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NIA to chargesheet former Pak. diplomat - S.Vijay Kumar, The Hindu
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is likely to chargesheet former Pakistan diplomat Amir Zubair Siddiqui, Counsellor (Visa) at the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo, in a case of conspiracy to attack vital establishments in India.

The chargesheet will be filed at a special court for terror cases at Poonamallee
near here [Chennai] on Thursday.

Among the installations planned to be targeted were the U.S. Consulate in Chennai, the Israeli Consulate in Bengaluru, Eastern Naval Command HQ in Visakhapatnam and ports across the country. The case relates to the arrest of Mohamed Zakir Hussain by the ‘Q’ Branch CID of the Tamil Nadu police in 2013 here on specific information that he was indulging in spying activities as an agent of Pakistan.

Zakir Hussain’s task was to cause explosion at the foreign consulates, defence and nuclear establishments among others. Incriminating documents and fake Indian currency were seized from his possession.

He admitted to interrogators that he was acting at the behest of Mr. Siddiqui, an official of the Pakistan Consulate in Colombo.
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Pakjab Govt Sounds Off Peeping Tom Abdul Alert To Paki Ayeshas ! :mrgreen:

“Women should not try clothes in these shopping malls”, Govt issues warning about 58 shopping malls
FAISALABAD – Women need to be careful while using changing rooms at garment shops, especially in Faisalabad where hundreds of shops in multiple malls have been declared unsafe by an investigation team.The development comes after police registered a case and arrested two people allegedly involved in installing hidden cameras inside a women’s try-room at a shop in Faisalabad.
After the case surfaced, the Punjab government formed a six-member team for inspection of trial rooms at all clothing outlets. The team surveyed shops at 58 shopping plazas in the city and prepared a report, with some shocking revelations. Google has awarded Pakistan the dubious reputation of being # 1 in search of "sex searches", which also includes animal sex, etc etc !
In the report, the team revealed that women changing rooms in 58 shopping malls are vulnerable to CCTV cameras. During the inspection, complex ceiling structure and holes in walls of trial rooms were found which can be used for installing hidden cameras. The output of these "hidden cameras "will then go viral on social media with unknown consequences for the victimized Ayeshas of Faisalabad ! :mrgreen:
The names of the shops and shopping plazas are yet to be disclosed. Sifarish and/or greasing of the "right palms" will do the needful !


Peeping Tom Disease Spreads To Krachi :mrgreen:

Woman shocked to discover a male worker hiding in a closet in a Gul Ahmed outlet’s trial room
KARACHI – As the privacy of women in changing rooms at apparel stores has become an issue, another woman faced a shocking incident while trying clothes at an outlet of Gul Ahmed Ideas in Karachi .The aggrieved woman, Sasha Scheherzade, shared her story on Facebook, explaining she visited the outlet located near Ocean Mall, Do Talwar, Karachi on Tuesday. Have the Mullahs not deemed this to be "Haraam" by way of a Fatwa :roll:


PEEPING TOM ABDUL UPDATE !

Gul Ahmed apologizes for “peeping tom” hiding in ladies’ changing room

As "social media" acquires a "toehold" in Islami Pakistan, expect more of these "UnMalsic Behaviour" News :mrgreen:
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Show-Bazz Sharif Tops The List Of "Least Corrupt Politico" :roll:

Shehbaz Sharif tops TI’s honesty charts leaving Imran Khan, Asif Zardari behind
LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has surpassed his political rivals on honesty charts after being voted honest by nearly 50 percent respondents in a survey, conducted by the Transparency International.According to the survey, Shehbaz Sharif was voted honest by 49% of the respondents, followed by Nawaz Sharif at 40%, Imran Khan at 26% and Asif Zardari at 1%. So, Ganja "international reputation" for Gol-Maal Giri has not yet rubbed off on the reputation of the "clever brother" :mrgreen:
Pakistan, under the PML-N’s, marked an improvement on Corruption Perception Index (CPI) Score during last five years. :roll:
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Falijee wrote:Shehbaz Sharif tops TI’s honesty charts leaving Imran Khan, Asif Zardari behind
LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has surpassed his political rivals on honesty charts after being voted honest by nearly 50 percent respondents in a survey, conducted by the Transparency International.
Got to hand it to the pakis for finding a positive spin to everything that could be seen as a negative. More than half the survey respondents thought that the younger sharif was dishonest. But for the pakis, sharif is twice as honest as immy the dimmy!

