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The news reported in the daily “Pakistan Today” (link:- http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/pakistan-has-97-billion-dollars-in-swiss-banks-director-swiss-bank/#IDComment194865889) that Swiss banks have 97 billion dollars, is a smoke screen to mislead the general public. By no means this figure can be less than 200 billion dollars i.e. more than three times the existing foreign debt of Pakistan.

Leaving aside the exact amount of Pakistan’s money in the Swiss banks, our civilian government & parliament, military establisment, bench and bar & the media must devise some mechanism (following the US government’s successful initiative with the Swiss government) to very strongly take up the issue with Swiss government, to immediately return back our money deposited in Swiss banks.

This is all the more necessary for the very survival of Pakistan (Indian defense budget is going to increase from 36 billion dollars to 60 billion dollars in next few years versus Pakistan’s current defense budget of 4-5 billion dollars). Moreover, Pakistan’s economic growth and development is absolutely necessary to stabilize the country to successfully fight the war on terror for the entire world. And we will not be demanding any charity from the Swiss government.

This money belongs to the people of Pakistan and the entire nation (including ruling parties and the opposition) is fully united on this issue. Rather, it will be the biggest gift from the Asif Ali Zardari led PPP to the nation for which voters will elect them to serve the nation for at least 100 years. So come on PPP, rise to the occasion, it is the golden chance for you to re-build a new properous & peaceful Pakistan.

H’able CJ of SC has hit the bulls eye (in saying outdated laws must be repealed) as reported in the Daily “Pakistan Today” link:- http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/outdated-laws-must-be-repealed-says-cjp/#IDComment191800260. 

The fact is that panacea of Pakistan’s many ills lies in removing the out dated laws from the statue books of the country, where we have been made prisoners of our past.

Mr. CJ you and your honourable colleagues have done a lot for this country. Kindly do us another favour, for which our generations will be thankful to you.

Please find a solution to immediately replace the current election process (which is the mother of all problems) with a new one in which every party leader should stand to be elected directly, as head of the government. However, before the elections, each participating party will declare a list in advance of it’s assembly members (for the voters to know beforehand the qualifications, capabilities, character & mettle of their future public representatives). Now after the elections, the proportionate number of these advance named party representatives will be automatically elected, starting from the top of the list, according to the share of the votes polled in favour of the party leader.

In this way, very high quality members (who will be even confirming the appointment of judges) will come to assembly, Jagirdars hold on voters will lose its grip, election expenses will be drastically reduced, sale of votes will be eliminated, neat and corruption free governance will emerge, Biradari system menace will crack down, people’s frustration from the democracy will be minimized, parties will be forced to implement their manifesto and people’s say in direct selection of rulers will increase manifold.

Sir, the definition of insanity says “doing an act over and over again and expecting a different result.” There is also a saying in IT jargon that “Garbage in garbage out”. The existing system will never deliver in our circumstances. So, kindly help this nation come out of the clutches of the prevalent exploitive system, whereby, 3-5 % cruel minority is ruling & plundering rest of the suffering majority.

The change of system will also automatically stop the talk of dismemberment of Pakistan, so rampant these days.

THANK YOU AMERICA

By: Col Khawar Munir Haroon(Retd),Sitara-e-Imtiaz(Military)

Thank you America, you did what you are capable of doing. You should have done it much earlier. You have unnecessarily put your people, the tax payers, under relentless pressure. Your “war on terror” expenditure has crossed $ 4 Trillion dollars. Expenditure on maintaining your troops in Afghanistan has crossed $ 100 Billion dollars. Your budget deficit is touching $ 1.645 Trillion dollars. You are under debt of over $ 14 Trillion dollars. Your economy is standing on the moving sands. A bubble, which your own economists are predicting, is about to burst. Very rightly so you have put strings to your support to Pakistan.

It is always good to run away from the theater of war. You did it in Korea, then in Vietnam. Prior to that, you buckled in front of Cuba, when Castro and Che Guevara kicked out your prodigy, Batista. You are running out of Afghanistan now. Do it fast, lest your poodle stops wagging its tail. This time your exit should be forever.