Terroristan - November 11, 2019

[Lohit]

Isn't Pak basically f*ed.

Trump will be Dubya post 911, "Either you're with us or against us" x10

China is so deeply entrenched in Pak - well for lack of a better analogy let's say Niazi and Gernails are emptying bedpans for the Chinese ambassador

Webster should consider changing their example of being caught between the devil and the deep sea.

[krishna_krishna]

Please see my earlier post IMF rep announced 1.4 B for porkistan , May be in the next list but will get for sure.

That is probably the originally scheduled tranche from the 6B loan that they took, that they have agreed to release. If you remember, they withheld the full amount and broke it up into tranches that would be subject to the Pakis complying.

Not the same, that is in addition to 6B. Please see below :

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 118838.cms

"We have been working with the Pakistani authorities since the request was placed. This USD 1.4 billion disbursement is scheduled to happen next week," IMF Resident Representative in Pakistan Teresa Daban Sanchez was quoted as saying by the report.

"The USD 1.4 billion loan is in addition to the USD 6 billion bailout package that Pakistan has signed with the IMF in July last year to stave off a balance of payment crisis. "

[yensoy]

Global Investment Consortium

This looks like one of those semi-shady outfits that help land investor visas, and buy land banks or ramshackle urban tenements for rent.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/ ... eak-607873
Pakistan asks India for Hydroxychloroquine to combat coronavirus outbreak
As coronavirus outbreak spreads across Pakistan, Imran Khan government has sought India's help in curbing the virus. As per sources, Pakistan has asked India for Hydroxychloroquine to combat symptoms of coronavirus.
Vijai Laxmi, New Delhi, April 15, 2020
As the coronavirus outbreak spreads across Pakistan, the Imran Khan government has sought India's. As per sources, Pakistan has asked India for Hydroxychloroquine. Earlier, the United States and Brazil had also sought Hydroxycholorquine consignments from India. Hydroxychloroquine is a malaria drug touted as a possible coronavirus treatment.
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Pakistan seeks Hydroxychloroquine from India. India wants the return of Kulbhushan Jadhav. This can be a fair exchange, but Pakistan will not agree. No Jadhav no deal.
Gautam

[schinnas]

Brilliant. Get Jhadhav alive and verifiable death of couple of wanted terrorists. Pakistan will not give the terrorists alive or their bodies to us but may be open to bumping off a couple of them.

This indicates the level of desperation from Pak, their COVID count should be order(s) of magnitude higher than what is announced in the news.

[suryag]

Jadhav and the 54 other POWs of 1971, this is our time to extract what we want

[Gerard]

Child sex abuse in Pakistan's religious schools is endemic

Cruel Numbers

In the year 2019, the reporting of child abuse cases has decreased by 26% as compared to the year 2018. This year’s reported cases indicate 8 children are abused per day in Pakistan.
Age-wise information shows that children are most vulnerable to abuse in the age group 6-15 years. More boys than girl victims were reported.

The research shows that children as young as 0-5 years are also sexually abused.

The major crime categories of the reported cases are 778 abductions, 405 missing children, 348 sodomy cases, 279 rape cases, 210 attempted rape, 205 gang sodomy, 115 gang rape.
A total of 104 cases of child marriages were recorded by Sahil in 2019.

A total number of 3722 abusers are identified, and 2222 were the acquaintances of the victims.

[saip]

This indicates the level of desperation from Pak, their COVID count should be order(s) of magnitude higher than what is announced in the news.

Ever since the Chinese 'experts' landed the Paki numbers kind of stayed low. You know what the Chinese are good at.

[chetak]

https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/ ... eak-607873
Pakistan asks India for Hydroxychloroquine to combat coronavirus outbreak
As coronavirus outbreak spreads across Pakistan, Imran Khan government has sought India's help in curbing the virus. As per sources, Pakistan has asked India for Hydroxychloroquine to combat symptoms of coronavirus.
Vijai Laxmi, New Delhi, April 15, 2020
As the coronavirus outbreak spreads across Pakistan, the Imran Khan government has sought India's. As per sources, Pakistan has asked India for Hydroxychloroquine. Earlier, the United States and Brazil had also sought Hydroxycholorquine consignments from India. Hydroxychloroquine is a malaria drug touted as a possible coronavirus treatment.
.......