Sort of like:

Doc: Ma'am, your husband has a 95% probability to not to come out of coma.
Paki Woman: Y'allaw, thanks be to gaad, my husband has a 5% chance of waking up. That's 500% times more than yesterday.
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The latent sharief effect. Bad sharief, that is. Apparently al saud, china and turkey impeded US efforts to put bakistan on the terror financier's list. News is coming in....new vote today. No links.
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Here you go. A paki link to the above news.

S Arabia, Turkey, China blocked US-led motion to put Pak on FATF watchlist
Saudi Arabia joined Turkey and China in a move to block a US-led attempt this week to place Pakistan on an international terror-financing watch list, top US daily WSJ reported Thursday.
The report, quoting the officials said the US effort, which included pressure on the Saudis, raised the possibility of a fresh vote on action against Pakistan as soon as Thursday.
The Pakistanis were scrambling to shore up support, it added.
It believed that the move to put it on the ‘Grey List’ was provoked by India.
It was Saudi Arabia’s surprise backing that secured the necessary opposing votes to block the US motion
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday thanked the friendly countries who helped in garnering support against the US move but didn’t mention who they were.
“Grateful to friends who helped.”
Whether Saudi Arabia sticks by Pakistan now is key
Pakistan announced to send troops to Saudia Arabia earlier this month, in what the officials claim ‘an advisory and training’ mission under an old agreement.
Quid pro quo! So, that's the real story. Now we know why the hurried decision.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/28430 ... chlist-wsj
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Pakistan "Beats" India In Corruption Perception Index :mrgreen:

Pakistan ranked 117th in corruption perception index

India ranks 81st in the index !
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Other than China who is heavily invested in Pakistan's economy, and maybe Turkey led by the rabid islamist Erdogan*u, not sure why any of these countries would benefit from saving Pakistan. For Saudi Arabia and most other countries, including Russia, putting Pakistan on the watchlist would only make it more desperate, more dependent on them, and more amenable to doing their bidding.

Saudis should have played this differently. First put Pakistan on the watch-list then go beat them up saying that this is the consequence of your not coming running like a good dog when we asked for troops, at least now send the troops and we will throw some moolah your way to bail you out.
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Nawaz held secret meetings with PM Modi to save himself, claims Imran

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan claimed on Thursday that the Pakistan Muslime League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif was using “foreign elements” to save himself, Express News reported.

Addressing a gathering in Lahore, the PTI chief said that Nawaz had met Indian Prime Minister Narendar Modi to save himself from the ‘army’.

Speaking on the issue of the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat declaration controversy, Imran asked why the government had not made public the inquiry report submitted by Raja Zafarul Haq.

He said that the Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid had said that it was a clerical error, stressing that the government had not amended any law yet the ‘error’ was still not explained.

Imran pointed out that the contents of the Dawn Leaks report were also not brought before the public, alleging that it was because the report revealed that Nawaz held meetings with PM Modi to save himself.

