PML-N is winning Elections 2018

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Qasam say
Few days ago In the morning I went at a Paya shop at Lahore
Ordered Paya Tea & Nan
Started eating but
Just after first Nawala
Gadhay ka khial aaya
aur Khamoshi say chaiay kay sath Nan kha lia

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Aap nashta kartey howey bhi Bilawal Zardari kay baray mein sochtey hain. :)

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jee han , aur phir us kay Lahori dushmanon ka khial aa jata hay
Gadhon ka tasawar bhi bura hota hay nashtay main

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@desert_bird,

I think you are little to early into it, from where i see it, PMLN may become largest party but would have to work real hard to get even simple majority and that os when there are opposition leaders like IK and Zardari…imagine if some real opposition party emerges in between…

The reason behind it is simple, thr performance of PMLN is well below averge, oil price is on 8 years low and no benefit to people yet if a cent per barrel is increased ( with overall price again remains at lowest) Dar Sahib increase the price by 2 or 3 rupees per litre…electricity prices are there abd ever increasing because DAR sahib’s tax policy…doing business in Pakistan is getting difficult anf expensive…

The Economic Managers ( if any) are total failure, govt could have let PIA, Steel Mill and Railway privatize and saved billions, but that require vision and determination…

On foreign policy front, country like Afghanistan is doing better…but let Army take blame for that as they did worked hard for it..

Lets get into law and order and general sense of security for commoners.. Police and judiciary still are joke of the town..

No judicial or police reforms..

Yes China corridor project is somewhat success…and thatd about it…

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The biggest edge that Pmln has now is that the next elections would be held under the local government system dominated by Pmln in Punjab. Let's hope they make Maryam the next pm and hamza the cm of Punjab...

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Please come out this Punjab vs Sindh syndrome as I have already told that ZAB political career started in Punjab which was his power base. PPP used to be voice of poor in Punjab in 70s & now PPP is vanished from political landscape of Punjab except RYK in south Punjab. In Long March last years, ISI Chief Zaheer-ul-Islam and few very powerful Corp Commanders fully supporting Imran Khan & TuQ to overthrow NS Govt but when whole Parliament including PPP stood behind NS & Govt, Army & Gen Raheel not dared to act as 3rd Umpire despite enormous pressure from few Corp Commanders

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Right about Police & Judiciary as no structural reforms. About Energy, not substantial tariff reduction in Pak until we change our current energy mix from HFO based IPPs to Coal,LNG & most important Hydel. Presently it is 70:30 Thermal to Hydro. With Indus River Cascade of 40,000MW Potential like Diamer Bhasha,Dasu,Kalabagh & Bunji, optimized energy mix should be 60:40 Hydro to Thermal in order to provide cheapest I/P to our Indsutry/Agro-Economy @ Rs. 2.50/Unit which happened in Pak from 1960-1990 with avg. %GDP almost double as compared to India %GDP.

Coal Plants of 1320MW Sahiwal,1320 MW Port Qasim & 660MW Thar in the pipeline. Three LNG based Plants erection started in Punjab and would be completed by Dec 2017 along with Gwadar-Nawabshah LNG Pipeline (700km). Regarding Hydel, Neelum-Jhelum,Tarbela Ext-4 & Dasu Phase-1 also in Pipeline. Solar & Wind are cosmetic & costly as they cant fill Pak quantum of energy gap.

Balochistan situation is drastically improved, Waziristan IDPs are going back & Karachi Operation is facing friction from PPP/MQM etc.Pak Economy should grow by 6% to 7% min. with more FDI & Job creation to absorb 15 Lakh Youth/yr coming in the market but this also depends upon energy projects of electricity/gas to run Industry.

Railways is doing fine & will be able to cover its losses in 3 to 4 years but PIA & Steel Mills need to be privatized at every cost but Mafia of PPP, PMLN & MQM Unions in both these institutions trying hard to oppose this move. Tax Net is major challenge for FBR as 50 Lakh Traders/Retailers are not willing to file their Tax Returns by opposing WH Tax. PMLN despite its solid vote bank in traders community need to fix this with iron hands.

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Pasha uncle where was that shop of Paye ? exact location plz ?

