Pakistan recently received a batch of 67 self-propelled artillery guns from the US using War against Terror funds granted by Washington.
Latest United Nations data reveal that delivery of the M-109 A5 155mm self-propelled artillery guns took place last year. The guns were transferred under the US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) programme that was granted to Pakistan for the fight against militant groups on its border with Afghanistan.
Signs of this new resurgence are crystallising in and around the towns of Mardan and the Frontier capital of Peshawar. This build-up, evident from internecine attacks in the region especially in Peshawar, the latest being the Momin Colony suicide attack leaving three dead and 11 injured, is more intimidating than the previous trend wherein the Taliban attacked the police and the security forces.
Regrouping in the vast region of Malakand Agency, around Charsadda, Mardan, Nowshera and Peshawar, these Taliban threaten to launch attacks on Lashkars, elders and the families that help the security forces and the police, and elders that help in capturing the Taliban for turning them over to the army and police. “They even target those suspected of such activities or in any manner maintaining contacts with such suspects,” said Syed Kamal Shah, former NWFP health minister and convener of Pakhtun Aman Lashkar.
More than 200 corpses have already been found along these highways by mid-August following the fall of Swat, Shangla and Buner to security forces in July last.
NEW DELHI: The second Indian heads of missions meet kicked off on Monday with foreign minister S M Krishna reiterating that it is not possible for
India to have meaningful talks with Pakistan at this stage because Islamabad has not done enough against terrorism. Krishna, however, added that India would like to address its differences with the neighbouring country through dialogue.
While the recent Sharm el-Sheikh joint statement did not come up for discussion on the first day, India's senior diplomats are expected to engage in an "interactive" session to review neighbourhood policy. There has been a demand from many Indian ambassadors for greater clarity on India's neighbourhood policies, which they have to defend in the countries they serve.
UPDATE 1-Malaysia Maybank posts Q4 loss, sees improved FY2010
Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:16am EDT
……………………. State-controlled Maybank, with a market value of 46 billion ringgit ($13.1 billion) ………………. booked an impairment charge of …………… 353 million ringgit for Pakistan's MCB Bank. …………
Reuters
arun wrote:Malaysian Government owned Maybank makes a little over USD 100 Million loss on its investment in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:
UPDATE 1-Malaysia Maybank posts Q4 loss, sees improved FY2010
Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:16am EDT
……………………. State-controlled Maybank, with a market value of 46 billion ringgit ($13.1 billion) ………………. booked an impairment charge of …………… 353 million ringgit for Pakistan's MCB Bank. …………
Reuters
An OT here to show how disenchantment of key persona can balloon into a larger problem. I read that EVR (a.k.a Periyar) was disappointed with the Indian National Congress politics and perceived some humiliation at the hands of some brahmins in Tamil Nadu. This had such an impact that he was associated with tamil nationalism & Self Respect Movemnet, Justice Party & Dravida Kazhgam. As they say the rest is history.SSridhar wrote: There are two phases in Jinnah's political life. One, pre 1930s and the other post that. He was a diametrically opposite person in these two phases. That is why we cannot project the earlier aspect of Jinnah's life and conclude he was such and such.
OT but felt I must ask this - Are Indians the most swollen headed race? How can one equate or think that their "personal ego/honour" is larger/more important than the national interest. At the drop of a hat you have two-bit politicos (aka Raj Thug-ga-ray) threatening to destroy the national fabric. After 6 decades and this amazing run to nearly the top of the body of nations, we still cannot seem to respect our nationhood. IMHO, this type of a politico is the biggest danger to India, bigger even than China and Pakistan combined.SwamyG wrote:An OT here to show how disenchantment of key persona can balloon into a larger problem. I read that EVR (a.k.a Periyar) was disappointed with the Indian National Congress politics and perceived some humiliation at the hands of some brahmins in Tamil Nadu. This had such an impact that he was associated with tamil nationalism & Self Respect Movemnet, Justice Party & Dravida Kazhgam. As they say the rest is history.SSridhar wrote: There are two phases in Jinnah's political life. One, pre 1930s and the other post that. He was a diametrically opposite person in these two phases. That is why we cannot project the earlier aspect of Jinnah's life and conclude he was such and such.
Isn't Malaysian Government State Owned bank supposed to follow Islamic banking system? which is immune to global financial crisis........I think even God's banking model fails when it comes to TSP.UPDATE 1-Malaysia Maybank posts Q4 loss, sees improved FY2010
Hmmm...I guess Pakistan's strategic location, and superior IT and English skills didn't work out for them, huh?
