Anujan wrote:Neither the terrorists nor the guard shot the judge. He committed soosai.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1092342
During the proceedings, a lawyer saw American hand behind the incident. He said the literary meaning of ‘Ahrarul Hind’, which had claimed responsibility for the attack, was black cat that was close to disbanded ‘Blackwaters’.
[/quote]Anujan wrote:Neither the terrorists nor the guard shot the judge. He committed soosai.
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...which proved that the bullets were fired by one of the four individuals present inside the court — the reader, the guard, an advocate and the judge,” he said
Yep! Its a work of non-fiction alright.sudhan wrote:He said the literary meaning of ‘Ahrarul Hind’
More on this sharia (if-it-was-good-for-Mo-then-its-good-enough-for-us-momeens) BS:anupmisra wrote:Good news for all you would be multi-wifers. Law for second marriage complicated, contrary to Sharia : CII
At the end of its two-day session on Tuesday, the CII said there is no minimum age of marriage according to Islam
Isn't there a Bollywood movie on this rukhsati thingy to please the momeens? If no, there should be one.However, the Rukhsati (consummation of marriage) is only allowed in the case that both husband and wife have reached puberty.
Street battles between two rival gangs armed with RPGs and machine guns killed at least 16 people — including four women — in Pakistan’s Karachi on Wednesday, officials said.
The clash, which according to police also injured 39 people, mainly schoolchildren, was the worst outbreak of criminal-related violence to plague the troubled city in recent months.
In a major development, Pakistan will extend MFN status to India by the end of March and in return India has agreed to reduce tariffs for Pakistani exporters on up to 300 items and to eliminate non-tariff barriers.
Top functionaries of the Nawaz government are vigorously working day and night to carve out a plan and an important visit by Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir to Washington has been put off in view of these fast moving developments.
Pakistan would get maximum tariff concessions for its export-oriented industry and in return will extend MFN status or non-discriminatory market access (NDMA) to India when this agreement is announced.
Under it the existing negative list of 1,209 items will be abolished and trade at the Wagah border will be opened round the clock, senior officials of various economic ministries involved in the working for trade concession on various items from India confided to The News.
India has agreed to provide a level playing field to Pakistani traders for which it will relax its restrictive tariff regime for Pakistani products and will give tariff concession on various products pertaining to Pakistan’s strong sectors such as textile, cement, surgical instruments, and sports.
http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2014/ ... pdates.htm16:42 Polio vaccination proof mandatory for Pakistani nationals to enter India after March 15: India has announced that proof of vaccination against polio would be mandatory after March 15 for everyone entering India from Pakistan to safeguard the country's polio-free status. Travellers from Pakistan will have to carry vaccination certificate, which would be later returned to them along with their visa.
As he plunges into a sea of worries — including waves of allegations, stormy collisions and flying ink — before poll-time, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal has something to smile about. Apparently inspired by India's tryst with AAP, Pakistan has launched its own Aam Aadmi Party. While the party's registered under the same name with Pakistan's election commission, for Indian voters, all bleary-eyed with the profusion of parties, personalities and symbols, the new AAP can be distinguished as P-AAP. No naughty suggestions there, just a simple way to tell the Indian and Pakistani AAPs AAP-part!
Like its Indian sibling, the Pakistani Aam Aadmi Party aims to clean up its system, challenging politicians and bureaucracy. But will it adopt the jhadoo or broom as its symbol too? Knowing how our stylish neighbours keep up appearances while Kejriwal's muffler-shrouded fashion sense has drawn flak, many assume the P-AAP's jhadoo will be a zanier designer mop! And if P-AAP also gets a smattering of socialites to lead its impassioned social charge, onlookers eagerly anticipate lively P-AAP rallies with liveried staff holding those mops!
