Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 13, 2013

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 13 Jul 2013 21:43

^
Of course, the Pakistan model is a very low bar to set for governance.

Yes but Pakistan has more Ashrafs than Egypt. (Maybe a little darker tahn the real Ashrafs, though).

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 13 Jul 2013 22:02

Peregrine wrote:Is becoming Pakistan the best Egypt can hope for?

Cheers

It is a moment to enjoy the good news that bakis will be like pious and perfect society of Egypt unlike cast-ridden short dark rice-eating Indians who can't ride horses unlike baki ancestors from la la peace lands of tall horse riders. Fair-n-lovely TFTA bakis would be now on seventh cloud, much nearer to the colorful jannat that awaits each beaceful baki hurrah post-mortem and seventh century heaven like Egypt pre-mortem.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 13 Jul 2013 23:15

Peregrine wrote:Is becoming Pakistan the best Egypt can hope for?

Cheers

Varu veeru ayyaru!

{Telugu saying about transformation due to association}

Now Araps want to become Bakis

Brad Goodman · Post by **Brad Goodman** » 14 Jul 2013 01:04

Taliban ban tight clothing during Ramadan

A pamphlet highlighting punishments and orders for the month of Ramadan was issued by the Taliban in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan Agency.

The pamphlet states the orders and punishments were unanimously decided upon in a Shura meeting of the Mullah Nazir Taliban Group. According to the document, tight or thin clothes have been banned for both men and women during the holy month. It warned shops and tailors severe punishments and fines up to Rs 50,000 would be imposed on those found violating these orders.

Additionally, the pamphlet stated anyone found not fasting during Ramadan would be kept in prison for the duration of the month. Finally, the document cautioned shopkeepers against selling fireworks during the month and stated those violating these rules would be punished in accordance with Sharia law.

Brad Goodman · Post by **Brad Goodman** » 14 Jul 2013 01:07

India develops Urdu font, ‘dumps’ Pakistan's

NEW DELHI: Ending dependence on Urdu fonts developed by Pakistan, India has developed its own fonts for use on personal computers and mobile phones, benefiting 15 crore Urdu speaking people in the country.

Brad Goodman · Post by **Brad Goodman** » 14 Jul 2013 01:08

headline says it all

Pakistan's Lahore begins Ramadan fearful of violence

now momeen afraid of violence ? what will mo think of them?

Peregrine · Post by **Peregrine** » 14 Jul 2013 03:37

Failing, Failing, Failed?

Cheers

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 14 Jul 2013 04:29

Remember Anatol Levin, the fellow who never misses a chance to kiss the musharraf of GHQ? Here is the obituary he wrote about Zia. Apparently Zia is not a vindictive person and an honorable man. I mean where does this love for Paki dictators come from?

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 14 Jul 2013 05:46

Mulla propaganda

arun · Post by **arun** » 14 Jul 2013 08:39

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s National Bird pays a visit, the second since the installation of the Nawaz Sharif PML-N Government nationally and Imran “I’m the Dim” Khan’s PTI Government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A perplexing visit though. I would have assumed that the National Bird of the Islamic Republic would have done the halal thing and refrained from feeding, this being the month of Ramadan / Ramazan / Ramzan, between suhoor and iftaar which clearly was not the case here as feeding time was around 11.30 pm:

2 Killed By US Drone Strike In Pakistan

Peregrine · Post by **Peregrine** » 14 Jul 2013 15:18

Capital suggestion...Understanding China

In 2011, for the first time ever, the CPC allocated $95 billion for internal security; $4 billion more than what was allocated for the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

Another thing one must understand is that China imports $175 billion worth of electrical machinery, oil worth $85 billion, scientific instruments worth $50 billion and office machines worth $40 billion. Clearly, Pakistan has almost nothing that China needs. Pakistan's exports are more than 50 percent cotton and cotton-related, seven percent rice, six percent leather and two percent sporting goods.

