Do thappad ek jahtke mein!

Wasn't Karan Thapar friend with someone from Pakistan who he introduced to LK Advanirajanb wrote:I don't know why Karan Thapar was so kind to Sharyar Khan?
He should have roasted him. The most boring (yawn) programme I ever watched.
Karan Thapar is the mai-baap of WKK brigade. He was ripped apart by Ram Jetmalani.rajanb wrote:I don't know why Karan Thapar was so kind to Sharyar Khan?
He should have roasted him. The most boring (yawn) programme I ever watched.
rajanb ji, Playing bilateral kirket matches with that Terrorist nation would be shameful and disgusting to say the least and Sir there are no clandestine ops being done by India in TSP. We don't have the humanit or the resources anymore (thanks to another chief of WKK brigade ).rajanb wrote:I think we should keep inviting them to Cricket matches where they lose. And do what we need to do to them clandestinely!
Do thappad ek jahtke mein!
Why does it feel like the host's ba**ls are in his mouth ?? But this shows the kind of uncertainity these people are facing.Gagan wrote:National Security Policy Per Barti Tanqeed?
Host: Moeed Pirzada Panel: Irfan Siddique (Analyst), Ahmed Qureshi (Chuha / Nimbu Pani), Senator Haroon Akhtar (PML), Hamid Gul
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNgsatdsWQE
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoiM66ob9ck
In part 1 Hamid Gul says, "Zia-ul-Haq ka jahaz uda diya tha amreekano ne"
(Zia-ul-Haq's plane was blown up by the americans)
Hamid Gul blames the US for:
1. Blowing up Zia's plane
2. Ojhri camp blast
Where the truth probably is that, the former was an internal coup within the army, and the latter was a cover up to divert US origin arms from Afghanistan to Kashmir.
Nor the inclination.VikasRaina wrote:We don't have the humanit or the resources anymore (thanks to another chief of WKK brigade ).
As far as I can recall there has been no PIB release on this.rajanb wrote:But are we going to admit that we have?
With the exception of the expose of Mr. Brandy, R&AW has maintained a spectacularly stealthy presence in Af-Pakrajanb wrote:But are we going to admit that we have?
Finally, the TSPA sound and light show moves onto N.Waziristan despite all of Paki efforts. Lets see how soon the Pakis claim victory here ( though the old trick seems doubtful this time as Unkil will be watching with eagle eyes)Pakistan has decided to launch an air and ground military offensive in North Waziristan, the main sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban on the border with Afghanistan, a newspaper reported on Monday. The United States has long demanded that Pakistan launch an offensive in the region to hunt down the H
aqqani network, one of the deadliest Afghan militant factions fighting American troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has been reluctant, but has come under intense US pressure to attack militancy after it was discovered that Osama bin Laden had been living there.
Any intelligence agency worth its salt will be stealthy. Thats the whole point of "keeping secrets".They do not intend to make the headlines of newspapers and evening news. If it happens it failed its purpose. ISI failed because of complete traction loss with reality.They think they are above law and can do anything.saadhak wrote:With the exception of the expose of Mr. Brandy, R&AW has maintained a spectacularly stealthy presence in Af-Pakrajanb wrote:But are we going to admit that we have?
In the absence of any evidence or even hints, 'the glass is more than half full' to imagine that we are retaliating or taking any action like supporting covert ops in TSP.
There is no will. All evidence suggests that the civilian leaders truly believe that a stable Pakistan is in India's interests and talks are the only way forward.
Agree. Just to clarify, I was not being judgemental on the efficacy of the agency.Altair wrote:Any intelligence agency worth its salt will be stealthy. Thats the whole point of "keeping secrets".They do not intend to make the headlines of newspapers and evening news. If it happens it failed its purpose. ISI failed because of complete traction loss with reality.They think they are above law and can do anything.
R&AW will also fail if it loses the traction. I dont think GoI will cut them loose. We still have PMO control, however effective it might be. They report to peaceman MMS for crying out loud! I think we should cut them some slack. Let them do their job and not judge how they do it.
