Nawaz Sharif victory, Pakistan General Election 2013

[fatman17]

Sir, there will be no witch hunt. There will be no major taxation or policy changes. We will continue to defer the tough hard decisions no matter how overdue. And our path to self reliance, integrity and honor will remain as elusive as looking for the yellow brick road.

then sir we are doomed......

 

[Argus Panoptes]

Sir @fatman17 I cannot see my post nor your reply until a mod approves it. @nuclearpak @Aeronaut @Awesome anybody please help ......

 

[Jango]

Sir, there will be no witch hunt. There will be no major taxation or policy changes. We will continue to defer the tough hard decisions no matter how overdue. And our path to self reliance, integrity and honor will remain as elusive as looking for the yellow brick road.

We need to make hard and tough decisions in these times.

Decisions which shake us to the core. The ban of CNG on >1000cc vehicles is a good move IMO.

You can't bring in reforms while at the same time sitting all cozy.

 

[Argus Panoptes]

then sir we are doomed......

No Sir, for all my pessimism I will disagree with our being doomed as well.

We will continue to stagger along, just above disaster and well below what we are capable of, for the foreseeable future.

 

[Argus Panoptes]

@nuclearpak please approve my posts if judged to be worthy.

The CNG ban on >1000 cc has been blocked by the Law Ministry, no?

 

[Jango]

@nuclearpak please approve my posts if judged to be worthy.

The CNG ban on >1000 cc has been blocked by the Law Ministry, no?

Just checked, looks like the CNG mafia and other folks are resisting this decision.APCNGA rejects ban on CNG for over 1000cc vehicles

There is a mafia for everything in Pakistan, timber, CNG, fuel, plastics, property and whatnot.

 

[Argus Panoptes]

@nuclearpak please see this story:

Law Ministry blocks PM

Law Ministry blocks PM’s decision to ban CNG for 1000cc cars

our correspondent
Thursday, May 23, 2013
From Print Edition



ISLAMABAD: The law ministry has declared the decision of the caretaker prime minister to ban vehicles of over 1000cc capacity from utilising CNG as a ‘negation of the basic spirit of the Constitution which ensures equal rights to all citizens’.



Officials in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources met here on Wednesday with the high-ranking officials of the Law Division to discuss the decision of the caretaker chief executive after Ogra demanded vetting of the decision from the law ministry.



The officials concerned confided to The News that the law ministry had declared the decision a breach of the Constitution, which ensures equal rights to all citizens when it comes to the utility of minerals. “Moreover, the caretaker regime has no mandate to take such policy decision,” they said while quoting the discussion during the meeting with the law ministry’ officials.



Caretaker Prime Minister Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Tuesday (May 21, 2013) directed that no CNG pump shall provide CNG to any private vehicle of more than 1000cc.



The prime minister also said that any petrol pump found violating these instructions shall be fined Rs50,000 for the first offence; in case of repetition the owner shall be fined Rs100,000 and for the third offence and violation, the CNG pump shall be sealed for a minimum period of six months.



Similarly, for any subsequent offence, the period of suspension of the CNG pump shall not be less than one year. The prime minister has approved these instructions in order to restrict the use of CNG for private transport in view of acute shortage and scarcity of this natural asset and to ensure more gainful use of this scarce commodity for sectors like power, industry, fertiliser and domestic consumption.



The official, while quoting the opinion of the law ministry, said that the caretaker prime minister could not decide to penalise any CNG station involved in violating the decision, as it requires legislation.



The law ministry came down heavily on officials of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources for routing the summary directly to the prime minister, as under the laid down procedure, it was imperative to first consult the law ministry on the issue and then the summary should have been sent to the prime minister along with the remarks of the law division.



Ogra being the regulator had earlier refused to implement the decision, arguing that in the past it acted upon the orders of the prime minister which were issued without the support of the ECC and the federal cabinet, which is why the Supreme Court had taken notice and the regulator was still facing cases in the Apex Court. This decision is also of the same nature, it said, and has been taken without the nod of the ECC and federal cabinet, which is why it would be appropriate to seek the opinion of the Law Division.



