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The bill is worth a substantial portion of Pak budget and can completely wipe out fiscal deficit (at least as projected in this years Pak budget) . The bill also specifies a time period of until 2013. Frankly, there is so much money with so little strings attached that leaving it behind would be...

The increased remittances would explain the 14% inflation numbers even when the manufacturing sector is flat/slowing. Increased money in the economy causes prices to go up (more money, same amount of products to be bought ). Any news on what is causing remittances to increase? The increase...

Inflation < 0% is by definition deflation. Luckily government has a lot of room to cut interest rates and usually an interest rate cut causes inflation (lots of free money in the economy, which causes price of goods to go up and causes inflation). Deflation is considered bad because price of...

Inflation slips to 0.13%; banks may cut rates Rediff Money Inflation slipped to 0.13 per cent for the week ended May 30, the lowest ever in over three decade, a development that could hasten the process of rate cuts by the banks. While the wholesale price index stood at 0.48 per cent in...

The above is only the results of a sample survey and are over a shorter period. The data is from Pak govt., but the commentary is entirely from the newspaper. Full reports should come in later and that would give a clearer picture. My 2 cents - The imports data should not be really...

An economy in recession An economy in recession Much of what was unveiled by the ministry of finance via the Economic Survey 2008-09 was expected and served to only confirm that the economy is well and truly in recession. A telling statistic was the reduction in imports for 2008-09 -- by...

Other than those conditions (which are things to be measured, not minimum requirements), the bill is fairly benign. Do we have any lawyers on the forum with ability and patience to read through the bill ?

The strictest clauses would be here Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress) This first one can be waived by the president of USA Any direct assistance provided or payments made on or after January 1, 2010, by the United States to the Government of Pakistan , and any information...

Actual text of the bill Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress) There are two bills introduced, H.R.1886 seems to be the one which got voted on today.

Didn't you learn anything from Kargil war ? The first thing that happens on a war is that both countries impose overflight restrictions. India will not provide overflight authorizations for Nuclear missiles. If you want to hit Sri Lanka you'll have to send your missile around Cape Camorin. :-)

True story. A while ago, I and my friend traveled to a different town to play a soccer game. Halfway through the game he got kicked in the shins and broke his leg. Now this big huge dude started yowling and crying. We are all scared when he is taken to the hospital on a stretcher. When he...

What happens after marriage is between wife and man. They can decide amongst themselves what proper dress code is. That issue is completely tangential to the issue.

Yes, but within limits and reason. Not allowing girls and boys to talk is beyond the limits of what constitutes decorum - even in conservative Tamilnadu. And asking women to not wear Jeans because men ogle at them is beyond reason (Men should be stopped, if they intrude on others lives...

As expected US is talking to both sides. ------------------- DAWN.COM | World | US pushes Pakistan over Mumbai attacks NEW DELHI: A senior US diplomat visiting India said Thursday that President Barack Obama’s administration was piling pressure on Pakistan to bring those guilty of last...

Wait a sec, when did that rule come out? I have talked to a bunch of girls from Satyabhama college, never realized they were banned from talking to us !! I was not a student at that college, and it was entirely outside class hours, so maybe we were exempt :-) It was around 2000-2001 though...

Four colleges have banned Jeans, not the whole state. Four Kanpur women’s colleges ban jeans, tight tops on campus And condemnation has already begun Dress code in colleges to stop eve-teasing draws flak These sort of things seem to crop up every so often in different parts of the...

You are ignoring selection bias. This is a defence forum. There a few military people and a few interested in international affairs. But large section of people hanging out here will be people who are out to have a fight (with India/Pakistan/China whatever) or generally feel good about their own...

I cannot comment with much experience about situation in Pakistan. In most countries, the press brings out stories about things that could not have been solved through direct channels. For example, Watergate scandal - that story was at the time US was having ping-pong diplomacy and other...

I am guessing it is a mix of real and made up data. It is next to impossible to get the Swiss bank accounts. The only way you'll get it is if you can prove tax fraud (not just tax evasion) in a court. The case in switzerland against Zardari has not yet been completed, so those numbers can't...

I read through the whole article. I tried mentally replacing the word India wherever Pakistan was written and still I could find nothing offensive about the articles. Maybe I am used to US or Indian reporting - It was US media that broke the Abu Ghraib story and again Indian press that bought up...