Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Jan 24, 2016

[Falijee]

Saudi economic shake-up bodes ill for hundreds of thousands in Pakistan

The day of Miskeen (Saudi ) Gravy Train appear to be over for the Aam Abduls of Pakiland

[Falijee]

Pakistan may study other fighter aircraft options, US told

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has conveyed to the United States that it does not have the money to buy F-16 jets from its resources and has cautioned that if the stalemate over funding is not resolved it may consider buying some other fighter aircraft to meet its needs.
According to a diplomatic source, this was conveyed by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to US Ambassador David Hale at a meeting at the Foreign Office.

Initially, the deal for the sale of eight F-16s to Pakistan was to be partially funded through the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) with the US providing $430 million, while the remaining $270m was to be paid by Pakistan from its national resources. But after the Congressional hold on subsidising the sale through FMF, the US administration asked Pakistan to make a commitment to buy the jets from its own money.

Bhooka Nanga Pakistan asked to pay for its own meal !

he FMF money for this year has to be approved and appropriated before Septem­ber 30 or else the funds would remain no more available.
Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, in a media interaction on Tuesday, said Pakistan was working with the “suppliers to see what could be alternative sources of financing”.

So, he is going over the heads of the Amreeki Congress to get what the Pakis want, come hell or high water ? Is that the reason for the recent reports in the press that the Pakis are shopping around for a "huge loan" ?

Despite approving the deal, Mr Corker withheld its financial component.Among the key reasons behind the Congressional hold are concerns that Pakistan has not taken enough action against the Haqqani network; jail sentence for Dr Shakeel Afridi — the physician who had cooperated with the US in tracking Osama bin Laden; and fears about Pakistani nuclear programme.

So Massa appears to be bowing down to American public opinion but at the same time "helping" Pakistan find ways and means to acquire the brand new toys (F-16s) and hence the arrival of two man delegation (one a definite RAA agent ) to Isloo ?

[SSridhar]

Excerpt from US State Department Daily Press Briefing dealing with the US response to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s braggadocio on purchasing fighter jets elsewhere . . .

QUESTION: A Pakistani minister of a cabinet rank has described the U.S. aid to Pakistan as “peanuts.” Do you think this is appropriate description of U.S. aid to Pakistan?

MR KIRBY: I would just simply say that, again, it’s an important relationship. We’re going to continue to support that relationship. We are – we fully stand behind the kinds of support that we have provided Pakistan over the last many years with respect specifically to their counterterrorism capabilities and counterterrorism needs, and we’re going to continue to look for ways to improve that cooperation as best we can.

QUESTION: But you don’t have anything to say on the peanuts comment? It is peanuts, orange, apples --

MR KIRBY: I think I’ve answered the question.

State Dept DPBWeblink here

Ahh . . .the Pakistanis know that Zia got nukes by once describing the US aid as 'peanuts' and that struck a chord with Jimmy Carter who was a peanut farmer. And, they want to employ the technique all over again.

[SSridhar]

Increasingly, it looks to me that the F-16 issue is a drama for another 'transaction' between the two made-for-each-other nations. The US is perhaps angling for that Doctor who helped locate Osama and the Pakistanis want more in return from the US. Some US Congressmen invoked, among other things, concerns against the planes being used against India. That is just happenstance or convenience, not real concern. The fact that the permission to sell F-16s is not revoked means that the F-16s are going to arrive in a Pakistani airbase one way or another.

[Falijee]

Bullying just can’t scare me, says Nawaz

BANNU: Digging his heels in, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said his party had come to power through the power of the ballot and nobody other than the masses could send them home.

So Ganja stills maintains pretense of "democracy" in Pakiland and ignores the Big Player ( Paki Fauj) in this power game !

“Who do they think they are? They don’t know who they are dealing with. They demand what is too big for them,” said a defiant Nawaz.He said those chanting slogans of making a ‘Naya Pakistan’ could not even bring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at par with the other provinces in terms of development.
He said the main objective of his frequent visits to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was to check the development projects that the PTI-led government was claiming to have accomplished.He lamented that the tall claims of the PTI were mere slogans that had vanished into thin air as soon as the party came to power.

The real purpose is to counter attack Immy who is giving Ganja a "bad name" in Pakjab in the light of the Panama scandal !

The prime minister visited Bannu on the invitation of Fazlur Rehman, who was elected an MNA from the adjoining Dera Ismail Khan district

Maulana Diesel has no love lost for Immy ; following the old dictum ( enemy of my enemy is my friend ) he has persuaded Badmash to "help" him on his own turf !

Nawaz announced that an airport of international standards would be established in Bannu and Rs200 million would be spent on development projects in the district.

So some goodies are being announced ; most likely it belongs in the category of "bombastic announcements "

Nawaz maintained that Imran Khan had yet to accept his defeat in the 2013 polls and, therefore, he missed no opportunity to level new and baseless allegations against him.He stated his resolve to bring an end to loadshedding in the country by 2018.

Same old mantra repeated over and over again !

[Falijee]

Another Gunny bag packed body found from Jinnah Barrage, Mianwali
May 04, 2016, 2:40 pm

Four unidentified bodies recovered from Jinnah Barrage
May 01, 2014, 7:01 pm



Balochi tactics successfully employed in KP province , Zarb BS operations by the Deep State ?

Those not bombed by the US supplied F-16s will meet their fate via the gunny bag route

[CRamS]

Increasingly, it looks to me that the F-16 issue is a drama for another 'transaction' between the two made-for-each-other nations. The US is perhaps angling for that Doctor who helped locate Osama and the Pakistanis want more in return from the US. Some US Congressmen invoked, among other things, concerns against the planes being used against India. That is just happenstance or convenience, not real concern. The fact that the permission to sell F-16s is not revoked means that the F-16s are going to arrive in a Pakistani airbase one way or another.

