Foreign Friends of Pakistan

[Pakia]

Originally Posted by GumNaam

Pfau long ago claimed Pakistan as home. She would like to do more there. "If I could be reborn again," she says, "I would certainly dedicate myself to women's rights in Pakistan." As MALC's guiding spirit, she reminds people of her own life-shaping realization of many years ago: A leprosy victim, no matter how wretched, has "only one life to live out-one single life, a life just like mine."

April 12, 2003 Saturday Safar 9, 1424
KARACHI: Dr Pfau receives Jinnah Award
KARACHI, April 11: Dr Ruth Pfau of the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre, the German-born humanist who spent her lifetime in Pakistan for the containment and treatment of leprosy, received the Jinnah Award on Friday.




Visit her website (in German though) to show your support for her 45 years working in Pakistan for social causes. www.ruthpfau.com
Also try images for google or yahoo to see tons of pics doing her amazing work in Pakistan for last 45 years.
I MUST SAY HOW UNFORTUNATE FOR US PAKISTANIS(INCL. MYSELF) NOT TO EVEN KNOW ABOUT HER AND HER AMAZING WORK IN PAKISTAN WHILE EVERY SINGLE PERSON KNOWS THE WORK OF OTHER SUCH NOBLE PEOPLE LIKE MOTHER TERESA IN KOLKATTA,INDIA. I think most of you would agree that its time we start atleast acknowledging the great work of others, if not assist & support them too. Thank you.

[swerveut]

http://www.caravana.com.au

Caravana is an Australian fashion label.

Caravana works with handcraft artisans across Pakistan, incorporating traditional handcraft techniques into designs.

The label was born when the team began working with the talented hands of local women in the remote areas of northern Pakistan; a place where physical isolation, the strict Muslim environment and age-old tradition mean there are very few culturally sensitive work opportunities for the local women.

Caravana created a network of hundreds of talented local women and organized numerous women’s-only workspaces where the women artisans work together, enjoying a social environment and earning an independent income.

To traverse the frontier of Caravana’s creative scope and in response to demand, Caravana now works with many artisan groups in various regions.

A recognized, sought after signature of the label is the beautiful work of the women in whose hands the label was born, and a special part of every Caravana collection is produced by these women.

[swerveut]

THATTA KEDONA

http://dollsfrompakistan.wordpress.com/



Dr. Senta Siller is an artist and designer by profession and volunteer by choice. The results of her life long research and experiences were put into practice in Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka — a clay village of 200 house holds in the backwaters of Punjab that is now famous around the world as the Village of Dolls.

There is a history behind this fame. Dr. Senta Siller established a Women’s Art Centre and started a self help project in the remote village where she mobilized the local women and led them to make hand crafted dolls dressed in traditional attires from different provinces and regions of Pakistan; also other items and toys for collectors’ delight and for the gift market. At first only women of Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka benefited from economic improvements but soon the project expanded and girls and women from other villages were integrated. Presently, the village project is working in collaboration with other NGOs in Pakistan and abroad.

The hand crafted products from the Women Art Centre are sold in Islamabad, Lahore and in Austria, New Zeeland, Canada, as well as European countries and in UN gift shops around the globe. Dr. Senta Siller has helped spread the rich culture of Pakistan through hand crafted gift items in over 40 different countries. The unique self help production in the Village not only helps rural women to generate additional income for themselves and their families but also spreads cultural wealth of Pakistan and shows how culture goes beyond geographical boundaries. The dolls and toys are art lovers’ delight with marketable potentials. The products of the Village voluntary project were displayed in EXPO 2000 in Hannover in Germany as a sole worldwide project from Pakistan. It was recognized as an “exemplary” for the twenty first century. This year they are at display at Expo 2005 in Japan.