Ghayas Piracha, chairman of the All Pakistan CNG Association, who earlier rejected the decision and the summary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources terming it illegal and a violation of the Constitution, has welcomed the opinion of the law ministry on the issue. He said that the said ban could not be imposed without approval either by the federal cabinet or the ECC.

 

[niaz]

Sir, there will be no witch hunt. There will be no major taxation or policy changes. We will continue to defer the tough hard decisions no matter how overdue. And our path to self reliance, integrity and honor will remain as elusive as looking for the yellow brick road.

In my old age I have also become a bit of a cynic but there is no need to be that despondent!

You may have noticed that a lot of PTI candidates are “De ja vu”. Shah Mahmoud Qureshi, Javed Hashmi & Mr Kasuri etc. are all tried and tested. KPK CM in waiting Mr Pervez Khattak is also as good or bad as MNAs & MPA’s of other parties. No doubt unless there is a revolution any radical change is not likely thru the ballot box. Even then how do we know that it would be change for the better? Iranian revolution & Arab spring have already been. Does one really think that ordinary Irani, Egyptian, Libyan or Iraqi post Saddam Hussein is better off than before?

Pakistanis have decided and whether we like it or not, we must accept PML-N mandate. I am hoping against hope that 14 years in wilderness is a long time and Nawaz Sharif of 2013 is a little wiser and more seasoned than the full of himself Nawaz Sharif of ‘Heavy mandate’. Certainly any government will be better than the outgoing PPP regime.

 

[fatman17]

difference between pakistanis and chinese...

"The Chinese suffered many casualties during the construction of the KKH. As helicopter pilots it was our unpleasant duty to ferry the injured for medical aid – some of them with fatal injuries. For me personally at that time it was a road coming from nowhere and going nowhere. The proximity to blood and gore on a daily basis does get to you. After one particularly harrowing day I angrily asked Zhang, “What is with you Chinese? Why are you killing yourselves for this road?” His calm reply is forever etched in my memory, “You Pakistanis cannot think beyond 10 years, us Chinese dream beyond a 100 years!”

 

[Argus Panoptes]

In my old age I have also become a bit of a cynic but there is no need to be that despondent!

You may have noticed that a lot of PTI candidates are “De ja vu”. Shah Mahmoud Qureshi, Javed Hashmi & Mr Kasuri etc. are all tried and tested. KPK CM in waiting Mr Pervez Khattak is also as good or bad as MNAs & MPA’s of other parties. No doubt unless there is a revolution any radical change is not likely thru the ballot box. Even then how do we know that it would be change for the better? Iranian revolution & Arab spring have already been. Does one really think that ordinary Irani, Egyptian, Libyan or Iraqi post Saddam Hussein is better off than before?

Pakistanis have decided and whether we like it or not, we must accept PML-N mandate. I am hoping against hope that 14 years in wilderness is a long time and Nawaz Sharif of 2013 is a little wiser and more seasoned than the full of himself Nawaz Sharif of ‘Heavy mandate’. Certainly any government will be better than the outgoing PPP regime.

@niaz Actually Sir I am not despondent, only a realist. And if you see my responses to Sir @fatman17 here and elsewhere, you will see that I am equally sure we will continue to avoid disaster too. We will muddle through, keeping our nose above water, but taking the odd dubkee now and then.
@nuclearpak or any other mod please approve this post if possible. Thanks!

 

[Argus Panoptes]

difference between pakistanis and chinese...

"The Chinese suffered many casualties during the construction of the KKH. As helicopter pilots it was our unpleasant duty to ferry the injured for medical aid – some of them with fatal injuries. For me personally at that time it was a road coming from nowhere and going nowhere. The proximity to blood and gore on a daily basis does get to you. After one particularly harrowing day I angrily asked Zhang, “What is with you Chinese? Why are you killing yourselves for this road?” His calm reply is forever etched in my memory, “You Pakistanis cannot think beyond 10 years, us Chinese dream beyond a 100 years!”

Please add to the above story a comment about Americans, who cannot think beyond the end of the current fiscal quarter!

 

[Jango]

@niaz...sir you often mentioned the sympathetic stance of IK and PTI towards Taliban. How do you see Nawaz Sharif's stance?

Isn't it as equal if not more sympathetic to Taliban than Imran Khan?