Pakistan seeks Hydroxychloroquine from India. India wants the return of Kulbhushan Jadhav. This can be a fair exchange, but Pakistan will not agree. No Jadhav no deal.
Gautam

the beggars also want India to help transport their citizens "stranded" in India to the wagah border but instead of saying that we will take them all back, they have jehadi conditions

The letter written by Islamabad seeking help from the Indian government for the movement of Pakistani citizens to Wagah border also mentions that all the returnees be screened as per the international standards and existing methods employed by the Government of India and only asymptomatic individuals be allowed to return.

[vishvak]

..the beggars also want India to help transport their citizens "stranded" in India to the wagah border

Should be done pronto since pakis have requested.. nothing like this. And even if we send medicine across, be sure to close the door. It seems paki PM's driver is infected, be careful of who is asymptomatic in that country which asks only one way testing.

[Aditya_V]

Jadhav and the 54 other POWs of 1971, this is our time to extract what we want

Plus official statement on F-16 loss, Balakot terror camp hit with actual rat numbers killed and admitting Su-30 was a cover story. Can be in English- denial can be made in Urdu.

[Cyrano]

So they want to take back only asymptomatic individuals. If a Pak citizen in India is showing symptoms, they are going to abandon him leaving India to deal with the problem and treat the person at India's expense.

Proponents of Jinnah wali Aazadi will no doubt rejoice at this.

[Cyrano]

Jadhav and the 54 other POWs of 1971, this is our time to extract what we want

Plus official statement on F-16 loss, Balakot terror camp hit with actual rat numbers killed and admitting Su-30 was a cover story. Can be in English- denial can be made in Urdu.

We know the damage we have inflicted, we couldn't care less if Pak admits to it publicly or not.

India should also ask for handing over of all the terrorists in the most wanted list we have given to Pak ages ago, including Dawood Ibrahim.

Assuming any of these scum are indeed handed over, and we consider state sponsored terrorism as war, special fast track military courts should try these war criminals and hang them. After extracting all the information we can squeeze out of them of course.

But I may be dreaming...

[Sbhalla]

These guys want us to give them the medication when we’re refusing over flights to us, pushing terrorists, killing our jawans, I say HELL NO. What happened to their pledge of not doing any business with India! This amounts to “Thook ke chaatna”.

[Gerard]

This HCQ request by Pakistan report originates from just one media source.

[Bart S]

This HCQ request by Pakistan report originates from just one media source.

Yes, probably the Aman Ki Asha type dalaals in India testing the waters for their masters.

[Bart S]

This indicates the level of desperation from Pak, their COVID count should be order(s) of magnitude higher than what is announced in the news.

Ever since the Chinese 'experts' landed the Paki numbers kind of stayed low. You know what the Chinese are good at.

Check Najam Sethi's program from a couple of days back. Also other Paki TV shows have also said it. Here is a summary.

Pakistani govt has basically given up on trying to contain COVID as they think that they do not have the resources to implement lockdown, control their population, or provide food to their people if they try and lock down. So they are doing token measures but effectively no real lockdown.

They are heavily fudging the numbers, and are simply not testing. Not only can they not afford a lot of testing kits and machines, the govt is actively blocking import of them and only using donated kits from China and even then not doing a lot of testing, as they don't want to show high numbers. Nobody knows how many people are infected in Pakistan, and there are reports of large number of 'pneumonia' related cases and deaths that are not being considered as COVID.

Army is sequestered in their own areas, earlier civilians had to pay money and get a pass/permit to enter a cantonment (unlike in India where civilians protest and bully the army even when there are genuine reasons to closing some roads etc) but now they have blocked them off completely. Within the army too, the officers live separate from the cannon fodder, in palatial residences that are effectively sealed off zones. The other landed/political elites feel that they won't be impacted much and don't care for the poor people who may die. The mullahs see the lockdown as a threat to their business and refuse to shut down mosques.

[saip]

Reality bites.

