CORRUPTION REAL DANGER to DEMOCRACY AND THE COUNTRY: HOW 150 TRILLION SOUND TO YOU!

[crankthskunk]

Our corrupt PM shouts "Democracy is in danger" whenever PPP is asked to answer for their misdoings. They are using democracy as their shield. PPP is not a political party it is a party of thieves and cozens. This party should be banned forever to take part in the Politics. Purpose of their existence is to loot Pakistan and conspire against the nation. I am just so puzzled how so many of our so-called media personality take this bait and try to protect them?

There are corruption cases in the Courts in the tune of 150 Trillion. Not my figure but figure by SC.
How can Pakistan survive like this and why this corrupt PM is not behind bars, will someone explain to me please. In any other country he would have been asked to stand down by his own party members. But corrupt PPP parliamentarians only use the name of Democracy to save themselves and hide their true nature.
Wake up Pakistan, for heaven sake wake up.

 

[khanpanni]

Very bad luck for Pakistan that we have such people and they call themselves muslims ???

Allah Rahm Karay.

 

[Bombaybuz]

yeah i read this in JUNG today and believe me a read and then read it again that figure of 150 Trillion was eye popping i must say... (omg) ... If that is true imagine what kind of wealth these guyz have and we are talking about bring them to justice and cornering them with law and logic ...

 

[thedude]

150 kharab is 15 trillion not 150 trillion

(1 kharab = 100 arab = 100 billion)

but yes it's still a lot

 

[_ahmed]

By the time this tenure is over, Zardari would be right up there with the likes of Carlos Slim and Bill Gates. (clap)

 

[crankthskunk]

150 kharab is 15 trillion not 150 trillion

(1 kharab = 100 arab = 100 billion)

but yes it's still a lot

You mean Pakistani trillion is different from American trillion?

 

[_ahmed]

You mean Pakistani trillion is different from American trillion?

There you go

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[thedude]

You mean Pakistani trillion is different from American trillion?

A trillion is a trillion ... there is no pakistani or american trillion

(please refer to the table posted by [MENTION=26232]_ahmed[/MENTION] ... it explains all)

 

[crankthskunk]

A trillion is a trillion ... there is no pakistani or american trillion

(please refer to the table posted by @_ahmed ... it explains all)

Dude, you need some education, British and Americans systems were different but now they use American system mainly. Similarly, I think "Kharab" in Pakistan could still be 1000 billion and not 100 billion as mentioned.
For simple reasons an "Arab" in Pakistan is still 1000 million. So why would it change for the billion?

Here is the entry from Oxford Dictionary for explanation of British and American billion.

How many is a billion?

In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000). British English has now adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
The same sort of change has taken place with the meaning of trillion. In British English, a trillion used to mean a million million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000). Nowadays, it's generally held to be equivalent to a million million (1,000,000,000,000), as it is in American English.
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[thedude]

Dude, you need some education, British and Americans systems were different but now they use American system mainly.

thanks for educating me ... I didn't know about long and short scales (i might've read it in the past but i don't remember)

however I still don't see how the other definition of trillion is relevant here (it's only used in non-english countries so US, UK, and colonial-offshoots of UK, like Pakistan, India, are out) ... plus it still doesn't make your original quote correct

Similarly, I think "Kharab" in Pakistan could still be 1000 billion and not 100 billion as mentioned.

my original post wasn't a response to hypotheticals ... it was a response to what is the fact, i.e., the de facto standard definition of a kharab ... if you come up with a reference that's a different matter ... but still the "popular" definition of kharab would be 100 arab ... pakistani budget is proposed using that definition ... and similarly in everyday usage the same definition is assumed as far as I know ...

For simple reasons an "Arab" in Pakistan is still 1000 million. So why would it change for the billion?

arab is not defined in terms of millions ... "arab" is an urdu word ... "million" is an english word

thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion are defined together

hazaar, laakh, crore, arab, kharab are definied togther

it's just a mathematical coincidence that the urdu "arab" happens to be the same as the english "billion" (cz 3 pairs of zeros are same as 2 triplets of zeros)

 

[thedude]

150 trillion rupees would be almost 1.75 trillion dollars (1 USD ~ 87 PKR) ...

US defense budget (the largest defense budget in the world and larger than all the defense budgets of all other countries combined!) is less than 1.5 trillion dollars

are you trying to say pakistani politicians did corruption worth more than the annual defense budget of the United States?

now i'm starting to doubt even the 15 trillion figure ... that's almost 175 billion dollars, i.e., the GDP of Pakistan ... it's not possible that current govt. looted money worth the GDP of Pakistan even over a four year period

this story is garbage i'm sure ... the urdu story probably confused arab with kharab, or added an extra zero

 

[textillian]

[MENTION=26548]Screw_driver[/MENTION]

how much greedy these thuggs are, ever they will say ..ENOUGH?