The one and onlee Tarek Fatah..SSridhar wrote:Excellent. Who is he that talks?venug wrote:Pakistan is largest source of World terror, what a monster Jinnah has created.
CheersKARACHI: A collision between an tanker and a bus early on Sunday morning on the outskirts of Karachi left at least 50 people dead, including women and children
Somewhat disturbing to see a 'cheers' icon after '50 people dead, including women and children'Peregrine wrote:Bus, tanker collision in Karachi leaves 50 people deadCheersKARACHI: A collision between an tanker and a bus early on Sunday morning on the outskirts of Karachi left at least 50 people dead, including women and children
This part does not appear in the farticle, has it been removed since?sanjaykumar wrote:The more engaging friends, after sharing all their knowledge about the war on terrorism, would ask my opinion as an ‘expert’. To simply avoid all these questions, many times I would say I was from India.
It was usually followed by the question, “What part of India are you from?” I responded, “North Punjab!” I was not lying.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1139650
Sigh....shameless. Fukhar se kaho hum hain Pakistani.
BTW, it is not a recent phenomena .. my brothers who first came to Europe/US in 50's wrote to us that, even in a ship (in those days students traveled via ships - only in mid 60's planes became the preferred choice to travel) from Mumbai on its way to Europe via Karachi ..many Pakistani's, for some reason, will often call themselves "from India" ....many times I [a person from Pakistan ] would say I was from India.
Was what the French police did legal? He might have been a smuggler and not a real terrorist. Looked like he was surrendering too!! Were they following SOP ? why weren't anybody from the local thaana present along with district magistrate? Did they stick a revenue stamp in the paper authorizing the operation ? Why 40-50 heavily armed men to catch one guy ?Jhujar wrote:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=869_1420833044
watch at .44 for Baki Beerather Fahadullah moment , boarding the train to Hoorland Main.
Of course, there is a reality check.WASHINGTON: Pakistan is blaming India for the Obama administration holding back aid to Islamabad, amid calls in the US for a re-evaluation of Washington's munificent policy towards a country that continues to foster terrorists.
A donor conference in Islamabad on Friday aimed at extracting $380 million from the world community to rehabilitate Pakistan's internally displaced people (IDP) effectively collapsed after the US reportedly didn't come through with its commitment to announce $250 million in aid. The $250 million was part of the $532 million under the Kerry-Lugar assistance package that the US ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson had reportedly assured the Pakistani finance minister the US would disburse.
''In recent days, however, the United States has come under sustained diplomatic pressure from India over its financial assistance to Pakistan. New Delhi wants the US to stop all aid to Pakistan until terrorists it accuses of having masterminded attacks on Indian soil are caught and punished,'' the Express Tribune newspaper reported on the weekend even as US officials in Washington said the Obama administration had not notified Congress for any aid to Pakistan but ''obviously there'll be additional funding.''
But TOI goes on the offensive again:The reading in Indian quarters from that remark by a state department official is that the US is merely holding back aid for tactical reasons till secretary of state John Kerry completes his visit to India for the Vibrant Gujarat summit on the sidelines of the Pravasi Bharat event, while also setting the stage for President Barack Obama's visit to India later this month. Kerry is expected to go to Pakistan after his India visit although that has not been officially confirmed because of security reasons.
Typical of their sense of entitlement even while begging for aid, Pakistani finance ministry officials have contested the US claim that Washington had provided approximately $ 100 million for IDPs, saying that was the amount pledged in the past for wheat procurement and processing.
Anujan wrote:Was what the French police did legal? He might have been a smuggler and not a real terrorist. Looked like he was surrendering too!! Were they following SOP ? why weren't anybody from the local thaana present along with district magistrate? Did they stick a revenue stamp in the paper authorizing the operation ? Why 40-50 heavily armed men to catch one guy ?Jhujar wrote:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=869_1420833044
watch at .44 for Baki Beerather Fahadullah moment , boarding the train to Hoorland Main.
. Amrika is a super power onlee. So when pointed to hypocrisies and double standards, they will lob a convoluted spin back saying why super power US is right in doing what it is doing. . I was laughing by butt off at the sheer insularity and self righteousness of the so called debate. Only a supremely self-confident super power can do that without an iota of guilt.ARACHI: Target killing returned to the city with a vengeance on Saturday night as two doctors and a shopkeeper were shot dead in a span of 30 minutes in the city.
Dr Ali Akbar was killed after unidentified armed men stormed his clinic in Paposh Nagar and shot him.
