CheersKARACHI : At least four people were killed and eight others, including police officials, were injured as unknown men opened firing at an Imambargah in Bilal Colony area of Korangi, Karachi, Express News reported. An explosion followed soon afterwards.
Nawaz Sharif led new government in Pakistan has created moment of opportunities for both New Delhi and Islamabad and the two needs to make the most of it, a former top American diplomat has said.
“This is a moment of opportunity. I hope both parties will make the most of it,” former Secretary of State Madeleine K Albright told PTI in an exclusive interview yesterday when asked about the India-Pakistan relations after the formation of new government in Islamabad.
She said Secretary of State, John Kerry has discussed the importance of working together with Sharif for promoting peace and stability in the region.
Sharif has the ability to forge important bonds with India and lead his country in the direction of peace and prosperity for the benefit of the region. {We have seen how it ended up the last time around. It led to disrespect shown by the services chiefs to a visiting foreign Prime Minister, followed by decption and a military attack on that neighbour, a coup that sent Nawaz into exile for 10 years, increased terror etc. This time too, as soon as NS spoke about improved relations with India, the PA has openly advised him to go slow and measure his words. The PA is still the powerful entitiy that it was before, thanks to the US efforts over six decades.} He will see he has a strong partner in Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said Albright the United States 64th Secretary of State.
On India’s role in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of troops in 2014, she said, we have seen the crucial work India has done for the sake of stability and security in the entire region.
“India will play a critical role in ensuring an orderly transition in 2014. Our two countries should remain partners when it comes to long-term economic, military, and political security in Afghanistan ,” she said.
Death toll in the demonstration of the IED Mubarak variant of the IEDology of Pakistan on the day of the Mohammadden Sabbath inches up to 15.anupmisra wrote:Narad wrote:So a jumma chumma blast?? Score is likely to increase as there were at least 300 shiates attending the gathering.
14 apostates meet their 72. Definitely (more) green-on-(lesser) green post-Fridin sermon action.
two attackers were prevented from entering the complex while one managed to enter the Imambargahbelonging to the Shia sectWhat's interesting to note is that the cops are now such experts on these soosai bombers that they can tell within minutes the size, type and model number of the explosives used down to the last kilogram. Amazing!six to seven kilograms of high intensity explosives and four kilograms of pellets were used in the blast
uh...you missed: Before Afghanistan blames Pakistan for dignitaries being shot, it needs to remember that there are dignitaries being shot on both sides of the border. There are dignitaries being shot by Pakistanis in Pakistan and dignitaries being shot by Pakistanis in Afghanistan. Pakistan is a major frontline ally on the war against terror and the international community needs to be sensitive to its honour and dignity.SSridhar wrote:Pakistan and India have fought three wars over the disputed Muslim-majority territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Pakistan holds one-third of this state while India, the remaining two-thirds. The UN Resolution that led to ceasefire requires a plebiscite to be conducted which India has steadfastly refused to do. (Does that complete the previous post ? Anything more ?)
Arrey that's nothing! Now Pakis cops can even tell you within minutes which Indian consulate in Afghanistan paid money to the bombers to buy the explosives including which currency and denomination of the bills.anupmisra wrote:Narad wrote:So a jumma chumma blast?? Score is likely to increase as there were at least 300 shiates attending the gathering.
14 apostates meet their 72. Definitely (more) green-on-(lesser) green post-Fridin sermon action.
