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Imran A, Software Engineer in Adelaide, South Australia
Written 8 Nov 2016
I am from Pakistan and I would like answer your question.
Ordinary non-Sindhi Pakistanis think of Hinduism as something not related to them directly (not necessarily in a bad way; they just think Hinduism is something that is in the neighbouring country). This is because they don’t get to interact with Hindus on day to day basis and who remembers 1000 years old history?
But with Sindhis, it is different. At the moment, most (probably all) Hindus in Pakistan are ethnic Sindhis (while Hindus are 1.6% of overall population of Pakistan, they are about 10% of ethnic Sindhi population, which is sizeable minority of us (I am Sindhi too)). Since Sindhi Hindus in Pakistan are relativley more educated with high social mobility, Muslim Sindhis are more likely to interact with Hindu Sindhis on daily basis in jobs, Universities and life in general. For example, in our Engineering class of 40, there were 5 Hindus (12.5%) and this was considered unusually low because it was higher in other classes. Since most Sindhis have either Hindu friends or Hindu neighbours, we get to think about how we are related to them and hence we DO acknowledge our Hindu heritage and our Hindu forefathers.
Contrary to what your media tells you, we (at least the educated ones) don’t hate Hindus. Some of us like to be friends ONLY with Hindus (believe me, it is true). It was cool on our University campuse to celebrate Holi or take days off on Dipwali. Many of us consider Maharaja Dahar, the king who defended Sindh and subsequently died in the process when Arabs invaded us and forced their religion down our throats, as hero. Many of us consider Mohammad bin Qasim, the leader of Arab invaders, as a very bad guy. Many of us wish, we were still Hindus. Many of us read stories written by Sindhi Hindu authors before partition, which are still on bookshelves and love their perspectives on our society. Did you know that, at the time of partition, one British official observed and wrote in a book (darn it, I tend to forget names) that the Hindus who were leaving Sindh were receiving hugs from very sad Sindhi Muslims, who did not want them to leave; the British fellow considered it an odd behaviour compared to the rest of subcontinent, where there was bloodshed. Bloodshed in Sindh started only when Muslims from India (UP, Bihar etc) arrived and they wanted Hindus to leave so that their homes can be “allotted” to them. And yes, our grandparents were on the side of Hindus. Your media paints all Pakistanis with same broad brush but we are not monlithic people; many of us think differently and believe things went really bad at the end of British Raj.
Finally, just an FYI, in 1951 census, West Pakistan (currently simply Pakistan) had 1.6% Hindu population and East Pakistan (now known as Bangladesh) had 22% Hindu population. I don’t know about Bangladesh but, in 2016, same 1.6% of population is Hindu. We are not driving Hindus out of Pakistan (a mythical meme in India apparently). In fact, many people (at least the educated ones) want Hindus who left Pakistan in 1947 to come back because they realise it is unfair that someone has to leave their 5000 years old home for stupid religious reason. I wish our differences could disappear someday.
an example of usageArchanullah wrote:ramana ji, sahi pakde hain. The song is also paki so she could be an enlightened moderate from the elite baki incestry.
Also request Armenullah to add a brf dictionary entry for both incestry & fourfathers.Paki nanha abdul:Abbajan, are we oph Hindu ancestry ?
Paki abbajan abdul: No my diyar munna, we are descendents of arap fourfathers and have bure paki incestry.
ISLAMABAD: On February 15, 2017, the total overdue amounts to the power sector, including GENCOs stood at PKR 414 billion.In a statement issued by the Independent Power Producers Advisory Council (IPPAC), approximately PKR 160 billion out of this relates to overdue payments from CPPA-G owed to GENCOs and NTDC while the balance is for IPPs. When, 40% of the debt of 414Rs is overdue, what are the chances of collection is anybody's guess ; time for another "begging bowl" trip abroad![]()
Payments owed to WAPDA for hydel generation are in addition to this. This is despite the oil prices having dropped by more than 50% over the last three years; and this number is steadily rising. So, inspite of all the fancy short term and long term plans and visions set for the country ( for the benefit of the foreign lender ) and the constant trumpeting of the "outstanding performance" of the Pakistan Stock Exchange, it is finding it difficult to meet day to day "normal living expenses" !
