SELF recognation at the cost of PUBLIC money | LAANAT BAKWAS KHAN

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Extortionists calling: One-way ticket from Peshawar

                                                                                                                                                                                             PESHAWAR: When the first sinister phone call came, wealthy industrialist Z* dismissed it as an empty threat. A day later, a handwritten letter in Pashto language was sent to his Hayatabad Industrial Estate (HIE) plant in which extortionists demanded Rs200 million. Within the week, a rocket was fired at his factory from the neighbouring Khyber Agency, with this crystal clear message: pay up or perish.
While the government and the Taliban explore the possibility of an elusive peace deal, the frontline province in the battle against militancy bleeds money; industrialists and skilled professionals escape to safer ground – taking their capital and skills along – for fear of being kidnapped, milked or even killed.
Z has since fled to the United States along with his wife and young children, while his factories will wind up operations in the next few years. At least 200 direct employees will be rendered jobless as a result of the closure, with the number of runaway industrialists climbing to five. Four industrial units have already been attacked with rockets or bombs in the HIE, the largest of its kind in the province with nearly 440 units employing an estimated 120,000 people.
“I am an influential and rich man and have good connections,” Z said before his swift departure. “But even I cannot deal with these thugs,” he said referring to the extortionists.
Prosperous businessmen like Z are an easy prey for extortionists in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, who use Afghan mobile SIM cards to make menacing phone calls demanding their ‘share’.  Jewellers have also been targeted, along with shopkeepers on University Road and in the Saddar areas of Peshawar. Even doctors and teachers are not spared.
A local trader said that the owner of a private university in the city along with his relative who owns a system of private schools escaped to the UAE due to threats from extortionists. Around 28 doctors from teaching hospitals have taken long leaves and left the city. One Dr Amjad Taqweem fled even after payment of ransom to extortionists who had seized him from Hayatabad.
“There is no reporting of such events but extortion is rampant. Nearly every second industrialist is faced with this predicament,” a senior official of the K-P Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KPCCI) told The Express Tribune. At least 150 businessmen and industrialists have moved their factories from Peshawar to other parts of the country or shifted abroad, he added.
The KPCCI recently met the provincial chief minister and governor and demanded that the roaming facility be denied to Afghan mobile companies.
“These Afghan SIMs are openly available in the tribal areas. But there should be a ban on their sale and purchase, and most importantly, on roaming,” he maintained, adding that the police chief’s promises of a committee that will deal with these issues remain unfulfilled. The chief minister pledged to set up a separate police station in the industrial area, but locals remain skeptical.
“It is a matter of survival for us businessmen,” he said. These extortionists are very well informed; they know that no one can locate them. They know the number of your houses, vehicles and children. I personally know four industrialists who want to shift to the UK and invest there.”
Industrialists say that the absence of intimidating police battalions is one reason why the extortionists swoop down and kid people with ease. However, the boundary wall erected to stop incursions from Khyber Agency has not yielded positive results. Threatening phone calls are made; people are abducted and negotiations follow.
“Their demands fluctuate between Rs2 million and Rs200 million,” said one Peshawar industrialist, requesting anonymity.
Provincial Minister of Industries Shaukat Yousafzai said that they are pinning hopes on a specialised Anti-Terrorist Force, as well as the success of the ongoing peace talks. “We cannot provide a policeman to every man. But we are trying to solve these burning issues,” he said, adding that the police were assigned the task to fight militancy without being adequately equipped.
Superintendent of Cannt Police Faisal Kamran said that around 40 FIRs were registered in extortion cases in the months of February and March, with 60 arrests.
“There are gangs involved in multiple cases at a time and most of them are not militants but petty criminals taking advantage of the situation,” he said. He added that the new policy allows those under threat to register FIRs without coming to the police station, as criminals monitor their movements and get information from the intended victim’s domestic staff or guards.
“Those people who receive a call for extortion should contact the local DSP by phone and he will himself reach them in plain clothes,” he added. (names have been changed to protect identity)
Published in The Express Tribune, April 28th, 2014.

PTI using IK photo on KPK govt advertosement is a SHAMEFUL act

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Hypocrisy at itspeak. yes this is PTI

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Now WHAT is this ? A political GIMMICKRY ?

