CRamS wrote:Guys, I watched that termite MSA's interview. Not worth positing. But I am curious when he says in TSP that ModiJi must be removed, what is his subtle message to his ISI sponsors? Can this guy be tried for treason and locked up for good?
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday instructed its diplomatic missions in European capitals to demand evidence of a potential crime when host countries sought to deport illegal immigrants being held on terror charges to Pakistan.The move came days after Islamabad said it had suspended its agreement on the readmission of illegal immigrants with European Union countries, except Britain, because of its “blatant misuse”.During a meeting on Tuesday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan directed Pakistani diplomatic missions in Europe to demand proof from host governments that wanted to deport Pakistanis on terror charges, a statement said.“It is a violation of inhuman rights if any Pakistani is deported on terror charges without any proof,” he said, according to the statement.“We have to not only give courage to Pakistani expatriates, but also stand by them at every step."Nisar also warned that airlines who carried deportees back to Pakistan without the interior ministry's permission or without travel documents would have to pay unspecified fines.The 2010 agreement that Pakistan said it had suspended aimed to facilitate the return of Pakistani illegal immigrants and other nationals who had transited through Pakistan before arriving in the EU.
ISLAMABAD: In a visit to the French Embassy here Tuesday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif extended condolences for the lives lost during the Nov 13 terrorist attacks which hit Paris, said a statement issued by the Prime Minister House.
Speaking to the prime minister, French Ambassador to Pakistan Martine Dorance said the French people and government had a lot to learn from the Pakistani nation( hope she knows what she talking about ) and government's resilience.
The Pakis should apply for a Trade Mark to this inane mantra !"This is an appalling incident and we ourselves are the victim of terrorism," the prime minister said.
Has he cleared this "offer" with the Big Boss (Bad Sharif)Nawaz said Pakistan was ready to assist the French government in this hour of need and will share its expertise on counter-terrorism efforts with French officials.
One Paki Reader's comments posted below:Pakistan had earlier "strongly" condemned the attacks and reiterated its condemnation of terrorism in all forms and manifestations.
"We stand with them in their hour of grief," the Foreign Office had said in a statement at the time.
Job of a Deputy Commissioner !Irfan
about 15 hours ago
Kindly don't learn anything from him. He only know one thing. Take notices, make futile inquiry teams (to allow to earn more commissions), sympathize with the families, distributing cheques from tax payer money, spouting platitudes (We will do this and that), and blaming on IK for the last and final part.
SLAMABAD: At 13.8 per cent, Pakistan has the lowest internet user density (users per 100 individuals) in the region. Due to its geo-strategic location and access to coastlines, however, it has the potential to become a supply route for internet and communication services for the neighbouring landlocked countries.This was revealed in a study titled ‘Unleashing the Potential of the Internet in Central Asia and Beyond: Pakistan in Focus’, which was conducted by the Internet Society (ISOC) in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).Pakistani develops software that can erase unwanted information from internet faster than GoogleThe study covers ten countries from Central Asia, the caucuses and South Asia (including Pakistan), focusing on internet infrastructure and related issues.The report is the third in a series of ISOC studies that look at sub-regional internet ecosystems and their level of progress towards transitioning to a digital economy – where the internet is the underlying driver of all sectors across an economy.ISOC’s Singh said that through adoption of effective and favourable policies by the government – and pursuing agreements with neighbouring governments – Pakistan in the near future could find itself as an integral part of the supply chain to these countries.“This will also allow it to enhance its own internal internet bandwidth availability and help pave the way for greater digitisation of Pakistan’s own economy with growth, modernisation and development in all sectors.” However, the report also underscores that the window of opportunity for Pakistan to position itself in this manner is finite..
.Earlier this summer, I was on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight that was oversold. Instead of pushing off extra passengers onto another flight, the flight crew allowed one random passenger to crouch on the floor in the cockpit — for a flight over some of the world’s tallest mountains. Domestic airlines in Pakistan also seem far less strict in enforcing restrictions on weight limits for luggage
Yawn.. Bull Cattle then huh ?But there is also past precedent for a Pakistani pilot being drunk in the cockpit, despite the country’s conservative reputation.
