Habal-ji:habal wrote:1800 cameras for $100 mil, what kind of cameras are these ? x band thermal imagers ?
See more at:As I write, the Board of Control for Cricket in India appears to be on the brink of agreeing to a short bilateral series against Pakistan to be played in neutral Sri Lanka. Gallingly, reports that a deal has already been done emerged from a Pakistani TV channel on November 26 — the day India marked the anniversary of the Invasion of Mumbai by terrorists from Pakistan whose urban carnage served as a template for those who attacked Paris. Other reports say that the only thing that would now stop a series taking place in mid-December is a refusal to grant clearance to play by India’s Ministry of External Affairs.
If that’s true, I hope clearance is denied. I do not want a bilateral cricket series with Pakistan. And if the clearance does come, let this column serve as an indignant protest against that decision by a fervent fan of Indian cricket. - …………………………
Pakistan harbours terrorists who seek to cripple India. It harbours the mastermind of the Mumbai attacks. It violates the Line of Control daily, whether by firing or by the infiltration of terrorists. Why should we play cricket? Santosh Mahadik, a colonel in the Indian army, died fighting terrorists on the border this month. Would his widow want us to play cricket with Pakistan? India’s cricketers should ponder that question, and make themselves unavailable to play the series as a matter of conscience. Think about it, Virat Kohli…
India’s cricket boycott bleeds Pakistan in ways that other boycotts in other spheres do not. Pakistan’s cricketers are personally blameless. But the point of rejecting cricket with Pakistan is to send this message to its people and government: For as long as you spawn and coddle terrorists who spill Indian blood, no Indian captain will take the field to toss a coin against you. –
Nobody, not me at least, is discussing cricket per se, i.e., runs scored and wickets taken. We are discussing TSP begging for cricket, and India saying maybe, or no. And I think it is also joy to see TSP begging and be denied their pleasure.deejay wrote:STFUP on cricket here folks, please.
This thread was pure unadultrated joy of Paki bashing and analysis. News from the west and it was good to read and hear of how rats and donkeys squirm in Pakistan.
I guess you are referring to me, and please, one last time to you and everybody else: I did not start this thread with an intention to discuss cricket (there is a cricket thread for that, go there and read my posts). Thats a bold-faced lie that was claimed by one seasoned campaigner here with a deep personal grouse against me.
Unfortunately, based on just one persons constant focus (it may be very dear to him), STFUP has become another exotic location for Indians to be self critical, self depreciating and holding themselves and their top most leaders responsible for everything.
Be rest assured, nobody is hijacking anything. We all want to derive the unadulterated pleasure at TSP squirm and hopefully destroyed.
Somebody, stop this hijack of STFUP.
Sunday, November 29, 2015 - Islamabad—In the next five years, China would invest 200 billion yuan ($31 billion) in building power grids in its northwest province of Xinjiang to connect the region to the country’s east, Pakistan and central Asian countries.
Resources-rich Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the core area for the Silk Road Economic Belt, would create power transmission lines by 2020, as it builds the “Power Silk Road,” Xinhua news agency reported.
The grid projects are an important infrastructure plan for the region, guaranteeing power supply for local residents and enterprises in Xinjiang, said Xinjiang Electric Power Company under the State Grid Corp of China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told the UN Sustainable Development Summit in September that China proposes discussing a global energy network to meet global power demand with clean and green alternatives.
To build a global energy network coincides with the trend for low-carbon, efficient and balanced energy distribution, said Zhao Qingbo, an analyst with the state grid.
Clean energy like solar and wind power must be integrated into grids to realise large-scale development, said Zhao.
Xinjiang’s energy network would also help narrow development gaps between different regions, he added.
China began to purchase electricity from Russia in 1992. Currently, Heilongjiang Province in northeast China has four operating power transmission lines connecting Russia.
The implementation of the belt and road initiative would push the interconnection of grids in Asia, said Liu Xiaosheng, a professor of electric engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Heilongjiang. The China-proposed initiative refers to a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia to Europe and Africa through the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
State Grid President Liu Zhenya said the country would accelerate grid interconnectivity with neighbouring countries such as Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Myanmar, Laos, Nepal and Thailand in the coming decade. He estimated that the global energy network would be completed by 2050. It is estimated that from 2016 to 2030, China’s annual investment in clean energy and related infrastructure projects would grow to 820 billion yuan, according to Liu. By the end of 2020, China aims to increase non-fossil energy to about 15% of the total primary energy consumption and raise the share of renewable energy in production.
