INTERNATIONAL

QUOTATION

 OXFAM eight richest people on earth (including six from the US) have a combined
income greater than half the entire global population ie 3.6 billion people FASCISM
 25000 UNICEF CHILDREN MIGRANTS FROM LIBYA TO ITALY


PAK AFGHAN

 AFGHAN LIST OF 85 LEADERS AND PAKISTAN GAVE LIST OF 76

AFGHAN CRISIS

 China, Russia and Iran in addressing Afghanistan’s conflict

 CHINA prevent the spillover of Uighur militancy.
 RUSSIA ; assert its influence in the Middle East and Central Asia and limit US
power and presence at its back door ; CHECK IS , AFGHAN DRUG TRADE TO
CA
 Russia supports political reconciliation between the Kabul and Taliban TRILATERLA TALKS
PAKISTAN RUSSIA CHINA
 upcoming six-nation talks INDIA PAK CHINA RUSSIA
 THESE ACTORS with the exception of India, in favour of political reconciliation
 China can facilitate cooperation between Islamabad and Kabul; Russia can initiate
discussions between Islamabad and Delhi.
 Russian investment in the North-South LNG pipeline, defence trade deals, and growing
security cooperation PAKISTAN
 GEN JOHN Nicholson reiterated that Pakistan is the source of the US stalemate in
Afghanistan  owing to its continued support for the Afghan Taliban and
Haqqani Network
 PAKISTAN NOT seeks leverage over one representative group in Kabul to defend its
interests.
 SOFT POWER IN AFGHAN ; 3000 SCHOLARSHIPS ,, RETHINK AFGHAN REFUGEE ,
 quadrilateral forum that included the US along with Pakistan, China and Afghanistan
SUSPENDED ONE YEAR
 The killing of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the Taliban chief, in a CIA drone strik STALKED
TALKS
 TRILATERAL ; lifting of the travel ban on the insurgent leaders
 rilateral talks in Moscow that included Turkey and Iran on the settlement of Syrian crisis.
SYRIAN CRISIS
 Last year was the bloodiest in Afghanistan
 Afghan officials have informally met the representatives of the Taliban’s Qatar office
PAK US

 Gen Joseph Votel, commander of the US Central Command ; INDIA ISOLATE PAKISTAN
“especially troubling” /  key and critical partner  /  they’ve supported Gen Joseph Nicholson
AFGHANISTAN AGAINST HAQQANI / key to ensure that Pakistan and Afghanistan have
a very good relationship. /
 PAF ; LAST SUMMER ; Exercise Red Flag and Green Flag at Nellis Air Force Base in
Nevada
 20 US-designated terrorist organisations operate in the Afghanistan-Pakistan sub-region


RUSSIA RESURGENCE

 TRILATERLA SYRIAN TALKS

 TRILATERAL AFGHAN TALKS
 Obama administration’s inaction and in anticipation AS WELL AS TRUMP


PAK INDIA MOEEED YUSUF

 US DE HYPHENATION POLICY WITH INDIA

 to solve Afghanistan, one needs improvement on the Pak-India front.
 SINO US CONFRONTATION ; INDIA COUNTER BEIJING
 A tougher US line on the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network is on the cards
 The state’s policies on anti-India militant outfits can’t win it any champions.
 MODI isolate Pakistan as a litmus test of US sincerity to Indo-US ties
 SINO US TIES the two sides can cooperate in the Af-Pak-India theatre.
 INDIA defense got $51 billion, 2.25% of India’s GDP : $2267 BILLION / PAKISTAN

 India’s trade deficit declined to $10.4 billion JAN 2017

INDIA FINANCE MINISTER ARUN JETLI

 CORRUPTION , TERRORISM , LESS TAX COMPLIANT

 MONETRY POLICY BRING MONEY IN BANKS
 GLOBALISATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND SERVICES
 Shares of top Indian IT companies sank 2 per cent to 4pc on the Bombay Stock Exchange
TRUMP
 MODI DEMONETISATION 500/1000 RS NOTES THATS 85 % CIRCULATION


UNSC INDIA

 VIOLATES UNSC REOLUTIONS ON KASHMIR

 limited expansion of the UNSC from 15 to 20; and
 US, UK and France favor India’s inclusion
 FREQUENT VETO paralysis of the Security Council during the Cold WaR
 VETO ; negates the very concept of democratic principles and is emblematic of absolutism
  India continues to illegally occupy 60000 square Kilo Meters of Nepalese territory lost by
Nepal after the signing of Sugauli treaty of 1816 with East India Company.”
 IGNITED CIVIL WAR IN SRILANKA
 TAMIL assassinated Indian prime minister Rajiv Ghandi 
 China was joined by Austria, Ireland and Brazil THAT INDIA NO NSG MEMBERSHIP

INDIA

 ECONOMIC GROWTH 7% BUT PAKISTAN 4.7%

 Directors General Military Operations of India and Pakistan, earlier in the day, held their
hotline conversation 10 Mar. 17


IWT

 SYED JAMAAT ALI SHAH ; FORMER PAKISTANI COMMISIONER FOR INDUS WATERS ; INDIA
AGREED TO HOLD COMMISIONARATE METTING SHOWS TREATY INTACT
 RATLE AND KISHANGANGA ISSUE IN WORLD BANK ALREADY

NUCLEAR ISSUE

 Washington think-tank, the Brookings Institution, focuses on the “strategic chain” linking
Pakistan, India, China and the US.
 “While Pakistan responds strategically to India, India responds both to Pakistan and
China, which in turn responds both to India and the United States,” says a report
  China “fears that the widening nuclear and conventional military gaps between India and
Pakistan may threaten regional stability,” the study adds
 longstanding unresolved Kashmir dispute lies at the heart of tensions between the two
neighbours.
 New Delhi, emboldened by a Western-supported military build-up, is less willing to
pursue a negotiated and peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute, 
 He also examines the Indian “Cold Start” doctrine, which “aims to rapidly launch shallow
thrusts inside Pakistani territory to capture and use it for coercing Pakistan”
 He notes that India has the oldest, largest and fastest-growing unsafeguarded nuclear
programme of all non-Non-Proliferation Treaty states and the entire developing world. :
Syed Muhammad Ali of the Centre for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad.


AMERICA

 Republican Ronald Reagan once held that government was not the solution — it was
itself the problem.
 Democrat Bill Clinton told his America that the “era of big government
[was] over”
 “The size of a lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed,” Hitler wrote in his book
Mein Kampf

TRUMP

 NEWS MEDIA AN ENEMY OF PEOPLE

 NATO ALLIES TO INCREASE DEFENCE BUDJET TO 2% OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC OUTPUT
AFTER UKRAINE CRISIS/ 28 MEMBERS – US, BRITAIN, POLAND, GREECE, ESTONIA PAY 2%
 MUHAMMAD EL ERIAN ; CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR ; ALLIANZ SAID ; TRUMP WONT BRING
ANY SIZABLE CHANGE
 ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ as the most significant security threat,
 (5 MILLION JOBS LOST SINCE 2000) IN US
 TRUMP AND ERDOGAN VOW TO FIGHT TOGETHER IS
 BANNED MEDIA OUTLETS CNN, the BBC, and The New York Times WHITE HOUSE
BRIEFING
 TRADE POLICY ; AMERICA NOT BOUND BY WTO RULINGS ; ( SETTLE DISPUTES TRADE )
 CHINA SUPPORTS WTO
 KILLING OF SRINAVAS KUCHIBHOTLA IN KANSAS FEB : HATE CRIME ; PERSON GET OUT OF
MY COUNTRY
 JEFF SESION : ATTORNEY GENERAL MET RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SERGEY KISLIYEK
 MICHAEL FLYNN ; NSA ; 3 WEEKS ; SAME MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR
 Republicans have just a two-seat majority in the Senate TO PASS A BILL

TRADE

 PETER NAVARO ; TRADE ADVISOR ; ANTI CHINA ; 2016EXPORTS $1.45 trillion in

goods and imported $2.19 trillion, DEFICIT $734bn in goods CHINA
 China was the United States' 3rd largest goods export market in 2015. 2 ND LARGEST AGRICULTURAL
MARKET ; $ 20 BN / EXPORTS OF SERVICES TO CHINA $45 BILLION AND IMPORTS $ 15BILLION

TRAVEL BAN 7MAR

  nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen 

 IRAQ EXCEPTION
 Each of these countries is a state sponsor of terrorism, has been significantly compromised by
terrorist organisations, or contains active conflict zones
 End Racial and Religious Profiling Act (ERRPA) of 2017 US SENATE BILL ; FEB 2017


WATERGATE OBAMA

 In 1972, the Nixon administration wired the Democratic National Committee headquarters at
the Watergate office complex in Washington and two years later, on Aug 9, 1974, Mr Nixon
had to step down for his alleged role in the scandal.
 A senior Obama aide, former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes FALSE


WTO

 INTERNATIONAL TRADE RULES ; ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and
freely as possible
   multilateral trading system  1995
  interpreting agreements and commitments, and how to ensure that countries'
trade policies conform with them
 WTO’s agreements, SIGNED BY NATIONS, and ratified in their parliaments.
 These agreements are the legal ground-rules for international commerce

Presidential address

 Trump even enlisted the help of Abraham Lincoln, echoing what the first Republican
president described as “protective policy.”
 war on “radical Islamic terrorism”
 slogan “make America great again.”
  IS was “a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered Muslims and Christians, and
men, women, and children of all faiths and beliefs.”


