Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) : 24 July 2012

[SSridhar]

Pak wants trade in all items with India via Wagah border

At present, only 137 items can be traded through the Wagah land border, though the total number of items for bilateral trade runs into thousands.

After the proposal is approved by ECC and a formal notification is issued, trade through the Wagah border will be allowed for all items except 1,209 goods that are in the negative list, official sources were quoted as saying by daily The News.

The headline in Businessline conveys as though Pakistan wants trade but it is India which is holding up. Actually, it is the Pakistani government that is holding up.

[shiv]

Once in a forum a Paki started telling how Indians don't have big richards and some BBC report said so. So I told him that in 1971, when 93,000 Pakis surrendered to India, we made them take off their pants and we measured the size of their richards. We found out that their richards were one foot long .... that is all of them put together.

The Pakis however never got the opportunity to measure the richards of Indians. However when GUBO of Pakis start in earnest, well they may get an opportunity. The measurement will then be in decibel of Urdu!

Well It is a well documented fact that Paki richards are bigger. After the Kargil war an Indian soldier and Paki soldier were comparing richards and it was agreed that the standard of measurement should be from tip of richard to base of orchard. The Indian went first an had it measured. Then the Paki dropped his pants and presto there were no orchards at all. "Where are they?" asked the mystified Indian. "I left them on top of Tiger Hill" said the Paki. The won pants down. The distance to the base of orchard was 50 km.

[Lilo]

...They won pants down...

[Prem]

Well It is a well documented fact that Paki richards are bigger. After the Kargil war an Indian soldier and Paki soldier were comparing richards and it was agreed that the standard of measurement should be from tip of richard to base of orchard. The Indian went first an had it measured. Then the Paki dropped his pants and presto there were no orchards at all. "Where are they?" asked the mystified Indian. "I left them on top of Tiger Hill" said the Paki. The won pants down. The distance to the base of orchard was 50 km.

You folks have not heard the joke about the note tied on richard top slamming the Lahori clock tower telling Paki " Just Started, Natha Singh himself will reach by tomorrow from Patiala to attend the Conference "

[ramana]

Pak wants trade in all items with India via Wagah border

At present, only 137 items can be traded through the Wagah land border, though the total number of items for bilateral trade runs into thousands.

After the proposal is approved by ECC and a formal notification is issued, trade through the Wagah border will be allowed for all items except 1,209 goods that are in the negative list, official sources were quoted as saying by daily The News.

The headline in Businessline conveys as though Pakistan wants trade but it is India which is holding up. Actually, it is the Pakistani government that is holding up.

Thats PTI the most anti- national news agency in India. I really dont know why they always put an anti-India, anti-government, anti-national stance to most of their reporting.

[Prem]

Case for Pakistan aid gets more complicated after Zardari's remarksBy Julian
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs ... omplicated

Even lawmakers who support engaging with Pakistan were left shaking their heads this week after that country’s leader demanded that the United Nations make blasphemy illegal.As a result, it could become tougher for the administration to justify support for the strategically vital country.“The foreign aid we give to Pakistan should be dependent upon their actions as a U.S. ally, not based on a speech,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Mike Lee (R-Utah) told The Hill in a statement. “That said, freedom of speech is a fundamental value upon which our nation is based and not one that is in danger of being altered anytime soon.”The State Department for its part downplays any notion of a clash of values between the two countries. U.S. officials prefer to focus on Pakistan's effective protection of the U.S. embassy and improved cooperation in the war on terrorism, notably since the reopening of NATO supply routes to Afghanistan earlier this year.Several Muslim leaders took to the podium to instead denounce the video, perhaps none as virulently as Zardari, who condemned “the acts of incitement of hate against the faith of billions of Muslims of the world and our beloved prophet, Mohammad.”“The International community must not become silent observers and should criminalize such acts that destroy the peace of the world and endanger world security by misusing freedom of expression,” Zardari said. “Pakistan moves the United Nations to immediately address in earnest this alarming concern and the widening rift to enable the comity of nations to be one again.State Department officials said Clinton did address the protests, notably with Zardari when she met with him at the UN on Monday. “The Secretary was unequivocal in stating that those who provoke violence cannot be tolerated, and it undermines the sovereignty of states, and we all must stand against violence,” a senior State Department official told reporters at the UN after the meeting. “And there was complete concurrence by Pakistani leadership, not only by President Zardari who was there, but by senior members of his government and senior leaders of coalition parties who joined them, that there was zero tolerance for both violence and extremism. So on this issue, they were very united.”

