Terroristan - March 31, 2022

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The second:
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https://www.firstpost.com/world/parents ... 16002.html
Parents are locking their daughter's graves in Pakistan, but why?
While necrophilia cases have been reported in Pakistan before too, some social media users, including activists and authors, raised the matter once again
Abhishek Awasthi, April 27, 2023

In a emerging trend in Pakistan, more and more people are keeping the graves of women members of family under lock and key as necrophilia cases are on the rise. While necrophilia cases have been reported in Pakistan before too, some social media users, including activists and authors, raised the matter once again on Wednesday.
One such user named Harris Sultan, an Ex-Muslim Atheist activist and the author of the book “The Curse of God, why I left Islam” blamed hardline Islamist ideology for such depraved acts.
“Pakistan has created such a horny, sexually frustrated society that people are now putting padlocks on the graves of their daughters to prevent them from getting raped. When you link the burqa with rape, it follows you to the grave,” Sultan tweeted on Wednesday.
When you link the burqa with rape, it follows you to the grave. pic.twitter.com/THrRO1y6ok
— Harris Sultan (@TheHarrisSultan) April 26, 2023
Another Twitter user Sajid Yousaf Shah wrote: “The social environment created by #Pakistan has given rise to a sexually charged and repressed society, where some people have resorted to locking their daughter’s graves to protect them from sexual violence. Such a connection between rape and an individual’s clothing only leads to a path filled with grief and despair.”
Women’s bodies have been unearthed and desecrated on several occasions in the past.
The scariest necrophilia case ever reported in Pakistan was in 2011 when a gravekeeper named Muhammad Rizwan from North Nazimabad, Karachi was arrested after he confessed to raping 48 female corpses. Rizwan was caught running away after desecrating a corpse. He had caught the attention of nearby grave diggers and some other people.
Most recently in May 2022, some unknown men dug out the corpse of a teenage girl and raped it in the Chak Kamala village in Gujrat, Pakistan. This occurred on the same night the family had buried the deceased.
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And I thought that the Mango Pakistanis just limited themselves with Googling "Donkey Sex". You can not make this up even if you wanted to.
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120 cops martyred in KP during last four months, report says
As many as 120 cops were martyred and 333 others sustained injuries in the 77 terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) during the last 4 months, revealed police report on Monday.

According to the report, terrorists conducted 77 attacks on policemen in KP during the last 120 days. The majority of attacks were carried out in Bannu, where terrorists conducted 24 attacks.

23 attacks were carried out in Dera Ismail Khan, and 15 in Peshawar. Peshawar remained on top with the martyrs as 88 policemen sacrificed their lives for the defense of the homeland.

In Malakand 12 cops were martyred, in Bannu, 11 and three policemen lost their lives in DI Khan terror attacks during the last four months.
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If you were wondering why ISPR videos have muted audio, here is why :rotfl:



Source of the video is Chinese media. Why did China leak this video which only embarrasses the ruler of its "sweeter than honey" friend? Got tired of frequent begging? Unhappy about arrest of a Chinese man in blasphemy case?

Also :rotfl: at Pakistan's army chief for thinking "first army chief from a friendly country to visit China post pandemic" is a metric that Chinese or anybody in the world gives a sh*t about! This tells you how delusional these Pakis are.
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I think he has earned the right to be the moderator of the BENIS dhaaga.
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^^^^ Please don't mock the good general. Previous night's baijiu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baijiuwas too strong for him to handle.
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His body language shows that it was rote stuff that he recalled with great difficulty and strained to make sure that he did not make a mistake.
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Pakistan’s inflation outpaces Sri Lanka as Asia’s fastest
Pakistan took the crown :mrgreen: for Asia’s fastest inflation from Sri Lanka as a weaker currency and rising food and energy costs drove price gains to a record in April.
Consumer prices rose 36.4% in April from a year earlier, the highest since 1964, according to data released by the statistics department Tuesday. That compares with a median estimate for a 37.2% gain in a Bloomberg survey and a 35.4% increase in March.
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^^ Pakistan is numbah one
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Expectation: "US provides $10 billion aid to Pakistan in addition to 25 F16s to fight terrorism"