US CHINA BBC

 ANTI MEDIA
 54BILLION USD INCREASE MILITARY SPENDING TO 26% /
 The United States spends just over $50 billion annually on the State Department and USAID,
compared with $600bn or more each year on the Pentagon.
 SENATOR MARCO RUBIO , FLORIDA REPUBLICAN "Foreign Aid is not charity. We
must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1 per cent of budget & critical to our
national security."
 RESULT CHINA INCREASED SPENDING 7 % / China also for the first time sent its sole aircraft
carrier into the Pacific for exercise in December /
 Barthelemy Courmont, a senior Research Fellow at the Paris-based French Institute for
International and Strategic Affairs SENSELESS ARMS RACE
 BAN ON MUSLIM COUNTRIES

TRADE WAR

 manipulating China’s currency, stealing America’s intellectual property and

“taking our jobs” / CLIMATE CHANGE CHINA CONCEPT TO CURB AMERICA /
DAMAGE WTO

 US THEY ARE NOT BOUND BY WTO RULES

 no bilateral trade deal with China, WTO rules define
 legal cases against China at the WTO
 health-and-safety problems with American food exports ;
 45% tariff on Chinese imports AGAINST WTO
 1930 CRISIS TRADE TARIFFS
 DECREASE  tariffs on industrial products, from an average of 6.3% to 3.8%.
PRINCIPLES

1. Non-discrimination. BETWEEN WTO MEMBERS MFN

2. RECIPROCITY
3. Binding and enforceable commitments.
4. Transparency.
5. SAFTEY VALUES

TRUMP POLICY FOR MIDDLE EAST RAFIA

 complete disengagement. ; leave the countries involved to sort out issues by

themselves. As Peter Feaver and Hal Brands point out TOO HANDS OFF
 complete investment ; build the kind of liberal democracies : FEAVER AND BRANDS ;
TRUMP NO NATION BUILDING

DR NIAZ TRUMP AMERICA FIRST

 Globalisation means increased flows of goods, services, money, people, ideas 

 unleashed by Reagan 1981-89
 key US sectors, like agriculture, were protected. TEXTILE , GOODS , CLOTHING
 Large trade deficits  US In 2016, the total U.S. trade deficit was$502 billion
  US public debt (CHEAP ) purchased by states like Japan and China
 building a fair economic system which taxes the rich fairly

DEMOCRACY TRUMP SIKANDER AHMED SHAH FORMER LEGAL ADVISOR MO FOREIGN A

 REPRESENTATION
  protects civil and political rights
 accountable and effective governmental institutions
 CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY ; SEPARATION OF POWERS
 ARTICLE 2 UNDHR EVERY BODY IS ENTITLED TO BASIC HUMAN HUMAN RIGHTS
WITHOUT ANY NATIONAL DISTINCTION
 CANT EXPEL REFUGEES BECUASE LIFE THREATENEND
 Articles 2 and 26 of the ICCPR, the right to equality and non-discrimination are
unequivocally protected

OBAMA

 OBAMACARE JUST 25 MILLION

  implacably obstructionist House of Representatives REPUBLICANS
 halfway through his second term LOST BARE MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS
 2007-08 CRISIS caused by the inevitable excesses of unregulated capitalism
 NOT able to CUT same to Guantanamo Bay, and
 scaled new heights in assassination by drones
 $850 billion on the Afghanistan war in addition to losing 2,400 service members
  August 2016, only 63.4pc of the country’s territory was under government control,
shrinking from 72pc in November 2015
 PROMISED END OF SECOND TERM EMBASSY LEVEL PRESENCE IN AFGHAN ; STILL 8000
TROOPS
  improved revenue collection, infrastructure development and maintaining a sensitive
geopolitical balance in the region

OBAMA CARE

 20 MILLION PEOPEL INSURANCE HEALTH

 insurance companies are barred from refusing coverage to people due to pre-existing
conditions
 CHILDREN remain on their parents’ plan until age 26.
 PEW RESEARCH CENTRE ; 54 % FAVOURABILITY

AMBASSADOR TO US , INDIA CHINA ASHRAF JEHANGIR QAZI

 ‘hope and change’

 sending criminal Wall Street ‘banksters’ to prison
 Nobel Prize for Peace for ‘resetting’ relations with Russia, including the negotiation of a
nuclear arms agreement
  visit to Cuba and reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran. weak Paris Agreement
 Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Pakistan have all been disasters for Obama
 NO progress towards a sustained dialogue for a durable two-state solution
 murder of the Libyan leader Gaddafi and the destruction of Libya
 His sanctions on Russia and containment of China brought these two POWERS
TOGETHER
 global assassination programme,  DRONES / gun control HELPLESS

NORTH KOREA

 FIRED FOUR MISSILES AND CAME DOWN IN EEZ 200NM OF JAPAN

 SHINZO ABE ; clearly violate UN Security Council resolutions
 SOUTH KOREA acting president Hwang Kyo Ahn ; “swift deployment” of a US missile
defence system, THAAD ; INFURIATES CHINA
 six sets of UN sanctions since Pyongyang’s first nuclear test in 2006
 arack Obama ordered the Pentagon to increase cyber attacks AGAINST MISSILES
 US DEPLOYS Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system IN SOUTH KOREA


BREXIT

 Open Europe projected last March that a worst-case Brexit scenario would cost the U.K. 2.2
percent of GDP by 2030; best-case scenario is that GDP would rise 1.6 percent over the same
period
 The U.K. currently contributes 5.8 percent of the E.U.’s operating budget
 If the E.U. loses the U.K., it loses 15 percent of its GDP.
  Nearly 2 million people from other E.U. countries are currently working in the U.K. 
 1.26 million U.K. citizens are currently spread throughout the rest of the E.U

 Britain will have to pay a “very hefty” bill to leave the European Union ( 60 billion
euros) ; European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker
 EU ; 2018 GROWTH WILL SINK 1.2 %
 PHILIP HAMMOND ; RIGHT NOW 2% 2017 ; growth from next year to the end of the decade
would be weaker


ISLAMIST TERRORISM

 ERDOGAN SAYS IT SADDENS MUSLIMS

 MERKEL SAID TO FIGHT COLLABORATIVLEY AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM

MIDDLE EAST

 34 ALLIANCE ; KSA SOVEREIGNITY

 Israel is benefiting from the Sunni-Shiite divisions (destabilize all the Muslim nations)
 Arab-Israel alliance AGAINST IRAN
 U.S. nor Israel would be part of the mutual-defense pact


IRAN US

 MIKE FLYNN ; NSA TO TRUMP ; IRAN MISSILE TEST AGAINST UNSC 2231
  Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) concluded on 14 July 2015 by China, France, Germany, the Russian
Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States, the High Representative of the European Union (the E3/EU+3)
and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
 On 20 July 2015, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2231 (2015) endorsing the JCPOA
 UNSC RESOLUTION 2231 : review and decide on proposals by States for nuclear, ballistic missile, or arms-related
transfers to or activities with Iran;

IRAN

  Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Honardoost, the army chief said: “Enhanced Pak-Iran
military-to-military cooperation will have positive impact on regional peace and
stability.”
 DEF TALKS ; FEB ; SARTAJ AZIZ AND DEF SEC ;  Islamabad and Tehran decided to set up
three more immigration offices at the border / establish more markets at the border to
generate economic activity 



EU

 LE PAN FRANXIT TO COST 30BN EUROS TO FRANCE

FRANCE
  EMMANEUL MACRON : NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION AND REVIVAL OF EUROPEAN DREAM,
CUTTING TAXES , ADVISOR FRANCOIS HOLLANDE ; ECONOMY MINISTER 2014-16 ; END
FAVOURITISM ;
 MARINE LE PEN : NATIONALIST AND FREXIT ; SHARED IS PICTURES ;


YEMEN

 UN NEEDS $2.1BN TO AVOID FAMINE

 INCREASING BBC

SYRIA

 RUSSIA CHINA VETOED SANCTIONS AGAINST SYRIA ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS

 GENEVA 4 ; UNDER WAY ; SYRIAN GOVT AND OPPOSITION ; POLITICAL SOLUTION IN GENEVA
COMMUNIQUE 2012 RUSSIA AND USA
 USA ABSENCE FROM TALKS
 UN REPORT BLAMES SYRIA FOR CHEMICAL ATTACKS ON AIN CONVOY ALLEPO : WAR CRIME
 Ankara views the YPG as the Syrian extension of the Kurdish PKK militant
group, which has fought an insurgency in Turkey’s southeast since 1984 and
is considered a terrorist group by both the United States and European
Union.
 US US Army Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, who commands the US-led
coalition effort against IS in Iraq and Syria, told a Pentagon news briefing on Tuesday a
role for the Kurds was still in Washington’s plan.

