquish.

Officials said India’s position on Siachen had neither hardened nor softened for years. But Pakistani Army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani had said twice in a month (May) that Pakistan wants the Siachen issue to be solved and India had “toughened” its stand asking for a demarcation, which was seen here as a pressure tactic. Ideally, a Siachen agreement should be part of a broad agreement of the border, but Pakistan is yet to agree to that.

“We have been consistent on the steps necessary before demilitarization of Siachen can be carried out. We won’t give up the advantage we enjoy without a very credible, and verifiable, commitment from their side,” a senior Indian Army officer told TOI recently. Another officer pointed out that India has repeatedly pointed out that any demilitarization should be preceded by delineation of Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL), authentication of the line and military positions on maps to be exchanged between the two countries, an end to wrong projection of AGPL in each other’s maps, drawing up framework for demilitarization and as final step withdrawal of troops from the glacial heights. “They are reluctant to agree to our suggestions,” another senior military official said.

The core of the difference between the two sides is this: India wants Pakistan to authenticate positions on the AGPL before any talk of demilitarization or withdrawal. Pakistan is pushing a four-point plan that includes demilitarization, withdrawal of troops, delineation and authentication. India is unwilling to do this.

An open letter to the Indian PM

Dear Mr. Narendra Modi Sahab,

Greetings.

We in Pakistan, really appreciated the desire to visit Pakistan, expressed by the former Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh, in his press conference on 3 January, 2014.

In this regard, I would like to suggest to the current leadership of both the countries, to take advantage of the conducive atmosphere prevailing in the region; and let India and Pakistan try a NEW APPROACH towards the peace: by first deciding upon a list of such core thorny issues, which are complicated and can only be resolved after full confidence, between the two nations is restored; and freeze all such issues or problems, for a short period of just one decade.

In the meantime, India and Pakistan should restore full friendly relations, by genuinely restoring confidence, by further pulling back troops from the LOC and start immediate cooperation in all the fields of economic activities, visa free to and fro, travel (for all the cities) of citizens of both the countries, special facilities for the businessmen of the two nations for opening of trade offices, banks, business shops and show rooms, in each others country, removal of all restrictions on cultural and sports teams visits and full permission of the TV channels, to be viewed in each other’s country.

It will be just of a sort of a no war pact (which should also include 90% withdrawal of troops from the entire valley of Jammu and Kashmir and 100% withdrawal of troops from the Siachin area, for a limited period of ten years).

Moreover, it should also be decided that in order to avoid any misunderstandings, on account of any illegal crossings from the LOC, joint LOC patrolling of Indo-Pak troops along with the UN observers, should also be considered as a part of the overall peace agreement, which is surely expected to work wonders, like a magic, in the economic emancipation of the teeming millions of both the countries.

Sir, hope you know very well that ordinary people of both the countries are fed up with the acrimony between the two closest neighbours; and earnestly desire hundreds of years of peace, for which the only impediment, is the lack of statesmen and visionary people in the policy making arena of both the countries.

Now, your and our leadership has got a golden chance of a life time, to jointly work for the peace of about 1.5 billion humanity.

Please extend your hands to meet the gestures of genuine peace, already offered at EVERY occasion, by the Pakistani PM Mr. Nawaz Sharif, to make the peace aspirations of the hundreds of millions of residents of the sub continent, come true.

Remember, may be this golden chance for the peace between the two nations, if missed now, may not come again in decades.

Also please inform all those military and political planners in your country, not in favour of genuine peace with Pakistan that low intensity war named as offensive defensive operations, or other covert hostile methods, are no more a long or short term options for, as well as, against; a nuclear power, which possesses more military nuclear arsenal (as reported today by Times of India) than India.

All such paradigms are out dated being a ZERO sum game, in the ultimate nuclear scenario. Such policy planners have no business to stay in the past non-nuclear status frame of mind; and they must develop a NEW and FRESH vision, to guide a major nuclear nation, like India.

Policy makers of nuclear powers must not have a mindset of a non nuclear state. And the foremost responsibility of these policy makers must be to ensure, at all costs, that under ALL circumstances, nuclear flare up or provocations under offensive defensive doctrine, MUST be ruled out: irrespective of the defined policy of no first use of nuclear weapons or retaliatory use of WMD’s.

