Terroristan - 4th Jan 2018

[Bart S]

Angst Of A Paki

Pakistan is losing Middle East. ( To India !)

Even an average joe can see that India is building and strengthening it's relations with the middle eastern Arab countries whereas Pakistan isn't doing jacks#it about it. Ever since 2015, When Pakistan refused to deploy troops in Yemen, India took the opportunity and is gaining more and more ground in those countries. Examples from past couple of days, Indian Pavilion in Saudi Arabia's largest cultural festival in Riyadh. Modi on state visit to UAE, and now Oman and got military base set there. He also visited Jordan and Palestine. While our leaders are busy with infighting and election season, we are losing ground in Middle East. That could have serious economic and strategic repercussions for Pakistan.We have let go of everything else and are apparently only focusing on CPEC. Putting our eggs in one basket would be futile decision. Foreign office is mature enough to know that.

PS: "Forgot" to mention Saudi permission given to Air India to fly over Saudi territory enroute to "enemy" Israel

This is absolute gold! A wet towel thread if there ever was one.

[Vinod Ji]

Pakistan is losing Middle East. ( To India !)



PS: "Forgot" to mention Saudi permission given to Air India to fly over Saudi territory enroute to "enemy" Israel [/quote]

This is absolute gold! A wet towel thread if there ever was one. [/quote]

Above false news.. clarified by saudi in news. Don't remember where I read it.

[Falijee]

Paki Propaganda On "FATA Is Normal" Nailed By A Former Bureaucrat !

Mazar-i-Miramshah
Ghulam Qadir KhanFebruary 14, 2018

I RECENTLY visited Miramshah and my village, Darpa Khel — after many years, owing to militancy followed by ( much touted !) Operation Zarb-i-Azb. Much has been written on the miseries of the tribesmen during militancy and displacement. Here, I examine what their lives look like after returning home.

December in this part is dry and dusty. Trees denuded and grass lifeless; it paints a picture of epic sadness. The road is newly constructed, but traffic is very thin compared to the past. Travelling to and from North Waziristan is extremely difficult. One cannot travel without a Watan Card, no matter how many other forms of identification one has. Then, the checking en route is humiliating enough to deter most travellers.

Miramshah once overtook Parachinar as the most populated and prosperous town in Fata after the last Shia-Sunni battle in Kurram Agency. In spite of all FCR restrictions, it was the fastest-growing town in Fata. People from down country could be seen doing business here. Taxis and coaches going to nearby villages, down country and Afgha­nistan were always available. Truckloads of fruit and timber from Afghanistan, and wheat flour, edible oils and other commodities from down country, would pass through. It was rightly called Sarai Miramshah.

To my disbelief, this once-bustling town is nowhere to be seen. Bazaars, houses and godowns have been demolished; even the scrap is missing. No one is allowed to reconstruct on their land. Paki propaganda belied by one of their own

The level of destruction that took place in recent years called for a massive reconstruction programme.

Since reconstruction is not allowed, the Darpa Khels (major shareholders in Miramshah) started making small huts outside the town. This construction is overflowing into the khwar (seasonal waterways). No one is making major investments for fear of having to leave again.

I couldn’t stay in my house because my sister is living there with her family, after her house in Dande Darpa Khel was demolished for no apparent reason, the one case I can vouch for that had nothing to do with militancy. The story of Dande Darpa Khel is a sad one that merits special mention on a separate occasion.

The houses of those involved in militancy were demolished. Of those left, their roofs were removed for aerial surveillance. Everything inside the houses has been destroyed; what man didn’t, the weather destroyed. There is nothing left for people to come back to. Their small belongings and livestock, earned by sweating their youth away in the Middle East, are all gone. Distressed, they wonder why this happened ...

Visiting Miramshah was like visiting a graveyard. It was remodelled, clean and spacious, but without hope and happiness — like a grand mausoleum teeming with long-suffering humanity. On my way back I wondered if it should be renamed Mazar-i-Miramshah. No wonder, the Pashtun Long March happened !

[SSridhar]

All you need to know about Pakistan Senate nominee Krishna Kumari - The Hindu Desk

Who is Krishna Kumari?

