Vivasvat wrote:Find a chronology of anti-minority violence in this article:
In the name of religion
Abductions, forcible conversions, selling, reselling and sometimes disposing of Hindu girls are new emerging crimes in Sindh.
An "emerging" crime that has been reported on extensively for over a decade in the media - and probably occurring on ground for over a millennia.Badmaash speaketh with Forked TongueBEIJING: Pakistan will help China with its fight against extremists that Beijing says are active in its unruly far western region of Xinjiang, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
China blames the East Turkestan Islamic Movement for carrying out attacks in Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, though many foreign experts doubt the group's existence in a cohesive group.
China, a major Pakistan ally in the region, has long urged Islamabad to weed out what it says are militants from Xinjiang, who are holed up in a lawless tribal belt, home to a lethal mix of militant groups which include the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Hundreds have died in unrest in Xinjiang in the last two years or so. Exiles and activists say that Chinese control on the religion and culture of the Uighur people is more a cause of the violence than well-organised militant groups.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told Xi that his country would “continue to resolutely fight the East Turkestan Islamic Movement terrorist forces,” China's foreign ministry said in a statement following the meeting in Beijing.
I had not read this titbit before : she is suspected of taking classified information home. Certainly it's not to read on the toilet hain ji?The nature of the investigation is unclear, but officials said the F.B.I. was trying to determine why Ms. Raphel apparently brought classified information home, and whether she had passed, or was planning to pass, the information to a foreign government.
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt (October 25, 2014), a fight broke out at a wedding in Hafizabad when the bride’s family found out that the bridegroom had lied about his caste. His family had said they belonged to the Sheikh caste but they were actually Ansari. The bride’s family then asked for Rs 500,000 in dowry (haq meher). The bridegroom’s family refused. The bride’s family locked the guests up in the wedding hall and said they would not let them go until they paid for the wedding dinner. - See more at: http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/nugge ... G7CYi.dpuf
Local surgeon Bajwa pleads to federal charge
Anthony Borrelli, [email protected] | @PSBABorrelli 6:03 p.m. EST November 7, 2014
A Broome County neurosurgeon pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of making a false statement to the FBI, related to money he donated to a Pakistani charitable organization.
Dr. Saeed Bajwa, a neurosurgeon for United Health Services and Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, was indicted in November 2013 for felony counts of conspiracy and false statements. The indictment followed an FBI probe of the Kashmiri American Council, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., which prosecutors say was a front for Pakistani military intelligence.
On Friday, Bajwa, of Endicott, appeared in the U.S. District Court in Eastern Virginia. He is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 27.
He admitted he failed to disclose to the FBI in 2011 that he had earmarked half of his $10,000 donation to a Pakistani nonprofit — the Society for International Help — for a Pakistani woman’s college overseen by his uncle, according to his defense lawyer David Deitch, of Washington, D.C.
The FBI was investigating the Society for International Help and had asked Bajwa whether he or any of his relatives were getting reimbursed for any financial contributions.
As a result of Friday’s guilty plea, the U.S. Attorney’s Office dropped the conspiracy count against Bajwa, which related to tax deductions he claimed for money sent to Pakistani organizations. Prosecutors did not return a request for comment Friday.
Deitch said Friday he was pleased Bajwa could resolve the case by pleading to a “narrow issue” regarding a directed donation to Pakistan. Bajwa has also maintained innocence of the conspiracy charge and was glad to see it dropped, Deitch said.
The case against Bajwa had been set for a jury trial in December. It remains unclear if the conviction will have an impact on Bajwa’s medical licenses, Deitch said.
Bajwa has served as director of neurosurgery at UHS since 1995 and, since 2000, as president of the hospital’s medical staff. He was born in Pakistan but has lived in the Binghamton area since he finished his medical residency in June 1986. He is also in private practice as a neurosurgeon at Southern New York NeuroSurgical Group, P.C., in Johnson City.
Court records from the U.S. Attorney’s Office sketch out an alleged conspiracy that resulted in the charges against Bajwa.
Prosecutors said he was one of 10 “straw donors” who made contributions and charitable donations on behalf of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, Pakistan’s military intelligence service that had spent 20 years covertly attempting to push U.S. foreign policy toward Pakistani control of Kashmir, a region disputed by Pakistan and India.
The Kashmiri American Council lobbies for and holds events to promote the cause of self-determination for Kashmir, officials said.
