...Analysis of Indian Developmental Projects in Afghanistan and its impact on Pakistan THEME * Pakistan and Afghanistan are generally labeled as inseparable states due to their historical, religious, cultural, linguistic, trade and ethnic linkages. However, history of bilateral relations between Kabul and Islamabad reveals turbulence. The main reasons for this rocky relationship are the issues related to the Durand Line, the idea of a greater Pakhtunistan, the 1980’s Soviet War, the rise of the Taliban, post 9/11 war, and India’s rising influence in Afghanistan. Through multi-sectoral long-term development projects, apparently carving socio-economic space through application of soft power, India ultimately aims at enhancing its regional relevance to extract politico-economic benefits, while correspondingly constricting contemporary space for Pakistan. Indian sponsored / assisted projects in Afghanistan indicate their character to be more of anti-Pakistan than pro-Afghanistan. Development of road Zaranj-Delaram off sets Afghanistan’s over dependence on Pakistan for transit trade, through offering ground link to Iranian Port Chahbhar. Similarly, Indian offer to build water reservoirs on river Kabul can be termed as extension of her water war against Pakistan. It has implications for Pakistan on its economic, defense and foreign policy fronts. Apropos, carry out a detailed analysis of Indian sponsored / assisted projects directly or indirectly influencing Pakistan and recommend...
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...Assignment Of: Budget of Union Aid for Afghan Refugees (UAAR) For 1st Jan, 2011 – 31st Dec 2011 Presented To: Mam Aysha Sami Latif Presented By: Amjad ur Rehman (15) (Group leader) Aamir Khan (21) Zeeshan Arshad (55) Union Aid for Afghan Refugees By means of limited sources but with the objective of humanitarian assistance, Dr.T.Nassery, an Afghan Professor laid the foundation stone of Union Aid for Afghan Refugees (UAAR) as a pioneer organization and initiated its activities in health sector after its establishment in 1997 that formally commenced from 1980 with the prior permission of Govt. of Pakistan. The organization has close coordination with UNHCR, Afghan Commissioner ate, PDH and other NGOs that are serving for the welfare of Afghan Refugees. This organization operated most of its activities by Humanitarian Assistance of the Government & the generous people of Germany. They afforded their financial and moral assistance to this organization. Basically, this organization had financially been supported by a German based organization VAF “Verein fur Afghanish-Fordrung”. Due to decrease of funds from our German Donor, UNHCR started funding this organization in health sector, since 1992. PRESENTLY THE ORGANIZATION IS RUNNING THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES: * BHUs (since 1980): Total Number of BHUs (8) Funded by UNHCR (6) since 1992 Funded by AFV (2) since 2000 UNHCR funded BHUs 1. Kababian 2. Khazana 3. Naguam ...
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...Tetra Pak Visit SIBM Pune | AbstractA visit conducted to Tetra Pak for SIBM Pune Students. I have listed all my learnings derived from the conversations and sighting of the factory. Swati Singh,114029 Project Management | Tetra Pak Visit SIBM Pune | AbstractA visit conducted to Tetra Pak for SIBM Pune Students. I have listed all my learnings derived from the conversations and sighting of the factory. Swati Singh,114029 Project Management | Story behind Tetra Pack The Rs 700-crore Chakan facility was inaugurated in 2013 with a production capacity of 8.5 million packages a year. The plant also has potential to scale upto 16 billion packages with the ever growing consumption in India, South East Asia and Middle East. The Chakan plant’s core focus is on the Tetra Classic Aseptic (TCA) and Tetra Fino Aseptic (TFA) eyeing the rural markets of India. Small packets of TFA which starts from five small sizes of 100 ml, 200 ml, 250 ml, 500 ml and 1000 ml and TCA that comes for 65 ml. The Chakan facility, the Tetra Pak’s second largest plant after its Lund plant in Sweden. Parle were the first ever to use a TCA Tetra Pak, the small little triangular pack that can be sold in chains of multiple packs and known as the samosa pack. Tetra Pak's automated solution for juices and dairy milk applications. Its aseptic processing technique, a key process in their production shopfloor allows liquid food to retain colour, texture, natural taste and nutritional value for up to...