Krishna Kumari is the second Hindu woman to be nominated as a Senator in Pakistan. She has been nominated for the post by the Pakistan People's Party. She is also a human rights activist whose specialties involve women's rights, bonded labour, and sexual harrassment at the workplace.

What is her background?

Born into the Kohli community, Ms. Kumari herself was sold into bonded labour as a child along with the rest of the family. She was freed during a police raid, reports Dawn, on the farmland of her employer, and later married at the age of 16. Ms. Kumari pursued her education after her marriage, earning a postgraduate degree in sociology.

Why is her nomination special?

The Pakistan Senate has had only one female Hindu member, Ratna Bhagwandas Chawla from the PPP, until now. Ms. Kumari is also the first Hindu woman belonging to a Scheduled Caste. Ms. Chawla represented the province of Sindh from 2006 to 2012, and if elected, Ms. Kumari would also represent Sindh.

When is the election?

The polls to the Upper House of Pakistan's Parliament is on March 3, 2018.

[anupmisra]

Paki Propaganda On "FATA Is Normal" Nailed By A Former Bureaucrat !

To my disbelief, this once-bustling town is nowhere to be seen. Bazaars, houses and godowns have been demolished; even the scrap is missing. No one is allowed to reconstruct on their land. ...The houses of those involved in militancy were demolished. Of those left, their roofs were removed for aerial surveillance.

TSPA's scorched earth policy during the Badm-e-hazm and Raddi-&-kabbad operations is the reason why there is so much local anger against it. Random pictures after the tellibunnies were "evicted"...looks like Syria, doesn't it?

[anupmisra]

Four security officials martyred hallaled in Quetta

According to Geo News, the security officials patrolling on the vehicle when they came under attack in Lango Abad locality of the provincial capital.

TSPA needs to patrol the streets of one of their major cities?

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/28103 ... -in-quetta

[anupmisra]

Government takes over JuD seminary, dispensaries in Rawalpindi

The Punjab government has started the process of taking over seminaries and health facilities run by Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) in Rawalpindi as it has taken control of the Hudabia Madressah on Chakra Road and asked the Auqaf department to assume its administration.

The district administration has also taken control of four dispensaries run by the Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF)

The federal government has barred companies and individuals from giving donations to JuD, FIF and other organisations on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions list.

The UNSC sanctions list includes the names of Al Qaeda, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, JuD, FIF and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

However, observers believe that it will be a difficult task for the government to take over JuD offices scattered across the country.

Don't hold your breath. Wait for the name changes...in the next week or so.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1389282/gover ... rawalpindi

[Vips]

Once Paris meet is over and the held up US aid has been released, Pakis will say Suckers and it will be back to business.

[mappunni]

Pakistan is losing Middle East. ( To India !)

Another Gold

"Pakistan's best policy for Middle East would be to maintain neutral to positive relations with the Gulf countries, and foster stronger partnerships with Turkey and Iran. These two are our cultural and ethnic kin."


Still Porkis keep thinking they are ethnically and culturally related to the Turkic and Persian invaders.

[anupmisra]

Pakistan is losing Middle East. ( To India !)[/color]

Still Porkis keep thinking they are ethnically and culturally related to the Turkic and Persian invaders.

Welcome aboard Mappunni. In due course of your being here, you will realize that bakis are more than just ethnic turks and eyerainians in mufti.

Ba(w)kis do not think that they re turkis or eyrainians. They know it. Otherwise how else would they celebrate being progenies of the rape and pillage that their ancestors went through.

They are everything to everyone at every moment of their clueless existence... but depending on the situation. A paki in britainistan can automatically become paki-origin-brit if he does something extraordinary (like that brit boxer with paki ancestry), or he can be labelled 'brit born" if he has been indicted in the ever expanding $ex scandal.

A paki is as much an arab as an arab is an arab except when the arab does arab things that would embarrass wannabe arabs.

