During Dr Magsi’s speech, Sindh Taraki Pasand Party (STPPP) activists suddenly charged at a man in white clothes who claimed to be a traffic policeman. The party activists alleged that the man was a “suicide bomber”. They beat him up, and then threw him over the fence on to the other side of M.A Jinnah Road.
What is so shocking about it? Kiyani is due to retire within by april this year when he reaches 58. Frankly how many of us expect him to do it?
Kiyani was born in 1942.In Pakistan, Lt.Gens, retire at the age of 57 or on completions of four years as Lt.Gen, whichever is earlier.
r_subramanian, that was when Pakistan announced its experiment of One-Unit. This was done ostensibly to eliminate inter-provincial disharmony. The entire West Pakistan was made as one unit or one province (instead of 4 provinces) with the provincial capital at Lahore. This was a red rag to the Sindhis who felt that the already dominant Punjabis will further overwhelm them.r_subramanian wrote:What is the significance of the year 1954 in non-Sindhi migration into Karachi?
What is the significance of 1954 as a cut-off date? Does anyone know?
Malayappan wrote:Ashok Malik says
At the heart of the matter is a compelling verity India just does not want to admit: it has astonishingly little influence within Pakistan.
Please contact me at standuude AT ychilarai wrote:anybody has access to this article
Pakistan's Sindhi Ethnic Nationalism: Migration, Marginalization, and the Threat of "Indianization"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8448930.stmKLNMurthy wrote: wonder if the poll was only in Kabul or all of Afghanistan.
The survey was conducted in all of the country's 34 provinces in December 2009.
If Kayani was born in 1942 that would make him 68 and not 58. According to Wiki he was born in 1952 April, which would make him 58 in April of this year.ravi_ku wrote:...............(edited)
What is so shocking about it? Kiyani is due to retire within by april this year when he reaches 58. Frankly how many of us expect him to do it?
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Kiyani was born in 1942.
oopsSanju wrote: If Kayani was born in 1942 that would make him 68 and not 58. According to Wiki he was born in 1952 April, which would make him 58 in April of this year.
Cheers,
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I think they may turn it down since there is nothing in it for them unless it is given as pure baksheesh.
SSridhar wrote:
From DT.
it was the cunning yindu brahmins of course. keeper. But where are the evil banias? 
Philip, very frankly, I am not sure if the decision was taken by the IPL owners in patriotic or commercial interests. The reason I am saying this is that when the 2009 edition of IPL was played in South Africa, all the teams except Punjab, Chennai & Mumbai had Pakistani players. The memory of 26/11 horror was much fresher in our minds then. This time, since the venues are going to be India ad there is every likelihood of terrorist acts from Pakistan before, during the matches, the franchisees have played it safer. They have considered their commercial risks and returns on investment and taken a purely business decision.Philip wrote:Imran Khan was absolutely right when he said that after 26/11 relations have gone downhill.No prizes for understanding why! You can't bowl grenades and shoot from the hip with AK-47s.It's simply not cricket! The marketplace in India is doing what the GOI under the feeble leadership of our good doctor of spin,showing the Pakis the door,when we should've much earlier suspended indefinitely all diplomatic relations,sealed the borders,banned overflights of Paki aircraft and their nationals from visiting India until Pakk behaved like a civilised nation and good neighbour.. . . now with the slap in the face from the IPL,the GOI will garner some courage and do the right thing.
Here it is Sir, although this is OT here. This guy is knowledgeable !RayC wrote:Gagan,
Thanks for the youtube clips on Sethi.
Most educative!
Hope you will post the next series that the presenter promised.
Very educative!Gagan wrote:Here it is Sir, although this is OT here. This guy is knowledgeable !RayC wrote:Gagan,
Thanks for the youtube clips on Sethi.
Most educative!
Hope you will post the next series that the presenter promised.
The Friends of Democratic Pakistan and the IMF/World Bank/ADB agencies must question TSP why it is spending so much money on this project when it is begging them for alms.The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Thursday approved 28 development projects, including the Nuclear Fuel Enrichment Plant (NFEP) project worth Rs 14.24 billion. {Almost USD 2 Billion}
The project, with a Rs 5.57 billion foreign exchange component (FEC), will be undertaken in Mianwali.
There were no Pak players in IPL2 either...SSridhar wrote: Philip, very frankly, I am not sure if the decision was taken by the IPL owners in patriotic or commercial interests. The reason I am saying this is that when the 2009 edition of IPL was played in South Africa, all the teams except Punjab, Chennai & Mumbai had Pakistani players. The memory of 26/11 horror was much fresher in our minds then. This time, since the venues are going to be India ad there is every likelihood of terrorist acts from Pakistan before, during the matches, the franchisees have played it safer. They have considered their commercial risks and returns on investment and taken a purely business decision.
And later in the article"The Indian Premier League is becoming a big mafia that wants to control world cricket; it is not only endangering the existence of the International Cricket Council [ Images ], but also the rest of the cricketing nations.
Miandad was unhappy about the power an individual player enjoys at the moment and suggested that every player should be controlled by his owncricket board.
"Nothing should be individually done; if every individual player is allowed to make a decision, without any interference of his board, the situation would turn bad for all other boards. All boards should handle their own guys and it is unjust that every player individually negotiates his case with the IPL.
Guys in close proximity to Mafias( D bhai in this case) see mafias everywhere."The Indian Premier League is becoming a big mafia that wants to control world cricket; it is not only endangering the existence of the International Cricket Council [ Images ], but also the rest of the cricketing nations.
Somnath-ji,But the brouhaha in Pak over IPL sure shows the sort of immaturity in-built in the relations..And we are guilty of that at times as well (the entire episode in Australia after the Sydney test and the "monkey" business is a case in point)..
