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The disturbance was caused by Pakistani American Arash Durrani, 26, an actor, model and the owner of a clothing line with homes in Virginia and California. He apparently became drunk shortly after United Flight 473 left O’Hare International for Orange County’s John Wayne Airport.
About 45 minutes after the flight began Durrani began pacing around the plane bothering passengers, Truong recalls.
“He was inappropriately touching women and aggressively harassing people,” Truong told OC Register. “He was walking in and out of the restroom, and at one point I was scared that he may have done something or gotten something in the restroom, so I asked him to sit.”
TFTA was later tackled by a SYRE Vietnamese-American passenger and a couple of other guys. Gotta love the quote by the Vietnamese guy.
“I just know the next time I fly, I’m bringing duct tape,” said Truong.
Truong, a Vietnamese American, lives in Westminster and owns Mimi’s Jewelry in Fountain Valley.
Anujan wrote:One more Piskology post. We think that Pakis care for their H&D which is not really accurate. Pakis care for their visible H&D. Which is a whole different ballgame than just caring for their H&D.
I understand quite reliably, the stock to manufacture Coke Cola is based in
an alcohol syrup. The quantity of alcohol is so large that Coke Cola
apparently require an exemption from duty. A friend of mine actually signs
the said certificate.
Now, question, is Coke Cola then halal? Does anybody know if a different
form of stock is used in Muslim counties? If not then surely all colours of
green should cease consumption.
ISLAMABAD: After the UAE Embassy refused visas to Pakistan’s negotiating team, the Pak-IMF talks scheduled to be held in Dubai were cancelled and will now take place via video conferencing today.
The fact that the official Pakistani delegation was denied visas has met with outrage . “This is simply pathetic and should be investigated to determine responsibility,” a senior official said.
Its soo funny to watch Pakistan (a country artificially created in the name of Islam) gets humiliated by another islamic nation UAE (in this case).
SSridhar wrote:Still waiting for the bear-hug - Vladimir Radyuhin in [i He stated though that Russia’s engagement with Pakistan would not be at the expense of Moscow’s relations with New Delhi.
Today USA. Tomorrow Russia. Day after - China? Next month - Iran?
There will always be those who will support TSP. Make no mistake about that. We keep telling that the Amreekis are also our enemy. Now when the Amreekis move out, the Ruskies will step in. And we have the the hindu stating that the Russian ambassador said it would not be at the expense of India. We want assurances but we don't make our own guarantees.
Everyone one out there understand only one thing: pain. financial loss. Unless India is prepared to dish it out equally to all sides secularly, we are going to have all kinds of morons coming and lecturing us.
The fact that the official Pakistani delegation was denied visas has met with outrage. “This is simply pathetic and should be investigated to determine responsibility,” a senior official said.
Pakis should complain about this targeted maltreatment to the UN and ask Interpol investigate it. Many other subsaharan ummah nations who get similar treatment at the hands of their rich gulf birathers will appreciate this gesture.
ISLAMABAD: After the UAE Embassy refused visas to Pakistan’s negotiating team, the Pak-IMF talks scheduled to be held in Dubai were cancelled and will now take place via video conferencing today.
So, Pakistani Finance Minister & Finance Secretary were denied visas by the ummah brother, UAE ? Now, that's something if true. This must be the work of the evil Yahud-Hunud-Nasara combination. This is conspiracy against the Fortress of Islam.
Why is Allah Taa'la so cruel to the only Muslim state founded on religion ?
A senior Pakistani bomb disposal officer has been killed while attempting to defuse a device in the restive north-western city of Peshawar, police have said.
Bomb squad veteran Hukam Khan had successfully defused one device but was killed when a second one exploded as he was trying make it safe
Student turned out to be smarter than than the teacher
KARACHI: Unidentified gunmen killed a shopkeeper while four bodies were found from different areas of Karachi Friday, Geo News reported.
According to police, attackers sprayed bullets on a shop in Gulbahar area that killed the shop owner on the spot. The victim was identified as Mirza Sohail Baig and his body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
A man was gunned down in Garden area by unknown culprits. A charred body was found from Sakhan Nadi while a body in gunny bag was found from ICI bridge.
Another body was found from Korangi area. Police has shifted the bodies to hospital for medico-legal formalities.
Two persons were also injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at Maripur Road.