SSJi, while a Congressman here or there have made some noises about F-16s being used against India, the statement from the main protagonist opposing the Fsola gift to TSP, Senator (or Congressman?) Coker only expressed concerns about TSP pigLeTs against whites and maybe Afghans. Therein lies the contours of a deal. TSP will give in to US demands and US will wink wink nod nod on TSP terror against India like it has past 65+ years using equal equal diplomatic jugglery. And in any case, every Indian govt itself have given in to Paki US demands to be a good boy and "engage" TSP despite TSP unleashing terror. So I don't see US using the F-16 leverage to make TSP back off on all pigLeTs, as you say this looks like hard bargaining between US and its TSP munna for the right "price".

[Gagan]

NaMo is in DC next month,
US is blocking F-16s to Pakistan for the moment

1. Either F-16 is still in the running for a second line in India
2. Or, Massa is deferring the sale to pakistan for the moment pending Modi's visit.

[Falijee]

13 Indians have died in Pak jails since 2013: Govt

India has sought a ‘thorough investigation’ in the deaths of the 13 Indians who have died in Pakistani jails in the past three-and-a-half years.
Kirpal Singh’s death in a Lahore jail was one of the most recent cases.
Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, minister of state for external affairs V K Singh said that India has reiterated to the Pakistan government that it is their responsibility to ensure the safety, security and well-being of all Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails.
“As per the information available in our missions/posts abroad, 49 Indians died in prisons in various countries during the last three years and the current year. This includes 13 Indians who died in Pakistani jails during this period,” Singh said.
He said the government has taken up the matter of Kirpal Singh’s death with the Pakistan foreign ministry and has requested that a thorough investigation be undertaken to ascertain the cause for his death and that the probe report be shared with Indian authorities.

The Pakistan government had conveyed that Singh had died of a heart attack, Singh added.

This is the "template explanation" which is given by the Paki authorities to explain away the unexplained death (by torture ) of Indian and political opponents languishing in the country's torture chambers (like the "famous" Adiala jail in Pindi ) ; the very recent death of a Karachi based MQM aide to a very senior politician of that same party (Farooq Sattar ) has invited calls for a probe into his death; no wonder that Altaf Bhai had to flee to Bartania to escape similar fate ; therefore, it is very urgent for the Indian Govt to take all measures to free the recent kidnapped Indian citizen; his fate will worsen if the F16 "sale" does not go through !

[Prem]

Pakistan to decide how it wants to fulfil its defence needs: US
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1097185/pak ... -needs-us/

The United States on Wednesday said it is up to Pakistan to decide how it wants to fulfill its defence needs.“It is up to Pakistan to speak to how they will fulfil their defence needs. These are obviously sovereign decisions that Pakistan has to make,” Kirby said during his weekly press briefing.“It is a relationship we have absolutely no intention of losing focus on or diminishing in any way,” US State Department spokesperson John Kirby said when asked if US unwillingness to subsidise the F-16 purchase will affect bilateral relations.US administration supports F-16s for Pakistan, says officialAziz’s comments came a day after the US State Department said it had asked Pakistan to fund the whole purchase of F-16 fighter jets on its own. “Given Congressional objections, we have told the Pakistanis that they should put forward national funds for that purpose,” spokesperson John Kirby told a weekly press briefing.

[Falijee]

Once In A Blue Moon They Book An V.I.P To Show The Aam Abduls Of Pakiland That All Is Well

Ex-Senate chairman Nayyar Bukhari booked for slapping cop outside Islamabad court

SLAMABAD (Staff Report) – Former Senate chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari was booked in a case after his bodyguard slapped a policeman over snap-checking on Wednesday.
Bukhari, who is a senior leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and a sitting senator, arrived at a local court where a police guard at the entrance wanted to conduct his snap-checking.
Irked by the act, Bukhari’s guard slapped plain-clothed police constable Riaz before they entered the court. “Don’t you know who am I?” Bukhari said, according to an eyewitness.

The chotta-motta princes of Saudi Arabia try the same stunts in Massaland but those things don't work there; ultimately the staff from the nearest Saudi consulates have to spring them out from jail and they are promptly sent home to their desert kingdom on the next available flight from JFK or Dulles; no entry next time !

SLAMABAD (Staff Report) – Former Senate chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari was booked in a case after his bodyguard slapped a policeman over snap-checking on Wednesday.
Bukhari, who is a senior leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and a sitting senator, arrived at a local court where a police guard at the entrance wanted to conduct his snap-checking.
Irked by the act, Bukhari’s guard slapped plain-clothed police constable Riaz before they entered the court. “Don’t you know who am I?” Bukhari said, according to an eyewitness.

Bukhari has served as Chairman of the Senate from March 2012 to March 2015.

Ultimate "result" depends on who has the" bigger sifarash " ; the V.I.P or the "disrespectful constable" !

[Gagan]

They'll probably get those 50 more JF-17 bandars with slightly better reverse engineered avionics from Four-father no 2.

[Falijee]

DG Rangers admits deceased MQM worker was tortured during custody

Which minion is going to be the "fall guy" ? remains to be seen ; Bad Sharif has ordered the "usual" probe !

[Peregrine]

Cwapistan to follow suit if India increases military might, says Sartaj

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday expressed concern over India’s growing military power and said if it was not checked, Pakistan would be forced to increase its strategic power.

Cheers

[Falijee]

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday expressed concern over India’s growing military power and said if it was not checked, Pakistan would be forced to increase its strategic power.