In 2013, authorities in the United Kingdom arrested a PIA pilot and jailed him for nine months after he smelled of alcohol while preparing to fly about 150 passengers from Leeds-Bradford airport to Islamabad. The pilot reportedly had a blood alcohol limit of four times the legal limit for a pilot in the United Kingdom.
I only hope the French Ambassador said those words out of being nice diplomatically and did not mean anything.Falijee wrote:Ganja Sharif Wants To Share Expertise On Counter-Terrorism With FranceSpeaking to the prime minister, French Ambassador to Pakistan Martine Dorance said the French people and government had a lot to learn from the Pakistani nation( hope she knows what she talking about ) and government's resilience.
) NEW DELHI - Part of funding for 9/11 attacks in the US had originated from India, according to India’s former top police officer Neeraj Kumar, who has based his claim on the ‘revelation’ made by a terrorist.
Kumar, who served in CBI and retired as Delhi Police commissioner two years back, said that the funds were raised from a kidnapping and handed over to the chief of the 9/11 attackers by terrorist Omar Sheikh who was released by India in exchange of hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999.
Gagan it is more difficult to get Pu bombs to work. Uranium is easier apparently. Technically simply "assembling" a critical mass of U quickly can cause an explosion. Pu does not allow that.Gagan wrote: Pakistani finally operationalized its plutonium reprocessing plant in Chashma in Jan Feb this year.
My fear is that Pakistan is racing towards replacing its Uranium duds from its centrifuge program with Pu bombs from its new cheeni supplied reactors in Khusab.
This he remarked while taking up a case of blackmailing on social networking website ‘Facebook’ on Wednesday.
A three-members bench headed by Justice Ameer Hani Muslim rejected the bail plea of a man accused of blackmailing a girl on ‘Facebook’.
Shagufta Amin, the plaintiff, had accused one Muhammad Munir of blackmailing her on Facebook. However, the defendant’s lawyer told the apex court that Munir had made Facebook account for the plaintiff with her consent. He added that both are in a relationship.
Granted that the "Hon Judge Of The Supreme Court" may consider himself to be a Luddite , but is it not going overboard by branding all "Paki Facebook members" as unislamic, which for his information would include hardcore islamists like Hafez Suar, ISPR, Musharaf, Kaptaan, and millions of Aam Abduls and AyeshasReferring to the defence lawyer’s explanation, Justice Ameer Hani Muslim remarked that ‘keeping girlfriend’ is a western culture and Pakistan has no room for it. He maintained that Facebook has completely destroyed Pakistani society.
This guy must have high value supporters in the Deep State; the deputy commissioner is obviously not in the loop.ISLAMABAD: Maulana Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid has vowed to continue his ‘Movement for the establishment of Holy Quran and Sunnah’ and rejected the local administration’s warning note against his activities as of no value.
“But for the regard of decency, I would have torn to pieces the deputy commissioner’s note,” he said in a statement issued late Sunday night in response to a warning issued to him on Friday that he could be arrested for reneging on his written undertaking to observe the law.
So, Ganja and Kaptaan, who always invoke the name of Islam on every public occasion are not green enough for him?Even harsher was his video message on the social media(but did not a Hon Judge of the Supreme Court just ruled that "social media is unislamic?) addressed to DC Islamabad Mushtaq Ahmed, but without naming him.
“You shed your uniforms for the sake of dirty democracy of Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan,” he said. “But when I invite [people] to Holy Quran and Sunnah, you send threatening letter to me.”
It is obvious that this guy cannot be "touched"; in any other normal country, he would be booked for "provocation" !He demanded retrial of all prisoners in the country under the supervision of Islamic experts to determine whether their sentences were in accordance with Sharia or not.
Maulana Aziz was delivered the warning on Friday after he, with his wife Umme Hassan, led a rally from Lal Masjid to their residence in the female seminary Jamia Sumaya in G-7, allegedly in violation of the undertakings he gave to the administration in August to observe the restrictions put on his movements under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.