ISLAMABAD: After the UAE Embassy refused visas to Pakistan’s negotiating team, the Pak-IMF talks scheduled to be held in Dubai were cancelled and will now take place via video conferencing today.
why UAE? why not the meeting can be held in the land of purest of pures?
kish wrote:[url=xxxhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-134351 ... conference]Pak-IMF talks to be held via video conference[/url]
ISLAMABAD: After the UAE Embassy refused visas to Pakistan’s negotiating team, the Pak-IMF talks scheduled to be held in Dubai were cancelled and will now take place via video conferencing today.
To protect the H&D of Pakistan - the Leader of the Ummah, the Sword of Islam; the government should declare Friday as a holiday to celebrate Youm-e-ashiq-e-Pakistan/Love-Your-Pakistan Day and have people protest 'peacefully' the grave insult to the country by fellow brotherly muslim country UAE.
abhijitm wrote:why UAE? why not the meeting can be held in the land of purest of pures?
They are kafirs, and they dont want kafirs in their country, thats why.. plus I guess they dont wanna get blown away while trying to extract as much as they can from pak
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Lalmohan wrote:wonder how long before paquis are denied visas for hajj and umrah?
They are working hard to protect people from the polio vaccine. It won't be long before fellow Muslim brotherly country Saudi Arabia will follow the footsteps of Kuwait and UAE. Go Paki Go!
Pakistan decided to join hands with Al Qaeda on Friday to protest a blaspheming film perhaps thinking that some of the intensity of its terrorism would be lessened, but it saw instead the ascendancy of the mind that informs the thinking of the global terrorist organisation. The Black Friday gave a measure of the alienation of the Pakistani people from the state in which they live. It also afforded a glimpse into the eroding validity of the democratically elected government and the Western-inspired idea of democracy itself. The balance of power has shifted from the state to jihadi personalities, at least one of whom is now unofficially considered the most powerful man in the country, who will finally defeat India and the US as an ally of Al Qaeda.
indian ruling class shares with TSP ruling class the feature of being based on a neo-mughalai model. TSP has chosen to co-opt (in reality, capitulate to) the invading hordes. Indian ruling class's surrender to TSP runs along similar psychological lines. TSP being a kabila state, there will be no substantial change in TSP arising from the surrender. For India, the upheaval will be devastating.
Pakistan decided to join hands with Al Qaeda on Friday to protest a blaspheming film perhaps thinking that some of the intensity of its terrorism would be lessened, but it saw instead the ascendancy of the mind that informs the thinking of the global terrorist organisation. The Black Friday gave a measure of the alienation of the Pakistani people from the state in which they live. It also afforded a glimpse into the eroding validity of the democratically elected government and the Western-inspired idea of democracy itself. The balance of power has shifted from the state to jihadi personalities, at least one of whom is now unofficially considered the most powerful man in the country, who will finally defeat India and the US as an ally of Al Qaeda.
indian ruling class shares with TSP ruling class the feature of being based on a neo-mughalai model. TSP has chosen to co-opt (in reality, capitulate to) the invading hordes. Indian ruling class's surrender to TSP runs along similar psychological lines. TSP being a kabila state, there will be no substantial change in TSP arising from the surrender. For India, the upheaval will be devastating.
From the same article, even as the author pretends to rue the sweeping tide, he knows full well that what he is predicting is the emergence of Mahdavi Khorasan:
When the Americans leave Afghanistan, Al Qaeda will be dominant in Balkh, Farah, Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Kunar, Kunduz, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Paktia, Paktika, Sar-i-Pul, Takhar, Wardak, and Zabul, or 17 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. And will have spread across Pakistan from Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar.
A masterpiece of double-talk here, apparent hand-wringing for the Western English reader, a sly smile to the Islamist.
US, Pakistan called off military talks due to protests: US
WASHINGTON: A planned meeting between US and Pakistani military chiefs was postponed this week due to a wave of violent anti-American protests, the top-ranking US officer, General Martin Dempsey, said on Thursday.Dempsey revealed at a news conference that he had scheduled a discreet trip to Pakistan to meet chief of the army staff, General Assfaq Kayani, but the two agreed to call off the talks amid unrest on the streets of Pakistani cities.
“I was originally planned to go to Pakistan to meet with General Kayani, and because of some of the issues related to that film, he and I discussed postponing that visit — mostly so that I would give him the time to deal with the issues he was dealing with internally,” said Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.Pakistan has been rocked by days of violent protests in its major cities as demonstrations have swept Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia over an anti-Islam film, a crude production by American amateurs.Instead, Dempsey said he extended an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, visiting the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand.The general did not take reporters with him and his office made no public announcement about his Afghan trip.
