The Uncertain Future of India-Pakistan-Iran Pipeline

DM: The PM consulted with the DM and the NSA, not Murli Deora..This should tell you something..

This is a good move by the UPA government..the leftist scum gets spanked again..

Ally Left’s Sorry Saturday: Iran goes to UN, airport staff to work
India votes to send Iran N-file to UNSC

The key factors that went behind India’s decision which was taken by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday night in consultation with Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Advisor M K Narayanan, who thereafter left for the Munich Security Conference at 3.00 am:

• What Iran is trying to protect from IAEA scrutiny is related to P1 and P2 centrifuges which would bring out the link with the A Q Khan network. This has also been recorded by the IAEA DG Mohammed El-Baradei in his report last September. New Delhi felt it should encourage any effort to unravel this clandestine network in the neighbourhood.

• It was important to ensure that whatever India’s position, it must not lead to any bracketing with Iran on the nuclear programme. More so, when Iran has talked of Washington’s ‘‘double standards’’ in dealing with Iran and India’s nuclear programmes. A vote at the IAEA allows New Delhi to distance itself from Tehran on the issue making it difficult for the non-proliferation lobby to equate the two.

• Iran too has acted always in its national interest on these matters. Last September at the UNGA, it called for universalisation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty with the objective of bringing pressure on Israel. India let it be known to Iran that this could make matters difficult for the Indian programme. However, Tehran showed no signs of accommodating Indian concerns then.

#127, jang {``when i got my firt job, i posted 2000% annual growth ;-)``}

Jang,
That had nothing to do with your job, it was right after you got your suntan? :)

#127, jang {``when i got my firt job, i posted 2000% annual growth ;-)``}

Jang,
That had nothing to do with your job, it was right after you got your suntan? :)

when i got my firt job, i posted 2000% annual growth ;-)

#123 by tahmed32 on February 4, 2006 1:55pm PT

Prophet tahmed(PBUYSRR): 8.4 % growth rate once in 15 years don`t mean squat..it`s like the local dunkin donuts posts 15% growth in sales and microsoft posts 5% growth..this is the same kind of paki mass self-delusion over the joke that is the KSE..you can fool each other all the time, but the world ain`t buying it..

Pakistan is losing ground

By Shahid Javed Burki

Constraints notwithstanding, foreign retailers including Wal-Mart, the world’s largest, are lining up to move into India. The new Indian policy, considerably more restricted than the one followed across the country’s northern border — in Pakistan — will still lead to large foreign investment in the sector. Foreign companies, while not totally delighted by the small Indian gesture, are likely to move into the country with billions of dollars of investment. Why are foreigners so eager to go to India but reluctant to come to Pakistan?

One answer is the larger size of the Indian market. In 2005 the size of the Indian retail market was estimated at $258 billion and, according to Technopak, a consulting firm, it is set to grow to $411 billion within five years. The sector is currently dominated by nine million “mom and pop corner stores.” India is admittedly large and becoming larger, but Pakistan is small only by comparison to its neighbour. Otherwise it offers a large and rapidly expanding market. It should also attract foreign interest and investment.

Given the size and openness of the Pakistani economy, why are foreigners not attracted to the country? Why has India become such a flavour of the day and why does Pakistan continue to be shunned by foreign investors? Why aren’t foreign investors attracted by the attributes Prime Minister Aziz kept referring to in his many speeches. I have attempted to answer this question in previous articles. I will go over some new ground today.

I can predict the next response from the self-deluded pakis: we`re not trying to attract foreign investment from those evil MNCs...classic sour grapes..

#107, Behram Bhai,
LOL. That is a myth. I spent some time in Japan and Korea. :)

#120, Ramanujan {``The Ajmal thing is of course, typical of the muslim mindset. What do I get for uttering some mindless words and changing my name to that of a camel jockey?

- 72 little raisins. ``}

Ajeya, my good friend. :)

Yes, you get 72 little raisins and the Suntan will improve the performance of your own little raisin. :)

Hang in there. Good to see you back and conversant.

behram: on that 8.5% growth rate, I notice it is being studiously ignored by our indian entertainment troupe on chowk. ha! ha! All this over the past couple of years while poor arjun has diligently cutting and pasting from the internet to show how india is just like the US while Pakistan is nothing!!