Cheers


Peregrine-ji : "Strategic power" appears to be a "code word" for nuclear weapons ; the old (87 years ) fart Pathan is threatening increase in production of tactical nukes, if Paki demands are not met !

[Falijee]

Most Active Terrorist Groups in Pakistan

Pakistan Govt and its Armed Forces, with their decisive anti-terrorist operations, have now successfully broken the backbone of all the major terrorist groups in Pakistan. Operation Zarb-e-Azb has proved extremely brutal for the anti-state elements wiping them out of almost all of their strongholds..
A large number of terrorist groups were operating in different parts of the country since 2000. According to Global Terrorism Database, here is a list of most active terrorist groups in Pakistan.

Appears to be an ISPR/ ISI farticle to "improve" the image of Pakiland ; no naam-o-nishan of the two most active terrorist groups that have been sanctioned by the UN: Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jash-E-Mohammed ; guess they fall in the category of "good terrorists" !

Most of the people in Pakistan are aware of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) only, whereas there are at least 8 more groups that had been inflicting serious damage through terrorist activities in Pakistan. (key word here; the other ones are known as "non-state actors" -whatever that means )

Due to complex geo-strategic location, Pakistan is fighting a wide array of known and unknown enemies that try their level best to exploit every possible opportunity to shake Pakistan. The brave Pakistani nation withstood this tremendous wave of terrorist activities with full zeal and big hearts. Though this dreadful wave now Alhamdullilah seems to diminish, we still need to stand united with our Armed Forces.

Special Message: For those freaks(The farticle is loaded with modern/American lingo )!who think Pakistan Govt and Armed Forces are unable to control terrorism.

So don’t lose hope and don’t criticize, instead, be a responsible citizen and help eradicate terrorism from its very roots. If you are in knowledge of a suspicious activity in your vicinity then must report it to Emergency Helplines Established by Pakistan Army and Rangers. what guarantee can be given that this reporting will not result in torture and death

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[Falijee]

Nuclear battles in South AsiaPervez HoodbhoyZia Mian

The armies of Pakistan and India are practicing for nuclear war on the battlefield: Pakistan is rehearsing the use of nuclear weapons, while India trains to fight on despite such use and subsequently escalate. What were once mere ideas and scenarios dreamed up by hawkish military planners and nuclear strategists have become starkly visible capabilities and commitments. When the time comes, policy makers and people on both sides will expect—and perhaps demand—that the Bomb be used.

Pakistan has long been explicit about its plans to use nuclear weapons to counter Indian conventional forces. Pakistan has developed “a variety of short range, low yield nuclear weapons,” claimed retired General Khalid Kidwai in March 2015. Kidwai is the founder—and from 2000 until 2014 ran—Pakistan’s Strategic Plans

Responding to US concerns, Kidwai has said that “Pakistan would not cap or curb its nuclear weapons programme or accept any restrictions.” The New York Times reported last year that so far, “an unknown number of the tactical weapons were built, but not deployed” by Pakistan.

India is making its own preparations for nuclear war. The Indian Army conducted a massive military exercise in April 2016 in the Rajasthan desert bordering Pakistan, involving tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and 30,000 soldiers, to practice what to do if it is attacked with nuclear weapons on the battlefield.

It could come to pass that Pakistan’s army uses nuclear weapons on its own territory to repel invading Indian tanks and troops

While even a small nuclear weapon would be devastating in an urban environment, many such weapons may be required to have a decisive military impact on columns of well-dispersed battle tanks and soldiers who have practiced warfighting under nuclear attack.

According to Admiral Vijay Shankar, a former head of Indian strategic nuclear forces, such retaliation would involve nuclear attacks on Pakistan’s cities. Kidwai describes such Indian threats as “bluster and blunder,” since they “are not taking into account the balance of nuclear weapons of Pakistan, which hopefully not, but has the potential to go back and give the same kind of dose to the other side.”

It is also unclear how the officers who are in charge of Pakistan’s military bases and those who make security-clearance decisions are chosen, and whether their own commitment to fighting Islamic radicalism is genuine

With expansive and costly nuclear arsenal modernizations underway in the United States, Russia, and the other established nuclear weapon states, the Bomb now seems ready for a second life. Increasingly subject to the same exterminist forces, South Asia may be locked in its nuclear nightmare for a very long time.

Pakistan's open boast to use nuclear weapons in a war with India, coupled with the danger of these weapons falling into the wrong hands, makes Pakistan a very dangerous and irrational player in the region !

[Gagan]

Most Active Terrorist Groups in Pakistan

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AoA
What happens if some abdul picks up the phone and calls the number to report a Daura-e-aam or a Daura-e-khaas course being conducted in Muzzafarabad or Muridke hain ji?

[Cosmo_R]

^^^ paki tactical nukes. I wonder how the nuclear calculus would really work.
1. 'The fabled 'cold start' is executed
2. Pakis fall back and ready tactical nukes and presumably signal since they will be dropped on paki soil
3a India gets the signal and (presumably) does not wait for the launch, and according to doctrine launches full scale first strike against all paki nuke centers with strategic and low yield weapons OR
3b. India waits for pakis to launch and then does 3a

In the above scenario, the paki tactical nukes don't make sense because the Indian strike (counter or otherwise) would destroy their ability to use their strategic weapons which is their real sting.

I don't understand how the tactical nuke thing works for pakis except as bluster for the benefit of third parties.

[A_Gupta]

Cwapistan to follow suit if India increases military might, says Sartaj

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday expressed concern over India’s growing military power and said if it was not checked, Pakistan would be forced to increase its strategic power.