September 25, 2012 - Updated 1344 PKT - From Web Edition
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will be making a repayment of 100.5 million dollars on October 2 to International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a fifth installment against the 7.6 billion dollar loan obtained under a standby arrangement in 2008.
According to sources, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has made the arrangements to make the above payment.
Under the arrangement, Pakistan was supposed to repay 2.58 billion dollars to the IMF during the financial year 2012-13, and so far it has made payments amounting to 400 million dollars.
From The News (news article - posted in full). I see your "Vaccum blast" and "Sun Roof lever", I raise you "Suicide blow up". Did Bugti blow himself up?
Ansar Abbasi - Friday, September 28, 2012
From Print Edition
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has been approached to appoint a high-level judicial inquiry to probe into the death of Nawab Akbar Bugti with the petitioner insisting that the Baloch leader had committed suicide but his unfortunate demise has been exploited by foreign agencies through the separatist elements to destabilise Pakistan.
The petitioner in this case is Syed Zaid Hamid, who is represented through his counsel Raja Muhammad Irshad. Both the petitioner and the counsel are generally known for their connections with the Pakistani establishment thus giving the impression as if they have been encouraged by military/ISI to get the issue of Bugti’s murder probed through an independent judicial inquiry commission.
Raja Irshad when approached said that though he has been representing the ISI and FC in different cases in various courts, in this particular case his services have been hired by the ZaidHamid’s think tank - Brass Track.
The petition, according to Raja Irshad, submitted before the apex court a week back seeks from the apex court to order a judicial inquiry through serving or retired judges of the Supreme Court to reach the real author of this crime as “the unfortunate death of late Nawab Akbar Bugti has provided fuel to those playing in the hands of foreign agencies out to destabilise Pakistan in general and the province of Balochistan in particular to achieve their global designs”.
The respondents in the petition are DG ISI, DG MI, Mian Nawaz Sharif, General (R) Pervez Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz, the then Balochistan governor Owais Ghani, ex-chief minister Jam Yousaf Khan, former interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, ministries of interior and law, Jamil Bugti, Ahmadan Khan Bugti, Talal Bugti and Tariq Bugti.
The petitioner contends that a team of five special forces commandos were invited by late Bugti into his hiding cave to settle terms of surrender but once the officers entered the cave, he triggered an explosive device which brought down the entire cave, killing Bugti and the SSG men. “He committed suicide and also murdered the army officers,” the petition reads.
The petition added that Bugti had desired to meet the army officers in the cave before he could hand over his custody to the law enforcement agencies. There was no doubt, it is said, that the late Nawab was going to be lodged in a room especially arranged for him in the Governor’s House in Quetta.
The petition insisted that the latest insurgency in Balochistan has been ignited by a massive anti-state propaganda campaign that the Pakistan army and the state killed late Bugti in a well-planned conspiracy to eliminate the Baloch demands for rights.
“The judicial system of the country is also being exploited by the separatist sympathisers to attack and destroy the state of Pakistan through diabolic propaganda. The political parties in Pakistan like PML-N are also exploiting the situation to settle their personal score with former President Musharraf without looking into the facts of the case; hence are supporting the hostile and separatists’ propaganda and thus fuelling rebellion and insurgency,” the petition said.
The petition also said that the present MNA and cousin of late Nawab Mir Ahmadaan Bugti openly acknowledged that Bugti had committed suicide and had also murdered the army officers. “Every member of the Bugti clan knows this,” the petition added.
Referring to a story published by a Lahore-based English language newspaper the petition said the newspaper, run by a close friend of Nawab Bugti, reported that Bugti had refused to give himself up and had committed suicide.
But his death, it is said, is exploited by hostile and anti-state elements to launch propaganda war to prove late Bugti a victim of state terrorism and a deliberate conspiracy of murder.
The petition said that the family of Nawab Bugti has now started to exploit the judicial system of the state to launch a murder case against former president (Musharraf), former governor and former interior minister. “This is not just massive distortion of facts and gross violation of fundamental rights but also initiating a fake case to implicate innocent men. It is also dangerous for the state and the nation as the judicial system is being exploited to establish that the state of Pakistan was involved in the deliberate murder of late Nawb Akbar Bugti which, of course, is opposed to facts on ground.”