JMT
I am sure this time lot of Pashtun soldiers of PA will be fertilized. I am expecting a 5:1 kill ratio. 5 PA soldiers killed for 1 talib.sum wrote:
Finally, the TSPA sound and light show moves onto N.Waziristan despite all of Paki efforts. Lets see how soon the Pakis claim victory here ( though the old trick seems doubtful this time as Unkil will be watching with eagle eyes)
And I have the bragging rights since my PNS Mehran attack theory seems to be rightPak to launch offensive in N Waziristan
sum wrote:Pak to launch offensive in N Waziristan
Finally, the TSPA sound and light show moves onto N.Waziristan despite all of Paki efforts. Lets see how soon the Pakis claim victory here ( though the old trick seems doubtful this time as Unkil will be watching with eagle eyes)Pakistan has decided to launch an air and ground military offensive in North Waziristan, the main sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban on the border with Afghanistan, a newspaper reported on Monday. The United States has long demanded that Pakistan launch an offensive in the region to hunt down the H
aqqani network, one of the deadliest Afghan militant factions fighting American troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has been reluctant, but has come under intense US pressure to attack militancy after it was discovered that Osama bin Laden had been living there.
Seems Unkil would be behind this....now that this "great" step has been done, all past $#%^ of TSP can now be forgotten and more lovemaking can be done?Bilateral trade between India and Pakistan has the potential to increase three-fold within the next three years with the grant of most-favoured nation (MFN) status to India even as the Pakistani industry is hopeful of an Early Harvest Scheme (EHS) with India.
Trade between India and Pakistan reached $1.85 billion in 2010-11, compared to $3 billion with Sri Lanka. Hence, grant of the MFN status by Pakistan to India would result in trading of more items between both the countries.
“Pakistan would give MFN status to India before October and both sides are working towards creating only one negative list unlike now for businessmen of both countries to have a greater access to each other’s markets,” S M Muneer, president, India-Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry, told Business Standard.
According to the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, it is the fundamental right of a country to get MFN status from another member country. Grant of the MFN status by Pakistan would expand the number of products to be traded in a positive list of commodities that are exported by India.
Muneer, who was invited by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry to visit India, also said the Pakistani industry was seeking to establish EHS with India by opening up more land routes for trade to take place.
“We want India to open up more land routes beside the Wagah-Attari border. We want them to open up the Munabao-Khokrapar route also so that more and more items can be traded and items can be transported with less cost,” he added.
At present, there are 1,938 items that are there on the positive list. Out of these, 190 tariff lines are allowed through the Wagah border, while the rest are being sent through the Mumbai port.
NDTVsum wrote:^^ AoA.... who will give out ISI's version of the stories now!!?
Nice parallel to the Mughals..FOR A people who consider themselves as the true legatees of the Mughal empire, the recent spate of violence in Pakistan should have come as an eye-opener. Be it the “siege” of the Mehran naval base in Karachi by extremists of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or the bus blast in northwest Pakistan that claimed the lives of 80 paramilitary cadets, the country has of late, become the favourite killing field of fundamentalist jihadists, who blame the government for the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. The only apt historical parallel to describe the state of Pakistan today is the atrophying Mughal empire after the death of Aurangzeb. Just as Aurangzeb sought to cement the empire by using fundamentalist Islam, but ended up spawning a million mutinies, which sapped the vitality of the realm and ultimately destroyed the empire, so too in the case of Pakistan, which promoted a virulent version of Islam to fuse the nation but which is now threatening to devour the Pakistani state from within.
During the last days of the Mughal empire, court intrigues to become emperor or wazir or a noble were the order of the day, and this despite the fact that the empire, or what was left of it, was surviving on the sufferance of either adventurers or emerging powers like the Marathas and the Afghans. Just as the last Mughals used to depend on external intervention to secure their positions in the court, Pakistani leaders today are more than willing to invite intervention by outside powers — USA, UK, Saudi Arabia, China — for gaining or retaining political power. Even when hostile armies were on the borders and the very survival of the throne and empire was at stake, the later Mughals made no effort to forge unity to confront the invaders and marauders. Instead, all energy was focussed on getting one up on rivals. No one was willing to give any quarter to his rivals, or desist from brinkmanship, or even put one’s own self-interest on the back-burner until the peril of invasion was tackled and the authority of the empire re-established. So it is in today’s Pakistan.
PAKISTAN IS not so much a victim of terrorism as it is a victim of the stupendous success of the indoctrination programme that has replaced the innate pragmatism of the people. Islamism doubles up as nationalism and validates substantially, if not entirely, the concept of Islamofascism. It is this phenomenon that leads a newspaper owner, who is an ideal candidate for a lunatic asylum but in today’s Pakistan is a leading flagbearer of the ‘ideology of Pakistan’, to demand a nuclear strike on India because after a nuclear exchange Pakistan will be able to progress like Japan did after Hiroshima! It is this thinking that leads a top general under Pervez Musharraf, and a man who at one point was touted as a possible successor to Musharraf, to advocate firing “a nuclear warning shot in the Bay of Bengal, across India, demonstrating our circular range capacity” in order to send the message that “you don’t mess with a nuclear power and get away with it”. It is this thinking that makes a former information minister declare that “Pakistan has made nuclear weapons not to keep them in the cupboard but to use them against its enemies”. It is this mindset that makes the so-called ‘civil society’ — news anchors, lawyers, activists — defend the action of the assassin of Punjab governor, Salman Taseer. And it is precisely this mindset that prevents the Pakistan army (its ranks filled with the oxymoronic ‘moderate Taliban’) from ending its double-game in the war on terror.