These are amounts verified and audited by the relevant departments for electricity already supplied to the system, and are past the payment due dates.
Repeated attempts have been made by IPPAC and its Members to meet the senior officials of the government to resolve the long outstanding, audited and verified, overdue amounts, as well as to address pending policy issues on taxes and outstanding dispute resolutions, all to no avail. IMO, I still agree with the view espoused by a famous Noble Prize author , who stated, 30 years ago, in a best -selling book that Pakistan can be compared to a vast "Criminal Enterprise", where two groups of people do good ; those who have "money" and those who have "sifarish" or "influence". The rest don't count !
SLAMABAD - The tug-of-war between the eligible and the “blue-eyed” officials to grab prized jobs before outgoing Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry vacates his office, has rocked the foreign ministry, The Nation has learnt.Chaudhry, who will fly soon to Washington to take over as Pakistan’s ambassador, had issued some posting orders, which were widely criticised among the officers who saw them as “favouritism”.
Chaudhry had run the Foreign Office in the last few years strictly by his "likes and dislikes," some officials said on condition of anonymity.Bad -Mouthing your boss ?
Hamid Asghar Khan, an officer of “tainted reputation”, who is the son-in-law of columnist Ayaz Amir, has interestingly done all 'A' category postings --- London (twice), and Germany, and intensely-lobbied for last assignment as Pakistan's consular general in Los Angeles.Sources say he is again lobbying to get a prized posting. Can his father -in-law help him![]()
. If , going by all these "juicy gossips" , it is no wonder , that in the absence of a full time Foreign Ministry, Paki Foreign Policy is in a mess, and has not been able to make any headway with the Trump Sarkar in DCPakistan ambassador to Brazil Burhanul Islam has his own case as he claims to have been refused promotion to grade-21 for being a Bengali.The disgruntled diplomat wrote a letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif claiming he was victimised on alleged racial grounds.In his letter, Burhanul Islam said he was a “Bengali” not a “Bihari” who was being denied his rights.The senior diplomat then goes on to say that the 90-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami man executed by Bangladesh was his first cousin and that his family is paying sacrifice till today for Pakistan.Sources, however, said Burhanul Islam did not have an exemplary record especially during his tenure in Frankfurt.The foreign ministry was also abuzz with rumours of Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi’s sacking but those reports were never confirmed.
arun, brilliant.arun wrote:To solve this external funding problem Pakistan should get Sweeter than Honey Iron Brother PRC to fund a new CSF named CPEC Support Fund. Better still since CPEC is claimed to be a Regional Game Changer, regional countries should also be asked fund this new CSF.
CheersWASHINGTON: A US State Department report released on Friday labelled the Altaf Khanani group as a money laundering organisation and accused it of laundering billions of dollars for organised crime and terrorist outfits.
US Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs William R. Brownfield told a briefing in Washington that the State Department had delivered its 32nd International Narcotics Control Strategy Report to Congress on Wednesday. “It is, however, the first time that we are discussing and rolling this report out before the media in nine years,” he added.
In its section on Pakistan, the report notes: “The Altaf Khanani money laundering organisation (Khanani MLO) is based in Pakistan. The group, which was designated a transnational organised crime group by the United States in November 2015, facilitates illicit money movement between, among others, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United States, UK, Canada, and Australia.”
Afghan Ambassador Omar Zakhilwal on Saturday said Pakistan does not have a justification for the continued closure of crossing points on the Pak-Afghan border, and that his country might send in chartered flights to airlift stranded Afghans in case the border is not reopened soon.In a message posted to his Facebook page, Zakhilwal said he had talked with Pakistan's de facto foreign minister, Sartaj Aziz, to convey that if an opening was not allowed for the return of stranded Afghans within two days, he would ask his government to send chartered flights to lift them.“This, however, would reflect very poorly [for Pakistan],” he added. Inspite of all the "so-called brotherly ties", the days are gone, when Pakistan considered Afghanistan as it's backyard !
