ABC NEWS | Nawaz Sharif learns from mistakes

ABC NEWS | Nawaz Sharif learns from mistakes

This report was published in ABC news about the victory of Mian Nawaz Sharif in GE13. The link is given below.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/pakistans-nawaz-sharif-learns-from-mistakes-of-first-two-terms/

Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif Learns From Mistakes of First Two Terms

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Challenges for Nawaz Sharif | Times of India

Challenges for Nawaz Sharif | Times of India

This news report was published in the Times of India. The original link is given below.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Challenges-for-Nawaz-Sharif-He-will-have-to-deal-with-a-great-many-competing-pressures-and-threats/articleshow/20053786.cms

Challenges for Nawaz Sharif

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The Guardian | How Nawaz Sharif beat Imran Khan

The Guardian | How Nawaz Sharif beat Imran Khan

This report was published in the Guardian dated 13May, 2013. The link is given below

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/pakistan-elections-nawaz-sharif-imran-khan

How Nawaz Sharif beat Imran Khan and what happens next

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Post Election report | The Guardian

Post Election report | The Guardian 

This report was published in May 13, 2013. The original link is given below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/pakistan-election-winner-nawaz-sharif-speaks

Pakistan election winner Nawaz Sharif tells rival Imran Khan to stop sledging

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Change or Shame | A factual rebuttal*

PTI | Change or Shame-A factual rebuttal*

Ever since the evolution of new test tube party in Pakistan , Mr. Khan has been pointing out the possible dream team to reform the country , or in other words to build a new Pakistan. All his rhetoric was based on two or three slogans that no one can oppose

1. A tax evader can not enhance the tax net
2. These all are covertly united 

For the time being let us see the first powerful statement in its letter and spirit and analyze how much faith he has on his own sayings. 

Pakistan Tehrik Insaaf claims that the most educated and the most sensible class of Pakistan are its strength and that the biggest national problem in Pakistan is Nawaz Sharif and PMLN that are all corrupt and thieves of the national treasury. For them all of PMLN leaders as well the supporters are tax evaders. Leaving aside what PMLN has let us see how much the harbingers of CHANGE are different from those they use to vilify. In GE'13 for the first time it happened that ECP published the responses of FBR, NAB and SBP that are used in this blog post. Although a complete list of candidates is required to see the SAAF SHAFAF (crystal clean) leadership of PTI however for the time being statistical analysis of only the elected parliamentarians of PTI is given below.

Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf after the GE'13 has emerged as a regional party with strongholds in Pakhtoon dominated areas only, thus lacking the basis of a national party. Out of the 271 constituencies of the National Assembly of Pakistan they managed to get 24 only as per the results on the ECP site till now (1550 14 May 2014). Out of these 24 seats they managed to get 2 from FATA and 5 from Punjab.  

The pie chart above clearly shows the strength of PTI and indicates that more than 2/3 of Pakistan has rejected the politics of abuse and mud slinging.  There are several districts/ Divisions in Pakistan where they fail to grab a single seat. For example in KPK PTI fails to get the confidence of people of Charsadda, Mansehra, Buttgram, Kohistan  DI Khan, Bannu, Laki Marwat, Bunair, Shangla, Chitral, Dir and Malakand.  The drama of gaining the sympathies of those who were victimized by US drone attacks was also badly flopped as well from FATA after PTI fails to get any seat from Kurram, Momand, Bajor, North Waziristan and Orakzai Agency. 

Other include JUI(F),Independent and PMLN

Let's now ransack the winning candidates of PTI for provincial and national assemblies. Based on the website a good approximation is that any person earning over 0.5 million per annum must pay an average of 10% as an income tax. All calculations here will be on the 10% baseline.