Reality: US offers $500K grant to improve English skills of Pakistani transgender youth
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partha wrote:Expectation: "US provides $10 billion aid to Pakistan in addition to 25 F16s to fight terrorism"

Reality: US offers $500K grant to improve English skills of Pakistani transgender youth
Looks like the US Govt also listened to the English interview of Pak army chief and wanted to fix the situation.
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/03/pa ... o-zardari/
Why Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Is Visiting India
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is in Goa to meet regional counterparts—not to patch up bilateral ties.
Michael Kugelman,MAY 3, 2023

SCO Foreign Ministers Gather in Goa
India’s government hosts the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the coastal city of Goa on Thursday and Friday. India currently chairs the eight-member group, which was established in 2001 and seeks to foster collaboration on security and development in Asia. The foreign ministers’ meeting comes ahead of the SCO leaders’ summit scheduled for July in New Delhi.
One major storyline ahead of the summit is the attendance of Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, which will mark the first visit to India by a Pakistani foreign minister since 2011. Some observers have wondered if a reconciliation effort is in the works. But for Islamabad, Bhutto Zardari’s visit is less an attempt to patch up ties with New Delhi than an opportunity to strengthen engagement with the SCO and advance its foreign-policy interests.
Consider the SCO’s advantages for Pakistan. Historically, China and Russia have led the group—Islamabad’s closest ally and an important new friend, respectively. Half of the SCO membership is based in Central Asia, where Pakistan hopes to deepen engagement to expand trade and connectivity—and it is already succeeding: In 2021, Uzbekistan inked a deal with Pakistan and Afghanistan to develop a transnational rail system.
In some multilateral organizations that include both India and Pakistan, Islamabad is at a disadvantage because New Delhi is the most powerful member. (Take, for example, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.) But India’s clout in the SCO is constrained by the presence of its strategic rival China. The war in Ukraine has also driven Moscow closer to Beijing—which may mean waning Russian influence within the SCO and even more power for China.
Like Pakistan, India hopes to scale up its ties with resource-rich Central Asian states. The region has quietly become a battleground for competition between the two countries. India lacks direct land access to Afghanistan, a key gateway to Central Asia, but it has compensated by establishing new mechanisms for regular meetings with governments in the region. Pakistan’s attendance at the Goa summit may aim to signal that it does not intend to cede any more ground to India when it comes to Central Asia.
None of this is to say that Pakistan isn’t also approaching Bhutto Zardari’s trip through a bilateral lens. Given the political and economic turmoil back home, Islamabad is keen to keep tensions with New Delhi low. The visit will build on more than two years of relatively stable relations. It can be a confidence-building measure, especially after Pakistan’s defense minister opted to attend a meeting with his SCO counterparts last month virtually instead of in person.
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https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/hi ... 4ae5&ei=11

Hindu activists in Pakistan express anger over mass conversions
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Faqir Shiva Kucchi, a Hindu activist who raises his voice against the practice, said that "it seems the state itself is involved in these conversions", The Express Tribune reported.

He added that local community members have been demanding the government to initiate legislation against the practice for several years.

"The conversions in Sindh are a serious issue and instead of taking measures to stop it, the federal minister's son is part of the conversion," he said.