Cheers

India should keep growing at 7+% per year and spending onlee 2.5% of GDP on defense. It will eventually bankrupt Pakistan, and put a huge strain on Pakistan's 3.5 friends.

[arun]

Martial TFTA citizens of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan being shown up rather badly by Less Martial SDRE citizens of India on the Olympic Qualification front denting cherished notion held in the Islamic Republic of how one Mohammadden Pakistani equals 10 or some other multiple of Hindu Indians .

The News reports that no sportsperson from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has managed to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on merit and any citizen of the Islamic Republic who participates will do so on the charity of a wild card entry :

So far not a single Pakistani player has qualified for Rio Olympics and it seems that the country will only field its athletes through wild card entries.

Clicky – The News

By way of contrast per week old Times of India article, some 45 Indian sportspersons plus male and female hockey teams have qualified so far with many of the Indian’s who qualified being in the so called “Martial” sports of wrestling, archery and shooting :

2016 Rio Olympics: Which Indian athletes have qualified?

Wither the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's much parroted talk of Honor and Dignity aka H&D?

[SSridhar]

I don't understand how the tactical nuke thing works for pakis except as bluster for the benefit of third parties.

Cosmo_R, what has made the Pakistanis think since that fateful October 1947 that it could stage a war against India and destroy it? It is the same thing that makes them feel that they could attack Indian armed forces with a TNW and get away with it. Call it 'tactical brilliance and strategic stupidity' or braggadocio, or bravado or swagger or anything else, it means only one thing. That is, Pakistan cannot be seen to be cowed down or unresponsive. Indeed, it must be one-up on India.

[AbhiJ]

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.co ... l-to-modi/

Balochis appeal to India to save hem from genocide by Pakistan Islamic Pious Army (PIPA).

Not able to copy so typing some gems:

Pakistan Army has Rape Cells and Torture Cells

Pakistan is an artificial country a test tube country

Looks like she is an ardent BRF reader,

Pakistan. It is the nursery and hatchery of terrorism and it is getting billions of dollars from America and arms and ammunition from China. This is a cancer that is given artificial life from the forces that need to keep this region unstable. Pakistan is doing all the proxy work for them

Djinnah was a big traitor he made us all chomu

Pakistan is part and problem of India. Why has India thrown this cancer on us?

Pakistan’s existence depends on Balochistan and not on India or Bangladesh or anything else. Pakistan’s economy is based on loans from IMF, World Bank and Western countries and Pakistan has no resources to show other than the mineral resources of Balochistan, to get loans. Their strategic importance is due to Balochistan coast. Without Balochistan, they are landlocked. When Balochistan becomes free, Pakistan will not survive even for a single day.

We are very few, they will finish us and we won’t even have anyone left among us to be displayed in a museum. So far the battleground is only Balochistan. They come, they kill and they get killed. If they don’t come, nobody will get killed. But I can foresee the battlefield will shift to Pakistan.

[SSridhar]

7-year jail, Rs 1 crore fine soon for showing PoK, Arunachal as disputed - Aman Sharma, Economic Times

Depiction of a wrong map of India or showing Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) or Arunachal Pradesh as not a part of India on any online platform or physical documents could mean a stiff jail term of seven years along with an heavy fine of up to Rs One Crore, says a new law being proposed by the Narendra Modi government.

The Centre is planning to soon bring the Geospatial Information Regulation Bill by which such tough provisions will be brought and any person or institution acquiring and disseminating any geospatial imagery or data of any part of India through space or aerial platforms will have to first seek permission and license from a government authority. This could mean that online platforms like Google will have to apply for a license to run Google Maps or Google Earth in India. The government authority will run "sensitivity checks" on the imagery to protect India's security and sovereignty.

The law is meant to regulate the acquisition, dissemination, publication and distribution of geospatial information of India which is likely to affect the security, sovereignty and integrity of India, as per a draft. Geospatial Information has been defined as any imagery or data acquired through space or aerial platforms such as satellite, aircrafts, airships, balloons, unmanned aerial vehicles or graphical or digital data depicting natural or man-made physical features, phenomenon or boundaries of the earth or any information including surveys, charts, maps and terrestrial photos, the law says.

Without permission of a Security Vetting Authority which will be duly set up by the government, it has been specified that no person shall, in any manner, make use of, disseminate, publish or distribute any geospatial information of India - either inside India or abroad, without a license. It has been specified that no person shall depict, disseminate, publish or distribute any wrong or false topographic information of India including international boundaries through internet platforms or online services or in any electronic or physical form. The penalties would be seven year jail and One crore fine.

The Act will however not apply to Indian government bodies. When the offender is a company, every person responsible for the conduct of business shall be liable to be proceeded against unless he proves that the contravention took place without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent such contravention

Is this a part of preliminaries for BECA?

[Falijee]

Portrait of Dr. Abdus Salam defaced by COMSATS students

"This portrait of Dr. Abdus Salam was in COMSATS and the students spoiled it by throwing ink on it. I still remember there was a seminar being held in the University and Dr. Hoodbhoy was invited to speak. The seminar was cancelled and instead the administration invited Junaid Jamshed to deliver a speech. ( who was himself later attacked by the Mullah Brigade as not being Islamic enough ! )The incident happened on the same day when some of the students threw ink on the portrait and deleted the word "Pakistani Scientist" from the description. The portrait was then removed by the university administration, despite the fact that Dr. Salam founded this university."

