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Pakistan Belt and Road chief under pressure to resign

still salty about mian and its accountability! my sympathies with tooi party(I don't sympathize with tooi party just empty words)
I didn’t mention Nawaz here, you did. So who’s being salty? I’m simply pointing out a clear double standard and hypocrisy.

Universality is truth, selectivity doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
 
Lmao @this government. Accountability for everyone supposedly, money trails demanded of opposing politicians and judges. But when it comes to their own Jahangir Tareen, despite having proven cases of corruption with an insider trading settlement with the SECP they kept him around in top leadership for years, only for another scandal to surface and for him to be allowed to flee. And now instead of demanding accountability of someone like Bajwa, no-one is shouting for money trails to be produced, they're keeping shtum and deflecting using CPEC. :lol:

Any allegations against him are worthless. It literally originated from an indian social media troll, and the writer of the original piece has questionable links and motivations.

Even ignoring this, taking into account Bajwa's reply the only implications are that he funelled money out of the military budget to his wealthy family long-established in the US despite being insignificant rank (at the time) and that he has undervalued some of his assets for tax purposes. The first in my opinion seems unlikely considering the military runs a pretty tight ship, and a discrepency like that would definitely have been dealt with at some point. The second is a more reasonable accusation and should be investigated but I dont see how that would require his outright dismissal rather than a slap on the wrist. If Asim Bajwa has dipped his hand into public funds at some point then he should be made an example of and taken to court, but since it seems like he hasnt then I dont see why anyone should really pay attention to this story.

As for the govt their accountability strategy is focused on corruption or theft of public resources rather than financial irregularities of private citizens, which is also why JT was kept around for a little while.
 
Even without the ordinance in place, who would dare challenge the authority behind the authority?
Try them courts
National Assembly extended it for 120 days before and can do it again the problem is the Senate where opposition holds the majority. They are blocking CPEC AUTHORITY as well as and more important Anti Money Laundering Law for exit from FATF Grey List, in exchange they are asking to abolish NAB ( the amendments they propose equal to it). Basically an NRO.
PTI will gain majority in Senate in the next election of Senate not far now. This opposition even opposed to abolish secret balloting, LMFAO.
PTI is the beneficial owner of last NRO. It is propaganda that the government protects NAB ordinance
 
Try them courts
PTI is the beneficial owner of last NRO. It is propaganda that the government protects NAB ordinance

Challenging in court has no merit gov will just extend it through national Assembly. That is why the cheap antics by Plmn to target CPEC AUTHORITY.

It does not matter how you want to twist it. The fact is opposition is not going to get their required amendments in NAB.
 
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anyone who does not agree with the state is portrayed as an Indian agent whether it is true or not
I will rephrase it for you, anyone who collaborates with India is portrayed as an Indian agent. It was Indian intelligence who brought out this story, first they released it via their RSS media cell, didn't gain much traction to achieve their purpose, than they rope in Ahmed Noorani who is on scholarship sponsored by India and PLMN tried taking advantage of it to ease their anti corruption cases. Ahmed Noorani worked for and still is working for PLMN before going for scholarship.
Given how sofisticated and coordinated the operation was it was not one man's game.
 
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Pakistan Belt and Road chief under pressure to resign
Corruption allegations spark rare criticism of point man in China relations
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Tainted by a report into his family's business interests, Asim Saleem Bajwa, left, offered to resign as a special assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, but was turned down. (Source photos by Reuters/Getty Images)
ADNAN AAMIR, Contributing writerSeptember 11, 2020 14:38 JST
KARACHI -- Asim Saleem Bajwa, the retired general who heads the powerful China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority -- the government agency that oversees China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Pakistan -- has come under pressure to resign after allegations of corruption in his family busineses surfaced.
According to an expose last month in Fact Focus, a Pakistani online news portal, growth of the Bajwa family's business interests tracked his military career. The story alleged that Bajwa, who is also special assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan for information and broadcasting, used his influence to help his family amass huge wealth.
The story kicked off a firestorm on social media, with demands for Bajwa's resignation and further investigation. It fueled particular discontent among Pakistanis not benefiting from CPEC projects. Maryam Nawaz, a leading opposition figure, also called on Bajwa to respond to the allegations.