Lahore gaye Gandu bhye, London me Londoor
Awat Jubb Newyork me, Tho Ho gye Jee hazoor.

[Lalmohan]

so pakistan has reiterated its total intolerance to intolerance... which via a double negative, means that they can continue to kill and perscute all their minorities with total intolerance - including members of their own faith with complete impunity... subhanallah!

[anupmisra]

Well It is a well documented fact that Paki richards are bigger.

Shiv et al. It been well documented that when a kafir SDRE converts (especially under duress), his tranformation instantly includes a bigger dong. It's something to do with the piety and blessing of allah for he sees all. Scientifically conducted studies in the west have also shown that dong sizes are in direct high correlation to the sizes of the motorma's wongs. You know, ying and yang. So, is it true about the paki motormas?

[BijuShet]

From The News (news item posted in full)
G-B, K-P, Azad Kashmir not on Pakistan map in Punjab school book

By Web Desk - Published: October 1, 2012

The maps in the book show Gilgit and Kashmi­r as Indian territ­ories.

GUJRANWALA: Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir are not a part of Pakistan according to maps printed in a course book for government schools in Gujranwala, Express News reported on Monday.

The maps in the book show Gilgit and Kashmir as Indian territories.

The book, named Atlas, is published by the School Education Department of Punjab and is assigned to students of middle and high schools.

The DCO Gujranwala was approached for comment with regards to the error, but to no avail.

Students and teachers have expressed concern over the misrepresentation of Pakistan’s map in the book.

[BijuShet]

From The News (opinion piece posted in full)
Shame on us

By Kamran Shafi - Published: October 1, 2012

Despite clear evidence of army's involvement in Balochistan, murder of Akbar Bugti, government, army denies outright.
The writer is a columnist, a former major of the Pakistan Army and served as press secretary to Benazir Bhutto kamran.shafi@tribune.com.pk

It can only happen in the Land of the Pure; the Islamic Republic of Bananaistan. The very day it is reported in the national press that a former chief minister of Balochistan appeared in the Supreme Court of Pakistan and demanded the disbandment of the MI/ISI ‘death squads’, it is also reported that Zaid Hamid, the laal topi wallah, who is impendingly going to mount his white charger and gallop off to conquer Delhi’s Red Fort, has ‘hired’ Raja Irshad, the ISI/MI/Pak Army’s favourite lawyer.

Zaid Hamid’s plea is that the SC should form a commission to probe the fact that Nawab Akbar Bugti committed suicide and murdered five army officers too, and was not killed by the army. We are also told that the petition was submitted in the SC a full week before the news was curiously published on the day that it was. Let us also quickly note that Nawab Akbar Bugti, himself a former interior minister of Pakistan and chief minister and governor of Balochistan, was killed on August 26, 2006, almost exactly five years and one month before Zaid Hamid suddenly realised that the Nawab had committed suicide and also murder. In the petition’s words: “In reality he had committed a rebellion, waged a war against the state and his own tribe and when cornered, he committed suicide while also murdered (sic) five army personnel, but these facts have never been reported by the media, never taken up by the courts and the separatists are fully exploiting lies, deceptions and propaganda in the environment (sic) to wage a war (sic) against the state of Pakistan, against the army and against the former members of the government in dangerous times.”

May I remind Zaid Hamid and friends, of reports in the press that Nawab Bugti was killed. Here is just one, published on November 10, 2010 in The News: “In the case of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti’s killing, the source said, General (retd) Pervez Musharraf involved the then-Military Intelligence chief Major General Nadeem Ejaz and the top command of 12 Corps”. There are other reports detailing how he was killed, which constraints of space do not allow me to repeat here but let me turn this accusation on its head: what if the Nawab did indeed press the button bringing the cave down onto himself, his personal bodyguard made up of several hundred Bugti fighters and the army officers? Hadn’t this octogenarian, who could hardly walk, been chased into his cave complex by Musharraf’s army? Was he not surrounded completely at the fag end of his life with no rations getting through to him? Far more critically, did Musharraf not say in his brash bully-boy manner that ‘they won’t know what hit them (Bugti)’?