Beijing: Pakistan and China have inked an MoU on construction of a hydro-power station at Bunji in Northern Areas, a move that is expected to draw ire from India which maintains that Islamabad cannot undertake any project in the territory under its illegal occupation.
The MoU was part of over six Memoranda of Understanding signed during the ongoing visit of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to China.
India has been maintaining that the Northern Areas have been illegally occupied by Pakistan.
The dam is estimated to cost between six to seven billion dollars and will have a capacity to generate 7,000 megawatts of electricity.
Oh really ?Prem wrote:(The information in this article is based on the available syllabuses of famous British universities.)
Photochored from Answers.com1. Artificial intelligence (AI): The subfield of computer science that is concerned with understanding the nature of intelligent action and making computer machines, especially intelligent computer programmes, capable of such action is known as artificial intelligence.
Photochored from a professor's page in university of washingtonArtificial intelligence combines computing with psychology, linguistics and philosophy.
Photochored word for word from Carnegie Mellon University Ece catalogComputer science and engineering graduates have perhaps the largest spectrum of jobs to select from. Computer architecture, computer-aided design and manufacturing of VLSI/ULSI circuits, intelligent robotic systems, computer-based control systems, telecommunications and computer networking, wireless communication systems, signal and information processing and multimedia systems, solid-state physics and devices, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), electromagnetic and electromechanical systems, data-storage systems, data mining, embedded systems, distributed computing, mobile computing, real-time software, digital signal processing, optical data processing, banking, insurance, healthcare and multinationals, to name but a few common careers.
Photochored word for word from Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)After having followed a good university course in any discipline of computer science and engineering, graduates are normally expected to have learnt two types of skills:
Technical computing skills: Problem-solving ability, recognising levels of abstraction in software, hardware systems and multimedia. Practical skills such as building and using database management systems and other sophisticated software tools. Programming: using existing software libraries to carry out a variety of computing tasks, such as creating a user interface. Being aware of the uses to which computers are put, recognising issues to do with security and safety. Looking at innovative ways of using computers, creating tools, providing tools support, etc.
General professional skills: Communicating in writing, giving effective presentations and product demonstrations and being a good negotiator (both in traditional environments and electronically). Preparing for a job search; this involves building an impressive curriculum vitae and basing this confidently on technical and other skills. In addition, depending on interests, specialised domain knowledge such as business, medicine and biology will be acquired. Being an effective team member. Understanding the special requirements of a globally distributed project with participants from multiple cultures. Recognising the challenges and opportunities of keeping skills up-to-date and understanding how to do so.
Anujan wrote: Oh really ?
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2.Photochored from a professor's page in university of washington
3.Photochored word for word from Carnegie Mellon University Ece catalog
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Last time I checked, all these were organizations from the great Kuffar Satan USA
The film very aptly portrays the old and new generations’ concept of love but the most important thing is the way Indian filmgoers greeted it. There was apprehension about the scenes involving physical relations between unmarried lovers and how audiences would react to them. However, the reception of the film, accepting this new depiction of love, shows that shows that in this respect, Indian society has entered an industrial era. This societal transformation in India would in turn have a serious impact on societies across its borders, including Pakistan.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has become a blanket term just as Sipah-e-Sahaba had in the 1990s. It is today the organisation whose handiwork has been owned by the late Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. The Lashkar remains based in South Punjab and some of its big jobs are planned in Jhang. . . These are the Taliban of Punjab . . . They have been trained by Al Qaeda and they have enjoyed, for decades, the patronage of the Pakistani state as its non-state actors for jihad in Kashmir. They also predate the Taliban in the art and craft of terrorism, having done it across two borders in what was called low-intensity or proxy war. Anyone who fools himself by saying that Punjab is free of the Taliban must surely be unaware of the damage he is doing to the state of Pakistan by holding and articulating such views.
South Punjab is a tough nut to crack because this is where the nursery of non-state actors was first sown. He {Rehman Malik} has seen the chief of one organisation — accused by the entire world of fomenting trouble in India — being let off; he might yet see Akram Lahori released for “lack of evidence”. And he may dream fruitlessly of bringing to trial the leader of Jaish-e-Muhammad, “hiding” in full public view, in a South Punjab city.
South Punjab terrorism is big business and it can be run with remote control. It is also safe because the Punjabis either don’t want to know about the terrorism buried in their guts or wish to remain in denial. But the JUI of Maulana Fazlur Rehman has made a bid for this bonanza by backing the Waliur Rehman Mehsud faction in the post-Baitullah Taliban infighting. Waliur Rehman as the new Taliban leader has sworn allegiance to Al Qaeda, designated President Obama as “enemy number one” and, more importantly, pledged more attacks inside Pakistan.
