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An open letter to the Indian PM – Let India and Pakistan live like United Europe and not like divided Korea..!

Dear Mr. Manmohan Singh,

Greetings.

We in Pakistan, really appreciate your desire to visit Pakistan, as informed by you today, in your first press conference in three years.

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 cooperation in all fields of economic activities, visa free to and fro, travel of citizens of both the countries, 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 sorts of a no war pact for a limited period of ten years. It is expected it may work wonders, like a magic, in the economic emancipation of the teeming millions of both the countries.

Mr. Manmohan Singh, 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 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, may not come again in the 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 or other covert hostile methods, are no more a long or short term options for, as well as, against any nuclear power(s). All such paradigms are out dated 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 provocation has to be ruled out: irrespective of the defined policy of no first use of nuclear weapons or retaliatory use of WMD’s.

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 2014.

An open letter to the Indian PM – Let India and Pakistan live like United Europe and not like divided Korea..!

Dear Mr. Manmohan Singh,

Greetings.

We in Pakistan, really appreciate your desire to visit Pakistan, as informed by you today, in your first press conference in three years.

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 cooperation in all fields of economic activities, visa free to and fro, travel of citizens of both the countries, 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 sorts of a no war pact for a limited period of ten years. It is expected it may work wonders, like a magic, in the economic emancipation of the teeming millions of both the countries.

Mr. Manmohan Singh, 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 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, may not come again in the 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 or other covert hostile methods, are no more a long or short term options for, as well as, against any nuclear power(s). All such paradigms are out dated 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 provocation has to be ruled out: irrespective of the defined policy of no first use of nuclear weapons or retaliatory use of WMD’s.

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 2014.

Happy New Year 2018 – To All the Indians

New Year Resolution – From Pakistan With Love 💖 to All the Indians..!

While wishing all the Indians a very happy, peaceful and prosperous new year 2018, we would like to inform everyone in India that if at all, we have to be friends, then that friendship must be in true sense; and we must not act and behave with each other, in a hypocritical manner.

We Pakistanis would also like to assure the Indians that even if we wanted, we can’t conquer India. At the same time even if India wanted, it can’t pull down Pakistan, without India being destroyed, as well.

So, why to waste our time and energies in an imaginary hatred policies?

Why to waste our precious resources, in being the prisoners of our foolish past?

From the first day of the new year 2018, let us bury our bitter past and be friends in true sense, like all the European countries.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Let us have a genuine peace. Let India remove all its strike forces from the border without any fear. Let us join hands to wage a war against poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy. Let us turn this subcontinent into a bastion of peace and a heaven on earth.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

India and Pakistan just need a period of single decade of genuine peace, to turn around its fortunes to emerge as the most potent economic and cultural power-house of this world.

The only condition is the genuine and authentic peace, like the one which exists in between the EU countries.

Why India and Pakistan should live for decades like divided Korea? Why both the countries can not live like united Europe?

Europe which was so divided that its residents fought two world wars; but now when sense has prevailed, Europeans are reaping the dividends of peace.

Now, when both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers, conquering one other is out of question, without Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).

As such, those believing in success of low intensity wars are lunatics, living in fools paradise, like Hitler and Mussolini.

War between two nuclear neighbours is out of contention, because, even if one country using first strike option annihilates the other neighbour, the fallout of nuclear radiation will leave the victor, uninhabitable forever.

Thus, peace is the only option for India and Pakistan.

Don’t be afraid of problems between the two countries, because they will remain for ever, but we have to give priority to peace, over the problems.

Let us make a new start from the beginning of the new year 2018, with the slogan – Long live the friendship of the teeming millions of India and Pakistan.

Pakistani cricketers always bear the burden of representing the image and the hopes of millions of fans. Their behaviors have a social and political significance that goes well beyond the field and enter into the houses of all citizens and the most powerful institutions. The victory in a world cup ODI or T20 contest, can move nearly all sections of Pakistani nation in an un comparable manner.

Thus, for the ordinary Pakistani cricket fan, PCB is not just an organisation; rather, it is a mini Pakistan.

Hence, PCB not the players…. needs a turn around..!

It is suggested that PCB must be totally revamped from the top to the bottom, to make it function like a top class world level organisation, with zero tolerance for old amateur and bureaucratic style of working, intellectual, moral and financial corruption, nepotism and favouritism, in each and every sphere of its operations, with its vision statement as “Better than the Best”.

If PCB wants to survive in the fast changing world of competition, it must change its old habits and rebuild itself inside out. PCB must know that a professional organisation is “of and for professional people”.