[Falijee]

Anupmisra-ji:
Thanks for posting these "telling photus" of FATA towns ; Paki Fauj, as usual, is resorting to using an elephant to kill a mouse or a mosquito , while if reports are to be believed, the Haqqani gang" was given advance notice, so that they can "relocate" themselves to a "safe destination" and continue on with their "dirty work". No wonder , the "Pashtun Koum" is up in arms and resorted to their"Long March". The Pakis are to be thanked for revival of an " "Independent Pakhunistan". The Pakjabis have already alienated the Balochis and the Pashtuns. Now , with the Karachi situation getting worse by worse, Altaf Bhai and the local Sindhis will be clamoring for Sindhu Desh and /or Jinnahpur or Jinnahabad.

[Falijee]

Pakistan cracks down on Hafiz Saeed’s groups, freezes assets of JuD, FIF

And Hafeez Suar has been "ordered", by the Deep State , to stay quiet , at least for a few weeks, when things are expected to be back to normal

[Falijee]

LaWhori Professor Gunned Down In Shooting ; Pakjab Chief Minister "Takes Notice" Of The Incident ( Case Now Closed !)

[Falijee]

Paki Interior Minister On A Visit To US Blows Hot And Cold At The Same Time . Also Warns Massa To Stop Bullying Tactics And At The Same Time Recycles Sialkoti Statistics On Paki Sacrifices On "War On Terror"

Ahsan Iqbal warns US over bullying tactics

“Any effort to try to bully […] or coerce Pakistan will be counterproductive,” the minister said, adding that threatening Islamabad would be taken as a detrimental move on the part of the US. He clarified that any attack or conspiracy against Pakistan will end the same.

Iqbal underlined that both countries –US and Pakistan – need to work together for establishing peace in Afghanistan. Not sure if he has been successful in meeting with any Senior Trump Administration Officials

Pakistan has sacrificed over 60,000 lives and its economy suffered losses of $25 billion during the war on terror. Figures gone up due to inflation

[mappunni]

Pakistan is losing Middle East. ( To India !)[/color]

A paki is as much an arab as an arab is an arab except when the arab does arab things that would embarrass wannabe arabs.

Trying to be Al-Bakis

In the US from my experience, Bakis are more wannabe Indians (aka Bangalore Kerala). They usually tend to buy homes in neighborhoods with Indians to use the Indian veil. This is especially true in North Dallas area where I live.

[Bart S]

Pakis covering themselves with glory in the land of the White Pakis

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-new ... 0vy9b.html

A former employee of the Pakistan High Commissioner claims he was verbally abused, worked up to 19 hours a day and slept in a basement, before seeking help from the Australian government.

Shahid Mahmood told the ABC's Four Corners program that he slept in a storage space in the basement of the home of Pakistani High Commissioner Naela Chohan for 18 months before seeking help with Canberra Legal Aid. He described his pay of around $100 a week being sent to his family in Pakistan every few months.

[saip]

Just $25 billion loss? He lost a zero somewhere.

[anupmisra]

Just $25 billion loss? He lost a zero somewhere.

It was $123 Bn last year.
https://dailytimes.com.pk/9639/pakistan ... terrorism/

[Peregrine]

X Posted on the PESW Thread

Pakistan equity ends in red amid foreign selling

KARACHI: The KSE-100 Index remained in the negative on Wednesday’s session, closing at 43,353.04 after shedding 337.32 points, owing to different factors including persistent foreign selling and threats by the US to move a motion to place Pakistan on a global terror-financing watch list.

The benchmark KSE-100 index witnessed a choppy session with the Index scaling to a high of 91.52 points during the first 2 hours of market open; however bears established made a comeback.

Bearish sentiment at the bourse was triggered by news that USA & its allies have tabled a motion with the FATF to place Pakistan on a watch list of countries considered non-compliant with global anti-terror financing coupled with surging oil production in the United States that is “putting brakes on crude oil prices”.

The bourse remained negative during most part of the day, as it entered the positive range for a short period only, and closed 337 points below. Traded volumes for the day were 207 million shares while value traded totaled to $ 70 million.

Danish Ladhani of JS Research expects market to remain volatile with flows from local institutions and foreigners directing the market.

