Terroristan - March 31, 2022

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1 dead, 3 injured in blast at Peshawar’s Ring Road: police
At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in a blast at a motorcycle workshop near the Ring Road in Peshawar on Thursday, according to police. Peshawar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harood Rashid confirmed the injuries and fatalities to Dawn.com. He said the explosion occurred in the jurisdiction of the Peshatakara police station.

According to the official, the injured persons had been moved to the Hayatabad Medical Complex. Rashid added that police teams, ambulances and a bomb disposal squad had reached the site. Later, he told Dawn.com that 200 grammes of explosives were used in the blast.
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Soldier martyred, terrorist killed in Bajaur shootout
One Pakistan Army soldier embraced martyrdom during a fire exchange that took place between the terrorists and security forces in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Thursday.

The military's media wing, in a statement, said the fire exchange took place in the general area of Loesam in the Bajaur District.
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Dilbu wrote:Unkil should launch an operation enduring fartdom and put boots on the ground in TSP. Oh.. TFTAs will be salivating thinking about the khayali gravy train in such a scenario.
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Quite the opposite i would think... whenever Unkil says they want to bring 'freedom' to a country, it usually means basing themselves in the neighbouring countries and then proceeding to level the country which needs 'freedom'
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Dilbu wrote:Soldier martyred, terrorist killed in Bajaur shootout
One Pakistan Army soldier embraced martyrdom during a fire exchange that took place between the terrorists and security forces in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Thursday.

The military's media wing, in a statement, said the fire exchange took place in the general area of Loesam in the Bajaur District.
Good grief, one might lose the plot trying to figure out who is the soldier here and who is the aatankwadi. In the end it might just be a case of a deranged split personality Abdul committing soosai by firing at the imaginary Fauji in the mirror.
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For the love of hoors, can somebody put this thread to pasture and start a new one? This thread is way past its prime i.e. 72 :P
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lal topi

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Laal topi used to be OK for laughs a few years ago...

Now he is almost insufferable.. especially after the Saudis made his rear end match his topi.

Is he making any specific points or just the usual rambling and ranting about yooess-yehudi-yindoo saazish.
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I find him the other way round. He was insufferable years ago, now he’s a barrel of laughs.

Yakeen kijiye…..
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sanjaykumar wrote:From the complexion, looks like he was from the Northern Flight Infantry.
NLI wannabe. The original NLI was decimated in Kargil.
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Anujan wrote:This is a very crucial moment in Pakistan and it is worth discussing its implications for India
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I have tried to capture this strategic cost-benefit-behavior decision possibility matrix in this picture.

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I think western analysts should analyze more and write more articles about this
This actually sums up Pak very well.
The more unstable Pak is, the less resources they have - as we are seeing now with their economy. Hence less money for cross border terror.
Pak army will be content to secure their wealth and power within Pak (which will increase relative to others, the more unstable Pak gets) instead
of risking it in a war.
Also, the more unstable Pak gets, the more Pak will be involved in fighting separatist movements inside Pak, rather than look at India.
So, an unstable Pak is better for India. As you suggest, it does not matter where the people lie on the radical - moderate scale. All are anti-India.
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I love me some Sham Sharma :twisted:

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Apparently the Pakis tried to put together a toolkit, that then got leaked, and basically consists of a long rant rife with pinglish language spelling and grammar. :lol:

From Gaurav Arya; please share this widely per his request towards the end of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KQFrGeW9M



English version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvTVWQIDnDI
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Pakistan is failing.

Not the colonial system which feeds off of it.
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Anujan wrote:This is a very crucial moment in Pakistan and it is worth discussing its implications for India
Anujan, :rotfl:
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Kaptaan apparently had a Zoom call with Maxine Waters a congresswoman from Amreeka

Kaptaan is begging her to condemn Hyooman rights violations in Pakistan. The same Kaptaan said CIA conspired to oust him from power.



Some ISI wallah recorded the call and leaked it. Now Kaptaan would be wondering if his cook worked for ISI. Interestingly ISI has been tactically brilliant as usual, because technically they have wiretapped a massa congresswoman.