Indeed, it was reported at the time that “Security officials said forces on Friday launched air strikes against a cave complex in the mountains on the border of Dera Bugti and Kohlu districts where the chieftain was hiding”. Musharraf’s then-information minister, now champion democrat, Mohammad Ali Durrani, also said at the time that his death was the result of a ground-cum-air assault. Musharraf himself termed Bugti’s death a ‘victory’ for Pakistanis. What sort of victory was it when the Nawab himself triggered the explosives and killed five SSG officers too? Aren’t they ashamed of rewriting such recent history?

Indeed, the petition uses these words for Nawab Bugti: “… and when cornered …’. Cornered? Cornered? Is this the language that the Deep State’s adjuncts use for political leaders of this country; for a former interior minister, a governor and a chief minister; a Baloch Sardar who believed in Pakistan? Shame on them. And the pauper’s funeral they gave him, his body packed into a rude, locked box, none of his close family there to pay their last respects? Shame on them.

And the denouement: a day after Akhtar Mengal’s explosive statement in the SC and the SC’s harsh admonishment to the ‘death squads’, the pathetic federal and Balochistan governments have gone scurrying into the arms of the Deep State denying there are any death squads at all! So, who is kidnapping and torturing and killing Baloch, Hazara and Settlers?

Djinns in green? Bugs Bunny? Why, Senator Mir Hasil Bizenjo actually said on live TV so many years ago that they even knew the number plates of the double-cabins that belonged to the MI and which carried the thugs who kidnap. Shame on all of us!

Finally, kudos to Nawaz Sharif who has proved he is a statesman by meeting with and empathising with Sardar Mengal.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 2nd, 2012.

[BijuShet]

From The News (opinion piece posted in full)
Drone on ...

By Ejaz Haider - Published: October 1, 2012


Narrative for drones can be created from how good intell­igence is, how many Taliban, al Qaeda leaders killed.
The writer is a senior journalist and currently senior adviser, outreach, at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute

“What the drones are trying to achieve … we do not disagree. If they’re going for terrorists, we do not disagree. But we have to find ways which are lawful, which are legal.” Thus spake Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, at a US think tank. She also said: “The use of unilateral strikes on Pakistani territory is illegal; it is illegal and it is unlawful.”

This is an interesting statement because it implies that Pakistan will have no problem with the drones if they are employed legally. What could that be?

One way of making the use ‘legal’ is for the US to get Pakistan’s permission before striking. This was the case until a point and Pakistan was not much concerned about who got killed and why. For several reasons, not least the now very high frequency of drones use, the high number of ‘signature’ strikes, and legal-normative questions over drone strikes, Islamabad cannot remain nonchalant about such attacks on its soil.

Politically, the issue has reached a point at home where no government can say to the people that strikes from X date onwards have become legal because the US now seeks our permission. They strike if we permit; they don’t if we don’t. Not only is this not possible to verify, it raises another question: who is determining the targets? Does the intel come from Pakistan or the US? Should Pakistan allow the killing on its soil of someone, anyone, who has been labelled a ‘terrorist’ by another state using procedures and information that cannot be verified by Pakistan independently? These questions increasingly inform the broader international debate on drones use.

The only ‘legal’ framework is for Pakistan to possess the platform and use it on its territory according to its own legal and targeting procedures. Short of this, it is difficult to see what possible, though improbable, mechanism the FM was/is pointing at.

The FM’s statement also puts the issue in the narrow operational framework: if they are killing terrorists that’s ok. But that’s a big ‘if’ and by the looks of it getting ‘iffy-er’. Neither is the use of drones and the questions it has thrown up just a bilateral issue. The questions go beyond the operational significance of the drones use. That is an important and commendable development, not just for normative, but for important strategic reasons.

Let’s put it this way: the increased tactical use (even success) of the US drones war is precisely the failure of the strategic objectives for which Washington had started this self-declared ‘war on terror’. That’s the central problem with drones use.

Operationally, the remotely-piloted vehicles armed with missiles are a force-multiplier platform. They can reconnoitre and kill effectively. The US is already experimenting with arming the RPVs with low-collateral damage missiles, lighter with less radius of destruction than the heavier Hellfire system currently in use. Soon enough, it will have more precision. But that’s about it — a very effective platform at the theatre and tactical levels, great operational significance that is unlikely to lead to any politico-strategic plus.