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Near railway station

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By the way Forget PML N
Agli wari Fer Zardari
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

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Yeah Balochistan improved i heard that, i would believe that when i can visit it like i visit Pindi or atleast like Faisalabad... Karachi operation is turning into a joke, nothing serious just like 90s few bad apples or bad boys of all militant wings were killed.. bosses are still there enjoying as they were.. so i would say, poorly planned... if not failed one..

and this is not a joke section where you saying that Pakistani economy is growing or shall be growing 6-7%... if it can keep over 4 under these economy manager specially under Dar Sahib then it would be a miracle, and that is not because there are some dire challenges to world economy and Pakistan, but because Dar Sahib have a tendency to push Pakistan back whenever it gets in revival mode... latest tension on withholding tax is excellent example.. and also says alot about Dar's ability to run things and if i am not mistaken he is acting Prime Minister of Pakistan... so what is worse, Dar as a acting Prime Minister or Zardari as a Prime Minister.. i see no major difference here, only later is smarter and former is dumb.

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Sure, so he can finish the job where is vaalid-e-buzurgwaar had left of at.

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Then you and your leaders should be more grateful to PPP rather than bashing PPP and acting on "Punjabi kiske khai peyay khiske"

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and that is, for me, the most dangerous signs for the Federation. Punjab should be broken into further administrative domains so that there is equality and no one should be able to see punjab as someone grabbing other's rights due to its larger base. other provinces do feel aggrieved due to this. but N-league will never let this happen as this will erode monopoly.

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Alaa hai...bhutto bhi or zardari bhi :)

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A Sharif decade?

By Babar Sattar
December 12, 2015

Nawaz Sharif has shown more spunk on India than any other contemporary leader. The decision to kick-start the comprehensive dialogue wouldn’t have come through had Sharif not exhibited dogged determination to make peace.Sharif has continued to walk a very fine line: he hasn’t pushed things hard enough to get the khakis riled up; he hasn’t let the mood in Pakistan get sullied despite India’s rebukes; and he continued to give Modi the benefit of the doubt, evincing the inevitability of India-Pakistan talks.When Sharif went for Modi’s inauguration, our honour brigade was rattled. When India cancelled talks over our high commissioner’s tea invitation to Kashmiri leaders, Sharif quietly absorbed the setback. In Ufa, Sharif bent over backward to keep working with Modi even with our honour brigade up in arms calling him a sell-out. When India heated up the border, Pakistan responded militarily but without engaging in political sabre-rattling.

At the UN, Sharif spoke forcefully about Kashmir but as an extension of Pakistan’s desire to make peace with India.Agreement over structured India-Pakistan peace talks is a breakthrough, given India’s position since Mumbai that there can be no talks with Pakistan on all outstanding issues until the Mumbai trial reaches its logical conclusion. But taking the process forward won’t be easy. Peace and reconciliation will require compromises and that will attract charges of pusillanimity for the leaders making them. While hawks on both sides of the divide are insufferable, ours seem particularly divorced from global power realities as they stand today.Hawks will claim that any move towards peace is in fact a garage sale of our national interest (with retired diplomats leading the chorus convinced that Pakistan and its future generations must remain stuck in the unpleasant past to which they belong). In a security state that has used a combative ideology to nourish its poor populace instead of giving it a decent life and the hope of a better tomorrow, it is easy to refresh bitter memories of Partition and wars to stir up nonsensical notions of honour and grandeur to scuttle peace initiatives.

Sharif and Modi, if they are serious about lifting the future of this region and its teeming millions living in poverty and misery, will need to encash their political capital to make peace. The real challenge for Sharif is to be able to help Pakistan and its civil-military leaders imagine an alternative worldview. The time for accession of territory or a forced change in territorial boundaries is gone, unless you are a global superpower and can get away with it. Pakistan isn’t one and isn’t expected to become one anytime soon.Use of non-state actors as a national security strategy is also dying. The disastrous consequences for states, including ours, that employed such strategies are bare before us. In the 21st century non-state actors have replaced states as the main threat to state stability in troubled regions. And with them refusing to acquiesce to the nation-state system, motivated by their zeal to establish Islamic emirates and implement imagined prophecies, it is weak Muslim states that are prime targets. It is thus in Pakistan’s interest to establish peace in this region.

