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ISPR Rejects Human Rights Watch Report

2012-02-16T16:17:00.001+05:00

ISPR Rejects Human Rights Watch Report

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Report on
Judicial Commission on Saleem Shehzad Murder Case Not Correct

A spokesman of ISPR said that the press release issued by HRW New York on January 30^th, 2012 has been found to be extremely derogatory, biased and contradictory in terms. In one stroke Mr Brad Adams has discredited the Judicial Commission that investigated Saleem Shehzad's alleged murder, demonized the ISI and castigated the Government of Pakistan, going on to suggest a darker destination of evidence if pursued again. It is unclear where Mr Adams forms opinions like these from but one thing is evident that his thought process and ability to logically analyze a given situation suffers from serious bias.
The spokesman added that the Judicial Commission in question was headed by a very honourable Judge of the same Supreme Court of Pakistan which is highly respected for its integrity and courage of conviction. It is not without reason that the Supreme Court of Pakistan is the guarantor of the rule of law and the architect of constitutional future of our country. To expect the Judicial Commission probing Saleem Shehzad's alleged murder headed by Honourable Justice Saqib Nisar, to spare or shy away form the so called 'culpable ISI' is not only disrespectful but also out of character of the Honourable Court. HRW should visit the Supreme Court website to see what kind of historic and hitherto unheard of court actions have been initiated by the apex court regarding ISI / intelligence agencies and the unprecedented obedience / compliance they have readily commanded.
Spokesman further said that Brad Adams may have his head buried deep in sand and HRW may be choking under heaps of bias but it is quite apparent that such diatribe is exceptionally disparaging despite an ' extensive examination -------' by the Commission, to quote HRW press release. It raises serious questions on the partisan nature of HRW and Brad Adam's objectivity.
Spokesman said we would seriously urge HRW to read the Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the incident and see facts as they are. Some relevant reference can be found in the statement of Saleem Shehzad's very close friend Mr Zafar Mehmood Sheikh (CW 12) on pages 30 to 35, Judicial Commission's remarks about ISI's compliance and detailed testimony on pages 58, 59 and 66 (Admiral Adnan Nazir's, testimony before the Commission), regarding none of the witnesses / documents being able to 'point a finger towards anyone' on page 86 and about the unsubstantiated accusations of heavy handedness against journalists and the Commission's remarks on page 89.
Any involvement of ISI in Mr Saleem Sehzad's alleged murder is categorically denied. It is maintained that:-
a. The allegations levelled against ISI are baseless ab-initio. They are untenable both by evidence and logic.
b. Judicial Commission probing murder case had complete freedom of action and ISI spared no effort to cooperate and comply with all their requirements.
c. The press release in question is part of a well orchestrated and sinister media campaign, in which, HRW and the likes of Brad Adams and Ali Dayan Hassan may have been unwittingly drawn into.
d. With this press release, HRW appears to have seriously jeopardized the bipartisan and objective nature of its work.
It will be in fitness of things to expect HRW to withdraw this biased statement, Spokesman concluded.

Pakistan: Shahzad Commission Results Marred by Free Ride for ISI

Government has to Take on Military and Intelligence Services and end Impunity

January 30, 2012

Syed Saleem Shahzad

The commission's failure to get to the bottom of the Shahzad killing illustrates the ability of the ISI to remain beyond the reach of Pakistan's criminal justice system. The government still has the responsibility to identify those responsible for Shahzad's death and hold them accountable, no matter where the evidence leads.

Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch

(New York) – The Pakistani government should redouble efforts to find the killers of the journalist Saleem Shahzad, following the failure of the judicial inquiry commission to identify those responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. The commission concluded in its January 10, 2012 report to the government that the police failed to question Pakistan's military intelligence officials in its criminal investigation.

Shahzad, a reporter for the Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online and for Adnkronos International, the Italian news agency, disappeared from central Islamabad on the evening of May 29, 2011. His body, bearing visible signs of torture, was discovered on May 31, near Mandi Bahauddin, 130 kilometers southeast of the capital. The circumstances of the abduction raised concerns that the military's feared Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency was responsible. In June 2011, the Supreme Court, at the request of the government, instituted a commission of inquiry into the killing.

"The commission's failure to get to the bottom of the Shahzad killing illustrates the ability of the ISI to remain beyond the reach of Pakistan's criminal justice system," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The government still has the responsibility to identify those responsible for Shahzad's death and hold them accountable, no matter where the evidence leads."

The ISI has a long and well-documented history of abductions, torture, and extrajudicial killings of critics of the military and others. Those abducted are routinely beaten and threatened, their relatives told not to worry or complain as release was imminent, and then released with the threat of further abuse if the ordeal is made public. Pakistani and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, have extensively documented the ISI's intimidation, torture, enforced disappearances, and killings, including of many journalists.

The five-member commission, which included two judges, two senior police officers, and one journalist, convened on June 21, 2011. Over six months it interviewed 41 witnesses, including Shahzad's family members, journalists, senior ISI officials, and others. It also conducted an extensive examination of documents, including relevant emails, telephone records, and investigation reports, as well as reports by previous similar commissions.

Among those interviewed were Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch and Hameed Haroon, president of the All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) and publisher of the Dawn Group. Each had received emails from Shahzad in 2010 complaining of threats by ISI agents for his reporting on links between the ISI and al-Qaeda. On October 19, 2010, Shahzad sent an email to Human Rights Watch outlining his meeting with the ISI and asking for the email to be released "in case something happens to me or my family in future." Shahzad sent the same email and information about other threats to Haroon, and to colleagues at Asia Times Online.

ISI officials maintained to the commission that Shahzad had cordial relations with them until shortly before his killing. Despite strong indications of ISI involvement, the commission concluded that the Pakistani state, militant groups including the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and unnamed 'foreign actors' could all have had a motive to kill Shahzad on the basis of his writings.