Pakistan urges China to soften terms for power deals

[Gerard]

Pakistan urges China to soften terms for power deals

However, Pakistan has requested two basic relaxations in the existing agreements given the emerging challenges amid economic meltdown across the world in the wake of Covid-19. First, Pakistan desires to bring down mark-up on debt to London Interbank Offer Rate plus two (Libor+2) per cent from the existing average of about Libor+4.5pc.

Second, Pakistan has sought an extension in debt repayment period in the tariff to 20 years from the existing repayment period of 10 years. Almost all the power sector projects in the country have upfront 10-year debt repayment in their tariff structure. The two discounts are estimated to save about $500-550 million (more than Rs85bn) annual cash outflows.

Are these iron brother, taller than mountain, deeper than ocean, financial terms? How do they compare to World Bank terms?

[saip]

^^ I think for 10yr loans it is Libor+0.5% (World Bank). At Libor + 4.5 % is usurious. Shylock would have been happy.

[Leonard]

Pakiza's are dying like macchars/fleas .. See some stories percolating out ..

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/644430 ... h-patients

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Why are Karachi’s hospitals getting more DOAs, near-death patients?

When a 35-year-old woman was brought dead to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre’s (JPMC) emergency this past Saturday, the doctors on duty decided to get her chest X-rayed, because for the last several days, they had been observing an increase in the number of patients either being brought in dead or dying within hours of their arrival.

“The examination of the X-ray of the deceased woman revealed that there was a large patch on her lungs, which indicated that she was suffering from some kind of lower respiratory tract illness,” revealed the doctor on emergency duty.

“I sent the X-ray to a well-known pulmonologist, who is treating COVID-19 patients at a tertiary-care hospital, and his reply confirmed my fears. ‘It is most probably COVID pneumonia’ was the answer of the chest specialist.”

Besides the woman with the fluid-filled lungs, more than 300 such patients have been brought to different public and private hospitals in the past 15 days — all of them either dead on arrival (DOA) or extremely sick with “pneumonia-like symptoms”, who died within hours of their arrival, said health officials.

Unfortunately, they said, except for a few such patients whose bodies were sent for an X-ray, majority of the deceased were neither examined for ascertaining the cause of their death nor sent for a post-mortem examination.

Most likely causes of their deaths were “severe illnesses” — ranging from chronic liver disease, multiple organ failure and cardiopulmonary arrest to renal failure, pneumonia and even acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), added the officials.

We started observing this trend by the end of last month, when we saw that the number of patients requiring emergency treatment had declined from 1,800-2,000 to 600-700 a day,” said the critical care specialist at the JPMC.

“But the number of people who either were dead on arrival or died within a couple of hours after their arrival increased with every passing day. Initially, we didn’t pay any heed, but now we’re seeing a pattern. And this is also being reported by other hospitals.”

He said he started noticing the unusual pattern of DOAs and near-death patients from March 31, when seven bodies were brought in — of which one death was due to a road accident — and seven other patients who were brought in alive died before they could be moved to the wards.

“The next day, seven more people were brought in dead and four died during treatment at the emergency. On April 2, seven again were brought in dead while seven died during treatment at the emergency,” said the doctor.

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[vishvak]

^^ I think for 10yr loans it is Libor+0.5% (World Bank). At Libor + 4.5 % is usurious. Shylock would have been happy.

G20 decide to debt freeze for poorest countries.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/in.mobile. ... NKCN21X29A

You get the idea from the headline but Chinese are just to run with monies that can be gathered until lower interest rate a bit.

[jash_p]

IMF Executive Board Approves a US$1.386 Billion Disbursement to Pakistan to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 16, 2020

The IMF approved the disbursement of US$1.386 billion under the Rapid Financing Instrument to address the economic impact of the Covid-19 shock.
With the near-term outlook deteriorating sharply, the authorities have swiftly put in place measures to contain the impact of the shock and support economic activity. Crucially, health spending has been increased and social support strengthened.
As the impact of the COVID-19 shock subsides, the authorities’ renewed commitment to implement the policies in the existing EFF will help support the recovery and strengthen resilience.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a purchase of Pakistan under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) equivalent to SDR 1,015.5 million (US$ 1.386 billion, 50 percent of quota) to meet the urgent balance of payment needs stemming from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.