Cheers

[Falijee]

A Sympathetic Write Up On Asma Jehangir

FATAH: Pakistan’s lioness Asma Jahangir will never die
Tarek Fatah

For over 40 years the lioness of Pakistan stood alone, surrounded by a snarling pack of hyenas circling her for the kill. But they never dared come close to Asma Jahangir whose stare alone used to send many a jihadi and military general packing with tails tucked between their rears.

Then on Sunday Jahangir passed away as a result of a cardiac arrest. Dal mae kooch kala hae !

Asma Jahangir didn’t ever wrap her head in hijab, the flag of misogyny that has enamoured so many white women of privilege. She knew the piece of cloth represented Islamic radicalism.Only 66, she was also the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. While most Pakistanis, Indians and Iranians were shocked at the news of her death, Islamists of the region rejoiced. Lal Topi, the poster boy of the Paki Fauj is among those !

A comment on Pakistan’s Herald Tribune newspaper by one Osama Tariq epitomized the celebratory atmosphere among her Islamist enemies. Tariq wrote: “We finally got rid of her. She was the worst enemy of Islam and Pakistan.”

It didn’t stop there. Mehreen Sabtain, a news anchor on the country’s Bol TV network, mocked Jahangir as gay and a traitor. She tweeted: “Where are we heading as a nation, now traitors are hero-worshipped & our bikaoo [sell-out] media glorify them on TV screens! The fag fought for fame for rest of her life by always lashing at saviors of state.”

Mullahs gossiped in glee that no matter what Jahangir did in life, after her death her body would end up in their hands. This, because burial ceremonies are a monopoly of mosque-run cemeteries, and Islamic traditions (not the Quran) forbids women from being present at funerals.

The plan was to bar her Canadian-educated daughters, female followers and non-Muslims who she often represented, from the ceremony in which they could then insult her through insinuations mumbled in incomprehensible Arabic prayers.

Friends and family of Jahangir turned the tables by inviting the harshest critic of the Islamist establishment, Haider Maududi, who ironically is the son of the founder of the radical Jamaat-e-Islami (a Muslim Brotherhood sister group in the Indian subcontinent) to conduct the farewell prayers and rituals. Maududi Jr has his own axe to grind with the Paki Establishment . He has know seen a "new light" and suddenly is not "happy" in the direction that the "Land Of The Pure " is taking . More to do with the property distribution after the death of his father !.

The impact of this funeral will be felt for ages, breaking a 1,000-year-old Islamic ruling that says the female presence at funerals is prohibited, as it may lead to ‘temptations’ among the men.

Asma Jahangir was from my generation. I was just out of prison when I first heard of her, daring to climb over the wall of a military-appointed governor in Lahore to place a black flag of dissent.

[Falijee]

Pashtun Grievances Gets A Hearing In A Chini Supported Organ !

Pashtuns rising up against years of military oppression
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid- Asia Times

Frustrated by decades of persecution by the state, Pakistan’s minority Pashtuns have taken to the streets in a protest movement sparked by the police shooting of Naqeebullah Mehsud in a staged gun battle.

The 27-year-old, who was from the northwest Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which are often targeted for unpopular security crackdowns, was shot dead on January 13. Rao Anwar, a Karachi police commander accused of killing Mehsud, is now a fugitive, with an Anti-Terrorism Court ordering that his arrest by this Friday. But he has been "promised" bail !

After Mehsud’s death the Mehsud Tahaffuz Movement (Mehsud Protection Movement) sprang up under the leadership of Rehmat Khan, who hails from the same tribe in FATA’s South Waziristan district. It drew in protestors from Kurram, Orakzai, Bajaur and other areas.

Mohsin Dawar, central chairman of the National Youth Organisation, who is one of the nationalists leading the protests in Islamabad, described the movement as a “Pashtun spring”, comparing it to the Arab Spring uprising that swept the Middle East from 2010.

“We feel we are being targeted owing to our Pashtun identity and whatever is happening in FATA is a prime example of that,” Dawar added, in reference to army operations in the Pashtun tribal areas ...