Women Arts Centre that started in the courtyard of a mud house has its own spanking new building and one of the largest solar energy facilities in Punjab. The project also includes a functional health centre, educational services and tourism facilities as a part of the holistic project. The like minded NGOs in Cameroon, Columbia, and Iceland learnt of this project and started working in collaboration. The governments of different countries (Germany, Canada, and Japan) are supporting Dr Senta Siller in her work. She has been awarded the title Queen Mother in the highlands of Cameroon. In Columbia she has been made an honorary member of the Yaguas — an Amazonian Indio tribe. With the help of an Icelandic development company of which she is an honorary life member, an international doll museum was established in Iceland. Dolls from Pakistani village are on permanent display in the Museum.

Who is this woman? In addition to her work in Pakistan in the fields of arts, crafts, cultural preservation and poverty alleviation, Dr Senta Siller has had extremely successful and demanding professional life as entrepreneur, artist, scientist and director of an art school. Dr. Senta Siller was born in Vienna. One side of her family descends from the line of ‘Archduke Leopold Salvator von Bourbon Habsburg Toscana’ – famous Austrian nobility. After World War II, her family lived in the Bavarian countryside. Dr. Senta Siller studied design in Berlin and came to Pakistan for the first time in the sixties.

Now her time is distributed between Germany and Pakistan. In Berlin, Dr. Senta Siller is an honorary member of many cultural and professional entities. In 2001, she founded Pakistan House for the information of German citizens in Potsdam.

I have had the pleasure of working with this great woman for some time now. I have always fond her inspiring, untiring, giving and caring. What is the motive of her work? “I am returning back some of what I achieved in my earlier life,” she says.



A Karachi Metblogs recognition of Thatta Kedona:
http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives...a_kedona.phtml


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[Pakia]

Queen of hearts!
A first Muslim Miss England, of Afghani-descent.

Reigning (2005)Miss England, Miss Hamassa Kohistani met with the students of Zindagi Trust school in Chah Sultan, Rawalpindi during her two-day visit here in Pakistan.


The children, teachers and the entire school staff was really excited to meet Hamassa and she was very warmly welcomed by the students in the school. She was amazed to learn the talent and the capabilities of these young Zindagi kids. She conversed with the shy little faces and they in return continued mesmerizing her with all they had learnt at school. She heard them sing songs and recite lovely poems to her joy.

Later in the evening, she was given a hand made present in the shape of a small traditional handcrafted Pakistani piece, which got her all emotional, and teary eyed. She was deeply touched by the children’s generosity & love.

[Pakia]

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

Lucy Liu tours earthquake hit NWFP, Pakistan.



Lucy Liu helps immunise a child against polio.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Feb 1, 2006 (AP)— Lucy Liu, the high-kicking star of "Charlie's Angels," showed her softer side Wednesday touring areas in Pakistan devastated by the Oct. 8 earthquake.

Lucy Liu travelled to Balakot, one of the worst affected towns in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), where some 200,000 houses were damaged, and more than 200 children died when the local school collapsed in the quake on October 8, 2005.

At the UNICEF warehouse in Islamabad, Liu was filmed packaging clothing for children which she later distributed at a camp for displaced families in Gari Habibullah. She also helped immunise children against polio.


Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Lucy Liu showed the footage and shared her experiences visiting UNICEF programmes in Pakistan. Interviewed by Oprah, she spoke of the plight of the children she met and encouraged viewers to support UNICEF’s ongoing work to rebuild their damaged homes and schools.
The 37-year-old actress, who arrived Tuesday and departed Friday, didn't speak to the media as she visited the disaster zone with UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency.

[Pakia]

From Japan to Peshawar!

Dr. Tetsu Nakamura
Director of Peshawar-kai Medical Services (PMS),since 1984.

Nakamura is the executive director of the Peshawar Medical Services Hospital, near the Afghanistan border in northwest Pakistan. In 1984, he started working in the war-plagued regions after becoming a volunteer with the Japan Overseas Christian Medical Cooperative Service at the Mission Hospital in Peshawar. He headed its leprosy-control unit. The harsh realities of life in the border area of Afghanistan and Pakistan had made Nakamura strive to "transcend politics, religion and ethnicity and to practice mutual dependence."

Nakamura's message of hope on transcending national border, ethnicity, religion and politics toward peace was a fitting conclusion to the Awardees Lecture Series (held in Tokyo on Nov.10, 2003 for Ramon Magsaysay awarded for Peace and International Understanding).

