Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Which sucess are you talking about? pollution, load shedding, sewer mix with drinking water, falling fly overs, traffic jams,foul smell in posh areas such as Bath Island, garbage every where, crimes, theft of cars and cells, or terrorism and bhutta wasooli continued by your favorite and blessed party supported by blessed Mush.......
You got kicked out of Karachi, didn't you?
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
^ Rest of the world has port cities tax the goods that pass through it or through the port unlike karachi. Punjab has grown on the tax collected in karachi. Come on people, do you think rurals in punjab pay tax? It is only after the eighties that cities started appearing in punjab.
This statement can not be more misleading and far from the truth. Nobody is growing on anybody.
Who told you Karachi port does not collect taxes. KPT, Wharfage, demaurrage, handling charges etc etc. Karachi port is one of the most expensive in the world...
Today like anywhere else in the world Pakistan also is relying on indirect taxes like sales tax, import duties excise duty etc. Even Income tax in Pakistan has become more of a sales tax rather than a direct tax as it is mostly today deducted at source. The reliance on indirect taxes is more than 80% of the total tax collected.
Indirect taxes are paid by consumers as they purchase goods. So the taxes paid can be directly related to GDP share of a certain area. The total federal tax collected in Pakistan today is close to 12/13% of GDP. Sind share of GDP is close to 30%. Let's assume out of this 30% about 60% is the share of Karachi and 40%is rest of Sind. Based on these assumptions which can not be wrong by more than 3%, total share of Karachi in GDP is 18%. As 80% of tax collected is indirect the only real tax paid more than national average are direct taxes. Therefore one can safely assume the share of Karachi in total real tax paid (not collection) is not more than 20%.
Total GDP share of Sind (exact) = 30.2%
Total GDP share of Karachi (estimate) = 18%
Total real tax paid by Karachi (estimate) = 20%
"Punjab is growing on tax collected in Karachi"---- what a misleading staement is this....
Because both Karachi and Punjab take less share of the divisible tax pool to compensate the rest of the country. If we compensate our less less fortunate brothers in Baluchistan, NWFP, rural Sind, FATA, Azad Kashmir I think it is our duty.....
As far as rural Punjab is concerned my dear friend except for last one month you have been getting Ata at Rs 12 per kg compared to India Rs 24 per kg and international price of Rs 37 per kg. Also if you are getting Ata at an expensive rate today the poor grower from Punjab did not get any benefit from that because all the profit was made by Karachi traders who exported ata to Dubai at US$ 200 per ton. Now the same ata will be imported at US 400 per ton. Provincial Govt. of Punjab has already paid a subsidy of 12 billion rupees so you can get cheap ata. The point is your poor peasant in Punjab is the most taxed guy in the world....
Last but not least there are very few people who understand all these things and just make claims without any logic, calculation, source to support their claims....
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Yazdi, I would like to tell you that income tax deducted at source viz. from salaried people, from corporate payments, at import stage and turnover tax in Karachi is more than anyother place in Pakistan.
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
I was waiting for this. Thank you for proving my point about what some people have been saying on GS, i.e, if someone praises Karachi then they must be terrorists or support a party that acts like a terrorist. 
God Bless Pakistan. God Bless President Musharaf. 
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Yazdi, I would like to tell you that income tax deducted at source viz. from salaried people, from corporate payments, at import stage and turnover tax in Karachi is more than anyother place in Pakistan.
Yes Mostar but inspite of all this the share of income tax in revenue collection is less than 20%. And a big percentage of this 20% is tax deducted at source. 136 billion income tax out of around 900 billion total revenue collection.
Sales tax, import duties, tax on petroleum and other indirect taxes are major source of revenue for Government of Pakistan which are mainly taxes on consumption and not income....
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Now Now…
And I was also waiting for this…
If sombody critisizes BB or NS nobody cares and nobody takes it racially.
If somebody critisizes MQM or London Ghunda it is a racial attack on you personally???
I don’t think most of Karachiites share your views…
It’s people like you we saw on TV when Pakistan was playing twenty20 final were roaming
around in the stadium with MQM flags instead of Pakistan flags…You celebrate 14th August with
MQM flags, disgusting…
Gaad bless Jhaaanda…
Which jhanda you really support, Aalsi please clarify…
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Bhaijan truth hurts doesn’t it.
Calling people names or telling them they are MQM supporters just because they are from Karachi.
Love Everyone, Don’t Hate anyone.
I love this jhanda. Plus every countries Jhanda.
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Come on dude, no electricity, lack of clean water, pollution, crime, lack of facilites, increasing traffic with no roads, failing structures need I say more? Its ranked very poorly in the cities of Asia, according to Asiaweek.
All this is true, but there are degrees in misery too, and right now the place is much much better than the way it was even until a few yrs ago.
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
... in the 80s and 90s Islamabad was pretty decent, it was clean, green, crime free, quiet, amazing weather, planned, decent roads, mountains, you name it it had everything... im still in touch with alot of foriegners, who went to school with me and their parents were ambassadors/dig and they still recall how much they loved living in islamabad... its still the best place in pakistan to live in by a long shot, but certainly not as good as it used to be after they started cutting down the trees and expanding it. ...
Yaar! The memories!! Dear old Islamabad! It's changing fast and I miss the old days :(
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
I heard Isloo still gets a big share of funding and they have radar equipped cop cars, among other things [common in the west], that you can only dream about in the rest of Pakistan
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Yes by all the evils created during MQM tenure. I don't know where these evils will end?
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Who said that? It is you and some of your friends on this forum react sharply on the real criticism of MQM, jump on band wagon, defending MQM, why?
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Yes by all the evils created during MQM tenure. I don't know where these evils will end?
Yes, that's right, evils end right at the border of Karachi and rest of Pakistan. That's why rest of Pakistan just keeps coming to Karachi!
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Please do not be so short sighted. Port cities all over the world attract people from far off places. Bombay, Calcutta, New York, London and Rio are fine examples.
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Yes, that's right, evils end right at the border of Karachi and rest of Pakistan. That's why rest of Pakistan just keeps coming to Karachi!
KK bhai! If Karachi was a land locked city, nobody will go there, and we will have a ditto copy of Patna in the middle of Pakistan.
Patna is happy with Lallu Parsad, and we Karachi walahs have our own sitting in London.
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Yes, that's right, evils end right at the border of Karachi and rest of Pakistan. That's why rest of Pakistan just keeps coming to Karachi!
What borders of Karachi????
Is it another country??????????????
Do rest of Pakistan need Visa to visit Karachi??????????????????
Does anybody need your permission to come to Karachi????
??????????Please Karachiites enlighten me if Mr. Khekkeshan represent most of the pubic opinion in Karachi??????????
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
He represents the narrow-minded people and currenlty they are leading this city.
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Rephrase above sentence as "currently they are destroying this city."
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Aalsi bhaijaan…
I am sorry for taking you as a supporter of this London Ghuundaa>>>>
Re: Former US President Clinton gives Karachi a clean ‘bill’ of health.
Long live Aalsi!
MashAlallah! Mera chota bhai!