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@Darren, Because Pakistan is our neighbor.If neighbor's home catches fire than you should douse it befote fire spread to your home also. |
Pakistan is waiting for India's election result. |
very tough conditions and government wants the money so badly, it will sign on any dotted line. |
@Must learn, "Rest 70% is commercial imports. " |
Pakistan also imports tea,vegetables, medicines, fertilisers, cooking oil. Do you recommend a 50% cut on that as well? |
I thought IK did not want IMF money. Is this another U Ture? |
Asad Umar is clueless and he does not have the right background in Finance and Economics. It is not his fault. IK need to understand the capabilities of his staff and not put the country at risk. |
Minister Hammad Azhar says agreement in principle reached on all outstanding issues. However IMF only says "The Pakistani authorities and IMF staff held constructive discussions during the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC towards an IMF-supported program. At the request of the authorities, an IMF mission... |
This indicates that no such agreement has been reached. Even in November 2018, IMF had said it had held constructive discussions with Pakistan. It was code for saying that no agreement has yet been reached. |
Why does the government want to keep all the CPEC deals secret from everybody? If they were bad, it's the previous government that made them. Or is it China that does not want them shown to anybody else? And, if so then why? |
PM IK complete silence is baffling. |
@Darren, it is nothing to do with sympathy but their anxiety to the success of ongoing CPEC program. The CPEC for all practical purposes is an economic engine, if successfully implemented, will change the economic fate of Pakistan and the same time, provide China access to the Indian Ocean, not a very compromising posi... |
This is the only reason that it is countering China’s development of Gwadar port with its own investments in Chan Babar port, in close vicinity of Gwadar, in Iran. It is a foregone conclusion that this is political power game, and we Pakistanis are under no illusion to accept such comments on their face value but to th... |
@Mian, because this discussion is not Kashmir related. |
I don't understand why with CPEC, we still need to go IMF. The IMF is a US stooge. We should instead have a closer strategic relationship with China, and ask them to invest more in CPEC. That will enable us to kick-start our economy, and become a major power. China is our iron brother, America is not. |
Another way of saying ‘still not convinced. We’re coming to your house to speak to your neighbours and see for ourselves. |
@Veer Singh, Your comments show a lack of understanding about Pakistan-China relationship. China is not interested in Pakistan for making money, rather their interest is in its strategic location. Chinese always take the long view unlike the US, and it shows in the consistent relationship China has had with Pakistan as... |
@K. Aksay Gul, I thought before elections he was against IMF loans. |
Before end of April?....................did they mention which year? |
There was a $5BUSD penalty clause in Malaysian Chinese rail projecet. Do IMF want to know how many such clauses are there in CPEC? |
If borrower is strong, clean and servicable, lendor will queue up to give loan. After all what banks can do with the stash of cash they have? |
Either Pakistan has completely surrendered to IMF for financial assistance or IMF continue to delay the package to witness desired changes and implementation of policies within Pakistan before release of the bail out package. |
@Darren, Oh yes, India has nothing to do with Pakistan’s policies. Why Indians would bother about a neighbor with whom it does zero trade, zero tourism, zero cooperation and for whom it has such large military spending. |
@A shah, from which credible source you get this information - 2nd largest economy and world's fastest growing economy. |
India is the 3rd largest economy in Purchasing Power Parity in the world. You can check it online. |
The Paul Bushell Cup returns to Crawley on Sunday April 29. |
Now in its third year, the day runs from 11am until 6pm and will feature a charity football match at Three Bridges Football Club – which kicks off at 12pm - alongside activities for children and families. |
The event is being organised by Cherish and Dave Marshall to raise money for the British Heart Foundation (BHF). Their friend, Paul Bushell, died of a heart attack in February 2016 at the age of 32. Since then their fundraising efforts have helped to raise over £9,400. |
Cherish Marshall said: “It is two years since Paul sadly passed away. It is still very shocking to us as he was so young and he has left a big hole in the lives of many people. |
“The fun day and football tournament has been a great way to remember Paul and this year we’re looking to make it bigger and better than ever. This year we have lots going on including water zorbing, a bouncy castle, bumper cars, a raffle and auction and the Fire Service are also holding a demonstration for us. |
Millie Hinton, BHF Fundraising Manager for Surrey, said: “Cherish and Dave have done an incredible job over the last three years. After the tragedy of losing their friend, they’ve created a hugely popular local event that’s raised thousands of pounds. |
Last year the public raised an incredible £156.6 million for the BHF’s lifesaving research. |
The BHF urgently needs more people to organise their own fundraising events like Cherish and Dave to continue its fight against heart disease. |
Two rare pig-nosed turtles that can fetch at least $2000 on the exotic pet black market have been seized in Perth. |
Only one of the pig-nosed turtles was alive when they were seized from a Mt Helena home, with two illegally kept south-west carpet pythons and an oblong turtle. |
The WA Department of Parks and Wildlife said the turtles, which were close to extinction, were native to New Guinea and the Northern Territory, which was where police believed the seized animals originated. |
The man who was allegedly keeping the reptiles illegally was caught while trying to sell the live turtle. |
