Commissioner Peshawar passes away in Rawalpindi

ISLAMABAD: Commissioner Peshawar Sahibzada Anisur Rehman has succumbed to his burn injuries at a private hospital in Rawalpindi in the early hours of Tuesday, Geo news reported.

The Commissioner Peshawar was burnt 100 percent of his body as a fire broke out in a flat here due to gas leakage.

He was shifted to Burns Unit’s ICU of a private hospital in Rawalpindi where he breathed his last.

The funeral prayer of the deceased will be offered today in Abbottabad at 4 PM.

Investment Bank - What to do when a savings account just isn’t enough for your spare cash!

What to do when a savings account just isn’t enough for your spare cash!

Investment banks don’t do current accounts- they make your savings work harder (usually you need £10,000 or so to start). When choosing an investment bank, ask about their past performance for clients, what breadth of investments they operate and specialise in, and what sort of personal service they can offer you.

An investment bank is usually a smaller, specialist company than your traditional high street bank, although they do investment banking too. Your high street bank however is primarily geared to day-to-day banking; cheques going in and out, paying those bills, and offering credit and insurance. An investment bank doesn’t lend anything- it’s geared up for one specific purpose: to take your spare money, and turn it into more money.

As such, investment accounts don’t offer easy access to your cash, or a cashcard- the whole point is to leave the money for a long time and let it work for you. Often you won’t even get a chequebook, and your money is only accessible after asking in writing. An investment bank often adds offshore services (specifically tax avoidance) and private banking to the suite of products, and often the terms are interchangeable.

Be aware though that the job of an investment bank is to advise you on what to do. Expect a level of personal service. Don’t confuse this with investment trusts- which are just one of the many investments open to you. The bank is not a product in itself; it will take your money and invest it, as wisely as possible, into usually a multitude of different investment vehicles. However, you need to know that it is very, very rare that you get any compensation if the market goes down and you lose money. Compensation is almost exclusively confined to cases where clear negligence of illegal activity has occurred. Today, with the markets low and flat, opinion is divided- some say a recovery is on the way and we should invest; others say it’s time for the safe bet of putting your money into bonds. A good investment bank will advise you on precisely such issues.

‘Narendra Modi cannot lead India effectively’

New York: Pointing out that over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in 2002 in the Indian State of Gujarat under his watch, Narendra Modi, who was the State’s chief minister and now opposition BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, cannot hope to lead India effectively if he inspires “fear” and “antipathy” among many of its people, the New York Times said in an editorial published on Oct 26.

“His rise to power is deeply troubling to many Indians, especially the country’s 138 million Muslims and its many other minorities,” the Editorial Board of the New York Times said in an editorial on the Hindu nationalist leader.

“Mr Modi has shown no ability to work with opposition parties or tolerate dissent, the editorial said, noting that he has already alienated BJP’s political partners” when Janata Dal (United), “an important regional party broke off its 17-year alliance with the party because it found Mr Modi unacceptable”.

“India is a country with multiple religions, more than a dozen major languages and numerous ethnic groups and tribes. Mr Modi cannot hope to lead it effectively if he inspires fear and antipathy among many of its people,” said the editorial, which also questioned Modi’s economic track record in Gujarat.

The “economic record in Gujarat is not entirely admirable, either,” it said. “Muslims in Gujarat, for instance, are much more likely to be poor than Muslims in India as a whole, even though the state has a lower poverty rate than the country,” the editorial said.

The Times said,”Supporters of Mr Modi argue that an investigation commissioned by India’s Supreme Court cleared him of wrongdoing in the riots.

And they insist that Mr Modi, who is widely admired by middle-class Indians for making Gujarat one of India’s fastest-growing states, can revive the economy, which has been weakened by a decade of mismanagement by the coalition government headed by the Indian National Congress Party.

“There is no question that the Congress Party has failed to capitalise on the economic growth of recent years to invest in infrastructure, education and public institutions like the judiciary. And instead of trying to revive itself with new ideas and leaders, it is likely to be led in the coming election by Rahul Gandhi, the inexperienced scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

But Mr Modi’s strident Hindu nationalism has fuelled public outrage.”

‘Nawaz assured US to review Afridi case’

Washington: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has assured US lawmakers that he will reconsider the case of Dr Shakil Afridi, the jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Fox news channel reported.

Fox News reported that Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Representative Ed Royce together with Robert Lorsch of the Free Afridi Campaign “heavily pressured” the Pakistani leadership about releasing the doctor and allowing him a life in the US, it said.

The report claimed what some Pakistani journalists witnessed on Oct 22, when the prime minister briefed the committee’s members on this and other issues at the Rayburn office building on the Hill.

Mr Sharif more or less repeated the speech he delivered at the US Institute of Peace earlier in the day, making a passionate appeal to US lawmakers to reengage with Pakistan. Perhaps to appease the lawmakers, the prime minister omitted the appeal that he made at the institute to end the drone strikes.