While uncertainty remains high, the near-term economic impact of COVID-19 is expected to be significant, giving rise to large fiscal and external financing needs. The IMF support will help to provide a backstop against the decline in international reserves and provide financing to the budget for targeted and temporary spending increases aimed at containing the pandemic and mitigating its economic impact.



The IMF remains closely engaged with the Pakistani authorities and as the impact of the COVID-19 shock subsides will resume discussions as part of the current EFF.



Following the Executive Board discussion, Mr. Geoffrey Okamoto, First Deputy Managing Director and Acting Chair, made the following statement:



“The outbreak of Covid-19 is having a significant impact on the Pakistani economy. The domestic containment measures, coupled with the global downturn, are severely affecting growth and straining external financing. This has created an urgent balance of payments need.



“In this context of heightened uncertainty, IMF emergency financing under the Rapid Financing Instrument provides strong support to the authorities’ emergency policy response, preserving fiscal space for essential health spending, shoring up confidence, and catalyzing additional donor support.



“In response to the crisis, the government of Pakistan has taken swift action to halt the community spread of the virus and introduced an economic stimulus package aimed at accommodating the spending needed to tackle the health emergency and supporting economic activity. Crucially, the authorities are increasing public health spending and strengthening social safety net programs to provide immediate relief to the most vulnerable. Similarly, the State Bank of Pakistan has adopted a timely set of measures, including a lowering of the policy rate and new refinancing facilities, to support liquidity and credit conditions and safeguard financial stability. In this context, the authorities’ policies should be targeted and temporary.



“As the crisis abates, the authorities’ renewed commitment to the reforms in the existing Extended Fund Facility—in particular those related to fiscal consolidation strategy, energy sector, governance, and remaining AML/CFT deficiencies—will be crucial to entrench resilience, boost Pakistan’s growth potential, and deliver broad based benefits for all Pakistanis.



“Expeditious donor support is needed to close the remaining balance of payments gap and ease the adjustment burden.”





For information on the emergency financing requests approved by the IMF Executive Board, please see a link to the IMF Lending Tracker: https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-c ... ng-Tracker

For upcoming discussions on the emergency financing requests, please see a link to the calendar of the IMF Executive Board meetings: https://www.imf.org/external/NP/SEC/bc/eng/index.aspx

Financial assistance provided under the RFI is subject to the same financing terms as the Flexible Credit Line (FCL), the Precautionary and Liquidity Line (PLL) and Stand-By Arrangements (SBA), and should be repaid within 3¼ to 5 years.

U Indoos see Pakis got what they wanted.

In a serious note Pakis are drawing 50% of allowed quota under RFI and have to repay in 3-5 years with soft line of credit. (it means Pakis full RFI quota is 2.772 billion $) can withdraw upto 150% in sever condition.

P.S. India quota is 13,1144 billion $

[jash_p]

Pakis also need not to pay anything for six months or one year but those amount counted as new loan package which they have to pay from june 2022 and complete in 3 years.

[jash_p]

Paki talk show hosts are celebrating that world have listen to Imran's order and started pouring money in Paki land and now river of milk and honey will flow on streets of Islamabad.(just listen to Babar Awan hailing Immy the greatest leader world has ever produced.)

[Vips]

Paki economy is in the shit house and with the Covid situation they have gained a temporary respite this year but they will feel their nuts being squeezed even more in 2021. I know they live day to day and get lucky with geo political situation or cash in on the natural disasters from time to time (floods, then earthquake, again floods and now Covid Virus). The more loans they take, more desperate their situation will be. Some talk show hosts and participants are already saying that Pakistan should refuse to pay back loans and ask the IMF to settle at some cents to the dollar.They are quoting examples of countries that have refused to pay back loans. They said that Pakistan should tell IMF and World Bank that loans were not advanced to pakistan with good intentions or keeping pakistani interests in mind.

[jash_p]

Pakistan wins $1.4b IMF emergency loan
By Shahbaz RanaPublished: April 17, 2020


ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday approved an emergency loan of $1.4 billion for Pakistan, as Islamabad is also expected to get around $1.5 billion relief in the shape of delay in repayment of loans to bilateral creditors.