The envoy emphasised that the closure of crossing points hurts bilateral trade between the two countries, with Pakistan losing more as a result of the closures.“Pakistan's declining export share in Afghanistan is indicative of that,” Zakhilwal said.
He also said the closure is in direct contradiction to the theme, objectives and messages of the recently-held Economic Cooperation Organisation summit in Islamabad.
The government had decided to seal the Torkham border crossing for an indefinite period on February 16, in the aftermath of a suicide attack at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar which killed 90.The border was ordered closed for all kinds of communication due to 'security concerns'.![]()
Goebbel's propaganda theory of repeating a "lie" so often that it becomes the "truth"We have noticed with keen interest the article ‘Let’s stop being manipulated by Pakistan” by Mr. Christopher Kolenda published in The Hill on 21st February. We welcome the sentiments of all those who emphasize the importance of bringing peace and stability in Afghanistan. We are moved by these sentiments since it is Pakistan, more than any other country, that continues to suffer on account violence and instability in Afghanistan for nearly four decades.
However we would like to draw readers' attention to remarks of Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson on 13th February where he expressed disappointed with some of the perception based assertions and insinuations made in U.S. based reports on Afghanistan (soft sell approach?)
So, it is left to the "poor" Press Attache to "repair" the damage already done to Paki- US relations . Her task is "almost impossible" in view of the recent infighting going on in the Paki Foreign Ministry (to get plump oversees assignments ) and the absence of a full time Foreign Minister. And last not the least the "tremendous influence" of the NRI lobby in MassalandPakistan chose to stand with the international community for a common cause following the tragic attacks of 9/11 and has paid a staggering human and financial cost. This has also been Pakistan's longest war costing over 60,000 fatalities and $118.3 billion in resources. Pakistan alone has lost more soldiers in this fight than the number of soldiers from all the 40 coalition partner countries combined. Pakistan has undertaken this momentous effort, while hosting one of the largest refugee populations in the world and operating under the limitation of an unregulated border.This is not the first time, that this "broken record" has been played ![/quote]
Thanks to the remarkable success of our decade long military operations in FATA, especially Operation Zarb-e-Azb and continued law enforcement activities, Pakistan has been successful in destroying and eliminating the command and control structure of terrorist outfits operating from Pakistan-Afghan border. Racial profiling of Pashtuns re-defined as Zarb-e-Azb !A significant decline in incidence of terrorism in Pakistan is now an empirical reality widely acknowledged by international observers. This success has been made possible only after all the organized terrorist groups were indiscriminately targeted and eliminated, wherever found. Senior U.S. officials and congressional leaders have had the opportunity to personally witness the enormous change in the ground situation on our side of the Pak-Afghan border. Subtle request for more funding
Pakistan has consistently called for a negotiated peace settlement in Afghanistan, which remains the responsibility of all parties to the conflict. Pakistan has also argued strongly against steps and actions that complicate the conflict and result in loss of innocent lives. It has also been highlighted a number of times that Afghan soil should not be used against its neighbors.
Moreover, on a number of occasions in the past, Pakistan and the United States have agreed at the highest level on the criticality of border management and settlement of refugees as fundamental issues in achieving any degree of success in Afghanistan.Sadly, even when there are serious policy debates on the larger issue of borders and refugees in other parts of the world, no serious attention is being given to Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the discussion.Pakistan has consistently called for a negotiated peace settlement in Afghanistan, which remains the responsibility of all parties to the conflict. Pakistan has also argued strongly against steps and actions that complicate the conflict and result in loss of innocent lives. It has also been highlighted a number of times that Afghan soil should not be used against its neighbors.Moreover, on a number of occasions in the past, Pakistan and the United States have agreed at the highest level on the criticality of border management and settlement of refugees as fundamental issues in achieving any degree of success in Afghanistan.Sadly, even when there are serious policy debates on the larger issue of borders and refugees in other parts of the world, no serious attention is being given to Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the discussion.
