The threat has already been issued, with the refusal to now stand by the One China policy.
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The threat has already been issued, with the refusal to now stand by the One China policy.
The key factor is waning public support among Pak dudes. It's been rising in the background because anyone who knows how to add can see that the CPEC effect is likely to be net negative. (iron friend making a quick buck obviously ain't an appealing idea). Now it seems to have seeped into the right wing too. Our best fried Sant Zaid Hamid ji has joined anti-china movement too
27 actionable plans: FATF sets another tight deadline for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will have to comply with 27 actionable plans of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) by December 15, including sharing evidence for effective implementation against eight mentioned prescribed entities and their affiliates by tracing and freezing their assets.
The FATF has placed this condition to comply with the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1267 and 1373 and Pakistan will have to implement it by May 2019. In case of noncompliance and having no progress, Pakistan could be placed into blacklist or kept into existing grey list for another year anytime during January to September 2019 with far-reaching consequences.
The FATF is scheduled to meet in Sydney from January 5 to 7, 2019 to review the progress report on 670 observations raised by the Asia Pacific Group (APG) — a regional body of FATF — for showing concerns over unsatisfactory report.
The APG showed dissatisfaction with the performance report and asked Pakistan to furnish a reply on 18 points including sharing details of inter-agency activities to identify persons and entities acting on behalf of or at the direction designated persons or entities. The APG also sought details of teams/cases which are actively tracing and freezing their assets both moveable and immoveable. What results have been obtained and also provide to each provincial police agency.
What is the procedure for LEAs to enforce prohibitions (UN Act SROs) that forbid the raising and moving of funds? Please provide an explanation of process to go from detection to enforcement of UN Act SRO provisions. Pls do the same for the ATA prohibition on providing funds to prescribed entities/persons.
IMF links Pakistan bailout talks to financial blacklist
Pakistan’s failure to crack down on money laundering and terrorism financing was one of the key reasons negotiations broke down with the International Monetary Fund on a financial bailout package.
While both sides insist they will meet again in coming weeks, Asia Times has learned from sources close to the negotiation process that the talks hit a snag after the IMF hinted it might link the package to Pakistan’s commitments to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Opposition parties believe the Chinese agreements will be divulged, but should be kept secret. “It is a political requirement rather than a technical obligation to furnish details of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to the IMF and we must not disclose everything concerning Chinese investment,” former finance minister and senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Rana Muhammad Afzal said.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will have to comply with 27 actionable plans of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) by December 15, including sharing evidence for effective implementation against eight mentioned prescribed entities and their affiliates by tracing and freezing their assets.
The FATF has placed this condition to comply with the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1267 and 1373 and Pakistan will have to implement it by May 2019. In case of noncompliance and having no progress, Pakistan could be placed into blacklist or kept into existing grey list for another year anytime during January to September 2019 with far-reaching consequences.
The FATF is scheduled to meet in Sydney from January 5 to 7, 2019 to review the progress report on 670 observations raised by the Asia Pacific Group (APG) — a regional body of FATF — for showing concerns over unsatisfactory report.
The APG showed dissatisfaction with the performance report and asked Pakistan to furnish a reply on 18 points including sharing details of inter-agency activities to identify persons and entities acting on behalf of or at the direction designated persons or entities. The APG also sought details of teams/cases which are actively tracing and freezing their assets both moveable and immoveable. What results have been obtained and also provide to each provincial police agency.
What is the procedure for LEAs to enforce prohibitions (UN Act SROs) that forbid the raising and moving of funds? Please provide an explanation of process to go from detection to enforcement of UN Act SRO provisions. Pls do the same for the ATA prohibition on providing funds to prescribed entities/persons.
IMF links Pakistan bailout talks to financial blacklist
Pakistan’s failure to crack down on money laundering and terrorism financing was one of the key reasons negotiations broke down with the International Monetary Fund on a financial bailout package.
