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

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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 ?

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Set Boundaries to Protect Your Time

We’re all too busy. And we can’t stand people who distract us at work and derail our productivity. There may be no escape from other people, but you can take steps to regain control of your time and schedule.
State your preferred method of communication. Limit aggravation by proactively informing colleagues about the best way to reach you, whether it’s via phone call, text, email, or tweet.
Require an agenda for meetings. Vague or rambling meetings eat up too much of our time. Insist on seeing an agenda before you commit to attending meetings so that you can contribute fully. Model the practice by creating an agenda for any meetings you chair and offering to share the template with others.
Make others prepare. Before you commit to a meeting, ask if people have done their research and if the real decision-makers will be present.

Adapted from “Stop People from Wasting Your Time” by Dorie Clark.

An urgent appeal to the PM..!

Mr. Prime Minister you are requested to immediately dismiss the chairman and the entire board members of the PCB, for playing with the sentiments of the nation and for being inhumanly insensitive to the blood of the Peshawar school martyrs.

I as chairman PCB, would have immediately resigned in case of the failure of match postponement, which was played on the very first day of the national mourning, in total disregard of the feelings of the nation.

No consideration whatsoever, can be bigger than the feelings for the martyrdom of the Peshawar school kids.

In fact, the game of cricket and the PCB as an organisation, could not have made themselves so demeaning and disgraceful, by playing the match on the day when even the soil of the graves of the Peshawar martyrs, was still wet.

PCB, you have insulted the nationhood feeling of the Pakistanis world over.

The century of Younis Khan in an ODI with JUST only four fours must be a world record.

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