Media Tribe> News English--PBC should also represent medium and small businesses

PBC should also represent medium and small businesses

 

Islamabad: [May 01]

The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said Pakistan Business Council (PBC) should have representation of medium and small businesses to allay fears of the business community.

 

PBC comprises of super rich business tycoons enjoying influence in political circles that have raised concerns among the already distressed business community, it said.

 

Many business leaders fear that the influence of country's leading businessmen can result in a compromise over their interests among those who matter, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, President PEW.

 

Therefore, he added, the trading community feel formation of PBC was contrary to the interests of those who own small and medium sized businesses.

 

He said that many trade leaders have alleged that there could be a distance between cited objectives of the PBC and their real intentions.

 

Office bearers as well as members of the PBC were already part of most influential groupings in Pakistan. Establishing another association is something the businessmen are unable to digest, he said.

 

Dr. Murtaza Mughal said that is generally conceived that PBC has been formed to get hold of some of the national industrial assets in the name of the ongoing controversial privatization.

 

It is perceived that the urban elite, like rural elite, has nothing to do with national interests; they just want economy to open more which will add to their windfall.

 

There is no example in the world's history where opening of economy has not opened floodgates of corruption adding to the plight of the poor.

 

PBC should also include business leaders as well as small and medium businesses in their ranks for smooth working and counter what they may call misgivings, said Dr. Mughal.

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Media Tribe> Opinion Maker Some selectedembass articles 04/30/11

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Obama: World intelligence agencies

Posted on 30. Apr, 2011 by Wayne Madsen.

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By Wayne Madsen:
The past decade has seen the use of crude forgeries to propel the United States into a war in Iraq (the bogus Niger "yellow cake" uranium documents) and to try to indict various U.S. and foreign politicians and businessmen (the fake Iraq Oil Ministry "Oil-for-Food" documents). The Obama forged Certificate of Live Birth represents yet another attempt to perpetuate a fraud on a grand scale.

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Pak-US Relations: CIA Vs ISI

Posted on 30. Apr, 2011 by Gen Aslam Beg.

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By General Mirza Aslam Beg There are two issues, which are the main cause of strained relations between Pakistan and the United States of America. One is, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), trying to reclaim its territory lost to CIA during the past regime and the second is the Taliban, who have won the war [...]

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Libya: The price of freedom

Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by Yvonne Ridley.

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By Yvonne Ridley From Benghazi Just a few weeks ago I stood on a public platform and vigorously slammed proposals for Western military intervention in Libya. The hasty scramble by the Americans, French and Brits lacked strategy and a clear goal. To me it appeared to be yet another oil-fuelled, reckless act by gung-ho leaders [...]

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PAF: second to none

Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by S M Hali.

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Shaheen is a born flier high and above the rest, to dive and strike is its favourite sport. By S. M. Hali In an era of sophistication and state-of-the-art technology, Indian Air Force (IAF), which enjoyed an edge over its adversary, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in numbers as well as hi-tech aircraft is gradually [...]

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The Bagh-e-Naran Uprising!

Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by Dr Haider Mehdi.

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By Dr. Haider Mehdi "…(what) the party inside this wall didn't understand was that the government was always intractable, no matter what the country, what the circumstances.  The government did not give in and when they said they were giving in, they were lying, every time, you could count on it." from the novel Bel [...]

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Dead End Gang Leader Robs Pillages U.S. Labor in Broad Daylight

Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by Tommy Tucci.

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By Tommy Tucci:
Dead end gang leader and head spokesman Mr. Bernanke strikes again robbing labor, pilfering old lady's purses, and controlling futures, contracts and prices in broad daylight. Hiding behind a Princeton University veneer of accomplishment reciting a choreographed cryptic speech parroting 20th Century inert calculus solving insurmountable 21st Century problems. A global organized crime syndicate hoax, that this current leader of a supreme dead end gang, manufactured over the span of a century. Every scheduled effort to conceal this global banking hoax exponentially increases its final collapse.

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WikiLeaks exposé or selective leak

Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by S M Hali.

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By S M Hali:
The selective leaks reveal recommendations to interrogators at Guantánamo Bay to rank the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) alongside Al-Qaida, Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon as threats. Being linked to any of these groups is an indication of terrorist or insurgent activity, the documents say.

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RE: Media Tribe> News Urdu/English/Pic--Pak-India trade talks encourages Saarc business community

When we start trading goods, we then stop trading bullets.

China is 10 times more powerful than India, but the Chinese prefer to trade goods with India rather than bullets in order to benefit their ordinary people.

Unfortunately, some prefer to trade bullets to benefit a few. 

 Let’s stop biting our noses to spite our faces.

When we do not help others, then we also do not help ourselves.          