The group’s activities are primarily financed by Pakistani military intelligence, the FBI said when the investigation was announced in July 2011.
The alleged conspiracy also involved Zaheer Ahmad, a U.S. citizen who founded the Shifa International Hospital in Pakistan, prosecutors said. He also served on the Society for International Help board of directors and exerted “significant ... control over its finances,” prosecutors said.
Ahmad arranged for the transfer of at least $3.5 million to the Kashmiri American Council from the Pakistani intelligence agency through the “straw donors” between 1990 and 2011, according to the indictment. Ahmad died in Pakistan in 2011.
The Kashmiri American Council’s director, Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, also was charged with receiving funds for the organization via money transfers from the “straw donors” at Ahmad’s request, prosecutors said.
The “straw donors” were reimbursed for money transfers through funds Fai received from the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, prosecutors said.
As part of the conspiracy, Fai provided the “straw donors” letters that stated money transferred to the Kashmiri American Council was tax deductible, court papers said.
Fai pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and endeavoring to impede administration of the tax laws. He was sentenced in March 2012 to two years in federal prison.
Bajwa served on Shifa International Hospital’s board of directors since 2006.
Prosecutors alleged Bajwa fraudulently claimed tax deductions for at least $230,000 in money transfers to the Pakistani hospital between 1993 and 2010, but then received partial reimbursement for the transfers.
Bajwa was also accused of fraudulently claiming tax deductions for about $590,000 that he transferred to the Kashmiri American Council between 1991 and 2011, but also had received partial reimbursements, according to the indictment. Reimbursements were made in the form of stock shares in the Pakistani hospital, according to prosecutors.
Those accusations related to the tax deductions were tied to the conspiracy charge that was dismissed, Deitch said Friday.
In March, Deitch said Bajwa’s donations and investments in Pakistan have helped in the building of hospitals that provide quality medical care that was not previously available in that country. His donations also helped create more than 400 much-needed schools for Pakistani children, Deitch said.
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After I read your post, a thought that occurred to me was with reference the statement "A stable Pakistan is in India's interest"Raja Ram wrote: 6. In conclusion, the GOI is now in a position to take advantage of a series of options that will open up. It can achieve two strategic aims. Getting rid of the Pakistan problem by getting rid of Pakistan is the first. The second is to neutralize the major benefactors ability to keep India down and restrained into a sub-regional box.
SRINAGAR: Advocating former Pakistan ruler Pervez Musharraf's four-point formula on Kashmir, former BJP MP and eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Saturday said the document should be the basis for a permanent solution to the Kashmir issue and that Musharraf's efforts were "frustrated" by India.
"Musharraf came to India with a firm and honest intention. His proposal is a fantastic solution to the Kashmir problem. It is a wonderful document which should be the basis for a permanent solution of Kashmir. I have no difficulty in confessing that his efforts were frustrated by India and not Pakistan," 91-year-old Jethmalani told reporters here.
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Asked about curbs on separatist leaders ahead of the assembly elections, the noted legal luminary said, "I have told them (separatists) to create good evidence that they have been restrained and I will take the matter to the Supreme Court."
[1] Kashmir should have the same borders but people be allowed to move freely across the region;
[2] The region should have self-governance or autonomy but not independence;
[3] Troops should be withdrawn from the region in a phased manner; and
[4] a joint mechanism comprising representatives from India, Pakistan and Kashmir be set up to supervise the implementation of such a roadmap for Kashmir.
It will be a great day when this sucker dies. I am hearing about him since 1984......Mrs Gandhi was killed by some other militants who were hiding in the bushes nearby.Anindya wrote:Jethmalani expresses his undying love for Musharraf...
Musharraf's efforts on Kashmir were ‘frustrated’ by India, Ram Jethmalani says
SRINAGAR: Advocating former Pakistan ruler Pervez Musharraf's four-point formula on Kashmir, former BJP MP and eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Saturday said the document should be the basis for a permanent solution to the Kashmir issue and that Musharraf's efforts were "frustrated" by India.
"Musharraf came to India with a firm and honest intention. His proposal is a fantastic solution to the Kashmir problem. It is a wonderful document which should be the basis for a permanent solution of Kashmir. I have no difficulty in confessing that his efforts were frustrated by India and not Pakistan," 91-year-old Jethmalani told reporters here.