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A moment of silence for all PTI friends who had serious issues with other pictures in newspaper ads

PTI all set to lick its own spit... QWP may join govt again

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Imran Khan has failed in bringing change : says Khursheed Shah

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Poor law and order costs 6 more lives.. THUSSNAMI your cost is too much

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Shokat Yousafzai is also a defaulter of GAS department.. SHAMELESS

TAX information of Dr ALVI... YET another slap on PTIs FACE

Umar Cheema exposing Tax Evader leader HAMID KHAN

PTI dissidents form pressure group in KP Assembly

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Wednesday split into two groups in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly after 14 dissident MPAs of the ruling party formedwhat they called a pressure group.
When the session began, the disgruntled lawmakers entered the house in a queue amid thumping of desks by the opposition members.
Deputy Speaker Imtiaz Shahid led the group.
The combined opposition had requisitioned the session to hold discussion on a nine-point agenda, including the worsening law and order situation in the province.
Speaker Asad Qaisar chaired the proceedings.
Hours before the session, Chief Minister Pervez Khattak met members of the pressure group at the Civil Officers’ Mess, according to their leader Javed Nasim.
Mr Nasim told Dawn that Mr Khattak had assured his group that their grievances would be adequately addressed.
He said the pressure group would stay intact until its demands were met.
The leader of the group said PTI chairman Imran Khan was slated to reach Peshawar on Saturday to make announcements on the dissenters’ demands.
He said the party chairman had assured the group that he would look into their demands on merit.
He said MPAs of the pressure group did not attend parliamentary party meeting, which was presided over by the chief minister before the session began.
He claimed that the chief minister had withheld notification of the portfolios’ allocation to ministers.
However, Chief Minister Pervez Khattak played down differences in the party.
Talking to journalists at the assembly secretariat, he said some people had made a hue and cry about minor issues, which would be resolved very soon.
MPAs of the pressure group complained that incapable and incompetent people had been inducted in the provincial cabinet.
They also demanded expulsion of corrupt ministers and advisers from the cabinet.
Earlier, Speaker Asad Qaisar took serious note of the absence of the relevant administrative secretaries and senior officers from the house and directed the government to ensure their presence during the ongoing session.
He said lethargy on part of the government officers would not be tolerated and that the relevant officials should attend proceedings regularly.
The speaker warned that if senior officers of the relevant departments did not change their attitude, then the assembly secretariat would issue passes to the head of the department only.
Parliamentary leaders of the opposition parties, including Maulana Lutfur Rehman of JUI-F, Sardar Aurangzeb Nalotha of PML-N, Sikandar Khan Sherpao of QWP, Sardar Hussain Babak of ANP and Mohammad Ali Shah Bacha of PPP, expressed concern over the growing militancy, extortion, targeted killings, kidnappings for ransom and other crimes in the province.
The opposition members said though the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had declared ceasefire, the crimes, especially the cases of extortion and kidnapping for ransom in Peshawar and other parts of the province, had increased.
Sikandar Sherpao said being member of the assembly, he did not know about the parameters of the government’s peace talks with the Taliban.
He said the people of Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were stakeholders in the peace process but the government didn’t consult them.
The QWP leader said militancy was a political issue and therefore, the government should not engage bureaucrats in talks with TTP.
Mohammad Ali Shah Bacha of PPP said militants were being freed but the federal government didn’t ask the Taliban to free vice chancellor Ajmal Khan along with Shahbaz Taseer and Haider Gilani.
Sardar Hussain Babak of ANP said Pakhtuns had long been suffering from security crisis in the region.
He said the coalition government was insensitive and the people had been left at the mercy of murderers.
He claimed that 65 per cent of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata population had been forced to migrate to Punjab.
MPA Syed Jafar Shah said peace could not be restored in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa unless the government’s writ was established in Fata.
He suggested that the all parties conference be held at the provincial level to find out a quick solution to militancy.
Information Minister Shah Farman, who is also the spokesman for the government, was totally unaware of the growing incidence of extortion and other crimes in the province.
He said the provincial police chief should explain the situation to lawmakers.
The minister voiced ignorance about the arrests made in extortion and kidnapping cases but expressed satisfaction over peace process.
He said the country had reported a significant decline in the number of terrorist activities, including bomb blasts, since peace talks between the government and the Taliban began.

