Terroristan - March 31, 2022

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 23 Jan 2023 17:17

partha wrote:There was a report of an attack on transmission lines from a Chinese power plant in Balochistan yesterday. Is the power outage due to more such attacks or is the army up to something?

Take that you SDRE Kufrs

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 23 Jan 2023 17:55

Mods - sincerely beg pardon for the overload of the images in the past few days.. but it is becoming just irresistible as almost all news from Bakistan is now meme-worthy

Can we have a pure meme type thread for Pakistan as that (abomi)nation marches on into irrelevance ?

Here is the ISPR ~~Wall~~ Ball of Fame

Neela · Post by **Neela** » 23 Jan 2023 19:00

Manish_P wrote:
partha wrote:There was a report of an attack on transmission lines from a Chinese power plant in Balochistan yesterday. Is the power outage due to more such attacks or is the army up to something?
Take that you SDRE Kufrs

Pakistan Economic Net
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Lahore’s Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) came to a sudden halt on Monday at Canal View, causing major inconvenience for passengers. The management of OLMT stated that the train stopped due to a countrywide power supply breakdown.
#poweroutage #ElectricityShutDown #orangeline

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 23 Jan 2023 23:31

https://www.dawn.com/news/1733207/hours ... -under-way

A massive power cut across Pakistan continued after night fell on Monday, affecting most of the country’s 220 million residents, including in the metropolises of Karachi and Lahore.

If IAF pilots cannot find Pakistan, how will they bomb Balakot hain ji?

Also apparently this is the official reason

In a bid to conserve Pakistan's rapidly-dwindling fuel supplies, electricity is often cut off during low usage hours overnight, especially in the winter when demand is highest. Dastgir-Khan told the Geo News network that power units were switched off Sunday night, but when technicians tried to turn the system back on at dawn, the network failed.

RCase · Post by **RCase** » 24 Jan 2023 03:19

I think it will be a great opportunity to do a surgical strike in Pakistan during their blackout. Will their radars be working? At the least, we should be flying more probing flights to have them scramble their aircrafts. Will push them faster to default.

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 24 Jan 2023 05:20

Pakistan's worst enemy is Pakistan. Why do surgical strikes? They will go to town about they their existence is being threatened by big bad India and therefore they need more free F16s and aircrafts and SAMs from China.

I would just ignore them.

Bilawal calls Modi "Butcher of Gujrat" in UN and next day Shehbaz Sharif wants peace, in between Miftah Ismail feels bad that he tweeted that Pakistan wants to buy vegetables from India and Government of India did not immediately commision a task force and start a new ministry of free exports to Pakistan.

It is good for India as long as they are running around like this, chasing their own tails. Striking them only gives them an excuse to whip up passions and use that as a cover for passing structural reforms for the economy, which is more dangerous to India in the long run.

partha · Post by **partha** » 24 Jan 2023 05:26

^
Agreed. Modi's ignore Pakistan has been the best Pakistan policy in decades. Modi's surprise visit to Lahore in his first term was a very calculated move I think. Now nobody can "accuse" Modi of not trying for peace.

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 24 Jan 2023 05:47

Positive news everyone!! Pakistan's electricity minister fixed a power line in California and restored power across the country of USA, thanks to leadership by Shehbaz Sharif

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/ph ... 1284725010

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 24 Jan 2023 08:52

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 24 Jan 2023 10:23

Anujan wrote:Pakistan's worst enemy is Pakistan. Why do surgical strikes? They will go to town about they their existence is being threatened by big bad India and therefore they need more free F16s and aircrafts and SAMs from China.

I would just ignore them.

Bilawal calls Modi "Butcher of Gujrat" in UN and next day Shehbaz Sharif wants peace, in between Miftah Ismail feels bad that he tweeted that Pakistan wants to buy vegetables from India and Government of India did not immediately commision a task force and start a new ministry of free exports to Pakistan.