Amrullah Saleh @AmrullahSaleh2 Feb 20Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor in an interview with a private TV channel on Tuesday called for Afghanistan to abandon its 'anti-Pakistan lens' and devise policies with Pakistan through an 'Afghan lens'.
there are many khobragades in the Indian MEA too.Falijee wrote:Diplomatic isolation of Pakistan is growing every day ! The latest example is when the Press Attache in DC has to write "rebuttal" to opinion pieces in THE HILL !
Rebuttal: Pakistan is working alongside United States for peace, not manipulating it
By Zoobia Masood, Press Attache, Pakistan Embassy .
Goebbel's propaganda theory of repeating a "lie" so often that it becomes the "truth"We have noticed with keen interest the article ‘Let’s stop being manipulated by Pakistan” by Mr. Christopher Kolenda published in The Hill on 21st February. We welcome the sentiments of all those who emphasize the importance of bringing peace and stability in Afghanistan. We are moved by these sentiments since it is Pakistan, more than any other country, that continues to suffer on account violence and instability in Afghanistan for nearly four decades.
However we would like to draw readers' attention to remarks of Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson on 13th February where he expressed disappointed with some of the perception based assertions and insinuations made in U.S. based reports on Afghanistan (soft sell approach?)So, it is left to the "poor" Press Attache to "repair" the damage already done to Paki- US relations . Her task is "almost impossible" in view of the recent infighting going on in the Paki Foreign Ministry (to get plump oversees assignments ) and the absence of a full time Foreign Minister. And last not the least the "tremendous influence" of the NRI lobby in MassalandPakistan chose to stand with the international community for a common cause following the tragic attacks of 9/11 and has paid a staggering human and financial cost. This has also been Pakistan's longest war costing over 60,000 fatalities and $118.3 billion in resources. Pakistan alone has lost more soldiers in this fight than the number of soldiers from all the 40 coalition partner countries combined. Pakistan has undertaken this momentous effort, while hosting one of the largest refugee populations in the world and operating under the limitation of an unregulated border.This is not the first time, that this "broken record" has been played ![/quote][/color]
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Former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Friday said General (retd) Raheel Sharif should think before accepting Saudi Arabia’s offer to lead the Islamic military alliance.“Raheel Sharif served as the army chief of Pakistan and he should think over the issue,” Musharraf said while responding to a question during an interview with a private channel. The question came amid reports that the former army chief had been appointed as the commander of the Saudi-led 39-nation military coalition. This, from a person, who "sweet talked " late King Abdullah in gifting him millions of dollars . And now he has the audacity to criticize his successor, for treating the Saudis- in the name of Islamic unity - as a "cash cow"; what a hypocrite![]()
Pakistan has a large Shia population and it should not be involved in such a serious sectarian matter, the former president maintained. “Pakistan should think 100 times before being involved in any sectarian issue,” he said. But he, as a Syed and a Shia, had no hesitation in ethnically cleansing out his " Shia brothers" in Gilgit Baltistan, when he was in-charge there !
Musharraf denied that the new military leadership isn’t extending him the same support General (retd) Raheel Sharif did. Responding to a question whether a lack of guarantee from the new military leadership was the reason why he wasn’t returning to Pakistan, the former president said, “This military is mine and I am proud of it.”Not answering the question !
Some retired military officers accused the government of launching a deliberate smear campaign against the former army chief. Lt Gen (retd) Amjid Shoaib told The Express Tribune that Gen Raheel’s heading of the coalition was conditional to the Pakistan government’s decision of joining it. So, in all of this , Ganja Sharif seems to be the ultimate winner ! He is still safe and sound on the throne !
PEREGRINE-JI:Peregrine wrote:Country's tallest national flag unfurled at Attari border
AMRITSAR : Nation's biggest tricolor measuring 120 X 80 feet was unfurled Sunday at country's tallest 360 feet long flagpole at Attari international border by cabinet minister Anil Joshi. The flag which costs around Rs 3.5 crore can be seen fluttering high in the sky from Lahore's Anarkali Bazar.
