Terroristan - April 15, 2021

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 07 Dec 2021 18:52

USCIRF and their global agenda:

what they are not telling you is how they are compromised by islamist and jamaat-linked organizations and how they are actively serving those very jehadi interests

download the full report here

https://thedisinfolab.org/wp-content/up ... oncern.pdf

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 07 Dec 2021 20:41

Sedition case registered against 21 SU students

HYDERABAD: The Jamshoro police have booked 21 students of the Sindh University (SU) along with 13-14 other suspects on the charges of sedition in the backdrop of the Nov 18 event held in connection with the Sindh Cultural Day.

The complainant stated that the suspects raised anti-state slogans at the instigation of proscribed Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) leader Shafi Burfat.

they raised anti-Pakistan slogans

Haram link: https://www.dawn.com/news/1662362/sedit ... ts?preview

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 08 Dec 2021 07:37

The next Sialkot. This despicable attack on four women is low on the human evolution scale amd beyond normal human act, even by paki standards. I watch the beginning of the video uploaded on Twitter and I could not take it. It is not for the fainthearted. I can not believe these people were Sanatnis once upon a time.

I am at a loss for words. A thousand curses on the paki quam.

Five men arrested for beating, stripping four women in Faisalabad market

Police have arrested five men on charges of assaulting, stripping and filming four women in Faisalabad's Bawa Chak Market on Monday.

The matter had surfaced when a video of the four women went viral on social media.

The suspects have been charged under sections 354-A (assault or use of criminal force against a woman and stripping her), 509 (insulting modesty or causing sexual harassment), 147 (punishment for rioting) and 149 (unlawful assembly guilty of an offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The inbreds:

Haramiyon ka link: https://www.dawn.com/news/1662450/five- ... bad-market

jash_p · Post by **jash_p** » 09 Dec 2021 07:08

AOA
On 16 December Pakis are going to celebrate golden jubilee of winning the war against kafir yindus who wanted Bengalis to stay with Pakis but Paki mard- e- momin got rid of SDRE Bengalis.

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 09 Dec 2021 09:31

On 16th december, 92,000 Pakistani TFTA soldiers marched into India, occupied the barracks and ate all the Indian army rations for several months.

Take that SDREs!!

partha · Post by **partha** » 09 Dec 2021 10:09

Anujan wrote:On 16th december, 92,000 Pakistani TFTA soldiers marched into India, occupied the barracks and ate all the Indian army rations for several months.

Take that SDREs!!

That we released all these soldiers without negotiating anything in return, is a big failure on our part.

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 09 Dec 2021 10:15

partha wrote:
That we released all these soldiers without negotiating anything in return, is a big failure on our part.

We didn't get all our POWs back.. hope it was because of fog of war (didn't know they were captured) and not for lack of trying.

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 09 Dec 2021 10:19

Police have arrested five men on charges of assaulting, stripping and filming four women in Faisalabad's Bawa Chak Market on Monday.

Probably Christian or Hindu.. like most sanitary cleaners in jihadistan.

The next lot of jihadis who do that will simply accuse them of blasphemy.. no comebacks

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 09 Dec 2021 21:15

Pakhanistan, still trying to be relevant by punching way above its weight class.

Pakistan can play role in reducing China-US tensions: PM Imran Khan

"Pakistan should try its best to stop the formation of these blocs because we should not become a part of any bloc."

The Pakistani prime minister offered his good offices amid increasing tensions between the two world powers, with major Western countries siding with the US in boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.

he said the major issues including Afghanistan and Kashmir, can only be resolved through dialogue.

Pakistan will try to play its role in saving Afghan people from any humanitarian crisis.

The prime minister said we tried our best to develop peace with India since he assumed office in 2018

He regretted that the Hindutva-led BJP regime could become a threat for its own country

He said it is unfortunate that global leaders are not focused

Harami link: https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/91534 ... imran-khan

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 09 Dec 2021 21:24

Did joo know....?

‘Pakistan cheapest country in the world’: PM

“We have launched welfare projects aimed at providing maximum relief to the poor and making the country a true Islamic welfare state,” he said

he expressed his determination to make Pakistan an Islamic welfare state on the model of Riasat-e-Madina and as per the vision of Quaid-e-Azam.

Imran Khan said that he never said to make Pakistan an Asian Tiger or turning Lahore into Paris

Pakistan is the cheapest country of the world, he declared, adding inflation will come down after winter. at that point retail prices will be naturally frozen?

