Category: At What Cost
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70 years of Failure of Dominant Narratives
اگر آپ ملک کی ترقی چاہتے ہیں تو اس 70 سالہ ناکام بیانیہ کی اندھا دھند تقلید چھوڑ دیں، جس کے چند بڑے نکات یہ ہیں:1. پاکستان کی زبوں حالی کی بنیاد مالی کرپشن ہے- جی نہیں، پاکستان کی زبوں حالی کی بنیاد مالی نہیں آئینی کرپشن ہے جو کہ اداروں کو تباہ و برباد…
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Competent Authorities of Pakistan and the Source of their Incompetence
What is “Competent Authority” and how their incompetence breeds mafias:“Competent Authority” is the code word used by bureaucracy itself to hide the name of decision maker. This is often the secretary of Ministry but may denote a committee also or some other decision maker, but the footprint of the secretary must be there in that…
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Complex web of Investigative Agencies investigating the other Investigative Agencies
بادشاہ کا گھوڑا اور انوسٹیگیشن کی نگرانی کے نگران:بادشاہ سلامت نے شاہی اصطبل کے لیے مہنگا ترین گھوڑا خریدا۔ کچھ دن بعد بادشاہ نے وزیر کے ہمراہ اپنے پسندیدہ گھوڑے کو دیکھنے کے لیے اصطبل کا دورہ کیا اور وزیر کو کہا کہ گھوڑا کمزور ہو رہا ہے ۔ وزیر نے معاملے کی تحقیقات کی…
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Oil Price Hike Mafias in Pakistan
Incompetence of the competent authority: Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority, OGRA The relationship between OGRA and Ministry of Energy, Petroleum Division. There is a conflict of responsibilities and authorities which allows these mafias to fester.
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Hoarding and Price Manipulation Mafias
Incompetence of the “competent authorities” responsible for lack of price control under several ministries. Beware of media brigade that wants to protect and cover-up the shenanigans of the “incompetent authorities” by shifting the blame to the poor people. They are trying to absolve themselves of the responsibility of ensuring that the incompetence of these so…
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Constitutional Corruption vs Financial Corruption
Corruption is breaking of law to gain some financial benefits. Law is under the constitution, so constitution is at a higher pedestal than law. Constitutional violations have a greater negative impact than the financial corruption because constitutional violations destroy the institutions and their relationships, thereby leaving scars that may take decades to heal. The impact…
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Why there are Crime Mafias in Pakistan- Multiple Investigation Agencies with Overlapping Functions
کرپشن اور کرائم انوسٹیگیشن: بڑھتا گیا درد جوں جوں دوا کیHow many investigation agencies are there in Pakistan? Which other investigation agencies exist that are not mentioned in the attached lists? I think there are investigating units also in FBR, EOBI, SBCA, SBP etc? I read somewhere many years ago that there are 40+ agencies!How…
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How Mafias Come into Existence in Pakistan: There is no single authority to be held accountable
Mafias are created when different government agencies start playing ping-pong with their responsibility. They are all the time fighting turf wars often with the connivance of the vested interests, who then cling together to form cartels that start playing one government department against the other, one ministry against the other. جہاں جہاں مافیا ہے…
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Aviation Fiasco: Incompetence of CAA, PIA and Aviation Ministry
CAA has recently certified that all the licenses issued by CAA are genuine and are not fake. Please note the count of fake licenses was 262 in the report flashed by the aviation minister in the assembly which was followed by the Prime Minister speaking about that the fake licenses while trying to implicate previous…
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When Ayub Khan Accused Fatima Jinnah Of Being An Indian And American Agent
Source: Time Magazine datelined Christmas Day 1964. It sheds interesting light on how far back this game of the security establishment conjuring up images of US-India collusion go. Ayub Khan actually accused Fatima Jinnah of being pro-Indian and pro-American. Oldest trick in the security establishment’s book. -YLH “They call her the Mother of the Nation,” sniffed Pakistan’s…
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Weakness of Pakistani Judicial System and PCO Chief Justices