In his lecture, Nakamura recalled that when he started to work in Pakistan in May 1984, there was a grave shortage of medical facilities and equipment at the leprosy control unit which he headed at the Peshawar Medical Services Hospital.

Undaunted by the tasks, Nakamura pushed on and worked with extremely limited resources. Financial and material donations later came in, helping him and his staff extend their services to benefit more patients.

"We have come a long way. Now, Peshawar's hospital and clinics are the only places where complications of leprosy can be treated throughout Afghanistan and the northern part of Pakistan," he said.

NAKAMURA Tetsu, a Japanese physician, has worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan for twenty-one years as head of the Peshawar Medical Association, an NGO that he founded and heads. PMA initially provided medical care. Activities center on the main hospital in Peshawar, a Pakistan frontier city on the Afghan border, as well as three clinics in Afghanistan and two in Northern Pakistan.
The staff of 160, including five Japanese, treat 180,000 patients per year. In July 2000 it added a second activity, drilling wells to provide water for drought-stricken villagers.
Dr. Nakamura is also the author of a book, "A Doctor Drilling Wells".

[Pakia]

When ordinary people do extraordinary things for Peace!

Wearing a shirt with flags of Pakistan & India on each sleeve, Mandla Naga Prasad completes 101-hour typing on computer & enter Guiness book of records.


Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad
World record set in marathon typing

Prasad savours proud moment amidst cheers from friends

Sends a message for restoration of peace between India and Pakistan

INTO THE RECORD BOOKS: Mandla Naga Prasad is all focus as he creates a new typing record, in the city on Tuesday. — Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

"The Tale of Two Great Nations" was penned down after his extensive trips to both Pakistan & India.

HYDERABAD, India : A new world record for 101-hour marathon typing on computer was successfully attempted by Mandla Naga Prasad at the Indian Institute of Planning and Management, Erramanzil on Tuesday.

Soon after savouring the proud moment amidst cheers from his friends and onlookers at 10.30 a.m., Prasad was back at the computer determined to clock 111 hours. Dr. Bakhtiar Choudhary, Prasad's mentor and Sports Medicine consultant, declared Prasad fit enough to go on for few more hours. The new record surpasses the earlier one of 50 hours held by M. Sandeep.

Prasad began the marathon event on August 10 to achieve the landmark event on Independence Day. Having authored the book `A Journey Between Two Great Nations', he chose to type pages from the same book for the marathon event.

For 29-year-old Prasad, an engineer pursuing his MBA at the Indian Institute of Planning and Management, the attempt has twin objectives. Sending a message for restoration of peace between India and Pakistan and finding sponsors to pursue his passion for rifle shooting. "I am part of State team and will take part in national event next year," he says.

Looking fit even after 101 hours of non-stop typing with a break of 10 minutes for every one hour, Prasad already holds national records in making and flying 505 paper rockets in one hour, 35 hours and 45 minutes marathon typing and passing all backlog 29 engineering theory subjects in 21 days.

No support from kin

Although all alone after the death of his mother, financially broke and with no support from relatives, Prasad, instead of being bogged down, chose to strive hard.

He took up various jobs -- stage and web designing to marketing -- to support himself while pursuing Electronics engineering in Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum. He moved to city in 2004 to pursue rifle shooting and an MBA degree.

Revealing the motivation to achieve national and world records, he says, "The records gave me an identity in the absence of my family and won me support from well-wishers."

Attributing his marathon event success to his friends whom he calls his assets, Prasad says his philosophy is `never give up'. "Youth could achieve any objective in the face of adversity with focus and determination."

[Pakia]

A Page from history...

Brigadier F.H.B. Ingall
Former Hon. Pakistan Consul General in San Francisco


Brigadier Francis Ingall, DSO, OBE, died in California on August 21 aged 89. He was born on October 24, 1908.