UAE PAK

 de-hyphenating’ their India-Pakistan relationships

 14 MOU WITH INDIA
 voted against sending troops to Yemen to support the Saudi-led and Emirati-backed
conflict there
 bilateral trade between the UAE and India in 2015 stood at $60 billion, compared to
$7bn with Pakistan.
 CHINA ; ON PAKISTAN SIDE ; matter of Indian membership of the Nuclear
Suppliers Group, the blacklisting of Maulana Masood Azhar at the UN
Security Council, or Indian bellicosity regarding the Indus Water Treaty
 ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET
 clarify its position regarding the Afghan Taliban and anti-India groups, compounded by
our interior minister’
 UAE SUPPORTS INDIA UNSC MEMBERSHIP

DEMOCRACY

 75pc of her London constituents voted to remain in the EU

  52-48 in favour of Brexit
 The turnout was high at 72%

GLOBALISATION

 INDIA ; opened up far more to private capital, but retained trade barriers ; quality
controls, transfer of technology and local content requirements, and a revamped patent
law ; NON TARIFF BARRIERS
 PAKISTAN ; Sugar, textiles and cement remain our main industries
 a spurt of investment has come into power generation where the private sector
 NO AGRICULTURAL BOOM
 Our main export at the start of the process was manpower and cotton, and that remains
the case to the present
 OTHER COUNTRIES ; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY ; PHARAMCEUTICALS AND SYNTHETIC FIBRES
 ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS ; SEA THAT LED TO PAKISTAN ; DRIENG ALL FOREIGN RESERVES
1999
 great financial crisis of 2008 ; PAKISTAN STOCK MARKET COLLAPSED
 lack of an adaptive response to a fast-changing world
 FRANCE ; Front National politician Marine Le Pen seems to have run into trouble as the
centrist pro-European presidential candidate Emannuel Macron climbs up the opinion
polls.
 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has unveiled a blueprint — or
several blueprints — for revitalising Europe in the coming years
 A victory for Le Pen and her anti-EU policies could indeed stop Europe in its tracks.
 60 YEARS ANNIVERSERY EU

SAARC

 AMJAD HUSSAIN B SIYAL NEW SEC GENERAL

TURKEY GERMAN

 ERDOGAN REFERENDUM NEXT MONTH ; PRESIDENTIAL FORM ; 4 MILLION TURKS LIVING IN

GERMANY ; MERKEL STOPPED FROM RALLY
 detention of Deniz Yucel, a German-Turk journalist BY TURKEY ; REPORT Kurdistan
Workers’ Party (PKK) commander , DIE WELT
 ERDOGAN OPEN BORDER FOR MIGRANTS TO GO TO GERMANY
 failure of the EU to grant Turks visa-free travel in the Schengen states
 FAILURE TO GIVE 4 BILLION EUROS TO HELP TURKEY COPE REFUGEE


NATIONAL
FACTS

 TI SOUTH ASIA ; 40 % PEOPLE PAY BRIBE TO ACCESS PUBLIC SERVICES ; INDIA 69%
  HUMAN CAPITAL REPORT ; WEF ; PAKISTAN 118 /130 LAST YEAR 113
 World Bank, 35pc of Pakistan’s population is under the age of 14

EDUCATION UZAIR M. YOUNUS

 Pakistan spends a miserly 2.7pc of its GDP on education.

 Nadia Naviwala, Pakistan’s Education Crisis: The Real Story, the education budget of $7.5
billion in 2016 is more than double the $3.5bn allocated in 2010.
 MISPENDING AND NON SPENDING
 REVISED SYLLABI , PRIMARY SECONDARY AND TERITAIRY ; fosters critical
thinking and promotes scientific and computer coding skills
 free broadband internet in all educational institutions
 HIGHLY DEDICATED TEACHERS SKILLED
 pursue public-private partnerships that seek to provide technology-based solutions
  Naviwala writes, “almost 40pc of Pakistani students are enrolled in low-cost private
schools”.

REPORT

  24 million to 22.6 million, statistics of PAK EDU STATS 2015-16  OUT OF SCHOOL
CHILDREN
 44pc children between the ages of five and 16
 21pc primary schools in the country are being run by a single teacher
 40pc public sector primary schools were operating without electricity, 28pc did not have
toilets, 25pc were without boundary walls  AND WATER
 As many as 70pc children in Balochistan and 58pc in Fata are out of school
 net enrolment rate in primary education had improved at the rate of 4pc per annum from
14.65 million in 2012-13 to 17.1 million in 2015-16

DEVELOPMENT

 BISP ; 5.4 MILLION PEOPLE

 METRO BUS , ORANGE LINE


ECO PAKISTAN

 Formed in 1985 – expanded in 1992 former soviet bloc countries joinded

 dispelling the impression of growing isolation
 AFGHANISTAN , IRAN , KAZAKISTAN , UZBEKISTAN , AZERBAIJAN , TAJIKISTAN , TURKEY ,
KRYGYSTAN , CCHINA SPECIAL GUEST ,
 25th anniversary of the expansion of the bloc established in 1985
 theme is ‘Connectivity for Regional Prosperity’
  Council of Ministers also adopted the ECO Vision 2025
 SARTAJ ;  “Global peace, stability and prosperity cannot be achieved in silos in the inter-
connected world of today.”
  trade and non-trade barriers and inadequate transport linkages. / lack of political
commitment of member states
 commitment of the member states to transform the ECO into a vibrant regional bloc,”
Prime Minister
 Islamabad Declaration and Vision 2025
1. develop communication infrastructure,
2. facilitation of trade and investment,
3. promotion of connectivity,
4. effective use of energy resources
5. making the ECO effective and efficient
 implementation of the ECO Trade Agreement (ECOTA) 2003
 Intra-regional trade among the ECO member states is currently eight per cent  - to 20%
ECO Secretary General Halil Ibrahim
 energy infrastructure development, intra-regional energy trade, improving access to
affordable energy resources and development of environment-friendly energy
technologies,
 promoting sea, land and air transport linkages
 unresolved conflicts were hindering economic growth,
 The summit criticised travel restrictions and economic sanctions against Iran by the
United States 
 The border closure with afghansitan against the spirit of ECO

REGULATORY BODIES

 CONTROL OF REGULATORY BODIES CANNOT BE TRANFERRED FROM ONE MINISTRY TO

OTHER WITHOUT APPROVAL OF CCI 154
 AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF PARTICIPATORY FEDERALISM
 LHC SUSPENDS DEC 19 ORDER ; NEPRA, OGRA , PTA , PPRA, AND Frequency Allocation
Board (FAB) UNDER MINISTRIES

URDU LANGUAGE

 21 FEB 1952 ; BANGALI PROTESTS ERUPTED ; DHAKA UNI ; 56% POPULATION

 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DISPARITY AND CROSS BORDER INTERFERENCE LOSS EAST
PAKISTAN
 SC URDU SHOULD BE AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
 COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION IN URDU
 RASOOL BUX RAEES ; PROFESSOR POL SC LUMHS ; 90% OF STUDENTS DONT SPEAK MOTHER
TONGUE AT HOME
 FOZIA SAEED ; HEAD OF LOK VIRSA ; DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH
 VARIOUS OFFICIAL LANGUAGES CANDA , IRAN , RUSSIA , BELGIUM , INDIA , AFGHANISTAN
 KP CURRICULUM 5 LANGUAGES
 NATIONAL LANGUAGE ; PUNJABI , SINDHI , PASHTO , BALOCHI , SIRAIKI
 AMEND ARTICLE251 OF CONSTITUTION
  Lhc CSS 2018 exams was consistent with a 2015 Supreme Court judgement, which
called for the use of Urdu in the running of the affairs of government
 Ideally, candidates should be free to opt for English, Urdu or any other native language
they are comfortable with.
 produce competent and committed teachers.
  In 2011, the British Council commissioned a world-renowned linguist, Hywel Coleman ;
Coleman proposed a three-language policy MOTHER TONGUE ; URDU ; ENGLISH

CPEC

 15000 MILITARY PERSONNEL ; SPECIAL SECURITY DIVISION (34 RELATED PROJECTS ), MSF
 300MW POWER PROJECT GAWADAR 360 MILLION $
 GAWADAR INT AIRPORT $230 MILLION
 FRESH WATER PROJECT $144 MILLION
 MAINTENANCE COST OF ROADS
 Sartaj Aziz claimed that CPEC could “galvanise trade opportunities with the ECO region”
ECONOMIC BLOC
 only Chinese investors would be allowed to invest in the proposed  sez so Pakistani
labour hire or not
 $35 billion in 19 power projects which will generate 12,134 MW
 Sindh energy at 5,580 MW, Punjab will be given 2,940 MW, Balochistan will be given 1,620
MW, Azad Jammu and Kashmir will be given 1,124 MW and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be
given 870 MW.

