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The Supreme Court can annul any law or agreement made clearly against Pakistan and its public.

Can someone take this issue of “Pakistan has a special Energy Law, in which the Government of Pakistan agrees to pay a minimum agreed monthly payment to all Power producers for the contract period, even if no power is supplied. This means that if the Power plant is not operating, Pakistan would still need to pay the energy bill”.

Details of a letter published by the Pakistan Today on 3 July, 2013, are as below:

Mian Nawaz Sharif and Mian Shahbaz Sharif are both very busy trying to find a solution for the current Energy problem of Pakistan. Being a Chemical Engineer, I have some expertise on the Energy problem and have done some initial work, which I would like to share with them; Energy Problem: Pakistan has a special Energy Law, in which the Government of Pakistan agrees to pay a minimum agreed monthly payment to all Power producers for the contract period, even if no power is supplied. This means that if the Power plant is not operating, Pakistan would still need to pay the energy bill. In 2008 the 8 Thermal Power plants and 2 Nuclear power plants of Pakistan were forcefully shut down for maintenance. With reduced supply of electricity, WAPDA has fewer units to sell and thus have less income per year. But the payments to the Thermal power companies was at a fixed rate, creating a very big 100 M$ energy deficit. Fast Track Solution: Although Fuel supplies and payments to the Thermal power plants can be increased to produce more energy, but with the low efficiency, the energy produced will be at a very high cost. Therefore the best option would be to install 5000MW Coal Power plants in locations that are away from the population, near the port or other transport facility and close to the National Grid. Long Term Solution: Pakistan has the potential to generate 55,000 MW of electricity, which can be sold to Afghanistan, India, China and Oman. This is because, Pakistan’s Northern areas rise like a series of steps, which create opportunities for Hydel Power. But these big and small Hydro Power plants can take 2-6 years for construction, and with Dams there is an additional 2-5 years for filling the Dam. But the good news is that Banks and Donor organisations love to fund Hydro Power Projects, because this is clean renewable energy, which does not produce any pollution and has a life of 30-50 years. Also Pakistan can use Hydro and even Wind Power projects for Self Funded Pension Schemes, where Pakistani citizens can buy shares in a project, which would give them a regular income for 25 years. Wind Power is also a very good option, since Pakistan’s Sindh and Balochistan regions have very good wind rates and there is opportunity to generate up to 50,000 MW of energy with Wind Power from that region alone. Wind Power has all similar equipment and installation procedure. SHAHRYAR KHAN BASEER Peshawar –

So the agony and misery of Umer Akmal comes to an end.

Our Hockey team would have performed better than 23/4 in 9.1 overs VS WI.

“Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without
learning is dangerous.”

— Chinese Proverb

Indian Govt behind Parliament attack, Mumbai attack of 26/11: Ishrat probe officer

A TOI Report.

NEW DELHI: In what is certain to escalate the already vicious fight between the CBI and the IB over the IshratJahan “fake encounter case”, a former home ministry officer has alleged that a member of the CBI-SIT team had accused incumbent governments of “orchestrating” the terror attack on Parliament and the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai.

R V S Mani, who as home ministry under-secretary signed the affidavits submitted in court in the alleged encounter case, has said that Satish Verma, until recently a part of the CBI-SIT probe team, told him that both the terror attacks were set up “with the objective of strengthening the counter-terror legislation (sic)”.

Mani has said that Verma “…narrated that the 13.12. 2001(attack on Parliament) was followed by Pota (Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act) and 26/11 2008 (terrorists’ siege of Mumbai) was followed by amendment to the UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act).”

The official has alleged Verma levelled the damaging charge while debunking IB’s inputs labelling the three killed with Ishrat in the June 2004 encounter as Lashkar terrorists.

Contacted by TOI, Verma refused to comment. “I don’t know what the complaint is, made when and to whom. Nor am I interested in knowing. I cannot speak to the media on such matters. Ask the CBI,” said the Gujarat cadre IPS officer who after being relieved from the SIT is working as principal of the Junagadh Police Training College.

Mani, currently posted as deputy land and development officer in the urban development ministry, has written to his seniors that he retorted to Verma’s comments telling the IPS officer that he was articulating the views of Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.

According to him, the charge was levelled by Verma in Gandhinagar on June 22 while questioning Mani about the two home ministry affidavits in the alleged encounter case.

In his letter to the joint secretary in the urban development ministry, Mani has accused Verma of “coercing” him into signing a statement that is at odds with facts as he knew them. He said Verma wanted him to sign a statement saying that the home ministry’s first affidavit in the Ishrat case was drafted by two IB officers. “Knowing fully well that this would tantamount to falsely indicting of (sic) my seniors at the extant time, I declined to sign any statement.”

Giving the context in which Verma allegedly levelled the serious charge against the government, Mani said the IPS officer, while questioning him, had raised doubts about the genuineness of IB’s counter-terror intelligence. He disputed the veracity of the input on the antecedents of the three killed in June 2004 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad with Ishrat in the alleged encounter which has since become a polarizing issue while fuelling Congress’s fight with Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.

Gujarat Police has justified the encounter citing the IB report that Pakistani nationals Zeeshan Zohar, Amzad Ali Rana and Javed Sheikh were part of a Lashkar module which had reached Gujarat to target Modi and carry out terrorist attacks.

In its first affidavit, filed in August 2009, the home ministry had cited IB inputs that those killed with Ishrat in the alleged encounter were part of a Lashkar sleeper cell, and had objected to a CBI probe into the “encounter”.

In its second affidavit, filed in September 2009, the home ministry, irked by the Gujarat government treating the first affidavit as justification of the encounter, said the IB input did not constitute conclusive proof of the terrorist antecedents of those killed. It supported the demand for a CBI probe.

Mani said Verma doubted the input saying MHA’s first affidavit was actually drafted by IB officer Rajinder Kumar, who looked after IB’s operations in Gujarat at the time of Ishrat “encounter” and now runs the serious risk of being chargesheeted by the CBI for hatching the conspiracy behind the alleged extra-judicial killings.

Mani said Verma stuck to his guns even after being told that the home ministry did not need outside help. The former home ministry official said Verma insisted that the “input” was prepared after the encounter.

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