In a varied life as soldier, sportsman, actor and one-time honorary consul, Francis Ingall valued above all his wartime command of the 6th Duke of Connaught’s Own Lancers in Italy and later his role as founder-commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy. Mechanized in India in 1940, the 6th Lancers served in Iraq in 1941 when the pro-British Regent Emir Abdullah was overthrown by the pro-Axis General Rashid Ali. After the restoration of Abdullah they went with the 8th Indian Division to Persia to counter the German threat to the oilfields in 1942.

After the invasion of Italy the 8th Indian Division landed at Brindisi in October 1943 and from then on the 6th Lancers fought their way northwards with the Eighth Army. Towards the end of the Italian campaign they took part in the British 5th Corps’ offensive across the River Senio, in which they protected the right flank of the 8th Indian Division. The citation to the DSO Ingall was awarded records:. “He fought his regiment with skill, cunning and daring. As the battle developed he seized every fleeting opportunity and by vigorous offensive action cleared pockets of the enemy, greatly aiding the advance to the Argenta Gap.”

Thereafter he led the 6th Lancers in the advance from the Po to the Adige, keeping a weakened enemy on the run. As a result he was able to seize bridges over the Po’s lateral tributaries before the Germans could blow them up.

At the end of the war in Europe Ingall returned to India as chief of staff of the 8th Indian Division. After partition in 1947 and the division of the old Indian Army between India and Pakistan, Ingall was selected by the C-in-C India, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, as first commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy, established at Kakul.

He determined to model the Pakistan Academy on Sandhurst and requested a regimental sergeant major from the Brigade of Guards to help with training. He was lucky, too, to have the support of a number of old Indian Army of who transferred to. The which were nowhere near the level of those enjoyed by the Indian Military Academy at Dehra ‘ Dun, Ingall won the confidence of his cadets and instructors. When, late in 1947, the dispute over the accession of Jammu and Kashmir led to armed conflict between India and Pakistan, he was able to structure the Kakul Academy’s training to enable newly commissioned officers to be immediately effective when they joined units on active service.

Ingall was appointed OBE after completing his term as commandant in 1959. What probably gave him more satisfaction was the decision to name Kakul’s central lecture theatre Ingall Hall - though this was not built until many years after he had left. He kept in touch with the academy for the rest of his life, making his last visit as recently as last year when he took questions’ from an audience of 800 cadets in the hall named after him.

Francis Herman Barclay Ingall was born at Oxted, Surrey, and educated at Hurstpierpoint College and Sandhurst from where he was commissioned into the 6th Duke of Connaught’s Own Lancers in the Indian Army in 1929. His first action with the regiment was at Karawal on the NorthWest Frontier where he led a cavalry charge with drawn sword. In those prewar years he frequently played polo for his regiment.

After leaving his post at the Pakistan Military Academy, Ingall was for some years a director of Killick Nixon in Bombay. But in 1959 he took ship with his third wife to San Francisco and spent the rest of his life in the United States where he was a vice-president of several corporations, and president of the chamber of commerce of Tiburon, California, besides serving as honorary consul-general for Pakistan in San Francisco. He founded the Queen’s Club in San Francisco in the early 1960s to foster friendship between the American and British Armed Forces.

He also acted in a number of professional stage productions, spoke on radio and television and lectured widely to university groups and local organizations. Kipling was a specialty of his. Ingall’s autobiography, The Last of the Bengal Lancers, was published in 1988; he and his wife ran a restaurant, The Bengal Lancer, in San Francisco.

Ingall is survived by his third wife, Margaret and by a son and daughter of his first marriage. A son of his third marriage died as a child. Ingall: commapded the Pakistan Military Academy afterserving in Italy with the 8th Indian Divison.

(He died in Oct 1998 in California,USA.)