But P-AAP isn't the only AAP sporting contradictions. The original AAP also has a split personality. On the one hand, it's symbolised by that most medieval of back-breaking instruments, the hand-held jhadoo — not even a feather duster or a handy wipe, both involving standing up and stretching out. But, on the other hand — the hand not rocking the jhadoo, that is — AAP spreads its message via cutting-edge technology and social media, leaving onlookers wondering just what's AAP? However, if we can sweep aside or mop up these confusions for a moment, with more aam aadmis shaping India's and Pakistan's politics peace and non-violence can be hoped for. That's of khaas interest to aam aadmis in both countries.
The PCB is keen on negotiating bilateral series with India. "The fact is every country wants to play India because they say it brings them much needed revenues. It is a fact that not playing cricket with India is damaging for us," Sethi said.
Brand new paki business opportunity for "polio vaccination certificates"---India seriesBrad Goodman wrote:Rediff tickerhttp://news.rediff.com/commentary/2014/ ... pdates.htm16:42 Polio vaccination proof mandatory for Pakistani nationals to enter India after March 15: India has announced that proof of vaccination against polio would be mandatory after March 15 for everyone entering India from Pakistan to safeguard the country's polio-free status. Travellers from Pakistan will have to carry vaccination certificate, which would be later returned to them along with their visa.
Pakistan is terrorizing India and the world with Polio.According to the World Health Organisation, Pakistan recorded 91 cases of polio last year, up from 58 in 2012.
"How do you see the recent statement of the interior minister that the majority of the Taliban are pro-Pakistan?", I asked my friend Rashid.
“Though I hold no brief for the minister for he has been highly critical of my leader, in the instant case, the minister has hit the nail on the head”, Rashid replied.
“India asking for a unilateral concession at a time when the composite dialogue is suspended is pushing it too far,” Dastgir-Khan told this writer.According to the commerce minister, a deal on trade without “four major accommodations” from the Indian side was impossible: a level-playing field for Pakistani exporters; the exclusion of Pakistan’s items of high export interest from India’s sensitive list; the implementation of SAFTA concessions, including pruning the sensitive list, in the shortest time possible; and an agreement on a mechanism to curtail a surge of exports from India once trade liberalisation occurs."If I get a call from Delhi saying they’re willing to accommodate us in all these ways, we’ll give them non-discriminatory market access tomorrow,” Dastgir-Khan said. “I’m an elected member of the national assembly. Give me a deal I can defend before parliament and the public.”In a series of conversations with this writer, government officials and analysts offered their own assessments of the gobernment’s change of heart.For many, the about-turn is a face-saver by a Nawaz Sharif-led government that came to power promising to restart the peace process initiated in the late 1990s but which has been unable to score any major concessions from India.With the Indian government faced with tough behind-the-scene pressures — an overactive establishment — dictating the Pakistan policy, appearing soft is not an option for Nawaz Sharif."The Indian army has become more conservative," said a senior government official, requesting anonymity. "Indian army chiefs now make public statements. It's a sign of the times."
On the Pakistani side too, the military remains wary, with officials arguing that attempts to normalise trade may collapse under the weight of new problems if the old ones aren't resolved first."It's a reasonable concern that you can’t have meaningful dialogue on trade if the biggest issues like Kashmir, that threaten to derail everything, are always lurking in the background," said analyst Athar Abbas, a retired general close to track-II initiatives.But many also argue that at the core of the army's concerns vis-à-vis India is the situation in Afghanistan.As US forces prepare to leave next year, President Hamid Karzai has turned to India for development aid and a strategic partnership deal, sparking suspicions in Pakistan.
On India's end, officials increasingly fear Pakistan-based militants may be preparing to take on India across the subcontinent once western troops leave Afghanistan, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals and making the hopes of normalisation even more remote.What complicates matters further is the upcoming Indian election. Anxious not to go back to the drawing board with the change of government in India, Pakistan may be revving up the pressure to force quick results. But for India this is not the time for concessions to Pakistan."I personally feel that the election is the main hindrance," said minister for water and power Khawaja Asif, who has been engaged in talks to buy electricity from India for the last eight months, without any real progress.But while the Indian elections will pass and Nato presence will fade, Pakistan will remain stuck at home with a radical right with considerable street power, noisily protesting against Pakistan becoming an "Indian market".“We have to make sure that jihadist and right-wing elements are not in a position to blackmail us publicly," said a senior security official. "We have to remind them that we are moving on trade but we haven’t forgotten about the other issues they care about. You can’t ignore their concerns.”
