SSridhar wrote:Shinde's Retort on VisaWow ! Brilliant.Asked why he gave visa to Miandad, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde shot back "I have not given visa. My officer or my mission must have given".
And, this guy is an analyst with IDSA ? He says,sum wrote:These are the people passing off as "analysts" these days:
Miandad visa episode is a pointer to India’s Pak strategy
No wonder he wrote like that.I want to diversify to Bollywood as a story writer. I am confident that I can make a mark as my Hindi and English are excellent and I have a way of saying things differently.
BS of the highest order. No country keeps its interests above the mythical 'larger cause'. Why is it that only when it comes to India, every one uses such meaningless terms as 'big brother', 'generous', 'larger cause' etc ?India not only has to be reasonably engaged with Pakistan diplomatically but also seen to be doing so before the international community for the larger cause of international peace.
Who needs this bl**dy certificate ? And from whom and for what purpose ? The next time the US gives massive amounts of money & military hardware to Pakistan we can question it on the basis of this certificate ?India has shown that it is capable of practising mature diplomacy with Pakistan even in the face of pinpricks from a visiting Pakistani Interior Minister
How do sensible questions become 'hawkish' and on what yardstick ?Hawks may question the Indian generosity in the Miandad episode
Gagan-ji, this is the same HM who said while taking oath:Whims and fancies are known to change suddenly and a 'new' neta like Shinde would probably play it safe.
So can pretty much join the dots that the only reason he is there is because of the need to allow MMS and Madam-ji to run roughshed over the TSP policyShinde thanked Singh and Gandhi for giving him the responsibility of home ministry, saying after Buta Singh, who was home minister in early 1980s, he has become the second Dalit to hold the key post.
He said Rajiv Gandhi had given the responsibility of home ministry to Buta Singh and now Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh gave him the task.
"The Gandhi family has always taken care of the welfare of backward castes. Dalits can also take bigger responsibility. "
sum wrote:These are the people passing off as "analysts" these days:
Miandad visa episode is a pointer to India’s Pak strategy
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....Herein lie answers to the questions that I first raised. India not only has to be reasonably engaged with Pakistan diplomatically but also seen to be doing so before the international community for the larger cause of international peace. India’s large heartedness cannot go unnoticed by the international community because
Bascially, keep showing every cheek there to look good in front of Unkil, our own interests be screwed.
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The changes in Pakistan are unlikely to come peacefully and will have major implications for India and America. The stakes are huge in the most dangerous country in the world.....One measure of Pakistan's instability is that the country now has between 300 and 500 private security firms, employing 3,00,000 armed guards, most run by ex-generals {They have solved the unemployment crisis}....Two-thirds of 185 million Pakistanis are under 30, and 40 million of the 70 million 5 to 19 years old are not in school. The youth bulge has yet to spike. Less than one million Pakistanis paid taxes last year. Most politicians don't pay any taxes. Power blackouts are endemic. Clean water is increasingly scarce even as catastrophic floods are more common. Growth is 3%, too little to keep up with population demand.
The strength of militants has increased so alarmingly that now, they can reach anywhere they want to carry out their activities, said provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain on Friday.
“The time has come to take the final decision on whether to hold dialogue with militants or to begin a meaningful operation against them,” the minister told the provincial assembly on a point of order about the recent acts of militancy, especially the killing of seven aid workers, including six women, in Swabi.
Mr Hussain said a lot had been spoken in condemnation of militant attacks and therefore, it was direly needed to take militancy to its logical end.
He said there were two options with the government either to hold dialogue with militants and if it was not possible, then the second option was intensive operation against them.
The minister said all political parties and security agencies should get together to make an effective strategy before the government held dialogue with militants or went for operation against them.
He said former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif had favoured the stand of ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan, who pushed the country’s political leadership for taking decisive steps against militancy.
He urged the leadership of other political groups to come forward for ending the evil of militancy forever.
Mr Hussain said militancy had increased in the province so dangerously that all other issues had become non-issues.
He said assassination of vaccinators and aid workers in the province, assault on Bacha Khan International Airport, assassination of minister Bashir Bilour and the kidnapping and subsequent killing of Levies personnel in a short span of time showed how strong militants had grown.
Former Pakistan captain and now a key official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Javed Miandad is unlikely to go to India to watch the last ODI between Pakistan and India in Delhi on Sunday.
Miandad was to leave for India on Saturday, but soon after the report of issuance of visa to him by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, a strong reaction from the Indian media and section of public erupted, forcing Miandad to reconsider his decision.
“I am waiting for permission from PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf, which I am expecting to get some time late on Friday night. I will then take a decision whether to go to India or not,” Miandad told Dawn.
He said, in fact, the propaganda in India against his visit had done nothing in forcing him to reconsider the decision, but actually heavy workload in PCB offices and an upcoming meeting of the Asian Cricket Council on Jan 9 are keeping him busy.
