Well living in NY and hearing about seaport everyday in subway or buses is pretty annoying.
I asked myself a question how would I feel if I get to read- Pakistan is selling its seaports to a company owned by UAE for next 50 years.
Would I want Arab on our land? Where we already have bomb blasts at least once a month. If we don’t people feel they aren’t living in Pakistan.
What do you guys feel?
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^ Are you an ABCD?
Seems like it as you behave like a hillybilly! 
And before anything further, NO THE PORTS ARE NOT BEING “SOLD” TO A “TOWEL HEAD” COMPANY 
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Would I want knuckle head Arab on our land? Where we already have bomb blasts at least once a month. If we don't people feel they aren't living in Pakistan.
What do you guys feel?
Nia, the beauty in Pakistan is that you dont get to read all that, first of all there are not enough people who can read and secondly Pakistan is not just willing but rather has sold a lot to those knuckle heads, and will never regret that.
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What are you trying to say here?
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ports are not just another company…they are strategic economical points!!
i mean if a foreign country owns the major seaports of pakistan, then pakistan will be bind to obey that country!! think of all the supply pakistan is getting from seaports…if UAE or any other foreign country is owning our seaports, thn we will be totally depending on their will for all our import /export business transiting by sea…
do we want to be owned by UAE??? that is the question!
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^I agree.
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Huh 
, where did you get the idea that any body admistrating the ports will be controlling what is allowed to come in or go out of a country? They wont be the policy makers.
Why are girls discussing this topic 
, some male member of this site explain this to me please?
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Firstly your questions lack some very basic information. The difference between the two Ports Pakistan has and the NYC ports is that the NYC ports are purely commercial. The Pakistan Ports are military and commercial. We have our fleets stationed at Karachi and Gwadar.
In addition the US ports in question were run by the british for a good decade if not more before this whole fiasco. Nobody cared then. They seem to be up in arms because it is an Arab company.
Secondly I find your racial undertones with regard to Arabs and bombs in Pakistan extremely pathetic.
Secondly no port is ever owned by a company. The land is still the sovereign territory of the country. What the company does own is the "RIGHTS" to work on the port. In other words, the company conducts the day to day affairs of loading and off-loading, managing the ships and taking care of the profits and losses of the said economic entity.
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When people and companies own airports and sea ports that doesn’t mean that they virtually own those places rather the operations fo these facilities are sub let or are given on contract.
Let me just give you an example, there are 2000 people working on the port of Karachi and their job is to make sure that all the containers are streamlined and stacked and ready so that they can be shifted out of the port. The port's Security, Inspection of containers and all the custom documentation is still handled by Pakistan Navy, Pakistan Customs and Pakistan Police. Now these 2000 who work at the operation at this port are employees of XX company, and XX company is owned by an ABC who lives in an ARAB COUNTRY, now can you tell me what’s wrong with this deal, I would say the only thing wrong here is your perceived understanding of that Arab country, and that’s the crux of the matter.
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No one is “owning” these ports in America! 
People… 
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how do i feel?
I feel very good, since I happen to work for the Dubai company that’s buying the ports.
and yea Pakistan has decided to sell Gawadar Port to Dubai Ports Authority.
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:)good for you, let’s hope it’s a good investment for them:balley:
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cause pôlicy makers are not the actual people who have power, but everywhere people with power are those with money;)
i’m not a girl, i’m a woman:o…
i don’t care about male opinions…we females are the majority both in society and in classrooms…so it is normal we discuss issues of general interests to our studies;)
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We are talking about a corporate to take charge of a project. What does Arabs have to do with the corporate etc?
People who are bringing Politics into business have no idea how business work, keep the politics out of business the see what advantages can be of P&O taking charge of ports. If beneficials then ya why not but if things cannot be in shape then this project can be passed to another corporate.
P&O just happens to be owned by UAE thats it & nothing more than that. P&O is pretty famous in UK, anyone who travels by ferry to mainland knows what P&O is though that have only 8% share in some ports of UK.
No offence, but I consider ur post just a "hate" mail & nothing more. Something based on hate & hate only without doing any research.
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Or being more loyal than the king! ;)
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Would I want Arab on our land? Where we already have bomb blasts at least once a month. If we don't people feel they aren't living in Pakistan.
What do you guys feel?
what do u mean by "If Pakistan sells its port"? First of all, I don't really think it's selling, its more like giving another country the contract to maintain and work on the port while u earn profit as well. China has been given the contract of Gawadar port (Pakistan) for a long time now. The only reason everyone is talking about US seaports is because they sold the contract to UAE which is considered a country that supported terrorist at some point. If it was another country (such as UK, Germany, Japan etc), nobody would've even cared. US is going to make so much money by selling the contract to another country which is (in the long run) going to help the economy of USA. Nobody can just rule on a country by owing their ports (when u sell a contract, there are certain terms the both countires have to agree upon) so.......stop worrying about it, US is gonna give these to another country if not UAE.
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The ports being turned over to DP World isn't the issue but rather how it was done. Review procedures for turning over operations such as port operations to a foreign entity weren't followed. DP World is first class it's those that allowed this deal to go through without following proper protocol who should be criticized.
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It is upto countries to decide what they would like to do as far as managing their ports etc is concerned. The fact, though, is that the opposition to the UAE's running P&O ports in the USA is a racist move. This has nothing to do with terrorism - every country in the world has supported some questionable group or the other in the past. When British, Chinese, Hongkong expat and other companies can manage US ports, excluding a UAE company alone is ridiculous.
Arab countries also allow foreign companies to manage their ports. Salalah in Oman is managed by Maersk-Sealand for example. There are many American companies doing business in the Middle East. No one has asked any of them to leave. This is a question of business and nothing else. To attribute anything other than a business motive would be silly.
More loyal than the king? Probably not. Confused? Does look like it...