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Peregrine wrote:Nawaz held secret meetings with PM Modi to save himself, claims Imran

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan claimed on Thursday that the Pakistan Muslime League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif was using “foreign elements” to save himself, Express News reported.
By that logic, how will the dimwit describe his latest piety-full acquisition? "Veiled elements"?
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anupmisra wrote:
sanjaykumar wrote:Why is Jinnah turning into a white man?
Kufr! Don't you know? When SDREs turn malsic under duress, their skin color turns pink(er), noses get thinner and their...er...you know, wee-wees, enlarge. Must be the food.
I think it is too much Milk and Honey, and more Oxygen in the air with other aromas in the atmosphere that does this.
Pretty good for the skin !
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Hmm,
Inquiring minds want to know, if Dimran received Spiritual Advice to Divorce Biwi No 2 as well.
Then one wonders if he further got Spritual Advice to marry Biwi No 3 hain ji?
One wonders if the Spiritual Advice included advice on who to make his bride no 3???
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Mean-e-while, Pak Pitai goes on unabated at the LOC.
22 Pak Faujis dispatched to Jahannum, after their post was firing on Indian soldiers to push in Terrorists.
The concerned Paki post(s) was taken out with heavy machine guns, antimaterial rifles and rockets.
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Good news! Thx
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Rajouri sector
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Bart S wrote:
Falijee wrote:Pakistan Denies Talk ( Matter Of The H&D :roll: )

Pakistani Lawmaker Denies China Talking to Separatists in Baluchistan
Seriously? What are those jokers aware of in the first place? They weren't even in the loop when Pakistan sent 10,000 troops to Saudi recently.
Why doesn't the indian media report this?
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Revenge Of The "Ex Mrs Imran Khan" In Full Swing :mrgreen:

‘Cringeworthy,’ Reham Khan on Imran Khan’s third marriage pictures
LONDON – Imran Khan’s former wife Rehman Khan has blasted ‘cringeworthy’ wedding photos with his new bride wearing a head to toe veil, calling the pictures his ‘political suicide’.Reham Khan, who was married to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman for a year before they divorced three years ago, told the Mail Online that the pictures of his new wife shows how out of touch the former cricketer is with modern Pakistan.“His hopes of becoming Pakistan’s prime minister are over,” said the ex-BBC weather girl. ( This is the "standard moniker" by which she is described in the British Media. She bills herself as a "journalist". Typical Pakistanayat at play here ! :mrgreen: )
Reham, 44, said: “To have a woman veiled head to toe, he has alienated a lot of people. It has not gone down well, four months before the Pakistan election this is political suicide.”“This kind of veil is uncommon. I don’t want to be rude, I was a bit miffed. It is cringeworthy.Earlier this week, Imran Khan said his new wife has worn hijab throughout her life and that it ‘is a personal choice’. Imran is a "firm believer" of not judging a "book by its cover" . As long as he is "satisfied" with the "inside contents" of the book , he is OK :mrgreen:
“I don’t know what he was trying to achieve. I think he is trying to achieve his departure or shift from Soho to Sufism. :roll: It has not worked if that is what he is trying to do. It is not fooling anyone,” she told the British tabloid in an exclusive interview. This, IMO is "below the shalwar" attack !
Speaking in London, Reham said she knew her former husband was getting close to divorced mother-of-five Bushra Wattoo during their marriage, but that wasn’t why the relationship ended abruptly in divorce in 2015. She alleged the former cricketer had been ‘untruthful’ about the date that he married his spiritual healer, claiming that they tied the knot on New Year’s Day and only confirmed it last week. “Imran was in contact with Bushra three years ago when I was his wife and he is not the truthful man. I knew they married on 1 January, and he revealed it later, this is exactly what he did after marrying me and then announcing after two months.” Reham Khan added that she had been told that Khan’s new wife chose the date for recent intra-party elections. The "First Mrs Khan" has diplomatically remained quiet at the new "tamasha". Some in Imran's inner circle, had earlier suggested that he "tie the knot" again with Jemima , to boost his waning political fortune . The Kaptaan had "shot this idea" down !
Little is known about Bushra Wattoo, a mother-of-five who divorced her first husband last year. She is said to be Imran Khan’s ‘spiritual healer’ and the pair reportedly met two years ago during an election campaign.
Wattoo, who is also known as ‘Pinki’, comes from a deeply conservative family from eastern Punjab.Before their relationship, Khan had sought her out for spiritual healing.Earlier this year, local media reported that Khan caused the divorce between Wattoo and her ex-husband Khawar Fareed Maneka, something which Mr Maneka later denied.
There were unconfirmed rumours that London is the venue for the Valima Reception for the newly weds. The anticipated "partying" ( which hopefully will happen when the London "social scene" will commence when the winter London weather fades away !) will likely bring in "airloads" of PTI party faithfools. And IMO, will be a family re-union of sorts , with Jemima and Immy kids in attendance plus "Pinki's" two sons who, if Paki reports are to be believed, are already ensconced in Londonistan as "students" ! Who is going to be invited for the occasion remains a "close secret". But it is a "sure bet" that Reham and her kids and Ganja's extended family in Londonistan are not on the coveted "guest list" :mrgreen:
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As we do not have a Humour Thread am posting the following on the "Most popular Thread on BRF!