By getting loan pakis are celebrating as if they won world cup.

[Parasu]

From above link

The Economic Affairs Ministry estimates show that Pakistan will return $840 million to China in the next fiscal year, $408 million to Japan, $200 million to France, $100 million to Germany, $445 million to Saudi Arabia, $130 million to the United States and $50 million to South Korea.

This will invariably put pressure on the rupee and we expect the dollar to reach Rs175 by June and cross Rs180 by December. The research firm stated that the fiscal deficit is also likely to exceed the target of 7.5% of the GDP – “we expect 13% of the GDP”. This is far higher than the IMF’s estimates of 9.2% of the GDP.

[suryag]

Pakistan wins $1.4b IMF emergency loan
By Shahbaz RanaPublished: April 17, 2020


ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday approved an emergency loan of $1.4 billion for Pakistan, as Islamabad is also expected to get around $1.5 billion relief in the shape of delay in repayment of loans to bilateral creditors.

By getting loan pakis are celebrating as if they won world cup.

'They do win the world cup in begging and succeeding year after year and quarter after quarter

[KJo]

Ever since the Chinese 'experts' landed the Paki numbers kind of stayed low. You know what the Chinese are good at.

Check Najam Sethi's program from a couple of days back. Also other Paki TV shows have also said it. Here is a summary.

Pakistani govt has basically given up on trying to contain COVID as they think that they do not have the resources to implement lockdown, control their population, or provide food to their people if they try and lock down. So they are doing token measures but effectively no real lockdown.

They are heavily fudging the numbers, and are simply not testing. Not only can they not afford a lot of testing kits and machines, the govt is actively blocking import of them and only using donated kits from China and even then not doing a lot of testing, as they don't want to show high numbers. Nobody knows how many people are infected in Pakistan, and there are reports of large number of 'pneumonia' related cases and deaths that are not being considered as COVID.

Army is sequestered in their own areas, earlier civilians had to pay money and get a pass/permit to enter a cantonment (unlike in India where civilians protest and bully the army even when there are genuine reasons to closing some roads etc) but now they have blocked them off completely. Within the army too, the officers live separate from the cannon fodder, in palatial residences that are effectively sealed off zones. The other landed/political elites feel that they won't be impacted much and don't care for the poor people who may die. The mullahs see the lockdown as a threat to their business and refuse to shut down mosques.

If this is true, then oopawaala is taking care of culling these rabid creatures Himself, but what I am worried is that these people don't have any qualms of begging to get into Kafir India. We have enough liberals on our side to do dharnas to let them in. The Govt should strictly not allow any paki to enter India.

[ragupta]

Send the liberals across the border to help whom they consider more dear. The people in India whose heart bleeds for the terrorist nation should be made to go those lands to help in the cause.

[Bart S]

By getting loan pakis are celebrating as if they won world cup.

'They do win the world cup in begging and succeeding year after year and quarter after quarter

It's even part of their strategic thought and decision making at this point.

https://92newshd.tv/decisions-cant-be-i ... m-qureshi/

[Kakkaji]

PoK residents urge India to send food amid shortages

NEW DELHI: Residents of parts of PoK have appealed to the Indian government to send food via Rajouri and Jammu due to acute shortage of food in the region.

No medical facilities are available in parts of PoK. Besides a bag of 20 kg flour which was under Pakistani Rupees 700 (Indian rupees 350 approx) per bag before Corona virus struck the region is now being sold at more than Pakistani Rupees 1200 a bag. Flour mills from Pakistan’s Punjab province are selling flour to PoK at extraordinary rates.

[Kakkaji]

By getting loan pakis are celebrating as if they won world cup.

That is because they know they will never pay back the loan. A loan to Pakistan is as good as a grant.

It is the same mentality I have seen in Pakistanis when they obtain a tourist visa to one of the developed countries. They celebrate as if they have already got the immigrant visa, because they know once the host country lets them in, they will stick like leeches and never leave it.

[Vivek K]

PoK residents urge India to send food amid shortages

NEW DELHI: Residents of parts of PoK have appealed to the Indian government to send food via Rajouri and Jammu due to acute shortage of food in the region.