For inside out rebuilding, the PCB must come out in a crystal clear manner that “how it want to be thought of” and then consider every thing that PCB “say and do.”

Every PCB department must also be converted into a “cost center” responsible for its revenues and expenses.

Side by side, PCB must also shun its CULTURE of politics and self serving policies. This is absolutely necessary, because culture of an organisation is the environment under which, all it’s employees perform their duties. What is needed by the PCB is to create a culture of team work, which stimulates the employees for working with absolute honesty and recognises and rewards employee efforts; and these values permeates the entire organisation.

While chaos, politics and leg pulling is rampant in the rank and file employees of the PCB, how it can be expected to produce players, who will not be equally, if not more, afflicted by these malaise? As they say in the IT jargon, garbage in garbage out, or output can not be more than the input.

However, the top notches of the government and the PCB, must know very clearly that PCB can not be turned into a first class world level organisation, by just transfers, postings, change of designations, hiring or firing of employees. In fact, such steps breeds even more discontent and ill will, among the employees and the general masses. To achieve the desired results, PCB needs a total and complete overhaul, disregarding any political or other pressures for serving any vested interest(s), examples of which (running the organisation on an absolutely 100% merit basis) can be seen in many Pakistani organisations like LUMS, SKMCH & RC, IBA and the GIK etc.

Till such time, PCB itself is turned into a center of excellence, it can’t produce a bunch of players, who can be the world beaters, on a consistent level.

In any team game, a team do not need champions like Don Bradman or David Beckham to be the world beaters. But, greats like Don Bradman and David Beckham in any team, can not excel, without the cooperation of other team members.

For our players to consistently excel at the international arena, PCB coaches need to repeatedly hammer into the minds of the players, the following famous quote of Aristotle.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”

Now world over competitive sports is not considered just a past time hobby or entertainment and fitness activity. Rather, sports activities are considered and handled as a science. As such, PCB must shun business as usual decades old approach. Moreover, the PCB think tank must “PLAN FOR SUCCESS” with clear and measurable objectives.

Gone are the old decadent ways of assembling players for a camp, just before the tour to show their fitness and playing abilities. It must be the specified duty of the think tank and the selectors to devise a plan to monitor 24/7 the health, eating habits, general behaviour and performance of the CONTRACTED players, in a scientific manner. These contracted players must not be allowed to have a free reign, even during the off days, as they are almost like paid employees of the PCB.

Moreover, the FINE TUNING and grooming of the marked pool of all the talented and upcoming players (non-contracted) should be the SPECIFIC responsibility of the NCA staff, who must constantly produce, highest calibre five players, for each position of the game, both for the men and the ladies teams.

It will not be out of place to conclude, by mentioning the quotes of the two famous sports coaches, for the motivation of our players, who are under tremendous pressure to perform on a consistent level.

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
– Quoted from Vince Lombardi

“When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.”
– Famous quote by Pat Riley

New Year Resolution – From Pakistan With Love to All the Indians

While wishing all the Indians a very happy and prosperous new year 2104, we would like to inform everyone in India that if at all we have to be friends, then that friendship must be in true sense; and we must not act and behave with each other in a hypocritical manner.

We would also like to assure the Indians that even of we wanted we can’t conquer India. At the same time even if India wanted, it can’t pull down Pakistan, without India being destroyed as well.

So, why to waste our time and energies in an imaginary hatred policies. Why to waste our precious resources, in being the prisoners of our foolish past.

From the first day of the new year 2014, let us bury our bitter past and be friends in true sense, like all the European countries.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Let us have a genuine peace. Let India remove all its strike forces corp from the border without any fear. Let us join hands to wage a war against poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy. Let us turn this subcontinent a bastion of peace and a heaven on earth.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

India and Pakistan just need a period of single decade of genuine peace to turn around its fortunes to emerge as the most potent economic and cultural power house of this world. The only condition is the genuine and authentic peace like the one which exists in between the EU countries.

Don’t be afraid of problems between the two countries, because they will remain for ever, but we have to give priority to peace over the problems.

Let us make a new start from the beginning of the new year 2014 with the slogan – Long live the friendship of the teeming millions of India and Pakistan.

Pakistan lost, but there is no shame in going down fighting. Yes surrender is always shameful. However, if seen in the true objective perspective, our team didn’t lose; the match was lost by the team management and its leadership.

In the next match, Sohail Tanvir must be replaced with Anwer Ali, who is a much better bowler, batsman and a matchless fielder, as well.