He said anti-corona policies of the government had saved people from hunger, starvation and many precious lives besides averting the downfall of the economy.

On a roll, Dimmy also said that he was against Katrina Kaif marrying an SDRE Yindoo...Dimmy was available for his fifth, No, sixth....No..wait..! that's part of another news...

Haram ka link: https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/915276 ... -programme

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 10 Dec 2021 05:01

anupmisra wrote:The next Sialkot. This despicable attack on four women is low on the human evolution scale amd beyond normal human act, even by paki standards. I watch the beginning of the video uploaded on Twitter and I could not take it. It is not for the fainthearted. I can not believe these people were Sanatnis once upon a time.

I am at a loss for words. A thousand curses on the paki quam.

Haramiyon ka link: https://www.dawn.com/news/1662450/five- ... bad-market

I stand corrected. Apparently, per new CCTV footage, the four motormamas pushed the momeens, tore their own clothes to gain sympathy but were later beaten up by the mard e-momeens. It could be pre-planned charade by these women. Says a lot about the paki motormamas and the momeens.

I take back the one thousand curses. Only 500 curses.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 10 Dec 2021 19:41

It's over!

TTP declares end to ceasefire

The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday declined to extend the month-long ceasefire with the government, accusing it of failing to honour the decisions reached earlier. The announcement has put the nascent peace efforts into the doldrums.

According to the statement, the government not only failed to implement the decisions reached between the two sides but to the contrary, the security forces conducted raids in Dera Ismail Khan, Lakki Marwat, Swat, Bajaur, Swabi and North Waziristan and killed and detained militants.

“Under these circumstances, it is not possible to extend the ceasefire,” the TTP said.

As Immy the Dimmy said, he, TLP and TTP are in a race to establish a riyasat-e-pudina. Let's see who gets there first.

Harami link: https://www.dawn.com/news/1662934/ttp-d ... -ceasefire

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 11 Dec 2021 05:17

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 11 Dec 2021 20:28

Killing over unproven blasphemy allegation not allowed: ulema

Ulema ...said the killing of any person over unsubstantiated blasphemy accusations is not permissible in any circumstances.

Ergo, killing of ~~any~~ a person over unsubstantiated blasphemy accusations is ~~not~~ permissible in ~~any~~ all circumstances. Baki mindset.

Harami link: https://www.dawn.com/news/1663107/killi ... owed-ulema

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 11 Dec 2021 22:04

^ and is backed by the penal law in Jihadistan. And by shariah law which is above all.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 13 Dec 2021 22:19

TTP has opened the innings.
Gunmen kill policeman guarding polio vaccinators

PESHAWAR: Gunmen shot dead a policeman guarding a polio vaccination team in von Sunday in the second such killing in two days, police said. The attack in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came a day after two men with the Pakistani Taliban gunned down another police officer who was guarding a similar vaccination team in the same area.

“Two gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on a policeman who was guarding a two-member female polio vaccination team in the Sheikh Uttar area, killing him on the spot,” Tank district police chief Sajjad Khan told AFP.

Another local police official, Amanat Ali, confirmed the incident and said the assailants had escaped. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing, but a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban earlier claimed Saturday’s attack.

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 13 Dec 2021 22:46

Finally Pakistan is getting to know what it means to have terrorists killing people randomly and terrorising people. The only difference is they are home grown. After decades of blaming India for everything, they are imploding due to internal strife and jihadi chicken coming home to roast.

Vips · Post by **Vips** » 14 Dec 2021 05:54

India retains membership of top maritime body; Pakistan fails to get any support.

India has retained its membership of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) council after clinching 133 votes.

India retained its membership for "Category B" which included ten countries namely Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates. "Category B" are states with the "largest interest in international seaborne trade", IMO said in a statement.

Interestingly for the first time in 30 years, Pakistan stood for the council seat but failed to garner any support. Pakistan's federal minister for maritime affairs tweeted about the development saying, "We didn’t make it this time"

The council was elected by the assembly of IMO for the period 2022-2023. The 32nd Assembly of IMO is meeting in London at IMO Headquarters from 6 -15 December and on December 10 the result for the election of the organisation's 40-member council were announced. All 175 member states and three associate members are entitled to attend the IMO assembly.