 

From: media-tribe@googlegroups.com [mailto:media-tribe@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of FPCCI Malik Sohail
Sent: 30 April 2011 12:02
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Subject: Media Tribe> News Urdu/English/Pic--Pak-India trade talks encourages Saarc business community

 

 

Pak-India trade talks encourages Saarc business community

Land routes of boost economy, textile and cement sector major beneficiaries

Critical Saarc meeting scheduled in Dhaka on May 16, Permanent HQ at Pakistan

 

 

Islamabad: April 30

 

SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry has termed the 5th round of secretary-level talks between Pakistan and India to push commercial ties a step in the right direction.

 

Local business community as well as traders across the Saarc region are very encouraged by the development, it said.

 

This bold initiative after successful cricket diplomacy was needed because the other countries of the grouping cannot grow unless relations are normalised between the two most important nations, said Vice President Saarc CCI Iftikhar Ali Malik.

 

Speaking at a meeting here at Saarc Secretariat, he said that Pakistan should accord Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India while they should remove barriers to create an enabling environment for trade.

 

The two countries also need to discuss a bilateral preferential treaty to boost economic growth aimed at reducing poverty, he said adding that only economic engagement can bar undesirable conflicts.

 

Iftikhar Ali Malik said that Pakistan and India should develop more routes for passengers and freight traffic to build trust. It will boost Pakistan’s economy with textile and cement sector major beneficiary which is the backbone of our economy and largest urban employment provider, he said.

 

He welcome the understandings reached during the talks and lauded the decision of the negotiators to boost engagement between the private sectors of the two countries which will go a long way to improve confidence level, dispel misunderstandings and allay misapprehensions.

 

Malik demanded to include private sector representatives in the group of experts to trade electricity, petroleum products, Bt. cotton seeds etc, adding that we should share energy, water, research and commodities.

 

He informed that he would lead a 40-member delegation of Dhaka to participate in Saarc CCI meeting scheduled on May 16 to find out ways to increase intra-Saarc trade which is presently below 5 per cent.

 

“We are will meet president of prime minister of Bangladesh with to boost bilateral trade and cooperation,” he said.

 

 Iftikhar Ali Malik further said that it has been decided to establish permanent head quarter of Saarc CCI in Islamabad.

 

At the occasion, Malik Sohail Hussain, Chairman Media, FPCCI said that Pakistan and India should help develop each other so that who region could be developed which is home to majority of global population.

 

No spectacular decisions were made in talks due to political differences but the move will help improve the environment to achieve greater goal of prosperity, he said.

 

Poverty reduction is impossible until normalisation of relations so that they can spend properly on health and education, he said adding that cordial relations are in the interest of all stakeholders, said Malik Sohail.

 

India should remove excessive red tape on Pakistani exports after which Islamabad will be obliged to grant MFN status to New Delhi, he said.

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Chairman FPCCI Standing

Committee on Media and PR

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Media Tribe> News Urdu/English/Pic--Pak-India trade talks encourages Saarc business community

Pak-India trade talks encourages Saarc business community

Land routes of boost economy, textile and cement sector major beneficiaries

Critical Saarc meeting scheduled in Dhaka on May 16, Permanent HQ at Pakistan

 

 

Islamabad: April 30

 

SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry has termed the 5th round of secretary-level talks between Pakistan and India to push commercial ties a step in the right direction.

 

Local business community as well as traders across the Saarc region are very encouraged by the development, it said.

 

This bold initiative after successful cricket diplomacy was needed because the other countries of the grouping cannot grow unless relations are normalised between the two most important nations, said Vice President Saarc CCI Iftikhar Ali Malik.

 

Speaking at a meeting here at Saarc Secretariat, he said that Pakistan should accord Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India while they should remove barriers to create an enabling environment for trade.

 

The two countries also need to discuss a bilateral preferential treaty to boost economic growth aimed at reducing poverty, he said adding that only economic engagement can bar undesirable conflicts.

 

Iftikhar Ali Malik said that Pakistan and India should develop more routes for passengers and freight traffic to build trust. It will boost Pakistan's economy with textile and cement sector major beneficiary which is the backbone of our economy and largest urban employment provider, he said.

 

He welcome the understandings reached during the talks and lauded the decision of the negotiators to boost engagement between the private sectors of the two countries which will go a long way to improve confidence level, dispel misunderstandings and allay misapprehensions.

 

Malik demanded to include private sector representatives in the group of experts to trade electricity, petroleum products, Bt. cotton seeds etc, adding that we should share energy, water, research and commodities.

 

He informed that he would lead a 40-member delegation of Dhaka to participate in Saarc CCI meeting scheduled on May 16 to find out ways to increase intra-Saarc trade which is presently below 5 per cent.

 

"We are will meet president of prime minister of Bangladesh with to boost bilateral trade and cooperation," he said.

 

 Iftikhar Ali Malik further said that it has been decided to establish permanent head quarter of Saarc CCI in Islamabad.