Those four items are not accomodations, but discriminatory market access. What planet is this idiot in?a deal on trade without “four major accommodations” from the Indian side was impossible: a level-playing field for Pakistani exporters; the exclusion of Pakistan’s items of high export interest from India’s sensitive list; the implementation of SAFTA concessions, including pruning the sensitive list, in the shortest time possible; and an agreement on a mechanism to curtail a surge of exports from India once trade liberalisation occurs."If I get a call from Delhi saying they’re willing to accommodate us in all these ways, we’ll give them non-discriminatory market access tomorrow,” Dastgir-Khan said. “
Perhaps, our narcissism is an essential self-survival tool because if we do not continue to hope to change things, then we might as well surrender completely as we seem to be doing gradually against the forces of terror that have gained strength systematically. ( Couple of blows here and there and weak minded Convert will fall in Line)But hope is positive. What we do instead, is create lies for our entrapment. A few months ago, for instance, I heard an old retired general trying to impress others in a track-II group about how certain key militant leaders, who normally go around marketing themselves as agents of welfare, were not a threat because they would normally not win elections. The fact that different religious-political groups do not score well in elections is something we tell ourselves and others to lie about the changing reality of our society. Religious parties do not perform well mainly because they are not programmed to perform in post-colonial patronage politics and many do not even have faith in electoral politics or democracy. But a bigger fact is that they have consistently expanded social space for themselves on the basis of legitimacy gained due to their monopoly over religious discourse in a state that was created in the name of religious identity.Many of us get upset when a particular state sponsored civil-servant-turned-columnist argues that Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s August 11 speech never happened. That is clearly his lie. However, our lie is when we talk about clarity in the minds of the makers of this country regarding the place that religion would have in the political and social psychology of Pakistan’s state and society. The examples of how the lifestyle of the founding father and other leaders was Western-liberal is used to construct an imagined reality about the inherent nature of the Pakistani state being secular from its birth. Faisal Devji argues in his seminal work titled Muslim Zion that “the distinction between personal and public life is bound to be endlessly circular because these realms are incommensurable”. However, I’d argue that the distinction between the personal and the public does becomes fuzzy because it is difficult to constantly park an ideology in a corner and pretend that it does not have an impact. The growth of political thought is not just about how ideas flow from the top but it also pertains to how those views are perceived, interpreted and adopted at the bottom of the social ladder. In any case, going through numerous citations in Devji’s book about the personal life of Jinnah, we do become conscious of how the personal and the public do indeed become commensurable. At least, it becomes difficult for the masses to draw a distinction when they see how the public and personal were connected even for the founding father. Thus, when Ruttie Jinnah converted to Shia Islam even for the purpose of registration of marriage or the Supreme Court of Pakistan hid facts about Jinnah’s sectarian identity, it is a signal to ordinary folk about how the idea of Muslim political identity would manifest itself.