Amritsar Improvement Trust has announced to give contract for the maintenance of nation's tallest flag to a private company.
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Police and witnesses in central Pakistan say that suspected Islamic State militants have executed a kidnapped officer of the country’s prime intelligence agency and dropped his chained body on a busy road before driving away. Police in the city of Multan, where the rare incident occurred, say they found the body early Saturday morning and it was dressed like detainees at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Officials identified the slain man as Umar Mobeen Gilani,
Falijee Ji :Falijee wrote:PEREGRINE-JI:Peregrine wrote:Country's tallest national flag unfurled at Attari borderAMRITSAR : Nation's biggest tricolor measuring 120 X 80 feet was unfurled Sunday at country's tallest 360 feet long flagpole at Attari international border by cabinet minister Anil Joshi. The flag which costs around Rs 3.5 crore can be seen fluttering high in the sky from Lahore's Anarkali Bazar.
Amritsar Improvement Trust has announced to give contract for the maintenance of nation's tallest flag to a private company.
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High on the agenda of the next Corp's Commander Meeting in Pindi:
- Salvage Enchendee! Do an = =; request "taller than mountain" fliend for "technical assistance and funding" (like the nuclear bum !) to build something taller than "India's tallest flag"
Amid increasing tensions on the western border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai in a tweet on Sunday said Pakistan has "no legal authority to dictate terms on the Durand Line".Karzai's comment followed Pakistan's decision to close the border between the two states for an indefinite period on February 16 after a recent surge in terrorist attacks across the country.The border closure has strained Pak-Afghan relations. Even the Taliban (strategic allies of Pakistan ) agree with Karzai on this important matter !
"While we wish freedom for the people of [the Federally Administered Tribal Areas [Fata] from Frontier Crime Regulation [FCR] and other repressive measures, we remind the Government of Pakistan that Afghanistan hasn't and will not recognize the Durand line," Karzai added in his tweet.
Karzai seemed to echo the sentiment of many of his country's officials, such as Ambassador Omar Zakhilwalal, who in a Facebook post on Saturday said Pakistan does not have a valid reason for the continued closure of crossing points on the Pak-Afghan border.
The Durand Line is the a 2640-kilometre-long border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, established in 1893 following an agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, a representative of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan. The agreement expired in 1993 and is therefore not valid !
Afghanistan's national security adviser, Mohammad Haneef Atmar, left for India on Sunday for a three-day-long trip to attend the 19th Asian Security Conference.The conference, titled 'Combating Terrorism: Evolving an Asian Response', is being held in New Delhi, a press released issued by the Afghanistan Office of National Security Council stated.Apart from being the keynote speaker at the event, he will also have bilateral meetins with several Indian security and political officials, such as his Indian counterpart, Ajit Kumar Doval, the national security adviser to the prime minister of India.Atmar will "discuss counter-terrorism measures" as well as strategies to expand "political and security ties between two countries", the statement added.The conference, organised by India's Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), begins on March 6 and concludes March 8. Afghanistan is sending a message to Pakistan that it is an independent country and does not "need" Pakistan to manage it's affairs !
Is there any other mainstream spy agency which seems to loose as many officer level cadre ( not non-org assets they cultivated) as the ISI?Police and witnesses in central Pakistan say that suspected Islamic State militants have executed a kidnapped officer of the country’s prime intelligence agency and dropped his chained body on a busy road before driving away. Police in the city of Multan, where the rare incident occurred, say they found the body early Saturday morning and it was dressed like detainees at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Officials identified the slain man as Umar Mobeen Gilani,
Bliss to name the four fathers and can someone please supply a link for the degree of inbreeding among the Pakis (like an authoritative study or some such). Thanks in advance.Lilo wrote:^
Also request Armenullah to add a brf dictionary entry for both incestry & fourfathers.
ps;incidentally.most comments on the piece have been applauded by readers ,one saying that for "20 yrs",the world has know of this.Jingoism and jihad
IRFAN HUSAIN — PUBLISHED 3 days ago
GEN Bajwa hands over a list of 76 terrorists based across the border to the Afghan embassy in Islamabad. The Afghan government hands over a list of 85 terrorists it claims are operating from within Pakistan. Our army chief summons Afghan diplomats to GHQ. The Afghan army deputy chief summons our ambassador in Kabul to his office. And on goes the blame game between the two countries, even as thousands are killed by terrorists on both sides of the border.