In effect, the Pak-China trade relationship is a one dimensional affair – China exports $10 billion worth of products every year to us but we have next to nothing that we can export to China. Shockingly, 40 percent of our entire trade deficit is the consequence of our bilateral trade with China.

Will the Terroristanis learn?

Chance would be a fine thing!

Cheers

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 14 Jul 2013 21:28

Pakistan exports a lot of terrorists. They export to china too. They are typically of the finest quality and made in the best terrorist producing factories in the world.

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 14 Jul 2013 22:14

Remember Maria Sultan who is from "Strategic Stability Institute of South Asia" (ISI front to do equal equal vis a vis Nukes and India?). You might remember her as the one who cut a British diplomat's career short: http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl ... py-1.45602

Well apparently her PhD is fake

Rana · Post by **Rana** » 15 Jul 2013 00:16

^^^She is as scary looking as they come, caterpillar eyebrows, 5pm shadow and all.

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 15 Jul 2013 01:16

Halal way to get someone in trouble in pakistan is to steal their mobile and send blasphemous messages to the clerics from it.
link

Police said Masih wanted to land Ruma in trouble to teach her a lesson for her 'betrayal'.

The police initially registered a case against Masih under Section 25-B of the Telegraph Act but then added the controversial blasphemy law to the FIR on the demand of the clerics.

Muslims and clerics of Gojra also pressured {halaal pressure} police to try Ruma under the blasphemy law.

The police finally succumbed to their pressure and registered a case against her under the law. {halaal way}

On the request of police, the federal interior ministry sought a red corner notice from Interpol for the arrest of Ruma in the UK but she is yet to be traced. {halaal Interpol notice}

Pakistani police have declared her a 'proclaimed offender' or fugitive.

KJo · Post by **KJo** » 15 Jul 2013 01:24

Anujan wrote:Remember Maria Sultan who is from "Strategic Stability Institute of South Asia" (ISI front to do equal equal vis a vis Nukes and India?). You might remember her as the one who cut a British diplomat's career short: http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl ... py-1.45602

Well apparently her PhD is fake

You mean Maria Kiani?

http://erc.unesco.org/fel/unesco-obuchi ... 4_4_04.jpg

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 15 Jul 2013 03:23

You mean Maria Kiani?

She is honey trap material? More like Mr Zib cowering in the fourth Cartesian quadrant,

What did the poor victim look like?

ArmenT · Post by **ArmenT** » 15 Jul 2013 06:10

Ladies and Gentlemen, I think Maria Kiani is not the same as Maria Sultan. Maria Sultan is supposedly claiming a PhD from Univ. of Bradford. Maria Kiani is the one that lured the Brigadier.

However, on doing some research on who this Maria Sultan is, I came across a facebook page about her.

(WARNING: Now is a good time to make sure that your keyboard is safe from liquids as you read this.) That facebook page has a link to another facebook page about Pakistani inventions.

Highlighted on Maria Sultan's page is a post about a recent Pakistani inventor on that page:

A Software simulation based on blast forensics designed by Pakistani computer scientist, Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, that can reduce deaths by 12 per cent and injuries by seven per cent on average just by changing the way a crowd of people stand near an expected suicide bomber.

You can't make this sort of comedy up. The scientist's pic is here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

The rest of the pakistani inventors are here:
https://www.facebook.com/pakistaniinventions
Yes, the water car fella is there as well. So is a solar powered car that looks suspiciously like the infamous Habib Sitara, seats two and hits 40 kmph.

Yensoy maadi

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Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 15 Jul 2013 07:00

I think Mythbusters did an episode where they checked if somebody laying on top of a grenade would in fact help his mates survive the blast. Is this 'research' a straight-up lift of that?

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 15 Jul 2013 09:00

Pakistan spreading Pakistaniyat to Burma too

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/ ... _to_op.php

A group of jihadists from Burma, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan are reported to have formed a "brigade" to fight the Burmese government. A Burmese branch of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami that is based in Karachi, Pakistan and has been in operation since the late 1980s is likely involved in recruiting Pakistanis to fight in Burma.