Just 10 minutes later, Dr Yawar Hussain was killed in his Nazimabad clinic.
Initially, police suspected that the same killers were apparently behind both incidents since the two doctors were located in the same vicinity and were killed with a difference of 10 minutes.
They added that Dr Akbar was killed first, and then Dr Hussain was targeted.
Meanwhile, SHO Paposh Nagar Nawaz Gondal was suspended over the incident.
There was some confusion over the motive of the attack with police claiming that Dr Akbar belonged to the Sunni sect, while the Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen claiming both the doctors belonged to the Shia sect, and that they murders were sectarian.
Five minutes after the two target killings, a shopkeeper was killed in Gulberg by armed motorcyclists.
Pakistanis do that regularly - that is why they can stand up to the US and have their way with the confident superpower.CRamS wrote:. I was laughing by butt off at the sheer insularity and self righteousness of the so called debate. Only a supremely self-confident super power can do that without an iota of guilt.
The whole thing look like fake encounter like Batla House. Did Madam & Madamzadeh cry that night watching Paris police used excessive force on Minority man just doing his religious duty of murder . maim and mayhem.Anujan wrote:Jhujar wrote:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=869_1420833044
watch at .44 for Baki Beerather Fahadullah moment , boarding the train to Hoorland MainWas what the French police did legal? He might have been a smuggler and not a real terrorist. Looked like he was surrendering too!! Were they following SOP ? why weren't anybody from the local thaana present along with district magistrate? Did they stick a revenue stamp in the paper authorizing the operation ? Why 40-50 heavily armed men to catch one guy ?
I was looking at the comments section and one AVMPolpot (Interesting name) had this to say:Tuvaluan wrote:so the GMFUS report on Pakistan is causing some khujli. well done.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/818857/flaw ... -pakistan/
There was a commenter with the name Beenish” Flawed thinking about Pakistan”
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Corrected Title : Thinking about Flawed Pakistan
North Koreans even more so and not just with US, but China, Japan and South Korea (in no particular order). As per CRamS logic, North Korea IS the ultimate super power.shiv wrote:Pakistanis do that regularly - that is why they can stand up to the US and have their way with the confident superpower.
That's the only logical explanation. After all haven't we all heard that "Empty vessels make most noise" or in Hindi "Thotha chana baaje ghana".shiv wrote:Of course the alternative explanation is that you don' t need to be a superpower to act confident. Only one vowel separates chutzpah from chootzpah.
Nothing, This is just work initiation on New Year Resolution By Bakistani Beeple.shravan wrote:Past 24 hours
#Rawalpindi 9 Shias killed
#Peshawar 1 Shia Doctor killed
#Karachi 4 including 2 Doctors killed
Total14 martyred
#ShiaGenocide
Klick Hare For Photo And Win The Award of Bad Khawab Neutralising Sharab & ShababSLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokeswoman, Shireen Mazari on Saturday said that recounting was not conducted in the National Assembly constituency NA-122 and it was just a verification of the votes.According to a statement issued here, Shireen Mazari claimed that thirty thousand bogus votes were found from NA-122, saying forms 15 and 16 were nowhere to be found in more than 100 polling stations.She said several contradictory ballot results of some of the polling stations were found in the electoral record. Mazari added that Federal Information Minister, Pervez Rashid was deliberately creating confusion.She asked if the government was insistent that the elections were fair then why is it reluctant to form a judicial commission.
X Posted from the “Oppression of Minorities In Pakistan” thread.shravan wrote:Past 24 hours
#Rawalpindi 9 Shias killed
#Peshawar 1 Shia Doctor killed
#Karachi 4 including 2 Doctors killed
Total14 martyred
#ShiaGenocide
Superb.shiv wrote:Only one vowel separates chutzpah from chootzpah.
komal wrote:
Somewhat disturbing to see a 'cheers' icon after '50 people dead, including women and children'
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked glum and ill at ease, while the man beside him, Gen. Raheel Sharif, the army chief, lectured confidently.
A constitutional amendment passed by Parliament on Tuesday empowered military courts to try suspected Islamist militants, opening the way for a rapid but rough-hewed judicial process that could move defendants from arrest to execution in a matter of weeks.
Although the precise regulations of the new courts have yet to be made public, the International Commission of Jurists has warned that military justice in Pakistan falls far short of international standards.
It has imprisoned hundreds of suspected militants in secret jails across the country where torture and extrajudicial executions are common, according to rights groups. Similarly harsh tactics have long been the hallmark of the army’s crackdown on separatists in Baluchistan Province.
