US apologises for deadly Pakistan helicopter raid

[Zee-Gen]

An article titled "How Pakistan milks US and NATO" provided some information about this case.

Here is a quote:

The National Logistics Corporation (or the National Logistics Cell, NLC) is an ostensibly civilian entity staffed by serving and retired military personnel, and owned by the Pakistani army. According to the February 2009 issue of the Herald, a Pakistani monthly, it charges NATO between 200,000 to 250,000 Pakistani rupees per container arriving at Karachi, and pays private truckers between 100,000 to 150,000 for moving them to Afghanistan. In other words it makes a neat 100,000 Pakistani rupees in middleman’s fees. Going by an average exchange rate of 65 Pakistani rupees to a US dollar, the NLC made around $1500 per container. The number of containers landing in Karachi daily has varied between 1000 in early 2002, to around 300 earlier this year. Taking the lower figure, the NLC made around $450,000 every day, or over $164 million each year. Between 2002-2008, the NLC made at least $1.15 billion. And the meter is still running

Hmmm……….do you really think that we are milking US/NATO or they let themselves to be milked by us……no my friend, this is not the case here, see by yourself:

Karachi-to-Torkham Toll Charges:

Super Highway
4/5/6 axle trucks 155 Rs.
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National Highway
4/5/6 axle trucks 155 Rs.
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Motorways
4/5/6 axle trucks 580 Rs. (Islamabad to Peshawar)
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Kohat Tunnel
4/5/6 axle trucks 275 Rs.
Toll Rates

Now calculate the toll of Super Highway + National Highway (5 toll points roughly) + Motorway + Kohat Tunnel, it becomes 1780 Rs./truck…….so, 300 containers (lowest no.) mean 535500 Rs. ($6223/day or $2.240280 million/year)……Add the cost of National Highway Authority’s project with World Bank by the name of Pakistan Highway Rehabilitation Project (PHRP) due to road damage caused by these heavy trucks’ decade-long travel…….$282 will provide World Bank (keep this in mind that the amount is payable in return with interest)…..add octroi tax, usage fees/maintenance fees that we are not charging them as of yet, Rs 2.082 trillion loss in WOT in the form of exports, foreign investment, industrial output and tax collection etc. and minus all these figures from what we are gaining and see by yourself what “milk” has left for us to really “drink.”