TAX Evaders representatives of PTI... Sharam hay to doob maro

The representatives of ‘Naya Pakistan’ don’t pay taxes

If the words ‘Naya Pakistan’ are searched on google, hundreds of websites, facebook pages, videos and blogs come up. These blogs, facebook pages, websites were made by PTI workers and supporters to show their support to PTI Chairman Imran Khan before the 2013 elections. They not only helped many voters to decide in favour of PTI’s candidates on the election day but also helped boost the morale of PTI’s workers throughout election campaign.
When throngs of people started joining Pakistan Tehreek e insaf after Imran Khan’s famous Oct 2011 public speech at Minar e Pakistan, many people pointed out that accepting everyone in PTI’s folds might compromise on the ideology of PTI. The answer given by IK to these ‘fear-mongers’ was that anyone can join the party but only credible people would be given tickets to contest the 2013 elections.
During the election campaign, Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf claimed that all its election ticket holders and party office bearers had been thoroughly scrutinized for charges of misappropriation, corruption and non-payment of taxes to the state of Pakistan.
Recently Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue published the tax details of all parliamentarians who had submitted their tax returns. Since PTI claimed to have the most ferocious internal scrutinizing committees during elections, it is logical to focus on the tax details of parliamentarians from KP and especially of the popular PTI leaders in KP assembly.
From the records published by FBR, 77 out of 116 parliamentarians from KP did not pay any sort of tax. This means a whopping 67% majority paid 0 tax. Of the remaining 33%, only 29 parliamentarians actually paid a decent amount of tax (i.e > Rs10,000)
According to the website of provincial assembly KP, PTI has 54 parliamentarians in the assembly and its allied parties (JI, AJI, Independents) have 15 members in total, which makes about 56% of the whole parliament.
It is disappointing that these 77 members who paid Rs 0 in taxes include many big names from PTI. KP Minister for health Shuakat Ali Yousaf Zai, Minister for revenue, Ali Amin Khan, Minister for Public Health engineering, Shah Farman, all paid Rs 0 in taxes. Minister for agriculture and information technology Shah Raham Khan tarki did not consider it important to file his tax return. Speaker of KP assembly Asad Qaiser also didn't pay any tax.
Naya Pakistan cannot be built by mere slogans but requires sending honest, credible and hard working parliamentarians in assemblies. So, for now we will have to bare with purana Pakistan and purana KP.

DUMB khan can not even interpret a survey properly.. DAMBOO !!


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PTI is suffering from CANCER | Says Chacha Teetri


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Retired official speaks his mind against KP govt