"The commission appeared fearful of confronting the ISI over Shahzad's death," said Adams. "Shahzad had made it clear to Human Rights Watch that should he be killed, the ISI should be considered the principal suspect. He had not indicated he was afraid of being killed by militant groups or anybody else."

Human Rights Watch said that the investigation's weakness was exemplified by the failure to interview another journalist, Umar Cheema, who was abducted, tortured, and then dumped 120 kilometers from his residence in Islamabad in September 2010. Cheema alleged that his abductors were from Pakistan's intelligence agencies. It is inexplicable that the commission failed to seek Cheema's testimony despite his very public allegations against the ISI and repeated offers to testify before the commission, Human Rights Watch said.

"At great personal risk, scores of journalists, human rights activists, and others presented themselves before the commission to offer accounts of ISI and military involvement in human rights abuses," Adams said. "The commission repaid this courage by muddying the waters and suggesting that just about anyone could have killed Shahzad."

The commission's recommendation that all intelligence agencies should be made accountable through "parliamentary oversight" and judicial redress should be promptly implemented by the government through appropriate legislation, Human Rights Watch said. The commission also recommended that "the balance between secrecy and accountability in the conduct of intelligence gathering be appropriately re-adjusted" and a "statutory framework carefully outlining their respective mandates and role" be developed. It also urged that the intelligence agencies' "interaction with the media be carefully institutionally streamlined and regularly documented."

"ISI abuses will only stop if it is subject to the rule of law, civilian oversight, and public accountability," Adams said. "It is the government's duty to insist on such accountability and the military's duty to submit to it. The ISI needs to stop acting as a state within a state."

Human Rights Watch expressed grave concern that the commission found it appropriate to recommend that the "press be made more law-abiding and accountable through the strengthening of institutions mandated by law to deal with legitimate grievances against it.

"It is perverse to use an investigation into the killing of a journalist as a way of limiting press freedom," said Adams.

Pakistan remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. At least 10 journalists, including Shahzad, were killed in 2011. In January 2011, a Geo TV reporter, Wali Khan Babar, was fatally shot in Karachi shortly after covering gang violence in the city. In May, the president of the Tribal Union of Journalists, Nasrullah Khan Afridi, was killed when his car blew up in Peshawar; the provincial information minister described the act as a "targeted killing by the Taliban."

In August, two men on a motorcycle shot to death an Online News Agency reporter, Munir Ahmed Shakir, after he covered a demonstration by Baloch nationalists in the Khuzdar district of Balochistan. In November, the body of Javed Naseer Rind, a sub-editor with the Urdu-language Daily Tawar, was found with torture marks and gunshot wounds in Khuzdar town. On January 17, 2012, Mukarram Khan Atif, a reporter for the Voice of America, was killed by the Taliban in the Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Brig. Gen. Zahid Mehmood of the ISI told the commission that the ISI/ISPR (Inter Services Public Relations) and other agencies "should stop patronising and protecting 'favorite' journalists." Government payoffs to journalists not only distorts the news reaching the public, but the withdrawal of such patronage and "protection" can result in threats and violence, said journalists who spoke to the commission. Human Rights Watch called on the government to pass legislation to prohibit the country's security and intelligence agencies to end the practice of the ISI and other agencies planting agents in media organizations or providing secret payments to journalists to write or not write stories.

"Journalists are under attack from all directions in Pakistan, including by the military," said Adams. "This murderous free-for-all will only end when the government can protect journalists from militants and its own intelligence agencies. Arresting the killers is the best way to do that."

Demonstration in front of Pakistan's Supreme Court by relatives of "disappeared" persons from Balochistan province, January 5, 2010

Pakistan: Security Forces 'Disappear' Opponents in Balochistan

Government Fails to Confront Military, Intelligence Agencies on Abuses

July 28, 2011

Pakistan's security forces are engaging in an abusive free-for-all in Balochistan as Baloch nationalists and suspected militants 'disappear,' and in many cases are executed. The national government has done little to end the carnage in Balochistan, calling into question its willingness or ability to control the military and intelligence agencies."

