Nice Joke Brad. And heres the punch lineBrad Goodman wrote:now time for a joke
Pakistan’s Railcop expresses interest in Nigeria’s railway system
RAILCOP offers construction services in engineering fields like railways, roads, bridges, public health engineering, signalling and telecommunication, power generation and transmission ??.
The US has sought access to records of all passengers flying out from Pakistan and permission to deploy American security officials at airports as part of an effort to prevent terror suspects reaching its soil, according to a media report today
The proposed plan includes the deployment of US Homeland Security officials at Pakistan''s airports to enhance scrutiny for passengers travelling to America, a senior Foreign Office official was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune newspaper.
Washington believes this step will ensure Pakistani passengers have a "trouble-free" journey.
Pakistan is among a number of countries whose nationals have to undergo rigorous security checks at US airports.
Kiyani will sure whine about why no equal equal, and so US will institute some such measure in India also. Equal equal, and TSP's H&D restored. Now back to fighting the mighty "Al Queda".Brad Goodman wrote:some takleef to members of deaf & dumb forum when they visit their pyara pakhanastan
US seeks access to passengers, airports in Pakistan
US seeks pat-down of American passengers in airports in India!CRamS wrote:Kiyani will sure whine about why no equal equal, and so US will institute some such measure in India also. Equal equal, and TSP's H&D restored. Now back to fighting the mighty "Al Queda".Brad Goodman wrote:some takleef to members of deaf & dumb forum when they visit their pyara pakhanastan
US seeks access to passengers, airports in Pakistan
Pakistani police on Monday claimed they had foiled a possible terrorist attack by arresting two men in Punjab province’s Taxila city and seizing 150 kg of explosives and 2,000 detonators from them.
Police said they intercepted an explosives-laden vehicle at a check post on Thatta Road in Taxila, located over 30-km from Islamabad.
The two men travelling in the car were taken into custody, officials said. The vehicle and the men were brought to Rawalpindi for further investigations.
An army bomb disposal squad was called in to defuse the explosives. Taxila has a sizable military presence.
Police did not give details about the intended target of the arrested men.
PESHAWAR: Taliban fighters beheaded a fellow militant on charges of spying for the government in the lawless Orakzai tribal region of northest Pakistan on Monday.
Gulbat Khan was beheaded by militants in Ismail Zai area of Orakzai Agency, local residents said.
His body was found in Masam Mela area. Local residents said that Khan was found guilty of spying by Taliban court and sentenced to death.
In a separate development, five militants were killed and as many injured when the vehicle they were travelling in turned turtle in Orakzai Agency, local residents said
Peshawar, Jan 3 (PTI) A tanker ferrying oil to NATO forces in Afghanistan was destroyed today when Taliban militants targeted it with a roadside bomb in the Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, though there were no casualties in the attack.
The tanker was destroyed when militants triggered the remote-controlled bomb in Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency, officials said.
Traffic on the Pakistan-Afghanistan highway was briefly suspended due to a snarl caused by the explosion.
Security forces surrounded the area and launched a search operation for the militants who carried out the attack.
The flow of traffic resumed after the fire was extinguished, they said.
Militants have destroyed hundreds of tankers and container trucks and killed scores of people in attacks on NATO vehicles in northwest Pakistan.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 2011_pg3_3One may wonder if work ethic was ever strongly embedded in the culture of the middle and upper classes in the areas that now compose Pakistan. I remember that before independence Hindus were generally believed to be more hardworking than Muslims. We have already spoken of Muslims in the rural areas. After independence, lands, businesses, professional and government jobs left by the Hindus fell to the local and immigrant Muslims. All occupations opened up to them. They did not have to work very hard to make a place for themselves. Standards of educational attainment in Pakistan are said to have fallen far below those which prevailed before independence. That is not because there is something wrong with the curriculum. The reason is that dedication to duty and work ethics have declined. Diplomas granted by Pakistani universities are not accepted at face value abroad. A Pakistani with a master’s degree goes to a British or American university and the likelihood is that he will be admitted to a bachelor’s degree programme. Indian students do not have to contend with this problem to the same extent because their work ethic and the resulting standards of performance are still in a better state than they are in Pakistan.