So is money spinning into TSP in the best interest of the nation?
In an interview with Rajdeep Sardesai of India Today, he alleged that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) even has links with the underworld. Modi said,
"Whether it’s a Chhota Shakeel, or Dawood, they’re all hand-in-hand with the current cricket administrators."
Eventually, Pakis are nothing outside the Indian subcontinent and, within too, are mostly about terrorism, taqiya and blame game. So any propping up is going to have another round of indirect paki finger pointing and scoring political points.CRamS wrote:arunJi, I may be hypocritical for this because I am not a big fan of Tunku Vardarajan for his sometimes Uncle Tommish opportunism of talking about "Hindu extremism" and such in US newspapers, but every single point he makes in his article you posted is the one I have been making right from the time this whole discussion started. Good article.
Exhibition admins should be applauded ; Paki press, as usual, interpret it as a Anti Muslim thing . Probably, more to it; violation of exhibition rules, etcNEW DELHI (Web Desk) – India has crossed all limits in relation of Muslim enmity.
As Indian administration has imposed fine of Rs 50,000 to Pakistani and Bangladeshi stall holders as today is last day of International trade fair in New Delhi.
On the eve of 35th International trade fair in New Delhi Pakistani traders have participated trade fair with enthusiastically by putting biased aside, but on last day of exhibition administration has used new tactic for harassing Pakistan and Bangladesh traders. As they imposed Rs 50,000 fine on both stall holders, abbtakk TV reported.
Likewise, India refused to give gate-pass to Pakistani and Bangladeshi traders on last day, whereas both stall holders was stopped to lifting their goods. Indian administration said that traders did not acquire their prerequisite number in trade fair.
But Pakis are not whining about kirkit match between ISIL and Syria. That exception is made for neighbors only, after all Pakis have big heart next to India but lesser green heart in Syria where ISIL finds them unworthy of fighting alongside and makes the pakis clean tables.Falijee wrote:So, now the Jihadi Factories of Pakiland running at full capacity, are now producing enough canon fodder to "sell" to both sides of the Syrian civil war in the Mailsi divide of Shia and Sunni; at least it keeps the Mullahs happy and employed .
More about the 35th International Trade Fair:Falijee wrote: Exhibition admins should be applauded ; Paki press, as usual, interpret it as a Anti Muslim thing . Probably, more to it; violation of exhibition rules, etc
A day after the Delhi government issued notices to 99 stall owners from Pakistan and Bangladesh at the India International Trade Fair along with a Rs 50,000 penalty, most of the traders have gone back to their countries, leaving the government and the fair’s organisers to settle the issue.
The notice had been issued by the Delhi government’s department of trade and taxes, as the stall owners had failed to obtain the e-registration number required to participate in the trade fair.
The India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) — the managing body of all traders participating in the fair — had Friday refused to let some of them leave and denied them gate passes. The ITPO had claimed that the Delhi government’s trade and taxes department had slapped a Rs 55 lakh fine on them as well.
All Bangladeshi traders, who were issued notices, have left without paying the penalty, said Commercial Counsellor for Bangladesh Nahid Rashid.
“But all the traders paid their VAT, which was decided upon in a joint meeting with the Export Promotion Bureau of Bangladesh, the taxes department and the ITPO. All these traders have been participating in the fair since a long time, but there has never been a problem in the payment of VAT and other commercial taxes. This is the first time they forced the e-registration clause for payment of taxes,” she said.
Refuting the ITPO’s claim — that all foreign traders had been told that e-registration was mandatory — she said that the organisation had not informed them about the clause.
Meanwhile, the trade and taxes department has not received the fine amount from either the traders or the ITPO.
“We waited till midnight at Pragati Maidan, but ITPO officials did not pay the fine. Even the traders didn’t appeal against the penalty imposed on them,” said an official from the department.
An ITPO official had earlier claimed that unless the traders paid the penalty, they would not be issued exit passes and would be forced to leave their goods behind. However, the site of the trade fair had been largely vacated by Saturday evening.