It is good for India as long as they are running around like this, chasing their own tails. Striking them only gives them an excuse to whip up passions and use that as a cover for passing structural reforms for the economy, which is more dangerous to India in the long run.

Anujan ji,

The GoI has not responded to any of the paki overtures.

pappini hina khan, in davos, was just as nasty as pappu bhutto, when a stoopide Indian channel and so called anchor r@hul k@nw@l needlessly hosted her, among others, and gave her a platform to vilely fulminate against India using the usual balochistan insurgency rhetoric and the "Indian sponsored" violence in "the land of the hardly pure" malarkey

There was no need whatsoever for any Indian channel to discus Indo pak bilateral issues in davos, especially when such visicious propaganda and anti India narrative involved such blatently devious paki spin.

k@nw@l's dad was part and parcel of a hugely devious UPA plot by the mafia and the raincoat sardar to hand over siachen to the pakis under duress from the amerikis, it was to have been a return gift, by the "grateful" amerikis to the pakis, for "helping" out in afghanistan, and we all know how that "help" turned out for all parties concerned.

The end result of that paki "assist" was that it resulted in several severely singed paki jernails' and crore kammandus glutei maximi, and it also literally left them with third degree burns in their testimonials and crowded the amerikis out, to their everlasting disgrace, when they cut and ran, out of the magical and salubrious environs of the afpak geography.

this sly k@nw@l creep is one of the most devious and visible puppets of the BIF in the Indian media

madhu · Post by **madhu** » 24 Jan 2023 11:10

Govt claims electricity ‘fully restored’ amid reports of widespread power cuts

A day after a massive breakdown hit Pakistan, Minister for Energy Khurram Dastgir said on Tuesday that electricity has been fully restored at grid stations across the country. However, major cities, including Karachi, Quetta and Lahore, remained deprived of power.

“Power at all 1,112 stations of the national grid has been restored,” Dastgir tweeted.

He said that approximately 6,600 megawatts of coal and 3,500MW of nuclear plants would take an estimated 48 to 72 hours to restart. “Until these plants start running, there will be limited load management, excluding industrial users.”

“Electricity has been restored at important installations including airports, hospitals and water pumping stations,” he said, adding that all grids of K-Electric were fully functional.

“However, to keep the system stable, limited temporary load management can be done in the city,” Rana said

kancha · Post by **kancha** » 24 Jan 2023 20:23

Shared some thoughts on twitter / blog about the current mess in Pakistan

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First and foremost, I would like to start with an undisputable fact:

This is the longest that the Pakistan Army has NOT directly ruled Pakistan.

Yup, you may read the above statement again and take some time to do some mental mathematics if you so desire!

Basically, their economic model of Begging, Borrowing (and printing FICN) to sustain their economy is under a LOT of stress because neither are they able to beg (to their heart's content) or even borrow due to the chickens finally coming home to roost!

So .. will Pakistan FINALLY default?
Well, this is a question I asked nearly five years ago, leading to yet another thread which carries on still!

Basically, they've been in hand-to-mouth situation since a really really long time and have somehow at the last moment someone throws some crumbs their way and they are able to live to beg another day!
In fact that should be the new motto of Bhikharistan: Live to Beg Another Day!

So what comes next?
This is what I will delve upon further on in the thread.
The one thing that I am waiting for (and Insha'llah, it would happen soon) is their forex reserves going below the $4Bn mark. THAT would be a good psychological blow, IMO, since it's been a while since their forex reserves went to the 'Three Point Something' mark!
But Will they default?
Seems increasingly likely too.
But then there is always a billion or two that benefactors can throw at them!

Any additional money thrown their way will only result in kicking of the can a bit further down the road before the inevitable happens.
Now I'm no economist to hazard a guess as to how the situation might pan out in case they do default, but then I can make a guess!
Sri Lanka scenario of some months ago gives a template of what might happen. Massive protests .. toppling of govt .. occupation of mansions of the elites .. you name it!
But Bhikharistan is a bit different.
And no, I'm NOT talking about nukes!
Instead, what I am talking about is a rabid, fanatical population armed with perhaps the largest inventory of weapons with civilian citizens after America.
Once they become a mob, things would be really interesting to watch!

