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Other countries besides the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from whom immigrants would be barred by Donald Trump are Afghanistan and Syria:
Trump Says He Would Ban Afghan, Pakistani Immigrants From U.S.
Darya Khan Shinwari @daryakhan1 2h2 hours ago
ANA Troops in the way from Kabul to #Torkham
Darya Khan Shinwari @daryakhan1 11m11 minutes ago
Checkpost destroyed by ANA #Torkham
omar r quraishi @omar_quraishi 6h6 hours ago
Pakistan army tanks seen heading to the Torkham border with Afghanistan - posted on June 13
Darya Khan Shinwari @daryakhan1 7h7 hours ago
#Torkham 27 Students Graduated from indian national army Academy thanks @narendramodi for such fabulous gift
Darya Khan Shinwari @daryakhan1 7h7 hours ago
#Torkham pakistani tang destroy by Afg police during yesterday clash
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#Torkham Vedio show Pkarmy dies & injured during clash with Afghan force
Amir Taheri @AmirTaheri4 37m37 minutes ago
KHASH- Iranian border guard Muhamad Chah-Chakandi buried after martyrdom ceremony. Was killed in gunbattle with terror group from #Pakistan.
India should help Afghanistan and Iran to fence up their border and fill it with flood lights.Gagan wrote:AoA
Pakistan lost 1 major, 2 captains and 21 soldiers in the clash with the ANA at Torkham
that's why the paki army need a field marshal quickly.Falijee wrote:Pakistan is being attached on all fronts- politically and militarily!![]()
Two trends noticeable in their print press:
1. Afghanistan is now practically " a colony of India "![]()
2. US has ditched Pakistan once again and is now in "bed with India"
Modi-ji (and Doval-ji's ) diplomacy seems to be working in conjunction with the "Powerful Indian Lobby" of NRI's
A senior Pakistani army officer has died of his wounds after he was injured during a clash with the Afghan forces in Torkham. (Dawn News Photo)
According to the local media reports, the senior army officer, Major Ali jawad Changezi, died at the Combined military Hospital in Peshawar today.
This is the first official confirmation of a Pakistani army officer killed during the heavy clash erupted late on Sunday night.
The Afghan officials said an Afghan border policeman lost his life and six others were wounded during the battle with the Pakistani forces.
Clashes between the two sides erupted late on Sunday night after the Afghan forces prevented installation of a door in zero point along the Durand Line in Torkham.
(1) Pakistan has a "track record" of violating all agreements (UN Resolution withdrawing troops from POK, Simla Agreement, Ceasefire Agreements etc )he Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan was summoned in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) over the skirmish that was reportedly launched by the Pakistani forces.
The deputy foreign minister for administrative affairs Dr. Nasir Ahmad Andisha reminded the Pakistani Ambassador regarding an agreement was reached for the establishment of installations in Torkham as part of the negotiations between the two nations in accordance with the international norms.
Dr. Andisha further added that Pakistani continued with the installation work contrary to the agreement and the Pakistani forces opened fire on the Afghan border guards.
He said the Afghan forces retaliated to protect the sovereignty and defend from their country.
If chunnu-munnu in africa sneezes, Pakis need a field marshal!chetak wrote:that's why the paki army need a field marshal quickly.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is considering a Jordanian offer to buy sixteen used F-16 jets in lieu of the eight advanced fighters it could not buy from the United States because of a financing row, but officials fear Washington could still throw a spanner in the works.
The case for the purchase of F-16s from the US is closed, “we are now going for a third party transfer of F-16s and have an offer from Jordan”, Defence Secretary retired Lt Gen Alam Khattak told a joint sitting of the Senate ...
Aid monies received from US , recycled back to Massaland to pay the lobby firmsPakistani officials contend that the reasons for which US Congress withheld the financing were non-negotiable. However, the episode has forced the government to rethink its strategy of not having lobbyists in Washington and a couple of lobbying firms are expected to be hired shortly for the country’s image correction and improving relations with Congress.
But will US/ US Congress allow the transfer ?Secretary Khattak conceded that the used Block-30 F-16s being offered by Jordan were not of the same quality and standard as the Block-52 that were originally intended to be bought from the US.
But where is the money coming fromThe defence secretary observed that for the state-of-the-art fifth generation fighters Russian and French markets would have to be explored.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz told the meeting that the government was right in not accepting the US conditions. “If the conditions affect national interest, it is better not to accept them. It was an issue of choices,” he contended while deliberating on the reasons that led to the cancellation of the F-16 deal with the US.
Pakistani and Afghan soldiers clashed overnight at the main border crossing at the end of the Khyber Pass, officials said on Monday, with at least one killed and several wounded, further straining relations between the militancy-plagued neighbors.
One Afghan soldier was killed and six were wounded, an Afghan official said. The Pakistani army said one of its soldiers was wounded in the fighting at the Torkham Gate crossing in the mountainous region of northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.
