Development cash to be diverted to security

[farhan_9909]

ISLAMABAD: In a major rethink of national priorities following the Peshawar school tragedy, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has tasked a committee to work out modalities to divert a chunk of development funds to national security.

The committee, to be led by MNA Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, will submit its report in the first week of January. It includes Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal, Chaudhry Saud Majeed from Punjab, MNA Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar from Khyber-Pakhtunkwa and a few Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders from Sindh and Balochistan.

According to well-placed sources, Nawaz Sharif, who presided over hours’ long top security meeting at the GHQ on Friday, has directed party leadership to take immediate steps by reviewing Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) and Punjab Annual Development Plan (ADP).

Sources said the premier has also asked Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to approach provincial governments and request them to follow the federal government’s policy and review their priorities in their ADPs by making security as the top priority. Dar has made commitment of provision of all the required funds for war on terror, they added.

Sources said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar and Hamza Shahbaz discussed the issue and decided to immediately review the PSDP and the ADPs and to submit to the PM their report – highlighting how much funds they can divert to security and how long they can slow down their development projects.

They said the PML-N leadership has tasked the committee to slow down the pace of work on the projects which were to take three years for their completion. These projects, which will not be released more funds, will now finish in five years.

The development targets, which the party set in the PSDP or in Punjab ADP and were to be met in 2016, might be achieved at the end of 2017 due to war against terrorism.

However, civil and military leadership have agreed not to decelerate the projects which are undertaken with support of China and other countries. These projects include Lahore-Karachi Motorway, Pakistan Economic Corridor as well as energy related projects for which China has made a commitment $46 billion, sources added.

It is pertinent to mention that the size of federal government’s PSDP is Rs525 billion for fiscal year 2014-2015. The total development budget is Rs1.31 trillion including federal PSDP of Rs525 billion and provincial ADP of Rs650 billion.

In the first quarter, the government released Rs53.5 billion from July to September against set target of Rs84.56 billion.

The government is supposed to release 20% of total allocation in the first three months of the fiscal year (July to September), which is estimated at Rs84.56 billion. However, the government disbursed only Rs53.5 billion in the aforesaid period.

The total outlay of Punjab ADP is Rs345 billion for fiscal year 2014-2015. It covers 2,561 development schemes at a cost of Rs290 billion and 19 development initiatives at a cost of Rs40 billion.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 21st, 2014.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/810124/development-cash-to-be-diverted-to-security/

 

[black-hawk_101]

Pakistan had to put even more. And cash from Loan is not good GoP had to privatize its Financial corps. along with other companies like PIA, Railways, PNSC, Power plants and the rest as well. This will relieve the GoP from putting cash on monthly basis to run these Companies and instead they will be taking out cash from them in terms of taxes on monthly or yearly basis.

 

[Kompromat]

Facilitate an operation clean up. Recall all retired Snipers, arm them with suppressed PSR-1 Rifles, give them a kill list, full legal immunity and set them loose.

 

[khanboy007]

oh well

here's a latest example of a BILLION rupee (10 million dollars approx) corruption

Gwadar: Rs400m work contracted to ‘inexperienced’ firm at Rs1.4bn

save the development funds yeah right.....it's still going through somewhere or the other !!!

 

[tarrar]

I don't know what kind of security these politicians plan as they (ppp, pml-n, anp, jui, ji & etc.) themselves are National security threat. Pakistan will never be save till these corrupt & sold out politicians are around.

oh well

here's a latest example of a BILLION rupee (10 million dollars approx) corruption

Gwadar: Rs400m work contracted to ‘inexperienced’ firm at Rs1.4bn

save the development funds yeah right.....it's still going through somewhere or the other !!!

Contract most probably given to their friends.

 

[Echo_419]

Facilitate an operation clean up. Recall all retired Snipers, arm them with suppressed PSR-1 Rifles, give them a kill list, full legal immunity and set them loose.

That's madness

 

[Kompromat]

That's madness

You have a better idea?

 

[Echo_419]

You have a better idea?

Sure I do
Make PA a counter insurgency force which could wipe out Taliban & you always have nukes for deterring Us

 

[Kompromat]

Sure I do
Make PA a counter insurgency force which could wipe out Taliban & you always have nukes for deterring Us

That is being worked on. But what we need now is blood and lots of it.

 

[Echo_419]

That is being worked on. But what we need now is blood and lots of it.

Arming the citizens is not a good idea if you need additional manpower why not ask retired army people to rejoin service & then kill every kind of terrorist

 

[Kompromat]

Arming the citizens is not a good idea if you need additional manpower why not ask retired army people to rejoin service & then kill every kind of terrorist

That is what i meant. Bring in retired Snipers, put them through few weeks of training, give then our new sniper rifles and set them rolling with legal immunity and a kill list.

 

[truthseeker2010]

 

[Green Arrow]

Well i think it is good move. We need peaceful Pakistan than anything else. We should freeze our development expenditures at least for a year and spend this on our security forces's needs.

 

[Echo_419]

That is what i meant. Bring in retired Snipers, put them through few weeks of training, give then our new sniper rifles and set them rolling with legal immunity and a kill list.

I agree with your post but they should not be given legal immunity some sort of accountability framework should be established

 

[American Pakistani]

Sure I do
Make PA a counter insurgency force which could wipe out Taliban & you always have nukes for deterring Us

Why would Pakistan make PA a counter insurgency force?

Much better idea would be to question Police, ATF, QRF, etc what are they doing? They are the ones who should deal with all these internal problems. In Pakistan every tom dick and harry becomes an expert and questions Army's role. What is provincial govt and their forces doing? They should be trained for these $h1ts, Army should focus on external issues and should not be dragged to deal with these internal problems of policing schools, hospitals or protecting jails.