The council is the executive organ of IMO and is responsible for supervising the work of the organisation. When the assembly is not in session, the council performs the functions of the assembly. The assembly normally meets once every two years in regular sessions and is responsible for approving the work programme, voting the budget and determining the financial arrangements of the organisation.

There are three categories in all: "Category A" includes ten states with the largest interest in providing international shipping services and includes China, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Panama, South Korea, Russia, UK and US.

"Category C" includes states whose election will ensure "representation of all major geographic areas of the world". States in "Category C" are - Bahamas, Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey and Vanuatu.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 14 Dec 2021 12:03

Now looks the Baltic states and Poland will have send more security to thier borders with Belarus,

Looks like Belarus has really upped the Ante with the EU

https://twitter.com/PakTravelGuide/stat ... 8162532354

Belarus announces Visa free travel Facility for Pakistan

Then truth comes out

https://twitter.com/Abelative/status/14 ... 5495109635

Its batter to write with complete detail

Belarus free entry only for those people have multiple European union visa they can fly to Belarus and got on arival visa.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 14 Dec 2021 13:30

Pakistan Army soldier martyred in terror attack near Pak-Iran border

A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred in an attack on a security post near the Pakistan-Iran border in Balochistan, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

A group of terrorists fired on the check-post on Tuesday. The soldiers returned the fire, forcing the attackers to retreat. However, one soldier was martyred.

He identified as Lance Naik Zaheer Ahmed and hailed from Nushki.

The security forces have launched a search operation in the area.

Earlier two soldiers were martyred in an attack on a security post in the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan district.

Narad · Post by **Narad** » 14 Dec 2021 13:46

^^ Hallal'ed

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 14 Dec 2021 19:48

Gyaan from Fawad 'Chowmein' Chaudhary ... he should try & convince Sheik-chilli Rasheed to increase his consumption of pindi chana

Yawn - Pakistan will have no gas in a few years, says Fawad Chaudhry

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday warned of an impending gas crisis in the country, saying the resource was depleting fast and "Pakistan will have no gas in years to come."

Addressing a post-cabinet meeting press conference, the minister raised alarm over gas going scarce in the country and said it was depleting by 9 per cent every year for the last two years.

Chaudhry stressed that people getting gas at cheaper rates in big cities should now change their habits.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 14 Dec 2021 21:41

Manish_P wrote:Gyaan from Fawad 'Chowmein' Chaudhary

Lord Faw Faw is covering all bases in case Immy the dimmy is ousted, a new government is in place and he needs to switch sides.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Dec 2021 00:53

@a_siab ·11 Dec

The massive peaceful protest in Gwadar over the last few weeks is turning into a popular resistance.

The Baloch people are rejecting the exclusive, oppressive and militarised rule.

The only way forward is negotiations with Baloch nationalists.

Military operation is no solution.

https://twitter.com/a_siab/status/1469662609070702593

jash_p · Post by **jash_p** » 16 Dec 2021 19:23

I said jokingly that Pakis will celebrate 1971 war but Pakis are Paki and they actually celebrating.

Ceremony held to honour 1971 war veterans, Bihari community members

saip · Post by **saip** » 17 Dec 2021 08:35

Did Pakistan Learn Any Lesson From The Debacle Of 1971?

In a failed attempt to boost the morale of the nurses in a hospital, he told them that in case Dhaka fell, “Your honor will not be stained by Indian soldiers. We will shoot you first.” - Niazi

Fridaytimes

Manmohan · Post by **Manmohan** » 17 Dec 2021 10:13

Cross Posted from the Books Folder

Another lie that went hand in hand with the above lie was that there was no such terror camp at the site. Instead, Pakistan claimed it was just another madrasa, like the hundreds of thousands of others dotting that country. Satellite images too showed the structures standing as they were before 26th Feb, notwithstanding the clear-cut holes in the roofs from where the ordnance dropped by the Indian Air Force had entered them, with pinpoint accuracy.

However, there were two important facts that put paid to both these counterpoints by Pakistan. Firstly, Pakistan immediately sealed off the area that the IAF had come visiting and secondly, it did not allow any access to any kind of media / diplomatic personnel for the next 42 days. Thereafter too, all it offered was a conducted tour wherein the Pakistan Army decided where the visitors could go and what they could see.

This inordinate delay gave rise to a lot of well justified speculation in all quarters about the true intentions of the Pakistan Army. If there was no terror camp and a mere madrasa and that too, without any damage whatsoever, as they claimed, then why this delay of 42 days in taking media / diplomats to the location, and that too on a strictly chaperoned visit?