"We currently have agreed on a ceasefire with #Pakistan. We hope this problem will end through the work by diplomatic addresses," the Afghan government's chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah, said on Twitter.
"The current fight Pakistan started doesn't help anyone's interest."
Relations between the neighbors have been strained in recent months. Kabul has accused Pakistan of harboring militants seeking to topple the Afghan government, including the notorious Haqqani network, blamed for high-profile attacks in the capital.
Pakistan denies supporting militants and said it was constructing a border gate near Torkham, a Pakistani town close to the frontier, to prevent militants crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
Ayub Hussainkhil, border police commander in eastern Afghanistan, said the fighting at the Torkham Gate stopped at t 5 a.m. on Monday.
"We have received reinforcement and are ready to defend our country until the last drop of blood in our bodies," he said.
The Pakistan-Afghanistan border has long remained porous and disputed. Afghanistan has blocked repeated attempts by Pakistan to build a fence on sections of the roughly 2,200-km (1,370-mile) long frontier, rejecting the contours of the boundary.
All Afghan Govts have rejected the artificial Durand Line- drawn by the British - as a "border"
Last month, Pakistan build a border post between Pakistan's South Waziristan and Afghanistan's Paktika province and handed it over to Afghan officials.
Hours later, Afghan authorities shut the post, saying that the actual border lay about a kilometer inside Pakistani territory.
This article is interesting and misleading. It reads as though Pakistan dropped lobbying in 1999-2008 period during Mushy's role. Actually Pakistan had very active lobbying in 1998-2008 period and was dropped when ten percenti came to power. That is why during Mushy's rule most western papers/netas thought Mushy was a straight shooter who did what he promised and was the only one who could hold the country together etc etc. It was all marketing.Peregrine wrote:Pakistan moves to hire Washington lobbyists amid strained US ties
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is looking to hire lobbying firms in Washington after a gap of nearly eight years, seeking to refurbish its image in the United States at a time of deteriorating relations between the allies, two government officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
"Pakistan used to have lobbyists in Washington...Now we want to relaunch the effort," said a senior government official, who asked not to be identified, as he was not authorised to speak to the media on the record.
Islamabad dropped its official lobbying efforts during the 1999-2008 military rule of General Pervez Musharraf, the official said, adding that the government had now decided it needed help selling its image.
Sometimes it is shocking to see how much these people follow India. I am sure that no Indian channel follows Narendra Modi's foreign state visits with such detail as the Pakistanis do. I am convinced that Pakistanis are not Muslims, they never were and they never can be. Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his regime had banned the Azaan from the mosques and people couldn't care less. Nobody was Muslim anyways. The Pakistanis were given the fake Muslim identity by the British from the Partition of Bengal days by Lord Curzon. It was deliberately done in the first decade of the 1900s to engineer the future partition of India. If the India-Pakistan relationship was truly a Hindu-Muslim relationship it would have been a very fruitful one and normalized long ago. The only way India should look at Pakistan is that they are at best disgruntled Hindus masquerading as Muslims.
Where is this from?svinayak wrote:Sometimes it is shocking to see how much these people follow India. I am sure that no Indian channel follows Narendra Modi's foreign state visits with such detail as the Pakistanis do. I am convinced that Pakistanis are not Muslims, they never were and they never can be. Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his regime had banned the Azaan from the mosques and people couldn't care less. Nobody was Muslim anyways. The Pakistanis were given the fake Muslim identity by the British from the Partition of Bengal days by Lord Curzon. It was deliberately done in the first decade of the 1900s to engineer the future partition of India. If the India-Pakistan relationship was truly a Hindu-Muslim relationship it would have been a very fruitful one and normalized long ago. The only way India should look at Pakistan is that they are at best disgruntled Hindus masquerading as Muslims.
ASG ji, you have rightly described Al-Bakistan general thought process in a very pithy way.asgkhan wrote:Common scenarios of bakis :
* Always at crossroads
* Heartburn on seeing wimmens on bikes in Delhi
* Mental m@sturbation on seeing F-Solahs flying in fizzle-ya colors
* Regret that death by 1000 cuts is not working
Republican Donald Trump on Monday said people with roots in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia pose threats to the United States. Pointing to specific incidents such as the September 11, 2001, attacks, Trump said threats were posed by people with roots in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia.
Defending his immigration ban, he said it would last until "we are in a position to properly screen these people coming into our country. "They're pouring in, and we don't know what we're doing." Trump placed responsibility for the mass shooting in Florida squarely at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and "trying to take over our children."
Anujan, fantastic. You are, as usual, superb. We have to ask Praveen Swami to write his stuff from Torkham !Anujan wrote:My sources reveal that an Afghan grandma lost her way and strayed inside Pakistan. She was promptly detained in Pakistan. Afghans wanted her released immediately, Pakistanis insisted on questioning her. This escalated into border firing.
Both Afghanistan and Pakistan should realize talks are the only option and de escalate