two attackers were prevented from entering the complex while one managed to enter the Imambargahbelonging to the Shia sectWhat's interesting to note is that the cops are now such experts on these soosai bombers that they can tell within minutes the size, type and model number of the explosives used down to the last kilogram. Amazing!six to seven kilograms of high intensity explosives and four kilograms of pellets were used in the blast
NS is openly a jihadi supporter (which almost all Pakistanis are). His brother allocates funds through budget to the LeT. His party has an alliance with the 'Mother of all jihadi, sectarian groups', the SSP. PML-N pleads with the jihadists not to attack their Punjab because the Punjab Govt. is anyway with them. Even when NS talks of better relations with India, that is a Hudabaya-like taqiya. The hot-headed Musharraf didn't understand that. Later, when Musharraf himself proposed another Hudabaya-like taqiya with the US after 26/11, the hot-headed jihadis didn't understand that. Both (mis)understandings were turning points. Of course, if not for these, there would have been some other turning points for a country that is full of turns for the last 66 years.abhijitm wrote:As far as relationship with India is concerned, between Zardari (a sindhi) and NS (a pakjabi) I would always prefer a Zardari.
Terrorists have no religion. The dead have no religion. Explosives are clearly Hindus and Jews. Please give Pakistan more money.anupmisra wrote:Narad wrote:So a jumma chumma blast?? Score is likely to increase as there were at least 300 shiates attending the gathering.
14 apostates meet their 72. Definitely (more) green-on-(lesser) green post-Fridin sermon action.
two attackers were prevented from entering the complex while one managed to enter the Imambargahbelonging to the Shia sectWhat's interesting to note is that the cops are now such experts on these soosai bombers that they can tell within minutes the size, type and model number of the explosives used down to the last kilogram. Amazing!six to seven kilograms of high intensity explosives and four kilograms of pellets were used in the blast
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http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013\06\22\story_22-6-2013_pg7_2Sajid Qureshi, in his early 50s, and his 25-year-old son were targeted in a drive-by shooting as they left a mosque after attending Friday prayers in congested Nazimabad neighbourhood. “Gunmen on a motorcycle fired at (Sindh) provincial assembly member Sajid Qureshi, his son and a pedestrian when they were coming out of mosque,” senior police official Amir Farooqi told AFP. “He died on the spot, while his son and the third victim died at hospital,” Farooqi said. Nasir Jamal, a senior member of MQM, confirmed the death of Qureshi and his son.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Of course, Krachi has a myriad violent groups, ethnic, sectarian, jihadi, land-mafia, smuggling etc. But, in recent times, the MQM-Pakhtun violence is assuming huge proportions. With NS as PM, the MQM must expect to face the music.abhijitm wrote:TTP tightening their grip on Karachi
MQM MPA, son gunned down in KarachiThe Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
abhijitm :abhijitm wrote:As far as relationship with India is concerned, between Zardari (a sindhi) and NS (a pakjabi) I would always prefer a Zardari.
Zardari is a Sind domiciled Baloch.One of the reasons for Zardari-bashing in Sindh, has to do with the Zardari tribe’s historical moorings. They were camel herders as opposed to the ruling classes with fiefs.
You forgot to add the illegal 850,000 (or is it 900,000 this week?) Indian army soldiers and the hundreds of thousands of innocent martyrs killed by the Indian army while they peacefully protested against the inhuman rule under the Dogras and for their right to join their brothers in pakistan. Now they lie in unmarked graves. Also, think of the women and children...SSridhar wrote:Pakistan and India have fought three wars over the disputed Muslim-majority territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Pakistan holds one-third of this state while India, the remaining two-thirds. The UN Resolution that led to ceasefire requires a plebiscite to be conducted which India has steadfastly refused to do. (Does that complete the previous post ? Anything more ?)
So they just increased the probability rates for the jeehardis to capture a nukular weapon by 25000.Pakistan has raised a 25,000-strong special force and put in place extensive measures to protect and manage its strategic assets, including its nuclear arsenal, finance minister Ishaq Dar said on Saturday.
"A special security force of 25,000 personnel, who have been specially trained and provided sophisticated weapons, has been deployed to protect (the nuclear assets)," Dar said, while winding up the debate on the 2013-14 budget in the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament.