Brad Adams, Asia director

(New York) – Pakistan's government should immediately end widespread disappearances of suspected militants and activists by the military, intelligence agencies, and the paramilitary Frontier Corps in the southwestern province of Balochistan, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Several of those "disappeared" were among the dozens of people extrajudicially executed in recent months in the resource-rich and violence-wracked province.
The 132-page report, "'We Can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years': Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan," documents dozens of enforced disappearances,in which the authorities take people into custody and then deny all responsibility or knowledge of their fate or whereabouts. The report details 45 alleged cases of enforced disappearances, the majority in 2009 and 2010. While hundreds of people have been forcibly disappeared in Balochistan since 2005, dozens of new enforced disappearances have occurred since Pakistan returned to civilian rule in 2008.
"Pakistan's security forces are engaging in an abusive free-for-all in Balochistan as Baloch nationalists and suspected militants 'disappear,' and in many cases are executed," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The national government has done little to end the carnage in Balochistan, calling into question its willingness or ability to control the military and intelligence agencies."
The report is based on over 100 interviews by Human Rights Watch in Balochistan in 2010 and 2011 with family members of "disappeared" people, former detainees, local human rights activists, lawyers, and witnesses to government abductions.
Human Rights Watch investigated several cases in which uniformed personnel of the Frontier Corps, an Interior Ministry paramilitary force, and the police were involved in abducting Baloch nationalists and suspected militants. In others cases, witnesses typically referred to abductors as being from "the agencies," a term commonly used to describe the intelligence agencies, including the military Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intellilgence, and the civilian Intelligence Bureau.
In all the cases Human Rights Watch documented, the security forces never identified themselves, nor explained the basis for the arrest or where they were taking the person. In many cases, the person being arrested was beaten and dragged handcuffed and blindfolded into the security forces' vehicles. Withoutexception in the cases Human Rights Watch investigated, released detainees and relatives able to obtain information reported torture and ill-treatment of detainees. Methods of torture included beatings, often with sticks or leather belts, hanging detainees upside down, and prolonged food and sleep deprivation.
In some cases relatives told Human Rights Watch that senior government officials, including the Balochistan chief minister, Nawab Aslam Raisani, had freely admitted that intelligence personnel were responsible for the disappearance but expressed an inability to hold the abductors accountable.
Those targeted for enforced disappearance were primarily Baloch nationalist activists or suspected Baloch militants.In several cases, people appeared to have been targeted because of their tribal affiliation, especially when a particular tribe, such as the Bugti or Mengal, was involved in fighting Pakistan's armed forces.
Little information is available about what happens to people who are forcibly disappeared. Some have been held in unacknowledged detention in facilities run by the Frontier Corps and the intelligence agencies, such as at the Kuli camp, a military base in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.
"Pakistani security services are brazenly disappearing, torturing, and often killing people because of suspected ties to the Baloch nationalist movement," Adams said. "This is not counterinsurgency – it is barbarism and it needs to end now."
The number of enforced disappearances by Pakistan's security forces in recent years remains unknown, Human Rights Watch said. Figures provided by senior officials are grossly inconsistent, and these officials have provided no explanation about how they were reached. In 2008, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said there had been at least 1,100 victims of these disappearances in Balochistan.In January 2011, Balochistan's home minister, Mir Zafrullah Zehri, told provincial legislators that only 55 people were considered missing.
There is increasing evidence to suggest that many of the "disappeared" have been extrajudicially executed while in government custody. Human Rights Watch has recently reported on the killing of at least 150 people across Balochistan since January in acts widely referred to as "kill and dump" operations for which Pakistani security forces may be responsible. Assailants have also carried out targeted killings of opposition leaders and activists. Human Rights Watch reiterated its call to the Pakistan government to end these abuses immediately.
Armed militant groups in Balochistan are responsible for killing many civilians and destroying private property. In the past several years, they have increasingly targeted non-Baloch civilians and their businesses, police stations, and major gas installations and infrastructure. They have also attacked security forces and military bases throughout the province. Human Rights Watch documents abuses by Balochistan militants in a December 2010 report, "Their Future is at Stake."
Under international law, enforced disappearances are considered a continuing offense, one that is ongoing so long as the state conceals the fate or the whereabouts of the victim.
"President Asif Ali Zardari should realize that the disturbing reality of wanton and widespread abuse in Balochistan cannot be wished away," Adams said. "All Pakistanis will pay the price if the government fails to protect Balochistan's population from heinous abuses at the hands of the Pakistani military."
Background
Balochistan has historically had a tense relationship with Pakistan's government, in large part due to issues of provincial autonomy, control of mineral resources and exploration, and a consequent sense of deprivation. During the rule of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, from 1999 to 2008, the situation deteriorated markedly. Two assassination attempts on Musharraf, in 2005 and 2006 during visits to Balochistan, resulted in a crackdown on Baloch nationalists by the armed forces and Military Intelligence, the military's lead intelligence agency in the province. The recent surge in killings and ongoing enforced disappearances can be traced to the 2006 assassination of the prominent Baloch tribal leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and 35 of his close followers, and the murders of three well known Baloch politicians in April 2009 by assailants believed to be linked to the Pakistan military.
Since 2005, Pakistani and international human rights organizations have recorded numerous serious human rights violations by security forces, including extrajudicial executions, torture, enforced disappearances, forced displacement, and excessive use of force against protesters.
Cases From "'We Can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years'": Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan:
Account of "Rahim" (not his real name), who was held in acknowledged custody until his release:
First, they bound my arms behind my back, and then they threw me on the ground face down and someone sat on my back. Whenever they asked me a question, the interrogators pulled my head back by grabbing my hair and kept asking, "Who are you? Why have you come here to Quetta?"

I explained that I was a farmer in Awaran [district of Balochistan], and they also asked about my family, and about Dr. Naseem and Ilyas [Baloch nationalist activists]. When I told them that they were my friends, they screamed, "You are lying to us! Dr. Naseem is a separatist. Tell us what Naseem is doing. Why is he involved in separatism?"

They beat me all over my body and on the soles of my feet with their fists and feet. They hit me for around one to two hours continuously in the morning, then again in the evening. At night they would not let me sleep or lie down, I was forced to stand. If I started to fall asleep they would hit me on the back and shoulders to keep me awake.

Enforced Disappearance of Din Mohammad Baloch
On June 29, 2009, Din Mohammad Baloch, age 40, a physician, was on a night shift at a small medical clinic in the Ornach area of Khuzdar district.
A staff member, "Bukhtiar" (not his real name), was also in the clinic. He told Baloch's family that at around 2:30 a.m. seven men entered the clinic. A few of them tied Bukhtiar up and locked him in a room, while the others went into Baloch's office. It was dark, Bukhtiar said, and he could not see the men clearly or determine whether they were wearing uniforms. Bukhtiar said he could hear loud noises that sounded like a scuffle between Baloch and the men, and then he heard the men dragging Baloch out.
When Bukhtiar finally freed himself around 30 minutes later, he informed Baloch's family. The family went to the local police station, but the police refused to lodge a criminal complaint, known as a First Information Report (FIR), offering no explanation. Two days later the police lodged the report, based on an interview with Bukhtiar. It said Baloch was taken by unknown men.
Several months later, local newspapers reported that the Frontier Corps had arrested Baloch and two others in connection with an armed attack on the Frontier Corps on August 14, 2009, nearly two months after Baloch was abducted. Baloch's brother spoke to the author of the article, who told him that the information came from the Special Branch of the Police, the intelligence arm of the Balochistan Police Service. However, government authorities have not officially confirmed that Baloch is in Frontiers Corps custody or specified the charges against him.
Baloch's family told Human Rights Watch they believed Baloch had been abducted by intelligence agencies because he was a senior member of the Baloch National Movement. Baloch's brother said that he had met with the chief minister of Balochistan, Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani, on July 15 and in August 2009. On the latter occasion the chief minister told him that Baloch was in the custody of the intelligence agencies, but did not specify which one. Human Rights Watch wrote to Chief Minister Raisani seeking confirmation that he had made these allegations, but received no response.
A lawyer acting on behalf of Baloch's family filed a petition regarding Baloch's "disappearance" with the Balochistan High Court on July 4, 2009. On May 27, 2010, the court ordered police to locate him, with the presiding judge saying that they should "do everything" needed to find him. But the court has had no further hearings in the case.
The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, a local Baloch nongovernmental organization, filed a separate petition on Baloch's disappearance with the Pakistan Supreme Court. In June 2010, the Supreme Court told Baloch's lawyers that the ISI had reported to the court that Baloch was not in their custody but was being held by the chief of the Mangal tribe. However, the ISI did not provide any further details about these claims to the court, and the court did not share their submissions with Baloch's lawyers.
The family has not been able to obtain any further information about Baloch's fate or whereabouts.