“The traders seem to have gone back home.. . but the ITPO may file an appeal. The matter remains unresolved…once the appeal is filed, it will take anywhere between 6 to 12 months to get resolved,” said an official of the trade and taxes department.
He added that the department had no plans of “cancelling the fines”.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — HBO comedy "The Brink" is following in the footsteps of "Homeland" by ruffling the feathers of viewers in Pakistan — those who can get their hands on it, anyway.
This is going to change with Ganja's recent promise to make Pakhanistan more "liberal", with multiplier effect on the Aam Abduls which will result in a more "positive" image! (Lahori logic at work here)In Pakistan, "The Brink" sparked a similar backlash to that which greeted Showtime's award-winning "Homeland" last year — which critics alleged portrayed the country in a negative and one-dimensional way.
So, the "Deep State" is now also in the business of monitoring private entertainment at home, apart from throwing Baluchi freedom fighters from HellisIn the capital Islamabad, sources at both a cable TV provider and a leading pirate DVD franchise told NBC News they have been "advised" by security officials not to air or sell copies of "The Brink."
Cant blame the poor chap !"We have beenadvisedwarned to not run this, either in regular cable or in video on-demand services we offer," said one staff member at the Islamabad-based cable operator, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals.
But, stereotypes, always contain a grain of truth ; Gobermand should not be in the business of monitoring what goes on in an individual's living/bedroomPakistan's embassy in Washington accused the show of "maligning" Pakistan and said that it "reinforces stereotypes."
Not only has "The Brink" not been aired on Pakistani TV, it has also been suppressedat Illusions, Islamabad's largest vendor in the country's popular pirate DVD industry.
And it's not just the intelligence services that are not fans of the show. Pakistanis who have managed to watch it took to Twitter to decry what they say are inaccuracies with the sets — only the B-roll of the series appears to have been taped in Pakistan — as well as actors from arch-rival India playing Pakistani characters. ( this mard-e-momin Paki anchor/ journo should be reminded - Bijness is Bijness ; money has no colour - and by the way, does he have any explanation for so many Pakis posing as Indian in the Land Of The Free And The Brave )
WTF happened here? Im scratching my head all over but unable to figure out if Mr.Tunku actually wrote this column?arun wrote:Tunku Vardarajan rightly advises against India playing a bilateral cricket series with the Mohammadden Terrorist fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Reverse swing: No cricket with Pakistan
It says that since the ppl of FATA were uneducated and uncivilized that's why the terrorists easily settled there ~
Hari saar, I am reminded of a father's answer when asked which one of his sons was his best. Said he, "Oh, that boy who is trying to set fire to the house".Hari Seldon wrote:^Tunku Varadarajan was always a tad more balanced than his marxist birader Siddharth Varadarajan.
Pretty much like Swaminathan Aiyer and his birader Mani Shankar Aiyer. Only.
The role of a Pakistan High Commission (PHC) staff in India is under scanner for helping members of an espionage network penetrating the key defence and strategic establishments here.
This was disclosed by Delhi Police Crime Branch, which has arrested two alleged members of this network, a Border Security Force (BSF) head Constable and a handler of Pakistani Intelligence Operative.
Kaifatullah Khan, the handler arrested for allegedly providing sensitive information on security deployment to Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has revealed that the PHC official was to facilitate his next visit to Pakistan.
"Khan was told to visit Pakistan after concluding his Bhopal trip. The official at the PHC was to ease the process of obtaining visa for him. That plan was foiled with his arrest at New Delhi Railway Station by us last week," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.
He, however, claims that he was not told about the name or rank of the official. Mr. Yadav said that without ascertaining the identity of the suspect at PHC, they could not proceed with placing a formal request to MEA for questioning anyone at the High Commission.
Had he gone ahead with the plan after securing visa, this would have been Khan's second visit to Pakistan since 2013 where he was roped in by ISI handler there after the person lured him with money. The purpose of that visit was to meet his relative in Gunjrawala and the visa for that was obtained through routine channels without any rigging, he purportedly told the police.
The promised sum was not disclosed but a portion of it received by Khan and his accomplice Head Constable Abdul Rasheed routed through global money transfer channels or bank to bank transfer from the Gulf countries, said another officer.