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...Op-ed: US Policy on Afghanistan The role of the U.S. in the security and stability of Afghanistan, and what it means to the rest of the region and the world is a relevant topic today. A nation that has been surrounded by invasion, external pressure and internal upheaval since before the time of Alexander the Great, Afghanistan has endured more than most people can ever imagine. Going back to the beginning, the country has been ruled by Persian, Greek, Sassasian and Central Asian empires. In addition, it has also been conquered by the Mongols, British, Russians, and more lately by the Taliban and the U.S. In 1989, with the help of nationalist groups such as the Mujahadeen and the US, who supplied these groups, Afghanistan gained independence from the Soviet Union, which had invaded and remained in the nation since 1979. The US policy program involving the funding and supplying of Mujahadeen shaped the US foreign policy on Afghanistan during the concluding Cold War. Then came the current war. Following the September 11 World Trade Center bombings, the United States accused Osama Bin Laden of the crime and demanded that the Taliban handed over Bin Laden. The Taliban refused to do so, which resulted in the bombing of the impoverished country by the US, and which led to the current war between the two nations. The US recent policy on Afghanistan involves the improvement of the nation’s security and infrastructure, yet this policy is in fact generating more destabilization in...
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...paper is largely based on his own fieldwork conducted in the two sites of Afghan settlement in exile: Peshawar, Pakistan and Freemont, California in the United States. As his article largely focuses on Afghan music culture after the communist coup of 1978, Baily first offers a description of Afghan music as it was before the 23 years’ war, and describes trends between music and migration. He describes three categories of music in Afghanistan and focuses on the latter two: regional folk songs, which are characteristic of various regions and ethnic groups; popular music that was created and promoted by Afghanistan’s only radio station, called Radio Afghanistan; and art music that was created in the musician’s quarter of the old city in Kabul (Kabul’s Kucheh Kharabat). Baily also notes an important social distinction between professional (kesbi) musicians for whom a musical profession is hereditary, and amateur (shauqi) musicians who were typically from educated middle-class or even upper-class families and whose attitudes toward music were more liberal. Hereditary professional musicians tended to regard playing music as an occupation that was in their own tradition and right. Knowledge of Indian music theory and specific performance techniques that are associated with certain instruments were considered exclusively their domain, and something that amateur, self-taught musicians lacked. Music practiced by Afghan refugees who fled to Peshawar was similar in style and sound to the traditional...
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...Afghan Girl, one of the most iconic photographs ever, was taken in 1984 by Steve McCurry. McCurry was visiting refugee camps along the Afghan-Pakistan border, and he chose a student in the camp of Nasir Bagh.i In his words, “I saw this . . . girl who had this really kind of haunted look in her eye. So I got permission to photograph her.”ii The girl had moved from Afghanistan because of the Soviet invasion of December 1979. To McCurry, “her look . . . summed up the horror, because her village had been bombed . . . and she'd had to make this two-week trek . . . to the refugee camp.”iii The Afghan Girl photograph has since been used in a number of fundraisers, documentaries and campaigns. It has raised awareness for women and child refugees...
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...the company is given, objectives are established, and the internal and external environments are analyzed. Obstacles Tetra Pak could face are discussed and solutions are presented. Tetra Pak is in an industry most would consider boring, packaging. Yet somehow the company has continued to grow throughout the last 50 years. Tetra Pak now supplies packaging for a large number of major food suppliers. Tetra Pak’s designs are influenced by their Swedish heritage. Their packaging is simple yet elegant. What may seem like small changes to the untrained eye are actually revolutionary leaps for food. It is these revolutionary leaps alone that have catapulted Tetra Pak to success. In an industry full of competitors with a product that has a low switching cost, they must continue this innovation if they are to continue their growth. Tetra Pak’s strengths are innovation and brand. No one would have expected there to be so many different ways to produce a straw—no one but Tetra Pak. Now that they have built their reputation in the mind of businesses Tetra Pak can build a more sustainable competitive advantage by positioning themselves in the mind of consumers. If consumers believe Tetra Paks are superior to other cardboard boxes producers may feel the pressure to use Tetra Paks when they would use an alternative. In order to continue their growth tetra Pak needs to focus on innovation, first and foremost. Innovation can be achieved in the form of, producing entirely new product...
