Overseas Pakistani Friends

By Muhammad Javed
Majority of our Pakistanis keep praising the so called Islamic rule in Saudi Arabia.  My view is this is only the by birth respect we have inherited due to Holy places.   A court in Jizan Saudi Arabia has awarded 120 lashes to a Saudi having six wives at a time.

After the departure of Ayub Khan I have never seen any scheme introduced or any law enacted with real honesty and intent for the benefit of the common man and for the nation as a whole.   Since 1971-72 whatever has been  done I saw it being done in the name of  and for the sake [...]

 By Muhammad Javed
Brigadier ® Naeem Ahmad Salik in his recently launched book “The genesis of South Asian nuclear programme: Pakistan’s perspective” describes how Dr. A.Q. Khan throughout his procurement efforts, used Dubai as a sort of warehouse.  He writes that sometime during 80s Dr. Khan started “using” his technical expertise, knowledge of European sources of [...]

 Muhammad Javed
In order to get not merely more remittances but also to fetch the Overseas Pakistanis (Ops) savings abroad, the Governments from the last 10 years, every six month or so announce this scheme or that scheme but the results are never nearer to the desired level. No doubt the figures of remittances must have [...]

The ill fated citizens of this country have rightly focused their eyes towards the new born judiciary that it is the only organ after armed forces which will protect the country.  It is quite right that universally it is the sole domain of the legislators to enact laws to protect the country but it is [...]

Will PIA please explain as to why its contact emails keep changing?  An email is like a telephone number ,it is a sort of one’s permanent contact information, that is the reason in order to avoid change of telephone numbers the important organizations are adopting UAN numbers which are easy to remember and do not [...]

By Muhammad Javed
Kerry Lugar Bill has become a hot pot in the country.  Those who were earlier criticizing it without reading the Bill, today themselves have agreed to request US to amend and change the condition which in other words means they themselves had not read the Bill but were as a fashion criticizing as [...]

The concept of a newsletter more particularly of a departmental one is to keep the readers or the concerned updated soonest possible. We have as a fashion started wasting money on too costly websites without caring to study if those who were to use them are remotely capable of using it or trying to change [...]

27 September 2009
  Last month the Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Dr. Farooq Sattar the Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis observed that the Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) should not be treated merely as remittances sending machines.  Rulers, ministers, parliamentarians and so called committees always spray such flowered academic feelings and sentiments but practically [...]

Since long more particularly from the era of Shaukat Aziz a tendency erupted that the government organizations having huge funds started investing in “not-so-safe” ventures.  In as much as the newspapers alleged a few years back a Registrar of a superior court having kept official money in his personal account or perhaps investing the same [...]