ArmenT · Post by **ArmenT** » 15 Jul 2013 10:47

Prasad wrote:I think Mythbusters did an episode where they checked if somebody laying on top of a grenade would in fact help his mates survive the blast. Is this 'research' a straight-up lift of that?

That would be funny if it was. Can you imagine the scene, Bakis piling up in a man-sandwich claiming that some youth in the bottom of the pile looked kinda suspicious and they were only trying to protect their birathers

.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 15 Jul 2013 10:50

Anujan wrote:Pakistan spreading Pakistaniyat to Burma too

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/ ... _to_op.php

A group of jihadists from Burma, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan are reported to have formed a "brigade" to fight the Burmese government. A Burmese branch of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami that is based in Karachi, Pakistan and has been in operation since the late 1980s is likely involved in recruiting Pakistanis to fight in Burma.

The picture of the Burmese jihadists in training in Karachi does not come as a surprise. I will just add a little more info (haven't yet read the quoted Long War Journal report).

Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the emir of HuJI is a Pashtun from Waziristan and a product of Karachi’s Jamia Binori, and was involved along with Army officers Maj. Gen. Zaheerul Islam Abbassi and Brig. Mustansar Billah in Sep 1995 in a military coup to establish an Islamic Dictatorship in Pakistan. Was planning to kill Benazir Bhutto in 1995 and Gen. Abdul Waheed Kakkar, the then COAS. Maj. Gen. Abbassi was later released by Gen. Musharrf in circa 1999. However, Qari turned approver in the case and was released in November, 1996, when he became political adviser to Mullah Omar in Afghanistan. Qari Saifullah Akhtar was requested in c. 1996 by Maulana Nizamuddin Shamzai, the head of the Binori mosque, to help bring Osama bin Laden from the Sudan to Afghanistan by brokering a deal with Mullah Omar. It was this which made him close to both Osama bin laden and Mullah Omar. He built terror training camps in Kandahar, Kabul and Khost.

After having disappeared (probably to Middle East) from Pakistan, he was arrested in Dubai and extradited to Pakistan on Aug 8, 2004. He was kept in prison for three years but without prosecution and released in c. 2007. Because of his closeness to Mullah Omar, his group, HuJI was originally called ‘Punjabi Taliban’. When the Taliban fell after 9/11, he first fled to South Waziristan, then to Saudi Arabia and finally to UAE from where he was arrested. However, he was released soon. He was also arrested on February 26, 2008 for involvement in the assassination attempt of Ms. Benazir Bhutto in October 2007 at Karachi. Again, he was released after three months. In August 2009, he was again arrested from an Islamabad hospital while undergoing treatment for injuries sustained in a drone attack in Waziristan. He could not be detained for long yet again. It was his closeness to the ISI that enabled him to escape every time.

The POK division of HuJI was once led by the one-eyed Ilyas Kashmiri, a member of the SSG, who later rose to become operational commander of AQAM.

HuJI which calls itself as the 'second line of defence for all Muslims' has been active in other places too including Bangladesh, the Arakan and Xinjiang. From its base in Afghanistan, the Harkat launched its campaigns inside Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Chechnya. The Harkat has always been entrenched in Karachi where it looks after its Burmese warriors. They were located inside Korangi and the area was sometimes called mini-Arakan. In Orangi, the biggest seminary was Madrasa Khalid bin Walid where 500 Burmese were once under training (2003 timeframe). They were later trained in Afghanistan and directed to fight against the Northern Alliance and against the Indian army in Kashmir.

Rajdeep · Post by **Rajdeep** » 15 Jul 2013 11:12

ICC allows Amir to play domestic cricket for one year

Banned Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Amir has been allowed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to play domestic cricket with some conditions lifting the ban imposed on the tainted bowlers for spot-fixing.
According to The Nation, although a British court awarded jail sentences to Amir and two of his teammates, former skipper Salman Butt and Muhammad Asif, in a spot-fixing case, it later on showed generosity to Amir and sent him to rehabilitation jail for being young and new to cricket.