Big Danda Munir has declare that everyone will be tried by Army Act. Including Kaptaan. Pakistan Army has declared that they arrested a dozen "terrorists" from Zaman Park (Kaptaan's lahore house), but those frightened abduls blurted out that they were convicted prisoners in kot lakhpat jail, transported to Zaman Park, asked to run around and then recaptured by the army :rotfl:

Rumors are that Munir has told Kaptaan to either leave or get lamposted.

Meanwhile Peacock Jernail is still missing. The Peacock is also missing.
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This is hilarious. Kaptaan had done his home work. Invoked all the right words talking to a US congresswoman representing California - constitution, human rights, assassination, rule of law, freedom, democracy. Missed mentioning LGBT rights though.

Meanwhile supreme justice of independent judiciary of Pakistan has formed a bench to begin the trial of rioters of May 9th riots.

Legal process of rioters’ trial begins: COAS
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https://www.rediff.com/news/report/bsf- ... 230521.htm
BSF shoots down Pak drone with 3.3 kg heroin near IB in Punjab, 4th in 2 days
ANI, May 21, 2023

The Border Security has shot down a Pakistani drone carrying narcotics near International Border near Punjab's Amritsar, the force said on Sunday.
The BSF troops deployed in the depth area heard the buzzing sound of a suspected Pakistani drone in the Dhanoe Kalan village in Amritsar district around 8.48 pm on Saturday, the BSF said in a statement.
The BSF said that it was the fourth drone shot down by them in the last two days.
While three drones were intercepted by the BSF on Friday night, the fourth one was shot down on Saturday night.
"The BSF troops immediately reacted to intercept the drone as per the laid down drill and successfully downed the Pakistani drone with contraband," it said.
During the initial search of the area, the BSF troops recovered a "drone (Quadcopter, DJI Matrice, 300 RTK) along with a consignment containing three packets of suspected narcotics, attached with the drone by the means of the iron ring, from the farming fields of Dhanoe Kalan village."
The BSF said that four luminous strips were also found attached to the consignment for easy detection of smugglers.
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India should stand in support of PTI and Imran.
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Anujan wrote:...

Meanwhile Peacock Jernail is still missing. The Peacock is also missing.
:rotfl:

Saar, most likely peacock bhunna masala was on the menu the same night.. and the plucked feathers distributed among the various abduls in the mohalla.
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Anujan wrote: Meanwhile Peacock Jernail is still missing. The Peacock is also missing.
just like ghandhy's goat went missing.

the peacock wound have ended up as a star in a one act play featuring a spicy biryani, just like that poor goat probably did
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https://tribune.com.pk/story/2417899/80 ... ears-imran
'80% chance' I'll be arrested on Tuesday, fears Imran
Says he is unaware of 'specific issue' COAS Munir may have with him as he has not done anything to 'antagonise' him
News Desk, May 21, 2023

Imran Khan, the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and former prime minister, fears he may be arrested by police in Islamabad when he appears in court on Tuesday to get bail in several cases.
"On Tuesday, I'm going to make an appearance for various bails in Islamabad, [there are] 80 chances that I will be arrested. So right now there's no rule of law," he said while speaking in an interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN.
"Everything is being done just to dismantle our democracy, so right now, as we speak, over 10,000 workers have been arrested. My entire senior leadership is in jail."
According to Imran, these actions are driven by the government's desire to eliminate him from the political landscape, stemming from their fear of losing the upcoming general elections.
Drawing attention to a past assassination attempt on his life, the former cricketer also expressed lingering concerns for his personal safety.
"In November, there was an assassination attempt which I had predicted. I had been warning that they are going to use this so-called religious fanatic who was going to kill me and then, just like Salman Taseer, our governor, he was killed by a religious fanatic...so they were going to use that to bump me off," he responded to a question on whether he felt safe after the gun attack in Wazirabad.
"The reason [for the assassination attempt] was that they had lost all the by-elections and the party was getting more and more popular. So I knew that my life was in danger and I sort of had to speak publicly about it."
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Five Iranian border guards killed in clashes with terrorists
TEHRAN: Five Iranian border guards were killed on Sunday during clashes with an armed group in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, state media reported. The guards were killed in Saravan, near Iran’s border with Pakistan, the official IRNA news agency said. Earlier, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website had quoted local prosecutor Mehdi Shamsabadi as saying that six border guards were killed but later the number was revised down to five.