He said India had also given him visa to watch the World Cup semi-final in 2011 but he could not go because of heavy workload.
He dispelled the impression that his relationship with Dawood Ibrahim was creating problem for him in visiting India, adding that all close relatives of Dawood were living in India.
He alleged that some sections of the Indian press, after losing the ODI series, wanted to settle the score by hitting his visit to India.
He said the Indian High Commission has also issued him visa for Ajmer Sharif and if he goes to India, he would definitely visit the holy city.
In an innovative move towards polio eradication, the Indian and Pakistan cricket teams, though fierce rivals on the field, will be united in their mission to “bowl out polio” when they clash for the third One-Day International in New Delhi on Sunday.
“We need to ensure a world free of polio paralysis for children. We need to win against polio, to ‘Bowl Out Polio’,” said Pakistani cricket stars Yonous Khan and Imran Farhat, who on Saturday administered polio drops to children in New Delhi
- The HinduNo worry. Allah will look after Pakistan. Young BRFites will not remember that in 1965 during the war when the Indian kafirs attacked innocent Pakpisstan green djinns appeared and rescued them.Anujan wrote:Bruce Riedel says US and India should be vigilant about Pakistan in 2013, when many changes in Pakistan are coming. (Which will shovel pakistaniyat in the direction of India)
http://www.brookings.edu/research/opini ... tan-riedelThe changes in Pakistan are unlikely to come peacefully and will have major implications for India and America. The stakes are huge in the most dangerous country in the world.....One measure of Pakistan's instability is that the country now has between 300 and 500 private security firms, employing 3,00,000 armed guards, most run by ex-generals {They have solved the unemployment crisis
Lets analyze this statement. If this PoS was so busy with his current work load, why did he actually for a visa to watch the ODI? If he did not, then did the GoI on its own offer him a visa? Something smells and its just not just the unwashed paki.SSridhar wrote:He said, in fact, the propaganda in India against his visit had done nothing in forcing him to reconsider the decision, but actually heavy workload in PCB offices and an upcoming meeting of the Asian Cricket Council on Jan 9 are keeping him busy.
Polio is not a problem in India. Such pictures mean nothing other than riding on decades of hardwork by Indians to eradicate polio in India. Should be very careful of this polio talk by bakis when there is no polio epidemic in India.Singha wrote:pakistan players are perhaps much safer giving polio drops here than in their own homeland . would be hard to find volunteers for that over there
Yet another instance of TSP piskology on display: the obsessive desire to conquer us SDRE Kafirs. Of course, such rubbish would be dismissed with contempt in any other self respecting country by asking the mofos to first go and administer vaccine in their country, but our shameless eunuch elite and their followers actually celebrate this condescension.SSridhar wrote:India & Pakistan Unite to Bowl Out Polio
Ack thoo. .
Just like how RAPEs safely organize protest marches in New York against blasphemy laws, Shia genocide, Ahmedi persecutionSSridhar wrote:India & Pakistan Unite to Bowl Out Polio
Ack thoo. .“We need to ensure a world free of polio paralysis for children. We need to win against polio, to ‘Bowl Out Polio’,” said Pakistani cricket stars Yonous Khan and Imran Farhat, who on Saturday administered polio drops to children in New Delhi
Anujan wrote:Bruce Riedel says US and India should be vigilant about Pakistan in 2013, when many changes in Pakistan are coming. (Which will shovel pakistaniyat in the direction of India)
http://www.brookings.edu/research/opini ... tan-riedelThe changes in Pakistan are unlikely to come peacefully and will have major implications for India and America. The stakes are huge in the most dangerous country in the world.....One measure of Pakistan's instability is that the country now has between 300 and 500 private security firms, employing 3,00,000 armed guards, most run by ex-generals {They have solved the unemployment crisis
So much common gyan but the end result is zilch X-(The incumbent General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was given an unprecedented three-year extension in 2010. He is the epitome of the Pakistani officer corps and the so-called 'deep state'. Pervez Musharraf made him Director General of the ISI in 2004. It was on his watch that the Afghan Taliban recovered and regrouped in Quetta, Osama bin Laden built his hideout 800 yards outside Kayani's alma mater the Kakul Military Academy in Abbottabad in 2005, and planning began for the Lashkar-e-Taiba attack on Mumbai. He was DG/ISI when David Headley, the American serving life for his role in the 2008 attack, began his reconnaissance trips to Mumbai to prepare the way for 26/11. Kayani probably authorized the funds for Headley's cover and travel. He is the first DG/ISI to become COAS. His term expires in September, 2013.
But the interesting part:Bahawal Khan, the new chief of a Taliban faction in Pakistan's South Waziristan region after the killing of Mullah Nazir in a US drone strike, is a militant who fought Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir.