Enforced Disappearance of Mir Abdul Waheed Resani Baloch
Over the last 15 years, Pakistani security forces have detained Mir Abdul Waheed Resani Baloch, 45, a senior member of the Balochistan Republican Party (BRP) central committee, numerous times. He was held in Frontier Corps jails in Mastung and in Quetta.
On January 2, 2010, a court in Khozdar ordered Baloch released after a 10-month detention in Khozdar central jail. However, within minutes of his release, the police picked him up again in the street in front of multiple witnesses. The police took him to Mastung police station, where he tried to speak to the news media.
A relative of Baloch told Human Rights Watch that a senior police officer interrupted Baloch, announced that he would like to "talk to Baloch in private," and took him to another room. The relative told Human Rights Watch:

We waited for about 10 minutes and then asked about him. The officer came back and said, "Sorry, we had to transfer him somewhere and we cannot tell you where, so you should all leave." We waited for about six hours, and then left. The same day, officers from the [police] anti-terrorist unit came to our house, claiming they were looking for him. They pretended he had escaped from custody. Of course, they knew he was not there, and instead of looking for him they just looted our house, taking away money, jewelry, mobile phones, and expensive clothes.

On January 4, Baloch's relatives went to the police, who denied having any knowledge of his whereabouts. They accepted an FIR, which simply said that Baloch was "missing." Three days later the family filed a petition with the Balochistan High Court. The court sent inquiries to the chief minister, home minister, and inspector-general of the police. Their representatives, who appeared in court, denied having any knowledge of Baloch's whereabouts and claimed they were looking for him.
Baloch's relatives said that after his forced disappearance, Chief Minister Aslam Raisani temporarily suspended the district police officers (DPOs) for Mastung and Much because the Mastung DPO allegedly had handed Baloch over to the Much DPO. A month later, however, both officers were reinstated.
Baloch's fate and whereabouts remain unknown.
Enforced Disappearances of Mazhar Khan and Abdul Rasool
At around 10 p.m. on December 19, 2009, a group of armed men abducted Mazar Khan, 21, and Abdul Rasool, 26, from Khan's house near Kili Station in Noshki district.
A witness to the abduction told Human Rights Watch that seven men in civilian clothes, their faces covered with scarves, broke down the gate to Khan's house and burst in, firing their pistols in the air. The witness said Rasool resisted and one of the men hit him on the temple with his pistol butt, but Khan did not resist. The assailants tied the men's wrists and ankles and blindfolded them. Then they dragged the victims outside, put them into one of their three pickup trucks, and drove away.
The next day, relatives of Khan and Rasool reported the abductions to police at Kili Station.
"The police said they cannot do anything about kidnappings," one of Khan's relatives told Human Rights Watch.
In mid-February 2010, Rasool was released by his captors. He told Human Rights Watch about his ordeal:
On the day of the abduction, after travelling for 15 to 20 minutes by car, it stopped and I was dragged outside and into a room. I don't remember anything about the building I was in because I was still blindfolded. But after whoever brought me in had left, I removed my blindfold and saw that I was alone in a small, dark room. I had no idea where Mazhar was.
Rasool said that soon after he had been brought in, some men entered the room and asked him if he was involved in Baloch political activities. They kept him in this room for a month and 25 days, and then moved him to another location, a three-hour drive away. They kept him there for another five days. Then at night the captors put Rasool into a vehicle, blindfolded and handcuffed. They drove for a few hours. His captors stopped the car, removed Rasool, still blindfolded and handcuffed, and told him he was being released on Chaman Road on the outskirts of Quetta and then drove off.
Fearful of being abducted again, Rasool did not approach government authorities about his disappearance. But Khan's family filed an application for a first report with police in Noshki on February 17, 2010. Although the police registered the FIR, it only stated that Khan was a missing person and made no mention of the circumstances of his abduction. On February 21, relatives of both men filed a statement about the abductions with the Balochistan High Court. The next day, relatives of Khan and Rasool met representatives of the Balochistan Home and Tribal Affairs Ministry, who said they would record Khan's abduction but could do nothing to investigate it.
In March 2010, the Balochistan High Court accepted a habeas corpus petition asking the federal Ministries of Defense and Interior, the Balochistan provincial government, Military Intelligence, the ISI, and the Kili police station to provide information on charges brought against Khan and Rasool. The high court has since held five hearings but only police representatives have ever appeared before it. They have denied having any knowledge of the abductions.
Khan's whereabouts remain unknown.