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, one of Pakistan’s top leaders when it was granted independence in 1947, had advocated a separate homeland for the Pashtuns. Khan was often known as the “Frontier Gandhi” for his commitment to non-violent approach to protesting.

However, Pakistan’s leaders are not very happy with the push for a separate Pashtun identity. Last month a Pakistan Army spokesperson linked Afghan refugees with terrorism. Historically, Pashtuns have maintained a distinct identity from Pakistan’s majority Punjabs. The Pashtuns now join the Balochis , who are also asserting themselves due to Pakjabi oppression. The Pashtuns have full support towards this end from their tribal brethren in Afghanistan

Tribal activist Mona Aurangzeb is optimistic the movement will be a “tipping point” for a “Pashtun awakening”. “It’s the Pashtun youth and particularly the tribal youth who have been kept depoliticized and isolated that now want to negotiate their role with the state,” she told Asia Times. “They are rejecting the old order. They are tired of war that was imposed on them in the shape of Taliban and military operations.” Aurangzeb says that while the protest may have been triggered by the death of Mehsud, it had been building through 15 years of war.“As a tribeswoman [the movement] gives me hope. We now have the capacity and the awareness to demand our rights from the state and negotiate our identity . Asia Times usually reflects the view of the Chinese Govt !

[Peregrine]

Govt has missed all major macroeconomic targets

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government has failed to meet all major macroeconomic and social targets it set in the 11th Five-Year Plan, but progress was made across all sectors, reveals an internal assessment of the Planning Commission.

The ruling party failed to achieve targets even in areas that were its foremost priority like electricity generation and construction of roads. The Planning Commission evaluated the implementation of the 11th Five-Year Plan (2013-18) as part of its preparations for the next strategy (2018-2023).

Cheers

[Philip]

Slaughter Shiites in their mosques and then talk about reviving ancient ties with Persia/Iran !

[CalvinH]

Pakis claim Turkish Ancestry with Arabs, Iranian/Persian with Turks, and Arabic with Iranians. Claim of convenience and keeping their self esteem.

[chetak]

Pakis claim Turkish Ancestry with Arabs, Iranian/Persian with Turks, and Arabic with Iranians. Claim of convenience and keeping their self esteem.

even our mongrel dogs roaming the Indian streets will not be able to boast of such genetic complexity and genomic virtuosity. The pakis are eager to parade every spermatic assault they have ever endured historically with unseemly pride and as a badge of honor except to acknowledge their true hereditary.

Forever wanting to be different and forever failing at it is corroding their entire society like some corrosive acid that eats away at their islamic psyche.

as a society they are confused and condemned, as a people they are unwanted and spurned, they simply will not learn their lessons, clinging to the tattered security blanket of their so called atmi taqat.

[Falijee]

Asma Jehangir's Funeral Irks Paki Establishment

Asma Jahangir’s Funeral Seen as Unconvential

Asma died of a cardiac arrest and her funeral was held at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore and was attended by a large number of prominent personalities including Khurshid Kasuri, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Jugnu Mohsin. People of all religion, cast, and creed were seen at her funeral – women and men standing together in the front row – and Pakistanis objected to that over social media. Asma Jahangir was a woman who worked against injustice and discrimination but even on her funeral, the issue of Muslim and Non-Muslim women attending the namaz-e-janaza became a major topic:

Amjad Rafiq Khan
on Tuesday:
Today a strange thing I have seen first time in life that in Asma jehangir’s funeral ladies were standing in first row and a large number of ladies offered funeral prayers after second row including Christian nun who was standing there .can anyone guide me that is it allowed in Islam? Coz namaz I janaza imam was farooq modoudi son of Maulana modoudi and chairman senate, Qamar Kaira , aitzaz ahsan n pervez Rashid , khurshid Qasuri, najam Sethi, jugnu Mohsin Najam Sethis wife , jahanara wattoo daughter of Manzoor wattoo n many other actor ladies alongwith senior justices of Lahore high court attended this.you can see this in these pics and videos of funeral. Pervez rashid said on this occasion that it should have been given status of state funeral

[Falijee]

US Claims Pakistan is Working on New Types of Nuclear Weapons

America’s Intelligence chief, Dan Coats has accused Pakistan of producing new types of nuclear weapons including short-range tactical weapons. Meanwhile, the Norwegian and Canadian Ambassadors are shamelessly asked by Paki TV Anchors to "do more for the suffering Aam Abduls of Pakiland" !