Khan was named the head of the faction shortly after Nazir and 12 other militants were killed in the drone strike in Angoor Adda area on Thursday.
He fought as a militant in Jammu and Kashmir, sources were quoted as saying in Pakistani media reports.
A member of the Kakakhel sub-tribe of the Ahmedzai Wazirs, Khan is an illiterate former bus driver.
The 34-year-old father of two also ran a hotel. He fought alongside the Afghan Taliban before the 9/11 terror attacks.
Khan, who is also known as Salahuddin Ayubi, was chosen by the 'Shura' (council) of the Mullah Nazir group and elders of the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe.
Seems to be a Amriki size 13 on the mush of TSPAUS intelligence officials told The Long War Journal, a website that closely tracks the war on terror, that Khan is closely allied with Al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and a plethora of terrorist groups in the area.
"Little will change with Khan's appointment to lead Nazir's faction of the Taliban," one unnamed US official said.
"It will be business as usual, and we'll continue to have to take shots at Al Qaeda leaders and others in the Wazir areas" of South Waziristan, the official said.
The US intelligence officials denied reports that the Pakistani military and government aided in the drone strike against Nazir.
They said the Pakistanis were "upset over the killing".
"These reports (that Pakistan aided in Nazir's death) are preposterous," said one official involved in targeting Al Qaeda and other terrorist leaders in Pakistan.
"Nazir was an asset to and a tool of the Pakistani state," the official said.
"If the Pakistanis wanted to remove Nazir from the playing field, they could have easily done so," another intelligence official said. There is an army garrison in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan where Nazir operated, the official said.
"The Pakistanis are piqued that we've killed Nazir," another official said. "We just knocked off a good Taliban, or to them, perhaps the best Taliban."
Pathetic DDM helping the TSP-ians earn more and more moolah.The current crop of Pakistani cricketers may have missed out on a few seasons’ worth of IPL earnings, but the ongoing India-Pakistan series has given some of the former cricketers from across the border an opportunity to rake in big bucks as commentators and experts on Indian television.
Pakistani cricketers Imran Khan, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Shoaib Akhtar and Aaqib Javed, among others, are pocketing Rs 10 lakh-20 lakh each for making half-hour appearances as panelists on TV discussions during the T20 and ongoing ODI series. For each half-hour slot during the five matches of the series, the former cricketers are earning Rs 2 lakh-4 lakh.{Ack Thoo}
While India is a large market for cricket-based advertising, there is also a thriving cricket analysis and discussion industry. “Most news channels these days have their in-house experts to deliberate on the games. And the demand for such experts is so high that most channels sign exclusive contracts with them, which means they cannot appear on a rival network for the period of contract,” says Jeet Banerjee, director, Gameplan Sports Pvt Ltd, a sports marketing agency that represents many cricketers.
Industry sources say most leading Hindi news channels spend over Rs 1 crore per year for their exclusive set of cricket analysts. English channels and networks that have over two news channels spend around Rs 3-4 crore a year on such contracts. “Cricket is a major news-making event in our country. Therefore, we make sure we cover it in its entire width and depth,” says the sports editor of a leading news channel.
So US is definitely out of the region by 2014. Not sure if anyone in India has woken up to the consequences.The Obama administration is considering keeping a force of 3,000 to 9,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, American officials said Saturday.
sum, I do not believe that it was a Size 13 to the TSPA's hinds. The US will not do anything to upset the TSPA at this crucial stage when they are seeking an honourable-looking and a bloodless exit from the Afghan quagmire. One can easily predict that there will be a divorce (sixth, won't it be ?) after the neo-Geneva accord.sum wrote:New chief of Pak Taliban faction fought Indian troops in J-KSeems to be a Amriki size 13 on the mush of TSPAThe US intelligence officials denied reports that the Pakistani military and government aided in the drone strike against Nazir.
They said the Pakistanis were "upset over the killing".
"These reports (that Pakistan aided in Nazir's death) are preposterous," said one official involved in targeting Al Qaeda and other terrorist leaders in Pakistan.
"Nazir was an asset to and a tool of the Pakistani state," the official said. "If the Pakistanis wanted to remove Nazir from the playing field, they could have easily done so," another intelligence official said. There is an army garrison in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan where Nazir operated, the official said.
"The Pakistanis are piqued that we've killed Nazir," another official said. "We just knocked off a good Taliban, or to them, perhaps the best Taliban."
But the interesting part:sum wrote:New chief of Pak Taliban faction fought Indian troops in J-K
Khan, who is also known as Salahuddin Ayubi, was chosen by the 'Shura' (council) of the Mullah Nazir group and elders of the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe.
They said the Pakistanis were "upset over the killing".
"These reports (that Pakistan aided in Nazir's death) are preposterous," said one official involved in targeting Al Qaeda and other terrorist leaders in Pakistan.
Seems to be a Amriki size 13 on the mush of TSPA