Sir, if Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi can be awarded Nobel Peace Prize for their noble campaign for peace through education and child rights, just imagine how kindly the world will remember the immortal bold acts of Mr. Narendra Modi and Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, in ameliorating the hardships due to hunger, disease and illiteracy of more than 1.5 billion humanity of the entire region.

Please remember that war results only in devastation, deaths and destruction, whereas, dividends of peace are construction, prosperity and happiness.

Last but not the least, it must be a very clear objective of the leadership of both the countries, to ensure that India and Pakistan must not live like divided Korea, rather, we should live, like the united Europe.

Seasons Greetings and Best Wishes for a very Happy New Year 2015.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, Indian and US interests

By Web Desk of Express Tribune/ Reuters / AFP Published: January 13, 2015

Kindly peruse My 12 Tweets on the above news item:

1.@nayyarahmad: A new “Do More”.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, Indian and US interests http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

2. @nayyarahmad: Pakistan should forget its own interests?

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, In http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

3. @nayyarahmad: Never mind India launching terrorists from Afghanistan to Pak?

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

4. @nayyarahmad: Sir, any advice to India over its genocide of Kashmiris?

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threat http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

5. @nayyarahmad: Sir, you better mind your own business.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, Ind http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

6. @nayyarahmad: You should not behave like a paid employee of India & Afghanistan after all you r representing the USA.

http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

7. @nayyarahmad: Just remember Pak never created Al-Qaida & such like organisations..

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight milit http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

8. @nayyarahmad: And don’t forget today u r sole super power because of the sacrifices of Pakistan.

Kerry urges Pakistan http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via
@etribune

9. @nayyarahmad: And now if u want us to lick the Indian & Afghan boots forget it.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militan http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

10. @nayyarahmad: We will eat grass rather than accept the hegemony of the Indians.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militant http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

11. @nayyarahmad: So Sir b our friend NOT master.

Kerry urges Pakistan to fight militants threatening Afghan, Indian and http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via
@etribune

12. @nayyarahmad: And try to repay our huge debt which u as a sole power owe to Pakistan. Kerry urges Pakistan to fight m http://t.co/4Cp3H2uWca via @etribune

Last but not the least would you like to clean anyone’s garbage? If the answer is no, then why expect from us?

Anyway, we knew from the day one that this $7.5 billion KLB bonus for democracy was a lolly pop to Pakistan for getting its cooperation for WOT and US withdrawal plans from Afghanistan.

Let us also dwell briefly on the Afghan, Indian and US interests, one by one as below:

Afghanistan : Durand line is not the border between the two countries.

India: The existence of a strong and stable State of Pakistan is not in the national interest of India.

America: A nuclear Pakistan (more so a Muslim country) is not acceptable.

My Twitter message to the Indian PM Mr. Narendra Modi…

@nayyarahmad:
@PMOIndia @narendramodi
Till such time there are chances of a Indo-Pak (nuclear) conflict, economic take-off of India & the region is not possible.

This is a matter of vision and ability to gaze into the future, which only a statesmen can visualise, about the dividends of PEACE and the damages of war, or even fear of a war.

My Twitter message to the US President Mr.Barack Obama:

@BarackObama Sir, media reports about your expected visit to Pakistan are really assuring and the entire nation is ready to very warmly welcome you, with open arms.
Perhaps, you will only realise after the visit to Pakistan that how big and monumental service you did to the cause of world peace, in helping Pakistan’s resolve, to resolutely fight the menace and scourge of terrorism.

Dear Ms Hillary Clinton,

Assalam-O-Alikum.

Perhaps, it may be a surprise to you, but the fact is that you are the most popular American dignitary in Pakistan. And, in any vote count, you can easily win an election in Pakistan. We still fondly remember your visit to a village named BURKI, near Lahore, during your last trip to the country.

We in Pakistan were quite worried to hear about your recent injury & hope that by the grace of GOD AL-MIGHTY, you must have fully recovered by now.

Your recent statement about the West’s leaving Pakistan alone after the Afghan war, was very well taken by most of our country men. In fact, this statement truly reflected the CHANGE, President Barak Obama promised in his presidential speech. I personally feel that American people & government still don’t have the idea how much, we Muslims particularly, and the down trodden population of the world generally, expect from & trust, Barak Obama to deliver on his promises. Virtually, Barak Obama is seen as President of the Globe.