Since the Justice Faez Isa case in the SJC and subsequent Supreme Court’s full bench hearing on Justice Isa’s petition, the Pakistani media brigade has gone full throttle against maligning all the judges of the superior courts. All ills have been heaped on the judges with insinuation about their integrity. This facebook post highlights who…
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Dictator Godfathers of Pakistani Politicians-Quality of Selectors-Quality of Selectees
Quality of selectors in Pakistan has reflected in the quality of the selectees. Vicious propaganda against politicians of Pakistan should make us reflect that why on ZAB, NS, AZ, AH and Chaudhrys are credited for their alleged treason and corruption. Their godfathers should also be given due credit if we accept that they have such…
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Political Engineering of Chief Justices of Pakistan: PCO judges
This slide in one glance tells you why there is a vicious campaign against the Supreme Court Judges. There is a new breed of SC judges that are not PCO-ed by dictators. This also tells the story of how Supreme Court controlled and manipulated. Only the judges who toe the lines of the dictators are…
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Corruption and Doctrine of Necessity
چور مچائے شور: کرپشن قانون توڑ کر اپنے نفع کے لئے فیصلے کرنے کو کہتے ہیں، جس کے لئے اپنی جان بچانے کے لئے مک مکا و مٹی پاؤ کرنا بھی شامل ہے- ہمارے ساتھ پچھلے 70 سال سے اس ڈرامے کو نظریہ ضرورت کے نام پر ڈکٹیٹرز اپنے قانون توڑنے کے بعد بچاؤ کے…
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Why Dictators Have to Threaten the Ethnicity of their Opponents?
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Unfortunately in their false bravado and continually pumped up by their closed coterie of sycophant advisors , dictators threaten their opponents, and this becomes too much when they threaten the race. This may be a common…
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Long Term Costs of Presidential System in Pakistan that Need to be Computed
Our penchant and love for presidential systems, our mythical expectation of a strong leader, a saviour on horseback to come galloping and relieving us from our faltering steps has resulted in the following during our over 35 years quest: Three arbitrary selections that establishment now consider corrupt, three separatist movements, three rigged elections, three selections arbitrarily…
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Case Study of PKLI: How a Fine Initiative was Destroyed by Saqib Nisar, the Economic Hitman of Pakistan
With this treatment of Dr Saeed Akhtar and the treatment that they highly qualified professionals brought to Pakistan from their plush careers from abroad, no sane expatriate Pakistani will ever think of coming back to Pakistan to serve the country. This was the severest form of shock therapy from the Economic Hitman of Pakistan [To…
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Faulty BISP Beneficiaries Analysis. Use of Proxies in Data Analytics
Faulty assumptions of BISP research led to faulty conclusions: We must need to question the faulty research assumptions of BISP Benazir Support Program Research Study that is being promoted on social media without requisite critical analysis. Over 8lac people have been identified that are being classified as “rich” without the necessary and rigorous research methodology…
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What Economic and Political Circumstances Led to Secession of East Pakistan
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] 16 December is the anniversary of secession of East Pakistan in 1971: Do you know Hamoodur Rehman Commission Report Vol, 1 that detailed the political and economic circumstances leading to the Surrender of East Pakistan is…
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Pakistani Decision Makers should have their Skin in the Game
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Decision makers and opinion makers need to have skin in the game to face the adverse implications of their decisions. It is easy to design frameworks and solutions when consultants and fly-by-night solution providers do not…
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Dismissals of Civilian Prime Ministers in Pakistan by DoN Doctrine of Necessity Godfathers