Might the 42 days’ delay have been on account of the time taken to repair the damage and recreate a non-existent madrasa? After all, why would a madrasa that imparts education to children, be located hours away from the nearest settlement?

Of course, the web of contradictory statements and lies that defined Pakistani response in light of the failed riposte of Feb 27, coupled with the loss of a twin seater F-16 aircraft was in a league of its own. From reporting three pilots shot down to two captured to one dead in a military hospital, the DG ISPR finally corrected himself to say that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was the only pilot in Pakistani custody.

I shall not talk any more about it here since the blatant attempts to hide their own loss of F-16 and death of atleast one of its two pilots in the initial hours of that engagement says enough. Instead, what I intend talking about here is the ‘efficacy’ of the ‘Info Warfare Campaign’ unleashed by Pakistan in the face of hard power wielded by the Indian armed forces.

That Pakistan would react to the Indian actions was a foregone conclusion. Unfortunately for them, the result of such reaction too was unsurprising, given similar results in practically every military engagement between the two neighbours.

Understandably, the Pakistan establishment went into a propaganda overdrive in the immediate aftermath, in order to ensure that once the dust settled, there would be so much ‘noise’ in the information sphere that the truth will get drowned. To that end, a glut of articles in foreign publications followed, as also by individual foreign journalists on a variety of other platforms.

Quite predictably, Pakistani establishment succeeded in convincing its citizenry about its own version of the events of 26th and 27th Feb 2019. The war of narratives had been convincingly won by the Pakistan Army led establishment, atleast within the Pakistani borders.

However, there was one big catch in this plan.

Hard power is a pre-requisite to make the ‘enemy’ act to your will. But this was not the case with Pakistan. Having delivered what she deemed suitable punishment for the Pulwama Attack and shooting down an F-16 a day later, India chose to ignore the fake narratives being peddled by Pakistan, especially since Pakistan was spooked into releasing Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman post haste under the threat of further punishment, this time in a form that couldn’t be hidden away from her own populace!

Pakistan’s case was further weakened when despite the shrill rhetoric coming from practically every part of the government and military establishment, there was absolutely no response, or even an acknowledgement from the Indian side as they went about the business of organizing and conducting the general elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament.

However, that the Government of India chose to ignore the ‘Information Warfare’ from across didn’t mean that the media and citizenry of India too followed suit. In the weeks and months that followed, the online landscape was filled with factual and point-to-point rebuttals to Pakistani lies.

Where the initial days of propaganda warfare were undoubtedly ‘won’ by Pakistan, what followed was a relentless ‘counter attack’ by Indian analysts and media that ultimately ended up putting Pakistan on the back foot. In fact, such was the depth of such analyses, that one person even dissected all grainy videos of the aerial engagement frame by frame as he went about debunking the Pakistani myths based on such evidence from within Pakistan. ,

A lie may run fast, but it can never run far!

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 17 Dec 2021 11:19

Manmohan wrote:Cross Posted from the Books Folder

Where the initial days of propaganda warfare were undoubtedly ‘won’ by Pakistan, what followed was a relentless ‘counter attack’ by Indian analysts and media that ultimately ended up putting Pakistan on the back foot. In fact, such was the depth of such analyses, that one person even dissected all grainy videos of the aerial engagement frame by frame as he went about debunking the Pakistani myths based on such evidence from within Pakistan. ,

A lie may run fast, but it can never run far!

No way that would be retired Surgeon from Bengaluru, who worked in the UK in the 1980's and used to post on BRF as "Shiv" a.k.a Shiv@bennedose on Twotter and cybersurg on Joutube.

It was once I saw Docji video and the Earthnews Videos and various links on Joutube no longer working apart from IAF videos 2 things became very clear.

1) F-16 not only went down, Massa was very keen that the news does come out, the US propaganda machine goes into overdrive, there have been a few F-15/F-16 losses over the years but all kept under wraps, like Korean war F-86 claims. They are the Kings of propaganda.
2) Pakis were heavily rattled, they literally unilaterally closed thier Airspace, their current went from 130 to USD to 155 to USD overnight. Inspite of all the bluster they could do Zilch after 5 Aug 19.