South Punjab is a trophy that may spell defeat for Pakistan but may yet be too heavy for the JUI to lift. This is a bride waiting for its bridegroom in the person of Osama bin Laden. The region is in the grip of a truce between feudal landlords and big madrassa-based clerics who once mass-produced non-state actors. And the writ of the state is weak in the face of this fear-based truce.
I feel very safe from Pakistan.Last time I checked, all these were organizations from the great Kuffar Satan USA
This actually should be archived along with other similar examples of Pakiness in a separate thread/archiveAnujan wrote:Oh really ?Prem wrote:(The information in this article is based on the available syllabuses of famous British universities.)
Photochored from Answers.com1. Artificial intelligence (AI): The subfield of computer science that is concerned with understanding the nature of intelligent action and making computer machines, especially intelligent computer programmes, capable of such action is known as artificial intelligence.
Photochored from a professor's page in university of washingtonArtificial intelligence combines computing with psychology, linguistics and philosophy.
Photochored word for word from Carnegie Mellon University Ece catalogComputer science and engineering graduates have perhaps the largest spectrum of jobs to select from. Computer architecture, computer-aided design and manufacturing of VLSI/ULSI circuits, intelligent robotic systems, computer-based control systems, telecommunications and computer networking, wireless communication systems, signal and information processing and multimedia systems, solid-state physics and devices, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), electromagnetic and electromechanical systems, data-storage systems, data mining, embedded systems, distributed computing, mobile computing, real-time software, digital signal processing, optical data processing, banking, insurance, healthcare and multinationals, to name but a few common careers.
Photochored word for word from Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)After having followed a good university course in any discipline of computer science and engineering, graduates are normally expected to have learnt two types of skills:
Technical computing skills: Problem-solving ability, recognising levels of abstraction in software, hardware systems and multimedia. Practical skills such as building and using database management systems and other sophisticated software tools. Programming: using existing software libraries to carry out a variety of computing tasks, such as creating a user interface. Being aware of the uses to which computers are put, recognising issues to do with security and safety. Looking at innovative ways of using computers, creating tools, providing tools support, etc.
General professional skills: Communicating in writing, giving effective presentations and product demonstrations and being a good negotiator (both in traditional environments and electronically). Preparing for a job search; this involves building an impressive curriculum vitae and basing this confidently on technical and other skills. In addition, depending on interests, specialised domain knowledge such as business, medicine and biology will be acquired. Being an effective team member. Understanding the special requirements of a globally distributed project with participants from multiple cultures. Recognising the challenges and opportunities of keeping skills up-to-date and understanding how to do so.
Last time I checked, all these were organizations from the great Kuffar Satan USA
Because the whole Pakistani society has similar values. The social engineering that has been systematically done before and after Partition has made the Pakistanis yearn for conquering India. This yearning to conquer India could be either stand-alone or a part of the larger Khilafat-e-Rashida agenda, but in any case, the target is India. The excessive obsession with India, perpetuated in Pakistani minds through State propaganda, gives an 'exalted' position to those who profess to fight for this cause, namely the Pakistani military, the mullahs, the jihadis, a shaheed, or a ghazi or a scientist who has 'given' the ultimate weapon. Such people are blemishless and anything else is conspiracy by the unholy Yahud-Hunud-Nasara group.sanjaykumar wrote:It is disturbing what sort of society would have no censure for the hero being so blatant.
Mazari is a truly stupid biatch.Prem wrote:Amrica se Ayegi Barat, Hummers hogi Saath ,
Oor Zakat vo baante gi, hira mandi nachegi.
Our leaders' voluntary submission to colonisation
Shri Man Mazari
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http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=194868
( Madam, Pakis are the children of Arabs, Persian and Turks occupying Indian land , so what if US or Holy Gulf Arabs buy you people out)
Dr Manzur Ejaz is talking out of his musharraf. Indian cinema has explored many mature themes. The movie Silsila made in 1981 explored the theme of extra marital affairs. Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna, made pre marital love to the song "Roop tera mastana" in Aradhana in 1969. The move Fire released in 1996 had le5bian5. This is just three hindi movies off the top of my head. I am not even counting regional mallu movies and tam movies by the likes of Balachandar.sanjaykumar wrote:WASHINGTON DIARY: Love, past and present —Dr Manzur Ejaz
Love Aaj Kal. The reception and acceptance of the film’s mature and adult theme shows that the transition of Indian society is entering a decisive phase with implications for its neighbours and economic partners.