In my view the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Pakistan has gone the wrong way in its campaign of improving the state of education in this country. Instead of enhancing quality it has quantified and monetised education. It is proud that it has increased the number of universities from 10 or so to 70. It aims to produce many more PhDs and it is giving stipends to doctoral candidates and their supervisors by way of inducement. Academic departments in universities are being offered money to produce journals in their respective disciplines. Needless to say, 20 high class universities would have been a more valuable asset for Pakistan than 70 of indifferent quality. Likewise, two competent journals of political science would be more worth having than 10 of them that are mediocre.Regretfully one must say that far too many people in positions of authority have adopted the degenerate notion that one should be able to make money without having to work for it.
In my forthcoming book on the role of the military in Pakistan, I have demonstrated that by the 1960s the Americans were very clear that we had entered military pacts with them to deal with India and not because of our zeal to fight communism. Of course, the US-Pakistan courtship warmed up after the Soviet Union sent troops to aid their beleaguered comrades in Afghanistan, but even then both sides were allied to each other for purely instrumental reasons. Another example of our extravagance is the way we suck up to the Saudis. Some years ago, when one of the Saudi Kings expired, former President Musharraf declared one week of national mourning. The Saudis themselves did nothing of the sort because, from the Wahabi point of view, any such display of feelings for a human being is heresy. I think these examples should suffice to establish the point I want to make.
So then, what happened during Wen Jiabao’s recent visit to India and Pakistan? China and India agreed to increase their trade to $ 100 billion by 2015. The Chinese also promised to rectify the trade imbalance between them; at present, China exports much more than it imports from India. The Chinese premier said that there was room for both India and China to grow and therefore there was no need to go down the path of confrontation. He did not, however, make concessions on their border disputes. About India’s ambitions to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council, the Chinese were reticent. The Chinese probably want to keep the pressure on India in case India gets too cosy with the Americans. The Chinese also did not agree to mention a Pakistani hand in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008. Even more significant was that China advised India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute through negotiations. China is no less worried than India about Pakistan becoming a springboard for a Taliban type of jihad. That could entail the Muslim-majority Xinjiang being destabilised.
Equally, Pakistan’s security depends upon normalising relations with India. One cannot reasonably claim that India constitutes a threat to us when out of the four wars with India, three were initiated by us: 1947-48, 1965 and 1999. Since we are now a nuclear power, India cannot hit us with impunity. Therefore, a reasonable basis exists for us to work out a new relationship with India. Let us find out what India really wants. This we can do without worrying about Chinese and American reactions. Pakistan is not that important for either of them.
More like Pak-CON!Singha wrote:trying to do equal-equal with IRCON - as usual - the pavlovian response.
Article 62 of the Pakistani Constitution expects any candidate who contests for Majlis-e-Shoora (National Assembly or Parliament) to be well versed in Islam as otherwise his nomination could be rejected. Many overzealous poll officials have asked the candidates to recite Dua Qanoot, a long Quranic verse not easily remembered by everyone, and have rejected nominations if they were unable to do so.Airavat wrote:A constitutional petition was filed on Friday in the Supreme Court of Pakistan seeking the disqualification of Interior Minister, Senator Rehman Malik, over incorrect recitation of Quranic verses.
Incorrect recitation by Interior Minister
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArti ... inion&col=US march of folly in Pakistan
Anatol Lieven
Pakistani officers from captain to lieutenant general have told me that the entry of US ground forces into Pakistan in pursuit of the Taleban and Al Qaeda is by far the most dangerous scenario for both Pakistani-US relations and the unity of the Pakistani Army. As one retired general explained, drone attacks, though ordinary officers and soldiers find them humiliating, are not a critical issue because the Pakistani military cannot do anything about them. “US ground forces inside Pakistan are a different matter,” he said, “because the soldiers can do something about them. They can fight. And if they don’t fight, they will feel utterly humiliated before their wives, mothers, children. It would be a matter of honour, which as you know is a tremendous thing in our society. These men have sworn an oath to defend Pakistani soil. So they would fight. And if the generals told them not to fight, many of them would mutiny, starting with the Frontier Corps.”
So, when I heard about the Kashmir uprising in mid-August, the first place for me to go to was the British Council. I had a bicycle at that time and after college, I rushed to the library about five miles away to scour the British press as well as the Times of India. The Times of India came daily to Pakistan and was only stopped after September 6, when Indian invaded Pakistan. The British and Indian press were clear; the skirmishes in Kashmir were not an uprising, but were infiltration by regular Pakistani troops dressed up as Kashmiris.