---Times of London

[Pakia]

Over 8.5 million eye patients in Pakistan treated without charge since LRBT started in 1985

http://www.glt.org.uk/
http://www.pcp.org.pk/certified_NPO/LRBT/Home1.htm



The Graham Layton Trust
I shall pass through this world but once
Any good that I can do or any help that I can give
to my fellow beings, let me do it now

Now; for I shall not pass this way again
(Stephen Grellet 1773-1855)

Graham Layton, working in Pakistan since 1947, became Pakistan citizen in 1984.
Graham Layton was born in 1917 and grew up in north London. He was educated in Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire. In 1947, he arrived in Karachi where, for over 30 years, he built up MacDonald Layton Company, one of the largest and most successful construction companies in Pakistan. He retired from active involvement in the business in 1977 and returned to England to develop a small house-building business in St. Albans. In 1984, he returned to Karachi, explaining that 'this country has been good to me. This is where I made all my money, so why not give something back'. Throughout the development and rapid expansion of the LRBT hospital network and right up to the last week of his life, he continued as the dynamic chief executive, personally supervising the construction of six more eye hospitals. He had an outstanding ability to motivate and generate loyalty in those around him. He was honoured in 1990 for his tireless work for the underprivileged in Pakistan with the Sitara-e-Qaid-e-Azam (Star of Pakistan) and in the UK, where he was awarded the CBE in 1994. He died in 1999, leaving the bulk of his estate to further the work of his remarkable charity.

The Graham Layton Trust is a charity registered in the United Kingdom, committed to supporting the Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust in Pakistan. LRBT, as it is commonly known, operates a network of efficiently managed and superbly equipped eye hospitals, which supply free treatment for blindness and eye disease to the poorest and most vulnerable section of the population throughout Pakistan. The Trust was founded in 1984 and is supervised by a Board of Trustees. Through the entirely voluntary work of the trustees and some key supporters, financial contributions are made to LRBT's work in Pakistan.

For more information on the Trust, visit their website: www.glt.org.uk
and on the event: Hutoxi Kandawalla: Tel.020.8337.7323
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov20.../metro/k11.htm

SOURCE:JANG NEWS NOV25,2005

Primary eye clinic at Madinat Al-Hikmah

KARACHI: "There was no eye clinic in this vicinity despite there being dire need for it. So we decided to start an eye clinic in order to provide free eye care treatment to poor people of the surrounding villages of Madinat al-Hikmah," said Prof Dr Hakim Abdul Hannan, Dean, Faculty of Eastern Medicine, Hamdard University.

The Faculty of Eastern Medicine, Hamdard University, has set up a primary eye clinic with the collaboration of the Layton-Rehmatullah Benevolent Trust (LRBT) at Shifa-ul-Mulk Memorial Hospital in Madinat al-Hikmah, Karachi, where free treatment of eye disease will be provided to patients from villages located in the vicinity of Madinat al-Hikmah.

Mr N Saquib Hameed, Managing Trustee and Chief Executive Officer of the LRBT, inaugurated the eye clinic on Wednesday. He said that he would feel pleasure to work with Hamdard and the LRBT would provide all necessary expertise to the eye clinic. He said that the LRBT was founded by two successful businessmen, the late Graham Layton, an Englishman who became a Pakistani citizen and by the late Zaka Rehmatullah in 1984. Since its inception, the LRBT has grown rapidly from a mobile unit to 38 eye care facilities, including 11 modern eye hospitals, "LRBT has treated over 10 million patients in OPD and performed over 1 million eye surgeries all free of cost so far." He further said.

Lauding the services of Hamdard, he said that Madinat Al-Hikmah-a city of education, science and culture was a great visionary act of Shaheed Hakim Mohammad Said. Shaheed Hakim said and late Zaka both decided to provide health care to the people and both were remarkably successful in doing so, he said.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof Dr Iqbal Qureshi, Vice-Chancellor, Hamdard University, said that by inaugurating this eye clinic, in collaboration with the highly reputed LRBT, Hamdard was promoting the noble missions of the founding fathers of both organizations, he said, adding, "our history favours us. Let me ensure our worthy partners in this noble endeavour that we have a very sound track record of providing free medical care through Shifaul Mulk Memorial Hospital to our neighbourhood, consisting of more than sixty Goths (villages)".

http://www.glt.org.uk/docs/jang.html

[Pakia]

I came across Mr Brian Cloughley's articles and was very amazed that a western journalist esp. someone who has served in British and Australian armies could be so pro-Pakistan when most of the western media loves to report only the bad stuff about Pakistan and be so biased against Pakistan.