Today, it is not the nukes that protect Pakistan but Pakistan that protects its nukes
This then is the terrible reality of Pakistan. Unfortunately, just as the Pakistanis are in denial, so too are the Indians, or at least the Indian establishment, about the ground reality in Pakistan. India’s Pakistan policy (if at all there is such a thing) is predicated on interactions with what is a fringe group of liberal, moderate, modern, and sensible Pakistanis who are excellent advocates of their country but whose words don’t count for anything in terms of setting their country’s policy or direction. This is a class that doesn’t number more than a couple of thousand.
The body language says it all. Except for one paki who seems to be grinning (in a sheepish "I have gas" way), all others have this fatalistic look. Their leader is even glowering at his counterpart. Compare that to the body language of the Indians.abhishek_sharma wrote:
The Defence Secretary, Shri Pradeep Kumar and his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Syed Ather Ali at the Defence Secretary level talks, between India and Pakistan on Siachen issue, in New Delhi on May 30, 2011.
Yes I agree, they seem to be relishing the amount of fun they are going to have.sum wrote:^^ Indians seem to be treating this as a time-pass, going by the body language ( esp of the IA officers)...might be a wrong reading of the situation though ( since dont have a PhD in psychology).
Their guy in the grey suit looks familiar ( and positively constipated.)anupmisra wrote:The body language says it all. Except for one paki who seems to be grinning (in a sheepish "I have gas" way), all others have this fatalistic look. Their leader is even glowering at his counterpart. Compare that to the body language of the Indians.abhishek_sharma wrote:
The Defence Secretary, Shri Pradeep Kumar and his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Syed Ather Ali at the Defence Secretary level talks, between India and Pakistan on Siachen issue, in New Delhi on May 30, 2011.
^^ The grey suited,glowering guy would be the Paki amby to Desh, Shri Shahid Malik...Their guy in the grey suit looks familiar ( and positively constipated.)
No Chai biskoot???Kapil wrote:![]()
Look in the centre of the table-- Afghani Badam and American branded Bottled water!
PNS Mehran Airbase attack: Ex-Navy Commando Kamran Malik arrested http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-news ... k-arrestedThe walkie talkies used by the terrorist are used by the NATO forces in Afghanistan.
According to the ongoing investigations in the attack on the Pakistan Naval Base Mehran in Karachi, the terrorists were using the LXT 303 walkie talkies made by an American company, Media Reports say.
According to the investigation officer, there walkie talkies were specifically made to be used in military operations. The terrorist had at least three walkie talkie sets which were set one channel through which they were contacting each other, Media Reports added.
Terrorists used rare explosives in PNS Mehran attack http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05 ... an-attack/The law enforcement agencies have arrested the former Navy Commando Kamran Malik along with his brother suspected of involvement in PNS Mehran airbase episode here in Lahore on Monday.
He was alleged to have been involved in providing maps and sensitive information to the terrorists.
Former Naval Commando Kamran Malik was arrested at Guro Mangut Road.
Kamran Malik was court marshaled and dismissed from the Navy due to his suspicious activities ten years ago.
Meanwhile, the agencies have also questioning to the naval officials who are on long leave due to some reasons.
KARACHI - According to a private television channel, the explosives used by the terrorists are not available easily even in the black market of weapons.
It said that all four terrorists were well trained and heavily armed with the latest weapons and ammunition.
They were armed with 4 RPGS, Russian made AK-47s, night vision goggles, hand grenades, and silencer fitted sniper rifles.
After throwing hand grenades towards US made Orion aircrafts, the terrorists used very rare explosive that are not easily available even in weapons’ black market.
Meanwhile, investigative authorities found a walkie-talkie set from the eastern side of the runway at PNS Mehran air base.
The set was allegedly used by the terrorists during the attack that took place at the PNS Mehran earlier this week.
The channel reported that during a recent search of the bushes surrounding the eastern end of the runway, the walkie-talkie set has been found near the location from where the terrorists had entered the base.