COST OF CPEC

 1.65-billion-dollar Metro Train project in Lahore (TAX BENEFIT )

 $ EARLY HARVEST $ 28 BILLION ; 18 FOR POWER AND 10 FOR ROAD
 POWER PLANTS ; commercial loans at the rate of 6-7 % from Chinese banks
 INFRASTRUCTURE ; GOVT OWNED 2.4%
 IMF ;  “opportunity for Pakistan to boost investment and growth.”
 SECRECY ; the financing of CPEC projects and the manner of their execution
 TAX INCENTIVES AT GAWADAR /  Sukkur-Multan section of the Karachi-Peshawar
Motorway / Metro Train project in Lahore /  Thakot-Havelian section KKH /
 Thar-based power projects  /  Karot, Suki Kinari and Kohala hydropower projects — are also
expecting tax waivers /
 660KV Matiari-Lahore DC (direct current) transmission  ; NEPRA 71PAISA/ UNIT
CHINESE DEMAND 74 PAISA/UNIT
 set up a revolving fund equal to 22 percent of estimated monthly invoicing ; LIABILITY
GOVERNMENT ; LOCAL INVESTORS DONT GET THIS
 CHINA BANGLADESH COAL BASED PROJECTS ; $0.062 per unit compared with
$0.092 per unit PAK ; OLD PLANTS
 RS 200 BN BENEFITS IN TAX EMEPTIONS CALCULATED BY DAWN (4.5%)
 SPECIAL SECURITY COST RS 56 BILLION : NEPRA REJECTED PUTTING ON PEOPLE
 first private power policy 1990 ; IPP ; CORPORATE TAX EMEPTIONS SBP
  CPEC imports to about 11 percent of the total projected imports in 2019/2020.

CPEC INDUSTRY

 coherent industrial policy / uninterrupted supply of electricity and gas, rationalising

taxes and easing regulations
  well-defined local stakeholders/ Chinese versus local ownership of resources. LAND
LEASE
 identify which industries make sense AND TARGET THEM
 move up the technology ladder / create firm level incentives for investment in advanced
machinery / CHINA minimum level of technology transfer
 LABOUR MOVED TO HIGH SKILLED/ stipulate a minimum level of domestic labour for all
joint industrial initiatives / GOOD CONDITIONS , TRAINING FACILITIES , INSURANCE

BALOCHISTAN

 1300/2600 KM OF WESTERN ROUTE OF CPEC

 GAWADAR DEVELOPMENT
 even after the NFC award
 PROJECTS Balochistan 16 KPK 8 Sindh 13 Punjab 12 CHINESE EMBASSY
 problem thus is a political one, not a socioeconomic one
  CPEC-related job opportunities to the people
 government must engage with nationalist organisations like BNP-M

MULTI PARTY CONFERENCE BALOCHISTAN

 Complete control of the Gwadar Port Mega Project TO BALOCHISTAN

 western route of the CPEC should be completed first
 imposing a complete ban on the issuance of identity cards
 People of Gwadar should be preferred in appointments at Gwadar Port
 ALTERNATE FISHERMAN ways of earning REMOVE POLITICAL BAN FROM
GAWADAR
 Locals should be inducted into security forces 
 COMPENSATION FOR THE LAND


EDUCATION ; EDU MINISTER ABDUL RAHIM ZIARATWAL

1. door-to-door campaign to enrol every child of school-going age

2. FREE BOOKS PROVIDE
3. teachers appointed on a temporary basis earlier were now permanently employed.
4. DR ABDUL MALIK ; verification exercise to unearth ghost schools and absentee
teachers ; 400 ABSENTEE TEACHERS TERMINATE
5. UN report last year, Pakistan is 50-plus years behind in its primary and 60-plus years
behind in its secondary education targets.
6. According to the report, 5.6m children all over the country are out of school
7. BNP-M LEADER AKHTAR JAN MENGAL ; NO ANY PROJECT IN BALOSHISTAN FOR THE BENEFIT
OF BALOCH PEOPLE / UCH POWER PLANT SUPPLIES ENERGY TO NATIONAL GRID THROUGH
GUDDU
 8.

GLOBAL WARMING

 KARAKORAM ANOMALY ; WESTERN HIMALAYN GLACIERS SURGE ; glaciologist by the name

of Ken Hewitt
 Pakistan Integrated Mountain Conservancy Programme

Climate

 EPA ; to conduct intensive environmental impact assessments (EIAs) ; ADB 2013

HIGLIGHTS THAT ONLY 20% PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED IN PUNJAB AND
SINDH AND 10 % REST
 EMISSION DATA LEFT TO INDUSTRIES TO TELL
 wide mandate to heavily penalise the polluters
 state develop policies to focus on ancillary issues: population control, encouraging
renewable sources of energy, implementing reforestation programmes,

FATA

 ANNUAL PSDP RS 21BN

 FEDERATION TO GIVE ROYALITY FROM WARSAK DAM AND GOMAL ZAM DAM
 GIVE 3% NFC ALLOCATION RS 90BN
 18 TH AMENDMENT ; REVENUE OIL AND GAS ; DISTRIBUTE 50 :50 FEDERATION AND
PROVINCE : FATA NOT INCLUDED
 FATA ON AVERAGE BUDGET ALLOCATION 155%LESS THAN GB ,
 10 YEAR TIME LINE FOR MAINSTREAMING
 MILITARY FAVOURS MAINSTREAMING OF FATA

 separate province for the locals (backed by Jamiat-Ulema-e-Fazl); its merger with Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (demanded by Jamaat-i-Islami); establishment of an independent FATA
legislative council (suggested by Fata Grand Youth Alliance) and even the maintenance of its
previous status quo.
 4.5 million people

MERGER

 ZAFAR IQBAL JHAGRA ;  “A new history is being written in the country after 70 years,” 
 MERGER TILL 5 YEARS
 Qaumi Watan Party (QWM) and the PTI expressed displeasure DO IT BEFORE 2018
ELECTIONS
 Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Amir Sirajul Haq welcomed the decision


POINTS
 1. Rs110bn 10-year uplift package ; 3% GDP (RS 100BN ) Fata every year in addition to
Rs21 billion allocated for IDPs.
2. Supreme Court, PHC to have jurisdiction in the region
3. LG polls will be held after next general elections
4. upgradation of Levis Force
5.  transit and Rahdari system will be abolished
6. AG transparent utilisation of development funds
7. connectivity of Fata with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will be ensured
8. SOCIAL SERVICES BISP
9. SBP will ensure opening of commercial banks’ branches
10. quota system will be introduced to provide job opportunities
11.  civil judges would form a council of jirga on any complaint and the issue would be
decide by the council/jirga ; DECISION TO CIVIL JUDGE ; DISAGREE appeal in the
high court and the Supreme Court,
12. REPEAL FCR

OPPOSITION / KHADIM HUSSAIN

 PPC WITH REWAJ ACT

 JUI F OPPOSED DECISION ; referendum on the future of Fata
 Do it before 2018
 Census after complete rehabilitation of IDPs
 KP GOVERNOR ENORMOUR POWERS, CM OUTSIDE ZARDARI
 Against riwaj ; Dubious law Sardar Khan, who is also Fata JI chapter chief,
 The five-year timeline might either land the plan in a lethargic
  A constitutional amendment to Article 247 WEEKS OTHERWISE MAY BE USELESS
 hand over the implementation plan to the government of KP RATHER THEN FATA DEV
AUTHORITY
 capacity of the Levies is to be enhanced instead of merging Fata’s law-enforcement apparatus
with the law-enforcement structure of the KP government
 Establishing a local government immediately will also ensure the effective implementation of
development plans.
  the government must quickly ensure qualitative and quantitative improvement of Fata’s
educational infrastructure.