Pakistan being one of the 9 nuclear powers of the world, is always a topic of discussion for other countries. Recently, USA has claimed that Pakistan is developing some new types of nuclear weapons.

Daniel Ray Coats, the Director of National Intelligence for the US has briefed a Congressional hearing on worldwide threats in which Pakistan was accused of producing new nuclear weapons, including short-range tactical weapons.The hearing was organized by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence where the American Intelligence chief said that Pakistan is continuously developing nuclear weapons that can be launched in the form of sea-based cruise missiles, air-launched cruise missiles, and longer-range ballistic missiles. On the other hand, it could well be another "assemble and paint job " of NOKO missiles

[SSridhar]

Government takes over JuD seminary, dispensaries in Rawalpindi

Total farce.

When the Punjab government demolishes Hafiz Saeed's headquarters, Jamia Al Qudsia, at Chaudburji in central Lahore and the Muridke complex nearby, arrests Hafeez and all top leaders of LeT on real terrorism charges, pursues the case vigorously, outlaws the annual Muridke convention, then Pakistan will see some light. Even then, it would still have a very long way to go before it could be trusted.

What is the point in taking over a seminary and a dispensary in faraway Rawalpindi when the 800 lb gorilla is sitting in downtown Lahore unscathed & untouched? Sind province has said that it is unable to take action against JuD & FIF while Balochistan has denied totally the presence of JuD & FiF there. KP is keeping mum. So, the farce is already very open.

Did it not 'freeze assets' of JuD in 2015 ?

Another point to note from the above link is that Terroristan has also notified Jundullah as a terrorist organization. Jundullah is a Sunni Baloch group that operates out of Balochistan attacking Iran. This is another ISI-funded, trained and supported terror outfit, this time operating against another neighbour. But, there is another similar-sounding terror group, Jandullah (slight variation in spelling) which is a 'bad Taliban'. This was formed by Uzbeks and Chechens in South Waziristan in 2004 with the objective of attacking US & Western interests as well as those who support such interests within Pakistan. It was initially led by TTP Chief and Tahir Yuldashev of IMU (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, killed in c. 2010). Later led by Hakeemullah Mehsud (killed c. 2013). Then, led by Arif alias Saqib Anjum (killed c. 2016). The GoP notification says that the decision to ban Jundullah was taken due its involvement in Wahgah border and Peshawar Church attack. That's where the catch lies. These two attacks were carried out by Jandullah, not Jundullah. Pakistan may be cleverly trying to kill two birds in one stroke by using this confusing name.

From April 2018, after the FATF meeting, we will gradually see easing of these restrictions against JuD & FiF unless FATF takes very strong measures against Terroristan.

[anupmisra]

Government takes over JuD seminary, dispensaries in Rawalpindi

Total farce.

Even the article admits that the farcical effort is only half-assed, at best.

However, observers believe that it will be a difficult task for the government to take over JuD offices scattered across the country.

Shows how well entrenched and widespread this disease is in the ba(w)ki society. It is now part of their DNA.

[anupmisra]

Asma Jahangir’s Funeral Seen as Unconvential

No worries. They will soon be digging her back up for an autopsy. Wait till someone files an objection.

[pankajs]

Per some in Baki media, the *takeover* is being done in *consultation* with JuD and HalfPig Suar.

Start @ 9:10 and the exact place where the consultation is talked about @ 09:34

[Amber G.]

Ismail gives credit to India for awesome opportunity for Pakistan to be noticed again in FATF

KARACHI: Advisor to PM on Finance Miftah Ismail on Wednesday said that India is behind the United States' motion to place Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watchlist [and a job well done], Geo News reported.
...
It is pertinent to note that the United States has put forward a motion to place Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watchlist with an anti-money laundering monitoring group.

[We can't wait till ]A meeting of FATF member states is due to take place next week in Paris, where the organisation could adopt the motion on Pakistan.