This shows apart from MIg 21 Bison shootdown- which as per IAF citation to Group Captain was due to multiple Amraam's being fired every was bad for the PAF for those 2 days with some casualties on 26-Feb-19.

As there own leaked phone calls state they came for blood but neither SU-30, nor Indian Army soldiers could be killed that day with 13 weapons including 9 expensive precious PGMS - PAF total stock of PGM will be 600 wasted.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 17 Dec 2021 19:44

The pledge to continue the war against kufrs continues...

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 17 Dec 2021 23:57

They did fight a war till India's victory.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 18 Dec 2021 07:49

caliph erdogan and his not so royale kingdom turki, are in the crapper once again

Some of Turkey’s leading business groups questioned the country’s monetary policy as the lira plunged to new lows against the dollar on Friday, a day after the central bank further lowered borrowing costs.

“We’re bewildered to watch the central bank, which cut rates yesterday, giving its precious FX resources to the market today,” Erdal Bahcivan, head of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry, said in comments on Twitter.

Turkey's economy in crisis; Govt halts Equity, Derivatives and Debt Trading with immediate effect

Turkey Stock Rout Triggers Circuit Breakers Twice in an Hour

]Turkey Stock Rout Triggers Circuit Breakers Twice in an Hour

Onur Ant
17 Dec 2021

(Bloomberg) -- Turkey halted trades on the Istanbul bourse as this year’s second biggest selloff for the market triggered circuit breakers while the lira extended its drop to a fresh record low.

Trading of equities, equity derivatives and debt repo transactions were automatically halted twice within an hour after the Borsa Istanbul 100 index fell as much as 7% on Friday.

The benchmark ended the day 8.5% lower, its biggest drop since March when the firing of then-central bank Governor Naci Agbal spurred a turmoil in Turkish financial markets.

Turkey Stock Rout Triggers Circuit Breakers Twice in an Hour

Turkish equities were on a tear for much of the last four months as investors sought to hedge against rampant inflation and grapple with a currency that lost more than half its value against the greenback so far this year. Friday’s dramatic drops followed a central bank intervention in the currency market that failed to stem the lira’s decline following a decision by the monetary authority a day earlier to cut benchmark repo rate despite soaring inflation.

Even though the Borsa Istanbul index has strongly rallied this year in local terms, in U.S. dollar terms it’s down 36%, making it the worst-performing equity market in the world.

“The complete capitulation in Turkish equities today may represent a turning point in local sentiment,” Nick Stadtmiller, director for emerging markets at Medley Advisors, said by email. “Turkish stocks have surged despite a worsening macro backdrop. But now, Turks pulling their money from the stock market may represent an acceleration in the trend of local capital outflows from the country.”

Easing Cycle
The Turkish central bank’s easing cycle since September saw the key rate fall by 5 percentage points, prompting a rush to buy dollars among corporates and retail investors. Worsening outlook for inflation hit bonds, with 10-year yields reaching 22.8% on Friday, a record, according to data going back to 2010.

Turkey Stock Rout Triggers Circuit Breakers Twice in an Hour
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has advocated for cuts in borrowing costs, arguing that lower rates will eventually free Turkey’s economy from a reliance on short-term foreign inflows. The policy pivot and the ensuing market turmoil prompted complaints from industrialists, who say the current volatility is hurting companies.

Turkish Business Groups Sound Alarm Bells Over Currency Rout

That call for help is probably one of the reasons that caused the selloff in stocks, according to Burak Cetinceker, a money manager at Strateji Portfoy in Istanbul. “The critism from business people showed there is no synergy” with the central bank, he said. “There is an economy model no one understands.”

“The typical reaction to depreciation in emerging-market stock markets is a rally as investors use equities as a hedge and the leading shares often have a lot of hard currency revenues,” Richard Segal, a research analyst at London-based Ambrosia Capital, said. “However, today is different due to the volatility of the exchange rate, and the lira is approaching rates, which suggest bank capital ratios are running low. In addition, some business groups have begun to speak out more publicly.”

partha · Post by **partha** » 18 Dec 2021 08:03

Anujan wrote:They did fight a war till India's victory.

Manmohan · Post by **Manmohan** » 18 Dec 2021 08:04

Cross Posted from the Books Folder

Carrying on from the previous post

This is exactly what happened with the Pakistani ‘Information Warfare’ campaign in the aftermath of the Balakot strike and the subsequent aerial battle a day later. For every myth propagated by the Pakistani establishment, there is now a plethora of factual rebuttals right on its tail.