Sunday’s attack was carried out by “a terrorist group that was seeking to infiltrate the country” but whose members “fled the scene after suffering injuries”, IRNA said.

Iran foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani condemned the attack saying Iran expects Pakistan to “crack down on terrorist groups” and “try to improve the security of the common borders”.
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Attention: Contains Her pic!
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/10728 ... is-release
LHC orders PTI leader Shireen Mazari's release
Court asks politician to submit affidavit of no future involvement in such activities
Web Desk, May 22, 2023

The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on Monday ordered the release of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice-President Dr Shireen Mazari.
The court has asked the politician to submit an affidavit to the deputy commissioner ensuring no future involvement in such activities.
The bench’s orders came during the hearing of a plea filed against Mazari’s latest detention.
After being released from custody on Islamabad High Court's (IHC) orders, the PTI leader was re-arrested for the third time the same day on May 17 by the Punjab Police.
Officials told Geo News Mazari was arrested by women personnel of the Punjab Police under Section 4 of the Maintenance of Public Order.
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During a live address to the nation, ex-PM Imran Khan asked the Pakistani army a thought provoking question: "Kya Pakistani Ch*t*ya hai?"#ImranKhan


WATCH VIDEO
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Terrorists blow up two girls' schools in North Waziristan
In another extremist act, terrorists blew up two girls' schools in the Mir Ali sub-division of North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), it emerged on Monday.

Deputy Commissioner Rehan Gul Khattak on Sunday night confirmed an explosion at the Government Girls Middle School Hafizabad, in Hassu Khel, and said that the building of the school was damaged but no loss of lives occurred.
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chetak wrote:During a live address to the nation, ex-PM Imran Khan asked the Pakistani army a thought provoking question: "Kya Pakistani Ch*t*ya hai?"#ImranKhan


WATCH VIDEO
Its a rhetorical question! We know the answer.
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Islamist militants kill six at energy plant in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 23 (Reuters) - Islamist militants stormed a natural gas and oil extraction plant in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing four police and two private guards, police said.

The attack by up to 50 militants took place at a plant run by the MOL Pakistan Oil and Gas Company in Hangu district near the Afghan border, police official Irfan Khan said.

No group has claimed responsibility.
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Rakshaks, I come bearing real news. Not a joke.

Madam Jalebi has just announced that she is quitting politics. It seems that the software update after her arrest was successful.

You all will have to get used to living without seeing her face in the media.
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Shaktimaan wrote:Rakshaks, I come bearing real news. Not a joke.

Madam Jalebi has just announced that she is quitting politics. It seems that the software update after her arrest was successful.

You all will have to get used to living without seeing her face in the media.
Aapke muh mein ghee shakkar Sir !
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Dilbu wrote:Islamist militants kill six at energy plant in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 23 (Reuters) - Islamist militants stormed a natural gas and oil extraction plant in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing four police and two private guards, police said.

The attack by up to 50 militants took place at a plant run by the MOL Pakistan Oil and Gas Company in Hangu district near the Afghan border, police official Irfan Khan said.

No group has claimed responsibility.
Its a Hungarian company, so an armed attack on a company owned by a NATO country - who might interpret it as China muscling them out of the
Oil & Gas exploration business.
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The Impact of Political Instability on Pakistan’s Internal Security
Terrorist groups are byproducts of conflicts and instability. They thrive in such conditions and exploit them to further their narratives, and draw recruits and funding. Terrorist groups also use anarchy as a cover to undermine the adversarial state’s writ and use it to carry out attacks, particularly in high-security zones. The greater the chaos, the more the chances for terrorist groups to flourish in a society.