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Doctrine of Necessity (DoN) sword had been used to repeatedly dismiss civilian prime ministers of Pakistan prematurely, since 1950s. The DoN godfathers have played the role of 1st umpire, 2nd umpire and 3rd umpire interchangeably in…
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Covey’s First Habit Advice to Proponents of Corruption Eradication First
Stephen Covey’s first habit advice to anti-corruption proponents: First habit of highly successful people states that focusing on circle of concern is counter productive. Instead focusing on your circle of Influence will cause it to expand, and this expansion will eventually take care of your concerns. “Process Efficiency” is in your circle of Influence and…
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Incompetence and inefficiency is the Mother of Corruption and is the fundamental problem of third world countries
Had corruption been the cause of our problems, then IK’s “clean” govt’s anti-corruption drive should have been showing better results. IK’s “clean” govt has falsified the hypothesis that Pakistan’s plight is because of corruption! It is the inefficiency and incompetence, stupids! Incompetence, not corruption, is responsible for our woes and problem. [To understand the context…
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Case Study of Economic Hitmen of 2018 Pakistan
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] DoN (Doctrine of Necessity) Godfather Saqib Nisar along with NAB and IMF led IK government as Economic Hitmen: Their witch hunt of greatly respected Dr Saeed Akhtar PKLIC, Dr Ismail Shah PTA, Dr Umar Saif PITB,…
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Chairman Salim Mehmud and my Brush with SUPARCO during the 1980s
I spent 6 months in SUPARCO in 1987 before resigning and leaving for US for PhD. They were trying to design for several years a signal-filter chip that was available for a few hundred rupees in Saddar. We had nothing to do in the Computer Department where I was working. The commute time from City…
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DoN Quixote PCO CJP Saqib Nisar who godfathered Sancho Panza Imran Khan
DoN Quixote and his Sancho Panzas tilting at the windmills. 1: DoN Quixote tilting at the windmills, through the Sancho Panza 2018-2023. Fighting the enemy of states: poor street vendors, irregular shops, all sectors of economy, auto sector, energy sector, real state sector, and the tax chor 99% of Pakistan population, lower class, middle class,…
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Islamabad Think Tanks Running Out of Options: Tanks without Think
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] “Think-tanks” have yet again run out of options when IK exclaimed in the joint session of parliament: ہم کیا کریں؟ کیا انڈیا سے جنگ شروع کر دیں؟ This indicates No “think”, only “tanks”! It is pathetic…
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Government Spending, Keynesian Economics and Pakistan’s Economic Slide in 2018-19
This issue was the beginning of the start of destruction of economy. So many apparently sane people people lost it through his charisma. We need to take a hard look at how criticism for the sake of criticism destroyed the “development” cycle of Pakistan’s economy. Development expenditure on flyovers, metros, motorways etc increases the money…
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Imran Khan’s Criteria of Fascism and Treatment of Opposition
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Our Honorable Prime Minister Imran Khan in the recent joint session of Parliament on Kashmir’s annexation by India, reminded the MNAs and Senators about Hitler’s fascism and Nazi Party. He explained fascist governments are those that…
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Neocolonialism Objectives for Third World Countries like Pakistan
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Work in Process: خبردار جو ایمپریس مارکیٹ کی طرح ٹھیلے/پتھارے سے حلال روزی کمائ! انہیں تباہ کر کے تاجِ برطانیہ کا طمطراق واپس لائیں گے: کالے انگریز ٹیکس چور deserve کرتے ہیں! آٹوموبیل سیکٹر میں اربوں…
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Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2019
آج وطن پرستوں سے مکالمہ “یہ افغانی ہمارے ملک کا کھاتے ہیں اور سپورٹ افغانستان کو کرتے ہیں۔” “تماری طرح وہ بھی اللہ کا دیا کھاتے ہیں، اپنی تقدیر کا کھاتے ہیں، کوئی کسی کے حصے کا نہیں کھاتا۔ اللہ کی زمین پر رہتے ہیں، تمہاری ملکیت پر نہیں رہتے۔ جب کوئی پاکستانی برطانیہ، آسٹریلیا،…