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Charges Framed-PM Willfully Flouted Orders: Supreme Court

2012-02-13T13:13:00.001+05:00

Charges Framed-PM Willfully Flouted Orders: Supreme Court

	PM SHOULD WRITE LETTER TO SWISS COURTS 136 votes
	SUPREME COURT SHOULD POSTPONE CASE TILL SENATE ELECTIONS 7 votes
	SUPREME COURT SHOULD TAKE A FIRM POSITION TO FRAME CHARGES 64 votes
	PRIME MINISTER SHOULD BECOME SIYASI SHAHEED DEFYING COURTS 28 votes

Pakistan: Selected Economic Indicators, 2008/09–2011/12 1/
(Population: 173.5 million (2010/11))
(Per capita GDP: US$1,179 (2010/11))
(Poverty rate: 17.2 percent (2007/08))

			Estimate	Projection
	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12

	(Annual percentage change)
Output and prices
Real GDP at factor cost	1.7	3.8	2.4	3.4
GDP deflator at factor cost	20.0	11.9	18.8	12.0
Consumer prices (period average) 2/	17.6	10.1	13.7	12.0
Consumer prices (end of period) 2/	9.6	11.8	13.3	11.0
Pakistani rupees per U.S. dollar (period average)	25.8	6.7	2.3	…
	(In percent of GDP)
Saving and investment
Gross saving	12.5	13.1	13.6	11.4
Government	-2.1	-2.4	-3.6	-3.6
Nongovernment (including public sector enterprises)	14.5	15.5	17.2	15.0
Gross capital formation 3/	18.2	15.4	13.4	13.4
Government	3.1	3.5	2.6	3.1
Nongovernment (including public sector enterprises)	15.1	11.9	10.8	10.3
Public finances
Revenue and grants	14.7	14.4	12.8	12.7
Expenditure (including statistical discrepancy)	19.9	20.3	18.9	19.5
Budget balance (including grants)	-5.2	-5.9	-6.1	-6.7
Budget balance (excluding grants)	-5.3	-6.2	-6.6	-6.9
Primary balance	-0.2	-1.6	-2.3	-2.9
Total general government debt 4/	60.7	61.5	60.1	61.7
External general government debt	30.4	30.1	26.8	24.9
Domestic general government debt	30.3	31.4	33.3	36.9
	(Annual changes in percent of initial stock of broad money, unless otherwise indicated
Monetary sector
Net foreign assets	-3.2	0.5	4.1	-3.3
Net domestic assets	12.8	11.9	11.8	18.2
Broad money	9.6	12.5	15.9	14.9
Reserve Money	1.9	11.4	17.1	13.3
Private credit (percentage change)	0.7	3.9	4.0	3.4
Six-month treasury bill rate (period average, in percent)	13.1	12.2	13.7	…
External sector
Merchandise exports, U.S. dollars (percentage change)	-6.4	2.9	29.3	-1.8
Merchandise imports, U.S. dollars (percentage change)	-10.3	-1.7	14.5	9.2
Current account balance (in percent of GDP)	-5.7	-2.2	0.2	-2.0
	(In percent of exports of goods and services, unless otherwise indicated)
External public and publicly guaranteed debt	182.2	177.3	153.4	158.5
Debt service	21.6	23.0	13.8	18.3
Gross reserves (in millions of U.S. dollars) 5/	9,110	12,958	14,784	12,086
In months of next year's imports of goods and services	2.9	3.6	3.7	2.9
Memorandum items:
Real effective exchange rate (annual average, percentage change)	-2.1	1.0	6.1	…
Terms of trade (percentage change)	1.9	4.5	-3.2	…
Real per capita GDP (percentage change)	-2.6	1.6	0.3	1.3
GDP at market prices (in billions of Pakistani rupees)	12,724	14,837	18,063	20,918
GDP at market prices (in billions of U.S. dollars)	161.8	176.9	210.6	233.5

Sources: Pakistani authorities; and IMF staff estimates and projections. 1/ Fiscal year ends June 30.


Pakistan 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
Mohammad Hafeez	lbw b Broad	13	50	30	1	0	43.33
9.6 140.4 kph, loud loud cry for leg before referred has he hit this? Maybe not but probably too high...three reds on hawk-eye...gone! There wasn't anything really conclusive on hot spot but perhaps there was enough doubt to give Hafeez the benefit of the doubt there. Either way, he claps sarcastically walking off, that'll be a few pennies off the match fee 21/4
Taufeeq Umar	lbw b Anderson	0	4	5	0	0	0.00
0.6 132.8 kph, out straight away cracker from Anderson, swinging in and catching the batsman on the knee roll on the crease. Finger goes up quickly from umpire Davis and after a chat with his partner, Taufeeq walks off. It looked pretty adjacent to middle stump and I don't think any referral was going to save him. Fine inswinger from Anderson on a great length gets the early breakthrough 1/1
Azhar Ali	c †Prior b Broad	1	20	14	0	0	7.14
5.3 full and beaten on the inside edge, referred for a catch behind, big nick on hot spot, this should be out and indeed overturned and Ali is gone. It was a nip-backer from Broad on a great length, Prior took it going to his left, which suggested it didn't hit the pad, he was the one who said refer and it's paid off. A great use of the DRS by England and a second strike with the new ball 8/2
Younis Khan	c †Prior b Broad	4	10	8	1	0	50.00
7.5 140.4 kph, got him! Thick edge and this time Prior bags the catch at head height. A little bit of extra bounce from Broad, takes the shoulder of the bat and flies to Prior's right, taken comfortably with two hands. Younis was pushing away at it and it's a poor way to go 18/3
Misbah-ul-Haq*	lbw b Anderson	1	17	8	0	0	12.50
10.5 137.5 kph, another one out and Misbah has played down the Bakerloo, Anderson was on the Victoria line, and bang in front, easy lbw decision, referred but nothing saving Misbah here, he's got to go. Too slow to come forward and beaten on the inside edge to a full ball, it catches him on low on the front pad and hawk-eye has the ball hitting enough of leg stump to stay with Mr Davis 21/5
Asad Shafiq	lbw b Panesar	45	120	78	3	0	57.69
39.6 out it was pad first as he backed away trying to cut and was caught bang in front so has to go. Just looking to give himself room but it slid on from Panesar and caught the flap of the back back right in front of middle stump, no doubt for the umpire 85/9
Adnan Akmal†	lbw b Broad	6	36	30	0	0	20.00
18.6 132.1 kph, appeal for lbw, given! Reviewed. Broad once again slips in a big indipper after producing umpteen away seamers that somehow kept missing the edge. Adnan tried to get forward, but he didn't get too far as it burst through past the inside edge and thudded into the pad, in front of middle and leg. Hawk Eye says it is shattering leg stump. Gone! That five-for before lunch might yet materialise. Take a bow, Stuart Broad. This is lethal bowling on a flat track in Asia. 39/6
Abdur Rehman	c Pietersen b Swann	1	9	5	0	0	20.00
21.2 and he's struck in his first over again. Golly, that's the worst shot you will see today. Swann spins it away from short of a length, it was wide enough for Rehman to leave but he tried to blast it into the top storey of the Burj Dubai. The ball went halfway up there, but when it came down, KP was waiting in the covers. The sun was in his eyes, but he held on. Horror shot. 44/7
Saeed Ajmal	lbw b Panesar	12	52	53	1	0	22.64
35.3 slider and given out78/8
Umar Gul	b Anderson	13	34	27	1	1	48.14
44.1 133.6 kph, Pakistan do a Bradman, they have fallen just short of 100! Quite fittingly, it is one of those big indippers that does the final piece of damage. Anderson bends it in at pace, past Gul's slog-heave, and leg stump takes a beating. 99/10
Aizaz Cheema	not out	0	18	7	0	0	0.00