Pakistan is no stranger to political instability and terrorism, but the current spate of political tensions pitting former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the country’s most popular political leader, against the army chief Gen. Asim Munir, the country’s most powerful man, is unprecedented. Presently, Pakistan is confronted with a three-fold reinforcing crisis of political instability, economic volatility, and resurging terrorism.
This atmosphere is tailor-made for terrorist groups to lure vulnerable youth to join their ranks and achieve forcefully what has been denied to them peacefully.

Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the security situation in Pakistan was already volatile, resulting in a 52 percent increase in terrorism. In this situation, the PDM government’s decision to call the Pakistan Army under Article 245 of the Constitution to restore and maintain order in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces will not only expose troops to potential attacks in the main cities but also divert their attention from ongoing counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations.

It bears mention that the police have been the main target of TTP’s attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Furthermore, the current political polarization in Pakistan will also undermine the security forces’ efforts to forge a national consensus in fighting terrorist groups and get political ownership of counterterrorism campaigns.
Hence, the statement from TTP’s influential commander Mufti Sarbakaf Mohmad, the so-called governor of the group’s Balochistan wilayat, {that an armed struggle like Afghan Taliban is the only way to establish an Islamic government in Pakistan} is unsurprising because he held the military responsible for Pakistan’s current political ordeal. He congratulated the angry protesters for vandalizing and torching military installations across the country, particularly the attack on a senior military official’s residence in Lahore. Furthermore, he threw his weight behind protesters and extended his support for similar incidents in the future. He also urged TTP militants in Pakistan’s main cities to target military installations under the cover of protests.

Evidently, TTP through its propaganda is trying to exploit the state-society divisions to draw recruits and legitimacy for its violent campaign, and use the chaos as a shield to expand its network to Pakistan’s main cities. The longer the volatile situation prevails, the better it will be for TTP.

Alarmingly, during the current protests, Karachi police foiled a suicide attack targeting a Chinese-owned boatyard in the port city. Police guards stationed at a checkpoint outside the boatyard killed one militant wearing a suicide vest, while the other one fled. At the time of the attack, 31 Chinese nationals were inside the boatyard, repairing ships. Had the attackers managed to get inside the boatyard premises and detonated the vest, its security implications for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor would have been far-reaching.

Likewise, a little-known militant group, Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, targeted a camp of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Balochistan’s Qilla Saifullah district on May 12, resulting in a 24-hour standoff. The attack left two Pakistani soldiers dead and all seven attackers were eliminated during the clean-up operation.


Though a dramatic rise in terrorist attacks has not been witnessed during the ongoing military-Khan tensions in Pakistan, the intent of terrorist groups to exploit this situation is visible. The more the military resorts to political repression and other high-handed tactics, the more openings it will create for terrorist groups to exploit the anger of youth by urging them to take up arms to achieve their goals.
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Shaktimaan wrote:Rakshaks, I come bearing real news. Not a joke.

Madam Jalebi has just announced that she is quitting politics. It seems that the software update after her arrest was successful.

You all will have to get used to living without seeing her face in the media.
Her statement hints at threats targetted towards her daughter and her mother.

The uniformed jihadis are proving themselves to be the true descendants of the rapist looting mughals of yore...
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"madame" has stepped down :P

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https://www.rediff.com/news/report/drug ... 230524.htm
Drug bust off Kerala: Court sends Pak national to NCB custody till May 27
PTI, May 24, 2023