“In reality he had committed a rebellion, waged a war against the state and his own tribe and when cornered, he committed suicide while also murdered five army personnel, but these facts have never been reported by the media, never taken up by the courts and the separatists are fully exploiting lies, deceptions and propaganda in the environment to wage a war against the state of Pakistan, against the army and against the former members of the government in dangerous times.”
The petition prayed: “That the factum of death of late Nawab Akbar Bugti is shrouded in mystery which has triggered militants, insurgency and fuelled the feelings of separatists. It is a matter of cardinal and paramount importance and eminently required the intervention of this honourable court of ultimate jurisdiction as a guardian of Constitution of Pakistan. The entire nation looks up to the apex court as a beacon of light to shake off despondency and acute insecurity in the minds of highly aggrieved and panic-stricken people of Pakistan.”
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 30 — The Pakistani military said Monday that it had destroyed a religious school in the Bajaur tribal area, near the border with Afghanistan, killing as many as 80 people it described as militants.Helicopter gunships fired missiles into the Islamic school, or madrasa, in the village of Chingai near the town of Khar, military officials said. Among those reported killed in the predawn attack was Maulvi Liaqut, a cleric whom the authorities have accused of sheltering local and foreign militants. Mr. Liaqut was affiliated with the banned militant organization Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi, which had recruited thousands of Pakistanis to fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.“We received confirmed intelligence reports that 70 to 80 militants were hiding in a madrasa used as a terrorist-training facility, which was destroyed by an army strike, led by helicopters,” Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, a military spokesman, told The Associated Press.
Pakistani officials dismissed any suggestions that the United States was behind the attack. Tasnim Aslam, the spokeswoman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, said at a weekly news briefing that the attack was not carried out in response to foreign pressure.But opposition Islamist parties were quick to denounce the attack and blame America. Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, contended that innocent children had been killed. “Why have they owned this very shameful act of killing the innocent people?” Mr. Ahmed said at a news briefing, contending that the Pakistani Army was covering up for an American attack. “This area is not an area where there can be any training camp,” he said. “This is actually tantamount to a declaration of war on Pakistan.”
( Bleeze to remember the body language of Madam klingon and Baby Khar as well the warning about Sovirginity , like uncovered meat in Norway, can be ravished without remorse, if flaunted in front of Massa)
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Pathan Tribesmen attended the funeral for up to 80 Civilian people killed when the Pakistani military launched an airstrike on a religious school near the Afghan border
BRUSSELS: The European Commission said on Thursday it will release another 15 million euros ($19 million) in aid to Pakistan where tens of thousands of people are affected by flood and unrest.
The money takes the 2012 total for Pakistan to 70 million euros and will be targeted at help for those affected by ongoing conflict in the north of the country as well as victims of a third successive year of heavy flooding in the south. “These two largely unreported crises in Pakistan are affecting tens of thousands of vulnerable people,” said EU aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva. Flash floods have affected hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed as many acres of crops. afp
Oz Ayesha bemoaning the taqqiya of Paki youth in mad dash rush to jump of the sinking ship.
But the below comment provides from some comic relief for delusions of grandeur and TFTA ancestry!
The issue in the article is serious and it must be dealt with but we cannot ignore that the majority of Pakistani immigrants are seeking better opportunities just like their Mughal ancestors who moved from Samarkand to modern day India and Pakistan and created one of the greatest empires in history!
It is human nature to migrate!
Neela wrote:
Today USA. Tomorrow Russia. Day after - China? Next month - Iran?
There will always be those who will support TSP. Make no mistake about that. We keep telling that the Amreekis are also our enemy. Now when the Amreekis move out, the Ruskies will step in. And we have the the hindu stating that the Russian ambassador said it would not be at the expense of India. We want assurances but we don't make our own guarantees.
Everyone one out there understand only one thing: pain. financial loss. Unless India is prepared to dish it out equally to all sides secularly, we are going to have all kinds of morons coming and lecturing us.
Neela ji
You got the problem right but your solution is wrong. Perhaps you still believe in JNUism. Paying off your way will not work in geopolitical realm, not in the past and not in the future.
Geopolitical power comes only thru military power.
The UAE denied visa to Paki IMF delegation because these jockers were involved in shady financial shennanigans in the Gulf and their names are in the blacklist. Before they became respectable VIP gentlemen of Paki politics, these were typical paki crooks working their trade in the Emirates.