However, to be fair, the Pakistani establishment succeeded atleast partially, in that their own population never got to know of their failure and was in a state of ecstasy at having defeated Indian in the aerial engagement of 27th Feb 2019. This so-called ‘victory’ included the shooting down of a Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft of the Indian Air Force along with Wing Commander Abhinandan’s MiG-21. Icing on the cake for them was the inadvertent shooting down of an IAF Mi-17 chopper near Srinagar, in Budgam, in an unfortunate friendly fire incident.

Of course, as per the lies fed to them, even the Balakot airstrike had been an abysmal failure wherein the IAF had been successfully chased away by the PAF!

But the utter uselessness of such a campaign without any real power to back it up was soon apparent.

All this fake bravado and the stories of a non-existent victory over India came back to haunt Pakistan less than six months later.

The Government of India of Feb 2019 won the next general elections and came back to power with an even greater majority. One of the agendas in the poll manifesto of the ruling political party was the abolition of Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution of India that gave limited autonomy to the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir and special rights and privileges to its permanent residents respectively.

This promise was made good by the now ruling party of India on 05 August 2019 when the government successfully abrogated both these articles of the Constitution of India.

The Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir ceased to exist in its earlier form that day onwards. Instead, it was broken down into two Union Territories - Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh, and formally absorbed into the Union of India as any other Union territory, i.e. without any special status / privileges.

Quite predictably, a wave of hysteria swept across Pakistan.

Along with that wave came an unyielding expectation from the average Pakistani citizen that the time had come for their armed forces to finally liberate Kashmir. The results of the battles / wars that these same armed forces had fought for the same cause a number of times before didn’t matter. What mattered instead was the still fresh memories of the humiliation heaped upon the Indian Armed Forces in the month of Feb 2019!

Hashtags such as #KashmirParFinalFight, #SaveKashmirSOS and #PakArmyRetaliateAgainstIndia started trending in Pakistan social media landscape amongst other trends.

The Pakistani propaganda machinery was caught in its own web of lies!

They knew that they had absolutely no hard power to fulfill any such demand by their increasingly agitated populace. The Pakistani ISPR led propaganda machinery kicked into gear in order to mellow down / divert public anger by initiating some milder forms of trends weren’t overtly militaristic.

Some days later, on 15th Aug 2019, none other than the DG ISPR, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor implicitly acknowledged that the leading trend in Pakistan twitter landscape - #15AugustBlackDay - had been initiated on the anniversary of Indian independence by his establishment when he tweeted a note of thanks to his fellow Pakistanis for trending the same.

However, it was still not clear where was this ‘information war’ initiated by Pakistan headed, especially when the Prime Minister of India, despite his many public appearances / speeches hadn’t even once mentioned the word Pakistan!

To be charitable to the Pakistani establishment, it did seem to keep the outrage within their borders channelized to some extent in the form of some sort of instant gratification and perhaps, a notion of victory as well, by ensuring that their preferred social media hashtags trended within their country and in some cases, outside as well.

But this enterprise grew even more absurd when Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan appealed for the citizens of his country in the last week of August to henceforth stop doing whatever they were at noon every Friday and come out on the streets for thirty minutes to show solidarity with the Kashmir cause.

This was not meant to be a one day affair, mind you, but a weekly affair instead!

In essence, the Prime Minister had appealed to his countrymen to stop all economic and other activities for half an hour every week!

In my opinion, it might have been a ploy to appeal to the world powers in his upcoming speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2019. Yet, this too failed since the very demand that the Pakistani Prime Minister made of his fellow citizens was something that was just not sustainable

Unsurprisingly, it fizzled out soon enough!

As I write this chapter almost exactly one year after the abrogation of Article 370, I can say with full satisfaction that soft power, even if an assumed one as in Pakistan’s case, stands nowhere if not backed by hard power – economic as well as military. The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir no longer exists and the two successor Union Territories of the Government of India are gearing up to celebrate the first anniversary of the announcement that led to their establishment, while the Pakistani establishment is once again gearing up to run hashtag campaigns on Twitter and other social media platforms.

sudarshan · Post by **sudarshan** » 18 Dec 2021 08:08

Manmohan wrote:Cross Posted from the Books Folder

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Ji, this is all very interesting stuff, and your efforts to popularize the book are appreciated, but are you sure you're not violating copyright by posting the book here one chapter at a time?