The CPEC Authority was set up in October to centralize the affairs of CPEC, China's $50 billion BRI component in Pakistan, and to knock down bureaucratic hurdles obstructing timely project completions.
Feeling the heat, Bajwa announced his resignation as special assistant to the prime minister, but hung on as chairman of the CPEC Authority.
Khan rejected the resignation, and suffered a barrage of criticism -- not least because a major plank in his election campaign was accountability. He is now being accused of reneging on election promises.
Khan's party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan Justice Movement), won the 2018 general election with alleged backing from the army.
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Strategic Gwadar port is at the southern end of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which overall is unlikely to be affected by corruption allegations against Bajwa, its Pakistani point man. © Getty Images
"There are several aides to the prime minister but only one head of the CPEC Authority," Malik Siraj Akbar, a Washington-based analyst on South Asian issues, told the Nikkei Asian Review. "Offering to resign as the PM's aide is symbolic and does not add much value."
The scandal was exposed by Ahmed Noorani, an investigative journalist with a history of reporting on military affairs. He spent months preparing the report, which alleges that the Bajwa family's business empire has 99 companies spread over four countries, "including a pizza franchise with 133 restaurants worth an estimated $39.9 million."
In Pakistani media circles, many doubt that such a detailed story could have been pulled together without help from powerful enemies of Bajwa.
The alleged corruption row raises questions about the future of CPEC, even though any evidence of significant damage has yet to emerge.
"It's no small matter for CPEC's Pakistan head to be implicated in a scandal involving overseas family assets -- especially when he's part of a government that has incessantly criticized Pakistani politicians about this very issue," Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the Wilson Center in Washington, told Nikkei. He said there is unlikely to be a direct impact on CPEC operations, but there will be "reputational implications" for the multi-billion dollar undertaking.
Krzysztof Iwanek, head of the Asia Research Center at Warsaw's War Studies University, agrees that the fallout is likely to be contained. "Pakistan's military and political elite want CPEC to develop further despite their disagreements about different issues," he told Nikkei.
Some government ministers and retired military personnel, meanwhile, regard the allegations against Bajwa as part of an anti-CPEC conspiracy.
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With serious tensions along the China-India border, some wonder if India had a hand in corruption allegations against Pakistan's top official for China projects. © Getty Images
Given present geopolitics, with China and India clashing along their border, Kugelman sees a "powerful pretext" for painting the scandal as an Indian conspiracy against CPEC.
"How come asking for accountability, transparency, and checks and balances on CPEC constitutes a conspiracy against CPEC?" asked Akbar. "Keeping the project clean and free from corruption is in the best interests of Pakistan and China."
Pundits in Pakistan are weighing up the odds of Bajwa losing his coveted CPEC position, but many doubt he will be dismissed.
"Apparently, the allegations of corruption will not prevent Bajwa -- someone well-regarded by [Islamabad and Beijing] -- from serving in the top CPEC slot," Kugelman told Nikkei. He said the reflexive dismissal of corruption allegations against the top official may be part of an effort to preempt criticism of CPEC, an entity Islamabad "badly wants to uphold as sacrosanct."


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he was ready to resign from one post ? he should have resisted .
 
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Isnt it funny how all of sudden some random shithole called Noornai and his story is picked up by Japanese Nikkei. Lol.

You people haven't learned jackshit all these years. No wonder our response to the fifth generation warfare is utterly shambolic.

This is exactly what I was telling you, you think it's all about Bajwa. Wake up and smell the coffee sunshine.

it is ver good to brush everything under carpet in name of fifth generation war .
 
news source is japani , papa john pizza is american , how india is involved :hitwall::hitwall::hitwall:
My bad Maj Gaurav Arya who published the story first must be African. Must recalibrate my complexion index.

Regarding this story just some brown minions in international publications making some noise.
 
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anyone who does not agree with the state is portrayed as an Indian agent whether it is true or not


So from the video... What is the state sponsored video... ?

Is the Alfred Friendly Press Partners sponsorship and support by Hindutva India (Mint India ) and directly with Ahmad Noorani not an issue?...
Let's go evidence by evidence...

 
Challenging in court has no merit gov will just extend it through national Assembly. That is why the cheap antics by Plmn to target CPEC AUTHORITY.

It does not matter how you want to twist it. The fact is opposition is not going to get their required amendments in NAB.
The changes made last year already has rendered NAB worthless
 
So from the video... What is the state sponsored video... ?

Is the Alfred Friendly Press Partners sponsorship and support by Hindutva India (Mint India ) and directly with Ahmad Noorani not an issue?...
Let's go evidence by evidence...

The changes made last year already has rendered NAB worthless

Opposition disagrees with your assessment. Their proposed draft is public info now you can go through it bro.
 
anyone who does not agree with the state is portrayed as an Indian agent whether it is true or not
anyone who does not agree with the state is portrayed as an Pakistani agent whether it is true or not. Seriously, have you ever seen your own media? "Pakistani agent", "Go to Pakistan", "Muslim mukt bharat" These are your motto's not ours...
 

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