Jhujar wrote:Pakistan Says It Killed 80 Muslim Pathans in Attack on Islamic School To Please the Kaffir Awliya
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 30 — The Pakistani military said Monday that it had destroyed a religious school in the Bajaur tribal area, near the border with Afghanistan, killing as many as 80 people it described as militants.Helicopter gunships fired missiles into the Islamic school, or madrasa, in the village of Chingai near the town of Khar, military officials said. Among those reported killed in the predawn attack was Maulvi Liaqut, a cleric whom the authorities have accused of sheltering local and foreign militants. Mr. Liaqut was affiliated with the banned militant organization Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi, which had recruited thousands of Pakistanis to fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.“We received confirmed intelligence reports that 70 to 80 militants were hiding in a madrasa used as a terrorist-training facility, which was destroyed by an army strike, led by helicopters,” Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, a military spokesman, told The Associated Press.
Pakistani officials dismissed any suggestions that the United States was behind the attack. Tasnim Aslam, the spokeswoman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, said at a weekly news briefing that the attack was not carried out in response to foreign pressure.But opposition Islamist parties were quick to denounce the attack and blame America. Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, contended that innocent children had been killed. “Why have they owned this very shameful act of killing the innocent people?” Mr. Ahmed said at a news briefing, contending that the Pakistani Army was covering up for an American attack. “This area is not an area where there can be any training camp,” he said. “This is actually tantamount to a declaration of war on Pakistan.”
( Bleeze to remember the body language of Madam klingon and Baby Khar as well the warning about Sovirginity , like uncovered meat in Norway, can be ravished without remorse, if flaunted in front of Massa)
The Indian babus ability to come with 20 pages forms, to be filled up in quintuplicate and attested by numerous fellow babus, each of whom would extract a price for his signature, is of course legendary. But never has this been used in the service of the country, mostly to stymie progress and hamper business and harass Indians.
But here is an exception..
After the recently announced visa liberalisation, our brilliant babus have come up with this requirement...(source)
What is more difficult for Pakistan visa seekers is the requirement of attested copy of Service Card of the official who would attest the sponsorship filled and signed by the Indian relative of Pakistani visa seekers
What the babus are saying is that the sponsorship should be attested and the attestation itself should be attested by a even higher official... wonder why did not say, Visu style that the attestation of the attestation should be attested by a cabinet minister..
Thousands marched in Pakistan' s southern port city of Karachi on Saturday against the anti-Islam movie made in the United States, which has sparked protests in the Muslim world, local media reported.
Moderate Sunni groups organized the mammoth procession which concluded peacefully after leaders delivered speeches and demanded an international law to ban insult to religions under the excuse of freedom of expression.
when will score be announced. Looks like abduls are not serious abt the insult
A woman official in the Punjab Sale Tax department has been arrested along with her husband from neighbouring Tarn Taran district on charges of spying for Pakistan.
Police also suspect that the woman had links with Pakistan-based terror outfits and intelligence agencies.
Secret documents and maps of sensitive Army locations in India were found in the possession of the couple who were arrested on Friday, Tarn Taran Senior Superintendent of Police Kamaljit Singh Dhillon said on Saturday.
On a tip off, SHO, Bhikhiwind, Sukhdev Singh arrested Sukhpreet Kaur, working in Sale Tax department in Amritsar as a Junior Assistant, her husband Surajpal Singh of Sandhra village, who were allegedly in touch with a Pakistan-based smuggler.
The couple used to often talk to the smuggler over phone besides passing off sensitive information to him, Dhillon claimed.
^^There have been quite a few horror stories coming from Tarn Taran district for a while now - all invariably rooted in the fact that the district has become the dumping ground for paki sourced heroin.
Families broken down, old parents left in tears, drug fueled indebtedness, drug addicts turning to prostitution and robbery to feed their habit - the whole deal.
This district needs a old school punjab police style operation to bust the networks and govt contracted pvt detox centers to save those who can be saved and this needs to be done on a warfooting.
Senior PPP figures on Thursday said they believed the claims were part of a plot by the country’s feared Inter-Service Intelligence [ISI] agency to damage Ms Rabbani Khar’s reputation because it blames her for her part in facilitating a UN investigation into thousands of missing people detained by the security forces.
One PPP official told The Daily Telegraph that the ISI expects the United Nations’ Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances to recommend senior army and intelligence officials be charged for their role and blame Ms Rabbani Khar for allowing the delegation into the country.
“They are not happy with her,” the official said. “The UN mission received a cold reception but Hina was called in by the president to meet him and the army chief. She crossed some red line.”
