Nawaz to set up 'China Cell' in PM house

[Devil Soul]

SHANGHAI: To follow up on all the projects signed during the recent China visit, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will set up a dedicated “China Cell” in the prime minister house.
Nawaz revealed this while speaking to the media from China on Sunday.
Thanking the Chinese authorities for their overwhelming response, Nawaz said all the projects – when completed – will be of great benefit to the people of Pakistan.
He asked the nation to pray that these schemes materialise soon and that no untoward incident cause a setback.
Stressing on the need to immediately end the ongoing power crisis, the prime minister said violence and power issues are linked and must be addressed simultaneously.
During his time in China, Nawaz called upon Chinese investors to invest in Pakistan, particularly in the energy sector.
The premier emphasised that the new government in Pakistan was pro-business and investment-friendly.
As part of an effort to boost the annual trade volume between the two countries from $12 billion to $20 billion, leaders from both countries had agreed to construction of economic and industrial cities in Gawadar and other parts of Pakistan.
They had reached agreements over the establishment of trade corridors and railway links as well as in the area of power development.
Nawaz to set up ‘China Cell’ in PM house – The Express Tribune

 

[Dubious]

PM house mein laga nay say humay kiya faedah ho ga?!

 

[Skull and Bones]

PM house mein laga nay say humay kiya faedah ho ga?!

Apne ghar me bhi China cell lagwa lo, kisne roka hai.

 

[Dubious]

Apne ghar me bhi China cell lagwa lo, kisne roka hai.

If he is using the country's money for his home then of course that is damn wrong....But if he is using his own money then why big news...

2ndly, if he is using state's money then it should be for the state not his personal interest!

 

[Saleem]

Chinese yatra


Dr Farrukh Saleem
Sunday, July 07, 2013
From Print Edition


34 11 8 3

[Chinese yatra]

Capital suggestion



First the good news. The new PM did not take a hundred tons of extra baggage at state expense that our previous PMs used to. The probability, however, is high that we want to talk money and infrastructure, while they want to talk terrorism and terrorism.



Now the bad news. We are suffering from cancer. Our leaders fly all the way to Beijing to beg Chinese factory workers to cure our cough. Just who is then to be blamed – our leaders or the factory workers? China, to be sure, has never been known for innovations. China’s claim to fame is the reproduction of innovations, mostly patented by the Jewish community in the US, at a rate cheaper than anywhere else on the face of the planet.



We steal electricity. Our government hasn’t maintained the national grid since 1947. Our Independent Power Producers (IPPs) are bent upon extracting annual returns of 35 percent to 45 percent. We have made Nepra, the power sector regulator, into a cemetery of retired bureaucrats. And after all that, we fly all the way to Beijing to beg Chinese factory workers to cure our electricity ills. Just who is then to be blamed – our leaders or their factory workers?



Let’s keep it straight: Pakistan is China’s counterweight against India. Pakistan is China’s hedge against US influence in the region. Pakistan is China’s gateway to the Muslim world. And China wants Pakistan’s help to subdue its own Islamic separatists in Xinjiang.



The Pak-China relationship has been about three things: mutual diplomatic support, infrastructure development (Karakorum, Gwadar port) and the military-strategic angle (nuclear, Al-Zarrar tanks and JF-17s). To be certain, the weakest link between the two countries has been economics. Bilateral Pak-China trade hovers around $12 billion a year, a mere 18 percent of the bilateral Sino-Indian trade of $67 billion. Shockingly, China’s share in Pakistan’s entire trade deficit of $20 billion a year is a worrisome $10 billion a year, every year.



China has an economic growth model and a security model. China’s economic growth model is almost completely dependent on the US and the EU. China’s exports are completely dependent on the South China Sea and the East China Sea – and all commercial sea lanes around China are completely controlled by the Seventh Fleet of the US Navy.



China’s internal security is the responsibility of 2.3 million active-duty personnel of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and 1.5 million personnel of the People’s Armed Police (PAP). External security is configured around “four non-Han Chinese buffer states of Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet.”



Both the PLA and the PAP are primarily internal security agents. The PLA is the ultimate guarantor of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) hold over political power. The PLA, as a consequence, has little or no capability to project Chinese power into foreign lands (that’s unlike the US armed forces that are almost exclusively configured to project American power into foreign lands).



A Chinese philosopher once said, “Running a large country is like cooking a small fish”.



The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. Email: farrukh15@hotmail.com. Twitter: @Saleemfarrukh

Chinese yatra - Dr Farrukh Saleem

 

[Awesome]

If Nawaz follows his "Look to China" policy in action as much as he has in words, I would commend him. Under Zardari China has been sidelined for a long time. This mistake must be corrected.

 

[Jango]

Isn't it fascinating, on one hand Saad Rafique blames the Chinese for the 3rd class engines, and Nawaz Sharif wants them to make bullet trains!!!

Anyways, the noises coming out from there are majorly good, let's hope these projects do get completed on time and on the budget.

 

[Argus Panoptes]

If Nawaz follows his "Look to China" policy in action as much as he has in words, I would commend him. Under Zardari China has been sidelined for a long time. This mistake must be corrected.

China is only the next country we are agoing beggin'. They will give us only what suits their national interest, nothing less and nothing more.

Isn't it fascinating, on one hand Saad Rafique blames the Chinese for the 3rd class engines, and Nawaz Sharif wants them to make bullet trains!!!