It may not be too long before they accuse India of stirring up troubles on their borders.
But then, if they indeed do so, what happens next?
Will they muster the courage to 'teach India a lesson'?
Especially with the experience of Balakot & loss of an F-16?
And of trembling legs?

Interestingly, the average Pakistani citizen is more and more apprehensive of and at some level, even enamoured with the rapid growth that India has achieved. They do realise that India has pulled so far away that there is no way Pakistan can ever hope to catch up anymore.
Hence, heightened tensions on the Durand Line might be one way to rally their starving population!
But then, knowing the absurdities they are known for, they might STILL choose to poke India yet again!

Yet, we see peace overtures (only to be quickly made contingent upon handing over Kashmir to them!) from Bhikharistan. What I make of it is pure and simple signalling to benefactors that ‘Look, we are seeking peace. Now give us alms!’

Kashmir is something they just can’t give up.

Kashmir has been the reason for their existence.

Kashmir will be the reason for their downfall!

They’ve been having wet dreams ever since their very birth about ‘freeing’ Kashmir. And to think they will move on now, is pure stupidity!

Remember, for all the fake bravado, the survival instinct of the Brown Panted Ones is really strong. That’s why, when in trouble they mostly lash out on their own people.

After 1965, there was an internal coup and Ayub Khan was thrown out.

Thereafter, once the rout of 1971 was reasonably distant, they hanged the Prime Minister and ushered in yet another dictatorship!

Same happened after 1999 humiliation as well, when Musharraf ‘gifted’ himself to Pakistan.

In case they do go Kamikaze, would they only concentrate on Kafirs in India?

Esp since their missiles can reach Israel?

Heck, the same missiles can even reach China!

Food for thought, no?

Basically, they are well on their way to becoming the entire World’s problem instead of merely being India’s problem. The world too is beginning to realise this. Hence the reluctance to dole out free monies any more. Of course the Ukraine War too has diverted their attention!

For the time being, it suits everyone to keep Bhikharistan on liquid oxygen – on the verge of default being their default setting – so that they are kept busy within!

But remember, this is a civilizational conflict. It will not end with the failure of Pakistan.

It will only end with the failure of the IDEA of Pakistan.

Do read the above statements once again, if you must.

It is THIS that we need to keep in mind as we move ahead to our rightful place in the comity of Nations. The world at large is headed for days of geopolitical uncertainty over the next decade or so. We too are unlikely to remain unaffected.

KLNMurthy · Post by **KLNMurthy** » 25 Jan 2023 07:01

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neeraj · Post by **neeraj** » 25 Jan 2023 07:47

^^^^ +1

neeraj · Post by **neeraj** » 25 Jan 2023 07:59

https://twitter.com/MoWP15/status/16177 ... 6biOb9r0xg

Total power generation of Pakistan is about 9700 MW. Delhi consumption alone is 6000 MW. 9700 > 6000 Alhamdulillah.

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 25 Jan 2023 09:12

Chunky Fawad 'Chow Mein' Chaudhary has been picked up by the pindi boys

Yawn - Fawad Chaudhry ‘arrested from his house’ in Lahore, says PTI

PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry was arrested by the police in Lahore in the early hours of Wednesday, party leader Farrukh Habib claimed.

According to Habib, Chaudhry was taken into custody from his residence.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 25 Jan 2023 10:24

Pakistan further tightens blasphemy laws that already spell death penalty for insulting prophet

Pakistan has further tightened its strict blasphemy laws by extending the punishment to those who are convicted for insulting religious figures connected to prophet Muhammad. The Pakistan National Assembly unanimously passed the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill which will not only widen the ambit of the law, but increase punishment and fines for those convicted under it.