Clausewitz posited that the grammar of war is grounded in war’s “triple nature”. The first level is the “primitive violence of people”: “the ability to take risks and the willingness to kill”; the second level relates to managing violence and harnessing it to an aim. This is done by the military commanders; the third level is political where the government determines the ultimate objective of war.

Clausewitz determined that there would be tension between the first level and second and also between the second and third levels. But all the three levels have to be taken together since that is what constitutes the triple nature of war as well as its grammar.

He used the terms Zweck und Ziel, the first referring to “purpose”, the second to “aim”. The ‘Zweck’ denotes the political objective for which a war is being fought; the ‘Ziel’ relates to the actual conduct and aim of battles, of which many may be fought to achieve the political end. The Ziel must then add up to the Zweck or as Philip Windsor put it: “Clausewitz argues that the Ziel must always be defined in the context of the Zweck and be subordinate to it.”

If Clausewitz’s argument is to be used as performance metric, let’s see where the US began and how it has fared: from conjuring up grand scenarios of stabilising the greater Middle East to refashioning it to fighting insurgencies and learning to eat soup with a knife (instead of finding a spoon) to a narrowed-down focus on counterterrorism using covert ops teams and, now, drones. Refashioning is démodé, as is COIN with its McPetraeo-conceptualised Zen and the Art of Counterinsurgency Sustenance. Winning hearts and minds is passé.

So how does one win this war; more aptly, how does one extricate? That’s a tough proposition. It is important to create a narrative of victory, or relative victory. The night raids have been successful, as are the drones. The narrative should, therefore, focus on how good the intelligence is and how many of the Taliban and al Qaeda leaders have been taken out.

In come the armed RPVs, a cheaper option that can be used anywhere. Improved technology means they will be more effective. If a state allows them, good. If not, the US can use them unilaterally. Customary international law is subservient to domestic US legislation anyway. Add to this the ‘political question doctrine’ and the unilateral use of drones or its consequences — people killed, property destroyed, etc. — becomes non-justiciable: i.e., the US administration cannot be sued in any US court because national security and the conduct of foreign policy is the executive’s political domain and outside the purview of the courts.

So, we have tactics guiding strategy, success determined by how many ‘terrorists’ have been taken out. The idea seems like a variation on the stability-instability paradox. Keep the Homeland secure and use drones and other such platforms to strike at groups remotely. To keep the centre secure, keep the periphery unstable.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 2nd, 2012

[Charlie]

Here we go again...the wonders of ROP



Bangladesh: Leading Islamic scholars recommend that Pakistani foreign minister be stoned for adultery

Eminent Islamic scholars, leaders and clergies in Bangladesh are recommending punishment under Sharia law for Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar and co-chairman of Pakistan People's Party [PPP] Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for the adultery. According to Bangladeshi daily newspaper the Amader Orthoneeti [Our Economy], eminent Islamic scholar and leader of the Islami Oikya Jote [Islamic Unity Movement] Mufti Fazlul Huq Amini, commenting on allegation of adultery of Hina and Bilawal told the daily, "If this report is true, it cannot be accepted under the Islamic laws. If Bilawal Bhutto is truly a bisexual and alcoholic; he does not have right to become the head of the state of any Muslim nation. The laws in Pakistan, does not permit such illicit activities."

He said, punishment of adultery under Islamic code is stoning to death or whipping. Hina Rabbani Khar and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari now must stand for trial under the Islamic law, if they are found guilty.

Mizbahur Rahman, Islamic scholar and politician commenting on allegation of adultery between Hina Rabbani Khar and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Islam forbids adultery and extra-marital relations.

"This is a severe offense under the Islamic laws. Bilawal Bhutto is a criminal in the eyes of Islamic law and such people can never be allowed to continue as a leader or head of the state in any Muslim nation", he said.

It may be mentioned here that, constitutionally Pakistan is an Islamic republic, where Islamic laws must be strictly applied to any such cases of adultery irrespective of the social or otherwise positions of the committers.