They do not understand the vastness of Indian society, The large population is still the old rural society. Pakis beleive in these movies and the depiction.sanjaykumar wrote:
I had in the India China thread alluded to India's soft power. Here is a magnificent example.
Ejaz has not drawn the right lesson-India is becoming more tolerant, more self-confidant and less oppressive. This is certainly more dangerous to Pakistan than India's tank regiments.
(I have not seen the film-most of these films make me cringe).
Very true. And, also, they do not understand that unlike their society, the thought processes in India are not shaped by a single source.Acharya wrote:They do not understand the vastness of Indian society,
What happened to Maulvi Nazeer ? Does this confirm that he died on Aug 16 as reported ?Hakeemullah said Waliur Rehman had been named Taliban chief for South Waziristan.
He said the purpose of President Zardari’s visit was to study the country’s development model and not necessarily to meet the Chinese leadership. "But still the president had an audience with their foreign minister," he said.
Babar said the highlight of Zardari’s visit had been the signing of over six memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for cooperation in the fields of education, fisheries, agriculture, dams and investment.
Though both Hakimullah, an emotional young man aged less than 30, and the far more mature Waliur Rahman together phoned the BBC Urdu service in Islamabad on Tuesday to formally announce Baitullah’s death and at the same time show that they have no differences, the issue of unity or disunity in the TTP ranks would continue to be discussed. Their show of solidarity in the time of grief for the TTP rank and file due to Baitullah’s death was most likely designed to keep the morale of the Taliban fighters high. It was also aimed at assuring the Taliban troops that their two most important commanders are united and not fighting each other as claimed by the government.
Times Now was saying today (in the context of rejection of the sixth dossier from Indian side) that the Rehman Malik has always been taking stance / making statements aligned with the view of the PA/ISI and against that of Zardari and Gilani. Clubbing togther of the ten percenti and groper was a bit of news.However, Interior Advisor Rehman Malik has rejected Hussain’s claims saying the Pakistan Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) have no political wings.
shiv wrote:Mazari is a truly stupid biatch.Prem wrote:Amrica se Ayegi Barat, Hummers hogi Saath ,
Oor Zakat vo baante gi, hira mandi nachegi.
Our leaders' voluntary submission to colonisation
Shri Man Mazari
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... Allah's gift to mankind.
Hajj, Umrah ? See, Hafeez Saeed & Pakistan may claim that the RCN infringes upon his religious duties.kenop wrote:On the RCN it just restricts foreign travels for Hafeez Sayeed. As if, there was any need to go somwhere.
:Council blames computer glitch for “Paki” blunder
Ross Lydall
26.08.09
A London council has apologised after the term "Paki" appeared several times in an official document describing the nationalities of schoolchildren.
Conservative-run Redbridge council initially tried to blame a technical error, saying Pakistani had been automatically abbreviated by computer software.
But investigations found there was plenty of space on the spreadsheet for Pakistani to appear in full, and Asian pupils were elsewhere referred to on the document as "Pankistani", "Pak" and on three occasions "Pakis". ……………
This Is London
The information that has been intercepted suggests that terror groups camping in Pakistan- occupied Kashmir have a plan to strike at Indian airports. The attack, they say, will be aerial.
Sources told rediff.com that operations on a largescale have been planned by groups such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the Harkat-ul-Jihadi and the conversations intercepted have been very specific.
An official told rediff.com that there is a chance of them using gas air balloons to land on Indian soil and carry out strike.
Lashkar, sources say, is keenly monitoring chartered chopper services in the country. The IB has warned private operators to be extremely cautious while renting out choppers.
Reuters, quoting Security expert Sidney Jones, confirms Jibril’s link to the epicentre of global terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:‘Prince of Jihad’ arrested in Indonesia: police
Wednesday, 26 Aug, 2009 | 02:48 PM PST |
JAKARTA: The owner of a radical Islamist website who calls himself the ‘Prince of Jihad’ in his blog postings has been arrested in connection with the Jakarta hotel bombings, police and a lawyer said Wednesday.
Counter-terror squad officers arrested Muhamad Jibril Abdurahman, alias Muhamad Ricky Ardan bin Mohammad Iqbal, near Jakarta late Tuesday and also raided the office of his website, Arrahmah.com, a police spokesman said.
Police believe the Pakistan-educated suspect helped channel funds from abroad to finance the July 17 twin suicide bombings on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels that killed nine people, including six foreigners.
AFP via Dawn