No medical facilities are available in parts of PoK. Besides a bag of 20 kg flour which was under Pakistani Rupees 700 (Indian rupees 350 approx) per bag before Corona virus struck the region is now being sold at more than Pakistani Rupees 1200 a bag. Flour mills from Pakistan’s Punjab province are selling flour to PoK at extraordinary rates.

If we send food - will they stop sending terrorists?

[g.sarkar]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1549894/pakis ... -countries
Pakistan welcomes G-20 decision to suspend debt servicing for 76 countries
Baqir Sajjad Syed, April 17, 2020
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday welcomed the G-20 move to suspend debt servicing for 76 developing countries, saying it would have substantial impact on economies reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The prime minister appreciated debt relief measures by G-20 countries, IMF (International Monetary Fund) and World Bank for developing countries, including Pakistan,” the PM Office said in a statement. Pakistan, which is itself under heavy external debt, has been on the forefront advocating debt relief and debt restructuring for struggling economies so that they could spend their resources on saving lives.
Prime Minister Imran Khan had on April 12 launched an international appeal for debt relief. He urged the world leaders to help developing countries in dealing with the impact of Covid-19 through debt relief and restructuring so that fiscal space could be created for them to carry out relief activities in their countries. Pakistan’s total external debt is $107 billion and in the last fiscal year (2018-19), $11.6 billion was paid to service these loans.
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Gautam

[johb]

Detailed report on Dr Masood

https://nayadaur.tv/amp/2020/04/fbi-arr ... arge-in-us

FBI Arrests Pakistani Doctor On Terrorism Charge In US

Iman Malik 2 days ago

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MINNESOTA: The Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) of the FBI’s Minneapolis Division has arrested an ISIS-linked Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator on a terrorism charge, after prosecutors say he told remunerated FBI informants that he had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and wanted to carry out ‘lone wolf’ attacks within the United States.

Muhammad Masood, aged 28, was arrested on March 19 at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport (MSP) by FBI special agents as he was about to board a Southwest Airlines flight to Los Angeles, California. He was charged on one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organisation (FTO) representing the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS)–in violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 2339B.

According to the affidavit filed by the FBI, United States of America v. Muhammad Masood in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, Masood was a licensed medical practitioner when he lived in Pakistan. He currently lives in the U.S. and has been residing in the U.S. for around two years. He holds an H-1B U.S. Visa and a Pakistani passport.



Masood and BB are Two Sides of the Same Coin

The FBI initiated an investigation in January, 2020, based on information indicating encrypted Social Media Platform (SMP) user ‘BB’ was planning to provide material support to ISIS, having pledged his allegiance to the group and its leader, and by requesting assistance on making Hijra (migration). The encrypted SMP user ‘BB’ (hereinafter referenced as BB) is Masood. Prosecutors say the facts set forth in the court affidavit are based on a pool of information provided by two reliable Confidential Human Sources (referred as “CHS-1” and “CHS-2” individually and “CHSs” collectively). This pool of information includes recordings of conversations between the two CHSs, of other law enforcement officers, and several reviews by the FBI special agents. Additionally, the information also includes computer records related to BB’s investigation and his communications with others containing personal knowledge of the events and circumstances.

On January 24, 2020, BB contacted CHS-1 and discussed the Khilafah (Islamic caliphate) and al-Dawla al-Islamiyya (Islamic state) with CHS-1. BB told CHS-1 that BB wanted to make Hijra to al-Sham (modern day Syria), Iraq, or perhaps Khurasan (an ancient geographical description starting in the northeastern region of Iran stretching into Afghanistan). BB pledged allegiance or ‘Bayat’ (oath of allegiance) to ISIS and its leader and conferred his desire to travel to Syria and fight for ISIS by carrying out ‘lone wolf’ attacks within the United States.