In the undertaking that he gave in writing to the Islamabad police chief, Maulana Aziz said he neither belonged to nor had any affiliation with any banned group.
Maulana Aziz responded by decrying the State and its functionaries. It was issued by Shuhada Foundation of Pakistan, as was his 30-minute video message in which he urged the entire government machinery, including the armed forces, to support the mission of enforcing Islam in the country.
So, it is revenge politics in the name of Mailsi? And he is calling for Kammundu's head for the Lal Masjid operation“What we find on TV screens and in print form is not what Islam teaches,” the aide said. “The media need to be told the role
and responsibilities Islam demands from them.”
Maulana Aziz also wants the taxation system to follow Quranic injunctions, ensure stipends and security of shelter for the poor.
“Those raising the demand to implement Holy Quran and Sunnah have faced state persecution in this country since 1998,” the cleric said, referring to the murder of his father, Maulana Abdullah, that year.
Pakistan lives under hanging sword of the jihadi army. To talk politics in Pakistan itself is laughable, leave aside talking about any democracy or the world's largest democracy.johneeG wrote:Salman Khurshid lauds Sharif, slams Modi in Pakistan
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Salman Khurshid was Ex-Minister of External Affairs of India.
Isn't that why a bunch of Paki IT wizards had come up with a shariah version called 'Muslim Face'? Why are the Bakis using FB?
The visit may have to do with Hawala money Congi have looted from Indians and kept in Dubai etc. It also coincide with arrival of Chotta Rajan and trail on Dawood Bhai getting hot.Gagan wrote:What possible help could the congress I seek from Pakistan?
God knows they've done enough corruption in 10 years, that their coffers from dilli to caymen islands are full.What help can they possibly be seeking from Pakistan hain ji? Has politics and hatred for Modi stooped to such levels?
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto lamented in his prison memoirs — as he awaited execution in 1977 — that while the “Christian, Jewish and Hindu” civilisations had nuclear weapons capability, it was the “Islamic civilization” alone that did not possess “full nuclear capability”. Saudi Arabia, Libya and others initially financed fulfilment of this Bhutto dream. Bhutto’s successors were liberal in transferring nuclear weapons technology and designs to Libya and Iran and offering such technology to Iraq.
These pan-Islamic views were and are shared by a number of Pakistan’s nuclear scientists. Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist strikes, two senior Pakistani nuclear scientists, Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood and Chaudhri Abdul Majeed, were charged with helping Al Qaeda acquire nuclear weapons. Two other scientists, Suleiman Asad and Ali Mukhtar, wanted for questioning about their links with the Al Qaeda and Taliban, mysteriously disappeared while on a visit to Myanmar.
A ‘fact sheet’ published by the White House then stated that both Asad and Mukhtar had meetings with Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden during repeated visits to Kandahar, prior to 9/11. It is no secret that AQ Khan’ s successor, Samar Mubarak Mand, is also a hard-core Islamist, no less India-obsessed than AQ Khan. Pakistan’s contacts and partners for nuclear proliferation extended to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and even North Korea, with which it struck a deal for supplying enrichment technology in exchange for liquid-fuelled ‘Nodong’ missiles. It is not surprising that, given this dubious track record on nuclear proliferation, Pakistan has few backers for an Indian style ‘nuclear deal’, in the international community, apart from its ‘all-weather friend’ and partner in nuclear proliferation, the Peoples Republic of China.
India-centric doctrine
Having acquired nuclear weapons, Pakistan was initially at a loss to spell out its nuclear doctrine, apart from repeating the mantra that its nuclear deterrent was exclusively “India centric”. About a decade ago, Lt General Khalid Kidwai, the longtime head of strategic planning of Pakistan’s National (Nuclear) Command Authority declared that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons were “aimed solely at India”.
Kidwai added that Pakistan would use nuclear weapons if India conquered a large part of Pakistani territory, or destroyed a large part of its land and air forces. He also held out the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons if India attempted to “economically strangle” Pakistan, or push it to political destabilisation.