Are Punjabi Muslims martial? Do they have a history of war and conquest or at least of resistance to conquest? I ask because there’s no evidence of their martial character in our history. No general, no subedar, no thanedar, no wazir, no bakhshi of the Mughal empire was a Punjabi Muslim so far as I know.
I might be wrong about this but there are only two Punjabi Muslims named in Mughal texts. The first is Kamaal Khan Gakkhar, who submitted (without fighting) to Akbar in 1576, according to Akbarnama. The second is Jalal Khan Gakkhar, an old man named among the victims by Jahangir in a skirmish with Afghans in 1620. A third reference is indirect, the name of the author of Shah Jahan’s Padishahnama is Shaikh Abdul Hamid “Lahori”. The Ain-e-Akbari has one joint reference to Janjuas and Awans, calling them tribes conquered by Afghans. There are of course Punjabi Hindus (mainly Khatris) who fought for the Mughals with distinction. Like Todar Mal, who led the sapping at the siege of Chittorgarh against the Sisodiya Rajputs, and also settled the revenue system for Akbar. Maathir ul Umara says Todar Mal was born in Lahore, though British scholars thought this was Laharpur in Awadh. Where are the Punjabi Muslims? The fact is that the Punjabi Muslim is a convert mainly from the peasantry (Jat) which is not martial. General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is Gakkhar, a caste that claims Rajput ancestry. The second Rohtas fort was built by Sher Khan Suri to pacify the Gakkhars. In his Tuzuk, Jahangir makes the remark in passing that the Gakkhars are warlike, but adds that they only fight among themselves. Meanwhile Rajput, Afghan, Maratha, Sikh, Jat (Hindu) and tribal Hindu generals all fought for and against Mughal armies. Rajputs had to be continually submitted by force, except for the loyal Kachwahas of Ambar (Jaipur). Right down to Aurangzeb, according to Maasir-e-Alamgiri, Mewar’s Sisodiyas and Marwar’s Rathors resisted the emperor. I clarify here that Muslims other than Punjabis fought the Mughals, and some very well.
Uttar Pradesh’s Rohilla Afghans were enemies of the Mughals and one of them (Najibud Daulah) ruled from Mughal Delhi for 10 years. Turkish-speaking Turani Sunnis and Farsi-speaking Irani Shias were the most important parties in the Mughal court. The former ranked as better fighters than the latter, who were better administrators. The fiercest Indian-origin Muslims were Shias, the Syeds of Barha (in Uttar Pradesh). The Maratha light cavalry was devastating and ended Muslim rule over India. The Sikhs captured Punjab and raided west up to Kabul and east up to the Doab. The Jats south of Delhi made life miserable for the later Mughals. Even the Baniya general Hemu showed martial character, almost ending Mughal rule before falling at the second battle of Panipat. What exactly did the Punjabi Muslim do? Invaders who got past Peshawar could then only be stopped at Karnal or Panipat because they went through Punjab undisturbed. It is true that the armies of both Nadir Shah and Ahmed Shah Abdali were harassed in Punjab on their return with Mughal booty, but their attackers were Sikhs, not Muslims. Punjab was a quiet state. Punjabi Muslims neither rebelled against Mughal Delhi nor fought any invader whether Afghan or Persian. Was this because the Punjabi did not want to fight other Muslims? Not really, because he did not even resist being conquered easily by Sikhs.
It is the Englishman who 150 years ago gave the Punjabi Muslim a rifle and taught him how to use it. But this did not require any martial background. The British Bengal army was full of UP Brahmins (like Mangal Pandey). It is only after this formation of the modern regiments, that Punjabi Muslims are called martial by writers like GF MacMunn. After the English left, the record of Punjabi Muslims at war under their own generals is not sterling. I count one draw and one loss and I’m being charitable. Against the Pashtun Talib the record is not encouraging, despite the thousands of martyrs. Nadir Shah said of Indian Muslims after the battle of Karnal that they “know how to die, but not how to fight”.
This is fine and many states of India are not martial. Few soldiers were produced by Bengal’s Hindus for instance, and not many by Gujarat even today. But they don’t have the militant bombast of the Punjabi Muslim (who apparently equals 10 Hindus). I’m just wondering what this bombast is based on because I cannot figure it out.
. “This is simply pathetic and should be investigated to determine responsibility,” a senior official said.
stating that the Russian ambassador said it would not be at the expense of India. We want assurances but we don't make our own guarantees. 