An idea that was meant to provide political emancipation for Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, thus, could not be stopped into later converting into an idea for a ‘Sunnisation’ of the Pakistani state. The interpretation of an idea cannot be confined to a single dimension or controlled. Sadly, not only does our social narcissism not allow us to see this but also forces us to tell more lies. We even tend to stop debate or argument to support certain lies or half-truths. For example, it is very common to hear some people get upset any time you try to point issues with certain festivals and events. The other day, I tried to convince an editor to let me write a critique of a recently held literary fest. The response was in the negative because, as others have argued as well, “aren’t these festivals better than bombs going off and suicide attacks”, as if unconditional eulogising of an event and condemnation of terrorist attacks are incommensurable. The idea that events, which have no or little link with the land and local culture, will bring a fundamental change in our attitudes is part of the set of lies we tell ourselves. Or the fact that decisions are tactical with no implication on our strategic reality. However, the change in the leadership of a critical institution will leave us with numerous decisions like the recent one on polygamy and acceptance of early-age marriage, which will have long-term implications on changing the attitude of society. Our tactics have created hurdles that may have even disempowered us from starting counter-movements that we once saw in the past. Today, the Women Action Forum may find it more difficult to protect the interests of women like it did during the 1980s. Now, we are a more Islamised society than we were back then.In the decade of the 1980s, the public and the private were still a bit separated tracks. Now, they have increasingly become inseparable. And so, decisions by a judge to provide some space to female students kept in habeas corpus or give a cold shoulder to a militant outfit may actually instigate trouble leading to the death of a dozen people. However, we will continue not to see how our own lies have caught on to us. Maybe it’s time we gave up hope for a liberal Pakistan. Perhaps, the shock might force us to rethink our strategic dimension
Al-BakistanA number of people have pointed out the sudden proliferation of the ‘Al Bakistan’ number plates. Initially, I thought these were just on cars imported from the UAE or other Arab countries, but seeing them locally produced has made it clear that they are simply used as status symbols.
I believe the term "al-bakistan" as an insult was first used on BRF to describe the baki penchant for seeking their ethnic origins in al-arapia. Keep an eye on the term "pakjab". That too will enter the lexicons of bakiness.Agnimitra wrote:Al-Bakistan
Agnimitra wrote:Chicken or egg koschan phor resident fiqh & shariah eggsquirts - Did BENIS invent the name "Bakistan" first, or did Bakistanis invent the "Bakistan" first?
‘Al Bakistan’ dreamlandAl-BakistanA number of people have pointed out the sudden proliferation of the ‘Al Bakistan’ number plates. Initially, I thought these were just on cars imported from the UAE or other Arab countries, but seeing them locally produced has made it clear that they are simply used as status symbols.
Most probably Saudis. Wonder what the pakis pimped to them.In a rare acknowledgement, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said that a friendly Muslim nation gave $1.5 billion for Pakistan Development Fund (PDF) but refrained from disclosing the lender’s name.
“A friendly Muslim country has confidence in Pakistan and its leadership and deposited $1.5 billion in the PDF,” he said.
Probably nukes, missiles as reported recently.Anujan wrote:http://tribune.com.pk/story/682254/anot ... reciation/
Another milestone: Dar credits PDF for dollar depreciationMost probably Saudis. Wonder what the pakis pimped to them.In a rare acknowledgement, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said that a friendly Muslim nation gave $1.5 billion for Pakistan Development Fund (PDF) but refrained from disclosing the lender’s name.
“A friendly Muslim country has confidence in Pakistan and its leadership and deposited $1.5 billion in the PDF,” he said.
“State Actors” attempting to indulge in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s national pastime of Mohammadden Terrorism by destroying a plane load of kaafir dhimmi’s Indian’sVipul wrote:Air India plane in near miss as Pakistan ATC gives incorrect information.
In a mid-air scare, "incorrect" input by Pakistan's air traffic control to a Mumbai-bound Air India Dreamliner plane from London led it to come close to another aircraft, prompting a sharp reaction from India.
The Mumbai-bound Air India flight AI-130 from London's Heathrow Airport on Tuesday escaped a near miss incident after the Karachi Air Traffic Control (ATC) gave pilot a wrong frequency that could have changed the flight path of the Boeing 787 and brought it close to Philippine's Cebu Airline from Dubai.
"It is a very serious incident and we do not have any precedent of such an incident," Airports Authority of India chairman Alok Sinha told reporters on the sidelines of the India Aviation show here.
"We are still deliberating (decide) as to what level should the issue be taken up — at the diplomatic level or at some other forum," Sinha said, asserting "we will ensure that such an incident does not occur again."
The Karachi ATC also gave its Mumbai counterpart an incorrect ETA (expected arrival time) when the Air India aircraft was flying over Sapna and Nobat, thereby reducing the time gap between it and the Cebu plane.
In the incident that occurred at 1.30am on Tuesday, the Karachi ATC asked the pilot of the Air India flight to report two-way with the ATC in Mumbai.