Nut Screws Spanner! :rotfl:

Firefighters free man's genitals from spanner

Firefighters have warned of the dangers of mishandling tools after a man's genitals became trapped in a ring spanner.

Crews were called to assist A&E staff with a patient at Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, south Wales, on Wednesday.

They had to use their cutting equipment to remove the steel tool.

South Wales Fire and Rescue Service issued a warning on social media afterwards.

"If you're using tools, make sure you're handling as the manufacturer recommends," it tweeted.

"Crews from Maindee and Malpas had to release a steel ring spanner from a man who took tightening nuts to a new level earlier."

The post has since been removed.

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Falijee wrote:Revenge Of The "Ex Mrs Imran Khan" In Full Swing :mrgreen:

‘Cringeworthy,’ Reham Khan on Imran Khan’s third marriage pictures
Falijee Ji :

I suggest that we start a collection for a fund to enable us, on behalf of BR-F, to procure a Life Jacket cum Life Saver for Im the Dim as he is about to venture into DEEP & DANGEROUS SHARK INFESTED WATERS! :rotfl:

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Peregrine wrote:As we do not have a Humour Thread am posting the following on the "Most popular Thread on BRF!

Nut Screws Spanner! :rotfl:

Firefighters free man's genitals from spanner

Firefighters have warned of the dangers of mishandling tools after a man's genitals became trapped in a ring spanner.

Rest snipped....

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Peregrine-ji :
"Victim Names" were not printed . ! There could well be a "Baki Connection". Conclusion: Posted In The "Right Thread" :twisted:
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Falijee wrote:Revenge Of The "Ex Mrs Imran Khan" In Full Swing :mrgreen:
I was a bit miffed.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - William Congreve (1670-1729)
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Gagan wrote:Hmm,
Inquiring minds want to know, if Dimran received Spiritual Advice to Divorce Biwi No 2 as well.
Then one wonders if he further got Spritual Advice to marry Biwi No 3 hain ji?
One wonders if the Spiritual Advice included advice on who to make his bride no 3???
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Gagan wrote:Rajouri sector
Any links - twitter or otherwise?
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Suspicion that current CJP of Pakiland, "Janab" Saqib Nisar is on a EGO TRIP now confirmed :mrgreen:

Crypto Bible Retweeted
Bilal Farooqi
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What is this infatuation with becoming the saviour in Pakistan. As soon as someone lands in a position of power, the messiah complex sets in. Former CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry and now Saqib Nisar. Musharraf & other generals. Politicians too. Why can't they stick to doing their jobs...
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NDTV Link
Jammu: The Indian Army today destroyed a Pakistani post along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, sources said.
The troops targeted the Pakistani post which was involved in a ceasefire violation in Mendhar sector of Poonch district, they said.
No casualties have been reported so far, the sources said.
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Sweden-based fund working on Pakistan’s image problem :roll:
The Express Tribune