CONCLUSION:
Pakistanis decide to "postpone" their entry into the rolls of a "liberal society" (whatever that means in the Paki context ) as envisioned by Ganja's heir apparent daughter

[Falijee]

India playing dangerous game of dividing Kashmir on religious lines: APHC

But was not this part of India demanded by Pakistan, because of religious reasons

[Prem]

Black Knight "Might & Plight
( RammayaWattaVyya)

It did not come as a surprise that President Putin has decided not to come to Pakistan for the time being.The Russian mission in Islamabad had already indicated that performing the inauguration of the $2 billion North-South gas pipeline project was ‘not enough substance’ for the trip.Obviously, the President of Russia has better things to do than coming all the way to Pakistan to cut a ribbon.Misplaced media hype made the decision sound like a death-knell for Pak-Russia cooperation which it clearly is not.In fact, it gives exactly the opposite message; that Russia would like to deepen cooperation beyond a $2b pipeline and add more substance to our relationship.It’s not as if Russia has decided to abandon the pipeline project which will most probably be inaugurated by the Russian ambassador now.Obviously, Russia has not withdrawn its extended hand of friendship.It is our leadership that needs to rise to the occasion and shake it.The dynamics of geopolitics is nudging Russia and Pakistan towards each other and both stand to benefit tremendously through comprehensive mutual cooperation.A deep and multi-dimensional Pak-Russia friendship would be a big boost for peace and prosperity in our neighborhood and it would also speed up our journey towards a multi-polar world.President Putin understands this and has made the right gestures so far.It is our government that is twiddling its thumbs like a moron.
What is it that makes our government blind to Russia and all the goodness our friendship could bring? Why is it so difficult for our decision-makers to correct their qibla, to free themselves from imperialist tentacles of Washington and London and harmonise with the song of hope emanating in the neighborhood from Beijing and Moscow? Are the dollar-crumbs from the IMF really better than the boons a speedy integration in the SCO would bring?The colonial hangover of those in charge of our destiny is the biggest disability when it comes to the much-needed re-orientation of our foreign policy.
They are too busy following the imperial pied piper to be mindful of anything else.Quite like blindfolded greedy mice sniffing the trail of dollar-crumbs and driven by personal benefits, they have no vision or sense of national interest.Like willing slaves, they happily dance to the tune of their imperial masters.They know no other way.Why else would our government drag its feet to complete the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline even after the lifting of UN sanctions? When it comes to upgrading the air force, why does it keep circling the over-priced, outdated and manipulated F-16s? At whose behest is our prime minister pursuing a fraudulent peace agenda with India? What explains his blind love for the House of Saud? Clearly, there is more to it than personal gratitude.As if they were made for each other, the foreign policy preferences of the Nawaz government have synchronised almost perfectly with the imperial game-plan.Our prime minister instinctively gravitates towards mini-me hegemons like Saudi Arabia and India being propped up by the US to assist it in its destabilising plans for the world, sponsoring and facilitating networks of proxy terrorists and subverting regional cooperation by pitting neighbour against neighbour.
Had it not been for categorical inputs from the military leadership, we would be fighting the Saudi war of aggression against Yemen and India would be using a land-route to Afghanistan.
Just what we need for fighting terrorism, right? Had it not been for the decision by the military leadership to commence Zarb-e-Azab and Zarb-e-Ahan, the Nawaz government would still be talking to TTP and protecting terrorists and their facilitators in Punjab in the name of democracy.
What, after all, does Obama mean when he says that our region will remain unstable for decades? He doesn’t have a crystal ball, does he? What he actually means is that this is what the US and its partners plan to achieve.By staying put in Afghanistan, they would like to coordinate their terrorist proxies to brew trouble in neighbouring states.That includes not only Pakistan but also Iran, Central Asia, Russia and China.Could it be any clearer who our genuine partners are?In any case, it’s not hard to add substance to Pak-Russia cooperation and welcome President Putin to Pakistan in a manner that befits his stature.To pave the way for his visit, we should have a list of mutually beneficial agreements ready; on counter-terrorism, defence and intelligence sharing, on trade and energy, on curbing the subversive activities of NGOs, on industrial development and sustainable non-GMO agriculture.I guess the military leadership will have to push the government on this one as well.

[Falijee]

Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal allegedly prevents prominent academic from presenting on CPEC at Peshawar University

PESHAWAR (Staff Report) – Dr Said Alam Mehsud, Convener China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Front, was stopped by Islamia College Peshawar administration from presenting his views at a seminar on Thursday.
Mehsud, who heads the Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehreek (PUT) and is also the KP government’s technical expert on the CPEC, later told the media that he was invited by the university to give a presentation on the $42 billion mega project.
But according to Mehsud, he was expelled from the hall on the behest of Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal, who was the chief guest on the occasion.
Dr Mehsud opined that the vice chancellor of Peshawar University was not to be blamed, as the “orders directly came from the federal minister’.

In Pakistan, which is not under any rule of law, anything is possible on the whim of one individual eg.# (1) expelled from the hall on the orders of a Minister or eg # (2) Policeman on duty being slapped by the Ex Chairman of the Senate . Eg #( 3 )DSP Police rapes a 18 year old girl in a Lahori suburb

The Awami National Party and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl were the two main political forces that had initially opposed the Planning Commission’s decision to construct the eastern alignment of the corridor before construction of the western route. However, leaders of both parties were pacified following a meeting with the prime minister during which they were assured that their grievances would be addressed.

Last year, ANP chief Asfandyar Wali, whose party has vociferously opposed the change in the corridor’s route, met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and was assured of a six-lane motorway extending from DI Khan.