From your excerpts, the book certainly seems like an absorbing read though.

Manmohan · Post by **Manmohan** » 18 Dec 2021 09:29

sudarshan wrote:
Manmohan wrote:Cross Posted from the Books Folder

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Ji, this is all very interesting stuff, and your efforts to popularize the book are appreciated, but are you sure you're not violating copyright by posting the book here one chapter at a time?

From your excerpts, the book certainly seems like an absorbing read though.

Sudarshan Ji,
I have the author's explicit permission to share two chapters from the book since he being a still serving officer, wouldn't want to do so himself. It just so happens that he is related to my wife, so that made this part a bit easy to do. In fact, with the post above, I have just finished posting the last of the excerpts that he had permitted me to do. So there will be no more posting about the book hereafter.

As you noted, the book is really interesting to read and that's the reason I sought to share some bit of it here since I am sure that people on the forum would appreciate it.

Amongst other things, in the 'Way Ahead' chapter he talks about, amongst other things, 'Land for Terror' as well.

This said, keeping in mind copyright issues as you too highlighted, I shall not be sharing any more excerpts!

Manmohan · Post by **Manmohan** » 18 Dec 2021 09:29

sudarshan wrote:
Manmohan wrote:Cross Posted from the Books Folder

...
Ji, this is all very interesting stuff, and your efforts to popularize the book are appreciated, but are you sure you're not violating copyright by posting the book here one chapter at a time?

From your excerpts, the book certainly seems like an absorbing read though.

Sudarshan Ji,
I have the author's explicit permission to share two chapters from the book since he being a still serving officer, wouldn't want to do so himself. It just so happens that he is related to my wife, so that made this part a bit easy to do. In fact, with the post above, I have just finished posting the last of the excerpts that he had permitted me to do. So there will be no more posting about the book hereafter.

As you noted, the book is really interesting to read and that's the reason I sought to share some bit of it here since I am sure that people on the forum would appreciate it.

Amongst other things, in the 'Way Ahead' chapter he talks about, amongst other things, 'Land for Terror' as well.

This said, keeping in mind copyright issues as you too highlighted, I shall not be sharing any more excerpts!

sudarshan · Post by **sudarshan** » 18 Dec 2021 10:03

^ OK thanks for clarifying, just didn't want anybody (or the forum) to get in trouble. And thanks for taking the time to post those excerpts. The book seems pretty well-written, and all the excerpts you posted made for interesting reading. My congratulations to the author on writing such a book.

Vadivel · Post by **Vadivel** » 18 Dec 2021 16:22

Manmohan wrote:
sudarshan wrote:
Ji, this is all very interesting stuff, and your efforts to popularize the book are appreciated, but are you sure you're not violating copyright by posting the book here one chapter at a time?

From your excerpts, the book certainly seems like an absorbing read though.
Sudarshan Ji,
I have the author's explicit permission to share two chapters from the book since he being a still serving officer, wouldn't want to do so himself. It just so happens that he is related to my wife, so that made this part a bit easy to do. In fact, with the post above, I have just finished posting the last of the excerpts that he had permitted me to do. So there will be no more posting about the book hereafter.

As you noted, the book is really interesting to read and that's the reason I sought to share some bit of it here since I am sure that people on the forum would appreciate it.

Amongst other things, in the 'Way Ahead' chapter he talks about, amongst other things, 'Land for Terror' as well.

This said, keeping in mind copyright issues as you too highlighted, I shall not be sharing any more excerpts!

Thanks for posting, it made be buy the book after reading the first couple of posts.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 18 Dec 2021 18:54

Im duh Dim, still trying hard to be relevant, and no one cares...

Corrupt leadership the primary evil in poor countries: PM Imran
Duh!

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday termed corruption as the biggest evil plaguing poor countries, saying the leading cause of poverty around the world was not a lack of resources but the corruption of leadership.

He said the rule of law and public welfare were the two guiding principles of the state of Madinah.

This just in. Dimmy claims water is wet when handled properly.

Haram link: https://www.dawn.com/news/1664503/corru ... s-pm-imran

Ambar · Post by **Ambar** » 18 Dec 2021 20:13

News coming out of a major terror attack in Karachi. Atleast 12 have been confirmed dead and dozens wounded. Pakis as usual are blaming it on "gas cylinder explosion" but TTP have claimed it was them who orchestrated the attack.