Khan himself had trained with Jammu and Kashmir Police in 1992 bit took up a librarian's job the very next year. Rasheed, his cousin and alleged accomplice, too had been communicating with ISI handler in Pak, said Mr. Yadav.
The Delhi Police so far has been tight lipped about link between Khan and Rasheed and some of the other modules busted in the country by State Police Forces but did not dismiss the possibility.
PARIS: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Monday exchanged pleasantries on the sidelines of the 21st UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.
Modi approached Sharif and had a brief chat with him, said a statement from the PM Office. (Echendee intact; wont be sactioned on this point by "Bad Sharif" for meeting with the "dushman")
"Both appeared in a friendly mood and the Indian PM left the meeting with a warm handshake with the Pakistani PM," the statement added.
Diplomatic observers at the summit say there was great warmth between the two leaders. Details of the conversation were not immediately known, but government officials described it as a "courtesy meeting."
Maybe, "begging" for kirket also ; hope Modiji stands firm and not swayed by the "sweet talk"This has also led to souring cricketing ties, with an Indo-Pak cricket series scheduled for December this year in doldrums.
Hope that he was reading the "right" speech given to himPrime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had ealrier said Pakistan is ready to contribute to the global efforts to tackle the climate change issues.
He was talking to newsmen in Paris where he will represent Pakistan at the UN Climate Change Conference beginning on Monday.
The Prime Minister said the developed countries have more responsibility in this respect.
To a question, he said Pakistan will not let come any hurdle in its development process.
So, how will she now explain this "disloyalty" to the Kaptaan of her PartyISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Central Information Secretary Shireen Mazari on Monday hit back at critics who she said trolled her over her daughter's decision to vote for rival PML-N in today's local body election.
Mazari took to Twitter to defend herself and her daughter, after the two faced criticism on micro-blogging website Twitter. The uproar followed her daughter Iman Hazir's tweet announcing her vote in favour of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz.
The PTI information secretary said her association with PTI does not obligate her family to vote for the parry and added that "democracy means free choice".
Maybe, all this is a ploy; feudal politics at play here; ensuring that their landholding interest in Pakjab are not "hurt" by Ganja and his henchmenHazir went on to say that she has been critical of the PML-N but was never abused by party supporters. She added that PML-N supporters have not abused her mother, who belongs to rival PTI, either.
ISLAMABAD: BlackBerry Ltd will delay shutting down its operations in Pakistan until Dec 30 as negotiations continue over government demands for access to users' private data, the company and the telecoms authority said on Monday.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had in July demanded BlackBerry give it access to its BlackBerry Enterprise Services, which encrypt data such as emails and instant messages, or shut it down by Nov 30.
The PTA on Monday then suggested a one-month extension to that deadline, its chairman Syed Ismail Shah said. BlackBerry also confirmed the extension in a statement on its website.
“The level of access is still under discussion,” Shah said. “We can extend the deadline and they can continue to work until then.” quote]
The Canadian Company has announced that it will cease operations in Pakistan as of Jan 1, 2016Martial law is in effect, except that it is not openly acknowledged for obvious reasons!Pakistan has said it needs access to maintain its security, with police saying criminals use secure communications like those provided by BlackBerry.
Analysts say the government is increasing electronic surveillance to target activists, politicians and journalists.Pakis are probably a "small" player overall, therefore the company can afford to shut down their operations rather than bow to pressure!"Pakistan’s demand for open access to monitor a significant swath of our customers’ communications within its borders left us no choice but to exit the country entirely," Beard had said.
The COO said the company made the move because "remaining in Pakistan would have meant forfeiting our commitment to protect our users’ privacy"....Rather, Pakistan was essentially demanding unfettered access to all of our BES customers’ information," the COO said.
Is that Afghan leader Ashraf Ghani in the background? If so them Ganza must have been Sandwiched.ldev wrote:Modi meeting Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Paris climate meeting. Nawaz Sharif looks dejected, wonder what's troubling him?[img]
GaganJi, man why are you obsessed with kirket? Just kiddingGagan wrote:1. Modi is covering his mouth to prevent lip reading?
2. Raheel Sharif has deployed the 'butcher of balochistan' to spy on Nawaz Sharif. These faujis and ISI wallas keep roaming around the civilians like flies, trying to eavesdrop on conversations.