Looking at the map, it is obvious that the proposed original road which skirted/ bypassed the Paki power base of Pakjab was a non-starter in Paki power circles . It is therefore "humbly proposed " that the so-called game-changer project should still be acronym ed as CPEC but would henceforth be named as China Punjab Pakjab Economic Corridor

[Falijee]

Post-mortem report confirms Aftab's torture

KARACHI: Multiple torture marks were found on Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker Aftab Ahmed’s body, a postmortem report confirmed on Thursday.
Over 35 percent of the body was covered in bruises and abrasions, the postmortem report, a copy of which is available with Geo News said.
Bruises in reddish and reddish black colours were present at various parts of the body including the chest, thighs, skull and buttocks, the report said.
The skin had received multiple abrasions, it added.
A nail of the left toe was partially torn off, it stated.
The ankles of the body were swollen and red, the report said.)
The postmortem report said that the cause of death could not be ascertained.

An hogwash investigation is now under way on the orders of the (big honcho) COAS- AKA - Bad Sharif

Aftab Ahmed was reportedly detained by law enforcement personnel in plainclothes during a raid near Mukka Chowk in Federal B Area on Sunday evening.
He was presented before a judge of the anti-terrorism court on Monday by the paramilitary Rangers force. The court had granted the Rangers' request for a 90-day preventive detention.
On Tuesday he was rushed to the Jinnah Hospital where he was announced dead on arrival.

So within a span of three days he was tortured to death ! Where are the so-called international custodians of human rights (eg. Amnesty International ) in all of this ; this was just one high profile case, which accidentally came to light.

The MQM had claimed that Aftab Ahmed who was also coordinator of senior leader Farooq Sattar had died in Rangers’ custody. The Army Chief ordered an inquiry into the death of the MQM worker on Wednesday.

Aftab was buried enclosed in a coffin, as his body had been mutiliated, Farooq Sattar said.
Speaking to Geo News at the funeral Sattar said, “If he was wanted in a crime he should have been tried in court,” he said.
“Aftab Ahmed was being forced to change party loyalties,” he added
According to an MQM press statement, Aftab Ahmed leaves behind his wife, three daughters and two sons.

Going from what happened here, coupled with the situation in Balochistan and KP, for all practical purposes, Pakiland is under army (fist) rule ; Ganja can bark as loud as he wants about democracy blah blah blah; he is right now obsessed in saving his loot and/or PM seat !

[Y. Kanan]

CIA station chief poisoned by ISI
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/aft ... li=BBnb7Kz

After presiding over bin Laden raid, CIA chief in Pakistan came home convinced he was poisoned by ISI...Two months after Osama bin Laden was killed, the CIA’s top operative in Pakistan was pulled out of the country in an abrupt move vaguely attributed to health concerns and his strained relationship with Islamabad.

In reality, the CIA station chief was so violently ill that he was often doubled over in pain, current and former U.S. officials said. Trips out of the country for treatment proved futile. And the cause of his ailment was so mysterious, the officials said, that both he and the agency began to suspect that he had been poisoned.

Mark Kelton retired from the CIA and his health has recovered after he had abdominal surgery. But agency officials continue to think that it is plausible — if not provable — that Kelton’s sudden illness was somehow orchestrated by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, known as the ISI.

[Peregrine]

India, Pakistan biggest victims of malware: Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO: Pakistan, Indonesia, the Palestinian territories, Bangladesh, and Nepal attract the highest rates of attempted malware attacks, according to Microsoft Corp. What! NO INDIA?

Countries that attracted the fewest include Japan, Finland, Norway and Sweden, Microsoft said in a new study, based on sensors in systems running Microsoft anti-malware software.

"We look at north of 10 million attacks on identities every day," said Microsoft manager Alex Weinert, although attacks do not always succeed.

About half of all attacks originate in Asia and one-fifth in Latin America.

Millions occur each year when the attacker has valid credentials, Microsoft said, meaning the attacker knows a user's login and password. A technology known as machine learning can often detect those attacks by looking for data points such as whether the location of the user is familiar.

On average, 240 days elapse between a security breach in a computer system and detection of that breach, said Tim Rains, director of security at Microsoft. The study, Microsoft Security Intelligence report, comes out Thursday.

Cheers

[Prem]

After presiding over bin Laden raid, CIA chief in Pakistan came home suspecting he was poisoned by ISI
( Did he have Lunch or Dinner with Ms Tarrar or Sultana)

In reality, the CIA station chief was so violently ill that he was often doubled over in pain, current and former U.S. officials said. Trips out of the country for treatment proved futile. And the cause of his ailment was so mysterious, the officials said, that both he and the agency began to suspect that he had been poisoned.Mark Kelton retired from the CIA and his health has recovered after he had abdominal surgery. But agency officials continue to think that it is plausible — if not provable — that Kelton’s sudden illness was somehow orchestrated by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, known as the ISIOfficials said the ISI chief at the time, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, routinely refused to speak with Kelton or even utter his name, referring to the dour CIA station chief as “the cadaver.”

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[Falijee]

HRCP report sees reduction in violence

Disclaimer / reader caution :

(1) This report is produced by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which relies on unreliable statistics produced by Paki authorities.
(2) This newspiece ignores human right violations and makes no mention of such abuses in Balochistan, KP province and Karachi including the unexplained death of activist Sabeen Mahmud.
(3) This report was prepared before the embarrassing death- by torture - this week of a senior MQM aide

IMHO - although I have not read the actual report - it may not disclose the full extent of the human rights violation picture in Pakiland !

[Falijee]

Are you Indian or Pakistani? — Why it shouldn't matterShaira Mohan

Another fartice in the mold of the Aman ka tamasha

I am snapped out of my reverie by my taxi driver Ajmal Khan who asks me: "Madame, you are British?" (Something I get to hear a lot here, including all those who are fair-skinned)

I smile and reply in Hindi, "Hindustani hoon. Aur aap?"