Pakistan and India play the same game across their border and the LoC. India blames Pakistan for a string of attacks on its soil, while we blame the Indians for financing and arming nationalist insurgents in Balochistan. While all three countries are suffering from terrorism, they are unwilling to cooperate in order to crush this menace.
In any objective evaluation of the situation, it must be admitted that it is Pakistan that has pioneered the use of non-state actors to further its agenda in the region. And, more often than not, it has used faith as a rallying cry.
It launched tribal zealots into Kashmir a few weeks after independence, and the resulting war with India led to an unending deadlock between the two countries. Before a full-fledged war broke out over Kashmir in 1965, plain-clothed Pakistani soldiers infiltrated India-held Kashmir with the intent of fomenting an uprising.
Invoking the ‘good vs bad terrorists’ doctrine has not worked.
In 1971, the military used the militant wing of the Jamaat-i-Islami in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in an attempt to crush the nationalist freedom struggle there. Millions of Bengalis fled across the border, providing India with a reason to attack and defeat our army. A few years later, president Daud indicated that the PPP government was attempting to destabilise his administration in Kabul.
After the Soviet invasion in 1979, Pakistan joined with the US and Saudi Arabia to arm, finance and train jihadists from across the Muslim world. Then known as freedom fighters, these ‘holy warriors’ committed many atrocities that were conveniently overlooked at the time. And when the defeated Red Army pulled out in 1988, thousands of trained jihadists turned their guns on targets in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India-held Kashmir. A few years later, the Afghan Taliban began their reign of terror, lasting until they were toppled in the aftermath of 9/11 and then allegedly finding refuge in Balochistan. Since then, they have used the province as a platform for attacks against Afghan and US-led coalition forces.
Another group that has created mayhem in Afghanistan is the Haqqani network. Based in Pakistan’s tribal areas, these terrorists have been largely exempt from attacks by Pakistani security forces. The unstated excuse is: they do not pose a threat to Pakistan, so why provoke them? Groups active in IHK are similarly shielded.
But invoking the ‘good versus bad terrorists’ doctrine has led us to where we are. With this backdrop, should we be surprised that India and Afghanistan are paying us back in our own coin?
I have little doubt of Indian involvement in the Balochistan uprising. Why would Indian intelligence not take advantage of local grievances and nationalist aspirations in our biggest and most backward province? And there is solid evidence regarding Indian assistance for the MQM. Again, most governments would fish in the troubled waters of a hostile neighbour’s biggest city.
Afghanistan, too, has permitted a number of anti-Pakistan jihadist groups to operate from its soil. But in all fairness, it doesn’t control large swathes of the territory along our border. This, of course, was equally true of Pakistan until the security establishment got serious about clearing Fata of the hydra-headed monsters it had itself created.
Most bordering states that have suffered from years of terrorist violence would muster up the maturity to put political differences aside and cooperate in excising this cancer. Sadly, successive governments in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan have been too weak and self-serving to take the hard decisions needed to sit down and work together.
The basic problem lies in Pakistan, where three generations of generals have been trained to see the world through Kashmir-tinted glasses. The obsession with the perceived threat from India has blinded them to other security concerns. After having seen the difficulty of crushing rural-based jihadists in ungoverned areas where they have safe havens, they have still been unable to draw the obvious conclusion.
For its part, India has been less than helpful. By fielding around 20 army divisions on our border, it has ensured that it poses an existentialist threat to us, thereby forcing the Pakistan Army to respond. Also, the worst nightmare for our military planners is encirclement by both our neighbours.