Those convicted of insulting the Prophet Muhammad’s wives, companions or close relatives will now face 10 years in prison, a sentence that can be extended to life, along with a fine of 1 million rupees, roughly $4,500. It also makes the charge of blasphemy an offense for which bail is not possible.

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 25 Jan 2023 10:42

^ they will spin it as some sort of state protection from the jihadi ghazis.

madhu · Post by **madhu** » 25 Jan 2023 11:04

Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan

Pompeo, who was in Hanoi for a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said he was woken up with an urgent call from a senior Indian official. "He believed the Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons for a strike. India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation," Pompeo wrote.

"I asked him to do nothing and give us a minute to sort things out," Pompeo said. Pompeo said that US diplomats convinced both India and Pakistan that neither was preparing to go nuclear. No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome," Pompeo wrote. Pompeo, who wrote that Pakistan "probably enabled" the Kashmir attack, said he spoke to "the actual leader of Pakistan," then army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, in an allusion to the weakness of civilian governments.

I do not know what to make out of this. just crossing across the border and bombing will lead to nuclear weapons strike, then it is really childish move from Pakistan. one has to follow proper escalation order to go till nuclear strike if not then I feel world will fall on the country that uses the nuclear weapon. If they were thinking of doing such brave act then why not hold the Indian fighter pilot and allow India to climb the escalation matrix before going nuke? what is the end game after bombing, have they thought about it? can they escape the anger of world after using nuke?

since it is from US secretary of state don't know what to make out of it. had it been from India or Pakistan I would have neglected it. why did he write on it?

yensoy · Post by **yensoy** » 25 Jan 2023 11:56

^^^^ to sell his book, of course.

vimal · Post by **vimal** » 25 Jan 2023 13:03

Moth eaten Pakistan of Jinnah,
Grass eating Pakistan of Bhutto,
All came true, congratulations to the most merciful one

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 25 Jan 2023 13:37

x posted from the political thread

A very balanced and data driven discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhuWz5I0mBU

Is Hindu hatred the reason of Indo-Pak Partition? Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed and Shakil Chaudhary

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 25 Jan 2023 14:51

madhu wrote:Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan

Utter nonsense. Just another way of telling India that it is not allowed to punish pukis.

P.S. Same policy in recent failure in pakraine

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 25 Jan 2023 14:57

Writing about avoiding a nuclear war between India and TSP is an article of faith in the US.

It's almost as if. If you don't write about it. You are a failure in your post.

PS Indian officials will give him a call to tell him about TSP nuclear preparations and resulting Indian response.

Who is he exactly?

partha · Post by **partha** » 26 Jan 2023 03:04

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2397685/pr ... award-2022

President approves creation of new ‘Pakistan Diamond Jubilee Award 2022’
Award to be conferred upon personnel of the armed forces, civil forces, and law enforcement agencies

Some activity to pass time while waiting for IMF to fall in line and accept Pakistan's demands.

gakakkad · Post by **gakakkad** » 26 Jan 2023 04:42

realistically speaking Pompeo is writing exaggerated masala in his book so it sells well. I highly doubt piss-ops is the primary intention..the book probably would not have sold much in India w/o the nonsense.

Atmavik · Post by **Atmavik** » 26 Jan 2023 08:18

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/103356 ... ing-of-age

Musharraf zaidi self flagellating and adding a heavy sprinkling of Bad Modi , Bad Hindu . Such concern for Indias secular fabric warms my heart

la.khan · Post by **la.khan** » 26 Jan 2023 09:02

Atmavik wrote:https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/103356 ... ing-of-age

Musharraf zaidi self flagellating and adding a heavy sprinkling of Bad Modi , Bad Hindu . Such concern for Indias secular fabric warms my heart

If Indian secularism is so wonderful, why was India partitioned?

Why couldn't Muslims live along side with Hindus?