Wildlife officer Cameron Craigie said the turtles were the only freshwater species with flippers and were internationally protected. |
"This extremely vulnerable species is being put at further risk by poachers and traffickers, who are driven by the prospect of monetary gain from supplying people wanting to keep them as pets illegally," he said. |
"Pig-nosed turtles are very difficult to care for in captivity, as seen by the death of one of the seized animals, which became trapped in an aquarium pipe several years ago." |
Mr Craigie said the dead turtle and some other dead animals had been preserved in formaldehyde. |
So you spent $300 on your fancy new cellphone, and then you lost it. Spend $8 more and you might be able to find it. |
An India-based software firm has come up with a way of tracking lost or stolen phones – a cellular LoJack, if you will – that’ll alert you via e-mail if someone tries to re-register your phone. |
For $8, you can download the program directly to your phone from Micro Technologies’ Web site. If the phone goes missing and someone replaces the Subscriber Identity Module, or SIM card, the software will send you an e-mail with the thief’s new number and approximate location. |
“You can call this guy and say ‘Boss, you have got my mobile. I know your number. Can you please return it?’ ” Micro’s chief of operations, Mukund Gupta, told the International Herald Tribune. |
Of course, there’s always the chance the crook will just hang up on you, which will leave you having to rely on cops to recover your phone or coming up with your own way of trapping the bum. |
So far, the company has sold 10,000 copies of the program over its Web site and 25,000 through distributors in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Gupta said. |
The program is available for some higher-end Nokia phones and a few Samsung and Panasonic models. |
Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, Nigeria’s largest flour-milling company, at the weekend listed two bonds on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange. |
Flour Mills’ N10.11 billion, three-year, 15.50 per cent fixed rate senior unsecured bond due 2021 and N10 billion five-year, 16 per cent fixed rate senior unsecured bond due 2023 were admitted to the NSE and FMDQ. The bonds were issued under the company’s N70 billion bond issuance programme. |
The bond issues were strongly supported by the institutional investors and oversubscribed by 190 per cent within the price guidance. The proceeds of both issuances were used entirely to refinance existing debt obligations of the company and streamline its maturity profile. |
Commenting on the listing, Chairman, Flour Mills of Nigeria, Mr John Coumantaros said the company was delighted to return to the capital markets with such a successful outing especially with the level of interest shown by investors. |
According to him, the response from the market vindicates the company’s decision to have taken this additional step in diversifying its financing options. |
“We are very pleased to have worked with our advisors, Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited (“Stanbic BTC Capital”)as Lead Issuing House, along with ARM Securities Limited, FBNQuest Merchant Bank Limited, FCMB Capital Markets Limited, United Capital PLC and Zenith Capital Limited as Joint-Issuing Houses, on a highly successful... |
Group Managing Director, Flour Mills of Nigeria, Mr. Paul Gbededo, said the issues would help the company to achieve its strategic objective of sustaining its market leadership position with its foods and agro-allied businesses, while fostering its vision of feeding the nation everyday. |
A group of Royal Navy veterans were left disgusted after being kicked out of an Edinburgh Wetherspoon pub during a reunion event. |
Around 25 communication veterans who served around the world on HMS Ark Royal (RO9) travelled to the Capital from all corners of the UK to catch up with lost shipmates, some of whom have not seen one another for more than 40 years. The group decided to meet at The Standing Order on George Street for a day of reminiscin... |
The group of Royal Navy veterans enjoying a drink in the Standing Order pub before being told to leave by security staff. |
But the veterans were astounded when security staff ordered them to leave the premises at around 10.30pm claiming one member of the team giving the reason that “you’ve been here a long time”. |
Meanwhile other members of the group were refused re-entry. |
Alan Willis, 62, who attended from south London, said: “We were all absolutely astounded. We are extremely disappointed we were ejected from the pub and the reasons still are not clear. |
“One bouncer stated ‘you have to leave because you’ve been here a long time’ while another guy said ‘you may have had too much to drink’. |
The baffled veterans, some serving in the Falklands and Northern Ireland, regrouped at a nearby pub and felt there was a lack of respect to those who fought for their country. |
However the group refused to let the ordeal spoil their reunion and the following day went onboard the HMY Britannia where they rose a glass of Navy rum to toast their absent friends and lost colleagues. |
They also enjoyed the Saturday enjoying attractions such as Edinburgh Castle and a number of museums. |
A tree nursery owner in Belgium has set up a nationwide recycling program to collect hedge trimmings used for cancer-fighting drugs. |
Are crowdfunding statistics the new counterfeiting statistics? Certainly they seem to have become a meme. If you know that crowdfunding is a big deal, it's probably because you read all about it in TechCrunch, in May ("these portals raised $1.5 billion and successfully funded more than 1 million campaigns in 2011"), US... |
In this video, Tom Hulme, Design Director at IDEO and founder of OpenIDEO, introduces a tool that IDEO and HackFWD designed to help founders design and build startups. Although the focus is on tech startups, non-tech entrepreneurs will likely find some applicable lessons from Hulme’s 12-minute talk, including strategie... |