However, the pilot even after trying various frequencies could not contact the Mumbai ATC as it had not yet reached Mumbai airspace but later managed to establish contact with the Ahmedabad ATC.
Aviation sources said that safety was "not compromised" by the alert Air India pilots who landed the aircraft in Mumbai in an incident-free manner.
Officials did not say how many passengers were on board the aircraft.
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The Karachi ATC did not convey our message to the pilots. It directed the plane to a wrong frequency and gave us incorrect information that the commander will contact Mumbai soon," an aviation source said, adding that the pilot realised something was seriously wrong when he noticed heavy air traffic.
The aviation sources said that while the Mumbai ATC officials were briefing their Pakistani counterparts regarding the problem, they could hear laughter in the background. "This is a very serious incident and the Mumbai ATC has taken up the matter with Karachi officially," the Airports Authority of India chairman, Alok Sinha, said.
The Indian pilots who have had to deal with the Pakistan airport ATCs were not surprised. One of them said that the Karachi airport officials not cooperating with the Indian pilots was "nothing new", even as aviation expert Vipul Saxena said such "irresponsible behaviour was unheard of". He said, "This mischief could have led to one of the biggest disasters of our times. I hope the government will take up this issue with Islamabad."
Bar security concerns I think we should give it to them. There is no way in hell we can get our piddly neighbours to toe our concerns until their economic welfare is ours to play with. We have no intention of achieving that militarily and haven't done squat since 71.ramana wrote:^^^^Those four items are not accomodations, but discriminatory market access. What planet is this idiot in?a deal on trade without “four major accommodations” from the Indian side was impossible: a level-playing field for Pakistani exporters; the exclusion of Pakistan’s items of high export interest from India’s sensitive list; the implementation of SAFTA concessions, including pruning the sensitive list, in the shortest time possible; and an agreement on a mechanism to curtail a surge of exports from India once trade liberalisation occurs."If I get a call from Delhi saying they’re willing to accommodate us in all these ways, we’ll give them non-discriminatory market access tomorrow,” Dastgir-Khan said. “
Agnimitra wrote:Chicken or egg koschan phor resident fiqh & shariah eggsquirts - Did BENIS invent the name "Bakistan" first, or did Bakistanis invent the "Bakistan" first?
‘Al Bakistan’ dreamlandAl-BakistanA number of people have pointed out the sudden proliferation of the ‘Al Bakistan’ number plates. Initially, I thought these were just on cars imported from the UAE or other Arab countries, but seeing them locally produced has made it clear that they are simply used as status symbols.
Searching for identity. Arabs don’t treat us equals. Europeans treat us as condemned race. Russia and other northern nations see us with contempt. Iran is enemy because it is our masters enemy. China treat us their backyard for dumping. India is our natural enemy. There is only Arabian sea inviting us to drown.
Some how downfall of Sunny Deol has been equated with Gadar. This is why most A grade actors and now these character actors are running scared of doing hard hitting movies. I think sunny was already a spent force doing same kind of roles, no dancing, zero marketing or self promotions and was going downhill. Border and Gadar gave him hits he could never have had. Adding to that was his back trouble that kept him out of industry and his lack of willingness to adapt to roles that suit his age made him a flop star but the way media spun it as anti pakistan movies made him unmarketable star is not really true. We need another action hero for this genereAs for the trend of Indian film stars’ opting for movies berating Pakistan, Mr Puri admitted that he himself had acted in such a film ‘Gadar’ which hurt the sentiments of Pakistanis but in future he would refrain from performing any anti-Pakistan role.
bollywood is a gone case anyways, most are sell outs.Brad Goodman wrote:Om Puri bids adieu to anti-Pakistan films
Some how downfall of Sunny Deol has been equated with Gadar. This is why most A grade actors and now these character actors are running scared of doing hard hitting movies. I think sunny was already a spent force doing same kind of roles, no dancing, zero marketing or self promotions and was going downhill. Border and Gadar gave him hits he could never have had. Adding to that was his back trouble that kept him out of industry and his lack of willingness to adapt to roles that suit his age made him a flop star but the way media spun it as anti pakistan movies made him unmarketable star is not really true. We need another action hero for this genereAs for the trend of Indian film stars’ opting for movies berating Pakistan, Mr Puri admitted that he himself had acted in such a film ‘Gadar’ which hurt the sentiments of Pakistanis but in future he would refrain from performing any anti-Pakistan role.