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...A Term Paper on Tetra Pak Submitted to: Kashfia Ahmed Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Business Administration, East West University Submitted By: 1. Chowdhury Ishita Israt (2009-1-10-198) 2. Md. Faisal Hasan (2009-1-10-289) TETRA PAK COMPANY PROFILE Name: Tetra Pak Type: Private Industry: Food packaging Founded: Lund, Sweden (1951) Company's Countries: Tetra Pak announced particularly strong growth in China, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Central and South America. Company's activity fields: food packaging and processing Vision: We commit to make food safe and available, everywhere Mission: We work for and with our customers to provide preferred processing and packaging solutions for food. We apply our commitment to innovation, our understanding of consumer needs and our relationships with suppliers to deliver these solutions, wherever and whenever food is consumed. We believe in responsible industry leadership, creating profitable growth in harmony with environmental sustainability and good corporate citizenship Motto: PROTECTS WHAT’S GOOD Business & Market: Tetra Pak operates globally through 40 market companies, which are subsidiaries to Tetra Pak International SA, doing business in over 170 countries Because of the low relative cost of its end products, the developing world has been an important market for Tetra Pak from the start. Tetra Pak has particularly strong growth in China, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Central and South...
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...other key features and attractiveness of the Bun Festival. First is ritual marking start of Bun Festival (啟壇開光). Taoist priests will hlod the ceremony on the stage, and the purpose of this ceremony is to invite gods and goddesses to join the Bun Festival. After the ceremony, the festival will start officially. Second is the sending of boats (遣船). In this activity, black paper dolls with paper boats will be sent towards the sea by local residents. This has the meaning of ‘driving away the plague and bad luck’, and welcome a new start for Cheung Chau. Third is the ceremony to send the deities back to their temples (走菩薩). In the ceremony, different groups of local residents will lift up the statues of god and goddesses and race back to the Pak Tai Temple Plaza. As running can stimulate the atmosphere and has the meaning of being healthy and energetic, it is an important part of the ceremony. Fourth is the flower board (花牌). In Cheung Chau, flower boards are used to announce joyful occasions such as birthdays, weddings and gatherings. During the Bun Festival, flower boards are also used to decorate the stage. (RTHK,2010) Changes of the Cheung Chau Bun Festival The Cheung Chau Bun Festival has gone through a long history and changes have been adopted to fit the society. Most of the changes are shown in the Piu Sik parade, the Bun Scrambling Competition and the Ping An buns. For the Piu Sik parade, the dressed children are lifted up by four people in the past. Also, children...
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...Insight is an Afghan women-owned group of companies established in 2004. Our primary areas of service are in media, research and education/training. In just a few years Insight has established a track record of positive past performance in Afghanistan. Insight has been a successful U.S. military subcontractor and Afghan Woman Owned Business (AWOB) prime vendor since early 2008. Education and Training Experiences • Rehabilitative Educational and Counseling Program at the Detention Facility in Parwan (Combined Joint Interagency Task Force 435) Since 2010, Insight Group has been developing curricula and implementing rehabilitation, de-radicalization, and re-entry training and counseling at the Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP) through educational and vocational programs. We provide literacy instruction and vocational training to several hundred detainees, as well as detention counseling services and life skills training. As part of this service, Insight Group has Ministry of Education authorization to operate as an adult literacy provider in Afghanistan and to certify detainee graduates of our literacy programs. • ANSF Native Literacy Program (CSTC-A/NTM-A) We are presently executing an adult literacy Program of Instruction and delivering classroom-based courses for Afghan National Security Forces throughout RC-N, RCW and in Kabul (14 provinces total) as part of a nationwide initiative to raise literacy rates among the ANSF. We are currently providing instruction at more than...
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...role. The Northeastern University MBA program will provide me with extensive exposure to the different areas of business. In particular, this program will allow me to bridge the gaps I currently have in accounting, financial management, and supply chain optimization. Closing these gaps will put me in line with my civilian peers. The ability to collaborate with classmates in my cohort will provide me with valuable real world examples of successes and failures in the business world and give me a better sense of what to expect as I transition. My military career has had many successes that will help me integrate well into this program. The accomplishment that has given me the most pride is when I planned and executed the largest combined Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) mission in the history of Eastern Afghanistan. This was the first time that the Afghanistan National Army (ANA), Afghanistan Border Patrol (ABP), Afghanistan Local Police (ALP), and Afghanistan National Police (ANP) participated in a joint operation of this size. It included over 70 vehicles and a combined 280 ANSF personnel. Many steps were taken to ensure the success of this operation....