Democracy’s problem with populism and short-termism partly stems from limited tenures and the perceived need to pursue policies and projects that will produce results before the next election cycle. 2013 gave the PML-N a clear majority to form governments in the centre and Punjab. If results of local bodies contests and by-elections are indicators, the PPP is dead in Punjab, the PTI is in a regressive mode (in both Punjab and Sindh) with weak organisational structure and no policy direction, and independents not part of the PML-N bandwagon have nowhere to go.If the PML-N doesn’t shoot itself in the foot by locking its horns with the khakis or otherwise, and the PTI doesn’t pull some unforeseeable miracle, the 2018 general election might not produce results very different from those in 2013.

By 2018, the PML-N would also control the Senate. Thus if the history of military-led political instability doesn’t repeat itself, it isn’t preposterous to suggest, on the basis of today’s facts, that Sharif might be running Pakistan till 2023. By then he would have run the centre for 10 years and Punjab for 15 years straight.The apology for nonperforming civilian governments has been that are never allowed time to get things done. If Sharif is voted back in power in 2018 and continues till 2023, he will have ruled Pakistan for a period longer than anyone else in our history, including military dictators. If we shift focus from 2018 to 2023, metros, bridges, highways and even energy issues pale into insignificance. In 2023 someone will need to explain what was done to deal with water scarcity, food security, and uneducated and unemployed millions in a swollen population.Talking about water, food security, education and population might be unsexy today. But it won’t be in a few years. And the PML-N, already in charge of 60 percent of the country for the last eight years, will have no one else to blame come 2023.

While you can strike deals to import LNG from foreign states and set up power plants in a hurry, it takes years to build water reservoirs. As a water-stressed country with insufficient storage capacity, we might face water and consequent food shortage even before 2023. And importing food and water for over 200 billion won’t be an option.Building peace in the region and addressing water scarcity, population growth, education and unemployment are not disconnected issues. In a world where the definition of an honourable and purposeful life is to be able to control Kabul, conquer Kashmir or else go on fighting till we obliterate our enemies or our future generations, what value can one attach to the dignity of being able to provide for family, of taking care of the ill and elderly, of educating the youth such that they help with humanity’s progress while pursuing their own professional and social mobility and dreams?

The narrative that we need to defeat terror and rabid extremism in Pakistan cannot be about preaching one thing when it comes to us and another when it comes to our neighbours. If terrorism is evil, it is evil if practised in Peshawar or Mumbai. If the Taliban’s worldview and religious ideology is regressive, it cannot be regressive for Pakistan but suitable for Afghanistan. Our counterterror narrative will need to redefine purposeful life for the citizen, how it will provide for him and bring him happiness in the larger context of how Pakistan will interact with the rest of the world.The challenge for Pakistan is to strike the right balance between conservancy and change. Conserving cultural wisdom and traditions and being comfortable in one’s skin is one thing and justifying oppressive or unjust social practices or carrying the deadweight of a bitter past quite another. The cycle of life is about change. We will do our coming generations no favour by stubbornly feeding them the same bitterness that has kept Pakistan and India at daggers drawn for the last 69 years, and this region in a state of turmoil.

Peace with India or facilitation of stability in Afghanistan will have limited success if pursued in a vacuum. These goals must form part of a coherent worldview wherein material and mental wellbeing of citizens is the defining mark of progression, and the state harbours no secret ambition of acquiring the ability to punch above its weight. The credit for getting the comprehensive dialogue going goes squarely to PM Sharif. Does he see the opportunity that lies before him or feel the weight of the responsibility that comes along?

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Kya 2018 tak awaam zinda reh pain gay? With such high costs of everything

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Government to add over 13,000 MW power by next year

Staff Report
February 25, 2016

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has finalised a plan to add over 13,000 MW power into the national grid by the year 2017.

According to official sources on Wednesday, it is hoped that Pakistan will get rid of the nagging problem of power outages during the incumbent government's tenure.

The electricity shortage was 7,000MW on assumption of charge by present government in 2013. Various long and short-term measures were initiated immediately to address energy crisis.

The government had set target to add 21,000 MW electricity into national grid within in next eight to ten years. The government retired circular debt worth Rs 480 billion, resulting in an addition of 1,752MW to the national grid, thereby providing prompt relief to the people.

Year 2015 remained the most stable as well as the best period for generation of power during the last ten years due to lowest line losses in terms of technicalities and recovery.