A number of people have pointed out the sudden proliferation of the ‘Al Bakistan’ number plates. Initially, I thought these were just on cars imported from the UAE or other Arab countries, but seeing them locally produced has made it clear that they are simply used as status symbols.
Speaking at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) here, Satya Paul Arora, secretary general of the South Asian Fraternity, said the two governments should relax visa regime specifically for journalists, traders, lawyers, students and academicians for a better communication and business relationships.
The problems were not limited to the governmental level, but in fact serious psychological and mental constructs among the people created serious barriers and constraints for peace, said Kharaiti Lal Bhola, chairman of Patita (destitutes) Sudhar Sabha.
Both governments should spend money on welfare instead of defence, he said.
In his concluding remarks, Shafqat Kakakhel, chairman board of governors, SDPI said Pakistanis across the board want peace with India. If they join hands to foster peace, they can make immense progress, he said.
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia loaned $1.5 billion to Pakistan last month to help Islamabad shore up its foreign exchange reserves, meet debt-service obligations and undertake large energy and infrastructure projects, Pakistani officials have told Reuters.The Saudi assistance has contributed to a sharp recovery of the Pakistani rupee, which rose to a nine-month high of 97.40 from 105.40 against the dollar between March 4 and 12, its strongest rally in 30 years.“On a personal guarantee of the prime minister, Saudi Arabia has given $1.5 billion, which has helped bail out the rupee,” one senior Pakistani government official close to the deal told Reuters, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to disclose the source and purpose of the funding.The governor of the Saudi central bank declined to comment, and officials gave no details of the loan terms.Another top official who is based in Lahore said the money went into an account known as the Pakistan Development Fund set up to channel money from “friendly countries” like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.“We have a promise of a total $3 billion, of which $1.5 billion has been received so far,” the second official said. “Most recently, we got $750 million from the Saudis.” Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has long enjoyed close relations with the Saudi royal family. After his second term as prime minister was ended by a military coup in 1999, he was sent into exile in Saudi Arabia.Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi financier and member of the House of Saud, has described Sharif as “Saudi Arabia''s man in Pakistan”.Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed on Wednesday that $1.5 billion was received under the development fund but declined to comment on the source.“Why do you want to expose our friends?” he told reporters. “The countries who have helped us don''t want us to disclose the source.”
Anujan Ji :Anujan wrote:http://tribune.com.pk/story/682254/anot ... reciation/
Another milestone: Dar credits PDF for dollar depreciationMost probably Saudis. Wonder what the pakis pimped to them.In a rare acknowledgement, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said that a friendly Muslim nation gave $1.5 billion for Pakistan Development Fund (PDF) but refrained from disclosing the lender’s name.
“A friendly Muslim country has confidence in Pakistan and its leadership and deposited $1.5 billion in the PDF,” he said.
CheersISLAMABAD: The “friendly Muslim country” that a beaming Ishaq Dar had referred to during his press conference on Wednesday, was revealed to be Saudi Arabia on Thursday, having loaned cash-strapped Pakistan $1.5 billion this week to shore up its reserves.
Pakistan had last month sought Riyadh’s help to shore up its foreign exchange reserves and meet debt-service obligations and undertake large energy and infrastructure projects, Pakistani officials have told Reuters.
The cash injection boosted reserve figures and helped the rupee rise to a nine-month high against the greenback of Rs97.40 from 105.40 against the dollar between March 4 and 12. This is the strongest rally of the rupee in 30 years.
“On a personal guarantee of the prime minister, Saudi Arabia has given $1.5 billion, which has helped bail out the rupee,” one senior Pakistani government official close to the deal told Reuters, requesting anonymity as he was not authorized to disclose the source and purpose of the funding.