IMPLICATIONS

 no more buffer regions or zones of strategic depth can be contemplated

 Constitutional, legal and administrative reforms will only succeed in an environment of
relative security stability. 
 the success of Fata reforms will depend on the willingness by the other federating units
and the centre to make difficult choices. The 3pc share


CENSUS

Prof Mehtab Karim, an expert on demographic studies and member of the Expert Committee ;
FBS ; CONCERNS
  NOT LAST 20YEARS ; Somalia, Afghanistan and Lebanon
 ONLY IN SINDH 7PERSONS / HOUSE 1981 census to 5.8 persons in 1998
 SENATOR MIR KABIR ; 7-9LAC BALOCHS DISPLACED DUE TO ABYSMAL LAW AND ORDER ;
COUNTED IN HOME DIST
 Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party; PLOT DECREASE PAKHTUNS FROM BALOCHISTAN

ECONOMY

 LACK OF PRODUCTIVITY
1. LACK OF TRUST BW CORPORTAE AND GOVT
2. SHORT SIGHTED POLICIES
3. LACK OF COMPETITIVENESS
4. HIGHER ENERGY COST US CENTS/KWH IN PAK IS DOUBLE THAN VIETNAM, INDIA ,
CHINA AND BANGLADESH
5. HIGH CURRENCY EXCHNAGE RATE
 ABDUL GHAFFAR KHATTAK CEO NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY ORGANISATION ; DEVALUE MAY
HURT ECONOMY
 FISCAL DEFICIT 2.6% 2012-13 BUT TODAY 2.4% IN JUST 7 MONTHS 2017
 CIRCULAR DEBT TO RS 330BN
 DAR LIMIT 2016-17 -3.8 % FISCAL DEFICIT
 FDI INCREASED 10% SBP
 JULY – FEB 2015 INFLATION 2.48% BUT NOW 3.9%
 NET FOREIGN EXHCHANGE RESERVES $21.8 BILLION
  contracting $34.6 billion of new foreign loans since 2013 SBP
 cumulative public debt Rs14,600bn on June 30, 2013, to Rs20,272bn as of end-December
2016, INCREASES OF 40 % SAKIB SHERANI
 Econocracy in a new book by Joe Earle et al (The Econocracy: the Perils of Leaving
Economics to the Experts ) ; “Politics and policymaking are conducted in the language of
economics 
 WIDER PRISM NOT JUST GDP

ISLAMIC BANKING

 ASSETS GREW 91% TO RS 1.6 TN 2016

 11.7% OF TOTAL BANKING SECTOR


SENIOR FELLOW FPI ; JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

 Pakistan’s economic awakening: An improved security climate, relative political stability

and a growing middle class (BOOST ECONOMY Ishrat Hussain, former governor SBP)
 MSCI IN DEX ; EMERGING MARKET
 Brookings Institution scholar Homi Kharas argues that Pakistan’s consumer middle class
market could hit $1 trillion by 2030.
 

NFC

 3% ALLOCATION NFC AWARD TO SECURITY AND 4% TO DEVELOP FATA , GB AND AJK AND
1%KPK AS PER WOT REMAINING 92% DIVIDED 57.5 TO PROVINCES AND REST FEDERATION

ECC

 LARGE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES (July-January) of 2016-17 was down 0.04 per cent
( LAST YEAR GROW 3.94 NOW 3.9%)
 EXPORTS fell 1.3pc to $12.32 billion this year. In contrast, imports increased 9.2pc to
$25.54bn in the same period.TRADE DEFICIT INC 21% ($13.22BN)
 current account deficit widened 90pc to $4.72bn 
 FALL IN REMITTANCES at $10.95bn in seven months against $11.16bn a year ago. net
inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) surged 52.7pc in July-Jan to reach $1.83bn
against $1.2bn a year ago



PANAMA

 The Hudaibiya Paper Mills reference 2000 ; DAR ; LAUNDERING Rs1.2 billion on behalf of
the Sharifs 
 IMRAN KHAN ; OFFSHORE COMPANY AND FLAT ; embodiment of PTI’s politics of
agitation.
  As Mark Twain said: “There are lies, damn lies and statistics.”
 CASE ; alleged misstatement in his address to the nation on April 5 and his
speech before the National Assembly on May 16, 2016.
 investments made by his children in offshore companies, which led to the acquisition of
four apartments in London’s upscale Park Lane neighbourhood.
 SC ; highlighting that both the leaked documents and the Qatari letters did not meet the
stringent criteria of the Qanoon-i-Shahadat (Law of Evidence)
 In Iceland, Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
 DAVID CAMEROON ; late father’s offshore investment fund Blairmore
Holdings Inc ;  UK’s parliament had deemed the Panama Papers sufficient proof
 senior counsel Chaudhry Faisal Hussain said that the Sharif family’s failure to challenge
the Panama Papers’ veracity in any court in Pakistan or abroad amounted to an admission


REEMA OMER The writer is a legal adviser for the International Commission of Jurists.

 should the burden of proof be on the party bringing a case ; KHAN

 the Supreme Court is a court of law and not a court of morality
 Accountability is indeed a noble objective
 moral judgement into the decision thereby setting a dangerous precedent
TERRORISM

COUNTER NARRATIVE

 seminary in Garhi Shahu ; Allama Dr Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, the principal LOST LIFE


WAR OF SANTUARIES ZAHID HUSSAIN

 PORUS CROSS BORDER FROM AFGHAN SAFE HEAVENS

 JAMATUL AHRAR FROM AFGHAN BORDER ; ALLEGIANCE TO IS
 Pakistani army chief seeking joint anti-terror efforts
 cross-border sanctuaries are major obstacles in the fight against insurgencies and
terrorism
  UN report, 2016 was the bloodiest year in Afghanistan since the US invasion in 2001
 INSPECTOR UMER MUBEEN JILANI KILLED DAESH AL BAKISTAN : FORMER CJ TASSADUQ
HUSSAIN JILANI RELATIVE

NAP

 NAP is not matching up with the military effort 

 RuF are Rangers operations in Punjab, continuation of operations elsewhere in the country,
de-weaponisation and explosive control and management of the Pak-Afghan border
 phased fencing of Pak-Afghan Border, repatriation of Afghan Refugees, judicial, police and
madrassa / educational institutions reforms and military courts


SECURING PAKISTAN FARHAN BOKHARI

 Even the attainment of a nuclear ‘triad’ — the ability to launch nuclear weapons via air,
Aland and sea — cannot overcome Pakistan’s deepening security challenges
  tackling Pakistan’s crisis of governance and gaps on the economic front.

MUHAMMAD NEKUKARA

 The National Internal Security Policy 2014-18 envisaged a “robust border control
regime”
 understanding the challenges of intelligence gathering
 building the capacity of the civil and military intelligence agencies
 focus on reactive rather than preventive policing
 form of Levies in the ‘B-areas’ of Balochistan and in Fata in the shape of the Khasadars
 rural areas need operational space, tools and skills to perform their role in countering
terrorism
  Nacta and NAP have so far failed to inspire confidence
 Organised Crime Strategy and National Crime Agency of UK.

MOEED
  Seminaries in southern Punjab PROVIDE SLEEPERS
 EQUIP POLICE THAN ESTABLISHING federal counterterrorism force
 Only genuine regional coordination and joint anti-terror plans between Pakistan and its
neighbours can change SAFE HEAVENS IN OTHER COUNTRIES
 politico-sectarian nexus. PML-N’s ultra-right allies may not be directly involved in
violence but they do often morally support
 ACTORS AGAINST OTHER STATE ; COHABIT AND RECRUIT SAME PEOPLE AS TERRORIST
 POLICE CAPTURE ; HIGH ACQUITTALS ;
 research confirms the importance of positive police-community ties for improved
policing outcomes.

ISLAMIC TERROSIM

  claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse for basically barbarism and death,” Obama said
 FRANCOIS HOLLANDE ; AFTER CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS;  “Those who committed these
acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion,”
 Cameron said that: “the Muslim community in this country doesn’t support what is
happening”.

