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Loud Thinking July 12, 2013 at 11:51PM
Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on July 12, 2013 in My Views | Edit |
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Dear Bank,
We (Pakistan), paid $37.2 billion as debt-servicing alone and got $7 billion, in the last eight years.
This is many times more than the principal amount that we borrowed during this period.
Naeem Sadiq

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart — not from the mind.
– Sheri Rosenthal

Forgiveness … is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
– Joan Borysenko

Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
– Marianne Williamson

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
… Forgive them anyway.
– Kent Keith (often attributed to Mother Teresa)

Forgiving is not a gift to someone else –
Forgiving is your gift to yourself –
a great gift – the gift of happiness.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgive those who have injured you –
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.

I Forgive Myself with Compassion –
I forgive everyone, especially myself,
for all actions and all inactions throughout my entire life.
I accept that no one else has ever been to blame for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings is
my own emotional response to the events of my life,
and I am committed to consistently distinguishing between my feelings
about events and the physical occurrence of those events.
I declare that everyone who has ever played any role in any of the events of my life is entirely without fault.

Why Forgive? I’m angry. They wronged me, why should I forgive them?
They lied, they cheated, why should I forgive them?

Forgiveness is not a reprieve or a gift that we give to someone else.
Forgiveness for another’s act or omission is a reprieve and gift that we give our self.
We are the one who suffers the upset and the anger when we feel that we have been wronged.
It is our own blood pressure that rises when we hold on to resentment.

Give yourself the gift of forgiving others,
not because “they” deserve it,
but because you deserve the serenity and joy that comes from releasing resentment and anger, and from embracing universal forgiveness.

“It doesn’t matter what you did or where you were… it
matters where you are and what you’re doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and never let anyone shut you up!”

— Steve Maraboli

Once you learn how to be happy, you won’t tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.

Dear Bank,

We (Pakistan), paid $37.2 billion as debt-servicing alone in the last eight years.

This is many times more than the principal amount that we borrowed during this period.

Naeem Sadiq

The best thing about Malala’s recovery is that there is no visible scar mark, which reflects the excellent medical treatment she was provided in Pakistan and the UK.
Malala stay blessed.

Gratitude is being thankful.

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

Epictetus (55-135);
Stoic philosopher

There will always be people in life who treat you wrong. Be sure you thank them for making you STRONG!

Dear Mr. Ishaq Dar,

Your kind attention is invited towards the following news item titled “IMF extends zero interest rates on poorer country loans” published by the daily “Pakistan Today” on 23 December, 2012 detailed news available at the link :- http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/12/23/news/profit/imf-extends-zero-interest-rates-on-poorer-country-loans-2/

In this regard, as per my many earlier submissions to the PM and the entire nation, I am fully convinced, without an iota of doubt that it is sheer disaster recipe for the Pakistan’s economy, to seek loan (that too on an exorbitantly high rate of 3%) from IMF, to repay their old loan. Moreover, your argument that this was the only option to avoid a default, also do not hold water, as firstly, I have explained not one but many viable options in my earlier communications and secondly, default is better than the destruction of the very foundations of the nation’s economy. Hope you know very well that in the recent past, many countries have bravely negotiated with the international lending agencies and succeeded in getting reduction of up to 60% of their loans.

However, in Pakistan’s case our loan amount is increasing with an unbelievable speed. It was recently reported that when PPP government took over in 2008, our debt liability was $40 billions and now it has increased to much more than $60 billion.

The nations fails to understand that why you remained silent as PMLN’s financial expert and also as a senator, during the PPP tenure, when it crossed the LEGAL and constitutional limit of 6% debt to GDP ratio. This was such a grave violation of the law that had PMLN taken up this issue with the Supreme Court, the PPP government would have been immediately dismissed.

So how can you now absolve yourself from this financial mess, by just saying that you took over the government with nation’s economy in very bad shape?

Also, how can the history exonerate the PMLN in general and Mr. Ishaq Dar in particular, for not playing a pro Pakistan role when the PPP government was playing havoc, with the country’s economy?

As such, Mr. Ishaq Dar, there is only one way of atonement of our past acts of commissions and omissions, by not to further burden the nation’s economy with extremely and unprecedentedly expensive loans of IMF, lest the future generations may not have to say that “لمحوں نے خطا کی تھی صد یوں نے سزا پائ”

Kindly still there is time to explore other options to avoid IMF loan. Nothing is impossible. Where there is a will there is a way.

With best regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
0321-9402157
Lahore.

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