While both sides insist they will meet again in coming weeks, Asia Times has learned from sources close to the negotiation process that the talks hit a snag after the IMF hinted it might link the package to Pakistan’s commitments to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Opposition parties believe the Chinese agreements will be divulged, but should be kept secret. “It is a political requirement rather than a technical obligation to furnish details of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to the IMF and we must not disclose everything concerning Chinese investment,” former finance minister and senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Rana Muhammad Afzal said.
Pak High Commission Dhaka burgled
DHAKA: In the evening of November 22, unknown burglars broke into the Consular Section of Pakistan High Commission, Dhaka, and took away computers containing official records and sensitive data.
According to a press release, the matter has been reported to the diplomatic zone police station in Gulshan. Pakistan High Commission, Dhaka said the incident of burglary at the high commission, in the highly sensitive diplomatic zone, is regrettable and a matter of grave concern to the diplomatic missions. It said the Bangladeshi authorities have been requested to investigate the incident of burglary and bring the culprits to justice. The Bangladesh authorities have also been requested to beef up security of foreign missions, diplomats and their supporting staff to thwart any such incidents in future.
DHAKA: In the evening of November 22, unknown burglars broke into the Consular Section of Pakistan High Commission, Dhaka, and took away computers containing official records and sensitive data.
According to a press release, the matter has been reported to the diplomatic zone police station in Gulshan. Pakistan High Commission, Dhaka said the incident of burglary at the high commission, in the highly sensitive diplomatic zone, is regrettable and a matter of grave concern to the diplomatic missions. It said the Bangladeshi authorities have been requested to investigate the incident of burglary and bring the culprits to justice. The Bangladesh authorities have also been requested to beef up security of foreign missions, diplomats and their supporting staff to thwart any such incidents in future.
Pakistani-born US woman pleads guilty to bitcoin fraud to help IS
A Pakistani-born American woman has acknowledged her role in defrauding numerous financial institutions in a bitcoin scheme to help the militant Islamic State (IS) group.
Prosecutors say Zoobia Shahnaz, a naturalised US citizen living on Long Island, pleaded guilty in federal court in Central Islip on Monday to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organisation.
The 27-year-old was charged with laundering bitcoin and wiring money to the IS group. After quitting her job, she was stopped at Kennedy Airport last year attempting to fly to Pakistan.
Shahnaz's lawyer has said she was trying to help Syrian refugees.
She faces up to 20 years in prison.
A Pakistani-born American woman has acknowledged her role in defrauding numerous financial institutions in a bitcoin scheme to help the militant Islamic State (IS) group.
Prosecutors say Zoobia Shahnaz, a naturalised US citizen living on Long Island, pleaded guilty in federal court in Central Islip on Monday to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organisation.
The 27-year-old was charged with laundering bitcoin and wiring money to the IS group. After quitting her job, she was stopped at Kennedy Airport last year attempting to fly to Pakistan.
Shahnaz's lawyer has said she was trying to help Syrian refugees.
She faces up to 20 years in prison.
Pakistan among countries with least spending in social sectors: UN
The United Nations has placed Pakistan in the group of Asia-Pacific countries that spend the least on social protection, education and healthcare.
According to the ‘Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific 2018’ report published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) on Tuesday, other countries in the group are Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal and Timor-Leste.
With the exception of Timor-Leste, it said, all other countries in the group spent around five per cent of their GDP on the three social sectors, which was below the regional average of nine per cent of GDP.
Most of these countries were also all low-income states, many of which had seen human and other resources depleted by conflicts and natural disasters. The main challenge for this country grouping, it noted, was to gather political will and public support for significantly boosting investments in people.
The report said that while the Asia- Pacific region had made considerable achievements in primary education — with primary school net enrolment rates above 90pc in almost every country — gross enrolment rates for secondary education varied widely, being as low as 45pc in Cambodia and Pakistan.