Of course, we have the creip defense spearheaded by the mighty chowk warrior arjun - change the propaganda line, and start rattling about foreign exchange figures. What a pathetic bunch!! :-)

behram #104 Thanks for an informative post (buried though it is under the usual pile of vacuous crowing from arjun and other indian luminaries on chowk).

It is indeed interesting to see that an average sized home would cost $40k to power up with solar energy. While this seems like a high cost - but assuming power bills averaging $3000/year for such a house means payback would take 12-13 years or so. On top of this there would an increase in property value. So it does seem like a viable investment. But since, as you say, a heavy subsidy is required in California, there must be something I am missing here (i think it is possible to store excess solar energy for later use, but am not sure if that can be effectively done).

Also, perhaps the costs of solar panels will come down (i understand there are some kind of advancements in nanotechnology that will enable this) in the future, and perhaps there will be economies of scale as solar panel production increases due to increase in California market by $3 billion per the news item i had googled earlier. Take away the enormous costs and losses of power distribution, and solar energy could well be an option that needs to be pursued more actively in Pakistan.

{- 72 little raisins. } Maybe 72 hindoo chicks who are looking for sugar daddies. Can you handle just one chick?

BTW...do you beleive in the Big Banged theory? How the Big Banged hindoos?

Re: #101 by Salim_Chauhan

[So, please reconsider. Come back as Ajeya and do entertain us with your wild theories and twisted historical facts. I enjoy educating you and who knows one day Ajeya may become Ajmal. :) Peacefully, of course. ]


As far as the ``wild theories and twisted historical facts`` go, you have NEVER successfully contradicted EVEN ONE of the historical facts I gave.

And to prove my ``theories`` to be wrong, you have to first disprove the facts.

As arjun says, the facts are against the muslims. Not any theories.

The Ajmal thing is of course, typical of the muslim mindset. What do I get for uttering some mindless words and changing my name to that of a camel jockey?

- 72 little raisins.

I think I`ll do without.

:)

But thanks for your concern.



[I do, however, take exception to two of your more vicious statements: ]

Facts can be vicious.


[1. {``Turkey, for example, is not a true democracy).``}
Turkey is definitely a secular democracy. It is really much more secular than India when it comes to implementing secularism. It does not, however, have the consistent commitment to democracy that India does. I hope you see the difference. Hopefully, one day India will truly become secular like Turkey and Turkey will become consistently democratic like India. Inshallah. >/b> ]


Heh heh. Turkey`s population is 99.8% Muslim. Muslims are non-secular UNTIL they have reduced the minority to 0.2%.

Any time they are ALL of the population, they are uncompromisingly secular.



[2. The editor, of course, takes the cake - left wing radical Islamic nutcase with a zero talent in English writing skills. ``}
You can offer all the cakes you like to our esteemed editor. She is neither left wing nor Islamic extremist. She is talented more than anyone on Chowk and her English writing skills are an example for all of us. Please don`t let your personal anger over being filtered cloud your rational judgement about a person`s competence, wit, humor, and literacy. But, mor important of all, hang around. You are a passionate interactor and your departure will not be welcome. ]



I am familiar with the writings of many great writers. I think she is a low-to-mediocre category writer.

If you differ in your opinion, well, that`s your opinion.

Nothing vicious about my statement.

Unless you think that praising that idiot is the only way to go.

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Bipolar factoid junkie does not get it.

{If paki fantasies could produce energy, pakiland would provide energy to the whole world..} despicable Indian chowkies are just waste. no effieciency whatsoever.

Just another one for bipolar factoid junkie.

It takes just 1 Pakistani`s post to get 5 Indian termites out of the ground.

behram1 #105

`` Foreign Reserves:

China: $ 818.9B
S. Korea: $ 210.4 B
Taiwan: $ 253.3 B

India: $ 131.0 B
Pakistan: $ 9.6 B


%GDP Change

China: 9.9%
S. Korea: 5.2 %
Taiwan: 4.4 %

India: 8.0%
Pakistan: 8.4%

%Change Industrial Production

China: 16.5%
S. Korea: 12.2 %
Taiwan: 9.5 %

India: 6.9%
Pakistan: 11.0 %

Conclusion: Countries working on their Industrial Output are much better than the IT code coolies. ``

Why list only selected countries ?

Re: # 100

You`ve said goodbye before, and yet here you still are.

Anyway, don`t go, we need someone to balance the IPM (inbred Parsi moron) and you do a fine job, now that gujju`s gone soft...