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Pensioners Plight by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
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26/Oct/2015
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The Senate has rekindled a waning faint hope of the old pensioners by passing a resolution unanimously to increase the pension of the old retired government servants in accordance with the increase in prices prevailing in the country. How much increase would there be has not been specified and left to the financial pundits to work it out. While the increase is ye
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Foreign Exchange Reserves by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
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26/Oct/2015
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Never in the history of Pakistan our FE reserves crossed the 20 billion dollar line, claims the government and the PM congratulated the Finance Minister applauding his efforts in achieving this Herculean fiscal marvel. It is indeed a matter to rejoice for all Pakistanis and we sincerely hope, wish and pray that it is all ours and ours alone and not loaded with some foreign debts from the World B
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Qurbani without Hajj by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
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30/Sep/2015
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Now that nearly 8 million animals – some costing a million and more – have been sacrificed in Pakistan, I wonder why the Qurbani at that scale is not performed in most other Muslim countries, in some not at all. Of course during Hajj it is a must but is it also mandatory (Farz, Wajab) for the Muslims at places other than Hajj? I think not, because we all call it a Sunnat e Ibrahimi. A sunnat. A
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Pensioners’ Plight by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
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16/Sep/2015
Views:1350
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The Comptroller Military Accounts Officers (Pension Section) is reported to have issued a letter dated 1st September 2015, but dispatched on 9th Sept. asking retired army officers to submit a life certificate latest by 10th Sept. 2015, failing which their pension could be withheld. No less than a retired Lieutenant General visited the office of the CMAO (P) to apprise them of the possibility of t
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IN QUIAD’s OWN HAND by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
On:
9/Sep/2015
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Fortunately the originals of the manuscript in the great Quaid’s own handwritingare preserved in the National Archives of Pakistan, Islamabad, wherein he had jotted down some points for one of his meetings on 10th July 1947 and which amply convey his thoughts on the partition, the Indian attitude and her future designs, the future constitution of Pakistan etc. The images of the historical manusc
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Corruption Deals by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
On:
9/Sep/2015
Views:1298
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The MNS govt. is trying hard to persuade the MQM parliamentarians to withdraw their resignations, who gauging the govt’s keenness are in return demanding more or less a free hand for their alleged heretofore activities considered by many as not very civil or serene. The MQM’s stance of their being pushed against the wall is irrational. Do they want that the Corrupt, the Bhata Mafia, the Land grabb
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Who Cares in Pakistan?!! by Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Posted By:
Riaz
On:
9/Sep/2015
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I am an eye witness to it. President Eisenhower who had recently returned from Paris after attending the NATO conference there was holding his usual “1st of the Month Meet the Press” conference on December 1st, 1955. A lady reporter, whose name I do not remember, known for her caustically biting questions asked the President, “Mr. President, is it correct that the presidential plane Air Force On
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