Developing countries in the Asia- Pacific region only spent about 3.7pc of GDP on social protection, compared to the world average of 11.2pc. This under-investment, the report noted, was the reason why 60pc of the population in the Asia-Pacific region had no protection if they fell ill, had a disability, and became unemployed, pregnant or old.
The report stated that overall the region needed additional investments of $281 billion per year to match the global spending levels as a share of GDP on the three social sectors. More than two thirds of the additional spending would need to be directed to social protection programmes alone, it added.
According to the report, about 1.2 billion people in the Asia-Pacific region still live on less than $3.20 a day. Out of the 1.2bn, 400 million are estimated to live in extreme poverty, below the threshold of $1.90 a day. Of these, almost two-thirds live in South Asia, particularly in India.
To accelerate progress towards ending poverty, governments needed to boost the amount of public spending on social protection, education and healthcare, the report said.
Pakistan among countries with least spending in social sectors: UN - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
The United Nations has placed Pakistan in the group of Asia-Pacific countries that spend the least on social protection, education and healthcare.
According to the ‘Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific 2018’ report published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) on Tuesday, other countries in the group are Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal and Timor-Leste.
With the exception of Timor-Leste, it said, all other countries in the group spent around five per cent of their GDP on the three social sectors, which was below the regional average of nine per cent of GDP.
Most of these countries were also all low-income states, many of which had seen human and other resources depleted by conflicts and natural disasters. The main challenge for this country grouping, it noted, was to gather political will and public support for significantly boosting investments in people.
The report said that while the Asia- Pacific region had made considerable achievements in primary education — with primary school net enrolment rates above 90pc in almost every country — gross enrolment rates for secondary education varied widely, being as low as 45pc in Cambodia and Pakistan.
Developing countries in the Asia- Pacific region only spent about 3.7pc of GDP on social protection, compared to the world average of 11.2pc. This under-investment, the report noted, was the reason why 60pc of the population in the Asia-Pacific region had no protection if they fell ill, had a disability, and became unemployed, pregnant or old.
The report stated that overall the region needed additional investments of $281 billion per year to match the global spending levels as a share of GDP on the three social sectors. More than two thirds of the additional spending would need to be directed to social protection programmes alone, it added.
According to the report, about 1.2 billion people in the Asia-Pacific region still live on less than $3.20 a day. Out of the 1.2bn, 400 million are estimated to live in extreme poverty, below the threshold of $1.90 a day. Of these, almost two-thirds live in South Asia, particularly in India.
To accelerate progress towards ending poverty, governments needed to boost the amount of public spending on social protection, education and healthcare, the report said.
Pakistan among countries with least spending in social sectors: UN - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
The GoP isn't mandated to spend on the social sector. That's the responsibility of charities like Jamaat ud Dawa and other such like minded organizations sponsored largely by the KSA & Iran apart from other gulf sheikhdoms & rich & pious individuals . These social responsibilities also includes population control, largely achieved thru the joint efforts of such charities with ISI & the ANA / NDS combine in the West & the IA & other paramilitary forces in the east. It's a win win situation for Fauji Foundation & co and also the GoP.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/tribune.com.pk/story/1857611/1-army-prepared-respond-threat-borders-gen-qamar/?amp=1
Army prepared to respond to any threat on borders: Gen Qamar Bajwa
Army prepared to respond to any threat on borders: Gen Qamar Bajwa
Hizbul Ahrar strikes deep inside Pakistan,attacks a police check-post in Rawalpindi,1 killed
Pakistani Tanker on its way to Iran intercepted at the Balochistan border. Watch the kidnapped children who were hidden inside the tanker being smuggled for trafficking.
No headway in $1bn China market access package
ISLAMABAD: The government’s expectation to get market access worth $1 billion in exports to China during the current fiscal year seems to have hit an impasse, Dawn has learnt from official sources.
Adviser to Prime Minister Abdul Razzak Dawood announced the export package from China after PM Imran Khan made a four-day visit to Beijing and Shanghai during the first week of November.