Moreover, we only scored 43 runs in the 1st power play (when only 2 fielders are out of circle) of 10 overs, which is absolutely not acceptable. In fact, this was the singular reason for our defeat in the 2nd ODI, which was won by the SL team, on the 4th ball of the last over.

Onwards, we must aim for 80 runs in the first 10 overs of the power play, when only 2 fielders are allowed outside the 30 yards circle, never forgetting that not failure, but low aim is a crime.

Our biggest problem since the advent of the ODI game is that whenever wickets fall, we go into the shell, forgetting that keeping wickets in hand, at the end of the innings, is absolutely useless.

What is the benefit of batsmen like Umer Akmal, sitting in the pavilion, without getting a chance of showing their attacking prowess? And if, his batting is not required, then why not play a specialist wicket keeper, dropping Umer Akmal, altogether.

It must be indoctrinated in the minds of the players that attack is the name of the game, in the ODI matches.

All our planning, strategy and execution of the game, which includes selection of the players, batting order, the decision of batting or bowling first in case of winning the toss, batting strategy and plans during the power play and other segments, with particular emphasis on minimising dot balls (very few people know that a research revealed that Pakistani cricket team plays the maximum number of dot balls), bowling plans and shrewd field placings, must be based on just one premise “OFFENCE IS THE BEST DEFENCE”.

Further, Misbah should have allowed to bat Umer Akmal and Bilawal Bhatti, ahead of himself.

We must not forget that Pakistan lost, on the 4th ball of the last over, meaning thereby that Pakistan was just short of 8-10 runs, which hard hitting batsmen like Umer Akmal and Bilawal Bhatti, would have quickly scored.

Anyway, we must learn from our mistakes, which caused defeat, which was not inevitable for Pakistan, in the 2nd ODI.

Better luck next time, but the team management (chairman of the tour selection committee, head coach and the captain) is solely responsible, for this absolutely avoidable defeat.

Hope the ICC will strictly instruct it’s umpires to be absolutely neutral with their decisions against Pakistan, in the 3rd ODI match between Pak vs SA, being played in a short while today.

ICC should also direct the Umpires to not to show any racist bias against Pakistan, as they did during the 2nd ODI, when they gave Anwar Ali out, obstructing the field illegally, while he was running in a straight line and did not change his course, at all.
How Anwer Ali was given out on running in a straight line, is not a mystery, but a blatant case of racist bias against Pakistan, which is obviously against the values of the ICC, enshrined in its charter, may be just in theory.
We have seen how ICC favoured the SA team players in the case of claim of false catch by SA captain and in awarding mildest of the mild punishment to the SA team’s culprit player, in the ball tampering case, during the recent matches played in the UAE.
Wake up ICC, apartheid will kill the cricket.

Keep on punishing Pakistan for being an ally in US war on terror.

A country can survive without being friend of the USA but it can’t live in peace with being friend of the USA.

Pakistan eat more sugar cane.

India and all other countries are allowed by the US, to get oil and gas at concessionary rates from Iran, but Pakistan is not allowed by the US to get even gas from Iran. Perhaps this is the punishment (or reward) the US and NATO wants to handover to Pakistan, for its sacrifices of over 50,000 lives and above a Trillion USD financial losses, in fighting the WOT, shoulder to shoulder with the US and the 49 NATO countries.

Even Oman was allowed in May 2013, to make an agreement for the purchase of gas worth $60 billion from Iran, for onward supply of this gas to China and India.

Any country in the world is allowed to get oil and gas from Iran, except Pakistan.

What Pakistan can get from IMF is loan (@3%) to repay its old loans. America just wants to keep Pakistan on drip therapy, so that it neither sinks nor swims and is an absolute Slave of the US dictation.

In fact, NO other country except Pakistan in the world, is so much under the influence of the US, for so little amount.

US exempts India, China from Iranian sanctions (Times of India Report).

WASHINGTON: US on Friday exempted some countries, including India and China, from the tough Iranian sanctions act as they continue to reduce their dependence on Iranian oil.

“I am pleased to announce that, based on additional significant reductions in the volume of their purchases of Iranian crude oil, China, India, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, and Taiwan have again qualified for an exception to sanctions…(under) the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012,” secretary of state John Kerry said in a statement.

These additional reductions were determined based on an analysis of these economies’ purchasing activity over the previous six months, Kerry said.

Additionally, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore and Sri Lanka have also qualified again for the NDAA exception because they no longer purchase crude oil from Iran, he said.