In another report, the Amader Orthoneeti in another report, quoting a Pakistani online newspaper said, some people in Pakistan are raising demand for declaring Weekly Blitz as 'enemy of Pakistan' for publishing "false rumors" against the "esteemed leaders of the Islamic country".

Adultery [also called philandery, anglicised from Latin adulterium] is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than the lawful spouse. Religious and legal interpretations of what constitutes adultery vary widely. The term adultery has an Abrahamic origin, though the concept predates Judaism and is found in many other societies. The definition and consequences vary between religions, cultures, and legal jurisdictions, but the concept is similar in Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Historically, adultery has been considered to be a serious offense by many cultures.

Adultery is considered by Christians to be immoral and a sin. Adultery in traditional Judaism applies equally to both parties, but depends on the marital status of the woman [Lev. 20:10]. Though the Torah prescribes the death penalty for adultery, the legal procedural requirements were very exacting and required the testimony of two eye-witnesses of good character for conviction. The defendant also must have been warned immediately before performing the act. A death sentence could be issued only during the period when the Holy Temple stood, and only so long as the Supreme Torah Court convened in its chamber within the Temple complex.

At the civil level, however, Jewish law [halakha] forbids a man to continue living with an adulterous wife, and he is obliged to divorce her. Also, an adulteress is not permitted to marry the adulterer, but, to avoid any doubt as to her status as being free to marry another or that of her children, many authorities say he must give her a divorce as if they were married.

According to Judaism, the Seven laws of Noah apply to all of humankind; these laws prohibit adultery with another man's wife.

Under Muslim law, adultery in general is sexual intercourse by a person (whether man or woman) with someone to whom they are not married. Adultery is a violation of the marital contract and one of the major sins condemned by Allah in the Quran:

Qur'anic verses prohibiting adultery include:

"Do not go near to adultery. Surely it is a shameful deed and evil, opening roads [to other evils]." [Quran 17:32]

"Say, 'Verily, my Lord has prohibited the shameful deeds, be it open or secret, sins and trespasses against the truth and reason."' [Quran 7:33]

Punishments are reserved to the legal authorities and false accusations are to be punished severely. It has been said that these legal procedural requirements were instituted to protect women from slander and false accusations: i.e. four witnesses of good character are required for conviction, who were present at that time and saw the deed taking place; and if they saw it they were not of good moral character, as they were looking at naked adults; thus no one can get convicted of adultery unless they both themselves agree and give their confession under oath four times.

A survey conducted by the Pew Research Centre found relatively widespread popular support for stoning as a punishment for adultery among Muslims in Egypt (82% of respondents in favor of the punishment), Jordan [70% in favor], Indonesia [42% in favor], Pakistan [82% favor] and Nigeria ]56% in favor].

In some East Asian countries or regions, including North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan, adultery continues to be a crime. In the Philippines, adultery (defined as consensual sexual intercourse between a married woman and a man who is not her husband) and a related act of concubinage [a man cohabiting with a woman who is not his wife], are considered crimes under the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines. Adultery is not a crime in mainland China, but constitutes grounds for divorce.

In Pakistan, adultery is a crime under the Hudood Ordinance. The Ordinance sets a maximum penalty of death, although only imprisonment and corporal punishment have ever actually been imposed. The Ordinance has been particularly controversial because it requires a woman making an accusation of rape to provide extremely strong evidence to avoid being charged with adultery herself. A conviction for rape is only possible with evidence from no fewer than four witnesses. In recent years high-profile rape cases in Pakistan have given the Ordinance more exposure than similar laws in other countries. Similar laws exist in some other Muslim countries, such as Saudi Arabia.

[nakul]

^^^

Ask them about Jinnah

[Anujan]

EH has a khujli because drones are good at what they do.

Kill yahoos, keep them hiding and poke a finger up paki musharraf.

If there were no drones, yahoos would be conductong ass rallies, recruitment drives and fund raisers. Now they wear burkhas and slink around at night. The unlucky ones are dispatched.

More importantly unkil has a leverage over munna to show who the boss is. All this "drones can be tactical but they are not strategic " is quite bull droppings because the drones show

1. Munna can't do diddly squat
2. TFTAs are hand in glove and have to deal with green on green
3. If pakis want drone attacks stopped, unkil would want their left testimonial.