3. I get the feeling that Nawaz is kinda pleading for a cricket series. There is trouble brewing in Pakistan, the way ISPR has been glorifying Raheel Sharif, and his recent tours to the fourfathers one by one, sounds like a prelude to a coup.
If there is a coup, traditionally the PM of Pakistan have to keep their friends very close. NS has to keep his Saudi Biradhers close.
. I am veering towards a Yes from ModiJi on Kirket. I also think some form of dialogue will re-start. It will be interesting to see how it is couched. Terror first, or terror and some "core issue"? How will TSP dance to India's Hurriyat red line? 
With such a "world wide reputation", it is no wonder that most of the Pakis "try" to pass themselves as from India !Pittsburgh police are investigating the Thanksgiving Day shooting of a Muslim cab driver in Hazelwood that the victim and leaders of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh are describing as a hate crime.
The driver, a 38-year-old Moroccan immigrant who has requested anonymity out of fear for his safety and who has not been identified by police, said he picked a man up outside Rivers Casino at about 1 a.m. Thursday. During the trip to a residence on Second Avenue in Hazelwood, the driver said, the passenger began asking him about his background.
“He started the conversation and began to ask questions like, ‘You seem to be like a Pakistani guy. Are you from Pakistan?’ ” the driver said in an interview from his bed at UPMC Mercy, where he is being treated for a bullet wound in the upper back. “And I said, ‘No, I’m from Morocco. But I’m an American guy.’
“Then he continued the conversation. He began to speak about ISIS killing people. I told him ‘Actually, I’m against ISIS. I don’t like them.’ I even told him that they are killing innocent people. I noticed that he changed his tone and he began to satirize Muhammad, my prophet, and began to shift to his personal life. He mentioned that he has two kids and was in prison for some time.
Sadly, these kinds of incidents are going to increase in the future; the Paki Govt, through their policies cannot escape blame !“So it was this kind of stuff until we got to his destination. He asked me to wait for a little bit because he forgot his wallet in the house. I waited for just five minutes, I think, and I noticed that he came out of the house carrying a rifle in his hand. I noticed him coming toward me. I didn’t hesitate. I [made] a fast decision to leave and drove my taxi away because I felt he was going to do something. There is danger. He would shoot me or something. I felt like he had the intention to kill me.”
Pittsburgh police released a statement with some details of the shooting but they have not determined whether the incident was motivated by the driver’s race or religion.
“All I can really say is that we evaluate all crimes that appear to be racially motivated,” he said.
Wasi Mohamed, executive director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, expressed frustration and impatience with the investigation.
A Muslim woman among a group of friends with the wounded driver in his hospital room said the entire community is on edge.
“Since the Paris attack, we’ve been suffering,” said the woman, a member of the Islamic Center and who also requested anonymity. “Personally, we experience a lot of humiliation, a lot of people giving you the finger on the streets and calling you names. But when it comes to the point of shooting, this is extreme. This has to stop.”
“I believe the city has an opportunity and a responsibility to demonstrate that it is welcoming and will not stand for this kind of violence,” Mr. Mohamed said. “Our community will be praying for the recovery of our brother and expecting that the authorities take this matter much more seriously in the coming days.”
“The police hope to be able to arrest whoever committed this heinous crime,” Mr. O’Connor said. “Our officers and our detectives do a very good job, and we feel pretty confident that whoever did this will be apprehended. Obviously, we want results as soon as possible, but sometimes when the evidence is not there and we don’t have the proper witnesses, it makes the job [take] a little bit longer than an immediate response, but we will respond, and I think that’s a credit to our police force.
Because of the "current climate", the police will take their own time in solving the crime.“It’s not like a TV show where it’s solved in 15 minutes. We have to go back, retrace everybody’s steps, look at videos.”
Instead of shooting his mouth off, he should keep his mouth shut to seek a good lawyer, who can get justice for him“This is a unique nation. Here in America I have achieved what I could not in Morocco. Here I learned how to drive. Here I easily get a job with health benefits. All aspects of life. Cleanliness. This is my country. I am proud to say I am American, but I didn’t have the chance to say that to him.”
As far as the shooter is concerned, the driver said he simply wants justice done.
“In our religion, Islam, we forgive, even in such conditions,” he said. “I learned this from our prophet Muhammad. We don’t take revenge. I could forgive this, but I still want my rights.”
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