Public Relations 101 : If the product itself ( ie Pakistan ) is defective and faulty , no amount of PR- giri is going to fix the problem :twisted:
Jon Scheiber, chief executive officer and partner at Tundra Fonder that has assets under management of $400 million, said the “good story” in Pakistan needs to be told. Scheiber is paying for the "exercise", so no problem . Project is outsourced as usual ! IMO, money down the bottomless Paki drain. :mrgreen:
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X Posted on the PESW Thread

Foreign exchange: SBP's reserves continue to dip, reach $12.7b
KARACHI: Foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) continued to remain under pressure,decreasing 1.01% on a weekly basis, according to data released by the central bank on Thursday.
The fall marks the 10th successive week of decline, raising concerns over Pakistan’s ability to meet future payment obligations and a bulging current account deficit.
On February 16, foreign currency reserves held by the central bank were recorded at $12.7037 Billion, down $130.2 Million or 1.01% compared to $12.8339 Billion in the previous week.
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anupmisra wrote:
Gagan wrote:Rajouri sector
Any links - twitter or otherwise?
Yes this post in the Mendhar sector. 22 Pak Army KIA
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Pakistan always believed that its woes were only due to 'poor image'. The Swedish firm is out to make money from a sinking ship.
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Now Madrasas Join "Chini Zaban" Bandwagon

Taking a cue from varsities, madrasas also offering Chinese language course :D
Expecting to land a lucrative job in the ongoing Chinese projects, especially under the umbrella of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), thousands of people, especially students, have become interested in learning the Chinese language, and for this purpose, a large number of centres have popped up across Karachi -- in public and private universities, religious seminaries and small coaching centres.
Even the NED University of Engineering and Technology (NED) ( Nadirshah Eduljee Dinshaw, the Parsi founder of the college, would be "turning in his grave", if he was not dispatched to the Karachi Tower Of Silence !) has made learning Chinese mandatory for all first-year students, and Karachi University had established a Confucius institute in 2012, which has been playing a significant role in promoting Mandarin, besides offering admissions in cultural studies to local students.
In 2004, the first Confucius institute was established in Pakistan at the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, by Hanban, the headquarters of Confucius institutes in China. Hanban operates around 430 Confucius institutes in 127 countries worldwide.
According to Confucius Institutes website, Hanban, as a public institution affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education, is committed to providing Chinese language and cultural teaching resources and services worldwide. Probably, the thin edge of a very long wedge, the end result will be Chinify and de- Islamize Paki society in the long term :mrgreen:
“After the initiation of the CPEC, the enrollment ratio for Chinese learning is increasing day by day,” said Moinuddin Siddiqui, former director of the Confucius Institute at the KU. Initially, 200 students had enrolled in 2014-15, but in the last two years more than 1,500 students have gained admissions to the institute.
Siddiqui said the institute had recently inked memorandum of understandings with the Institute of Business Administration, Preston University, Newports Institute of Communications and Economics and NED University. Under the MoUs, the KU’s institute would provide teaching services to these institutions. In business parlance, known as "cross marketing" - you scratch my back, I scratch your back !
“Chinese is the growing need for communication in Pakistan. Therefore, Chinese- learning institutions have attracted lots of students as they are expecting to acquire good jobs,” Siddiqui said. :(( Chini Zaban gains, Arbi Zaban loses :roll:
“The businessmen who were already engaged in business activities with China are offering huge salaries from Rs200,000 to 300,000 even to students of beginner levels,” said Jawad Madani, manager of Madrasa Sattariya, also known as Hundred Languages University. Though it is not recognised by the HEC, the madrasa wants to meet the growing demand for interpreters after the start of bilateral development projects under the CPEC. Madrassa "masquerading" as a ( Hundred Languages !) "University" . Hope it is not "printing" mail order degrees like Axaact University :twisted:
Madani said Madrasa Sattariya had been offering admissions in Chinese-language courses for the past two years. At the start, students were enrolled for a six-month course and admissions were closed, but now the madrasa was starting new classes almost every month.
During interviews, a number of students said they wanted to cash in on the job opportunities the CPEC was creating. However, some were dissatisfied with the subjects they were enrolled in; therefore, they decided to study Chinese additionally. Are the Chinis ready for an influx of illegal Pakis :roll:
Apart from religious and educational institutions, the Sindh government is planning to take some steps to produce skilled-based workers for CPEC projects under its Training Trainers Programme. The programme will be started under the supervision of the Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA) this year. Engineer Liaquat Ali Jamro, director academics and training of STEVTA, said the authority intended to train over 200 local trainers and set up around 12 regional centres for teaching Chinese this year.
Jamro said STEVTA had already produced skilled manpower with appropriate training. However, Chinese would be an additional skill for workers to get their due share in the CPEC. When everything is said and done, Pakis still believe that the elixir to their domestic and political ills lies in the much touted CPEC :mrgreen:
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More Hindu saazish: ‘Pakistan needs to control population growth to become high middle-income country'
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1641154/2- ... on-growth/