[Prem]

Lahori Dhey Dream te Jeib Which Gajra
Pakistan, Russia and opportunities for regional cooperation — Faaq rooq You assaf

Keeping in context Pakistan’s current political situation, these latest developments hold utmost importance for the country. Currently, the US and its allies have increased pressure on Pakistan to support Washington’s policy of strengthening its influence in the region despite its apparent contradiction with the national interests of Pakistan. Along with that, the US is also losing its influence in the region because of the growing anti-US sentiment. That is why increased cooperation on a bilateral basis and within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will help address political and economic issues in Pakistan. This in turn will provide additional opportunities for Islamabad for a more independent foreign policy and lesser economic dependence on the US and the international financial institutions, apparently controlled by the latter.Washington’s current policy and politics in the Afghan war seem to be aimed at easing the impact of Islamabad in the country and the peace process, and increasing the role of India in resolving the crisis. Unsurprisingly, officials in Kabul also show an unfriendly attitude towards Pakistan, which is reflected in the regular accusations levelled against its support of the Haqqani network and other extremist organisations operating from within Pakistan.With the current financial and strategic dependencies, Pakistan can only act as a mere spectator against US policies and demands. Only by increasing cooperation with China and Russia, the regional approach in addressing the Afghan issue and ensuring stability in the country can Pakistan protect its national interests.It is obvious that positive ties with Russia would not only give strategic strength to Pakistan but would also provide a good opportunity for overcoming the country’s energy woes coupled with enhancing regional trade and cooperation.
In the context of military cooperation, Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafiq Butt visited Moscow in August and termed his visit as a significant development towards greater cooperation with Russia in the field of defence, particularly in air defence. Furthermore, the impending visit by General Ashfaq Kayani, the army chief, also hints at a major policy shift within the civil-military establishment of Pakistan. A foreign office spokesman in Islamabad, on condition of anonymity, said, “We have turned a new page in our relationship with Russia. It is a major shift

[Agnimitra]

From The News (news item posted in full)
G-B, K-P, Azad Kashmir not on Pakistan map in Punjab school book

By Web Desk - Published: October 1, 2012

The maps in the book show Gilgit and Kashmi­r as Indian territ­ories.

GUJRANWALA: Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir are not a part of Pakistan according to maps printed in a course book for government schools in Gujranwala, Express News reported on Monday.

The maps in the book show Gilgit and Kashmir as Indian territories.

The book, named Atlas, is published by the School Education Department of Punjab and is assigned to students of middle and high schools.

The DCO Gujranwala was approached for comment with regards to the error, but to no avail.

Students and teachers have expressed concern over the misrepresentation of Pakistan’s map in the book.

Very interesting "error". What's going on?

[Prem]

[Very interesting "error". What's going on?

Given to China ?
And we keep hearing Madam Klinton mentioning, questioning Paki soverignty. She has stated this thrice in last few days .

[SSridhar]

Bangladesh: Leading Islamic scholars recommend that Pakistani foreign minister be stoned for adultery

It is also interesting that all Hina-related news items come from BD.

[Raja Bose]

From The News (opinion piece posted in full)
Drone on ...

By Ejaz Haider - Published: October 1, 2012

Refashioning is démodé, as is COIN with its McPetraeo-conceptualised Zen and the Art of Counterinsurgency Sustenance. Winning hearts and minds is passé.

What's with Pakis inventing new pompous sounding vocabulary?? They have taken Jaguar Vein to new heights.

[Anujan]

The smart ass thinks he is making fun of Petraeus and the book "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance".

Someone I know wrote a Ejaz Haider column generator, which would spit columns like this.

[ramana]

He is spoofing McChrystal, Petraeus and the Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

By Ejaz Haider - Published: October 1, 2012

Refashioning is démodé, as is COIN with its McPetraeo-conceptualised Zen and the Art of Counterinsurgency Sustenance. Winning hearts and minds is passé.

Because time and again Pakis have shown no heart nor mind!

[SSridhar]

A review by BG Varghese of the book, Jinnah Vs. Gandhi by a British author.

However, the “versus” in the title perhaps does not quite fit as Jinnah followed his goal of a Muslim homeland, Pakistan, first within and then separately from India with untiring zeal, whereas Gandhi was not versus anybody except in obedience to his “inner voice”.