He is the writer of book, "History of Pakistan Army" too.

So I believe he atleast deserve our acknowledgement and gratitude for being fair when it comes to reporting Pakistan in media.

If interested, do some search and find more about him, his contribution to presenting Pakistan's point to the world esp. the western world.

Thank you Mr. Coughley for being open-minded and fair.

Hands Off Pakistan Oct, 2005
Blaming the wrong country for Afghanistan's woes
by Brian Cloughley
There has been an increase in violence in Afghanistan, and some foreign commentators have blamed Pakistan for supporting those responsible.

It has been said that Afghan insurgents receive sanctuary in Pakistan, which is true, and that this state of affairs can be rectified by more effective policing of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which is nonsense.

It is impossible for Pakistan to do more than is currently being done in attempts to control its frontier with Afghanistan, and it is absurd to imagine the government of Pakistan doesn't want to control it, because across that border pass vast quantities of drugs and illicit weapons, as well as numerous knaves, criminals, and thugs of all persuasions. It has always been thus, since the border was established. Some differences now are that insurrection and mayhem in Afghanistan are not being supported by Washington, as they were in the 1980s, and that drug production in Afghanistan has increased over a hundred-fold since the U.S. invasion, thanks to the regional warlords who were financed and otherwise supported by the U.S. because they opposed the Taliban government.

The Afghanistan-Pakistan border is policed by Pakistan's Frontier Corps, a skilled but lightly armed body of 65,000 locally recruited soldiers led by regular army officers which has a score of regional forces with such romantic names as the South Waziristan Scouts and the Khyber Rifles. It has suffered 82 killed in action in the past year in operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghan border where over 200 regular army soldiers have been killed in the same period.

FATA is a semi-autonomous region in which there is intense resistance by the tribes to extraneous authority. Assertions that Pakistan can bring them to heel by military action are made by those who ignore history, social conditions, and terrain. The tribes do not accept the law of Pakistan and live according to their own tenets, which are difficult for Westerners to understand.

There has been advocacy by clever people in Washington of "an unconventional war that undermines popular support for the insurgents, captures or kills leaders and guerrillas, and destroys their support network" in the tribal areas. I remember identical proposals when serving in Vietnam. They were eagerly embraced in the shape of the monstrous Phoenix Program, and they failed, just as they would fail in FATA.

Large scale counterinsurgency-style operations in Pakistan's Tribal Areas are being conducted because President Musharraf must be seen as following Washington's priorities. But it is he who has to cope with tribal and wider domestic reaction to the conflict. The killing in July of alleged Taliban militants in a U.S. operation inside Pakistan created massive resentment, and the tribes are being kept under control only by threats of extreme punitive action by the 70,000 regular soldiers now deployed with the Frontier Corps along the border. At least nine tribal leaders who allegedly cooperated with the authorities have been assassinated. The Tribal Areas are in turmoil.

Musharraf was forced to act against the tribes by Washington and against the advice of experts who recommended the usually effective (but necessarily lengthy) process of bribery, chicanery, and subtly fomenting discord among the tribes in order to achieve government objectives. He has gone as far as he can in pursuit of militants in the border region, and current tactics are working for now. But the dire consequences for Pakistan include destruction of the painstaking process, already underway, by which the tribes were to be weaned away gradually from ultraconservative and archaic customs (which are encouraged by religious leaders and all other males, who are inflexibly opposed to female equality), and into mainstream political and social life in Pakistan. The attempted cure is spreading the disease.

Many insurgents in Afghanistan have close kin in Pakistan's Tribal Areas. The Frontier (the Durand Line) between British India and Afghanistan was defined in 1893, but to the Pashtun tribes it means nothing. They straddle the border in shared custom, religion, blood, and antipathy to foreigners, and they include most Pakistanis in the latter category. Of course, the fighters in Afghanistan obtain assistance from their brethren in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan, just as they did during the Soviet occupation, with energetic U.S. endorsement. And they will always receive such support.