There was 5.8% reduction in the line losses during the Year due to better monitoring and robust strategy to eliminate corruption and leakages. Rs 51 billion increase was noticed in recoveries while Rs 10 billion were saved due to decrease in the line losses. Due to better generation cost monitoring, Rs 57 billion were saved. The fuel stocks in the country are in excellent shape; peak generation of power was 17,000MW during last year as a result of better efficiency and management. Year 2015 was the only year that witnessed the start of facilitation to new IPPs that will generate 12,000MW of electricity.

This will not only minimise load shedding in different parts of the country but will also contribute to economic growth and infrastructural development of the country. The government has started groundbreaking power project at Port Qasim; 10 coal-fired power projects with a capacity of 660MW each were being initiated at Gadani in Baluchistan, which would add in total 6,600MW electricity to the national grid. 3,500MW electricity will be generated from the Diamer Bashah Dam in Gilgit-Baltistan and 950MW from Neelum-Jhelum power project next year. 1,320 MW project consisting on small projects in Jamashoro, Rahim Yar Khan, Muzaffargarh, Sahiwal and Jhang is
being installed.

Nandipur Thermal Power Project has been completed a long time ago and successfully adding 425MW in the system. 969MW will be available adding the expansion work on Tarbela IV and V project and this will be completed in 2017 with total production of 2,760MW power.

Uch power plant 404MW along with independent power plant at Dera Murad Jamali have been constructed which will add an aggregate of 990MW electricity to the national grid. Diamer-Basha and Dasu dams are under construction and will add 9,000MW in the future.

China has also pledged to install many energy projects worth $6 billion in the next five years. 10,000 to 12, 000MW of electricity will be produced under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor initiative. Balloki power plant would also generate affordable electricity and create job opportunities.

Furthermore, work is underway on Neelum-Jhelum and Tarbela-4 projects, which would be completed in 2017 and 2018. The PML-N government has decreased line losses and improved recovery in last one year.

Foundation of atomic energy plant has also been laid in Karachi. China will provide technical and financial assistance for this project, which will produce 2200 MW electricity till the end of 2017.

The PML-N government's strategy to convert furnace power plants into coal power plants is aiming at minimising extra burden on the import of oil and to provide people with electricity at lower prices will also minimize trade deficit.

The government completed delayed projects of 2,100MW, which were added to the national grid.

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Govt eyes 2,160MW from Dasu Hydropower Project by 2021

February 17, 2016

LAHORE: The government is expected to complete stage-1 of the Dasu dam and its allied structure in the next five years to add 2,160 megawatts to the national grid, officials said. The project management briefed WAPDA Chairman Zafar Mahmood on the execution timelines of the stage-1 of Dasu hydropower project in a meeting.

The government is implementing Dasu hydropower project in two stages.The project management was confident that with issuance of tender documents on 12 February, the timeline for the start of construction of the main civil works would soon be finalized. It is expected that actual construction of the main dam would start by July 2016.

The stage-1 of Dasu hydropower project is estimated to cost $4.3 billion. The World Bank conceived an innovative approach to finance the project. The World Bank provided a loan of $588 million and partial credit guarantee of $460 million. The bank may also provide another tranche of $533 million and a partial credit guarantee of $460 million in 2017. All this covers approximately 25 percent of the total project cost for stage-I. As indicated in the project appraisal document, around $2 billion commercial loan is to be obtained from the local as well as foreign banks by utilising the World Bank’s partial credit guarantee.

The meeting said the World Bank has issued the no objection letter after WAPDA met the precondition of awarding the mandate to a consortium of seven local banks led by Habib Bank Limited for providing loan amounting to Rs.144 billion to be disbursed in five years. WAPDA received approval of the guarantee from government of Pakistan on February 10, while it issued the mandate on February 11. WAPDA received NOL from the World Bank on February 12 and it issued the tender documents to the pre-qualified bidders on the same day.

The pre-qualified bidders belong to Korea, Turkey, China, Italy and Vietnam, which are to submit their bids within 90 days of issuance of the tender documents. The total cost of the main civil works of stage-I is estimated to be $2.5 billion, according to Project Appraisal Document. Once the contract for main civil work is awarded, WAPDA will initiate the pre-qualification process of electro-mechanical works.