Greg Damerow is an athlete and small business owner. Damerow, based in Ohio, is the owner of Personalized Cycling Alternatives, which builds custom adaptive bicycles. He was attracted to handcycling after he became ill with ankylosing spondylitis, a severe form of arthritis that affects the body’s joints. The Hartford ... |
Sean Parker and Google are both pushing group video chat products pretty hard right now. Parker’s latest product is Airtime, and Google’s is the Google+ Hangout. The idea, it seems, is that video conference calls offer a better, more social experience. |
BOULDER, Colo. -- One of the most resonant talks I heard at last week's Big Boulder conference was also one of the shortest. In about twenty minutes, Brad Feld, who is without exaggeration the godfather to the Boulder startup community, explained exactly why it is that Boulder feels like a town on the verge, and why it... |
Startups are big in Boulder, but where are the tech billionaires? |
"I'm not interested in working on this unless it's going to be a multi-billion dollar idea. If I thought this would be a hundred million dollar company -- what's the point?" - Anonymous entreprerneur discussing his startup. Overheard in front of Ozo Coffee, Boulder, CO. |
Matt Yglesias has a very odd piece at Slate entitled "The Kickstarter Recession". In a nutshell, he seems to think that a crowdfunded economy would run on less money than the current economy, and therefore produce less in the way of much-needed tax revenues. He's wrong on both counts, I think. |
Editor’s note: This week, Reuters Opinion is publishing five excerpts – one each day – from D.W. Gibson’s new book, Not Working, an oral history of the recession. Gibson spent months traveling across America talking to people who had been laid off. |
The people have spoken and they’ve said they hate the new Woolworth’s website. |
Customers have taken to the company’s Facebook to share their hatred for the updated website. Woolworth’s new online shopping page has been lampooned for taking too long to upload, crashing on certain devices and not showing stocked items. |
MIAMI - July 16, 2014 - PRLog -- Miami, FL., July 16, 2014 -- With over 300,000 salons and 75,000 spas in this country, it is easy to get lost among the competitive advertising noise. LocalSalons.com provides spas and salons a commanding online presence that generates leads and new business and gives customers a place ... |
LocalSalons.com, a beauty marketplace website, is taking the industry by storm and is leveling the playing field for salons and spas of all sizes. For a nominal monthly fee, salons and spas will gain an immediate online presence where new customers can view photos, salon details, grab promotional deals, and request app... |
Carlos Arias, LocalSalons.com CEO and founder, "We've heard it for years - women want to be able to "shop" for services, just like anything else. Providing them with information on-the-go is a big part of the success equation. No woman wants to take a chance on a salon or spa without seeing photos of their work, readin... |
LocalSalons.com offers clients and beauty professionals the perfect solution. Here's how it works: Salons and spas have an online profile that is optimized for geo-searches. All customers have to do is go online and type in the desired zip code for where they want to go for the service. It's that simple. Professionals ... |
"It saved me so much time when I went to Ft. Lauderdale on vacation. I knew I would want to get my hair done and probably a massage. So I located a salon that could do both and booked appointments ahead of time. What a time-saver!" states Carol Thomas, from San Diego, CA. |
Arias realizes "most woman are busy working and taking care of the kids so they don't really have the time to check out their options in their home town, let alone when they are on vacation." |
LocalSalons has officially launched its online marketplace in southern Florida. The company is following a planned growth strategy to ensure the company's server and technical issues remain lightning fast and laser sharp as it ramps up their expansion plans. |
Through Local Salons.com national beauty and salon membership base, users can search, review and book appointments online in seconds. |
The salon and beauty service marketplace focuses on building brand awareness in the community and marketing. It provides the full range of resources that give salons the technology to market and garner new clients. |
For more information or to interview the founder, Carlos Arias, please see the contact information below. |
•Theft of property, Dave Ward Drive. |
Walmart employees say a generator was stolen by an unknown white male Thursday afternoon. |
Employees told police the male pushed the generator out of the store, located in the 3900 block of Dave Ward Drive, around 5 p.m. The male put the generator into a blue Mazda MZ6 and left the parking lot, the police report states. |
Police said the vehicle’s license plate did not return to the vehicle. Employees told officers the male had a white females serving as a lookout. |
The generator was valued at $669. |
Cinemark employees say a Conway man urinated on a theater wall and entered a movie without a ticket Thursday afternoon. |
Police responded to the theater, located in the 200 block of Skyline Drive, around 2:24 p.m. |
A 19-year-old movie theater employee told officers she entered the theater on her break, and witnessed the man, identified as a 44-year-old Conway resident, urinate on a wall. When the man noticed her, he began to cover himself up before walking out of the theater and into another without a ticket. |
When officers made contact with the man inside the theater, he was asked if he had a ticket. The man replied he did, but threw away his stub. When he was informed no one had purchased a ticket to the movie, the man told officers he didn’t purchase a ticket and walked into the theater after watching "Smitty’s." |
"‘Smitty’s’ is not a movie that is showing in the theater," an officer noted in the police report. |
After stepping out of the theater, police asked the man if he urinated on a wall, which he denied. |
Officers then asked the employee to show them where the man allegedly urinated. |
"The spot she took me to was wet with urine," the officer stated in the incident report. |
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