"It is a matter of great concern for all of us (Hindus). We feel helplessness," he said.
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The govt should ensure Billiwala doesn't get access to press at any point while in India. I'm sure he is here just for the glee of bad mouthing India, NaMo, BJP, RSS in front of Indian press and grabbing headlines. The rest is irrelevant.
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Cyrano wrote:The govt should ensure Billiwala doesn't get access to press at any point while in India. I'm sure he is here just for the glee of bad mouthing India, NaMo, BJP, RSS in front of Indian press and grabbing headlines. The rest is irrelevant.
Cyrano ji,

biloorani is the mouthpiece of the paki army which is seeking to control (and reverse) the perceived damage done to them during the bajao regime

biloorani is singing for his supper, the alternate option available to biloorani is the paki crore kammandus seeing him as peeche se parvez

sadly for biloorani, the Indian courts are not there to protect his rights to SSM and also, he dare not march in any gay parade

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I hope the arrest of the DRDO Director yesterday was a 4D chess move by India to make sure the Paki-pasand Indian side is not able to activate Wagah Handle Kissing mode while Blow-all Bhutto is in India.
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Cyrano wrote:The govt should ensure Billiwala doesn't get access to press at any point while in India. I'm sure he is here just for the glee of bad mouthing India, NaMo, BJP, RSS in front of Indian press and grabbing headlines. The rest is irrelevant.
Difficult. Since yesterday the mainstream press has been fawning over him. As was expected.

Next I expect our Shampoo boy and him to do a photo op together while surrounded by a bunch of young females.
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Billiwala is a notorious "tharki" who doesn't discriminate. He and shampoo boy would be enough.
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https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/j ... 2023-05-05
Two Army jawans died and four others were injured in a gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Friday. This is the third such incident in the Union Territory in the last three days.
Ashraf Wani, Sunil Bhat, Srinagar, May 5, 2023

Two Army jawans lost their lives and four others, including an officer, were wounded in a gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Friday. This is the third such incident in the Union Territory in the last three days.
On specific information about the presence of terrorists in Kandi Forest in Rajouri sector, a joint operation was launched at around 7:30 am on Friday. A search team established contact with a group of terrorists well entrenched in a cave, an Indian Army statement said.
The area is thickly vegetated with rocky and steep cliffs.
The terrorists triggered an explosive device in retaliation. The Army team has suffered two fatal casualties with injuries to four more soldiers, including an officer, according to the statement.
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Six soldiers martyred in North Waziristan skirmish, says ISPR
Six soldiers of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom and three terrorists were eliminated in a fierce gunfight that broke out in a remote part of the mountainous North Waziristan district, the military said on Thursday.

The statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military's media wing read: “A fire exchange took place between terrorists and own troops in general area Dirduni, North Waziristan District.”
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Pakistan likely to pay price of Russian crude in Chinese currency
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is most likely to pay for the Russian oil in Chinese Yuan with the test cargo carrying 750,000 barrels of crude expected to dock in June, The News reported Friday.

"The cargo might also reach by the end of May," a senior official from the Ministry of Energy told the publication.

It has been learnt from sources that Pakistan will pay the price of crude most probably in the Chinese currency and the "Bank of China may play its role for transactions."

However, the official refused to divulge in crystal clear terms the details about the mode of payment and the exact discount arguing it is not in the interest of the country and the seller also does not want to make it public fearing backlash from the other countries buying Russian oil directly from Moscow.

“Russia will provide URAL crude in the test cargo and most probably Pakistan Refinery Limited (PRL) will be tasked to refine the Russian crude,” he added.

Commercial analysis of Russian crude has been conducted in favour of Pakistan’s economy but it will further be cross-checked after refining the Russian oil.

The shipping cost of the Russian oil has also been estimated somewhere at $15 per barrel, but it will be finalised after it arrives at the Pakistan port.

Other sources confided that Pakistan has finalised the per barrel price close to $50-52 against the cap price of G7 countries at $60 per barrel.
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"Let's not get caught up in weaponising terrorism for diplomatic point scoring": Pak FM Bilawal at SCO meet
How about not getting caught up in diplomatic point scoring while terrorism is being weaponised, eh?
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But let’s us certainly weaponise Islam.
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Gets slammed by Dr JS as expected.
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Really phenomenal replies by EAM. Jai Ho.
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"weaponizing terrorism" -- does Pakistani Pappu have any sense of the irony in the word salad that comes from his vegetative brain?
his haemoglobin levels must be depleted from the ironic emissions escaping his lips

or is this part of his plan to achieve "Eshcape Veloshitee"?
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It’s the general Pakistani Aah Koo.
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Which is emphatically not to mock those unfortunate people who labour under the same.