Ek Din Baad

ICC denies allowing Aamir to play domestic cricket

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has dismissed media reports in Pakistan that banned left arm pacer, Muhammad Aamir had been allowed to resume playing domestic cricket by them.Reports have been circulating in the Pakistan media that the ICC four-member committee formed to look into his ban and case had allowed him to play domestic cricket.

But a ICC spokesman said first of all no permission had been given to Aamir to play domestic cricket or any cricket of any sort and secondly that any decision relating to his case could only be taken by the ICC Executive Board.

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Jul 2013 19:31

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!" ...........................

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Gentlemen, Please can we put an end to the Jabberwocky on this thread.

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 15 Jul 2013 19:51

In land of peace, even before former coup leader mushy trial drama is not yet complete, the president of bakistan has left country one month before next president is elected.
link

The spokesman rejected a perception that the president would not return to the country. “Why he will leave his office even one day before the expiry of his five-year term,” he said.

Meanwhile, speculation has started in political and media circles about whether Zardari will stay in the country after his term ends or live abroad due to security concerns.

Zardari’s chief security officer Bilal Shaikh was killed in Karachi this week. In 2008 chief security officer of Bilawal House in Karachi, Khalid Shahenshah was killed and Imran Jang, another security officer of the Bhutto family, was also gunned down in the port city.

The coup leader mushy is enjoying his stay even after serious charges of coup against political leadership; while the president has ran his tashrif out of bakistan even when he is under presidential immunity against charges and of course security available to president of bakistan.

KJo · Post by **KJo** » 15 Jul 2013 20:09

ArmenT wrote:Ladies and Gentlemen, I think Maria Kiani is not the same as Maria Sultan. Maria Sultan is supposedly claiming a PhD from Univ. of Bradford. Maria Kiani is the one that lured the Brigadier.

However, on doing some research on who this Maria Sultan is, I came across a facebook page about her.

(WARNING: Now is a good time to make sure that your keyboard is safe from liquids as you read this.) That facebook page has a link to another facebook page about Pakistani inventions.

Highlighted on Maria Sultan's page is a post about a recent Pakistani inventor on that page:
A Software simulation based on blast forensics designed by Pakistani computer scientist, Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, that can reduce deaths by 12 per cent and injuries by seven per cent on average just by changing the way a crowd of people stand near an expected suicide bomber.
You can't make this sort of comedy up. The scientist's pic is here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

The rest of the pakistani inventors are here:
https://www.facebook.com/pakistaniinventions
Yes, the water car fella is there as well. So is a solar powered car that looks suspiciously like the infamous Habib Sitara, seats two and hits 40 kmph.

Yensoy maadi .

Its on wikipedia too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pa ... #Computing

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 15 Jul 2013 22:14

Power outages hit country hard

Power Playing Azl Game:Born Out OF Arabic Load Shedding Living In New Load Shedding

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/ KARACHI: Unannounced load shedding continued across the country on Sunday despite the government’s claim that power generation has been increased.In Lahore, people in Karim Park, Kasurpura, Ravi Road, Misri Shah, Bhaati Gate and Lohari Gate faced inconvenience during sehri time due to the intermittent power supply.KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak would lead the protests from July 15, PTI MPAs, led by Ziaullah Afridi, told a press conference.They said that although KP was the “largest power producing province in the country”, it was being discriminated against with regard to supply of electricity.Qaumi Watan Party leader Sikandar Sherpao also expressed his concerns over unscheduled load shedding in KP and said people would be compelled to take to the streets if the situation was not improved.“We will also be compelled to lead protests against power outages,” he remarked in a statement.Meanwhile, Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif said that shortfall of electricity had been reduced to 3,600 megawatts. “Technical reasons are to be blamed for load shedding during sehar and iftar timings,” the state-run radio reported him as saying. He said that duration of load shedding was more in those areas where people did not pay electricity bills.Asif said the government was increasing the power supply but there must also be some efforts on part of consumers to conserve power. He added Rs 360 billion circular debt had also been cleared. agencies

Comer · Post by **Comer** » 15 Jul 2013 23:48

ArmenT wrote:
A Software simulation based on blast forensics designed by Pakistani computer scientist, Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, that can reduce deaths by 12 per cent and injuries by seven per cent on average just by changing the way a crowd of people stand near an expected suicide bomber.
You can't make this sort of comedy up. The scientist's pic is here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

Will the Bakistani cooum* arrange itself like a phalanx everytime somebody has to go to the market?