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Asked about curbs on separatist leaders ahead of the assembly elections, the noted legal luminary said, "I have told them (separatists) to create good evidence that they have been restrained and I will take the matter to the Supreme Court."
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/arc ... 00027b.jpgkhan wrote:The telegraph has a nice headline FBI searches home of former envoy labelled 'Lady Taliban'
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Pakistan wins China investment worth $42 billion: official http://mintne.ws/1tq6MKu
The new agreements pave the way for Chinese state-owned companies to help build at least four new power stations in Pakistan, while the deals also cover the supply and mining of coal, the prime minister’s press office said.
“The deals being signed between China and Pakistan are worth $42 billion. The whole investment is being made by China,” said Amir Zamir, spokesman for Pakistan’s ministry of planning and development.
“There is no loan or aid for the energy projects, but pure investment by the Chinese,” he told AFP.
Shivji your post made a bulb light up in my mind. I remembered the lecture by Bruce Reidel (at Brookings foundation?) where he was saying that the depiction of Pakistan in American media was something that really struck you. What he is saying is it is striking not that it is realistic, meaning he too is trying to cover up the reality like the SD. The exposure of the aam joe to the afpak situation due to high number of troops going in and out,, has brought them very close to reality.shiv wrote: if Pakistan is not totally under US control and is actually manipulating and using the US, then we need not end up fighting the US. We only need to bring Pakistan's hostility and antagonism to the US out in the open and let the alliance break up.
For these and a host of other reasons I believe that the key element has been access to accurate information. We (the lay public) too have access to information provided we look at all sources rather than restrict ourselves to some Paki media that may be designed to simply fool us.Therefore we need to look at all information from Pakistan with care and to check if alternate sources and different views are available.
Strategizing and planning are all about information. If you take planted information or ignore available info, the ideas you get will be wrong. The subject is huge and I must point out that many of my thoughts have been guided by knowledge of some military history. I commend the GoI's drive to see that it is documented
Pakistan mobilised its Northern Light Infantry, an Army unit based in Gilgit, during the severe cross-border firing with India on the International Border that started on 2 October and continued until 11 October. It also increased the strength of the Pakistan Rangers, a counterpart of India's Border Security Force, apart from amassing "non state actors", that is terrorists, along the border, say intelligence sources. However, sources also point out that this input is yet to be corroborated by "other sources". The Northern Light Infantry was deployed around a kilometre from the 192 km-long International Border (IB) that separates India's Jammu from Pakistan. While the IB is manned by the BSF, the Line of Control, which starts further north, is manned by the Indian Army. The men of Northern Light Infantry were believed to have infiltrated into Kargil in 1999 and forced a war on India.
Lifafa's:kmkraoind wrote:India's NSA causing acute threat to regional, global peace
Paranoid Pakis are seeing Doval everywhere and in every action. It will be a fun to see, how far Pakis can stretch their imagination.
With inputs from Anjali Sharma and Bhopinder Singh Dhillon in New Delhi ( Additional reporting by John Nelson, Kapil Verma, Guru Mahadev, Pryanika Joshi, Asotosh Cheterji Shagufta Bhat and Zara Khan)
dailymailnews is a known ISPR media outlet and all those names are fake.Vivasvat wrote:Lifafa's:kmkraoind wrote:India's NSA causing acute threat to regional, global peace
Paranoid Pakis are seeing Doval everywhere and in every action. It will be a fun to see, how far Pakis can stretch their imagination.With inputs from Anjali Sharma and Bhopinder Singh Dhillon in New Delhi ( Additional reporting by John Nelson, Kapil Verma, Guru Mahadev, Pryanika Joshi, Asotosh Cheterji Shagufta Bhat and Zara Khan)
I think that after 2001 we on BRF "saw" Pakistan very clearly, perhaps because we were starting from a clean plate and had no illusions of preconception. And every time we found people who said what we were saying (B Raman, Parthasarathy etc) we would cheer and it would add to our confidence that we were on the right track.K Mehta wrote: What you are saying is that we should have been more proactive about expose this Pakistani backstabbing and also expose the role of lobbyists and bought /influenced agents like fai, robin raphael, halfbright, amritraj, weiner Dan Burton and Keith Ellison.