Hence, America must not miss this opportunity, because although, you cannot conquer the world yet, you have already won the hearts of the dwellers of this world.

In this regard, no one else knows more than you, the importance of Pakistan in defeating the menace of terrorism & building a peaceful world. It is Pakistan where this world has to win the war for peace. Let there be no mistake, that it is a war against terror for Pakistan & within Pakistan. Never-the-less, we also assure you that we can crush this menace with our own muscles. The only thing we need is, the commitment of the free world, not to let Pakistan down (again) this time, for which America will have to take a lead.

Now, in order to see what role the free world must play, I have already written in detail to Mr. David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to the President of USA & Mr. Richard Douglas, Ex. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for counter Narcotics.(Copies also mailed at info@messages.whitehouse.gov & webmasterisb@state.gov)

The said communications may be perused below, for your favour of consideration.

Thanking & wishing you all the success in your quest for true world peace.

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad.
Lahore – Pakistan

Richard J Douglas,
Ex. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counter Narcotics,
U.S.A.

ASSALAM-O-ALIKUM.

I am immensely touched by your article titled ‘ The Pakistani Soldier ‘ published in the daily ” THE NEWS ” dated June 20, 2009. The reason being that, it is a genuine tribute to the many hundreds of thousands of Pakistani armed forces personnel, who are sacrificing their today for a better tomorrow, not only of Pakistan, but of the entire peace loving humanity of the world.

In fact, right from day one of the inception of Pakistan, its soldiers have relentlessly served the cause of peace in & outside Pakistan. One example must be still fresh in the minds of the freedom loving Americans. I am referring to the daring act of rescue of US soldiers in Somalia, by the brave Pakistani troops, who defied dangers to their own lives, to serve the cause of the humanity.

Now, what about the beautiful & capable Pakistan, of THE PAKISTANI SOLDIER. If you really want to serve the cause of peace & make this world a tranquil place, don’t treat Pakistani people as pariah of this world. If you have any doubts just go to the US airports and see how (legal Pakistani entrants ) are treated at your entry points ( my email, attached below, addressed to David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to the President of the USA, on the subject remains non replied till date). If no other nation of the free world, at least America owes we Pakistani people, a debt it can never repay (which I need not mention here, because we didn’t take on the USSR as a favour to USA. We stood for the cause of liberty & freedom only).

Today, Pakistan is paying a very heavy price for taking on the cause of liberty & freedom. In fact, the country is profusely bleeding from its wounds of terrorism.

As many Americans admit the mistake of leaving Pakistan in the lurch, after the Afghanistan war. Now it is high time to rebuild Pakistan. The world must come forward to make another Japan of Pakistan. And this objective can’t be achieved through loans & aid. No nation can be build with loans & aid. Rebuilding of Pakistan needs a 10 year Marshall plan (it may not cost more than one or two years defense expenditure of war in Afghanistan), which must broadly include the following strategy.

Ø Writing off the entire Debt of country.
Ø Allowing 100% duty free imports of Pakistani goods in all the countries.
Ø Revamping of entire Pakistani educational system on modern lines.
Ø Providing of world class health care system.
Ø Development of world class transportation infrastructure.
Ø Focus for development on small & medium size industry.
Ø Development of agriculture, livestock & dairy sectors on world standards.
Ø Settlement of Kashmir, water, Siachin & all other issues between Pakistan & India.
Ø Building of Maximum possible dams on the river system.
Ø Development & exploration (as per world standards) of natural resources.
Ø Development of wind energy to the maximum potential of the country.

I am very optimistic that under the visionary leadership of Mr. Obama & his dynamic team, the above proposals for helping Pakistani nation to stand on its feet, for the larger cause of the peace & freedom of this world, may not be a farfetched idea.

With best wishes & kind regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad.

Dear Mr. David Axelrod.
Senior Advisor to the President of USA.
ASSALAM-O-ALIKUM.

Please convey our full appreciation to President Barak Husain Obama not only for his
wonderful speech but for the genuine efforts he & his administration is making in bridging the gap between the Muslims & the west.