After a shocked silence, he quips: "Pakistani. Ek hi baat hai na lekin?"

Examine: A Mumbaikar in Karachi: 'Tum bilkul hum jaisey nikley'

This is common in Abu Dhabi. Most of the taxi drivers are from India, or Pakistan. They are also the friendliest.

[Karan M]

Usual references to hindus, BJP etc at end of article. India tends to produce more than its fair share of dhimmis and deracinated morons.

[Falijee]

Several Pakistani bigwigs made properties in name of their children in Dubai: Rauf Klasra
Imran Khan's sister and Pervez Musharaf are included in this list !

[SSridhar]

US Congress seeks to block $450 million aid to Pakistan - PTI

The US Congress has initiated a move to block $450 million in aid to Pakistan for failing to "demonstrate its commitment" and taking action against the Haqqani terror network.

The provision in the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2017, if passed by the Congress, would not allow the US Government to waive this condition in 'national interest'.

According to NDAA 2017 as passed by the House Armed Services Committee last week, of the total amount of reimbursement and support authorised for Pakistan during the period beginning on October 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 2017, $450 million would not be eligible for a national security waiver unless the Secretary of Defence certifies that Pakistan continues to conduct military operations against the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan.

The Defence Secretary also needs to certify that Pakistan is demonstrating commitment to prevent the Haqqani Network from using North Waziristan as a safe haven and is actively coordinating with Afghanistan to restrict the movement of militants, including the Haqqani Network, along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

There is similar certification requirement in the current fiscal 2016 ending on September 31, 2016, but the amount is $300 million.

Defence Secretary has not been able to give necessary certification for the release of such a fund to Pakistan so far.

The House Armed Services Committee says that it will continue to review the reimbursements made to Pakistan and how it comforts with the future of US policy, including key counterterrorism and security objectives, in the region.

It also asked the Secretary of Defence to notify the congressional defence committees prior to making any reimbursement to Pakistan for any logistical, military or other support.

It further extends the requirement for the Secretary of Defense to certify, prior to making any reimbursement to Pakistan, that Pakistan is maintaining security along the Ground Lines of Communications, taking demonstrable steps to support counterterrorism operations, disrupting cross border attacks and countering the threat of improvised explosive devices.

The move comes days after the US told Pakistan to put forward its national funds to buy eight F-16s worth $700 million after some top Senators put a hold on the use of American tax payers' money to partially finance them.

In a recent Congressional testimony the Special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Olson, said that the Obama Administration has $742.2 million in American aid to Pakistan for the fiscal year 2017.

This includes $472.4 million in civilian assistance and $269.8 million in security assistance.

"This request strikes the appropriate balance between long-term development and strategic military-to-military cooperation, both of which are in our national security interest, and is at a level that we can responsibly implement," Olson said.

"This request is considerably lower - indeed, over 60 per cent lower - than our peak funding for Pakistan in FY 2010, the first year under the Kerry-Lugar-Berman authorisation," he added.

"While this decrease is warranted given urgent needs around the globe, the requested resources remain crucial to advancing cooperation on core areas that matter to us: bolstering Pakistan's counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations; empowering women and girls; enabling the return of internally displaced persons; and facilitating private sector investment in Pakistan's economy and energy sector," Olson said.

[Kashi]

Usual references to hindus, BJP etc at end of article. India tends to produce more than its fair share of dhimmis and deracinated morons.

It's far more malicious than that. Yawn is a gathering adda for the Naqvis, Nooranis, Jishnus and the like who's only aim is to pour scorn and vitriol on India and Hindus and Modi in particular.

[Falijee]

5 Biggest Failures of ISI in Recent Times

Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), has been consistently ranked as one of the most powerful in the world by various magazines.
The ISI even holds the respect of former officials of its traditional rival, India’s premier spy agency Research & Analysis Wing (RAW).
“The most powerful intelligence agency is either KGB which no more exists or ISI, because they are very anonymous,” said AS Dulat, former RAW chief, while addressing a session in New Delhi last year.

Paki boasting at its best !

ISI has, so far, done a brilliant job in carrying out intelligence-based operations against militants in various parts of the country, including major cities like Karachi and Lahore.
However, some of the agency’s operations have not been as successful as others. With an ever greater flow of ‘sensitive’ information making its way into the mainstream media, the agency’s performance can now be viewed in a more critical light.

ISI supremacy is like the earlier myth initially propagated by Ayub Khan ("one beef eating Muslim soldier is equivalent to ten Hindu soldiers ") and due to the effect of mythology on the Aam Abduls is still "used once in a while" to create the desired effect of superiority !

1. Letting a Brigadier sell OBL’s location to United States
In 2015, media reports suggested that Brigadier Usman Khalid of Pakistan Army had provided the CIA with extensive information about the location of Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad.

After success of the OBL raid, Brigadier Khalid was awarded American nationality and shifted to United States along with his family.According to veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, American president then called his Pakistani counterpart to inform him about the strange turn of events, much to latter’s embarrassment.

So, POTUS did not care about the Enchendee ramifications of the same ?

...remains one of the biggest failures if ISI.

2. Unable to provide concrete proofs of India-sponsored terrorism in Pakistan

After the Mumbai Attacks, India was extremely quick to compile dossier to make Pakistan look bad internationally. This was no doubt done by their notorious spy agencies. Pakistan has, however, failed to compile such dossiers despite 15 years of terrorist attacks on its soil sponsored by various hostile spy agencies including Afghanistan NDS and India’s RAW.However, in a rare success, in March this year, Pakistan’s security forces arrested kidnapped a serving Indian Naval Commander, Kalbushan Yadav, who was coordinating Research and Analysis Wing activities in Balochistan.

