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Shreeman wrote:Due to form changes, new balls, and fatigue the match balance may have tilted decisively in badmash's favor. Western media are now reacting accordingly in anticipation of a badmash win.
That's what I was wondering. badmash may have won this round. Shame on GHQ. Is this the same GHQ from where once upon a time, legendary jernails and kammandus Ayub, Yahya, Zia, Musharraf won wars.. .. against Isloo?
Repeat after me... (Tarana-e-Bakistani Fauj) There is victory in retreat! The Fauj never suffers defeat!
GHQ would still have WON! GHQ will claim victory in supporting a vibrator democracy, a vibrator media and a vibrator judiciary in Pakistan! After all this is Naya Bakistan. The army is firmly under the illusory control of the civilians.
My take is that the formation and declaration of Khilafat by ISIS created a very fragile shituation in pukistan. Taliban got diverted to Iraq/Syria, fake operation of zarb-e-azb ensured all remaining are also sent out temporarily, shooting on returning flights signals that they are not welcome to pukistan just yet. However, while ISIS is singing glory, Pukistan cannot remain unaffected.
So, this political "crisis" helps divert paki jihadis away from the venture of extending ISIS khilafat in Pakistan.
Secondly, Army and Politics dominated by pakjabis means other regions having interest to "drifting" and therefore politicians making way for non-pakjabi hijdas is a compromise. Nawaz isn't giving up yet until he needs to. He thinks with sufficient fatigue in the janata, coup can be averted and he can keep the power. Meanwhile, if Unkil/west/saudi discredits or delegitimizes Al-bagdadi, it will be all the more easy. If bagdadi strengthens, Nawaz is toast otherwise no.
Fundamentally, the mofos in pukistan (Army and Politicians and their outside supporters) are not ready for the country to be like a khilafat. They only wish it for others non muslim countries.
If another country were to take advantage of this shituation, make non-pakjabi politicians unviable, keep grievance in non-pakjabi areas at high level, let ISIS walk in loose areas and do their thing *on* pakjabis.
The more apt name for Shittistan can be kabilistan (collection of kabilas). Ask not what you have done for your parliament. Ask what it can do for you.
Hasan Nisar on Creation of Pakistan. VA, US.
They are already mentally finished . Modi Quadrupled Indian Economy, Paki will start Capping their tool to not remain faithfool.
How long before we see RAPE Bakis singing bhajans for NaMo and moving their base from TSP to India. Although it is already happening but at a very small level and mostly in Bollywood circles.
How long before someone comes up with "If only Cashmere were solved, Pakistan army would not have been this powerful and democracy would have flourished in Pakistan"
Anujan wrote:How long before someone comes up with "If only Cashmere were solved, Pakistan army would not have been this powerful and democracy would have flourished in Pakistan"
Cashmere is mere figleaf. Assuming that if Cashmere is resolved, then they will come up with Sri Creek, then Delhi, then Doab, etc. For them Hindu majority India is an unfinished business, and Cashmere is mere excuse.
Surely there is no love lost between the prime minister and the military given the bitter memories of the past. The generals accepted Sharif’s return to power though with some reservations. And it did not take much time for an uneasy relationship to flare up. Sharif’s decision to put retired Gen Musharraf on trial for treason provided the spark. The trust deficit further widened after the prime minister reportedly reneged on the agreement to allow the former military ruler to leave the country after his indictment.
There were other issues too that intensified the conflict. Sharif’s ambivalent position on the battle against the Taliban and the anti-army rhetoric of some of the cabinet ministers further fuelled the tension. But it was the Geo incident that brought relations to a boiling point. The reluctance to take action against the Geo administration after it had accused the ISI chief of plotting the attack on Hamid Mir was perceived by the army as a tacit support of the government for the TV network. Some of the statements by ministers in support of Geo further fuelled the fire.
As hostilities grew, the prime minister reportedly thought of sacking Lt-Gen Zaheerul Islam, the ISI chief, for allegedly trying to destabilise the civilian government.{What was badmash thinking?} That apparently brought the confrontation to a head. Sharif was forced to back down. But the damage was done.
Sharif seems to have lost further credibility by misinforming the National Assembly that the army chief was not asked to mediate. A statement by the ISPR contradicting the prime minister’s claim put Sharif into an embarrassing position. It was also a loss of face with the army.
Indeed, the army is much empowered now as the situation is fast slipping out of the government’s control. The latest warning by the generals to the political leadership to expeditiously resolve the crisis politically and without the use of force, shows that the centre of gravity of political power is being shifted to GHQ. It was the second such warning by the army in the past two weeks. As parliament has now rallied to save the system, one is not sure whether there will be a third time. But the battle is far from over.
Whatever the endgame may be — whether it fizzles away or ends with a bang — the current political crisis will have serious ramifications for the nascent democratic process in the country. While the political forces are now seriously undermined the military has emerged as the sole arbiter of the power thus far.
I am not sure if this was posted earlier. Mr. Ajit Doval talks about TSP and the strategic response that India should take at Sastra University. Even though this was a speech in Feb of this year, the shifting of gears towards TSP is articulated!
It was posted in the post election GoI formation thread when there were rumors of Ajit Doval getting the NSA job. It is a very good talk. Whoever has not watched it, I highly recommend it.