Starting from KP where PTI emerged as the largest ethnic party in Pashtoon populated areas the data is as follows

• Those who have paid low/zero tax 

1. NA-1 >> Imran Khan Nizai who is paying a tax at a ratio of 7% of its annual income.
2. NA-02 >> Hamid ul Haq despite earning 1.09 million as an average in last 3 years and 0.8 million last year.
3. NA-03 >> Sajid Nawaz despite earning 1.8 million as an average in last 3 years and over 3 million last year
4. NA-04 >> Asad Gulzar Khan who earns 0 and hence pay 0 taxes. His election campaign was "financed" by "foreign investors"
5.  NA-06 >> SIraj Muhammad Khan also earns 0 and hence his campaign was "financed" by "covert investors"
6. NA-10 >> Ali Muhammad Khan has paid 0 tax and his income details reveal that he earned 150,000 in the year 2012
7. NA-11 >> Mujahid Ali has no income for the last three years as he was on fast due to poverty. His election campaign was funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund.
8.  NA-13 >> Asad Qaisar earned 0.7 million Avg for the last three years and 1.1 million in year 2012 and hence paid zero tax.
9. NA-14 >> Shahreyar Afridi earns 350,000 average for the last three years and paid zero tax for 2010,11 ad 12.
10. NA-15 >> Nasir Khan Khattak pays tax at an average of less than 10%.
11. NA-17 >> Azhar Khan Jadoon likes to pay tax at a rate of 2.6% of his income.
12. Na-19 >> Amir Zaman , an interesting case earned nothing in 2010 and 12 and paid 12000 in three years. His campaign was funded by "NAYA PAKISTAN"
13.  NA-29 >> Mureed Syed zero income and hence zero tax. Election campaign by chanda
14.   NA-30 >> Salim Rehman has zero income and hence zero tax. Election campaign by chanda
15. NA-35 >> Junaid Akbar has no NTN number.. MOJAAIIIIIIIINN
16. NA-47 >> Qaisar Jamal pays zero tax despite earning over a million annually
17. NA-48 >> Javed Hashmi likes to pay income tax at the rate of 1.39%
18.  NA-162>> Rai Hassan Nawaz Kharral has paid no tax for the last three years despite earning 7.9 million since 2010

Based on the data for the National Assembly, it is evident that the PTI slogan of change was a mirage. Mr. Khan contrary to his tall claims fails to fulfil the promise of the best team. His team unfortunately is composed of tax evader and were rightly rejected by masses in general elections 2013.

 As for members of provincial assembly the list is as follows

1. Zia Ullah Afridi pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning millions annually.
2. PK02 Shaukat Ali Yousafzai  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 0.6 million annually.
3. PK03 Javaid Naseem neither earns nor pay tax. His Election campaign probably was funded by PTI.
4. PK04 Arfi Yousaf  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 0.34 million annually. 
5. PK05 Yaseen Khan  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 0.8 million annually.  
6. PK06 Fazal Elahi  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 0.4 million annually.  
7. PK07 Mahmood Jan has no income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund
8.  PK09 Arbab Jahandad Khan has no income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund
9. PK10 Shaha Farman has no income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund.
10. PK11 Syed Muhammad Ishtiaq  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning  millions annually.  
11. PK12 Khaliqur Rahaman  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 0.3 million annually.  
12. PK13 Parvaiz Khattak pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 3 million annually.
13. PK14 Jamsheduddin  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 0.44 million annually.   
14. PK15 Muhammad Idress  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 0.46 million annually.
15. PK16 Qurban Ali Khan  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 0.8 million annually.   
16. PK22 Muhammad Arif has no income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund.
17. PK24 Muhammad Zahid Durrani has shown no income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund. 
18. PK26 Iftikhar Ali MAshwani  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 8 million annually.   
19. PK29 Tufail Anjum has not declared any income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund. 
20. PK30 Muhammad Atif earns but do not pay tax at the proper rate 
21. PK35 Asad Qaisar  pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 1.1 million annually.    
22. PK38 Ziaullah Khan has not declared any income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund. 
23. PK39 >> Gulzar Khan has no NTN number
24. PK48 Sardar Muhammad Idress has not declared any income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund. 
25. PK52 Faisal Zaman has paid 35 and Rs 36 tax in the year 2010 and 11. And paid 43000 tax against an income of 0.7 million.
26. PK80 Fazal Hakeem has not declared any income and hence  pays 0 rupees as tax. His election campaign might be funded by NAYA PAKISTAN fund.  
27. PK81 Azizullah Khan pays 0 rupees as tax despite earning 10.7 million annually. 
28. PK82 >> Amjad Ali Khan has no NTN number 
29. PK83 >> Muhiibullah Khan has no NTN number 
30. PK84 >> Mehmood Khan has no NTN number  
31. PK99 >> Shakeel Ahmad has no NTN number   