PAKISTAN ULEMA COUNCIL

 1988 ; leaders of Deobandi, Barelvi, Shia and Ahle Hadith schools

 2007CHAIRPERSON ; Hafiz Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi
 decrees against suicide attacks, honour killings and activities of the militant Islamic State
group, and in favour of women’s suffrage and prevention of misuse of blasphemy laws.
 REPLACE  Sahibzada Qasmi, who has the reputation of a conservative and hard-line
Deobandi cleric.
 CHARGE ; FUNDS FROM AMERICAN AND GERMAN TO WATCH SEMINARY
STUDENTS
 REFUSED  issue a decree against the (missing) bloggers
 SUPPORTED Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act 2016
  Islam orders punishments for men who resort to torture against their daughters, wives and
women of their homes.
  banning girls’ education had no connection to Islam.
 Mr Ashrafi said the “execution of Mumtaz Qadri [was the] implementation on laws of the
state”
 Maulana Ashrafi said those making a false accusation needed to face death penalty because
the words attributed to the accused were actually uttered by the accuser.

MILITARY

 860BILLION RS BUDGET 11% GROWTH PER ANNUM

 ONLY KINETIC OPERATION WONT DO
 Jamaatul Ahrar, a splinter of the TTP RECENT ATTACKS
 PUNJAB OPERATION NEED TO HAVE BEEN DONE ALREADY
 Extra-judicial killings are not the solution
PAK AFGHAN TERROR

 Pakistan should instead focus on working with others to eliminate the Afghan Taliban
militarily, BECAUSE NO POLITICAL SOLUTION OF TALIBAN IS LIKELY
  Freedom is a goal and terrorism one means to it ; KASHMIR
 We must only support peaceful means in IHK
 Pakistan must take tangible steps that remove all doubts 
 TRADE / PEOPLE / NO CLOSING BORDER FOR LONG TERM AFGHAN AMBASSADOR
 ECO REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY WHEREAS BORDER CLOSE HAMPERING CONNECTIVITY


EDITORIAL

 Foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz that a joint mechanism AFGHAN

 the TTP and IS are fundamentally wedded to a pan-Islamist worldview
 Targeting Afghan nationals in counterterrorism sweeps; closing border crossings used by
peaceful Afghans; attempting to evict Afghan refugees
 TERRORISM FEAR / MEDIA ,
 DO STH about the psychological harm of terrorism
 Operation Radd-ul-Fasad has been announced as a continuation of the National Action Plan
(NAP)
 CTD NACTA

AFGHANISTAN GRAVEYARD MUNIR

 WASHINGTON CONSENSUS ; DO MORE MANTRA

 PAKISTAN OPERATION SOUTH WAZIRISTAN CREATED TTP
 Pakistan’s initial actions in Swat and Fata were mainly against the TTP
 ZARB E AZAB ; HAQQANI AND AFGHAN TALIBAN ; NORTH WAZIRISTAN
  The TTP espouses the nihilistic aim of overthrowing the Pakistani state.
 openly admitted by the Indian national security adviser, Ajit Doval, India is using Afghan
territory to destabilise Pakistan by sponsoring TTP terrorism and Baloch insurgents
 IS has announced the extension of its ‘caliphate’ to the ‘Khorasan province’ 
 alarmed Iran, Russia, China and the Central Asian states / CHINA ETIM XINJIANG, IRAN
FIGHTING AGAINST IS IN SYRIA,
 ECO summit in Islamabad demonstrated India’s failure to isolate Pakistan
 peace in Afghanistan can be achieved only through a negotiated settlement between Kabul
and the Afghan Taliban#
 INDIA AND AFGHAN ELEMENTS RENOUNCE ANTI PAKISTAN ATTACKS

FAISAL

 CLEAR STANCE AFTER TRUMP FORMS AFGHAN POLICY

 HAFIZ SAEED ARREST AS PER UN / ORG under anti-terrorism watch.
 FORRUNER LET 2002
 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks
  pressure will intensify to crack down on the banned militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad
and its leader Maulana Masood Azhar PATHANKOT
 another pressure point for Pakistan is the detention on treason charges of Dr Shakeel
Afridi who helped CIA
 MISSING ; WARNING dangers of pursuing jihad as a tool of state policy

NEWS

 YEARLY DIST REPORT ; CONDUCT OF PROSECUTION ; 2016 ; 25% CASES AQUITTED IN

RAWALPINDI ALONE DUE TO WITTNESS RESILING
 the worst nightmare for our military planners is encirclement by both our neighbours.
SOLUTION GOOD RELATIONS WITH AFGHANISTAN



MILITARY COURTS

REEMA OMER ; ADVISO INT COMMISION OF JURISTS

 would give military courts jurisdiction over any offence considered to be an act of
terrorism BEFORE ONLY TO religion or sectarianism”, proscribed organisations”.
 ISPR ; : first, “cases were dealt through due process of law in the military courts”; and
second, that military trials have had “positive effects towards reduction in terrorist
activities”. DEBATABLE
 SECRET TRIALS ; National Commission for Human Rights NO PERMISSION TO SEE
 high rate of ‘confessions’. At least 159 out of 168 people 
 suspects have been defended by military officers who are not civilian lawyers.
 ABROGATES 10 A : RIGHT TO FREE TRIAL

CONCENSUS MILITARY COURTS

 OPPOSITION ; GOVT AMEND Article 175(3) of the Constitution. SEPARATE EXECUTIVE

FROM JUDICIARY ; NOT APPLICABLE TO TERRORIST TRIAL COURTS (RELIGION OR SECT )
 REMOVE SECT AND RELIGION

Zardari

 23rd constitutional amendment bill,

 one-year term / presided over by a sessions judge or an additional sessions judge/  right to
choose a counsel / enforcement of Qanoon-i-Shahadat 1984 (law of evidence) /

OKARA FARMS

 MILITARY AND ANJUMAN E MAZAREEN

 TEANANTS SHARE
MORAL DECADENCE RESEARCHER PIDE IDRESS KHAWAJA

 acceptance of abuse of authority as ‘normal’ is at the root of the problem

 politicians select such civil servants as their deputies VESTED INTERESTS

EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE FAISAL BARI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LUMHS

 estimated 25 million children between the ages of five and 16 years are out of school in
the country
 60 percent of Pakistan's population comprises of youth. 100 MILLION SBP
 good quality education and/or training 
 Investments in human resources through health, education, skill training, basic
infrastructure and environment

BHUTTO
  nationalised industry,
 diluted the bureaucracy with lateral entrants,
 ravaged his opponents, and
 created a fiefdom

HEALTH FAISAL BARI

 FEMALE PATIENT DIED IN JHL WITHOUT BED
 EXPIRED STENT
 SC SAID LGH 7/17 ventilators were not working
 BUT PUNJAB GOVT ; ORANGE LINE , METRO BUS
 MISPLACED PRIORITIES
 ZOHRA BIBI DENIED BY PRIVATE HOSP ; PMDC PROBE
 deficiency of coordination BW RURAL AND URBAN HOSP

ABYSMAL HEALTH SAMIA ALTAF PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIALIST

 MMR ; 276/1 LAC , BALOCHISTAN 785
 3 HIGHSTCHILD MR ;
 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13, 45pc of children CHRONIC
MALNUTRITION
 In 2017, 80pc of Pakistan’s population is without access to primary care
 “develop proper infrastructure and civic facilities in the district
 AD HOCISM PAKISTAN SEHAT CARD ; CASH UPTO 3LAC ; 34 general hospitals in the
private sector and 10 referral hospitals; BUT EXISTING WELFARE SYSTEM IN
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS NATIONAL BUDGET 70%
 August 2016, the Supreme Court described the situation in government hospitals in
Islamabad as “pathetic and shambolic”
 build viable and sustained services ; GOOD SERVICE DELIVERY
 TRUE HEALTH REFORMS ; WB

EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING
 UNJUSTIFIED legal, moral and social reasons
  FEAR MONGERING / LEGALLY MURDER / ARTICLE 9 SECURITY OF PERSON , ARTICLE 24
PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS /
 POLICE ORDER 2002 ; POLICE COMPLAINT AUTHORITIES / CORRECT CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SYSTEM / PROVINCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE SOLUTION / SAQIB NISAR CJ ; training to police
investigators at the Punjab Judicial Academy