Between BB’s initial contact with CHSs, until his arrest, BB held several conversations with CHS-1 and CHS-2 exclusively and jointly. BB believed that both CHS-1 and CHS-2 were members of ISIS who would help facilitate his travel to Syria. In the records, BB referred to them both as ‘the brothers’. As BB is a doctor, he wanted to help mujahedeen on the ground, stating “inshAllah a person [sic] like me belongs on the frontline not anywhere else.” BB explained to CHS-1 that he wanted to make Hijra because he “hates smiling at the passing kuffar (infidel) just to not make them suspicious.”

During a conversation, BB said: “I want to go back and do engineering sometimes… make drones… istishhaddi (martyrdom seeker, referred to a suicide bomber) drones.” In the court affidavit, the FBI linguists have provided translations of certain Arabic words and phrases BB consistently used in his communications.

By the end of January 25, 2020, in a conversation with Masood (BB), CHS-1 told Masood “I will talk to the brothers and I will start working on hijrah process akhi (brother or my brother, a term of endearment between two Muslim males).” Masood affirmed, “ok inshAllah.” He asked the CHS-1 if “the brothers have travel plans arranged for him yet.” Masood wanted to make Hijrah without raising any suspicion and while concealing his true intents from the U.S. authorities.

Masood further explained that he will need weapons training when he joins ISIS and discussed the use of small drones that can be purchased online and transformed into ‘istishhaddi’ (meaning martyr or suicide) drones for use in Syria or in the United States. He wanted his final destination to be Syria because he believed, “may be Qiyamah (the Day of judgement) is very close… and inshAllah I want to be part of the army that meets the Rum at Dabiq or Amaq (‘Romans’ or ‘Crusaders’) inshAllah… because if you don’t [sic] do jihad and don’t have intension to do jihad then you die on a branch of nifaq (hypocrisy).” Dabiq and Amaq is a battle that will precede the end times in jihadist ideology. CHS-1 told Masood “you are going to do hijrah akhi to dawla And you might have to kill people and this is critical moment to you and your eman (Iman, referred as faith or belief) … So you might have to do this akhi and I don’t want you to think that akhi that I helped you with something that you are not sure about.” Masood responded to this question with the following statements:

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“akhi”

“I want to kill and get killed… and kill and get killed”

“and again and again”

“this is what even Rasool Allah saas (peace be upon him) wished” (that is what the messenger of Allah [peace be upon him] wishes)

“even though Allah said waAlkah yasimuka min naas” (and Allah will protect you from the people)

Masood discussed via SMP the process by which ISIS recruits foreign fighters. Masood told CHS-1 “you know [brother]… there is so much I wanted to do here…lon wulf [sic] stuff you know… but I realized I should be on the ground helping brothers sisters kids inshAllah.” Masood was referring to his desire to conduct ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks within the United States.

On February 19, 2020, Masood traveled from Rochester, Minn., and Bloomington, Minn., to meet with CHS-1 and CHS-2 (the individual Masood believes to be an ISIS commander located overseas) for his recruiting interview with CHS-2. The interactions between CHSs and Masood were recorded. Masood discussed his traveling logistics to Jordan and subsequently into the ISIS territory. He requested a fabricated Visa to keep his identity clean for future travel after joining ISIS. In the interview, CHS-2 asked Masood how Masood found Dawla. Masood explained he was in search of truth and started listening to Anwar Nasser al-Awlaki.

Anwar Nasser al-Awlaki: “Bin Laden of the Internet”

A Colorado State University and George Washington University alum, Al-Awlaki was a Yemeni-American imam at a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, United States. According to U.S. government officials, being a senior recruiter and motivator, al-Awlaki was centrally involved in planning terrorist operations for al-Qaeda. Al-Awlaki preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers, who were al-Qaeda affiliates. Nidal Malik Hasan, a former American Army Major convicted of killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting in Killeen, Texas on November 5, 2009, was also associated to al-Awlaki. Alongside, the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al-Awlaki had a series of conversations in al-Qaeda safe houses in Yemen with a young Nigerian volunteer, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, widely known as the ‘Underwear Bomber’, to prepare him for a ‘martyrdom mission’ to bomb the Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan on Christmas Day, 2009.

Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Obama in 2011. With a blog, a Facebook page, the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, and many YouTube videos, the Saudi news stations described al-Awlaki as the “Bin Laden of the Internet.” According to the New York Times, al-Awlaki’s public statements and videos have been more influential in aspiring acts of terrorism after his killing.