What should i say #CHANGEorSHAME

*This analysis is based on the result issued by www.ecp.gov.pk till 14-05-2013 1700HRS PST. http://ecp.gov.pk/SResponses.aspx

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Voice of PML (N) | (صداۓ مسلم لیگ (ن

Voice of PMLN | Zaeem Qadri's reply to PTI

Zaeem Qadris smashing rebuttal of PTI allegations on PMLN. He also raised questions about the political use of SKMH and the use of foul language about PMLN and our leadership. This article was published in Daily Jang  dated July 28 2012.

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کالم کار - جاوید چودھری

کالم کار - جاوید چودھری 

This column is a rebuttal of his previous column about PMLN. Senetor Parvaiz Rasheed response on a previous article of Javed Ch. is presented here. The column is published in Daily Express November 13, 2012. 

The above mentioned column is a reply of the below mentioned column of Javed Ch. which was published in Daily Express dated November 06, 2012

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کالم کار - جاوید چودھری

کالم کار - جاوید چودھری 

In the efforts to eradicate Dengue. Published on Daily Express dated November 09, 2012

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Victory in GE'2013 | Guardian Reports future policies

Victory in GE'2013 | Guardian Reports future policies

This article was published in the Guardian dated May 13, 2013. The direct url is given below

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/12/nawaz-sharif-victory-pakistan-reform

Pakistan's next prime minister wants to end decades-old feud with India

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Nawaz Sharif likely victor in Pakistan | A foreign news report

Nawaz Sharif likely victor in Pakistan | A foreign news report

A news report about the possible victory of PMLN in general elections 2013 By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun columnist

Original Article 

http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/Nawaz+Sharif+likely+victor+Pakistan+back+future/8361629/story.html

Nawaz Sharif likely victor in Pakistan | A foreign news report

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Has Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif changed his stripes?

Has Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif changed his stripes? 

An article published in WASHIGTON POST 2 days before general elections 2013. Link to original article is given below

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/has-pakistans-nawaz-sharif-changed-his-stripes/2013/05/09/9c0a3736-b7fa-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html#

Has Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif changed his stripes? Part I

Has Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif changed his stripes? Part II 

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From military protégé to critic, Nawaz Sharif eyes power in Pakistan

From military protégé to critic, Nawaz Sharif eyes power in Pakistan

This article was published in The Christian Monitor dated May 09, 2013.

From military protégé to critic, Nawaz Sharif eyes power in Pakistan

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Lahore MBS | A Foreign Newspaper Report

Lahore MBS | A Foreign Newspaper Report

This report is about Lahore metro bus service and was published in Central Asia Online and the URL to access it is given below.

http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/features/pakistan/main/2013/02/21/feature-01

Lahore welcomes Pakistan's first city buses

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Interview | Zaeem Qadri

Interview of Zaeem Qadri

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کالم کار - وصی شاہ

کالم کار - وصی شاہ 

یہ کالم روزنامہ "نئی دنیا " میں بتاریخ ٩ دسمبر ٢٠١٢ چھپا  

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کالم کار -اشتیاق بیگ

کالم کار -اشتیاق بیگ 

A sad incident took place when the daughter of  Shahbaz Sharif CM/President Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (Punjab) was reportedly involved in the beating of a bakery boy. Senior Journalist Ishtiaq Baig takes on this issue in his column. Published in Daily Jang dated October 24,2012

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کالم کار - یوسف عباسی

کالم  کار - یوسف عباسی 

On the efforts of Shahbaz Sharif for eradicating Dengue. Daily Express dated Nov, 11, 2012

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Shahbaz Sharif's Good Governance Outside Lahore

Shahbaz Sharif's Good Governance Outside Lahore 

Ever since the inauguration of the historic rapid bus mass transit system in Lahore, it has been widely acclaimed that the GoP is spending the whole development budget in Lahore. According to the misinformed but well trained propaganda icons, the rest of the Punjab is lagging well behind in basic facilities of modern life. Although, for the number of times it has been properly propagated through the mainstream media that the SS's GoP has spent much  more than what had been spent on Southern Punjab during the previous regimes. This is not only true for southern Punjab but also implies for central as well as the northern Punjab. The fact that all the capital cities around the globe are far ahead of their other local cities, Lahore is given more attention towards development and other activities. This does not mean that all other areas are left without any development. Another point of consideration is the population. Being the host of roughly 10 million humans, Lahore is approx. 3 times larger than Faisalabad, 4 times Rawalpindi, 5 times Multan and Gujranwala, 13 times larger than Bahawalpur and  over 16X larger then Rahimyarkhan. The dominated factor of population is an extremely important component  that counts for the mega development of Lahore. 