REFUGEES CRISIS SANA ALIMI BOOK AFGHAN REFUGEE IN PAKISTAN

 RIGHTS ICCPR / ICESCR /BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS
 Article 14(1) of the UDHR 1948 right to seek and enjoy asylum
 .” American Convention on Human Rights, art. 22(7)
  1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees ; definition of a refugee as well as the principle of
non-refoulement AND RIGHTS AFFORDED
  1967 Optional Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees  ;
 Article 1(A)(2) of the 1951 Convention ; REFUGEES ; OUTSIDE ONES COUNTRY , unable or
unwilling to return due to a well-founded fear of persecution based on his or her race, religion,
nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group
 CRIME ; POLITICAL CRIME
 1951 CONVENTIONM art. 33(1). Non-refoulement is universally acknowledged as a human right
 dehumanisation of Afghan refugees ; deportation threats and police abuses pushed out
365,000 of Pakistan’s 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees
 AFGHANS 1.27pc of the criminal cases that land up in KP courts
 3M / 1.5 LEGALLY AND 1.5 ILLEGALLY
 more than 606,000 Afghan refugees repatriated TO AFGHANISTAN UNHCR (United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
 sustained campaign of harassment, abuse and threats by Pakistani authorities
  Today, at least 1.3 million registered refugees remain OAKISTAN



FAVOUR

 nearly 40 years, PAK AFGHAN RELATION SOUR / INTERNATION REFUGEE RIGHT /

 AMNESTY AND NATURALISATION

DISAGREE

 BURDEN ON ECONOMIC RESURCES

 BALOCH MQM in Karachi are opposed to the Afghan refugee naturalisation
 UNHCR also focuses on repatriation 
 1951 CONVENTION NOT SIGNED BY PAKISATN

STATE SOVEREIGNITY
 (Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States of 1933, Article 1).
 “(a) a permanent population, (b) a defined territory, (c) government, and (d) capacity to
enter into relations with other States” ; SOVEREIGN ENTITY
 UN ARTICLE 2-3 All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means
  ARTICLE 2 -4 UN Charter says “territorial integrity” and “political independence” in
connection with the prohibition of the use of force
 UN ARTICLE 2-7 Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations
to intervene IN DOMESTIC MATTERS
 UN ARTICLE 33-DISPUTE PARTIES ; negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration,
judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies
 UN ARTICLE 36 - legal disputes should as a general rule be referred by the parties to the
International Court of Justice


MISSED PERSONALITIES HOOODBHOY

 SALMAN HAIDER FATIMA JINNAH UNI IN PINDI
 social activist Samar Abbas, social media bloggers Aasim Saeed, Ahmad Waqas Goraya
 NISAR IN TOUCH WITH AGENCIES
 call for peace, tolerance, freedom of worship, rule of law, an end to repression in
Balochistan,
 OTHER SIDE FULL SPECTRUM USED BY EXTREMISTS
 truck bombings that levelled ISI headquarters in Peshawar and Sukkur, the attacks
against police academies in Lahore and Quetta, horrific massacre of APS students.

 allegations against the bloggers AS BLASPHEMOUS BY MEDIA : IRRESPONSIBLE

 HAMZA ALI ABBASSI ; JUNAID JAMSHED ;
 BLASPHEMOUS MAKE PEOPLE VIGILANT
 Using religion for vested interests fuels intolerance in a society 
 electronic media with no code of ethics LACK OF credibility and professionalism

 Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances ; 2015 ; 3012 CASES /1449 TRACED

1390 REMAINING 125 BALOCH ;  ISI and MI participated, recognised enforced
disappearances
 Supreme Court judgements in the ‘Muhabat Shah’ case and ‘Law and Order Case on
Balochistan’ recognised enforced disappearances
  book The ISI of Pakistan by Hein G. Kiessling, recognises the practice of enforced
disappearances ; OFFICIAL ISI STATEMENT
 SOLUTION ; current detention framework under Article 10 of the Constitution,
(TERRORISM ) / criminal prosecutions should immediately follow any future cases of
enforced disappearances  independent tribunal / legal immunity for intelligence agency
making full disclosures about missing persons/ compensation VICTIMS /

PSL NOT

1. TERRORISM
2. the physical security of those attending;
3. the diversion of significant resources 
4. Many foreign players have refused to travel to Lahore
5. 2009 ATTACK ON SRILANKAN TEAM 3DAY
 6. INTERNATIONAL TEAMS WILL NOT COME they didn’t when the PCB hosted Zimbabwe in
2015 T20
7. Something goes wrong, it would be much more deflating and damaging

PROBLEMS

 PATRONAGE POLITICS ;  55 political personalities GRANTED GAS CONNECTIONS / price

reform to encourage the judicious use of this resource /

HOUBARA BUSTARD

 PM  Rs250 million grant for Houbara Bustard Endowment Fund

 500 HOUBARA BUSTARD CHOLISTAN
 PAKISTAN AND GULF COUNTRIES CONTRACT
 (IFHC), Abu Dhabi, has released 1,000 captive-bred houbara bustards in Pakistan this
year
 SPECIAL PERMITS INCLUDES Qatari prince Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al-Thani
Bhakkar and Jhang districts in Punjab 
 SC JAN 2016 VERDICT ; MIAN SAQIB NISAR ; “Hunting of protected animals is prohibited
whereas licence is required to hunt game animals,” PROVINCE FRE TO CHOOSE
 Red List of International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
(IUCN) places houbara bustard in the category of “vulnerable” ; IUCN considers hunting
primarily using falconry as a principal threat to its conservation.

PROBLEMS OF PAKISTAN ; JAVID HUSSIAN ; retired ambassador and author of Pakistan and a
World in Disorder: A Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century.

  lack of coherence in our political, economic, diplomatic and security policies

 EAST PAKISTAN CRISIS
 KARGIL CONFLICT
 military historian Liddell Hart, “...Military strategy needs to be guided by the longer and
wider view from the higher plane of grand strategy.
 long-term security — grow economically at a higher rate than its enemy or rival
 CURRENT STRATEGY AT MEAGRE RESOURCES ;  It leads to a state of
strategic exhaustion and national demoralisation ; DISINTEGRATION OF SOVIETS
 make the goal of rapid economic growth our top priority, and subordinate everything else
in the pursuit of this supreme national objective
  Foreign policy objectives that are overly ambitious must be avoided 

Ombudsman
 FEDERAL OMBUDSMEN INSTITUTIONS AMENDMENT ACT 2017 : FED OMBUDS
CANNOT APPOINT PROVINCIAL OMBUDS / OR SETUP REGIONAL OFFICES / FED TAX
OMBUDS CANNOT BE ACTING FED OMBUDS /
 ombudsman saw 94,000 complaints 2016
 FEDERAL OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS ACT 2013 : RELAX CRITERIA FOR
ANTI HARRASMENT
  PROTECTION OF WOMEN AGAIN HARRASMENT AT WORKPLACE 2010

INFORMATION

 Article 19(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights says that the
right to freedom of expression ; SEEK INFORAMTION

PROJECTS BY CURRENT GOVT

1. Neelum Jhelum project ; 2018 ; 960MW 

2. Kurram Tangi dam project FATA ( 123BN / 81 BN RS USAID )
3. Kachhi Canal Project in Balochistan and said it would irrigate 72,000 acres
of land
4.  Lahore- Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway project in 1991
5. Rs25 billion for Lowari Tunnel Project at Chakdara-Chitral Road,

CINEMA

 BEFORE 18 AMEND ; Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) ; DEVOLVE MINSTRY

OF CULTURE
 governments in Sindh and Punjab set up their own censor boards under their culture
ministries
 RAEES ;  it showed Muslims exploding bombs and selling liquor.”
 Usman Peerzada, who is the vice-chairman of the Punjab Censor Board, Gujarat is
the place where Muslim genocide happened and they’re showing Muslim gangsters
blackmailing politicians?
 MALIK WAS BANNED BECAUSE SHOWED IMMORALITY ABOUT POLITICIANS
 SC LIFTED THE BAN

ENERGY CRISIS

 INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS ADVISORY COUNCIL CIRCULAR DEBT 414BN RS

 DASU DAM ; RS 180BN ; 2021 ;
 FIRST PHASE ;  $4.2bn that would lead to 2,160MW
 4,320MW Dasu hydropower project ; INDUS ; KP ;

JUSTICE SYSTEM

SUPREME JUDICIAL COUNCIL 209

 the Chief Justice of Pakistan;  the two next most senior Judges of the Supreme Court; and
the two most senior Chief Justices of High Courts.
 IF COUNCIL IS INQUIRING A MEMBER JUDGE OR ANY MEMBER ABSENT ; NEXT SENIOR
MEMBER OF SC , SENIOR CJ OF OTHER HC ; TAKES ITS PLACE
 MAJORITY OPINION PREVAILS
 the report of the Council to the President
 PRESIDENT / COUNCIL FINDS ANY MEMBER INCAPABLE / MISCONDUCT President
shall direct the Council to, or the Council may, on its own motion, inquire into the
matter.
  IF FINDS TRUE : PRESIDENT REMOVE JUDGE
 JUDGE OF SC / HC ONLY REMOVED THROUGH THIS ARTICLE
 Council shall issue a code of conduct to be observed by Judges of the Supreme Court and
of the High Courts