[SSridhar]

Girl blasphemy case takes a turn - The Hindu

The blasphemy case against a minor girl suffering from Down syndrome took a turn on Monday with two key witnesses retracting statements that evidence had been planted against her by a local cleric.

Appearing before the court hearing the bail plea of the cleric Khalid Jadoon Chishti, the two witnesses said they had been forced by the police to testify against him. It was based on their testimonies that the court allowed the minor girl, Rimsha Masih, to be released on bail after spending nearly three weeks in the high security Adiala Jail. In view of withdrawal of testimonies, the witnesses gave fresh statements on record before the court and the bail hearing was adjourned till Wednesday.

[Anujan]

Poor girl. No fault of hers to be born in pakiland

[Raja Bose]

The smart ass thinks he is making fun of Petraeus and the book "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance".

Someone I know wrote a Ejaz Haider column generator, which would spit columns like this.

Then it deserves to be enshrined in code and made into a perl or php app.

[chetak]

Girl blasphemy case takes a turn - The Hindu

The blasphemy case against a minor girl suffering from Down syndrome took a turn on Monday with two key witnesses retracting statements that evidence had been planted against her by a local cleric.

Appearing before the court hearing the bail plea of the cleric Khalid Jadoon Chishti, the two witnesses said they had been forced by the police to testify against him. It was based on their testimonies that the court allowed the minor girl, Rimsha Masih, to be released on bail after spending nearly three weeks in the high security Adiala Jail. In view of withdrawal of testimonies, the witnesses gave fresh statements on record before the court and the bail hearing was adjourned till Wednesday.

What ever happened to the "maulana" who planted the partially burnt pages of the koran?

From where did he get them?? and who burnt them??

[Narad]

Alla hoo ackbar!! Aal ijj well in pakiland

High Court orders daily religious lessons for brothel owner.

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has accepted the bail application of a brothel owner on the condition that she will spend at least one hour daily at a mosque.

The court ordered that Neelam must visit the Imam of Zarghuni Mosque in Hayatabad everyday for one month to repent for her sins.

PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan accepted the plea of four women and fined them Rs50,000 with two reliable sureties. Neelam’s bail was approved conditionally.

The court had earlier sent police to another alleged brothel run by Aslam and his wife Shabana.

h_ttp://tribune.com.pk/story/445562/court-orders-daily-religious-lessons-for-brothel-owner/

[chetak]

The court ordered that Neelam must visit the Imam of Zarghuni Mosque in Hayatabad everyday for one month to repent for her sins.

Visit the imam?? Are his prayers finally being answered?

Wonder what form the "repentance" will take.

[kish]

Moscow beckons Pakistan's Kiani

The phrase coined by the 17th-century English philosopher Francis Bacon is: "If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain." So, if Russian President Vladimir Putin won't come to Islamabad on Tuesday, then Pakistani army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kiani will still go to Moscow.

Where is the paki H&D? Visiting Russia, even after a snub by the Russian president. Totally shameless.

Russian sources explain that when Putin never really scheduled an Islamabad visit and none was announced, and the excitement was all on the Pakistani side, so how could it be deemed that the Kremlin cancelled the visit? It's a fair contention.

Every country is getting their fair share of pakistaniyat. The visit was never announced, as usual the pakis lied.

[Suppiah]

Wonder what form the "repentance" will take.

The caption below the picture says it clearly..why ask? ...'The cleric will help the accused repent'...now what form the help will take can be left to imagination...or he may even teach her, Iran mullah style, the proper way of doing it - organise temporary nikkah followed by a session followed by talaq.

[chetak]

Girl blasphemy case takes a turn - The Hindu
{quote}The blasphemy case against a minor girl suffering from Down syndrome took a turn on Monday with two key witnesses retracting statements that evidence had been planted against her by a local cleric.

Appearing before the court hearing the bail plea of the cleric Khalid Jadoon Chishti, the two witnesses said they had been forced by the police to testify against him. It was based on their testimonies that the court allowed the minor girl, Rimsha Masih, to be released on bail after spending nearly three weeks in the high security Adiala Jail. In view of withdrawal of testimonies, the witnesses gave fresh statements on record before the court and the bail hearing was adjourned till Wednesday.{/quote}


What ever happened to the "maulana" who planted the partially burnt pages of the koran?

From where did he get them?? and who burnt them??