Next day I discovered that the College library also got the Times of India and carried reports of the Pakistan ‘invasion’ and how the Pakistani troops were being met with hostility by the Kashmiri Muslims. This was the first time in my life I realized that Pakistanis were being lied to, but loved to be lied to. It was a sort of an addiction. Soon the senior students of the college demanded the library not carry any Indian papers. They did not have to wait. On September 6, 1965, Indian attacked Lahore and the last time I read an Indian newspaper in Pakistan was August 29, 1965. I remember it had the maps of the Pakistan infiltration route and how a Pakistani tank column was advancing towards Chamb.
The following 17-day war with India shaped my life permanently. I saw through the deception of the Pakistan Establishment very early in life. I was a mere 15, but had already recognised that we mainstream Pakistanis, the Urdu-speaking elites and my own Punjabi nationality, were a flock of sheep, seeped in bigotry and a false sense of a fake identity. This was a falsely constructed identity that was masquerading as some sort of B-grade Persians of Arab ancestry, but certainly did not want anything to do with the rich 5,000 year old Indian identity of the Indus valley where we all lived.
Today, the Left is generally suffering the same sickness it confronted in 1967. In the late 1960s, Left activists were being lynched, beaten and murdered by the Islamist thugs; today significant sections of the Left have latched on to these very same Jamaat-e-Islami and Muslim Brotherhood thugs as a way to express their irrational hatred of the West. Today when Fatima Bhutto in particular and to a lesser extent, Mubashar Hassan echo Imran Khan and the Taliban, I refer to them as Sharia-Bolsheviks who have unwittingly become the hand maidens of the Islamofascists of the world.
In the ten years that I spent researching the subject and the 45 years I have spent fighting the forces of medieval darkness that wish to drag the world’s Muslims into the past as a path to the future, it dawned on me that even those who knew the truth about the fraudulent nature of the Islamic State, were not prepared to say so, guilt-ridden in their minds, thinking this would be an act of betrayal of the Muslim community. Such a state of affairs was possible because while liberal or secular Muslims were busy caught up in the challenges of their day-to-day lives, their Islamist counterparts were having a field day, unchallenged and unopposed, where even the communists would use the phrase, “Comrade, Bismillah karo” to start their meetings.
In brief, whereas Islam is a religion based on the five pillars of our faith, Islamism (al-Islamiyah as the Ikhwan claims) is the use of the religion of Islam as a political tool and doctrine, whose logical end is Islamofascism (or Islamoanarchism in the words of Tariq Ali).
The difference between a Muslim and an Islamist is along the same lines. Whereas a Muslim follows Islam, an Islamist sticks to the political doctrine of Islamism. This makes it possible for even non-Muslims and atheists to be Islamists. For example, George Galloway is an Islamist as is Ken Livingstone (former mayor of London) and even Noam Chomsky who I am told addressed a large gathering of the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba in Punjab University.
I shall only state here that if even today Pakistan’s elite cannot see through the con men who divided India’s Muslims into three parts as a bizarre way to unite them, then we are all collectively blind.
AoA. New year festivities, albeit late, are in full swing in the land of the pure and absurd. Wasn't 2011 supposed to be the year when pa'astan turned around?Joype wrote:Times Now News
"Pak Punjab Governor Salman Taseer is killed by his own guards"
Duh! Can't you see? He was killed by his own guards.! That is the turn around!anupmisra wrote:AoA. New year festivities, albeit late, are in full swing in the land of the pure and absurd. Wasn't 2011 supposed to be the year when pa'astan turned around?Joype wrote:Times Now News
"Pak Punjab Governor Salman Taseer is killed by his own guards"
Except that the liberal views and the lifestyle of the family that resembled that of the 'rich and famous in the west' was built on gains from dubious sources. And that too in a country that is one of the poorest in the Indian subcontinent.svenkat wrote:Ordinarily,one would feel sorry that a liberal has been killed.
At a seminar titled ‘Protection of the blasphemy law and its importance’, Justice (r) Mian Nazeer Akhtar said Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was also a blasphemer for he was protecting those who indulged in blasphemy.