[Amber G.]

Recently a documentary on Salam (Noble prize winner in Physics - A Muslim but not considered muslim by Pakis) was released. After his death - the word 'Muslim' was erased from his tombstone by Paki court's order -- see <this picture for example >

(I think it played in some film festival in Mumbai recently).

The film was made by Indian American filmmaker (Anand Kamalakar) .. Interesting (but not surprising as Pakis will be Pakis) that he was NOT allowed (he is an US citizen) in Pak to film. (They used remote cameramen, archival footage etc for Pakistani scenes)

[Peregrine]

Gwadar desalination plant closure invites senators’ ire

ISLAMABAD: A Sub-Committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Planning and Development on Tuesday recommended inquiry against officers involved in flawed designing and ill planning of a desalination plant in Gwadar.

Cheers

[pankajs]

^^
What a juicy target such a desalination plant will present! ... to the Baloch insurgents I mean.

[Peregrine]

Hafiz Saeed: Pakistan govt is taking extreme action against us to please India, US

LAHORE: Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said he will challenge the government's "illegal" action in the court of law after Pakistan launched a crackdown on seminaries and health facilities run by him
.
Under pressure to act against banned groups , Pakistan took control of a seminary and four dispensaries run by Saeed-linked Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF).

"After detaining me for 10 months without any legal ground, the government has now issued a notification regarding taking over our schools, dispensaries, ambulances and other assets. It will hamper our relief operations in Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh, Azad Kashmir and northern areas," Saeed said after the government's action.

According to the interior ministry notification, a copy of which available with PTI, "the federal government is pleased to direct that requisite actions with regard to freezing and taking over of assets (movable, immovable and human resource) associated with JuD and FIF shall be taken in pursuance of Ordinance No II of 2018."

The notification issuance date is February 10.

Punjab provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah has also said that on the interior ministry's directions, Hafiz Saeed and his charities have been banned to operate in Pakistan and the government have already started taking over all the facilities, offices, schools, dispensaries and seminaries that belong to the JuD and FIF.

In a message to his workers, Saeed appealed for calm and asked them not to give any violent reaction to the government action against their charities.

"This is the most difficult time but the workers must remain peaceful. The rulers are acting like more loyal than a king. India never bothered to implement UN resolutions on Kashmir but our rulers have got passed the president ordinance to take action against patriotic organisations like JuD and FIF," he said.

Saeed said the Pakistani government is "taking extreme action against us" to please America and India.

"We will fight our case in court against this illegal action," said Saeed, who heads the charity JuD, believed to be a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group.

Pakistan has come under intense pressure to rein in terror groups after US President Donald Trump accused the country of harbouring terrorists and suspended nearly $2 billion in security assistance to it.

Cheers

[Falijee]

"Good Haqqani" Officially Declared As An " Enemy Of Pakistan"

SC issues arrest warrant for Husain Haqqani

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for former envoy Husain Haqqani, DawnNews reported. The SC had directed Husain Haqqani to appear in the Memogate case but the latter failed to comply with the court orders. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has asked Interpol to issue a red warrant for Haqqani, ( repeat of "Altaf Bhai" drama ) Additional Attorney General Rana Waqar told the top court. Earlier today, AAG Rana Waqar told the bench that they had spoken to officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Interior Ministry, as well as the FIA chief regarding the matter.

Subsequently, a committee had been constituted to take up the issue with the relevant authorities in the United States, Waqar said, adding that it had done so. Furthermore, he said that the FIA had approached Interpol and formally asked them to issue a red warrant. Hussein H. has probably got "insurance" in the form of a "Massa" passport

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, who was heading a three-member bench, remarked that Husain Haqqani had submitted an undertaking in court before leaving for the US that he would appear before the SC but he had not followed through. Kammundu Mush also gave an "assurance" to the Paki authorities, that he will return. This "proves" that the "authority" of the Paki govt is not worth the paper it is written on !

In December last year, three people had separately lodged FIRs against Hussain Haqqani in two police stations of Kohat for delivering hate speeches and writing books and articles against the armed forces and the 'sovereignty of Pakistan'.