Concrete proof that Mumbai attack was the work of RAW agents was provided by ISI by pointing out that those killed and one caught were wearing "Hindu threads" on their hands !

While the video was trumpeted as concrete proof of Indian espionage in Pakistan, it has largely been ignored by international media and other international powers, including the US. India was able to duck under the issue, despite admitting Yadav was a Naval officer, and declined to apologize on government or military level, arguing that the statement had been recorded under duress and was not admissible in a court of law.

So, does that mean that the ISI will get a refund back from the Taliban for "defective goods"

3. Failing to rein in militants created for the Afghan War in the 80s

Rarely does a country fight the same war twice in one generation. Even rarer is to fight the same war twice, but from opposite sides. Yet that is in many ways what Pakistan is doing inside its own territory today.

This is the classic case of "snakes nurtured in your backyard, coming to bite you back"

After the Soviet pull-out, many guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan looked towards new fronts for ‘jihad’.

IMHO, this Jihad BS, is nothing but a business dealing with money being given to uneducated kids and their families to "make trouble"

With America now occupying Afghanistan and fighting a Taliban-led insurgency in the country with Pakistani support, the tides of the jihadi movement have now turned on Pakistan. Many of its leaders once sympathetic to Pakistan now denounce the country’s role in supporting the American occupation.
As a result, numerous government installations and ‘soft’ targets like schools, hospitals, markets and places of worship have all been targeted on Pakistani soil, often by the very same groups who were our allies at various times during the Afghan insurgency. Conversely, Pakistan has also been accused by the US, its supposed ally in the Afghan conflict, for clandestinely supporting the Afghan Taliban in resisting American occupation of the country.

4. Lack of a reliable terror threat alert system and intelligence sharing for LEAs in Pakistan

Non-cooperation between the civil and military agencies on intelligence-gathering has resulted in several deadly disasters, including the suicide hit on slain Punjab Home minister Shujaa Khanzada last year, and the attack on Bacha Khan University in KP this year.

Intelligence sharing between military and civilian agencies was also enshrined as a key point of the National Action Plan (NAP), Pakistan’s first comprehensive policy to tackle terrorism on its soil. However, the Joint Intelligence Directorate to be established under NAP is still non-functional. Some media observers have put this down to the ISI’s refusal to share real-time intelligence with civilian LEAs and intelligence agencies.

The jernails and kernels of ISI are busy "making money" in land allotment , weapon purchases commissions so they do have the time for their jobs !

5. Political engineering moves which eventually come to light and make parties like the MQM more entrenched

Since the Karachi Operation is launched, over 150 ‘political’ workers of Karachi-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have gone missing. The MQM leadership blames Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) for the forced disappearance of its workers.
Recently, former mayor of Karachi under the MQM government, Mustafa Kamal also returned to Pakistan from a self-imposed exile in Dubai, and alleged that the party was involved in promoting militancy and terrorism with the city.
To many his return marks the resurfacing of the politics of the ’90s in Karachi, in which the ISI played a role in splitting the MQM into two rival groups and stoking clashes between them.
The truth is that MQM has been running a militant wing to get a hold on the biggest city of Pakistan.

This is a polite way of saying that the ISI meddles in domestic policy and as recent events that are exposed, prove that it will not hesitate to use torture to achieve its end in breaking up the MQM in Karachi !

While ISI remains one of the best intelligence agencies of the region, there are many things they can work on to improve. ISI is Pakistan’s first and arguably one of the most important lines of defense against our enemy, and we should work as a nation to improve it.

This last paragraph is like an "insurance" to make sure that the writer does not end up in the hands of the ISI

[SSridhar]

Military demands independent body to regulate CPEC affairs - DT

The military establishment is pressing the government hard to set up an independent regulatory body to oversee all the affairs of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), it has been learnt reliably.

“There has been strong demand by military circles that an independent regulatory body be set up to handle affairs of the CPEC … they don’t want Planning Commission to play any role in this regard,” sources privy to the developments told this correspondent.

Sources said the military establishment wanted this billion-dollar project to be handled by an independent body to bring more transparency.

“If the government can make Benazir Income Support Program completely independent then what is the issue with the CPEC? It’s the biggest-ever national project not only for our economy but country’s defense,” the sources said.

They said that the military is quite confident that if China is supporting Pakistan for the completion of CPEC project, there is no need to worry from any regional player. “Some circles have expressed their reservations with the government at the highest level that Planning Commission cannot run or control such a mega project... they believe the implementation process is very much slow because of red-tapism,” sources said. In the recent past, sources maintained, the military establishment suggested the government to set up an independent body or an institution. “There is suggestion that an independent body be set up with equal participation of civil military representatives in the board. The prime minister should head the board so all matters could be taken care of in a proper way,” sources added.

It is learnt that the government has started considering the move seriously. The Planning Commission was of the view that a steering committee is enough to handle all the matters related to CPEC but military establishment in not in favor of it and has conveyed to the government that an independent body be set up that will operate without any kind of interference. “The body can be established through an act of parliament like ERRA was established after the earthquake,” they maintained.

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a 46-billion-dollar national project consisting of loan, assistance and grant by the Chinese government. Both the government and military circles believe that the transparency must be ensured at all levels. Army’s special force would provide security to the landmark project and over 10, 000 army personnel have already been given special training in this regard. Army Chief General Raheel Sharif himself has declared CPEC a national project and reaffirmed on number of times that CPEC would be completed at all cost.