David, without going into the details of who is actually responsible for the turmoil created by the current wave of terrorism in the world, I would like to assure you that no religion is more peaceful than Islam. GOD says in the Quran that saving one life is equal to the saving of the life’s of the entire Humanity. And killing one innocent person is as bad as killing the entire Humanity. But then we Muslims are also not taught to offer the other Cheek, if slapped on one cheek.

I am also convinced that in order to achieve the desired results, good intentions reflected in speeches, must follow with actions. And as a first step & in order to win the heart & minds of the Proud Pakistani Nation, the President of the USA must order that humiliation of all legal Pakistani entrants at American airports should stop immediately. Pakistani visitors should not be discriminated at the airports. This is one step, will not cost a Dollar. But shall generate tremendous goodwill in our hearts, for the great people of the USA, right at your entry points.

With best wishes & kind regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

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The world is surprised why the Indian Army commander missed to state that Pakistan’s flag and Pakistan’s national anthem CD (wrapped in a Pakistani newspaper may be “Pakistan Times”), was also found from the Kashmiri freedom fighters who attacked India’s occupied military forces installations in Kashmir.

Come on India your commanders even don’t have a sense of mocking a proper “False Flag” against Pakistan.

If this is the mental level of senior Indian Army commanders, then really pity on you..!

Last but not the least, for the consumption of the Indian occupation forces in Kashmir and the Indian government leadership, as well; the right to resist the occupation forces is the legal and moral right of the Kashmiri people as enshrined in the UN charter and explained below:

The Palestinian’s (read Kashmiris) legal right to resist occupation—to fight for their ability to promote, sustain, and nurture human life, to fight for their right to grow, to flourish—comes from two documents: the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the Fourth Geneva Convention and its subsequent protocols.

Taken together, people (read Kashmiris) have the right to “fight against colonial domination and alien occupation in the exercise of their right to self-determination,” Israeli human rights lawyer Lynda Brayer explained.

Writing in CounterPunch this spring in the wake of Goldstone’s backpedaling, Brayer went into detail:

Above and beyond the basic right of all human beings to resist their being killed and harmed, and a society to take armed actions to protect itself, this document legitimizes also national liberation struggles, including, at this time in history, most particularly, the Palestinian (read Kashmiris) people’s struggle for its own freedom. It is this right which legitimizes all Palestinian (read Kashmiris) attempts to lift the yoke of Israeli (read Indian) oppression from Palestine (read Kashmir) including all the actions taken by the Palestinians during Operation Cast Lead.And is not the right to resist oppression universal? Does this right not justify the American Revolution and then the French Revolution and the wars of liberation in the 1950′s and 1960′s. Nelson Mandela is a hero because of his resistance to, not because of his subservience to apartheid repression. And the Warsaw Ghetto uprising by the Jewish population against the Nazi repression is a beacon of pride in modern Jewish history. it is also a fact that Jews who joined the resistance, say in Poland or other places under Nazi occupation, are heroes for the Jewish people. I would contend that one cannot deny that right of resistance to Palestinians which the Jews appropriated to themselves, and which is the right of all peoples living under military occupation and/or colonialist regimes.

Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, a professor of international law at Princeton University, the author of dozens of books, writes in “International Law and the Al-Aqsa Intifada”:

Though the Israeli government and the US media persist in describing the second Palestinian intifada as a security crisis or a disruption to the ‘peace process,’ in international law, Palestinian (read Kashmiris) resistance to occupation is a legally protected right…Israel’s (read India’s) failures to abide by international law, as a belligerent occupant, amounted to a fundamental denial of the right of self-determination, and more generally of respect for the framework of belligerent occupation — giving rise to a Palestinian (read Kashmiri) right of resistance.

It boils down to this: every time the Israeli (read Indian) military arrests a Palestinian (read Kashmiri) for “stone throwing” or “incitement” or any other bogus, trumped-up charges—and every time Israel (read India) holds a protest organizer or a Popular (read Hurriyat) Committee leader prisoner—it is, perversely, detaining Palestinians (read Kashmiris) for exercising their inalienable moral and legal rights to resist an illegal and violent military occupation.

Terror Attacks “Made in Pakistan”: How Should India Respond?