Having said that, in this blog post the intention is to nullify the concept that Lahore develops at the cost of development budget allocated to other areas of Punjab.  To prove this myth baseless, the development work outside Lahore during 2008-2013 is discussed here.

Health Sector 

Health being the most basic necessity of life comes under the top priorities in all the welfare states around the globe. CM Shahbaz Sharif, while knowing the importance of state of the art health facilities once stated

“Provision of health‚ transportation‚ educational facilities are my top priorities”, 

But  having only said that isn't enough. For it's only the action that can speak volumes. Although the medical colleges are the fuel for running a good stable health sector, in this blog they are being covered under the cloud of the education sector. Here only new establishments in the health sector are discussed.

We have compiled a list of health centers established worth billion of rupees in areas that are outside Lahore division. These include the following

• State of the art Cardiac Center at Chunian, the first of its kind to be established in Kasur in June 2012
• Fully equipped and functional Thalassemia Center Mianwali, dated July 14,2012
• Children Hospital, Mandibahuddin in Dec 2012
• Establishment of District Headquarter Hospital, Naorwal in March 2013
• Dialysis Centers at THQ Hospital Hazro and Haitian-Jahanian road district Attock in 2013
• Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, Rawalpindi in 2013
• Commencement of work on Punjab’s first Institute of Urology, Rawalpindi which will have the capacity to conduct kidney transplants and will have the best and latest machinery installed, work has commenced on this mega project and it will cost 3 billion rupees. 

Other then these incentives the issue with the doctors on strike was impeccably solved as a result their salaries were increased many folds and their service structure was approved.  

Education Sector

Education is an issue of prime importance for any country. It helps in prospering through the tough times of the nations. Knowing the importance of education several initiatives were taken that are briefly explained here . I would also like to quote an example of Britian where new special purpose schools were built at the cost of millions to facilitate the young brains. One such is an educational village in Darlington, that was an inspiration of creating a separate chain of institutes for the most dejected faction of our society. 

As we stated earlier a list of major educational and research institutes developed during 08-13 are given below. 

• Danish School in Mianwali inaugurated in 2013
• Government Nawaz Sharif Girls Degree College in Mandibahuddin with 3000 student capacity in Dec 2012
• Special education center in Mandi Yazman, worth 45 Million PKR in Dec 2012 
• Rice Research Institute in Bahawalnager in Oct 2012
• Danish School Chistian and Attock
• Inauguration Of Vocational Training Institute At Bahawalpur Feb 2012
• Inauguration of Vocational Training Institute and Arts Council. in DG Khan Dec 2011
• Commencement of work at the Medical College at DG Khan To Be Constructed At A Cost Of Rs. 818 million.
• Establishment of University in DG Khan, 
• Establishment of Engineering Universities in Multan,
• Establishment of Women University in Multan, Faisalabad, Sialkot and Bahawalpur.  
• Establishment of sub campus UET LHR in Narowal.
• Establishment of Sheikh Kahlifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan vocational training institute in Rahim Yar khan in March 2013.
• Upgradation of Govt. Women college Faisalabad to Women university.
• Commencement of work for the Rehmat Al Alameen Medical College Faisalabad.

Parks and Horticulture, Sport facilities

For the importance of establishing recreational parks can never be suspected, steps were taken on the recommendation of the legislators from local areas. Then I too was astonished to see a lush green grassy football ground in my village 448GB tehsil samundri.  Following are some of the recreational facilities developed across Punjab.