*(for the uninitiated, a river which originates from multiple Bakistans and flows thru Chennai)

RoyG · Post by **RoyG** » 15 Jul 2013 23:53

Anujan wrote:Pakistan spreading Pakistaniyat to Burma too

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/ ... _to_op.php

A group of jihadists from Burma, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan are reported to have formed a "brigade" to fight the Burmese government. A Burmese branch of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami that is based in Karachi, Pakistan and has been in operation since the late 1980s is likely involved in recruiting Pakistanis to fight in Burma.

And they'll be using India as a base operations in the areas flooded with muslim bangladeshi migrants and the Bangla-Burma border.

KrishnaK · Post by **KrishnaK** » 16 Jul 2013 02:01

saravana wrote: Will the Bakistani cooum* arrange itself like a phalanx everytime somebody has to go to the market?

*(for the uninitiated, a river which originates from multiple Bakistans and flows thru Chennai)

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 16 Jul 2013 02:16

Hallaled!

Four Shia Hazaras among seven meet their 72 in Quetta (or is it 36 since they are half muslims?).

Later on Monday, just for kicks, gunmen opened fire at a cold drink shop in Khudaidad Chowk area, seriously injuring five people.

Peace is the only panacea to all ills of Balochistan

Construction of motorways does not answer the problem of peace in the province

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 16 Jul 2013 02:26

Rajanpur kacha area: Govt okays release of LJ men in swap for police hostages

The government has agreed to release three members of the Lashjar-i-Jhangvi in exchange for eight policemen held hostage by a gang led by notorious bandit Chotu Mazari and the handover is expected to take place on Monday night,

http://tribune.com.pk/story/577312/raja ... -hostages/

kish · Post by **kish** » 16 Jul 2013 02:39

Malala's Forgotten Sisters

Girls as young as 5 are still being sold into marriage in Pakistan. And no one will stop it.(Children are getting married at the right age, this is a conspiracy by CIA/RAW/Mossad to maligh pakisatan)

Nazia was only 5 when her father married her off to a much older man, a stranger, as compensation for a murder her uncle had committed. The decision to give the little girl away as payment, along with two goats and a piece of land, was made by a jirga -- an assembly of local elders that makes up the justice system in most of Pakistan's and Afghanistan's tribal areas, where conventional courts are either not trusted or nonexistent. "One night a man came and took me by the hand," Nazia says, in a nearly inaudible moan.

Despite being illegal, the custom of forcibly marrying girls off to resolve family and tribal disputes happens on an alarming scale across all provinces of Pakistan. It goes by different names -- swara in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly the North-West Frontier Province) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, vani in Punjab, lajai in Baluchistan, and sang chati in Sindh -- but all its forms are equally cruel.

A further 10 million underage girls marry every year -- one every three seconds, according to ICRW. The legal age to marry in Pakistan is 18 for boys but 16 for girls, though they can't drive, vote, or open a bank account until adulthood. According to UNICEF, 70 percent of girls in Pakistan are married before then .