Retired official speaks his mind against KP govt


PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf may pride itself on achieving the seemingly unthinkable – bringing good governance to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and putting an end to political interference. But a letter addressed to Chief Minister Pervez Khattak by his now former chief secretary presents what an officer described as a damning indictment and charge-sheet of his rule.
Muhammad Shehzad Arbab, who relinquished his job as Chief Secretary on Tuesday, in his demi official letter to Pervez Khattak on March 11 cited several instances to highlight differences over key policy matters and questionable decisions.
In his letter; and Dawn has its copy, the ex-chief secretary recalled his appointment by the federal government on the recommendation of the PTI leadership “with a clear understanding that a reform agenda of its government focusing on transparency was to be implemented, and expeditiously”.
“I was always guided by the words of the founding father, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, delivered on April 14, 1948, at Peshawar that it is (my) obligation to remain compliant with constitution and law. Hence (I should) not be obliged to be servile or unthinkingly submissive to political executive,” Shehzad Arbab wrote.
The officer was handpicked by PTI chairman Imran Khan to implement his party’s reform agenda with assurances of full backing and non-interference. But differences over key policy decisions, political interference and treatment meted out to officers, soon put him at odds with his political boss – Pervez Khattak.
Officials familiar with the tense, and often not-on-speaking terms, relationship between the two say Imran Khan had personally intervened to resolve issues, but a stormy meeting between Khattak and Arbab in Islamabad in presence of the party leadership, brought the matter to a head.
Mr Arbab wrote: “My endeavours to implement the proclaimed reform agenda was publically appreciated by the PTI chairman, but the strenuous efforts of my team soon fell casualty to political expediency.
“A wide chasm between the declared policy and practice became noticeable, giving rise to divergence of opinion on various issues,” he added. “Resultantly, senior officers who disobliged were humiliated openly, which disillusioned and disheartened the bureaucracy.
“Dejected at the disparaging and insulting treatment, a Capital City Police Officer tendered his resignation from service, which I did not forward,” the former chief secretary wrote.
“More disturbingly,” the former chief secretary wrote, “transfers are frequent and made on directives with no regard to tenure or competence. It was pointed out many a time that such a practice was against administrative discipline.
“An officer against whom inquiry was under way by NAB has been posted as Commissioner of a division,” he regretted. “Public representatives frequently intervene for transfer of officers/officials and there are numerous examples where officers have been transferred several times in a matter of months,” Arbab noted.
Highlighting some important cases, Shehzad Arbab drew the chief minister’s attention to a meeting held on Nov11 last year to discuss the Draft Rules of Business to provide a basic framework for governance. “The establishment secretary recorded the minutes of the meeting reflecting therein the decisions made, but the recorded decisions were changed. This was against official propriety,” he wrote. “Your good self was requested either to approve the minutes as recorded or convene another meeting to review the earlier decisions. Neither has been done which has created confusion and uncertainty among government functionaries.”

DI KHAN JAILBREAK


Referring to the inquiry report into the audacious Dera Ismail Khan jailbreak, the former chief secretary lamented that disciplinary action should have been taken immediately against those responsible for security lapse.
“But the file was held up in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat for about four months. And when it was returned, one of the officials was exonerated while action was ordered against the others.
“This was unprecedented as defence is offered by an accused himself in consequence of a charge sheet, leading either to his exoneration or penalty. The Law Department raised observations on this premature exoneration, but again the file is pending decision.”
The officer in question, who is currently the principal staff officer to the chief minister, was deputy commissioner of Dera Ismail Khan at the time of the jailbreak. The law department, officials said, had also sent in its opinion on the matter and pressed for action. A decision is still awaited.
Referring to the much-delayed appointment of the managing director for Bank of Khyber, Arbab noted in his missive that while KP held majority shares of the premier financial institution, the appointment of its chief executive had been put on hold unduly for a long time. The position of the MD is vacant since March 2003.
In his letter, Arbab also referred to the ongoing controversy regarding ex-secretary, Workers Welfare Board, Mr. Tariq Awan. He said that Mr Awan had manipulated a meeting of the WWB board without participation of its chairman and won a decision for his extension.
“Apart from having worked for over six years after superannuation, he happens to be a corrupt official to the hilt. The NAB has been investigating various cases of embezzlement and irregular appointments.
“Based on his illegal decision, he on his own assumed charge of the office of secretary. A summary was moved for his immediate ouster, but a decision has yet to be made while the individual is forcibly, and without lawful authority, occupying an important position,” he noted.
Officials said an earlier separate summary on the issue was moved to the chief minister to explain the situation, but instead of taking a decision, he returned the file to the law department for further opinion. The law department, officials said, vehemently opposed his re-instatement. The file is now again with the chief minister.
An aide said the chief minister was not pleased with Arbab’s missive and wanted to pay back in the same coin. “The chief minister thought the chief secretary’s letter amounted to a charge-sheet against his government,” the aide said.
Shiraz Paracha, spokesman for the chief minister, was approached to seek Mr Khattak’s version on Arbab’s demarche. He said he would call back with an answer if and when he got one. No reply came through.

