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Ashok Hindustani Janatawala, thank you for your kind words.

Kindly 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.

Also please assure all 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 time in an imaginary hatred policies? why to live like fools of the highest order?

Let us be friends in true sense, like all the European countries. Let us have a genuine peace. Let India remove all its strike forces corp from the borders of Pakistan,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. 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 genuine and authentic peace like the one which exists in between the EU countries.

Don’t be afraid and obsessed with the problems, because they will remain for ever, but we have to give priority to peace over the problems.

Hope Mr. Ishaq Dar knows that in India even the signals of Pakistani TV channels are not allowed.

Hope Mr. Dar knows that India sent back Pakistani hockey players who went to play IHL under legal contracts.

Hope Mr. Dar knows that just few months ago in this year during women’s cricket ICC World Cup matches our ladies team was refused stay in any hotel in India.

Hope Mr. Dar Knows that India cancelled Pakistani hockey teams visit in March,13 to India.

Hope Mr. Dar Knows that till today’s Indian government has not given permission to Faisalabad’s team to visit India for participation in the champions league cricket matches.

Hope Mr. Dar knows who who gave poison as a drink to the captain of Pakistan’s blind cricket team during World Cup matches recently in India.

Hope Mr. Dar knows who is behind the firings, bombings, destruction & killings in Karachi, Balouchistan, NA’s and destruction of Pakistan?

Hope Mr. Dar remembers he stated on the floor of the house that we will take IMF loans on our terms and that Mr. Dar will negotiate with IMF the terms of loans by looking straight into the eyes of the IMF officials?

Now read the following news published today by the daily “Dawn”.

MFN Status Will be Given to India. IMF assured by Ishaq Dar.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to grant ‘most favoured nation’ (MFN) status to India and move towards eliminating the negative list on trade with the neighbour as part of its overall trade policy.

“We are moving forward with eliminating the negative list on trade with India and extending India most favoured nation status, and shifting to ‘sensitive list’ under SAFTA (South Asia Free Trade Arrangement) regime to facilitate increased regional trade,” Finance Minister Ishaq Dar assured the IMF in writing during negotiations for recently approved $6.64 billion economic bailout package.

The PPP government had decided in March last year to switch over from positive list of about 1,900 tradable items to a negative list of about 1,206 items, thereby allowing about 5,000 items to be traded between the two countries.

The PPP government announced that it would grant MFN status to India on Dec 31 last year by doing away with the negative list, but the commitment remained unmet because India did not move to remove non-tariff barriers on Pakistani products and some industrialists opposed the move. A large number of automobile, textile and pharmaceutical products form major part of the negative list of 1,206 items.

Interestingly, Finance Minister Dar said in a television talk show on Aug 12 that the MFN status for India was not under consideration. “There is no immediate consideration to grant MFN status to India. There is need to normalise relations on a number of issues,” he said during tensions over incidents on the Line of Control.

The Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies (MEFP), the finance minister submitted to the IMF on Aug 19, has spelt out the major contours of the trade policy with major focus on normalisation of trade relations.

Besides intentions to improve trade relations with neighbours, the minister said the government’s strategy would also be to take full advantage of trade preferences available from the European Union where Pakistan had autonomous trade preferences in 75 items. “In addition, the EU is currently considering our request for receiving GSP plus benefits (zero per cent duty) from January 2, 2014 on exports,” he said.

The minister said that trade policy reforms would ensure consumer welfare and stimulate growth via increased competition. “Simplifying tariff rates, eliminating the statutory regulatory orders (SROs) that establish special rates and non-trade barriers in some 4,000 product areas, and normalising trade relations should deliver the much needed competitive environment.”

The finance minister committed to working on simplifying the tariff structure to return to the 2004 framework, with 4 slabs and 0 to 25 per cent rates.

“Design of the new system would be completed by end-December 2013, with application of the revised tariff rates and begin the phase-out of trade SROs by June 2014. Implementation of the new trade framework would be completed by end-June 2016,” he said.

The minister said that for widening the tax base the government would prepare a comprehensive plan to separate existing SROs either by eliminating those granting exemptions or concessions by the end of December this year and introduce more taxation measures in the finance bill of fiscal year 2014-15.

“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”

— Anthony Robbins

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

Diane Ackerman –
American writer

Name 2 Things Your Small Business Has Accomplished

Early-stage entrepreneurs often dread the question, “How’s it going?” Whether it’s a potential partner, a VC, or even just a friend asking, you want to communicate that things are going well – but you don’t want to be vague or rattle off a memorized litany of achievements. Next time this question comes up, be ready to respond with two recent accomplishments. Choose things that are concrete and easy to understand. For example you might say: “Things are great! We just crossed 900,000 monthly active users and brought Facebook on as a hiring partner.” Stick to two things. If you only name one, it comes off like you want your audience to be impressed by that one achievement. With two, they can choose which one they want to react to, and you come off less like you’re baiting them to compliment any specific aspect of your business.

Adapted by HBR from “Every Entrepreneur’s Least Favorite Question,” by Kathryn

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

– Mother Teresa

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

-Mother Teresa

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

– Mother Teresa

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

-Mother Teresa

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

– Mother Teresa