In the decade that has elapsed since Kidwai spoke, Pakistan has used its plutonium reactors and reprocessing plants in Khushab, located 200 km south of Islamabad, which have been supplied by China, to build light, relatively low-yield tactical nuclear weapons, mounted on short-range ‘Nasr’ missiles. Pakistan describes this development as indicating that it now has “full spectrum nuclear capability” to launch low-yield tactical weapons against Indian army formations along the international border.
On October 21, Pakistan’s foreign secretary, Aizaz Chaudhry, proclaimed: “Pakistan has built the infrastructure to launch a quick response to Indian aggression… Usage of low yield nuclear weapons would make it difficult for India to launch an attack against Pakistan.” While this may appear to make sense in the Rajasthan-Sind region, it is certainly not feasible in Punjab, where the border areas in Pakistan are densely populated. Surely, the Punjabi-dominated Pakistan army does not intend to use its inability to fight a conventional war, to nuke its own Punjabi brethren on its borders with India!
Unambiguous stand
India’s nuclear doctrine, first officially enunciated in January 2003, asserts that it intends to build and maintain a “credible nuclear deterrent”. While adopting a policy of “no first use”, it clarifies that its nuclear weapons will be used against an attack on Indian territory, or on Indian forces anywhere, in which nuclear or chemical weapons are used.
There is no ambiguity about the Indian doctrine. An attack on its territory, or its armed forces, in which nuclear weapons are used, irrespective of whether they are low-yield tactical nuclear weapons or strategic high-yield nukes, will face a massive nuclear response. The Pakistani civilian and military elite in Punjab will find the cost of an Indian response to Pakistan’s use of low-yield tactical nuclear weapons against Indian forces anywhere, not merely “unacceptable”, but also “unbearable”. Pakistan will be very foolish to test out Indian resolve to respond massively to its use of tactical nuclear weapons.
Pakistan will be particularly well advised to bear in mind the reality that Punjab province, where both its civilian and military elite live, is densely populated. Its cantonments facing India are in this province.
Moreover, Pakistan’s army has mounted military operations, involving the use of air power in certain cases, in populated areas of its three other provinces — Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan and Sind. Thousands of innocent Pakistani civilians have perished in the damage the army has inflicted. The Punjabi army elite evidently regards people in these provinces as less than equal — a mindset that cost them dearly in Bangladesh. In seeking to dominate the Pashtuns in their homeland, the Punjabi-dominated army seems to forget that historically it is only the Sikhs in Punjab who have prevailed over the Pashtuns, till the Khyber Pass. It is self-evident that General Raheel Sharif is no Hari Singh Nalwa, who led the forces of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
Foolish adventurism
Dealing with Pakistani nuclear illusions and delusions needs a multi-pronged approach. First and foremost, Pakistan should be presented a stark picture of what would happen to its Punjab province if it resorts foolishly to nuclear adventurism, whether tactical or strategic. Diplomatically, India should expose the consequences to global nuclear safety and security, of Pakistan’s refusal to join a Fissile Materials Cut-off Treaty.
Given the Islamist inclinations of its nuclear scientists and a wide cross-section of its Punjabi military-nuclear establishment, and their past proliferation record, it will be necessary for responsible countries, to take serious note of the dangerous implications of Pakistan’s nukes falling into the wrong hands. An equally serious effort needs to be undertaken to expose China’s role in the development and expansion of Pakistan’s nuclear and missile arsenal. China, which has violated every international norm to curtail the proliferation of missile and nuclear weapons technology, believes it is not accountable to anyone, because it is a permanent member of the UN Security Council. This arrogance, by a country that professes to be a votary of peace, needs to be exposed.
The writer is a former High Commissioner to Pakistan
Recap: Effect of Single nuke on Rawal town area of Rawalpindi.SSridhar wrote:The bomb next door that’s ticking away - G.Parthasarathy, Business Line
Dealing with Pakistani nuclear illusions and delusions needs a multi-pronged approach. First and foremost, Pakistan should be presented a stark picture of what would happen to its Punjab province if it resorts foolishly to nuclear adventurism, whether tactical or strategic.