The omission, however, had little impact on the lawmakers who had not come to the meeting to humour the Pakistani prime minister. As soon as Mr Sharif ended his speech, the lawmakers unleashed a barrage of critical comments and questions and they did so in such a harsh and unfriendly tone that surprised the Pakistani delegation.

They blamed Pakistan for allegedly sending its “troops, not just the Taliban” for attacking US soldiers in Afghanistan. They accused Pakistan of “patronising” cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan and for “sending terrorists” into India to “kill Indian civilians”.

Pakistan was also blamed for nurturing Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaatud Dawa and for “allowing” Hafiz Saeed to “operate freely” and launch cross-border attacks into India.

Some lawmakers blamed Pakistan for killing Baloch civilians and for suppressing Baloch and Sindhi languages and cultures too.

Others mentioned Pakistan’s failure to try the Mumbai terror suspects and urged Mr Sharif to start the trial as soon as possible.

“The attack was so severe and was delivered with so much ferocity that it surprised the prime minister and he often had to be helped by his aides,” said a witness.

What Mr Lorsch, a Los Angeles entrepreneur and philanthropist, said in his interview to Fox News confirmed these eyewitness accounts. Mr Lorsch attended “a carefully stage-managed” private meeting between Mr Sharif and senior US lawmakers in Washington last week and participated in this supposedly “friendly exchange of views” between the prime minister and US lawmakers.

Mr Lorsch and the lawmakers had brought so much pressure on Mr Sharif that he pledged a legal review of the Shakil Afridi case, Fox News reported.

“My message to them was: ‘What they do with Dr Afridi is how Pakistan will be judged as a democracy by the rest of the world’,” Mr Lorsch said.

The tight-knit gathering, which included Pakistan’s national security adviser Sartaj Aziz and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, had not been previously announced to the somewhat surprised Pakistani delegation, the report said.

The meeting lasted around 25 minutes in a side-room immediately prior to the dinner hosted by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, it said.

“This was first time that the leadership in Pakistan realised the importance of Dr Afridi not as a political bargaining tool but as a symbol of how freedom-loving American people regard Pakistan,” Mr Lorsch said.

Halya Amrici Duora Aur Daal Qemma Ka Moaamla By Khalid Masood Khan

Asfandyar, Khattak had secret agreement with US: Hoti

پشاور(دنیا نیوز)عوامی نیشنل پارٹی کے سابق رہنما اور سینیٹر اعظم خان ہوتی نے کہا ہے کہ اسفند یارولی اور افراسیاب خٹک نے ساڑھے تین کروڑ ڈالر میں پختونواں کے سر کا سودا کیا۔پشاور پریس کلب میں پریس کانفرنس کے دوران اعظم ہوتی کا کہنا تھا کہ اے این پی کے دور حکومت میں 850 کارکنوں کا خون بہایا گیا۔اسفند یار ولی اور افراسیاب خٹک نے ساڑھے تین کروڑ ڈالر میں پختونخوا کے سر کا سودا کیا۔سابق ایم این اے اور امریکی نژاد پاکستانی نسیم الرحمان نے امریکہ اور اسفند یار ولی کے مابین معاہدہ کرایا۔نسیم الرحمان نے پہلے اسفند یار سے ملاقات کی اور بعد میں بیگم نسیم ولی سے بھی ملا۔افرا سیاب خٹک کو ایک چیک دیا گیا جس کا اکاونٹ ارب ملک میں تھا ان کا کہنا تھا کہ امریکہ کیلئے ہر کوئی دوڑتا ہے لیکن امریکہ اسے بلاتا ہے جس سے اس کے مفادات وابستہ ہوں۔اسفند یار ولی اور افراسیاب خٹک جب امریکہ سے واپس آئے تو 10 دن تک ان کے فون بند رہے۔

PESHAWAR: Senator Azam Hoti alleged Monday that Awami National Party (ANP) leaders Asfandyar Wali Khan and Afrasiab Khattak had a secret agreement with the US. “Approximately $35 million was taken from the US as part of this agreement.”

During a news conference, Hoti said the ANP leaders had disappeared for ten days in the US; however he added that he had no proof for these allegations. “Information about the ANP leaders was given by US residents.”

According to Hoti the agreement was concerned with the Taliban and also involved an Arab country.

Hoti also called Afrasiab Khattak a thief who along with Asfandyar Wali Khan had destroyed the ANP.

Earlier this month, the ANP expelled Azam Khan Hoti from the party on grounds of violating party discipline by demanding the resignation of Asfandyar Wali and Afrasiab Khattak.

ANP Response

ANP leader Senator Zahid Khan in reaction to the press conference said Hoti himself had admitted that there was no proof to these allegations.

“We were in government during the last five years, why were these allegations not leveled then?”

Khan added that Asfandyar Wali Khan was a hero for the Pakhtun people. He further said that an official reaction to the press conference would be given after two days. “There has been a conspiracy against our leadership in every era.”

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