Another week of simple disasters

.President Pervez Musharraf has just finished his 3rd visit to the United States in which he met President George Bush for 30 minutes. But the long Wish List Pakistanis had brought with them remained either undiscussed or not much progress was made. Neither side spoke about the items on that list. Read here how the visit progressed from Day-1 to his Departure. Click Here or on the Banner above.

The poor, powerless consumers of power, electric power, have to pay ever-increasing rates no matter if the company they are paying is making huge profits or running into losses. This report gives all the documents to show how mismanagement is causing costs to rise which are quietly and without any qualms, passed on to the consumers, who have to pay, through their nose at times.

This is a story of how double standards are followed, when counting losses and writing them off, without accountability. Pakistan Ordnance Factory imports defective artillery shells, to help someone, worth millions. When caught the losses are simply written off. The importers and exporters enjoy their loot and no one asks them any question. It is not like this when civilians are involved.

Has anyone counted how many Pakistani officials and diplomats, civilian and in uniform, refused to return to Pakistan after completing their posting in US? A quick count popped up embarrassing numbers. SA Tribune decided to get a full count with all the names and how these people are doing now.

The present Government claims it has nothing to do with corporate and business corruption. Yet senior most officials have been directly involved in the corruption that was rampant in the past. SA Tribune brings the story of one such high official who gave the sugar lobby much more than it demanded, but at what price to the tax payers.

Car manufacturing in Pakistan is a certified fraud. Influential groups, with the right links and connections, have obtained car making licenses under the garb of manfacturing. In fact these companies provide a big cover for imports, which are otherwise banned. Now thesegreedy car makers have been joined by the military government to rip the people off their money. A huge scandal in the making.

The country's business community has gobbled up billions upon billions in bad loans but the Musharraf Government is content with only persecuting the politicians because they represent a threat to the regime. SA Tribune has got the lists of all defaulting companies of just one financial institution and the total adds up to over Rs 16 Billion (US$ 275 million). Read the lists.