Between 1849 and 1939, the British waged 58 full-scale campaigns in the Frontier, trying to bring the tribes to heel. They failed. The Pakistan army is trying to do the same thing at the behest of Washington. It will fail. The tribal areas will remain in ferment for years, but Pakistan will survive, in spite of U.S. policies. On the other side of the border, things will be different.

Non-U.S. NATO is to increase its troop numbers in Afghanistan to 15,000, and its secretary-general states that instead of acting as a peacekeeping force, it will assume the combat role of U.S. troops, which is insane. Neither NATO nor the U.S. military is to have any role in eradicating drug production or smuggling.

The insurgency in Afghanistan will continue until foreign troops leave, whenever that might be. After a while, the government in Kabul will collapse, and there will be anarchy until a brutal, ruthless, drug-rich warlord achieves power. He will rule the country as it has always been ruled by Afghans: by threats, religious ferocity, deceit, bribery, and outright savagery, when the latter can be practiced without retribution. And the latest foreign occupation will become just another memory.
[BThe following are some other past articles by him about Pakistan.[/B]

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cloughle...articleid=7667
http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley07112006.html
http://www.defencejournal.com/jul99/...y-pak-army.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2029557.stm

[vazim]

Thanks Pakia, u r highlighting good personalities

[Pakia]

Saturday, November 25, 2006



Agreements signed

* Free Trade Agreement

* Pakistani consulate in Chengdu

* A five-year development programme for trade and economic cooperation

* Executive programme for culture

* Economic and technical cooperation

* MOU between China Development Bank and Pakistan Finance Ministry to set up a China-Pakistan joint investment company

* Exchange of letters authorising the construction of a China-Pakistan Friendship Centre in Islamabad

* Framework on security of financing for Sino-Pak bilateral cooperation between the China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation and Pakistan Finance Ministry

* Exchange of letters authorising construction of schools and hospitals in quake areas

* MOU for financial support for upgrading the Karakorum Highway

* Transfer of completion certification of Gwadar Port Phase-I

* Contract agreement on KKH improvement

* Framework agreement between China Northern Industries Corporation and Heavy Engineering Complex Taxila

* Huawei-TML-GSM Phase-5 expansion project

* MOU between China-ZHENHUA Oil Company and Pakistan’s Petroleum and Natural Resources Ministry

* Pact on exploration and development of Saindak East Ore Body

* Pact between the Qinggi group and NBP on collaboration in President’s Rozegar Scheme

* PVC Back Integrated Complex of Engro-Asahi Polymer and Chemical Limited of Pakistan

Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/

[feverwin]

Congratulations! And Pakistan girls are pretty!!

[Haji Turbo]

Easy there man!!!

Those are bunch young school girls.... (8th graders)

[singaporean]

There were reports that'he 'll inaugurate of university in karachi , visit Gawadar, inaugurate some projects over there.Pakistani govt was optimistic thar coal project problem was resolve during his presence someone know anything about thses issues?

[vazim]

Originally Posted by singaporean

There were reports that'he 'll inaugurate of university in karachi , visit Gawadar, inaugurate some projects over there.Pakistani govt was optimistic thar coal project problem was resolve during his presence someone know anything about thses issues?

i think he preferred to visit lahore and to inagurate Hair-Ruba industrial estate. They say that it will employ 100,000 people to be completed in 2010 or may be earlier. An agreement was signed to extend Gwadar port. About thar coal power generation, price agreed with wapda is Rs. 3.90 per unit and chinese company will start work soon.

[singaporean]

Gawadar was good location for "Hair-Ruba industrial estate " to attract skilled ppl to the city.

[Khanrak]

Will a FTA benefit China more than Pakistan? I don't want to see Pakistan flooded by cheap Chinese goods.

[vazim]

how much more it will be flooded ??

[vazim]

Originally Posted by singaporean

Gawadar was good location for "Hair-Ruba industrial estate " to attract skilled ppl to the city.

Pervaiz Elahi has offered free land to chinese investors, who wants to put factories in Pakistan. Government should they should adopt the same strategy in Gwadar. It will invest local and foreign investors equally.