It is most definitely to mock those who try to pass off word salad as erudition.
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The more we delay a response to Terroristan's terror campaign, the more they'll continue it.

Their entire intention is to goad us into another surgical strike, which they hope will play into their hands by getting starving Pakis to rally around the very same military that are starving them. What PakMil really want right now is support and love from their starving public, which they're not getting enough of right now. Indian military strike would help deliver this support to them.

What we need to do is find a response whose outcome is least desirable to them. Deterrence against someone is based on creating the danger of undesirable outcome for them. Meanwhile responding in a way that gives someone what they wanted only amounts to vindicating their action.
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Actually their awam has stopped respecting the Millitary. A surgical strike will only make Pak army look impotent.
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Instead of risking lives why not take punitive action from our side like precision missile attacks, drone attacks, using fringe elements to create boom boom action.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65462347
Polarised politics are tearing Pakistan apart
Caroline Davies, BBC News, Islamabad, 5/5/2023

The stakes have never been higher in Pakistan.
Its economy is on the brink, society is politically polarised, millions are still recovering from last year's devastating floods, terror attacks are increasing and, as inflation soars ever higher, many are struggling to feed themselves and their children.
While the country suffers, politicians and institutions have been pulled into a power struggle over who should run Pakistan.
Despite the hours of air time, ferociously delivered ultimatums and street stand-offs, Pakistan seems no closer to answering that question than it was a year ago.
"What makes this current situation unprecedented is the backdrop of other serious crisis," says Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center.
"Pakistan doesn't have the luxury of saying this political crisis is a distraction, eventually we'll get back to where things need to be."
Pakistan's economy is struggling. Its foreign reserves, which pay for imports including fuel, have plummeted to one of the lowest levels in decades. Meetings with the International Monetary Fund earlier this year are yet to result in a deal to unlock $1.1bn in crucial funds.
Meanwhile militants continue to launch attacks, often targeting security forces. Pakistan's armed forces recently said there had been 436 terror attacks so far in 2023. And militant groups regularly release infographics showing the number they claim to have killed or injured, and the arms they've seized around the country.
Add to this the ever-climbing food inflation, plus the fact that Pakistan is still recovering from the damage done by last year's floods before this year's rains begin again - and there is no shortage of big questions politicians need to answer.
"Political uncertainty is making things even more difficult for the entire system," says Mehmal Sarfraz, a political analyst. "The system is collapsing in Pakistan. If that happens, it won't benefit anyone - neither the political parties or the people of Pakistan."
Why is politics deadlocked?
Analysts say the current situation was sparked when Imran Khan was ousted from his position as prime minister in April 2022 in a vote of no confidence. "Khan refused to accept it," Mr Kugelman says. "And it was quite clear that the government was not going to ignore Khan's activism and agitation either." Mr Khan responded with a series of rallies around the country, and a long march to the capital, Islamabad. The number of court cases against him has been rising - his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party says there are over 100 - and charges include terrorism, corruption and contempt of court. But the former prime minister has made this a part of his campaign, accusing the government of living by the "law of the jungle".
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https://theprint.in/india/wanted-terror ... e/1559623/
Wanted terrorist & Khalistan Commando Force chief Paramjit Panjwar shot dead in Pakistan’s Lahore
Panjwar was listed as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and was wanted in terrorism cases besides narcotics and fake currency smuggling.
SNEHESH ALEX PHILIP, 6 May, 2023