With the help of ground penetrating radars and other equipments, the army troops have found that an underground tunnel detected in Pargwal area in August emanates from across the Line of Control (LoC) and has come nearly 150 meters inside the Indian territory.
The tunnel which is four ft high and three ft wide has been dug up 20 ft below the ground. The entire alignment of the tunnel has been detected.
The tunnel, which is big enough to provide safe passage to infiltrating terrorists from Pakistan side, appeared incomplete as it had no exit on the Indian side, sources said.
The troops had stumbled upon the underground tunnel in Chakla area of Pargwal sector on August 22 after an area domination patrol noticed depression in the ground and sounded alert. The cross border tunnel, the second detected by troops in the same sector during the last four years, was found nearly three km away from the earlier one detected in the area during 2010.
A similar cross-border tunnel was found dug up nearly 400 meter into the Indian side from Pakistan at Chillyari near the international border in Samba district in July 2012 as well.
North Korea has tunnel building experts. They are the world's foremost in designing and building tunnels. Their involvement in training pakis in building tunnels big (to hide nukes) and small (to send yahoos over) cant be ruled out.
Anujan wrote:North Korea has tunnel building experts. They are the world's foremost in designing and building tunnels. Their involvement in training pakis in building tunnels big (to hide nukes) and small (to send yahoos over) cant be ruled out.
ISLAMABAD: The dreaded Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is trying to expand its influence in Pakistan, with pamphlets being distributed in Peshawar and border provinces of Afghanistan, seeking support for jihad.
A booklet titled 'Fatah' (victory) in Pashto and Dari languages was distributed in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, as well as in Afghan refugee camps on the outskirts of the city, the Express Tribune reported.
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Formerly known as the ISIS, the group introduced itself as Daulat-e-Islamia (Islamic State) in the pamphlet and made an appeal to the local population for supporting its jihad (struggle) for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.
A number of hardline groups operating in border areas have already announced support for the outfit. Among them, Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost and Maulvi Abdul Qahar, stalwarts of Saudi Arabia-backed Salafi Taliban groups operating in Nuristan and Kunar province ..
"If you are a non muslim and you turn muslim, no matter what you do in your life, straight to heaven"
Words of wisdom, excreted from the mouth of Ahmed Shahzad, to Dilshan on the cricket field
Dilshan was a Mohammadden before converting to Buddhism. His name was reportedly Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan before he converted to Buddhism whereupon he became Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan.The act of "apostasy" by Dilshan must have got Ahmed Shahzad all worked up.
Wisden reporting on the incident where cricket player from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Ahmed Shehzad, was subjecting Sri Lankan Buddhist cricket player Tillakaratne Dilshan to Mohammadden Supremacist clap trap.
Wisden provides text version of what Ahmed Shahzad said and also confirms that Tillakaratne Dilshan was a convert to Buddhism from Mohammaddenism. Video of incident is embedded:
Television footage of the incident shows Shehzad saying that when a non-Muslim converts to Islam, no matter whatever he does in life he goes straight to heaven.
“…if you are a non-Muslim and you turn Muslim, no matter whatever you do in your life… straight to heaven.” Dilshan’s reply was incoherent, but Shehzad went on the add, “Then, be ready for fire.”
Set mainly in Peshawar, the film shows homeless boys of different ages recalling their experiences of sexual exploitation.In an interview with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, the director of the documentary told her what puts children at risk in Pakistan and around the world."Pedophiles by their very nature are inadequate, it's about power over children.""Where these individuals are able to use and abuse vulnerable children, Pakistan in particular because of the poverty. That's one of the other factors that really plays here."In the documentary, the narrator introduces Pakistan as 'one of the most important Muslim populations, a democracy, a nuclear power and a supporter of the Western bloc.' But it soon reveals the silence and denial on one of the most taboo topics: pedophilia.
The documentary alleges that 9 out of 10 children in Peshawar have been victims of pedophilia. It also contains interviews with truck drivers who have committed such crimes.Shockingly, one of the drivers admits, without any remorse, to having raped 11 or 12 boys. Doran also questions Imran Khan whose party Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) formed the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which has Peshawar as its capital."It's one of the most sad and shameful aspects of our society. I am totally embarrassed by this and that we have not really been able to protect them," Naqvi said.The release of the documentary overlaps with the alarming revelations of a report released from Rotherham, the Northern English town where abuse, grooming and trafficking of 1,400 girls by predominantly Asian men over a 16-year period.According to Reuters, the independent report last week exposed the scale and graphic nature of the crimes and raised difficult questions about whether timidity about confronting the racial aspects of the abuse had prompted authorities to turn a blind eye.Some of the victims, mainly white girls in social care homes, were as young as 11 and were plied with drugs and alcohol before being trafficked to cities across northern England and gang-raped by groups of men, predominately of Pakistani heritage, the report said.Those who tried to speak out were threatened with guns and made to watch brutal gang rapes. Their abusers said they would be next if they told anyone. One girl was doused with petrol, her rapist threatening to set her alight.The report added that senior managers in social care "underplayed" the problem while police regarded many victims with contempt.
That apparently brought the confrontation to a head. Sharif was forced to back down. But the damage was done. 
by Dilshan must have got Ahmed Shahzad all worked up. 