[nukkad] capital suggestion

Hi

Do not know the source of the following. Do not know the whether release date 
is 9th dec or 12th sep :-)

- pravin

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Capital suggestion 
By Dr Farrukh Saleem 
12/9/2007


Here's what is happening in India: 

The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the 
Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. 
The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year 
by 169 million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. The four 
richest Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese. 

In November, Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 
points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries became a $100 
billion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 
percent of Reliance. 

In November, comes Neeta's birthday. Neeta turned f orty-four three weeks ago. 
Look what she got from her husband as her birthday present: A sixty-million 
dollar jet with a custom fitted master bedroom, bathroom with mood lighting, a 
sky bar, entertainment cabins, satellite television, wireless communication and 
a separate cabin with game consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani's wife, and Mukesh 
is not India's richest but t he second richest. 

Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after a mythical, 
phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean). At a cost of $1 billion this 
would be the most expensive home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall 
Mukesh's new family residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 
60-storeyed building. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The 
seventh floor is for car servicing and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a 
mini-theatre. Then there's a health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors 
are reserved for Ambani family's guests. Four flo ors above the guest floors 
are family floors all with a superb view of the Arabian Sea. On top of 
everything are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the 
family and their family home. 

In 2004, India became the 3rd most attractive foreign direct investment 
destination. Pakistan wasn't even in the top 25 countries. In 2004, the United 
Nations, the representative body of 192 sovereign member states, had requested 
the Election Commission of India to assist the UN in the holding? elections in 
Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah and Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan. Why the Election 
Commission of India and not the Election Commission of Pakistan? After all, 
Islamabad is closer to Kabul than is Delhi. 

Imagine, 12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin; 38 percent 
of doctors in America are Indian; 36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians; 34 
percent of Microsoft employees are Indians; and 28 percent of IBM employees are 
Indians. 

For the record: Sabeer Bhatia created and founded Hotmail. Sun Microsystems was 
founded by Vinod Khosla. The Intel Pentium processor, that runs 90 percent of 
all computers, was fathered by Vinod Dham. Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett 
Packard's E-speak project. Four out of ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by 
Indians. Bollywood produces 800 movies per year and s ix Indian ladies have won 
Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years. 

For the record: Azim Premji, the richest Muslim entrepreneur on the face of the 
planet, was born in Bombay and now lives in Bangalore.India now has more than 
three dozen billionaires; Pakistan has none (not a single dollar billionaire). 

The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at which India is creating wealth. 
In 2002, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil Ambani's father, left his two sons a 
fortune worth $2.8 billion. In 2007, their combined wealth stood at $94 
billion. On 29 October 2007, as a result of the stock market rally and the 
appreciation of the Indian rupee, Mukesh became the richest person in the 
world, with net worth climbing to US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest 
American, stands at around $56 billion). Indians and Pakistanis have the same 
Y-chromosome haplogroup. We have the same genetic sequence and the same genetic 
marker (namely: M124). We have the sam e DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. 
Our culture, our traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We watch the same 
movies and sing the same songs. What is it that Indians have and we don't? 

INDIANS ELECT THEIR LEADERS



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