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Saar'ji, you remind of the joke about a person being determined as a prostitute and there is just haggling of price.shiv wrote: To think that I spent decades in my younger days thinking "Hey its us Indians who are corrupt like this. The West is great because they simply don't do this sort of stuff." Talk about a colonized mind
It's certainly very promisingCRamS wrote:Guys, is this really tallel than the mountain and sweeter than honey?
http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-wins-chi ... nance.html
Note that China wants Pakistan to fight "what it calls a terrorist threat". It may not be a terrorist threat at all. It may simply be Chinese imagination or an Indian plot. But China calls it a terrorist threat and is promising Pakistan $ 42 b in exchange for a counter promise.China on Saturday promised neighbouring Pakistan investment worth $42 billion, an official said, as Islamabad promised to help Beijing fight what it calls a terrorist threat in its far-west.
An immigrant computer programmer accused of being part of an overseas terrorist organization claimed he was sent to Canada on a secret mission, according to an alleged audio recording recovered by police.
A federal tribunal also heard Friday that Muhammad Aqeeq Ansari, a 30-year-old Pakistani citizen with permanent residency status in Canada, said he worked for an extremist group known as Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat.
Federal officials, who claim to have access to about 1,500 messages Mr. Ansari posted on extremist Internet forums in the span of a decade, also say they have evidence showing he maintained a key website for the ASWJ and set up a PayPal account for the group. That PayPal account was also allegedly used to purchase a thermal night vision camera kit and other spy equipment.
Significantly the report lucidly clarifies the following pointCRamS wrote:DoCJi, this sounds even more promising
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1 ... llion-jobs
In the meantime the investment has gone even higher than $42b understatement in the link posted earlierDuring his visit to China, the prime minister will attend the annual meeting of the held there besides holding meetings with the Chinese president and prime minister.
The momentous agreements/MOUs will be signed between Pakistan and China today (Saturday) covering 21 mega projects which attract investment of over $46 billion in Pakistan
These 21 mega projects will provide Pakistan with 16,520 MW of power and create 1 million jobs. On average each project will employ 48,000 Pakistanis. And this will be done in about 6 months because:The prime minister has termed the agreements as game changer since his visit is viewed as prosperity and power specific. The diplomatic sources told The News here Friday that the signing of several MoUs reflected depth of bilateral relations between the two countries.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a statement said that his China visit was also aimed at ending loadshedding in the country. “I am going to China only to save my people from one extra loadshedding-ridden atrocious summer. “Despite the damage done in the past two months due to political turmoil, we will make up for the loss come what may,” he said.
these are all made up names. "Asotosh Cheterji" ??Vivasvat wrote:Lifafa's:kmkraoind wrote:India's NSA causing acute threat to regional, global peace
Paranoid Pakis are seeing Doval everywhere and in every action. It will be a fun to see, how far Pakis can stretch their imagination.With inputs from Anjali Sharma and Bhopinder Singh Dhillon in New Delhi ( Additional reporting by John Nelson, Kapil Verma, Guru Mahadev, Pryanika Joshi, Asotosh Cheterji Shagufta Bhat and Zara Khan)
Did you miss Pryanika Joshi? And Guru Mahadev is such a stupid non name. Ever heard anyone with the name Guru Mahadev?Rahul M wrote: these are all made up names. "Asotosh Cheterji" ??
second coming of rupeenews.
An year and four months ago:CRamS wrote:DoCJi, this sounds even more promising
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1 ... llion-jobs
2014:Sources in the prime minister’s entourage said the Chinese premier during talks with the Pakistani prime minister agreed to waive off insurance premium worth millions of dollars on sovereign guarantees related to bilateral contracts.
In the latest news:THAR:
The coal mining and power generation project of Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) in Thar could get delayed as it faces an uncertain future following reluctance of Chinese banks to provide loans and accept sovereign guarantees of the Pakistan government.
The important projects to be completed with the Chinese help include 1320MW Sino-Hydro Resource Project, two 660MW Sahiwal Coal Fired Projects, 2,330MW Engro Thar Coal Fired Project, 1320MW each, Muzaffargarh Coal Power, Rahim Yar Khan, SSRL Thar Coal Projects and Thar Mine Mouth Oracle projects, 1000MW SSRL Thar Coal Block 6, 2640MW Gaddani Power Park Project, 300MW Gwadar Coal, 100MW Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park, 50MW Dawood Wind Farm, 100MW UEP Wind Farm, 50MW Sachal Wind Farm, 50MW Sunnec Wind Farm, 870MW Suki Kinari Hydropower Station,720MW Karot Hydropower Station and others. - See more at: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1 ... WHhoc.dpuf
