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	<title>Its no Hanky Panky!!! &#187; economy</title>
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		<title>Tainted banker rewarded &#8211; Zardari&#8217;s cesspool continues to take shape</title>
		<link>http://hankypanky.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/tainted-banker-rewarded-zardaris-cess-pool-continues-to-take-shape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salim Raza, the banker who helped arrange President Zardari have unverified bank accounts at Citibank (facilitated money laundering) to facilitate SGS Cotecna money laundering scam is now nominated by Zardari to be the State Bank of Pakistan&#8217;s Governor replacing Shamshad Akhtar.
Of course Zardari does not forgets his friends and benefactors&#8230;&#8230; On the other hand his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=102&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Killing the Golden Goose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another example of the current economic mismanagement and the continued incompetence of the governement and taking decisions without due consideration.
In an apparent bid to overcome the deteriorating fiscal deficit, the government is all set to sell-off the Qadirpur gas field, on a fast track basis. The Privatisation Commission has referred the scheme of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=87&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boycott biofuels and ban speculation&#8230;. that is if you believe in humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is currently facing one of the worst food crisis in recorded human history&#8230;. it is at a boiling point but it can spill over at anytime.
Retail staple food prices have seen record inflation of up to 300% in the last three years across the world resulting in more and more people struggling to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=57&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Care-taker Prime Minister takes care of himself and family for Life &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we have elections now done and dusted in Pakistan&#8230; and as international observers generally say pretty fair as well.
.. Well done!
So what did our care-taker Prime Minister Mr Soomro (Mohammadmian Soomro) do to treat himself  &#8212;
Okay let&#8217;s first dig the background who he is and how he came about to be the care-taker PM. Well.. he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=52&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tyrant&#8217;s party eats the dust &#8211; a resounding defeat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what political pundits can term as pure revolutionary, the people of Pakistan have rejected the King&#8217;s party across the country with important puppet leaders ending up licking their wounds and some trying to flee to hypocritic West.
Even the threat of violence did not stop people show their full and total rejection of the despicable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=51&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Almost a billion dollars loans written off!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hankypanky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although it is a slightly stale news item, given the season of elections and that all parties in Pakistan are vying for power and presenting themselves as the champion of the poor, it may be the right time to analyze this gigantic write-off allowed (Pak Rupee 54 billion &#8211; http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=10768 ) and sanctioned by the State [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=46&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Citibank &#8211; Can it be third time lucky with the Arab money???</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hankypanky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citibank has recently been rescued (literally) off the subprime (with a potential $11 billion writeoff) .. fallout that it faces. Although heads have rolled, there seems to be an inclination to look towards the Arab world&#8230; is it not a trend??? or is it the overflowing Arab pockets that attract the incompetent bankers.
I think it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hankypanky.wordpress.com&blog=328174&post=44&subd=hankypanky&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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