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...and program and executive support. The performance work statement indicated that these services would be provided worldwide but, the current locations would be Columbia and Afghanistan. The performance work statement also specifically noted that the goods and services provided would outfit and support counter-narcoterrorism units such as the Counter Narcotics Police in Afghanistan and the Counter Narcotics Brigade in Columbia. The solicitation for these ID/IQ contracts included three sample task orders. Sample tasks were (1) develop high resolution short-wave infrared cameras for surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, (2) provide intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance support in the Trans-Sahara region of Africa, and (3) train Afghan Border Police to perform functions necessary to deny the flow of illegal persons, drugs, and weapons across borders. Task order requests for proposals (TORP) 150 is for mentoring and training the Ministry...
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...The Afghan Perspective of Governmental Structures and Political Processes: Analyzing Afghanistan’s Potential to Develop Through Effective Formation and Operation of Government Why do Afghans Identify So Little with Political Parties Even though the Spectrum of Parties is So Wide? Which Candidate From the Recent Election Has a Better Plan on Rebuilding Afghanistan? Aimal Pahrand December 10, 2014 Abstract With U.S.-led NATO forces exiting Afghanistan in 2016, Afghan stability relies on the strength, capacity, validity, and permeability of Afghan governance. Although the size and overall adequacy of the Afghan governing structure has increased drastically since the fall of the Taliban regime, the government remains prevalent with corruption as political and ethnic tensions among its major subdivisions remain present. The recent election showed that Afghans still vote according to ethnicity. The Pashtun population heavily favored Dr. Ashraf Ghani, advisor of the Bonn process and Finance Minister to former president Hamid Karzai’s erratic administration. Alternative candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, former foreign minister in the Karzai administration and Secretary General of the Masood foundation as well as United Front’s Minister of Foreign affairs during the Taliban regime, was heavily favored by non-Pasthun voters. Ghani’s victory led to a huge backlash due to claims of fraudulent voting, which forced the two candidates to f ormally signing a power-sharing agreement...
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...Impact of afghan war on Pakistan economy “Although history has been very unkind to Pakistan but its geo-strategic position has been a great asset to garner benefits from world great powers” (Stephen p. Kohen) • Introduction The conflict and instability in Afghanistan is the aftermath of 9/11 attacks and their regional implications had very negative repercussions, for the years following the US invasion of Afghanistan not only saw a huge influx of Afghan refugees across the border into Pakistan but also witnessed a sudden spike in the frequency and scale of terrorist attacks in Pakistan. The cumulative impact of these developments adversely impacted the overall growth rate in all major sectors of the economy. Pakistan continues to pay a heavy price both in the economic and security terms due to this situation and a substantial portion of precious national resources both men and material, have been diverted to address the emerging security challenges for the last several years. The rise of violent extremism and increase in terrorism in Pakistan due to instability in Afghanistan not only caused serious damage to Pakistan’s economy but has also been responsible for widespread human suffering due to indiscriminate attacks against the civilian population. This situation disrupted Pakistan’s normal economic and trading activities which not only resulted in higher costs of business but also created disruptions in the production cycles, resulting in significant delays in meeting the...
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...REFLECTION OF PAKISTAN FOREIGN POLICY INTRODUCTION Pakistan is a major participant in the global efforts to curb transnational terrorism initiated after the terrorist attacks in the United States in September 2001. This enhanced Pakistan's strategic relevance for the major powers, especially the United States, which cultivated Pakistan for combating terrorism and ensuring peace and stability in the post-Taliban Afghanistan. Its strategic relevance has varied over time which had implications for Pakistan's role at the international level and the foreign policy options available to its policy makers. This briefing paper examines the changing patterns of Pakistan's foreign policy and how its position and role in international and regional politics has varied over time. Pakistan recognizes that it is neither possible nor advisable to stay in isolation in the present day interdependent and complex international system. It needs to interact with other states, international and regional organizations and supranational actors in order to protect and promote its national interests and sovereign identity. Its activism reflects a realization that such a policy facilities the mobilization of International support and resources for its domestic socio-economic development, helps to regulate the inputs from the external environment into the internal context, and contributes to strengthening security and territorial integrity which are the principal concerns of Pakistan's foreign policy...
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