Article 211 states that “The proceedings before the Council, its report to the president and the
removal of a judge under clause (6) of Article 209 shall not be called in question in any court”

POINTS

 IN CAMERA PROCEEDINGS; AGAINST 10A

 requirement of in-camera proceedings was incorporated in the SJC rules in 2005 but
Article 209
 since the enactment of Article 209 in 1973, no judge of the high court and Supreme
Court has been removed from office
 RULE 13 SJC Procedure of Inquiry, 2005, requires all findings to be reported and also
gives the SJC the option to publicly report the proceedings themselves
 Article IV of the Code of Conduct for Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts
directs JUDGES DECLINE RESOLUTELY IN CASE OF SELF
 the Supreme Court has held that we can keep the accountability confidential and secret
because Article 211
 CJ Anwar Zaheer Jamali had on Oct 31, 2015 announced re-activating the SJC
 Asma Jahangir had stated that the quality of the judges of  LC BETTER THAN HC
 member of the Pakistan Bar Council, Barrister Raheel Kamran Sheikh PETITION TO
TELL NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS IN SJC ; EXPEDITIOUS DISPOSAL OF ALL
COMPLAINTS ; DISMISSED
 INTEREST
 The National Judicial Policy adopted by the SC in 2009, for example, recommended that
strict action be taken against district and sessions judges  CORRUPTION
 judicial immunity under Article 77 of the Penal Code

HEARD BY CHIEF JUSTICE : FLAWED REASONS

1. Article 209 of the Constitution, it is the chief justice of Pakistan who heads the SJC
2. complete confidentiality and secrecy is to be maintained about the actions taken by the
Council
3. ‘CJP Iftikhar Muhammad : PETITION against the SJC itself no judge of the Supreme Court
HEADED WHO IS ALSO MEMBER OF SJC

CASE

1. Advocate Rana Abid Nazir Khan has levelled eight allegations against the IHC CJ ;
Mohammad Anwar Khan Kasi ; 2015 ; AMER HANI MUSLIM COMMITTEE IHC ; FOUND
CJ ;APPOINTED ; HENCE COURT TERMINATED services of registrar Atiqur Rehman and
an assistant, Farzana Bahadur, 2016 AMER HANI MUSLIM ;
2. Abid Saqi, president of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) ; “We have
requested the SJC to initiate appropriate proceedings against the chief justice IFTIKHAR
CHAUDHRY , Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif and Justice Sheikh Azmat
Saeed,”
 3. On Feb 28, Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu LHC RESIGNED CORRUPTION

PROBLEMS

1. Secretive System; MURKY PROCEDURE ; IN CAMERA PROCEEDINGS; AGAINST 10A

2. JUDGES ACCOUNTABLE TO JUDGES
3. IF COUNCIL FINDS TAKES COMPLAIN
4. NO  external accountability by the legislature or the executive.
5. no proceedings for corruption can be initiated against a sitting judge of the higher
judiciary under the NAB law ; SC ASFANDYAR WALI CASE

REFORMS

1. OPEN AND NOT IN CAMERA

2. FORM A JUDICIAL OMBUDSMAN NOT RETIRED FROM JUDICIARY
3. DECISION TO TAKE UP COMPLAIN REST WITH OMBUDSMAN
4. MAKE ALL PROVINCIAL JUDICIAL OMBUDSMAN PART OF COUNCIL
5. MAJORITY WITH THE JUDICIARY
6. 3 JUDGES AT LEAST TO CONVICT
7. IF FOUND GUILTY ; RELIEVE FROM JOB AND BARE ANY OTHER POST 10 YEARS

JUI F

 ULEMA GUIDE MASSES IN RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS

 CORRUPTION ELIMINATED IF ULEMA CHANCE TO GOVT
 OPPOSED ZARB E AZB
 HOUSE CENSUS BECAUSE IDPS


HUMAN RIGHTS

 National Commission on the Rights of the Child (NCRC) Bill 2017 ; 18-member commission
; BOUND TO MEET QUARTERLY ; MAJORITY DECISION ;  violence, abuse and
exploitation, trafficking, torture, pornography and prostitution, and recommend remedial
measures.
 directive of the Geneva-based United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued in
2009
 chairperson to be nominated by the federal government ; SECERETARY HR DIVISION ,
ONE REPRESENTATIVE FOREIGN AND INTERIOR, CHAIRPERSON NCHR AND
NCOSW, CHAIRPERSONS PROVINCIAL RIGHTS COMMISONS, SIX CIVIL SOCIETY
MEMBERS

RACIAL PROFILING

 HRCP CONDEMNED ; PUNJAB GOVT ; TERRORISM WITH PAKHTUNS

 HOME DEPT ; "Combing operations [must] be conducted in all targeted areas, particularly
where the Afghan/Pathan community is residing,"
 issuing them chip-based national identity cards equipped with security features.
  NICS ISSUE TO PAKHTUNS NADRA
 HIGH LEVEL MEETING PUNJAC CM ; NICS AND SEARCH OPERATIONS (WOMEN )
 DEFENCE MINISTER KHWAJA ASIF ; OPERATIONS WILL BE ON BOARD


DEATH PENALITY

 OCT 2016 : GHULAM Sarwar and Ghulam Qadir ; AQUIT

 EXECUTED ONE YEAR BEFORE
 2002 CONVICT ; 2016 AQUIT

QAZI FAEZ ISSA

 August 2016 attack on lawyers in Quetta,

  killing of Mr. Bilal Anwar Kasi; LAWYER ; THEN HOSPITAL BLAST

1. there is no comprehensive list of proscribed organisations,

2. Jamat-ul-Ahrar and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ), have not been included in the
list of proscribed organisations, under section 11B of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997
3. Chief Secretary of Balochistan SAID BUT INTERIOR MINISTER DIDNT
4. meeting with Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, the head of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba
Pakistan, Millat-i-Islamia and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat, on Oct 21 last year.
5. Only one meeting of the Executive Committee of NACTA in over three and a half
years”, “violated the decisions of the Executive Committee of NACTA”,
6. IM ; meet the delegation of Difa-i-Pakistan Council (DPC) ; Maulana Samiul Haq since he
had no prior notice of Maulana Ludhianvi’s arrival.
7. IM ARTICLE 10-A ; MINISTRY NOT HEARD
8.

 SEHWAN ATTACK ; JAMAT UL AHRAR

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AHMED BILAL MEHBOOB

 Decentralisation is the key sentiment behind the demands for division of Punjab.
 SERAIKI PROVINCE , REINSTATE BAHAWAL PUR STATE ; SOUTH PUNJAB
 Punjab has created some formidable ‘authorities’
 Lahore High Court, in its judgement of April 2015 ;  LDA Act, 1975, either partly or fully,
“‘usurp, trump, encroach, dilute and abridge the powers, responsibility and authority LG
 Punjab Local Government Act, 2013, district education authorities and district health
authorities are to be established whose chairmen and CEOs will be appointed by the
provincial government.

ELECTORAL REFORMS AHMED BILAL

 candidates’ nomination papers and legislators’ statements of assets and liabilities ALWAYS
WEBSIT
 Automated identification of the voter and casting of ballots
 introduction of EVMs and biometric identification of voters WITH CARE
  ECP  by first using the machines under a pilot project in the by-elections.
 CANDIDATES  violated with impunity the spending ceiling of Rs1 million and Rs1.5m for
provincial and National Assembly constituencies ;
  there is no law to control election spending by political parties
 Many countries including the UK do not allow paid election ads on electronic media
 The law neither authorises the ECP to scrutinise the statements nor has it the capacity to
undertake such a huge exercise.
 As per law, election tribunals need to decide election petitions within four months. ; despite
the appointment of full-time judges , barely half of the total petitions after the 2013 election
were decided
 Most of the polling staff comes from provincial government departments
 polling staff from one division or district should be appointed in another division or district
 Varied interpretations of Articles 62 and 63 CONFUSION ; PARLIAMENT CLEAR

PPP DEMANDS

1. FOREIGN MINISTER
2. OPPOSITION BILL INVESTIGATE ON PANAMAGATE
3. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SWCIRUTY
4. IMPLEMENTATION OF RESOLUTION MULTI PARTY CPEC (construction of the western
route of the CPEC)

Police

 Justice dost Muhammad POLICE INVESTIGATION IS UNSATISFACTORY

 LOCAL EYE SOFTWARE IN LAHORE ; LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES CONNECTED TO REPORT THE
CRIME