Many child brides come to Ayub with severe pain, sometimes blinded or paralyzed -- the effects of a psychiatric condition known as "conversion disorder."(Apt Name, This "conversion disorder" started with Muhammad bin Qasim) Practically unknown in the West since the beginning of the 20th century, it has reached epidemic proportions in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to Ayub. It is a sort of psychological stress that manifests in physical ailments, including convulsions, paralysis, or fits.(It can also be called fruits of ijlam)

Its a 4 page article, I quoted a few paragraphs in the first page to show how peacefully pakisatanis are living with their religious beliefs and systems.

vivek_ahuja · Post by **vivek_ahuja** » 16 Jul 2013 03:39

Malala and Pakistaniyat don't mix

Last Friday, Malala Yousafzai took to the podium at the United Nations. It was her 16th birthday, and her first major public appearance since the Taliban’s attempt to assassinate the Pakistani schoolgirl last October for her efforts to promote girls’ education. Traces of the near-fatal attack were still visible, as the disfiguring on the left side of her face showed. But as she demonstrated in a powerful and moving speech, her resolve had not dimmed.

Yousafzai issued a simple plea: she wanted the world’s leaders to offer children free and compulsory education. She said that she wanted to wage a war against illiteracy and terrorism, but had no use for the tools of violence. “Let us pick up our books and our pens,” Yousafzai urged. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.” The audience, both inside the U.N. hall where she spoke and among the many who saw the speech live on television around the world, responded with tearful applause. Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed Yousafzai as “the most courageous girl in the world.”

Back home in Pakistan, however, the reaction was depressingly mixed. Yousafzai’s supporters were thrilled to see her defy the Taliban militants who tried to silence her. They were impressed by her message of forgiveness, saying that she did not “even hate the Talib who shot me.” Some of the country’s main television channels showed her speech live; most did not. There were a few politicians like former cricket legend Imran Khan who tweeted tributes to her bravery . But even as the world was marking “Malala Day,” as the UN had named it, the Pakistani government didn’t bother to register the occasion.

The most troubling were the many voices that denounced Yousafzai and her speech as “a drama” – a colloquial expression commonly used to describe “a stunt” or “a hoax.” When Yousafzai was shot nine months ago, there was widespread sympathy. On television, messages of solidarity were broadcast. Children in mosques, churches, and temples were shown holding candlelight vigils. But since then, the mood has turned dark, and Yousafzai has become the object of widespread and lurid conspiracy theories.

Even as she spoke at the U.N., disparaging comments began to trickle into social media websites that, throughout the day, turned into a venomous torrent. On Twitter, many denounced Yousafzai as a “CIA agent.” Then, in the contradictory traditions of conspiracy theories, said she had been “attacked by the CIA.” There were links to obscure blogs where elaborate tales were woven, while images floated around purporting to show that her wounds had been “faked.” There were those who said she hadn’t been hurt at all, while others were suspicious of her global fame. The messages were in the thousands.

In an unpublished public opinion survey conducted earlier this year, whose findings were shown to TIME, the Washington-based International Republican Institute found that a majority of Pakistanis polled didn’t blame the Taliban for the attack on Yousafzai.

It doesn’t matter that the conspiracy theories make no sense. The fact that Yousafzai had been shot by the Taliban was confirmed by the militant group itself, which boasted of its crime. Doctors in Pakistan, the U.K., and the UAE saw and treated her wounds. She didn’t, as another yarn claimed, flee for a British passport. There are far easier ways to do that than get shot. She remains a Pakistani citizen, and her father is an employee of the Pakistani consulate in Birmingham, England. It is also never explained what use the CIA – or any intelligence agency – would have for her. Her only contribution has been to promote the right to go to school, something that can only benefit a country where fewer than half of the children complete primary school, and a pitiful proportion of state revenues is spent on education.

Conspiracy theories have long enjoyed a rare potency in Pakistan. It is perhaps a consequence of languishing under dictatorship for half of its history, and citizens having little say in the decisions that affect their lives. Until recently, the press was tightly muzzled. Even now, it is careful about what it can and cannot say. The system of governance remains opaque, with little light being allowed in, and so talk of shadowy plots often fills the darkness. People don’t understand how the world works around them, or how cataclysmic events suddenly come to dominate their lives, and so readily latch on to whatever easy explanations are on offer.