If p@kis are so enamoured of India's secularism, why can't they practice it in p@kiland? Offer their religious minorities the same tolerance, concessions that they want Hindus in India to offer Indian Muslims

They won't as Muslims in minority practice tolerance; Muslims in majority practice !$1@m.

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 26 Jan 2023 09:19

la.khan wrote: They won't as Muslims in minority practice tolerance; Muslims in majority practice !$1@m.

Muslims in minority don't practice tolerance, they still practice Islam while demanding it's tolerance by the majority.

partha · Post by **partha** » 26 Jan 2023 10:25

Atmavik wrote:https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/103356 ... ing-of-age

Musharraf zaidi self flagellating and adding a heavy sprinkling of Bad Modi , Bad Hindu . Such concern for Indias secular fabric warms my heart

Theme is about India's rise but writing a full positive article affects H&D hence had to bad mouth Modi and Hindus. If you ignore that part, there is a grudging admiration of India and a realization that Pakistan will be left far behind forever. Power outage seems to have switched on the dimag ki batti.

This is at least the 3rd or 4th article I am reading on the same theme. Another trend I am observing in articles is that comparison with India is reducing and comparison with Bangladesh is increasing. I can't wait for the day when these Paki elites come begging at the wagah border. I just pray to Ganesha that Indian elites don't squander that opportunity like they have done multiple times in the past.

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 26 Jan 2023 10:40

partha wrote:...if you ignore that part, there is a grudging admiration of India and a realization that Pakistan will be left far behind forever. Power outage seems to have switched on the dimag ki batti....

Partha ji, actually the dimaag ki batti is still not on, it is just reflecting some light from the neighbour... for instance pls. refer to his below statement

The challenge today is to engage in wholesale reforms that serve the ultimate goal of nationhood: improved lives for Pakistanis. Central to the ability to achieve this goal is national security and ensuring regional stability.

Atmavik · Post by **Atmavik** » 26 Jan 2023 23:27

^^ when we become a 8 trillion economy we can squeeze some of the step fathers of pakis like Kaneda & Bartania , the aussies are much smarter and have seen the writing on the wall

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 26 Jan 2023 23:57

Pratyush wrote:Writing about avoiding a nuclear war between India and TSP is an article of faith in the US.

It's almost as if. If you don't write about it. You are a failure in your post.

PS Indian officials will give him a call to tell him about TSP nuclear preparations and resulting Indian response.

Who is he exactly?

come the elections, he may possibly be preparing to take a run at the US presidency

he is "quoting" sushma swaraj on the nuke attack. and the lady is not around to either confirm or deny

sushma swaraj was far too crafty to use an ameriki shoulder to cry on and far too wise and nationalistic in her outlook to talk to foreigners about such matters. Such braindead drama is best left to the likes of pappu

pompeo is pushing his book for sure, and perhaps seeking national visibility using a low cost tactic

here is a review of his book

“Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love” is not like most books by nakedly ambitious people preparing to run for president. It’s more interesting and more vicious. It’s a master class in the performative anger poisoning American politics.

Mike Pompeo is a smart man — first in his class at West Point, Harvard Law Review — with a sharp tongue. In March 2016, as a four-term tea party congressman from Kansas, he warned that Donald Trump, if elected, would be “an authoritarian president who ignored our Constitution.” He reports Trump’s delayed reaction to this damning statement: “Mike, you were a mean son of a bitch that day.” He takes it as a compliment.

Pompeo is the only person ever to have run both the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department — and, as he writes, “the only member of the president’s core national-security team who made it through four years without resigning or getting fired.” How did he do it? He trusted in God, worked hard, kneecapped his enemies and kissed the president’s ring. Pompeo professes to love the ways in which Trump wielded power, and that love burns with a hard, gemlike flame throughout these pages. There’s no zealot like a convert.

But love is not the guiding light of “Never Give an Inch.” Hatred animates this book. It’s got more venom than a quiver of cobras.