An urbane politician from Lahore did not intend any offence when, outraged at the state’s desecration of the remains of a Baloch tribal leader killed in a military operation, he blurted out, “we don’t treat even kammis like that!” No offence was taken, of course, because there was no-one to speak up for the kammi biraderi, or to ask our Lahori friend how he treated his kammis
In brick kilns within the Islamabad Capital Territory, Muslim shaikh workers were held in conditions of virtual bondage. Youths who did manage to venture out to Rawalpindi’s Raja Bazar for recreation had the local police pounce on them and extract bribes for no reason other than their “mussali appearance”
it is quite common to hear allegations that even Muslims of long-standing such as the Muslim shaikhs (mussalis), changars, lohris, shahikhels and others are not “proper” Muslims
The public silencing of “caste” in Pakistan implies that unlike India there is not much political capital vested in that term. If we can go from some sanitised notion of “class” to “caste”, then what prevents us from pulling away yet another veil covering social oppression?
The 18-year-old, known as Bushra and popular in the northwest for her film, television and theatre appearances, was attacked while asleep at her home in the town of Nowshera, 148 kilometres (92 miles) northwest of Islamabad.
Her brother Pervez Khan has lodged a complaint against a local TV drama producer, Shaukat Khan, over the incident saying that the producer was unhappy over Bushra's refusal to marry him.
Now, please note that a full-body mullah-approved burqa with the added protection of a narrow slit nikab would have saved her as she slept provocatively in her home.Acid attacks are common in Pakistan with scores of such assaults taking place each year.
(No, this isn't the traditional Indus water stealing)One of the comments in this article:The Director of the Water Management Research Centre (WMRC) at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), Prof Dr Allah Bakhsh (I wonder, how these guys become Professors), has expressed deep concern over what he says is the excessive pumping of water by farmers on the Indian side of Punjab. Dr Bakhsh says that excessive pumping is lowering the water table in India, causing water from the Pakistani side to flow to Indian Punjab(Even Indian farmers are enemies of pakisatan, hence enemies of islam
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It’s just the beginning. Next thing Indians will install large Air Turbines to suck the air from the Pakistani sky. And our govt. will be watching. No electricity, no water, no air.
It will not end there. Be warned o'pakis - protectors of the faithful. Because India is located on the eastern border of pa'astan and we all know that the sun rises in the east first (it says so in al kitab), the evil yindoos will install vast arrays of photovoltaic panels and steal all the electricity from the sun before the momeens get a chance to harness the sun's energy. Diabolical! Yindoos must be stopped.kish wrote:Next thing Indians will install large Air Turbines to suck the air from the Pakistani sky. And our govt. will be watching. No electricity, no water, no air.
Sales tax is regressive and puts disproportionate burden on lower in.come earners. Paki RAPEs don't want to pay progressive income tax hence the ploy of sales tax increase.SSridhar wrote:Peregrine ji, if even a 1% raise is declared 'null & void' by the SC, then where is the scope for comprehensive tax reforms that the IMF has been demanding for five years now ?
As an aside, who is ruling TSP today ? Is it the SC or the Parliament or the PA ?
I thought nuclear weapons were supposed to protect Pakistan. Not the other way around.Rajdeep wrote:Pakistan deploys 25,000-strong force to protect nuclear arsenal
So they just increased the probability rates for the jeehardis to capture a nukular weapon by 25000.Pakistan has raised a 25,000-strong special force and put in place extensive measures to protect and manage its strategic assets, including its nuclear arsenal, finance minister Ishaq Dar said on Saturday.
"A special security force of 25,000 personnel, who have been specially trained and provided sophisticated weapons, has been deployed to protect (the nuclear assets)," Dar said, while winding up the debate on the 2013-14 budget in the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament.