Anyways, the noises coming out from there are majorly good, let's hope these projects do get completed on time and on the budget.

These are only noises we are making. The Chinese will do only those projects that serve their national interests, not what we say.

 

[Slav Defence]

Isn't it fascinating, on one hand Saad Rafique blames the Chinese for the 3rd class engines, and Nawaz Sharif wants them to make bullet trains!!!

Anyways, the noises coming out from there are majorly good, let's hope these projects do get completed on time and on the budget.

The views of party workers about certain things do collapse.
I personally think that Mr.Sharif must balance Pakistan's relationship with Chinese.

 

[Dubious]

Isn't it fascinating, on one hand Saad Rafique blames the Chinese for the 3rd class engines, and Nawaz Sharif wants them to make bullet trains!!!

Anyways, the noises coming out from there are majorly good, let's hope these projects do get completed on time and on the budget.

Apparently Nawaz is cheap over safety...PLUS if he gets a cheap bullet train he can show he did something for Pakistan and pocket the extra cash that would have a safer train...

 

[illusion8]

Chinese yatra


Dr Farrukh Saleem
Sunday, July 07, 2013
From Print Edition


34 11 8 3

[Chinese yatra]

Capital suggestion



First the good news. The new PM did not take a hundred tons of extra baggage at state expense that our previous PMs used to. The probability, however, is high that we want to talk money and infrastructure, while they want to talk terrorism and terrorism.



Now the bad news. We are suffering from cancer. Our leaders fly all the way to Beijing to beg Chinese factory workers to cure our cough. Just who is then to be blamed – our leaders or the factory workers? China, to be sure, has never been known for innovations. China’s claim to fame is the reproduction of innovations, mostly patented by the Jewish community in the US, at a rate cheaper than anywhere else on the face of the planet.



We steal electricity. Our government hasn’t maintained the national grid since 1947. Our Independent Power Producers (IPPs) are bent upon extracting annual returns of 35 percent to 45 percent. We have made Nepra, the power sector regulator, into a cemetery of retired bureaucrats. And after all that, we fly all the way to Beijing to beg Chinese factory workers to cure our electricity ills. Just who is then to be blamed – our leaders or their factory workers?



Let’s keep it straight: Pakistan is China’s counterweight against India. Pakistan is China’s hedge against US influence in the region. Pakistan is China’s gateway to the Muslim world. And China wants Pakistan’s help to subdue its own Islamic separatists in Xinjiang.



The Pak-China relationship has been about three things: mutual diplomatic support, infrastructure development (Karakorum, Gwadar port) and the military-strategic angle (nuclear, Al-Zarrar tanks and JF-17s). To be certain, the weakest link between the two countries has been economics. Bilateral Pak-China trade hovers around $12 billion a year, a mere 18 percent of the bilateral Sino-Indian trade of $67 billion. Shockingly, China’s share in Pakistan’s entire trade deficit of $20 billion a year is a worrisome $10 billion a year, every year.



China has an economic growth model and a security model. China’s economic growth model is almost completely dependent on the US and the EU. China’s exports are completely dependent on the South China Sea and the East China Sea – and all commercial sea lanes around China are completely controlled by the Seventh Fleet of the US Navy.



China’s internal security is the responsibility of 2.3 million active-duty personnel of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and 1.5 million personnel of the People’s Armed Police (PAP). External security is configured around “four non-Han Chinese buffer states of Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet.”



Both the PLA and the PAP are primarily internal security agents. The PLA is the ultimate guarantor of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) hold over political power. The PLA, as a consequence, has little or no capability to project Chinese power into foreign lands (that’s unlike the US armed forces that are almost exclusively configured to project American power into foreign lands).



A Chinese philosopher once said, “Running a large country is like cooking a small fish”.



The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. Email: farrukh15@hotmail.com. Twitter: @Saleemfarrukh

Chinese yatra - Dr Farrukh Saleem

That's a match made in heaven.

 

[Awesome]

China is only the next country we are agoing beggin'. They will give us only what suits their national interest, nothing less and nothing more.

Ghaneemat maano you can still serve kisi ka national interest

It doesn't seem like we're begging - we are being allies to one another. They get something we get something. I don't think hes asking for cold hard cash.

Let them make Karachi to Lahore motorway and pay them back by putting toll gates on the road.

 

[Argus Panoptes]

Ghaneemat maano you can still serve kisi ka national interest

It doesn't seem like we're begging - we are being allies to one another. They get something we get something. I don't think hes asking for cold hard cash.

Let them make Karachi to Lahore motorway and pay them back by putting toll gates on the road.

Yes Sir, Allah key naam pey, jo koi dey uss kaa bhi bhala, jo na dey uss ka bhi bhala, yehi sadaa hey hey humari.

 

[illusion8]

Ghaneemat maano you can still serve kisi ka national interest

It doesn't seem like we're begging - we are being allies to one another. They get something we get something. I don't think hes asking for cold hard cash.

Let them make Karachi to Lahore motorway and pay them back by putting toll gates on the road.

One can disguise aid in various forms. But I agree, Pakistan needs a huge inflow of funds and the Western economies are in no shape to provide any, let's see to what lengths the Chinese go......if at all.

 

[BATMAN]

Please, come to me.. i can solve all your problems.

Basically, what we need is, to privatize every thing, incl. development and govt. too.

There shall be an adv. to privatize president house and PM house.