Broadside
Before plunging into the snake pit, let’s turn to some passages that will be fodder for future historians. Pompeo tells us over and over that he likes “pipehitters” — coldblooded killers in combat, take-no-prisoners allies in government. He found both in his 16 months at the CIA, where he bolstered the clandestine service and intensified its lethal operations. First, he made Gina Haspel, “a conservative’s conservative,” his deputy and ensured she would succeed him. (Haspel, he writes, had been unjustly “punished” for overseeing torture at the CIA’s black sites, and he “wanted to right that ship” by rewarding her.) Then he embraced Michael D’Andrea, a hard-nosed counterterrorism chief known as the Dark Prince, who “came to work every day with a figurative knife in his teeth.” Pompeo liked his style. “They tell me you’re an a--hole, a s---head, and impossible to work with,” Pompeo said at their job interview. (The book does not delete the expletives.) “Mr. Director,” D’Andrea replied, “I am not impossible to work with.” He was hired on the spot to run Iran operations, including a successful plan to assassinate the murderous Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Killing America’s enemies was a highlight of Pompeo’s CIA, and he is very proud of it.

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shakes hands with Kim Jong Un during a visit to North Korea in the spring of 2018. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service/AP)
As Trump ricocheted between threatening to destroy North Korea with “fire and fury” and sweet-talking it into disarmament, he sent Pompeo to see Kim Jong Un. The meeting began with Kim saying: “Mr. Director, I didn’t think you’d show up. I know you’ve been trying to kill me.” Pompeo says he replied, “Mr. Chairman, I’m still trying to kill you.” Smiles all around. The tyrant swore he would give up his nuclear arsenal. Trump believed him. Spoiler alert: Kim was lying.

The hermit kingdom wasn’t the only country the president thought about attacking. As Pompeo delivered his daily Oval Office intelligence briefing in 2017, Trump wondered aloud: “How would we do if we went to war with Mexico?” Pompeo writes that Trump was “simply testing and expanding the range of ideas that might be useful in fulfilling his essential promises to the American people.” While he doesn’t explain how attacking Cancún would solve the immigration crisis, he does give you a whiff of the sycophancy that came with his service. In response to Trump’s impulse to buy Greenland, which wasn’t for sale, Pompeo recalls that it “was one of the best ideas” the president ever had.

His everyday proximity to the president as his intelligence briefer helped Pompeo ascend to Foggy Bottom in 2018. And here begins this book’s descent into purest vitriol.

Pompeo disdained America’s career diplomats. He describes them, by turns, as un-American, deceitful denizens of the “deep state,” and “overwhelmingly hard left.” Trump’s third national security adviser, John Bolton, is a scheming leaker who “should be in jail,” he writes. Barack Obama’s foreign policies, in Pompeo’s view, made him all but a terrorist fellow traveler. He portrays Obama’s spy chiefs John Brennan and James Clapper as masters of disinformation and the chief perpetrators of the “Russia Hoax” — the crime of reporting, first to president-elect Trump and then to the American people, the intelligence community’s conclusion that the Kremlin monkey-wrenched the 2016 election for its chosen candidate.

Pompeo attends the Conservative Political Action Conference last year in Orlando. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Pompeo spurned the CIA’s intelligence analysts when their conclusions clashed with his preconceptions. They inconveniently found that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, was complicit in the 2018 murder of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Pompeo’s sympathies lie squarely with the Saudi ruler. After all, he contends, Khashoggi was not a “journalist” (he puts the word in sarcastic quotes) but a political activist. After the killing sparked outrage, Trump sent Pompeo to reassure the crown prince of America’s support — and to give “the middle finger to the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other bed-wetters who didn’t have a grip on reality.” As you may have guessed, Pompeo hates reporters: They are, in his words, “wolves” and “hyenas,” and their work of encouraging leaks, he says flatly, “is illicit.”