Through al-Awlaki’s lectures, Masood learned that al-Dawla al-Islamiyya in Iraq was the beacon of truth. Masood said, “if you want to learn the haqq (truth), you have to see which direction the kuffar’s arrows are pointing so that’s how I found Dawla”. Masood told CHS-2, “after coming to the United States he has seen how the kuffar are and now understands them better.” He told CHS-2 that he wanted to be a combat medic, and had been ready to go for some time. Masood said he was ‘sick of this place’ (referring to living in the United States).

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However, the global Coronavirus pandemic sabotaged Masood’s arranged voyage to Syria. In February, Masood had purchased a plane ticket from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Amman, Jordan, scheduled for March 22, 2020, where he planned to meet members of ISIS. Masood shared his itinerary with CHS-1 along with the imagery of symbolic monochrome ISIS flag adorned with Arabic lettering. In the interim, Masood sold his personal belongings online including a mattress, show rack, clothing drying rack, and office chair via his Gmail account othersignups1@gmail.com.

He lent a rental vacation notice to his landlord and communicated a resignation notice to Mayo Clinic indicating his final day of employment would be March 17, 2020.

On March 19, 2020, the FBI’s special agents conducting physical surveillance watched Masood board a shuttle bus in Rochester, Minn., that drove him to MSP Terminal 2. ISIS-inspired Masood walked to the ticket counter at Terminal 2 where he checked his luggage through to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). With the boarding pass in his possession, he then proceeded directly through a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Checkpoint — where Masood’s mission to join ISIS was effectively thwarted by the FBI ’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (“JTTF”).

A Career That Ended Too Soon

Masood’s LinkedIn profile with his picture delineates his schools and work history. He acquired his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S) degree in 2016 from Riphah International University in Islamabad, Pakistan, chartered by the Federal Government of Pakistan. According to Riphah University’s webpage, the university was established with a view to produce professionals with Islamic moral and ethical values. From April 2016 to September 2016, he worked in the Pakistan Railway Hospital in the departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics respectively. Between November 2016 to April 2017, Masood worked as a House Officer at the Federal Government Polyclinic Post-Graduate Medical Institute in (PGMI) in Islamabad. From October 2017 to January 2018, he worked as a senior medical officer at the Government of Punjab’s primary and secondary healthcare department in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He then joined Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., as a research trainee from February 2018 to May 2019. Masood was working as a clinical research coordinator two days prior to his arrest. Mayo Clinic spokeswoman Ginger Plumbo said Masood formerly worked at the medical center, but “was not employed by Mayo Clinic at the time of his arrest.”

Masood’s case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Andrew R. Winter and Timothy C. Rank, with assistance from Trial Attorney Katie Sweeten of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. If Masood is proven guilty, the charge carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

[Aditya_V]

PoK residents urge India to send food amid shortages

If we send food - will they stop sending terrorists?

What about the enthusiastic capture of Abhinandan and suppressing F16 videos. Let them enjoy the patronage for supporting Pakis.

[khan]

If we send food - will they stop sending terrorists?

What about the enthusiastic capture of Abhinandan and suppressing F16 videos. Let them enjoy the patronage for supporting Pakis.

India should bring this up in the UN. Ask he UN monitors already there in POK for a report. For once in their lives they can do something useful

[dinesh_kimar]

India should bring this up in the UN. Ask he UN monitors already there in POK for a report. For once in their lives they can do something useful

The Pakis are quite clear on these matters, they have never sent food /aid during our many famines and natural disasters.
In war, they have butchered us without batting an eyelid.

Their partion losses were substantial in the west largely due to the Sikhs .

The East , we all know what happened, during partition of 1946-47.

Our poor masses are better choice to give aid to. Problem is, there's no clarity on our highest levels abt these things, and we end up most likely giving good to them.

Remember Chamb and Haji pir pass?

One was captured in 1965 by us, but returned at negotiations.

The other was captured by Pakis from us in 1971, when we had other bargaining chips like 90000 POWs.

We let them keep Chaamb, for reasons I'm not exactly clear.