The phenomenon was much in evidence earlier last this month, when a government commission’s report in to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was leaked. Throughout the report, the authors noted how government officials leaned heavily on conspiracy theories. Admirably, the report resisted those temptations itself, often pushing back against them. But after the report’s emergence, a series of retired government officials appeared on television to still denounce the episode as “a drama,” denying that bin Laden was ever in Abbottabad, despite the evidence on offer. Hamid Gul, a retired general and former head of the premier spy agency, even went as far as to say that the al-Qaeda leader’s presence in Pakistan shouldn’t be considered “a failure” but “an achievement,” given that

Advances in technology have led to a proliferation of conspiracy theories against the backdrop of Pakistan’s fight against Islamist militancy . Tales no longer travel slowly by word of mouth. They are instantly communicated to thousands, and further shared, in a constantly reverberating online echo chamber. For many Pakistanis, there is genuine confusion over the roots of the Pakistani Taliban’s campaign of terror that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands in recent years. When mosques are bombed, they wonder how Muslims can bomb other Muslims, despite the long and bloody history of such violence.

It becomes more comforting to cast blame on “outside actors.” Incidents like the appearance of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who shot two men in Lahore in 2011, do end up lending some substance to these claims. It is perhaps inevitable that Pakistanis wonder how many other foreign intelligence agents lurk in the streets and bazaars. Enduring drone attacks, seen to kill many innocent civilians, have seen sharp rise in anti-American feeling. It is part of the reason why some spurned Yousafzai as a local hero. Her acceptance by the West led to her being rejected at home.

But a deepening sense of denial makes it difficult for Pakistan to confront its enemies at home. The new government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had said that it would like to negotiate with the Pakistani Taliban to end domestic terrorism. But the militants don’t appear willing to talk. In the few weeks Sharif has been in office, a reported 32 terrorist attacks have claimed some 250 lives. For that trend to stop, more Pakistanis will have to see past the conspiracy theories. It is impossible to take on a threat you refuse to see.

partha · Post by **partha** » 16 Jul 2013 05:02

vivek_ahuja wrote:Malala and Pakistaniyat don't mix

But a deepening sense of denial makes it difficult for Pakistan to confront its enemies at home. The new government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had said that it would like to negotiate with the Pakistani Taliban to end domestic terrorism. But the militants don’t appear willing to talk. In the few weeks Sharif has been in office, a reported 32 terrorist attacks have claimed some 250 lives. For that trend to stop, more Pakistanis will have to see past the conspiracy theories. It is impossible to take on a threat you refuse to see.

That is why I think Satish Verma is a bania RAW agent

His claim that GoI was behind 26/11 and 13/12 will only lead to more conspiracy theories and denials by the abduls. I think GoI is behind Satish Verma's disclosure

member_22733 · Post by **member_22733** » 16 Jul 2013 05:09

One thing is abundantly clear:

Malala is a face of "Bakistani moderates", which is a category of people who do not exist, and hence she represent the part of the facade erected by the Bakis to fool the rest of the world into believing that there are things like "moderate Bakis"

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 16 Jul 2013 05:32

Check out the kinda views the educated porkis have on Malala on twitter. Very enlightened onlee.

vishal · Post by **vishal** » 16 Jul 2013 06:15

CNN: Pakistani Taliban arrive in Syria, more to come
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/15/world ... ?hpt=hp_t3

That plan to arm rebels in Syria just got a little bit more complicated.

Shrinivasan · Post by **Shrinivasan** » 16 Jul 2013 11:20

^^^Nothing complicated in this, till date the US has been arming the Taliban via the PA/ISI... from now on it will arm the same Taliban via the FSA... it is just that the transportation cost will increase for the bunnies...
what is there in a TLA (Three letter Acronym)... if these weapons find their way into Af-Pak and gets used against American soldiers, then Khan would invent some other excuse to shield its munna. Afterall, Khan did nothing to stop the TSP fertilizer factory from churning out ingredients for IED all these years.

kancha · Post by **kancha** » 16 Jul 2013 11:35

Having Reasoned Conversashun on Teetar

A blog post by Dr Majorly Profound on tweets he received on Malala. Threw a bait & the internet mujahids came running. Most interesting!