CM’S REPLY


The chief minister came up with a terse reply to the charges.
“(The) chief secretary’s letter is more like a charge sheet. This cannot be done by a bureaucrat. What he has said are all routine matters.”
He denied he interfered with posting and transfers, stating that everything was done with the chief secretary’s concurrence and consent.
“Ï could have put my foot down but I never did that,” he said. “Let the chief secretary say how many of those he posted out had completed their tenure,” he affirmed. “Ï discussed everything with him from A to Z.”
On rules of business, Pervez Khattak said after passage of the 18th Amendment, the rules of business were bound to change, but he charged that the chief secretary changed the minutes of the meeting.
On exoneration of the deputy commissioner in Dera Ismail Khan jailbreak, the chief minister said the officer did not have magisterial powers and was not required to visit the jail.
About the Workers Welfare Board secretary, the chief minister said he had asked the labour secretary to convene a meeting and “let them decide who they want to be the secretary”.
He also denied that the commissioner of Bannu had any NAB inquiry against him. “There are many other officers who were probed by NAB and they are still serving,” Mr Khattak added.
”Ï may write to the prime minister against him," the chief minister said.

NO PTI leader will visit USA. WHAT Fauzia Passori doing in USA ?



It is beleived that Education emergency is now 10 months old !!

PTI leader Abrar ul Haq embarrassed Pakistan at Dubai Airport... SHAMELESS Insafians





KP minister transfers discretionary funds to personal account

KP minister transfers discretionary funds to personal account


PESHAWAR: Setting new benchmark of ‘fiscal mismanagement’ in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a provincial minister has transferred a hefty amount of money from discretionary fund to his personal account for distribution among deserving players.
Talking to Dawn, sports minister Mehmood Khan, who also holds the portfolios of culture, tourism and museums, acknowledged that Rs1.8 million had been transferred from his discretionary fund as minister to his personnel account.
His argument was that it had happened due to lack of understanding on his part regarding the system but there was no bad intention behind transferring amount from official to personal account.
“We are new to the system so it should not be misinterpreted,” said Mehmood Khan, admitting that money from official account could not be transferred to private account.
The interesting aspect is the minister instead of giving cross cheques to players had distributed cash grant to them in different districts of the province.
Under the prescribed rules, officials said the minister or any other functionary could neither keep discretionary fund in personal account nor distribute cash money from it.
“This is absolutely illegal. Nobody including minister can keep money of the provincial exchequer in personal account or distribute cash among people,” said a senior government functionary dealing financial audit related affairs.
He said this was not minister’s job to distribute government funds in cash form. According to the procedure he said the concerned department or directorate would issue cross cheques in the names of the payees to be deposited in their personnel accounts.
“Neither auditor general nor public accounts committee of the assembly will approve such cases and even penalties had been imposed on many officials for depositing government money in their private accounts,” he said.
According to the official documents provincial directorate of sports issued two cross cheques worth Rs1,000,000 and Rs800,000 each in the name of minister Mehmood Khan in December 2013 and February 26, 2014. These cheques were deposited in the minister’s personal account in a commercial bank in Peshawar.
Acting Director General Sports Board Tariq Mehmood told Dawn that cross cheques had been released on the directives of the minister.
He said the sports directorate had asked for provision of proper receipt from the respective players and its furnishing to the said office before June 30 for audit.
Interestingly, Mehmood Khan is one of the ministers whose portfolios are likely to be changed as part of the cabinet reshuffle. There is a high livelihood of his getting the ‘lucrative’ irrigation minister.
Whether he would furnish receipts of the amount he disbursed is a big question mark.
It is also interesting to note that the minister distributed the entire amount of money within a short span of three months, since receiving the first tranche in late December.
Rs1 million was deposited in Mehmood Khan’s account in the Habib Bank Limited’s Civil Secretariat branch on December, 26, 2013 and the whole amount was withdrawn on December 31, 2013.
Another tranche of Rs800,000 was deposited on February 26, 2014 and the amount was withdrawn on February 28, 2014.
“The directorate has nothing to do with cheques whether they have been deposited in the minister’s private account or somewhere else,” he said, adding that he had asked for details of the recipients.
The officer’s claim flies in the face of longstanding official directives that official accounts could only be maintained in the Bank of Khyber.
The officer in question is a junior grade 17 officer, holding the acting charge of grade 19 director general (sports).
Minister Mehmood Khan said the amount had been distributed to players and that he had directed the relevant officials to collect particulars about the recipients and fill up performa. He said the record would be submitted to the directorate very soon.

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