Loud Thinking

My letter titled “Who is the real chairman PCB?” Published today by the “Daily Times”.

Link:- http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/letters/30-Sep-2014/who-is-the-real-pcb-chairman

You too Sartaj Aziz… licking the Indian boots..!

Please don’t distort the fact, because the meeting with the Kashmiri leaders took place in the Pakistani HC in Delhi on 19 July, 2014 and on 25 July, the Indian FM telephoned the Pakistani High Commissioner to arrange Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries meeting, on 25 August, in Islamabad.

So, this clearly proves that the subsequent Indian decision to back out of the talks, was an after thought; and nothing to do with the meeting of the Kashmiri leaders with the Pakistani High Commissioner in Delhi.

The express Tribune news link:- http://tribune.com.pk/story/768419/meeting-with-hurriyat-leader-was-probably-mistimed-says-aziz/

Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said that the timing of a meeting between Hurriyat leader Shabir Shah and Pakistani High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit was ‘probably not right.’
While talking to Indian channel Headlines Today on Saturday, Aziz said although such meetings were regular for decades now, the timing could have been better this time.
“This has been a regular practice since last 30 years and I don’t think there is anything new about it,” he said. “In this case, the timing was probably not right because a substantial discussion on Kashmir was yet to start.”
This meeting on August 25 was to declare the agenda, he added.
However, Aziz argued, if Indians had apprehensions, they could have informed them, earlier.
“I think if the request had come earlier that the timing is not right then probably it could have been reconsidered,” he said. “But in this case the message came when one of the Kashmiri leaders was already in the High Commission.”

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”

— Confucius

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

—Howard Thurman (1899-1981)
Author, Philosopher, Theologian, Educator, Civil Rights Leader

Mian Nawaz sharif must IMMEDIATELY announce a relief of 50% reduction in the electricity and gas bills for all the domestic users without any discrimination of any slabs of the tariff.

The short fall of this relief can EASILY be compensated from curbing the theft of gas and electricity, by all the domestic, commercial and Industrial users.

And all the concerned officers of the area must be immediately DISMISSED where theft of utilities are recorded.

In any case, the honest people MUST not be penalised to pay for the theft of the electricity and gas by the dishonest consumers.

Allah Ki Shan..!

Bilawal Zardari, who said just a few days ago that PTI was a test tube party, is profusely apologising today, with his party workers and begging for forgiveness for the past mistakes.

Today, the Lahore’s mammoth Jalsa was in fact, the representation of the voice of the entire Pakistanis, living in Pakistan and abroad; wherein, considering it as a referendum, the entire Pakistani nationals, have overwhelmingly manifested their choice that from today onwards, Mr. Imran Khan Niazi, will be the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Kindly, from today onwards, all us must write and call Mr. Imran Khan, as Mr. Prime Minister.

“You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.”

— Phil McGraw

LETTER TO EDITOR

September 28th, 2014

Resignation

In March 1969 burning of a private transport bus by the students of the Polytechnic School, Rawalpindi, led by the then student rebel rouser Shaikh Rashid was a minor incident from the present day standards, but it made President Ayub Khan” decide to resign. Khawaja Shahabuddin – his cabinet minister, advised him against it saying, “ Sir, just hold a referendum and you will see that the people are with you”. “What referendum?”, he asked, “Referendum is already on the roads !” He addressed the nation the same evening – 25th March 1969 – on the TV and resigned saying that he could not preside over the destruction of the nation. Such has been the conduct of honourable men in history.

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
30 Westridge 1
Rawalpindi 46000
Pakistan
Tel: (051) 5158033
E.mail: jafri@rifiela.com

Respected Pakistani Judiciary….why not the same justice for parents in Pakistan?

41 private schools should refund excess fees to parents: Panel to Delhi HC

NEW DELHI: A judicial panel set up by the Delhi high court has recommended that 41 private schools should refund the excess fees they had charged from parents of students in 2009 with interest.

A three-member committee, headed by former Rajasthan high court Chief Justice Anil Dev Singh, set up in 2011, examined the financial records of 81 schools on a random basis out of total 1,172 schools and submitted its sixth interim report before the bench headed by Justice B D Ahmed.

With this report, the committee has so far examined the financial records of 741 private schools in the city.

In the report, the committee said many schools “unjustly” increased the fees, and recommended that all of them refund the same with 9 per cent interest to the parents.

“The committee has recommended refund of fee unjustly hiked by 41 schools. Among them are 7 schools, where the committee, besides recommending refund, has also recommended special inspection to be carried out by the Director of Education.

“In respect of 34 out of 41 schools, the committee has found that the fee hike effected by them in pursuance of the order dated February 11, 2009 issued by the Director of Education was either wholly or partially unjustified…,” the report said.

The bench, also comprising Justice Siddharth Mridul, has fixed the matter for further hearing on October 28 while directing the Delhi government to file a status report on the “implementation of the recommendations”.

In August 2011, Delhi High Court had set up the committee to scrutinise the accounts of various unaided private schools to determine the validity of the city government’s February 2009 notification permitting them to hike tuition fees.

The order had come on a petition filed by an NGO, Social Jurists, through advocate Ashok Agarwal alleging that schools had hiked the fees “unreasonably” but they failed to pay the salaries of the teaching and non-teaching staff as per the Sixth Pay Commission.