Kerry’s exemption in this regard came soon after the determination made by US President Barack Obama that there is sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil for countries to continue to reduce import of oil from Iran.

“There currently appears to be sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil to permit foreign countries to reduce significantly their purchases of Iranian oil, taking into account current estimates of demand, increased production by countries other than Iran, inventories of crude oil and petroleum products, and available spare production capacity,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

If Pakistan was to lose against every team (with embarrassingly wide margins, like 15 overs to spare), be it the Number 1 or the weakest team of the world, with stalwarts and so called senior players part of such a team, there will be no harm, if we rebuild an entirely new team (for the ODI and T20 versions of cricket) consisting of players, having potential and fresh legs, like Awais Zia etc.

By doing so there should be no issues , even if we were to lose some more matches, with the rebuilt team of youngsters; and let it be an investment for the future, as well.

Now a stage has come that the PCB must take, forward looking and bold decisions, instead of retrogressively expecting performances from the spent cartridges like Muhammad Hafeez, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi and Misbah ul Haq. Heavens won’t fall, even if a player like Umar Amin or Saeed Ajmal is given the captaincy.

Younis Khan may be given the captaincy for the Test team, which may include some oldies like Misbah ul Haq, as well.

Moreover, there can be no better choice for the position of the head coach of the Pakistani team, than Mr. Ramiz Raja.

It is suggested that PCB must be totally revamped from the top to the bottom, to make it function like a top class world level organisation, with zero tolerance for old amateur and bureaucratic style of working, intellectual, moral and financial corruption, nepotism and favouritism, in each and every sphere of its operations, with its vision statement as “Better than the best”.

If PCB wants to survive in the fast changing world of competition, it must change its old habits and rebuild itself inside out. PCB must know that a professional organisation is “of and for professional people”

For inside out rebuilding, the PCB must come out in a crystal clear manner that “how it want to be thought of” and then consider every thing that PCB “say and do.”

Every PCB department must also be converted into a “Cost center” responsible for its revenues and expenses.

Side by side, PCB must also shun its culture of politics and self serving policies. This is absolutely necessary, because culture of an organisation is the environment under which all it’s employes perform their duties. What is needed by the PCB is to create a culture of team work, which stimulates the employees for working with absolute honesty and recognises and rewards employee efforts and permeates the entire organisation.

While chaos, politics and leg pulling is rampant in the rank and file employees of the PCB, how it can be expected to produce players, who will not be equally, if not more, afflicted by these malaise? As they say in the IT jargon, garbage in garbage out. or output can not be more than the input.

However, the top notches of the government and the PCB, must know very clearly that PCB can not be turned out into a first class world level organisation, by just transfers, postings, change of designations, hiring or firing of employees. In fact, such steps breeds even more discontent and ill will among the employees and general masses. To achieve the desired results, PCB needs a total and complete overhaul, disregarding any political or other pressures for serving any vested interest(s), examples of which (running the organisation on an absolutely 100% merit basis) can be seen in many Pakistani organisations like LUMS, SKMCH & RC, IBA and GIK etc.

Till such time, PCB itself is turned into a center of excellence, it can’t produce a bunch of players, who can be the world beaters, on a consistent level.

In any team game the players do not need champions like Don Bradman or David Beckham to be the world beaters. But greats like Don Bradman and David Beckham in any team, can not excel, without the cooperation of other team members.

For our players to excel at the international arena, on a constant level, PCB coaches need to repeatedly hammer into the minds of the players, the following famous quote of Aristotle.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”

Moreover, the PCB think tank must “PLAN FOR SUCCESS” with clear and measurable objectives.

Gone are the old decadent ways of assembling players for a camp, just before the tour to show their fitness and playing abilities. It must be the specified duty of the think tank and the selectors to devise a plan to monitor 24/7 the health, eating habits, general behaviour and performance of the CONTRACTED players in a scientific manner. These contracted players must not be allowed to have a free reign even during the off days, as they are almost like paid employees of the PCB.

Moreover, the FINE TUNING and grooming of the marked pool of all the talented and upcoming players (non-contracted) should be the SPECIFIC responsibility of the NCA staff, who must constantly produce highest calibre five players, for each position of the game, both for the men and the ladies teams.

It will not be out of place to conclude, by mentioning the quotes of the two famous sports coaches, for the motivation of our players, who are under tremendous pressure to perform on a consistent level.

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
– Quoted from Vince Lombardi

“When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.”
– Famous quote by Pat Riley