 

At the occasion, Malik Sohail Hussain, Chairman Media, FPCCI said that Pakistan and India should help develop each other so that who region could be developed which is home to majority of global population.

 

No spectacular decisions were made in talks due to political differences but the move will help improve the environment to achieve greater goal of prosperity, he said.

 

Poverty reduction is impossible until normalisation of relations so that they can spend properly on health and education, he said adding that cordial relations are in the interest of all stakeholders, said Malik Sohail.

 

India should remove excessive red tape on Pakistani exports after which Islamabad will be obliged to grant MFN status to New Delhi, he said.

--

Malik Sohail Hussain

Chairman FPCCI Standing

Committee on Media and PR

Cell 03215155500  and  03335155300

FPCCI +92-51-2251891-3. Fax +92-51-251894

 

 

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Media Tribe> News Urdu English---Business Community Doubs PBC Intentions

 

Business Community Doubs PBC Intentions

 

Islamabad: [April 30]

The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Saturday said business community is sceptical about the real motives of newly formed Pakistan Business Council (PBC).

 

They feel that there is a distance between cited objectives of the PBC elite and their real intentions, it said.

 

It is generally believed that PBC comprise of many that belong to famous 22 richest families of Pakistan, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, President PEW.

 

Members of PBC are also members of powerful lobbies like that of textile and sugar millers, automotive manufacturers and urea, pharma and cement producers; yet they have established another unregistered body to push for their goals, he said.

 

It is generally conceived that PBC has been formed to get hold of national industrial assets in the name of privatization, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal while talking to Joint Secretary National Traders Alliance Muhammad Amin Pirzada, former president KPK CCI Haji Haleem Jan, Chairman Marble Association Shahid ur Rehman, General Secretary Anjuan-e-Tajiran Malik Mehr Elahi and others.

 

He said that PBC has nothing to do with sufferings of masses; they are conspiring to weaken the business community in a bid to hijack whole system with the help of their political masters.

 

The business leaders expressed astonishment that rulers would never find time to meet representatives of traders, industrialists, business chambers even the officials of Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry but would always find time for PBC, an illegal body.

 

On the occasion, Haji Haleem Jan said that masses and Supreme Court will never allow sale of national assets on throw away prices like the rulers did in recent past. They conspiracy to create gulf between government and business community would be foiled.

 

Shahid said that Pakistan People's Party would always talk about poor people but would make secret deals with those who always suck the blood of the masses to make illegitimate money.

 

They have nothing to do with national interests, they are driven by their own petty interest, remarket Pirzada.

 

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Dr. Murtaza Mughal

Cell:  0321-5157671

President Pakistan Economy Watch

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RE: Media Tribe> News--Demands of MFN status to India unjustified

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:10:18 +0500
Subject: Media Tribe> News--Demands of MFN status to India unjustified
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Demands of MFN status to India unjustified

Special status to Pakistan remains counter productive

New Delhi never granted unconditional MFN status to Pakistan

 

Islamabad: [April 27]

The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Tuesday said demands to accord Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India are against the economic and national interests.

 

The local business circles demanding MFN status to India are not fully aware of the repercussions of such a move, it said.

 

Pakistani importers may save a billion dollars per year if India is declared MFN but it can damage local industry, increase infiltration, and trigger terrorism, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, President PEW.

 

He said that India granted MNF status to Pakistan in 1995 but it proved to be a trick as local exports could not pick up due to the non-tariff barriers that include different clearances, inspections, certifications, specifications, labelling, marking and packaging rules etc.

 

In addition, India has also imposed a number of de facto trade barriers to stop Pakistani exporter from making inroads in its market, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal.

 

That is why India has kept a soft tone in its demand for MFN status by Islamabad as she knows that they never granted real MFN status to Pakistan.

 

"Political relations between the two countries are unlikely to become stable soon therefore it is not advisable to increase dependence on India," he said adding that strategic considerations also matter in the overall scenario.

 

He said that enhanced bilateral trade with will boost human traffic flow making it difficult to check infiltration. A strain in relations can push the two countries to ditch commitments as experienced in past.

 

India would only be justified in demanding special status if she removes trade barriers and provide opportunities of Pakistani exporters, he said.

 

Indian should also change its attitude which is compelling Pakistan to divert resources to less desirable sectors which is barring development and pushing poverty, said Dr. Mughal.

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Dr. Murtaza Mughal

Cell:  0321-5157671

President Pakistan Economy Watch

www.pakistaneconomywatch.com

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Media Tribe> Missing Pakistani Journalist Reappears --- in Bad Shape

Thanks Allah for Return of Fawad Ali Shah, we hope Fawad Ali Shah will continue his work against CIA & Black Water like he was doing so far. He will also continue Investigative Reporting against Police, FIA and all GOVT Departments.





Umer Javed
Journalist
Karachi

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