But overcoming this threat calls for better relations with Afghanistan. This cannot be achieved by allowing the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network sanctuary in Pakistan.
Published in Dawn, March 4th, 2017
Peregrine ji, if one recalls, the then NSA Mahmud Ali Durrani was dismissed for accepting to TimesNow that Kasab was a Pakistani national when the rest of Pakistan was in denial. Nawaz Sharif started off promisingly at that time by agreeing with Durrani but soon changed his mind.
SSridhar Ji :SSridhar wrote:Peregrine ji, if one recalls, the then NSA Mahmud Ali Durrani was dismissed for accepting to TimesNow that Kasab was a Pakistani national when the rest of Pakistan was in denial. Nawaz Sharif started off promisingly at that time by agreeing with Durrani but soon changed his mind.
Five soldiers of the Pakistan Army and more than 10 suspected militants were reportedly killed in a cross-border "terrorist attack" on three Pakistani border posts along the Pak-Afghan border area on Sunday night, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
CheersDespite heavy military presence on both sides of the border, cross-border movements of militants (in both ways) have been a major area of concern.
Here is the video of the above, though the title is misleading. The largest flag ever flown is a mexican flagPeregrine wrote:AMRITSAR : Nation's biggest tricolor measuring 120 X 80 feet was unfurled Sunday at country's tallest 360 feet long flagpole at Attari international border by cabinet minister Anil Joshi. The flag which costs around Rs 3.5 crore can be seen fluttering high in the sky from Lahore's Anarkali Bazar.
Amritsar Improvement Trust has announced to give contract for the maintenance of nation's tallest flag to a private company.
Pakistan has raised concerns over India’s tallest ever flag being as an instrument for ‘espionage’, according to The Independent.
The flag, which can be seen in Lahore, was erected at the Attari border and is 110 metres high.This has prompted Islamabad to accuse New Dehli of violating international treaties.Pakistan lodged a complaint to the Border Security Force and has raised suspicions that hidden cameras may be installed on the flag pole for spying purposes.The country has asked New Delhi to move the flag at a further distance so it is no longer visible from Lahore, according to India Times.Whereas, Indian authorities maintain the 200-metre distance from the border is far enough that they have not violated any laws.“It is our national flag and nobody can stop us from hoisting it on our soil,” Anil Joshi, a minister in the Punjab government, told India Today.The flag is 110 metres long, 24 metres wide, weighs 55 tonnes and is expected to become a major tourist attraction at the Attari-Wagah border.New Delhi’s original plan was to fly the flag on 26 January but this was delayed due to technical issues.
Prem Ji :Prem wrote:https://tribune.com.pk/story/1347753/pa ... espionage/
Pakistan claims India's tallest flag an instrument for 'espionage'
Pakistan has raised concerns over India’s tallest ever flag being as an instrument for ‘espionage’, according to The Independent.
The flag, which can be seen in Lahore, was erected at the Attari border and is 110 metres high.This has prompted Islamabad to accuse New Dehli of violating international treaties.Pakistan lodged a complaint to the Border Security Force and has raised suspicions that hidden cameras may be installed on the flag pole for spying purposes.The country has asked New Delhi to move the flag at a further distance so it is no longer visible from Lahore, according to India Times.Whereas, Indian authorities maintain the 200-metre distance from the border is far enough that they have not violated any laws.“It is our national flag and nobody can stop us from hoisting it on our soil,” Anil Joshi, a minister in the Punjab government, told India Today.The flag is 110 metres long, 24 metres wide, weighs 55 tonnes and is expected to become a major tourist attraction at the Attari-Wagah border.New Delhi’s original plan was to fly the flag on 26 January but this was delayed due to technical issues.
The Israeli cameras on the flag pole can see through the walls. No place is safe in Lahore. Some naughty Indians might use these cameras to do live streaming of Lahori women doing their daily duties at their homes.venug wrote:Saar, imagine this: In Lahore, some ISI abdul looks at the flag and thinks RAW is watching and doesnt even piss fearing evil India is taking pictures.