A court in Kochi on Tuesday granted the Narcotics Control Bureau custody of a Pakistan national, arrested in connection with the seizure of over 2,500 kilograms of methamphetamine from a vessel in Indian waters, till May 27.
The NCB had sought custody of Zubair Derakshshandeh for five days from May 22, said advocate B A Aloor who is representing the accused in the case.
In the remand report filed by the agency on May 16, it had said that a drug trafficker from Pakistan had offered the accused, "good money" after the work was completed.
The agency had on May 15 said that the actual commercial value of the contraband after its latest evaluation was close to Rs 25,000 crore, because of the high purity of the seized methamphetamine.
NCB had said that the contraband was kept in 2,525 plastic boxes and placed in 132 sacks. "The net weight of methamphetamine came out to be 2,525.675 kg," the agency had said.
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That is a lot of meth. They must be running out of money. Also, this supply line has been used before, as no one smuggles so much for the first time.
Re PTI losers quitting the party: Benjamin Franklin once said, We Must Hang Together Or Surely We Shall Hang Separately.
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Fear tactics
It is a familiar story. A political party, thinking it can take on the country’s all-powerful establishment, crosses a red line and quickly finds itself losing a ruthless, one-sided war of attrition. One by one, its leaders are picked out and isolated. They may find themselves being summoned by powerful officials. Others are picked up in unmarked vehicles.

Those in hiding learn their families are facing harassment. Ominous phone calls from untraceable numbers and blackmail are par for the course. There is no respite, and the unspoken message, hardened over years and years of such forces operating with complete impunity, is that no one — no judge, no lawyer, no rights organisation — is coming to help. The only way out is to do exactly what you are told.
Shireen Mazari’s departure from both party and politics yesterday would have come as a major blow to the PTI. Ms Mazari said she is in poor health, and that the recent loss of her husband has taken a heavy toll on her family. It is a huge hit nonetheless. It is the core of political parties that provides stability in the face of efforts to break it.

The loss of second- and third-tier leaders can be overcome, but an important lieutenant breaking ranks may prove deeply demoralising for a party. Perhaps the PTI should take comfort in knowing that it is not the first to suffer such humiliation at the hands of the state. The PML-N recently suffered the same before the 2018 general election; earlier, at the turn of the century, an entire party, the PML-Q, was carved out from its ranks, yet it survived and thrived.

While it nurses its wounds, the PTI’s present experiences should give rise to some empathy within its ranks for political opponents. Mr Khan’s party may finally appreciate the need for a Charter of Democracy.
In Pakistani politics, what goes around, comes around — and, if history is any indication, what we are seeing going around today is not going to take too long to come around to bite those celebrating.

Already this government has ceded so much space to unelected forces that it will be extremely difficult for anyone to wrest back control. The country is in the depths of economic, social and political despair, and more misery awaits.
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Govt considering banning PTI: Khawaja Asif
ISLAMABAD: The government is considering banning former prime minister Imran Khan's political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Wednesday. The move comes amid political instability in the nuclear-armed nation caused by Imran's arrest on May 9 on corruption charges, before he was released on bail on court orders. The embattled PTI chairperson, who says corruption charges have been concocted, is embroiled in a confrontation with the present government and state institutions. "It is under consideration to ban PTI," Asif told reporters. "The PTI has attacked the very basis of the state, that never happened before. It can't be tolerated".
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Meanwhile TTP is marching ahead with IEd mubaraks.
Soldiers among four killed in northwest Pakistan suicide bombing
A suicide bomber has targeted a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing two soldiers, a policeman and a civilian, security officials said. It was the second attack to hit Pakistan in as many days. The bombing happened on Wednesday in North Waziristan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan and is a former stronghold of the Pakistan Taliban, also known as TTP.

A number of civilians were also wounded in the attack, according to Rehmat Khan, a local police official.

“It was a suicide attack and the bomber blew himself up during a road check,” Rasool Daraz, another local police officer, told dpa news agency.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack but suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistan Taliban.
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Shaktimaan wrote:Rakshaks, I come bearing real news. Not a joke.
Madam Jalebi has just announced that she is quitting politics. It seems that the software update after her arrest was successful.
You all will have to get used to living without seeing her face in the media.
Sir, on the contrary, her face is all over the media.
1. Shireen Mazari Drops Bombshell, Abandons Imran Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJdcuXS ... =DunyaNews
2. BIGGEST SHOCK to PTI | Shireen Mazari also quits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvpUbfi ... oorAliKhan
I could post more, but my BP will not take it.
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Yesterday the fat woman quit, today the fat man quit. Who will sing finale of PTI?
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Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

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Fatty Fawad Chaudhry has quit PTI

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