Well, undoubtedly Pakistan is a place where new records are set every day, but the recent crisis where the entire lot of country’s sugar disappeared is one of its kind. It was amazing how the crack down was launched, and in no time media screens were flashing with reports that thousands of sacks hidden from the public eye were discovered.
But like always, out of unknown reasons the accused party, which especially included Sugar Mills Foundation, were brought to the table of talks with highest honor, and as if they have achieved a fantastic feat, and were awarded. This was no less than a “Mafia” style operation where you hijack the masses and get your illegitimate desires approved. It doesn’t matter who was behind this whole drama and to which party he/she belonged, but simply letting them run away with their crime is a shame.
It was amazing to see how Punjab Law Minister on air claimed that Mr. Wattoo has played an unfair game and his action has deprived masses of billion. Whatever is the reality, I don’t hold the establishment accused alone but I am ashamed that being Muslims just for the sake of money they have given sleepless nights to their needy brothers and sisters, and that too just before a holy month like Ramadan. What a shame. There is no other word to describe them as “criminal” and “thief” and they should be tried in the court of justice, no matter who they are.
The whole Pakistani politicen should be hunged and we are passing comment here to explain our feeligzzz at the moment but we are supposed to thing that how give votes to them to doment on us and for move ahead our country…it’s too useless to pass commentz against them.. everyone known about suger crisis how suger has been stockedpile since started RAMDZAN who are involve behind of that drama.
ALL OF POLITICENZ — AS WELL AS KEEP MONEY THEM —
@Hend: I’m from a little mountain town in the mountains of NC called HENDersonville. 🙂
@Syed: I’m afraid there are a lot of people who think nothing is sacred if it’ll make them money.
AS
What exactly is your point here? Are you objecting to the sale or asking Muslims to buy the shares of this company.
James
Not just the rear ends…trust me on this one. Where are you from?
We call ourselves muslims and we call Pakistan a muslim country but the unfortunate reality is that our characters are nothing like what our religion teaches us. We are muslims by name. What you see in Pakistan, not just in situations like this but in all walks of lives on a daily basis puts us to shame.
I live in U.K. and during the month of Ramadan, a major grocery and household shopping store chain has put items like oil, sugar, rice, juices, grains, etc. on sale and there are posters in the stores saying that this is a Ramadan sale. There are leaflets available of what is on sale during the month of Ramadan! The funny thing is that not a single shareholder is of this major chain which is listed on the london stock exchange is muslim!
@Hend: Are you in Houston? Ha-ha! That’s the only American city I’ve ever been in where you can regularly see bullet-holes in the rear ends of cars in traffic.
Cheaper labor would seem to be the MAIN reason for out-sourcing, considering the added problems of logistics. That’s a very good point about American business benefiting from US protection but not returning the profits to the economy, but what legislators are going to listen to their consciences instead of fat re-election donations?
It occurs to me that at some point the world will BE as leveled as it can get, and the advantages of off-shoring will surrender to the advantages of local proximity, except in pursuits such as mining, oil, etc., which are necessarily un-movable. Then the more realistic criteria for success will return–hard work, thrift, savings, creativity/innovation–and competition will be much fairer. I predict a world-wide cultural blending will happen concurrently, and we will, at last, all be getting onto the same page.
We’ll be terra-forming Mars within fifty years, betcha!
Is There Other Name For A Thief? YES ALL POLITICAL LEADERS OF PAKISTAN.
James
Last week Sugar in a Kroger in Houston, TX was 2.49 up from earlier 1.49. I think prices elsewhere will also rise eventually.
Outsourcing:
I am 200% against it if the sole purpose is to cut cost by laying off people and moving the work offshore. companies must be required to prove that they have exhausted all other options of cutting costs including the paypack of CEOs.
I agree the world will level out at some point but in a capitalist situation the change will be brutal and the middle class will get wiped out. Only large companies, cheap labour and cheap goods will remain. I am not a communist or a socialist but I think the state has the right to put restrictions on companies because afterall the companies are making use of the resources owned by the nation and thus its people. If a company has absolutely no commitment to the local people or the country then why should it be allowed the same privileges as another company which employs locals…WTO is crap.
Hend: I thin it was John Locke who said that the only thing that can wreck capitalism is excessive greed at the top.
You’ve got a pretty good grip on it, seems to me, except for the sugar; I bought some yesterday and it was the same price it’s been for a year–$1.88 for four pounds. Y’think I should stock up? My agriculture futures trader pal says that a lot of sugar is going to fuel (inefficient) and that many wheatfields are being converted to corn for the same purpose. It occurs to me that if they can get the Afghan pipeline up and running and SAFE, maybe we’ll all have cheaper gas, sugar, flour.
Outsourcing hurts America, helps the world. US has had it very good for a long time, but via the osmosis of easy worldwide communications and transport, the world’s leveling out. Cars are MUCH smaller here than they were when I was a kid. CEOs give themselves fat bonuses for the same reason a dog licks his —-, because he can, and with equal dignity.
Insurance industry–a gambling racket, State-run. Medical industry–very centralized, mostly beneficent, sometimes very creepy. The two tolerate each other in wary symbiosis. Our aging population’s a problem; the math isn’t good. DC is dancing as fast as it can, the media’s filming the whole show,, yelling “LOOKIDAT! LOOKIDAT! (that’ll be ten cents)” and we’re all getting older.
@ Hend: “In other countries these people not only get away……”. I’m sure by other countries you don’t mean the U.K. or E.U. We know of course that there’s a lot of corruption in the U.S., so this kind of thing may be happening there.
Probably latter but more likely the strict implementation of such penalties.
In other countries these people not only get away but are also able to thrive by extolling the virtues of capitalism and free enterprize BUT the same people demand and get bail outs made out of public money when it suits them…talk about selective capitalism…all with the help of politician friends who then receive fundings for their campaigns as paybacks.