• A family Park established in the populated suburbs of Mandi Bahauddin in Dec 2012
• City Sports Complex Gujranwala, first of its kind in the region to promote sports activities Dec 2012
• A beautiful family amusement facility "Shahbaz Sharif Park" which has been developed on a previously wasted piece of land with a huge swamp in Faisalabad 
• Inauguration of Lyallpur Park, Faisalabad in Nov 2011 
• Formation of Sheikh Kahlifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan public park in Rahim Yar khan in March 2013.

Infrastructure 

Infrastructure is actually the heart of any development activity. Without having a strong infrastructure nations can not progress. Roads connecting the farms to the markets pave the way to economic stability. Communication in this regard is important . Let me quote an urdu proverb that "کتے کے منہ میں ہاتھی کے دانت نہیں اگتے ". Meaning that if you want to have precious items like elephant teeth you can only get it by having elephants. China's present policy is the witness of this proverb. They built the infrastructure and then used that for industrial growth. Here in Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif has been known for the speedy and well planned projects. A list of some important projects is given below

1. Southern bypass which will connect D.G Khan to Muzaffargarh
2. Haroonabad City Road and Bahawalnagar City package that includes the betterment of existing road network in Oct 2012
3. Flyover at 6th Junction along Murree Road Rawalpindi in 2012
4. Commencement of work at Muzaffargarh-Alipur Road which will be a 115 kilometer dual carriageway
5. In July 2012 CM laid the foundation stone of a bridge to be constructed over river Jehlum at a cost of Rs 2 billion.
6. CM laid foundation stones of a sports complex and grain market in Hafizabad in July 2012
7. Foundation stone on 17 kilometer road from Kotli Sattiyan to Dhanda Dec 2012
8. Over-head bridge at Changa Manga Level Crossing at Chunian built at a cost of 443 million rupees, July 8 2012
9. Dual carriage underpass at AbdullahPur Faisalabad.
10. Development works in Okara for upgradation of various link roads.
11. Flyover and underpass at Pir Wadhai, Rawalpindi.

Housing Sector 

In one of my previous blog I mentioned that the concept of MAKAAN was in practice only fulfilled by Mian Nawaz Sharif when in 1986 he passed a bill from PA to grant the ownership to the residents of Katchi bastiees. It was exactly 26 years before the birth of CHNAGE. The same was continued whenever PMLN was given a mandate , be it the land distribution among landless peasants of Sindh or the todays residents of Athena Housing schemes. A glimpse of work in the housing sector is given below.

• Ownership certificates of 5 Marla plots were also given to extremely poor residents of South Punjab who do not own any property and had qualified through a transparent and merit based process. More than 25,000 people in South Punjab will benefit from this 5 Marla Jinnah Abadi Scheme
• CM visited the housing complex being constructed by the Turkish Government for flood affectees is partially complete and consists of 1270 houses in Muzaffargarh
• Certificates of ownership among successful and deserving applicants who had applied for 5 Marla plots In Dist. Tuba teak Singh.
• Construction and Inauguration  of Ganda Khel (IsaKhel), district Mianwali which was destroyed during flood in 2011, dated July 2012
• Labor Colony Muzaffargarh May 2012. 303 houses
• Model Village Constructed in Flood Affected Area of Rakh Jhalwala in Muzaffargarh Dec 2011
• Model Village in Layyah for Flood affectees Nov 2011
• 250 houses for destitute, Shahbaz Nager in Faisalabad in Nov 2011

In the end some work for the improvement of basic living conditions is given that has facilitated the local people a lot. The list is given below

• Clean drinking water supply scheme worth 320 million rupees in Kamalia, Dist Toba Tek Singh on Nov. 2012
• Hafizabad, inaugurated the Land Record Management Information System (LRMIS) Service Center in July 2012
• Improvement and expansion of water supply system project in Faisalabad May 2012
• Sewerage scheme with water treatment plant in Rahim Yar Khan in March 2013.
• Model Police Station Gujranwala, established in Dec 2012, under Police Reforms Program.

Another point of consideration is the population. Being the host of roughly 10 million humans, Lahore is approx. 3 times larger than Faisalabad, 4 times Rawalpindi, 5 times Multan and Gujranwala, 13 times larger than Bahawalpur and  over 16X larger then Rahimyarkhan. The dominated factor of population is an extremely important component  that counts for the mega development of Lahore. 

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