He said that ‘Pakistan has secured market access worth $1bn from China to double country’s exports within one year’. Subsequently, various ministers made public claims that they intend to “double exports to China by the end of the fiscal year.”
However, despite a lapse of one month since the announcement, there has been no official update from the government regarding the status of the package.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the ‘market access’ announcement was earlier misunderstood by Pakistan as Beijing’s willingness to allow purchase of goods on state level to extend benefits to the country. Following the PM’s visit to China, Islamabad expected that China will purchase additional surplus quota of wheat, sugar, rice and other agriculture commodities which are currently subject to restrictions.
However, unconfirmed reports claim that the Chinese authorities have informed the government that any package from Beijing will be a part of the second phase of the China-Pakistan free trade agreement (FTA).
Pakistani Tanker on its way to Iran intercepted at the Balochistan border. Watch the kidnapped children who were hidden inside the tanker being smuggled for trafficking.
No headway in $1bn China market access package
ISLAMABAD: The government’s expectation to get market access worth $1 billion in exports to China during the current fiscal year seems to have hit an impasse, Dawn has learnt from official sources.
Adviser to Prime Minister Abdul Razzak Dawood announced the export package from China after PM Imran Khan made a four-day visit to Beijing and Shanghai during the first week of November.
He said that ‘Pakistan has secured market access worth $1bn from China to double country’s exports within one year’. Subsequently, various ministers made public claims that they intend to “double exports to China by the end of the fiscal year.”
However, despite a lapse of one month since the announcement, there has been no official update from the government regarding the status of the package.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the ‘market access’ announcement was earlier misunderstood by Pakistan as Beijing’s willingness to allow purchase of goods on state level to extend benefits to the country. Following the PM’s visit to China, Islamabad expected that China will purchase additional surplus quota of wheat, sugar, rice and other agriculture commodities which are currently subject to restrictions.
However, unconfirmed reports claim that the Chinese authorities have informed the government that any package from Beijing will be a part of the second phase of the China-Pakistan free trade agreement (FTA).
Please elaborate why you're calling him a bachabaz. Do you have any proof to claim that or are you just on a trollig mode?
We haven't seen him giving compulsive pappi jhappis to men have we?
He's been married a couple of times, did not run away from women to pursue some kind of socalled celibacy either.
He began by giving such hugs to Obama, the person who decreed that he'd not be admitted into the US as long as he was CM of Gujarat, only to change his stance a few months before he became the PM, thanks to inputs by the US Embassy here, citing a very good chance hed be PM.
It take a lot of gumption to give a bear hug to someone who despises you on ideological grounds, solely because you want to break the ice , establish a rapport, further a friendship & secure the best possible deal for your nation. He could have very easily given in to his instincts & shunned the US ( & the West) much like Indira Gandhi with Nixon, cosying up to China ( China didn't censure him for the Gujarat roots) but he didn't. To his credit he never once let himself be baited into criticizing the US or the west for their boycott of him during his days as CM of Gujarat.
Now take up the case of the Pathan. He went to town decrying the US insisting he'd never go to the US or any other nation with a begging bowl in hand. What do you think he's up to now?
Isko humare yahaan thookh ke chaatna kehte hain. Aapke yahaan, yeh shayad aam baat hain jiske wajah se , aaj na aapko na aapke mulk ko koi khaas tawajjuh milta hain.The difference between a Bania & a pathan.
Celibacy is seen as a virtue in the east ( including your land till you embraced your invader's religion over a period of time, justified it some time back and now seem more pious than the place where your religion originated from) beginning with India but not restricted to it. It seeks to idolize the practioner as a selfless man immersed in the well being of his people and the nation without personally profiting from his endeavours. Our mythology is full of such ideals.
One of the other advantages is you aren't subjected to a tell all book offering salacious comments on your sex life by your ex. On topic Ho Chi Minh used to propagate his celibacy to build an aura around him elevating himself above others in the party to paramount leader.