Don't forget India is also removing electricity from water in Pakistani rivers before they flow into Pakistan. By removing electricity from water, India is preventing Pakistan from generating enough electricity leading to 23 hour/day power cuts. The International Community must take strong action to prevent India from stealing electricity from Pakistani waters.kish wrote:Scientists say Indian farmers draining Pakistan’s waters
Pakis can install tallel, stronger and fairer pumps over there no? Like here our two housing societies are engaged in an eternal 'war of water pumps'.kish wrote:The Director of the Water Management Research Centre (WMRC) at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), Prof Dr Allah Bakhsh (I wonder, how these guys become Professors
For a second i waj outraged that some one shot down some of Paa'stan's exotic & endangered tourists, like The Uighurs, The Chechens etc . These as birdwatchers here know, intermittently visit Paa'stan from Central Asia to nest in the fertile and slippery Pathan lands .arun wrote:More on the story of the 9 tourists, including 3 from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s “Higher than the Hinalaya’s Deeper then the Oceans” ally, the Peoples Republic of China, that were shot dead in the Gilgit-Balitistan area of Pakistan Occupied Jammu And Kashmir from Xinhua:
10 including 9 foreigners killed in Pakistan's northern area of Gilgit
:This is a YYY conspiracy against the Water Kit car from achieving success. The Yindu-Yehudi-Yamerika axis does not want Pakistan to take its rightful place among the first world technological elite.kish wrote:Scientists say Indian farmers draining Pakistan’s waters
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Now, China is going to turn the screws on NS. It was all fine to decorate the newly appointed Chinese PM, Li Keqiang, with the highest order of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (for no apparent reason other than him being a Chinese PM), but it will be a different matter to account for Chinese lives !A Pakistani militant group known as Jundullah claimed responsibility for the attack.
"These foreigners are our enemies and we proudly claim responsibility for killing them and will continue such attacks in the future as well," Jundullah spokesman Ahmed Marwat told Reuters by telephone.
Rcase, that conversion factor applies only against dhoti-shivering SDREs. But, the TSPA is up against the Taller, Fairer and Tighter than the TFTA mards in the form of Wahhabi/Salafi/Deobandi jihadi Taliban. It should be applied in the reverse.RCase wrote:Misfortunately, the civvies forgot to use the TSPA conversion factor of 10 in their calculations, resulting in a higher number. The adjusted number is now 2,500.
The reality is now revealed by liberal fascist Dr. Hudood Bhai! Wonder if TSP will have the resources to pay the cover charge for entry to be an associate member. Will the IMF bailout be sufficient to to help defray the membership fee? Also are there“The good thing is that it will give us an entrance into one of humanity’s biggest enterprises,” Hoodbhoy said. “But we must admit that it is a very, very modest attempt.”
Hoorani pointed out that associate member states have to pay CERN a certain fee calculated on the basis of the member country’s gross domestic product. Moreover, the federal government’s initiative will be required to support the bid for the membership since member countries at CERN have to be represented by one government official and one scientist.
Dawn citing Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson, Ehsanullah Ehsan, reports that a TTP faction named Janud-e-Hafsa was responsible for the killing of the 9 foreign tourists:SSridhar wrote:More on the news itemNow, China is going to turn the screws on NS. It was all fine to decorate the newly appointed Chinese PM, Li Keqiang, with the highest order of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (for no apparent reason other than him being a Chinese PM), but it will be a different matter to account for Chinese lives !A Pakistani militant group known as Jundullah claimed responsibility for the attack.
"These foreigners are our enemies and we proudly claim responsibility for killing them and will continue such attacks in the future as well," Jundullah spokesman Ahmed Marwat told Reuters by telephone.
As an aside, it is not Jundullah which is a Iran-centric organization operating out of Balochistan. Its chief Regi was captured dramatically by Iran two years back and hanged for the attack on Revolutibary Guards in the Sistan province.
The group has to be Jandullah (only one letter difference). This was created by none other than the redoubtable KSM himself and operates out of Krachi.
From here:Spokesperson for the proscribed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Ehsanullah Ehsan, talking to Dawn.com from an undisclosed location claimed that the Janud-e-Hafsa faction of the militant organisation had carried out the attack.