Maulana Fazlullah, said in a video statement last week that cast the Peshawar massacre as a reaction to army abuse of Taliban detainees. “You have taken our prisoners from jails and killed them in a cowardly fashion.”
There are also worries that military judges will apply the law selectively, continuing a pattern of inaction against Islamist groups that share the military’s strategic goals, like Lashkar-e-Taiba and other groups fighting in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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'I only need another £10 to move back to Pakistan'.
That was fun.KARACHI: At least 57 people including women and children have been killed after their bus crashed into an oil tanker, igniting a fierce blaze in southern Pakistan early Sunday, officials said.
"We have received more than 57 dead bodies but the death toll may rise as most of them are completely burnt and stuck to each other," doctor Semi Jamali at Karachi's Jinnah hospital told AFP.
The same is true for our intellectuals like MSA who start with "But what about.....". Some even mourned for Kasab, called his hanging as state-sanctioned murder*. Some characterized him as a poor mislead youth.A particularly egregious example of the latter sort of chorister is Hari Kunzru, an Anglo-Kashmiri novelist. Writing in The Guardian the day after the murderous assault on the offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, Kunzru delivered a pompous, maundering meditation on "self-dramatizing young men who prefer the abstraction of death to living a meaningful life"—a preening euphemism for terrorists. Kunzru declares that he wants "to hear nothing about barbarism," or "the caricature of the jihadi as a medieval throwback," and states, instead, that "serious repression by the French state will complete the circuit of the Charlie Hebdo attack." The Nigerian-American Teju Cole, writing in the New Yorker, strikes a similar chord: "France is in sorrow today, and will be for many weeks to come. We mourn with France. We ought to. But it is also true that violence from 'our' side continues unabated." The moral equivalence between the West and Islamist jihadis is presented to the reader as an unquestionable truth. There is something deeply corroded and flaccid about the Left now. It is clapped out, morally. It cannot be the custodian of Western civilization any longer.
Applies to us as well.The West faces a disconcerting crisis. How are cities like Paris and London and Brussels, Amsterdam and Berlin and Copenhagen, to protect themselves from attacks from within, carried out by religiously inflamed "sleepers" whose ranks now include battle-hardened jihadists who have been to Iraq or Syria and returned to Europe with the skills and the hunger for mayhem? The political politesse of these societies has disabled their own defenses. Bien-pensant liberals sniff, still, at harsh pre-emptive measures— some of which are, or will be, uglier than the West's business-as-usual— and warn instead of a "backlash" against Muslims.
But fears of such a backlash need not be an alibi for paralysis, and the longer it takes for the West to find ways to combat the Islamist cancer in its cities, the harder it will be for the vast majority of law-abiding Muslims who live in the West to distance themselves from the poison of a rabid few.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An online video released Saturday purports to show former militants of the Pakistani Taliban pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and beheading a man they identify as a Pakistani soldier.
I am hoping the Varadarajan household has serious dinner table debates over this issue and this is not just a prescription for the West.Anujan wrote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home ... 839338.cms
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Applies to us as well.
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KashiJi You are afflicted with a form of DDMitis by stretching the logic too far. US position to the world, especially turd world is do what I say, not what I do. Do you dispute that? And AnujanJi gave the example of US double-speak (and in the case of US, it is chutzpah, not chootzpahKashi wrote: North Koreans even more so and not just with US, but China, Japan and South Korea (in no particular order). As per CRamS logic, North Korea IS the ultimate super power
) closer to home in the manner in which it funds Paki terrorists, and would come down hammer and tongs on India should it do the same as he suggested. NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued summons to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in connection with alleged violation of forex laws in purchase of local properties by the neighbouring country's flag-carrier here.
pankajsJi, that Aparna and Lisa were staid and useless IMO. That WeinBum dude spilt the beans on using India to get what it what it wants from TSP. But that was such a condescending argument, that its pity nobody in the audience had the brains to challenge him.pankajs wrote:The Future of U.S.-Pakistani Relations: A Troubled Foreign Policy Relationship - Published on Jan 6, 2015
Interesting question @ 1:15:30 and note the answers of the panelist.
I'm too lazy and not motivated to go back and watch that s!it, but I missed Bum's opening remarks because I kept FFWding to get to the stage you suggested. What exactly did he say about India, kindly summarize.pankajs wrote:BTW WeinBum did state in his opening presentation that it was all India's fault and moved on. He did not stress the point. Point to be noted he was part of SD.