Extras	(lb 3)	3

Total	(all out; 44.1 overs; 191 mins)	99	(2.24 runs per over)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
JM Anderson	14.1	3	35	3	2.47
0.6 to Taufeeq Umar, 132.8 kph, out straight away cracker from Anderson, swinging in and catching the batsman on the knee roll on the crease. Finger goes up quickly from umpire Davis and after a chat with his partner, Taufeeq walks off. It looked pretty adjacent to middle stump and I don't think any referral was going to save him. Fine inswinger from Anderson on a great length gets the early breakthrough 1/1 10.5 to Misbah-ul-Haq, 137.5 kph, another one out and Misbah has played down the Bakerloo, Anderson was on the Victoria line, and bang in front, easy lbw decision, referred but nothing saving Misbah here, he's got to go. Too slow to come forward and beaten on the inside edge to a full ball, it catches him on low on the front pad and hawk-eye has the ball hitting enough of leg stump to stay with Mr Davis 21/5 44.1 to Umar Gul, 133.6 kph, Pakistan do a Bradman, they have fallen just short of 100! Quite fittingly, it is one of those big indippers that does the final piece of damage. Anderson bends it in at pace, past Gul's slog-heave, and leg stump takes a beating. 99/10
SCJ Broad	16	5	36	4	2.25
5.3 to Azhar Ali, full and beaten on the inside edge, referred for a catch behind, big nick on hot spot, this should be out and indeed overturned and Ali is gone. It was a nip-backer from Broad on a great length, Prior took it going to his left, which suggested it didn't hit the pad, he was the one who said refer and it's paid off. A great use of the DRS by England and a second strike with the new ball 8/2 7.5 to Younis Khan, 140.4 kph, got him! Thick edge and this time Prior bags the catch at head height. A little bit of extra bounce from Broad, takes the shoulder of the bat and flies to Prior's right, taken comfortably with two hands. Younis was pushing away at it and it's a poor way to go 18/3 9.6 to Mohammad Hafeez, 140.4 kph, loud loud cry for leg before referred has he hit this? Maybe not but probably too high...three reds on hawk-eye...gone! There wasn't anything really conclusive on hot spot but perhaps there was enough doubt to give Hafeez the benefit of the doubt there. Either way, he claps sarcastically walking off, that'll be a few pennies off the match fee 21/4 18.6 to Adnan Akmal, 132.1 kph, appeal for lbw, given! Reviewed. Broad once again slips in a big indipper after producing umpteen away seamers that somehow kept missing the edge. Adnan tried to get forward, but he didn't get too far as it burst through past the inside edge and thudded into the pad, in front of middle and leg. Hawk Eye says it is shattering leg stump. Gone! That five-for before lunch might yet materialise. Take a bow, Stuart Broad. This is lethal bowling on a flat track in Asia. 39/6
MS Panesar	13	4	25	2	1.92
35.3 to Saeed Ajmal, slider and given out78/8 39.6 to Asad Shafiq, out it was pad first as he backed away trying to cut and was caught bang in front so has to go. Just looking to give himself room but it slid on from Panesar and caught the flap of the back back right in front of middle stump, no doubt for the umpire 85/9
GP Swann	1	1	0	1	0.00
21.2 to Abdur Rehman, and he's struck in his first over again. Golly, that's the worst shot you will see today. Swann spins it away from short of a length, it was wide enough for Rehman to leave but he tried to blast it into the top storey of the Burj Dubai. The ball went halfway up there, but when it came down, KP was waiting in the covers. The sun was in his eyes, but he held on. Horror shot. 44/7