All resolved in true paki style, H&D intact.
Rimsha case: Witnesses against cleric backtrack

02 October, 2012

ISLAMABAD: During hearing of the Rimsha Masih case on Monday in Islamabad High Court, two witnesses, Khurram and Danish, withdrew their statements against prayer leader Khalid Jadoon, saying that police had pressured them into recording statements against Jadoon.

The witnesses had earlier testified against Jadoon, accusing him of adding pages from the Holy Quran to burnt pages to strengthen the blasphemy case against a minor Christian girl, Rimsha Masih.

Islamabad District and Sessions Judge Justice Raja Jawad Abbas heard the bail plea filed by Jadoon. Hafiz Mohammad Zubair and two other witnesses again recorded their statements under oath before the Islamabad High Court. The court adjourned the case until October 3.

Jadoon was arrested on September 1 after a witness, Hafiz Zubair, testified against him before a magistrate.

End.

[Lilo]

Where is the paki H&D? Visiting Russia, even after a snub by the Russian president. Totally shameless.

The Paki prostitute is currently haggling on price with its regular(Unkil) .
Kayani's visit to Russia should be viewed in this context.

After the quickie in Moscow , Kayani is scheduled to visit Washington .
Zardari and Birkin babe already laid the ground work for this in their recently concluded visits.

It will be costlier this time around, but suarly Unkil still has his date with Kayani's arse come this month end.

[Comer]

Once in a forum a Paki started telling how Indians don't have big richards and some BBC report said so.

And yet Pakis want strategic depth.

[member_23858]

Where is the paki H&D? Visiting Russia, even after a snub by the Russian president. Totally shameless.

The Paki prostitute is currently haggling on price with its regular(Unkil) .
Kayani's visit to Russia should be viewed in this context.

After the quickie in Moscow , Kayani is scheduled to visit Washington .
Zardari and Birkin babe already laid the ground work for this in their recently concluded visits.

It will be costlier this time around, but suarly Unkil still has his date with Kayani's arse come this month end.

Lilo-jee this was as funny as it was brutal.....
Might like to add a thing or two....
Paki is an AGEING prostitute who knows she wont be getting good price for a long time from now...So she is trying to find her "Last Hurrah"...we have to remember that Khans liking for the old broad was only revived because of 9/11...and now the 9/11 episode is fast winding up.....

[Brad Goodman]

well well well here we go again
Pakistan spinner Abdur Rehman tests positive for recreational drug

32-year-old failed test while playing for Somerset this summer
No decision yet on any possible suspension

[Brad Goodman]

low score today
Two more fall prey to Karachi violence

Non-stop violence continues in the economical hub of the country where at least two people including a policeman were killed in recent firing incidents in different areas of the city, officials said on Tuesday.
According to local police, some unidentified miscreants opened indiscriminate gunfire near Shershah Pankha Hotel (restaurant), killing a man, Abdullah on the spot.
A policeman, Babar, who was injured in a firing incident in Kharadar, succumbed to injuries at Civil Hospital. The post mortem on the bodies of the two deceased will be conducted at Civil Hospital.
Police began investigations into the two incidents after registering cases.

[Baikul]

.......

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has accepted the bail application of a brothel owner on the condition that she will spend at least one hour daily at a mosque.

Imam saheb is going to have many come to Gawd moments here.

The court ordered that Neelam must visit the Imam of Zarghuni Mosque in Hayatabad everyday for one month to repent for her sins.

Only one month? I guess Imam Saheb must be very old...

[brat]

Once in a forum a Paki started telling how Indians don't have big richards and some BBC report said so.

And yet Pakis want strategic depth.

"Truly wonderful the mind of a paki is."

[shiv]

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The court ordered that Neelam must visit the Imam of Zarghuni Mosque in Hayatabad everyday for one month to repent for her sins.

Only one month? I guess Imam Saheb must be very old...

No. He expects to live longer and does not want the brothel shut for too long.

[Suppiah]

May be Ghalib was talking about the brother door and not the tavern door..

kahaaN maiKHaane ka darwaaza 'Ghalib' aur kahaaN waaiz
par itana jaante haiN kal wo jaata tha ke ham nikle

May be the lady would have told the honorable judge...'huzoor, I dont have to go there every month, he comes to me every week!'