New Delhi: Wanted in India on multiple terrorism and narcotics cases, and chief of the terrorist organisation, Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), Paramjit Singh Panjwar was Saturday shot dead by two unidentified bike-borne men in Pakistan’s Lahore.
He was also listed as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
Sources in the defence and security establishment said that Panjwar, who was named after his village near Amristar, was shot dead and his bodyguard injured while out on a walk early morning in Lahore’s Johar town.
They said it was not clear who was behind the killing but the same modus operandi was used to kill Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) leader Harmeet Singh, infamously known as “Happy PhD”, in 2020 in Lahore.
Giving details, the sources said Panjwar is understood to have been in the crosshairs of Pakistan’s ISI in recent times.
The Print had earlier reported that there are 22 cases against him on charges ranging from terrorism to fake-currency racketeering.
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https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-forei ... 81848.html
Chinese Foreign Minister Tells Pakistan It Must Overcome Political Instability
Sarah Zaman, May 06, 2023

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN —
Expressing concern about Pakistan's increasing instability, the visiting Chinese foreign minister told the host nation to overcome political differences to pave the way for economic progress.
China's foreign minister, Qin Gang, was in Pakistan on Saturday for the fourth Pakistan-China Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue held in Islamabad. It was Qin's maiden visit to the country since becoming Beijing's top diplomat.
"We sincerely hope the political forces in Pakistan will build consensus, uphold stability and more effectively address domestic and external challenges so it can focus on growing the economy," Qin said, addressing a press briefing alongside his Pakistani counterpart, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, after the closed-door strategic talks.
Pakistan is facing intense political turmoil since former prime minister Imran Khan was ousted a year ago in a parliamentary vote of no-confidence. A lack of consensus between Khan's party and the 13-party ruling alliance led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif regarding the election schedule has plunged the country into a political and constitutional crisis.
The country also is mired in a crippling financial crisis. To help Pakistan revive a stalled bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund and avoid default, China has provided relief by rolling over debt and parking funds there to boost dangerously low foreign exchange reserves.
Qin said his country will "continue to do our best to support Pakistan's foreign exchange and financial stability."
Pakistan's former envoy to the U.K., U.S. and U.N., Maleeha Lodhi, told VOA her country would have defaulted without China coming to the rescue.
"It was the Chinese decision to roll over even commercial loans to Pakistan that has helped keep Pakistan financially afloat. So, China's help has been extremely vital to help Pakistan, at least keep its [foreign exchange] reserves," said Lodhi.
China is also Pakistan's single biggest lender, though, with the South Asian nation owing one-third of its external debt to Beijing. That debt has skyrocketed since the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 10 years ago. Known as CPEC, the multi-billion-dollar infrastructure and development project is part of China's global Belt and Road Initiative.
By not providing large-scale debt forgiveness to Pakistan, policy expert and former adviser to the Pakistani government Mosharraf Zaidi said Beijing is telling Pakistan to manage its affairs better.
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‘240m’ people counted across the country so far
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has said that according to the seventh digital census, 240 million people had been counted across the country so far, adding that the verification process of census in Occupied Balochistan would continue till May 15.
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Got engaged by a Bhikharistani on Twitter who took offence to one of her compatriots being shown a mirror for crying Kashmir Banay Ga Pakistan to getting robbed at gunpoint and not wanting to live in Pakistan any more!
The 'insult' she chose to fling was about the lack of sanitation facilities in India.
I ended up sharing some thoughts on the irony of the same with her. A lot of data points that might make for an interesting reading for folks here.
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Terrific. Mind blowing retort.
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kancha wrote:Got engaged by a Bhikharistani on Twitter who took offence to one of her compatriots being shown a mirror for crying Kashmir Banay Ga Pakistan to getting robbed at gunpoint and not wanting to live in Pakistan any more!
The 'insult' she chose to fling was about the lack of sanitation facilities in India.
I ended up sharing some thoughts on the irony of the same with her. A lot of data points that might make for an interesting reading for folks here.
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Great job

Thank you
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