More recently, Haqqani's name had echoed in the apex court while a three-judge bench heard a set of petitions moved by PTI chief Imran Khan and a group of citizens in connection with the right of overseas Pakistanis to participate in the democratic process. The case had reminded the chief justice of Haqqani. “Should we also give him the right to vote?” the chief justice had wondered. Can the "hand of the Deep State" be ruled out in these shenanigans

The 'memo' in question, delivered to a high-ranking American official allegedly at Haqqani's behest in May 2011, had exposed serious rifts between the PPP government and the army after a US-based businessman brought it to light.

In 2012, a judicial commission tasked with probing the matter had submitted its report to the apex court, holding Haqqani guilty of authoring the controversial memorandum and adding that the former US envoy "was not loyal to the country".

Such ‘political warrants’ will not work, says Husain Haqqani over SC order

WASHINGTON – Pakistan’s former ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani on Thursday reacted over the issuance of arrest warrants by the Supreme Court against him in Memogate case. Haqqani says, “Such political ‘warrants’ have not been honored abroad in the past, and will not work now,” adding, “Similar ‘Made for TV News’ warrants issued for Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in 2006 and former General Pervez Musharraf in 2012 did not work nor were they effective against Mr. Altaf Hussain”.

[anupmisra]

Anupmisra-ji:
Thanks for posting these "telling photus" of FATA towns ; Paki Fauj, as usual

You are welcome.

TSPA's so-called success in FATA is based on a scorched earth tactic which makes the towns and villages uninhabitable. Reminds one of Syria today and the German strategy during the war on the eastern front in erstwhile Soviet Union. By blasting the roofs and fronts, partly to vacate the homes and partly for surveillance, ensures that only those buildings get new roofs and facades which are officially sanctioned. Sad part is that the pakis are proudly posting these photos on the Internet to prove their success and add the rehab cost to the count of "Billions of Dollars of economic activity lost".

Imagine the global ummah furor if Indian tanks roamed the towns and villages in Kashmir!

[Falijee]

US Now Suspects That "Pakistan Is Sleeping More ( In The Marital Bed) With China .

Pakistan slipping out of US influence, say intelligence agencies

WASHINGTON: Seventeen US intelligence agencies have warned Congress that Pakistan will continue to slip out of America’s influence and into China’s orbit in 2019, and will become a threat to Washington’s interests in the South Asian region. The review is part of an annual report that Director of US National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats presented to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, underlining worldwide threat assessment of the American intelligence community. The 17 agencies that jointly produced this report include Central Intelligence Agency, Defence Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency. Nothing new here. Pakistan has been on sale to the highest bidder since 1947

In their report on Pakistan, the agencies warned that the country will continue to threaten US interests by “deploying new nuclear weapons capabilities, maintaining its ties to militants, restricting counterterrorism cooperation, and drawing closer to China”.
The report claimed that Islamabad-backed militant groups will continue to take advantage of their alleged safe haven in Pakistan to “plan and conduct attacks in India and Afghanistan, including against US interests”.

The US intelligence community expects the overall situation in Afghanistan to “deteriorate modestly” this year in the face of persistent political instability, sustained attacks by the Taliban-led insurgency, unsteady Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) performance, and chronic financial shortfalls.

The agencies warned that the National Unity government in Kabul “probably will struggle” to hold long-delayed parliamentary elections, currently scheduled for July 2018, and to prepare for a presidential election in 2019.

[Bart S]

Remember Samar Mubarakmand, the phony Paki top scientist (he is on record publicly supporting and praising the water car ) who had the propensity to brag that Paki missile program was much more advanced than India and Pakis could destroy India 1000 times over in 10 minutes?

It looks like the Pakis actually believed his bullshit and gave him some responsibility (whereas earlier his only job was to do PR for Chini/NK imports that were painted green), and as a result, "Gods gift to Pakistan" has turned into the "Gift that keeps on giving"




Pakistan is living proof of the value of our national slogan 'Satyameva Jayate' ... we just need to give them enough time and a long enough rope for them to hang themselves.