England 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
AJ Strauss*	st †Adnan Akmal b Abdur Rehman	56	226	150	5	0	37.33
53.5 87.8 kph, five for Rehman and completely out of the blue Strauss has tried to swing one out of the park and been stumped. He didn't get to the pitch and missed by a long way, looking very ugly in a big heave and miss, easy work for Akmal 133/9
AN Cook	c †Adnan Akmal b Umar Gul	1	10	5	0	0	20.00
2.2 138.6 kph, Adnan Akmal has leapt right across first slip to pouch a beauty. The wickets continue to tumble. A dismissal that is so unlike Cook. It was short and it was swinging further away, he could have stayed in the crease and left it alone, but he dangled the bat feebly, looking for a high-risk steer. He feathers it along towards first slip. Adnan gets a good look at the ball, moves across and pounces on it. 5/1
IJL Trott	lbw b Umar Gul	2	10	10	0	0	20.00
4.2 139.3 kph, Trott's gone. He doesn't even refer it, but should he have? Full, straight, angling in and Trott plays all over it. Hit in front of leg, and possibly clipping leg stump. The sort of dismissal you used to see a lot with Ricky Ponting. He just fell over as he looked to flick, and missed it. Umpire Davis sent him on his way immediately. We have to see what HawkEye says. Trott didn't wait even a moment, he probably reckoned it was clipping leg. This could be one of those where the umpire's verdict would have been right, irrespective of what it was. Replays are in - Missing leg. Trott would have got away if he'd referred it. England were spot-on with referrals when they were bowling.. Interestingly, captain Strauss was the non-striker here. 7/2
KP Pietersen	lbw b Abdur Rehman	32	62	44	4	0	72.72
19.2 100.6 kph, caught on the crease and given out lbw. Referred and hawk-eye has it only just clipping the leg stump. Pietersen unlucky? He's out once again to left-arm spin! Remarkable. Playing forward, caught on the knee roll, you could see middle and off stumps as Pietersen played it but DRS means you give those out nowadays 64/3
IR Bell	st †Adnan Akmal b Saeed Ajmal	5	40	28	0	0	17.85
28.5 91.8 kph, is Bell out stumped? The doosra again. It goes upstairs and he is in trouble. he was pressing forward, for the offspin, but it went the other way and past the bat, even as the back foot slid outside the crease. Adnan could not collect the ball, but it bounced off the glove straight onto the stumps, faster than he would have been able to do it if he'd grasped the ball. Bell was pushing his foot back in, but it is on the line when the bail comes off. The 3rd umpire Shahvir Tarapore is taking a long time over this. But he's pressed the right button. Bell. Ajmal. Doosra. Complete the sequence ... Out! 75/4
EJG Morgan	lbw b Abdur Rehman	10	17	14	0	1	71.42
33.1 Another referral. Boy, the 3rd umpire needs to be paid as much as the men in the middle. Short ball, Morgan goes back and looks to work it across the line. Not the safest option, in the middle of a horror series. Still, everything was going to plan. Almost. He just misses a straightforward shot as the ball turns in. It hits him high on the pad, but he is well back, and it is crashing into the stumps. Umpire Taufel has to cross his arms over once more. Morgan gone. Can Pakistan get the lead? 88/5
MJ Prior†	b Abdur Rehman	6	17	19	0	0	31.57
37.6 96.5 kph, squared up and bowled! Prior is befuddled. Rehman runs riot. The crowd perks up. Pakistan on fire. Nervous stuff from Prior, so worried about the lbw, that he ends up playing inside the line of a regulation left-arm spinner, in an attempt to keep bat in front of and close to the pad. The bat is in line with leg stump, the ball lands on middle and leg and spins enough to miss the bat and crash into middle. Pakistan are still 1 run ahead, and into England's tail. What a day! 98/6
JM Anderson	b Abdur Rehman	4	24	22	0	0	18.18
43.6 94.0 kph, gone! Trying to drive against the spin and beaten between bat and pad and down goes the leg stump. A classic finger spinners delivery, tossed up, inducing the drive, and doing um through the gate. Nice work from Rehman and Pakistan will be delighted to have dislodged the nightwatchman so early 106/7
SCJ Broad	lbw b Saeed Ajmal	4	25	19	0	0	21.05
50.5 91.4 kph, forward, another doosra, and struck on the front pad, not out given, and referred. Broad's very tall and got a long way forward but three reds! Broad will go here...big blow for Pakistan. The doosra beats the inside edge and Broad is trapped lbw on review 121/8
GP Swann	c Abdur Rehman b Saeed Ajmal	16	19	18	3	0	88.88
54.6 89.6 kph, swung away again but this is in the air and well taken down low from the man in the deep. It was another good connection but Swann couldn't keep it down and the innings is over, England have a lead of 42 141/10
MS Panesar	not out	0	7	1	0	0	0.00

Extras	(b 1, lb 4)	5

Total	(all out; 55 overs; 233 mins)	141	(2.56 runs per over)


Pakistan 2nd innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
Mohammad Hafeez	lbw b Panesar	21	39	36	3	1	58.33
9.6 91.4 kph, swept and missed and now out trapped in front and not referred. Fine line between attack and defence says Nasser and Hafeez has got too keen after 10 from two balls. Was far too early on a big sweep, he missed and got struck on the thigh pad with his knee on the ground, look adjacent to the off stump 28/2
Taufeeq Umar	c Strauss b Anderson	6	28	16	1	0	37.50
6.6 135.0 kph, but the extra ball does the work! Length ball outside off, Taufeeq nibbles at it and edges to slip where Strauss takes a solid catch. Right area from Anderson and the batsman - perhaps too keen to feel for the ball after a couple of solid strokes - decided to play where he could have left alone. A thick edge and Strauss pouches the simple chance into the midriff 16/1
Azhar Ali	c Cook b Swann	157	533	442	10	1	35.52
149.3 82.2 kph, got him! And finally, finally, after what's seemed like an ice age, Azhar Ali is removed from the crease. Pushing a full ball into the hands of Cook at short leg, who took a smart catch down low. But that's some innings, a long vigil, grinding out the runs. He's method has been very effective, a highest first-class score, and a contribution that could take Pakistan to a historic victory... 363/9
Younis Khan	lbw b Broad	127	303	221	12	1	57.46
91.6 given out lbw going past the inside edge. Referred but looks out on the first replay and indeed Hawk-Eye has umpire's call twice, so marginal but looked out in real time so fair enough to stay with Steve Davis. One that just nipped in off a length and hit Younis on the move, caught in front of off stump, just 244/3
Misbah-ul-Haq*	lbw b Panesar	31	149	115	1	0	26.95
130.2 87.3 kph, Given out lbw, and Misbah refers it. Straight, quick armer from Monty that drifts straight in. Misbah pushes forward with bat and pad very close together. The ball hit him marginally in front of off stump and was crashing into the stumps. Bat first? Pad first? Hot Spot doesn't light up and the referral is struck down. Definitely pad first. A wicket for England, their second of the day. 331/4
Asad Shafiq	lbw b Panesar	5	24	17	0	0	29.41
136.2 90.4 kph, another one bites the dust. 40 lbws. Golly. Pakistan can't review it. Monty angled it in from over the stumps. Did it pitch outside leg? It straightened as Asad got well across and looked to paddle it. He missed and was hit on the back leg. Was it hitting leg stump? It was clipping leg. And it landed on middle and leg, so that was a fair decision and would have been upheld on review. 339/5
Adnan Akmal†	b Panesar	0	7	7	0	0	0.00
138.2 90.0 kph, Monty's spitting fire with the old ball. He's cleaned up Adnan with a classic left-arm spinner, angles in towards middle and off, dips on a length, grips and straightens past a hopeful forward prod to tickle off stump. Gone for a blob. England will be very worried by the amount of turn on offer now. 345/6
Abdur Rehman	c Anderson b Swann	1	5	5	0	0	20.00
139.1 too many murmurs about Panesar outbowling Swann, and Swann responds with a wicket of his own. Ball lands on a length around off stump from round the wicket, kicks up a healthy puff of dust as it turns past Rehman and takes an outside edge to slip. 346/7
Saeed Ajmal	c Anderson b Swann	1	10	12	0	0	8.33
141.6 91.8 kph, a wicket to end the session. Swann gets Ajmal to nick his version of the doosra - the slider - through to Anderson at slip. Ajmal hangs the bat outside limply and it jumps off the edge to the right of Anderson, who completes a good catch. 350/8
Umar Gul	lbw b Panesar	4	31	38	0	0	10.52
152.4 87.8 kph, flighted up, big swing towards leg, missed and plumb lbw. Five more for Panesar. Jolly well done Monty, two five-fors in his two comeback matches. Thoroughly deserved after almost 57 overs! A fine effort. It was a length ball that Gul simply missed by a long distance, being done in the flight, easy decision for the umpire 365/10
Aizaz Cheema	not out	0	10	8	0	0	0.00