A true paki speaketh!milindc wrote:The IPL is becoming a big mafia: Miandad
"India is trying to control the world of cricket through the IPL and wants to become a super power; India is trying it and India is doing it,"
Hmmm, sour grapes? Looks like he is gutted that IPL was not there during his playing days!Saying the players are receiving money more than they are worth, he urged the ICC [ Images ] to form rules to curb the League's expansion.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 18:53 IST
Amritsar: In a major drug haul, the special narcotic cell of Punjab police claimed to have seized 28 kg of heroin worth about Rs140 crore in the international black market, and arrested two persons in this connection.
On a tip-off, the two suspects were nabbed last night at Grand Trunk Road at the outskirts of the city when they were travelling in a Tavera SUV car, according to a SNC official.
When the car was intercepted and frisked, 28 packets of heroin were found in the specially created cavity of the four doors of the vehicle, the official said.
The arrested men were identified as notorious Indo-Pak smugglers Rajinder Singh, resident of border village Chogwan in Amritsar, and Baljit Singh, resident of Hari Nagar in Delhi.
Rajinder Singh has been involved in several cases of drug peddling, while Baljit Singh was into gold and drug smuggling, the official said.
Both the suspects had cleared numerous consignments of drugs as arrived from Pakistan and sold in the local market.
Friday, January 22, 2010 0:08 IST
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Indian Premier League (IPL) ruled out any rethink on Pakistan players vis-a-vis the third edition of the tournament.
“There are no vacancies. We can’t do anything about it,” said Lalit Modi, while BCCI president Shashank Manohar said the decision not to buy Pakistani players at the auction was taken by the franchisees and not the Board.
“We have given teams the best possible options. Who to buy was the choice of the owners,” Manohar said denying reports that the BCCI gave any instructions to the team owners. When asked if the IPL could have pre-empted the current controversy by excluding Pakistan players from the auction list, Modi said such things can be stated on hindsight.
Meanwhile, franchisees denied there was any effort to keep Pakistan players out. “We got the player we targeted,” said Brijesh Patel, the CEO of the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Delhi Daredevil’s Amrit Mathur said they had the got the player they wanted (Wayne Parnell) in the first round. “After buying Parnell we exhausted our purse,” Mathur said.
Kolkata Knight Riders’ Joy Bhattacharya said they went for pacer and Shane Bond fitted the bill.
Rajasthan Royals, which had four Pakistani players for IPL I, said they approached the auction with a specific targets. “We wanted an experienced batsmen in our line-up. Both Adam Voges and Damien Martyn are available for the majority of matches, which was important for us. They were our ideal picks regardless of our good experiences we have had before with Pakistani players,” Sean Morris, the CEO of Royals, said.
New Delhi continues to insist the government had at no time given any instructions to either the BCCI or the franchisees and had no role in a private auction conducted by the BCCI.
“Government has nothing to do with IPL, on selection of players and various exercises that are connected with it,” external affairs minister SM Krishna told reporters on Thursday.
Action to seize the assets of President Asif Ali Zardari began on Wednesday when NAB asked the Islamabad capital territory (ICT) administration to freeze his assets and restore the pre-Oct 5, 2007 position. A similar letter was ready to be sent on Friday to chief secretary Sindh.
The major development came when NAB issued the letter to the Islamabad administration to freeze all assets under its jurisdiction. Besides other properties, NAB’s latest order would immediately hit the 2,460 kanals of Sangjani land, which was a frozen asset before the NRO but was unfrozen in early 2009 and transferred in the name of a private company owned by President Zardari, his son Bilawal Zardari and others.
The NAB spokesman Ghazni Khan when approached did not deny or confirm this major development. He, however, said that NAB is acting strictly in accordance with the law and the Supreme Court’s decision and weekly progress reports is regularly being submitted to the Supreme Court.
A credible source in NAB told The News here on Thursday that NAB’s latest order has been dispatched to the Islamabad administration. The NAB letter while giving reference to its post-2008 unfreezing order issued in the case of the President Zardari’s assets in Islamabad directed the ICT administration to proceed in line with the Supreme Court’s order dated December 16, 2009. Copy of the SC’s short order on NRO was also attachedwith the NAB letter. The source said that a similar letter would be issued to the Sindh Government on Friday.
Mr. Ahmed also said his party would not join any other delegation visiting India until “India changes its attitude.” He demanded a ban on all sporting ties with India and also a complete ban on Indian films. He accused the government of trying to appease India.
Jamshed Dasti, head of a parliamentary committee on sports said he would move a resolution in the National Assembly against the IPL.
Very apoplectic, very.
Islamabad: The government said on Thursday it could not guarantee against repeat of 26/11 like attacks in India and the best safeguard against such strikes was de-linking of peace process from action against terrorism and the resolution of Kashmir and water disputes.
“Pakistan is itself facing Mumbai-like attacks almost every other day and when we cannot protect our own citizens, how can we guarantee that there wouldn’t be any more terrorist hits in India,” Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani was quoted by a source as having told the visiting US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, who called on him. Pakistan suffered its worst year of terrorist violence last year, with more than 3,000 people killed.
Secretary Gates had in India warned that Pakistan-based militants, who had links with Al Qaeda, were planning strikes in India with the hope that retaliation would lead to a new conflict.
In his bid to raise pressure on Pakistan to act against militant groups targeting India, the secretary had said that New Delhi, unlike the restraint shown after Mumbai incident, was not apt to holding back if attacked again.
KABADDI TEAM
The Pakistan Kabaddi Federation has called off the team’s scheduled tour to India in protest over the discriminatory attitude meted out to Pakistani cricketers in the IPL.
Pakistan’s Kabaddi team was scheduled to participate in a five-match series, slated to be held in India from Jan 25 to Feb 15.