Pakistan will have to reduce its current population growth rate to half in the next 30 years to achieve the status of a high middle-income country, as the current pace of increase in population is a barrier to becoming a prosperous nation, said World Bank Country Director Patchamuthu Illango.
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https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/a-nucle ... ar-attack/
A September 2014 attack by terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) on a Pakistani frigate, PNS Zulfiquar, may have targeted a nuclear warhead on board the vessel. This disturbing detail is included in Steve Coll’s latest book, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and sourced to an Indian intelligence report at the time. (Hat-tip to Vipin Narang for pointing out the excerpt from Coll.)

Coll writes that “six weeks after the attack [on PNS Zulfiquar], India’s principal external intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing, citing an agent reporting from Karachi, informed India’s national security adviser that a nuclear warhead had been on board the PNS Zulfiquar at the time of the attack.”

Coll notes that “if the Indian report was accurate,” the PNS Zulfiquar attack would be the “first known armed terrorist attack in history” that came close to seeing a hostile nonstate group gain control of a vulnerable warhead. At the time, Al Qaeda’s propaganda suggested that the attackers would have seized the Pakistani frigate and used it to attack U.S. Navy vessels in the Arabian Sea.
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FATF has put Pakistan in the global terror financing 'grey list'.

Paki Foreign Office's reaction.

https://twitter.com/TM_Journalist/statu ... 4886162432

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/internatio ... 833899.ece
Financial Action Task Force to put Pakistan on grey list for terror financing
China withdrew its objection to the nomination, allowing consensus to go through, sources said.
Funny it seems China, closer than teeth and lips, finally cleared the way for Bakistan to make it to the *coveted* FATF *grey* honor list. :rotfl:

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We will have to wait for clarity for this report seems to suggest that even Saudi Arapia backed off ... The latest gambit of sending troops to SA also seems to have not worked out for the bakis.

http://www.news18.com/news/world/pakist ... 69931.html
Pakistan Put on Terror Financing Watchlist by Task Force
The only country that voted in favour of Pakistan was Turkey. Not even traditional friends and allies like China and Turkey voted in favour of Pakistan.
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How they are going to repay their debt now????
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May be they are exactly where China and/or Saudi's want them to be i.e. With nowhere else to go! Who knows?

Perhaps they will end up committing to Chinese/Saudi plans even more in return for some relief.

That is one reason one must never close doors even with antagonistic states because that only makes you an even bigger hostage to your so called "friends*.

This is true for India too and the reason why India at times soft peddles bouncers from friends and foes alike much to the annoyance of us nationalist who would prefer a more robust response.
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They have been on the grey list already and it doesn't hurt them much. The black list is what the US and India were after. This is a slap on the wrist/reprieve of sorts.
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