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UK arms show expels 2 Pakistani exhibitors

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Rules are rules. If the event clearly laid down the boundaries, then it was very clumsy and careless of POF to continue to have such munitions on display --especially when there is a lot of talk of banning cluster munitions (a recent convention on it was held in Beirut)

at the same time, expelling the exhibitors was an extreme step.....those Green party britisher marxist losers are a real handful and a real ear-load. What the hell are they doing nosing around at an arms fair anyways? Nothing better to do with their pathetic lives, clearly.

if they took the items off display, that would have been a sufficient outcome. We pay good money to display our goods at defence shows, so this will prove to be a waste. I believe Heavy Industries Taxila will still display their products.


again, rules are rules. Our guys should have been better briefed. The article mentions a "London-based technical attache for the Pakistan Ordnance Factory" --- well WTF were they doing? Twiddling their thumbs?

The less extreme step that you suggested, of having the exhibitors stop exhibiting the banned products is not a realistic idea.If something like it is allowed to happen, then all exhibitors will start to showcase banned products irrespective of the rules and simply push their luck hoping to go unnoticed, knowing that there are no significant consequences of getting caught. I am confident that the penalty for exhibiting such weaponry was already known to the exhibitors or they are simply too naive.
 
I wasn't referring to the "country itself" either. If you like the "country itself" then why would you want it to be "banned itself" ?
First you start a thread misleading people into believing Pakistani exhibitors were unfairly expelled. Then you go on with ranting about UK (note: the UK Government) and then claim to actually like UK (note: The country itself) whilst flaming.

Perhaps you're the one who needs to be banned itself.

If you love the uk so much change your flag to a british one :rofl:

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Are you not English your self?

Does my first flag show an english flag?
 
Your second flag is crossed flag!!!

Generally, Iranians don't hate Britain perhaps because they feel indebted to UK for producing leaders like 'Rooh Allah Khumaini'.

When i said U.k should be banned i really meant their government, also most iranians hate british because they played a role in bringing this islamic regime in place.
 
When i said U.k should be banned i really meant their government, also most iranians hate british because they played a role in bringing this islamic regime in place.

I hope you have learned your lesson and act wiser in future and sincierly advice your brothers in Pakistan.
 
Deutsche Bank funded firm selling cluster bombs to Libya
Published: 18 May 11 15:59 CET
Updated: 18 May 11 16:08 CET


Deutsche Bank reportedly helped financed the firm supplying Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi with cluster bombs of the sort his military recently dropped over the rebel-held town of Misrata.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement on 20 April 2011 that the Libyan government forces may have committed war crimes by using heavy weapons and cluster munitions against civilians there.

The German bank granted Spanish company Instalaza a more than €3.1 million loan according to information from non-governmental organisation Urgewald, as reported in the weekly Die Zeit on Wednesday.

Cluster bombs are a controversial munition due to the fact they present a huge danger to civilians. Designed to kill enemy personnel and disable equipment, they are a collection of small bomblets scattered over a wide area. But these often remain unexploded until someone steps on them or picks one up.

According to the Cluster Munition Coalition, a pressure group pushing for a global ban, 60 percent of cluster bomb casualties are injured while undertaking their normal activities. A third of all recorded cluster bomb casualties are children, the group says.

More than 100 countries signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions at the end of 2008 – it became binding international law for those who signed at the start of August 2010. The convention bans not only the use but also the support of manufacture of cluster bombs.

A spokesman for Deutsche Bank told Die Zeit he could not comment on specific customer relationships, but denied the bank financed the sale of controversial munitions.

"Deutsche Bank does no business directly connected to certain types of weapons like personnel landmines, cluster bombs or ABC weapons," he said.

The paper said the Deutsche Bank loan was made in 2007 and reported that other German companies have continued to invest in cluster bomb manufacturers since then. More than a dozen insurers offer Germans taking part in the so-called Riester pension scheme can put their money in funds which have invested in cluster bomb makers.

These include Deutscher Ring, Basler, Condor, Stuttgarter, Volkswohlbund and WWK. The paper noted that because the Riester contracts are co-funded by the German government, it should be assumed that public money is also finding its way into the coffers of cluster bomb manufacturers.
Deutsche Bank funded firm selling cluster bombs to Libya - The Local
 

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