Extras	(b 10, lb 1, nb 1)	12

Total	(all out; 152.4 overs; 572 mins)	365	(2.39 runs per over)


England 2nd innings (target: 324 runs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
AJ Strauss*	lbw b Abdur Rehman	26	98	76	2	0	34.21
25.2 gone now though biting out of the rough, catches Strauss on the back foot and given out lbw. It was reviewed but to no avail because Strauss was right on his stumps and the ball was hitting middle stump. It turned past the inside edge and hit the back leg, highlighting the problems England's left-handers will face against those rough patches 48/1
AN Cook	c Younis Khan b Saeed Ajmal	49	242	187	4	0	26.20
62.5 brilliant catch at slip. Cook's had success turning with the spin but now produces a leading edge that flies to slip and a fabulous diving take by Younis Khan. Just gripped a little in the pitch which meant Cook was on the shot too soon, tried to turn it again and it flicked up to Younis who showed his team-mates how it's done 119/4
IJL Trott	c Abdur Rehman b Saeed Ajmal	18	79	64	2	0	28.12
44.3 91.8 kph, I'm not sure what came over Trott but Pakistan have broken a stubborn stand here, Trott aims to slog it over the on side but ends up top-edging a doosra, Rehman runs forward from deep backward square leg and takes the skier 85/2
KP Pietersen	b Saeed Ajmal	18	54	45	1	1	40.00
60.6 bowled through the gate. Ordinary offspinner on a good length, Pietersen forward and playing with the bat away from the pad is done by one that spun. Nothing overly special about it, I don't think Pietersen played it very well at all, maybe he thought it was the doosra 116/3
IR Bell	c Asad Shafiq b Umar Gul	10	58	38	0	0	26.31
74.6 136.1 kph, Gul was as flummoxed as Bell! Hardly a wicket-taking ball, a half-tracker outside the off stump, Bell could have thrashed that or simply left it, instead he lobbed it tamely down to cover point where Shafiq ran to his right to take a sitter. Bell took a few seconds to comprehend what he had done and Gul couldn't believe what he had done to deserve that wicket 156/5
EJG Morgan	c †Adnan Akmal b Umar Gul	31	57	48	3	1	64.58
76.3 137.9 kph, Gul fully deserved this one, Morgan gave the bowler the charge and Gul saw that and cleverly dropped it short from round the wicket, the batsman suddenly changed his shot and tries to defend but it caught the faint edge, Taufel knew that immediately 159/6
MJ Prior†	not out	49		58	5	0	84.48

SCJ Broad	c Taufeeq Umar b Umar Gul	18	31	24	2	0	75.00
82.2 133.2 kph, and gone. Broad holes out to long off trying to play a big shot again, off low on the bat and a comfortable catch in the deep for Taufeeq. Can't blame Broad for trying. Attempted to go big off a length ball and didn't quite get it right 196/7
GP Swann	c Asad Shafiq b Umar Gul	1	14	6	0	0	16.66
84.4 132.5 kph, caught at point Swann driving off an outside edge and simply chipping at catch to point. It's a very good catch down low, always difficult diving forward but that's a fine grab. A long check for the no-ball but Gul is just, and only just, ok so Swann has to go 203/8
JM Anderson	c Younis Khan b Saeed Ajmal	9	43	26	0	0	34.61
92.6 90.7 kph, outside edge and taken at slip! The ball straightened after pitching outside off and skidded through, Anderson was on the back foot trying to cut and it was taken neatly by Younis at slip who fell backwards after taking it 237/9
MS Panesar	lbw b Abdur Rehman	8		15	0	0	53.33
97.3 90.9 kph, Pakistan seal 3-0! Panesar tries to sweep with the turn and the ball hits his thigh in front of the stumps, Steve Davis gives him out, Panesar reviews it but Davis' decision stands 252/10
Extras	(b 4, lb 8, nb 3)	15

Total	(all out; 97.3 overs)	252	(2.58 runs per over)

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