As detailed above, a single 50 kiloton blast over a crucial populated area of Rawalpindi will kill over 400,000 people and leave a similar number injured. This amounts to about 25% of the population of Rawalpindi. Since most of the people targeted will be poor to middle class, selectively sparing the wealthy who are spread out in their communities, a disproportionate number of the service segment of Islamabad and Rawalpindi will be wiped out ensuring that the cities will become unlivable in a week to ten days time. Even if thousands of people are recruited from outside to come in and help their primary work will be hampered by roads choked with refugees flowing out of the city and their work, in any case will have to be to handle the injured and clear the area of dead rotting bodies before any serious repair work can be undertaken.
250,000 injured people is a huge number. Many will go a few hundred meters or a few km and collapse on the road, with a huddle of relatives around them not knowing what to do. At best, the United States is said to have at any given time the beds to handle 2000 cases of burns simultaneously and that is all over the US. If push comes to shove, the US with its facilities may be able to ramp up that figure to 10,000 cases (again all over the US). There is absolutely no chance of a city like Islamabad/Rawalpindi of handling 35 to 40,000 cases of flash burns simultaneously from a total of 350,000 injured people with all sorts of injuries. No country in the world can do that. Inevitably - many will die and those that die will be the poorer people of the service sector as the rich elite will fill up understaffed hospital beds with even minor injuries.
And this is just one nuke on one city. I believe Pakistani leaders who wish to start a nuclear war with India will have to consider very carefully what they are asking for, and remember that they will probably survive the Indian retaliation, and will emerge from their nuclear bunkers to live in a country such as what I have described above. They will then have to see how long they can continue to live under such circumstances or which country will accept them as refugees if they want to cut and run, after having started a nuclear war."
This is where the Indian film industry needs to make a movie like the 1983 "The Day After" of what would happen to Pakistan. In any case, TSP does not have TNW capability. Their fissile material will not reach full fission and what will be left is a dirty radiological hazard.SSridhar wrote:Pakistan must be presented with stark pictures of not only countervalue but also counterforce destruction. For the PA, a few million momin is no big deal but a brigade would be unacceptable. India must present a picture of how several brigades would be wiped out and how GHQ would be gone. India must also make known its unwavering determination to wipe out Pakistan even if one TNW attack is made on Indian forces. Up until the incumbent government assumed power, Pakistan had a poor opinion of such an Indian determination because it simply extrapolated Indian reaction to Pakistani jihadi terror attacks to the nuclear realm as well. That was perhaps a costly mistake on Pakistan's part because I would not believe that any Indian government would take a nuke attack and remain docile. But, the actions of the present government have conveyed that this is an altogether different ball game now. If we can activate cold start at some point of time in retaliation to a future terrorist attack, that will call the Pakistani bluff of terrorism under a nuclear umbrella. Pakistan will be truly nuke nude then.
Of course, Pakistan would try to bluster its way through by presenting a counter narrative on how India would be attacked by Pakistani nukes. It is for this reason that it has been projecting an exaggerated figure of 130 warheads and still counting etc. Some American thinktanks are part of this Project Exaggeration to intimidate India. I am pretty sure that GoI has a more or less accurate value of the number of warheads Pakistan possesses which is most certainly not in such high numbers.
implication being that "Pak's reputation" is known world wide !
Are there other rumours circulating ?ISLAMABAD: No suspect of Pakistani origin has been arrested in connection with the Paris attacks last week, which were claimed by the militant self-styled Islamic State (IS) group, Foreign Office spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah said Thursday.
No amount of public relation gimmicks can change the perception and the reality of the "Religion of Peace".Khalilullah said Pakistan has made it clear that the presence of Daesh — the Arabic acronym for IS — will not be tolerated on its land. He added that terrorism should not be associated with any religion, reported Radio Pakistan.
The spokesman said Pakistan is cooperating with the international community in combating terrorism.
In response to a question, the Khalilullah urged the international community not to pursue discriminatory policy on nuclear issue in South Asia saying this will have impact on the strategic stability of the region.
He termed the New York Times editorial on country's nuclear arsenals as mistaken and based on prejudice. He said the editorialattempted to portraytruly portrayed Pakistan as a country irresponsibly building its nuclear arsenals.