On Oct. 2, 2018, Saudi agents killed Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. What has been done in the aftermath? (Video: Joyce Lee, Thomas LeGro, Dalton Bennett, John Parks/The Washington Post)

If Pompeo indeed runs for president, he may want to modulate the tone he has chosen in this tome. It’s like being locked in a room and forced to listen to 20 hours of Tucker Carlson reruns at top volume. But it’s certainly more entertaining and substantial than most campaign books. On the evidence of “Never Give an Inch,” Pompeo is a good husband, a good father, a good Christian and a great patriot. But no reader can fail to appreciate — as Trump did — that he really is a mean son of a bitch.

Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for reporting and writing on national security. He is working on a history of the 21st-century CIA.

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 27 Jan 2023 00:24

If late Shri Sushma Swaraj ji did call Pompeo, there will be a trace of that call and minutes recorded by the Indian Govt. Confidential of course. So even if what Pompeo whom his fellow Americans lovingly call "a mean son of a bitch" is claiming is actually true, it still leaves the possibility that Sushma ji was playing him & the US.

The US got played for decades by Pakis and Talibunnies, you think India can't play them now and then ?

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 27 Jan 2023 09:14

As PSL valuation is just about 300 million USD imagine what will this do to the enchandee of the TFTA Paki mard-e-momeens

Will Pakistani wimmen (most are based in Al Bartannia) be allowed in India to be on display before the Kufr men?

What will the mullahs say??

So many questions..

Yawn - BCCI auctions Women’s IPL teams for $572.5 m

India’s cricket board on Wednesday earned $572.5 million as it announced the winners of bids to own five teams in the inaugural Women’s Premier League Twenty20 tournament in March.

Shah said that the new league would “bring necessary reforms in women’s cricket” and help create a new ecosystem to expand the sport.

Former India captain Mithali Raj predicted “exciting times” for women’s cricket, while England batter Danni Wyatt and former Australia all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar also took to Twitter to welcome the new tournament.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 27 Jan 2023 10:02

No backchannel diplomacy between Pakistan and India: Khar

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday that ever since the incumbent government came to power, there has been no backchannel diplomacy going on between Pakistan and India “untold to the rest of the world”.

“At this moment, there is no such thing under way,” she said during a Senate session.

Rabbani’s statement comes a day after Indian media reported that New Delhi invited Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to attend the foreign ministers’ and chief justices’ meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which is scheduled to take place in Goa in May.

According to reports, Pakistan is yet to respond to the invite sent by India through its High Commission in Islamabad.

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 27 Jan 2023 10:09

RAA ajint captured by world number 1 spy agency EyeEssEye

Atmavik · Post by **Atmavik** » 27 Jan 2023 11:19

^ he is the self proclaimed paki Mandela

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 27 Jan 2023 13:31

‘Intransigence’: India notifies Pakistan of plans to amend Indus Waters Treaty

India has informed Pakistan of its intention to amend the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which sets out a mechanism for management of cross-border rivers, because of the Pakistani side’s “intransigence” in implementing the pact, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The “notice for modification” of the treaty was conveyed by the Indian side on January 25 through the Commissioners for Indus Waters of the two sides. India was forced to issue the notice as Pakistan’s actions had “adversely impinged” on the provisions of the treaty and their implementation, the people said.

“The objective of the notice for modification is to provide Pakistan an opportunity to enter into inter-governmental negotiations within 90 days to rectify the material breach of the Indus Waters Treaty. This process will also update the treaty to incorporate the lessons learned over the last 62 years,” the person cited above said.

While explaining India’s move, the people noted that in 2015, Pakistan requested the World Bank to appoint a “neutral expert” to examine its technical objections to India’s Kishenganga and Ratle hydropower projects. In 2016, Pakistan unilaterally retracted this request and proposed a “court of arbitration” should adjudicate on the objections.

This unilateral action by Pakistan contravened the “graded mechanism of dispute settlement” envisaged by Article IX of the Indus Waters Treaty, the Indian side contended. India then made a separate request to the World Bank for the matter to be referred to a neutral expert.