Tonight on The Buck Stops Here:’Unambiguous Pakistan Hand In Attacks’: Kashmir Corps Commander to NDTVThe multiple terror attacks in the Kashmir valley were made in Pakistan, that is the direct and st…

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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 today 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, BLACK MONEY was the main agenda of the PMLN’s Elections 2013 campaign, 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 ruthlessly 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 loans.

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 IMMORTAL.

Mian Sahab, remember MAN IS MORTAL HIS GOOD DEEDS ARE IMMORTAL.

Times of India news report published today, 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.

An article of 2 October 2012 is still waiting for answers from the past and present governments and parliamentarians of Pakistan.

Our rulers owe us answers to the following 6 questions:

Hope our rulers and parliamentarians are aware of a research which reveals that suicide rates have gone up in the countries taking loans from the IMF etc.

Our worthy MNA’s and Senators Must obtain the answers to the following questions from the former Minister of Finance Mr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh (who was also the key man in the privatisation of the PTCL) and also from the incumbent finance minister Mr. Ishaq Dar.

1. Pakistan is repaying $7.6 billion to the IMF. Did we receive exactly this much amount or the total sum was less than this figure?

2. How much amount of interest Pakistan will be paying over the principle sum of this loan of $7.6 billion from the IMF? Or the IMF will be charging interest on the whole sanctioned amount of $11.3 billion?

3. Did Pakistan pay and what was the total bill for the traveling, boarding and lodging of IMF delegations’s recent visit to UAE, for discussions with our economic team?

4. Besides the interest, how much service, handlers commission and or other charges were deducted by the IMF, on its loan of $7.6 billion to Pakistan? V V important question.

5. How much service charges or penalty was charged by the IMF to Pakistan, for not utilizing or obtaining the remaining $3.7 billion amount, from the originally sanctioned loan amount of $11.3 billion; because Pakistan got only $7.6 billion from IMF?

6. When will Pakistan get its overdue payment of $800 million from the Etisalat Telecom, which is controlling the whole PTCL management and other affairs, with a minority share holding? Why not reconsider the cancellation of the privatisation deal of the PTCL, in view of the serious default since the year 2006, by the UAE based telecom company ETISALAT? There is another option to resolve this problem by writing off this amount of $800 million (which in over 8 years must have grown over $3 billion) and treating it as gift, from the people of Pakistan to owners of the ETISALAT.

A half decade old proposal for the welfare of the families of the martyrs of war on terror..!

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad on October 5, 2009 at 2:35 am said:

To :- All the Patriotic Pakistanis.

Dear Sir/Madam.

AoA.

Nowadays, the entire Pakistani nation is fighting a battle of life and death against terrorism.

Obviously, the terrorists are fighting on behalf of their masters who have plans to either dismember Pakistan or at least strip it from its nuclear weapons.

Obviously the will of nation and the determination of the entire security apparatus, to defend Pakistan with their blood, is standing in the way of the nefarious designs of the enemies of nuclear Pakistan.

However, one thing seems clear that this fight of the survival of the nation will be a long drawn battle.

And consequently, our security forces which includes armed forces, F.C., rangers, police forces etc. will be offering more and more sacrifices for the motherland.

No doubt central and provincial governments and respective departments look after heirs of our martyrs well, according to the available resources and their rules and regulations.

It is the need of the hour that entire population of Pakistan and expatriate Pakistanis come forward on a voluntary basis, to financially support the heirs of martyrs, whose loved ones have laid down their lives, for our safe and better tomorrow.

In this regard, it is proposed that the government should take the initiative to mobilize the public opinion and take the following action.

1. Declare the salary of entire people serving in all the security forces/agencies ( armed forces, F.C., police service, intelligence agencies, rangers etc.) as tax free. Plus, they should also be exempted from property tax.

2. Government should create a fund with initial investment of Rs.1 billion (amount to be released from US grant of Kerry Lugar bill.) Rest of the amount to be collected as donations from overseas and local Pakistanis on a continuous basis, till such time the war with terrorists continues.

This fund should be managed by persons of very good repute from government and non government sectors like Abdus Sattar Edhi, Syed Baber Ali, Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim, Justice (Retd.) Bhagwandas and Cowasjee etc.

It is proposed that heirs of each security force(s) martyr be paid Rupees one crore, as a humble tribute and contribution, for their future welfare, from their fellow countrymen.

Thank you.

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad