I guess MMS is a student of ABVAditya_V wrote:Nihat-> totally agree, whether careful planning or sheer coincidence, MMS not attack PAK has been a great accomplisment..

I guess MMS is a student of ABVAditya_V wrote:Nihat-> totally agree, whether careful planning or sheer coincidence, MMS not attack PAK has been a great accomplisment..
The name "Peshawar" derives from Sanskrit Purushapura (meaning "city of men") and is known as Pekhawar or Peshawar in Pashto and Pishor in Hindko.
Mahmud was opposed by Jaipal, who had been constantly endevouring to recover the country wrested from him by Sebuktagin, still aided by some Pathans whose allegiance to the Muslim governor of Peshawar was not of long continuance.
The battle took place on November 27 and the Hindus were one again routed, Jaipal himself being taken prisoner, who upon his subsequent release resigned the crown to his son Anandpal. On this occasion Mahmud punished the Pathans who had sided with the enemy, and as they were now converted entirely to the Islam, they stayed true to their new allegiance, and joined the Sultan in his wars against the infidels.
Post that : Sab IED's.....With the collapse of the Sikh Empire, following the passing by of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh defeat in the second Anglo-Sikh War, the British occupied Peshawar.
This one is sectarian violence. Means its not Pashtun based thoough could be but not likely.faraz wrote:http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news- ... bomb-blast
Yes. It is 57 now. Still counting. By the look of it, the toll can go higher.
Why are the Talibans killing their own Pakhtoon brothers ? Or is it the handiwork of Paki Army to gain sympathy among the Pakhtoons ?
I vote for Australia getting those people.Satya_anveshi wrote:While at it, we in India need a plan to handle EDPs (externally displaced peoples)...who, where, how, how much - need planning and support from the world over.
Bartania more than any. In fact all the remaining LTTE, Jeehard sympathizers, Hutu rebels, and all who believe in murdering their way to victory need to be settled there to practice their trade.SwamyG wrote:I vote for Australia getting those people.Satya_anveshi wrote:While at it, we in India need a plan to handle EDPs (externally displaced peoples)...who, where, how, how much - need planning and support from the world over.
The Pashtuns wont declare this unless they have firm external support. However they might have defacto achievement. Most likely a wide swath of country in the NWFP and adjacent areas that were incorporated into Balochistan, South Pakjab. This area could get autonmous status as a prelude. In future this might have informal arrangements with Pashtuns areas of Afghania.kenop wrote: The real thing would be something like a declaration of independence by Pashtuns which will mean a blow to TSP.
Its sadly clear that the Blunt project is still on. What Curzon said is still true to paraphrase-Behind every mullah you find the Union Jack. Earlier the radicalization of the mujahediin while facilitated by the US was a UK enabler to take on Soviet Union.Same in Bosnia to manage the Serbs and Slavs. Same with the Somali pirates now.Gagan wrote: Bartania more than any. In fact all the remaining LTTE, Jeehard sympathizers, Hutu rebels, and all who believe in murdering their way to victory need to be settled there to practice their trade.
Bartania has tolerated these scum for decades and winked at them while they merrily went about fundraising and liasioning.
After pakistan if there is any nation in the world which has tolerated terrorist movements within its borders it is this.
How the hell did they know that he was waiting since 7.45 in the morning, considering that he escaped big time ???SSridhar wrote:Look at the posh house of the Brigadier, who just escaped the Talibani death warrant.
Sources said the gunman had been lying in wait near the Sui gas chowk since 7:45 in the morning and when the brigadier’s car reached there at around 9:15 he unleashed a hail of bullets from a sub-machine gun.
What a tragedy could have befallen my family and me! I could have either myself turned into a bigot or my kids could have taken up guns in the pursuit of a puritanical Islamic state like Saudi Arabia. I am extremely indebted to my parents for sticking to their roots in Allahabad and happily accepting the citizenship of 'Hindu India' instead of saltanat-e-khudadad-e-Pakistan (godly kingdom of Pakistan).
Ironically, there is nothing godly or saintly about Pakistan today. Pakistan could never become a modern republican state. So the state eventually withered away and got out of everyone's control. There was a time not too long ago when the world believed that it was the Pakistan army whose writ ran the country. How naive was this understanding.
Once considered the most powerful power centre, the Pakistan army headquarters in Rawalpindi is now under attack from Pakistani jihadis. The world also thought that the Punjabi elite had a tight grip over Pakistan establishment. Now the Punjabis themselves are not secure in their beloved town of Lahore where terrorists' strike at will.
Who then controls Pakistan? Is it the democratic establishment led by Asif Zardari? No, not at all! There is no consensus between Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif, the two leading rival democratic parties, even in these moments of grave internal crisis. Are the executive and judiciary now acting as the watchdog? Well, both sympathise with the likes of Hafiz Saeed and nuclear technology smuggler AQ Khan more than the state of Pakistan. Saeed and Khan are the two ideological masters of Pakistani jihadi philosophy.
All the Pakistani terror groups revere them. So it is neither army, nor the Punjabi elite that controls Pakistan any longer. Instead it is men like Saeed and Khan who do, ideologically at least.
You cannot arrest Saeed in Pakistan because he is the ideological pope of jihad. You cannot prosecute him either. The police would make such a weak case that it won't stand in a court of law for a minute. The judiciary would let him walk out because of his 'heroic services' in 'destabilising India'. And even America cannot harm Khan.
After all, he delivered a nuclear bomb to the insecure Pakistanis, stealing and smuggling nuclear technology from all over the world. The world is convinced that he smuggled dreaded technology to North Korea and Iran. He is the last hope of the jihadis who believe that Khan would one day deliver them a nuclear device to destroy their hated enemy, America.
Pakistan is today controlled by the syndicate of Taliban, al Qaeda and Punjabi terror outfits like Jaish e Mohammad. But why is it that Pakistan has failed in modern sense of the word state? A modern state in the post renaissance and post industrial revolution world is essentially run by the will of the people through democracy.
and final paraPakistan has nothing to do both with renaissance and industrial revolution. Its ideological frontier very soon after its inception was a medieval Islamic state whose only function was to destroy India.
So the people were always kept at the margin of state affairs. Pakistan elite facilitated the military takeover of the establishment to fight India and 'liberate Muslim Kashmir from Hindu hands'.
When the entire Pakistani establishment failed to harm an emerging modern Indian state and got truncated in 1971, it vengefully came up with the idea of jihad against India 'to bleed India in Kashmir'.
A jihad genie like Jaish e Mohammed was created with the ideological training from men like Saeed and Talibani madrasas spread across the tribal belt of Pakistan to harm India. The genie is now out of the bottle consuming the state that created it.
A medieval Pakistani state, run by an army and ideologically driven by myopic people like Saeed and terror outfits like Jaish, has had to finally come to this pass where no one now understands who runs Pakistan.
Thank you mom and pop, for not migrating to Islamic state of Pakistan because I would have also exploded if not imploded by the jihadi forces that are consuming Pakistan now.
It is quite clear that a midwife is required for (not all) births. With India shy of playing any such role, and No other power really interested in stirring up that area Pashtun issue is settled for the moment.ramana wrote: The Pashtuns wont declare this unless they have firm external support. However they might have defacto achievement. Most likely a wide swath of country in the NWFP and adjacent areas that were incorporated into Balochistan, South Pakjab. This area could get autonmous status as a prelude. In future this might have informal arrangements with Pashtuns areas of Afghania.
Chinese premiers who were equally responsible:General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq - March 1, 1976 – August 17, 1988
General Mirza Aslam Beg - August 17, 1988 – August 16, 1991
General Asif Nawaz - August 16, 1991 – January 8, 1993
General Abdul Waheed - January 11, 1993 – January 12, 1996
General Jehangir Karamat - January 12, 1996 – October 6, 1998
General Pervez Musharraf - October 6, 1998 – November 28, 2007
Chinese Chairman of Central Military Commission:Hu Jintao - 2003–incumbent
Jiang Zemin - 1993–2003
Yang Shangkun - 1988–1993
The most dangerous of these probably were Zia, Mirza Aslam Beg, Jiang Zemin (After Mao)Deng Xiaoping, Chairman 1981-1989
Jiang Zemin, Chairman 1989-2004
Hu Jintao, Chairman since 2004
Hey few pages back, I argued that we should call the entire country as Tribal.ramana wrote:A very good article in DNA
A Medieval State
So the old British subsidy to the NW tribals was revived by US to entire nation of TSP!WASHINGTON: The Pakistan Army has received a total of about $17 billion from the United States for arms and equipment since 1954, the year the United States entered into defense pacts with Pakistan. According to an article published on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, since 2002, the US has subsidized the Pakistan Army to the tune of $150 million per month.
...Washington will disburse $125 million to Islamabad for the upgrading of key power stations and transmission lines.
"The Taliban can feed off the blackouts and claim the government isn't delivering services," said a U.S. official working on the power program.
Pakistan has developed virtually no new power-production capacity in nearly a decade, despite possessing significant coal and gas reserves, said U.S. officials.
...U.S. experts will begin rehabilitating power stations along the Indus river that are suffering from reduced capacity. The improvements will add more than 800 megawatts of power to from four power stations, according to figures provided in a statement from the State Department. Pakistan suffers an estimated shortfall of about 2,500 megawatts.
Washington will also help repair 11,000 agricultural irrigation tube well pumps...
Does the figure of $17Billion take into account real inflation? Is it in today's dollars? I suspect the number will be much larger and provide a context if translated into its current valuation. (Since 9/11 itself, the nominal dollar amount has been in excess of $10 Billion.)ramana wrote:Some stats from IF post:
So the old British subsidy to the NW tribals was revived by US to entire nation of TSP!WASHINGTON: The Pakistan Army has received a total of about $17 billion from the United States for arms and equipment since 1954, the year the United States entered into defense pacts with Pakistan. According to an article published on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, since 2002, the US has subsidized the Pakistan Army to the tune of $150 million per month.
WASHINGTON: Two US-based Pakistanis who were arrested by the FBI earlier this month for allegedly plotting to carry out terrorist attacks in Denmark and India are both graduates of a Pakistani military school, it's been revealed, amid continuing doubts about the country's bonafides in fighting terrorism.
David Coleman Headley (Daood Gilani before name change) and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, both posted messages on an Internet board for graduates of the Hasan Abdal Cadet College, according to the FBI affidavit charging them with plotting terror.
Various alumni directories named them as batchmates in 1974 at the entry class of the college, which is Pakistan's first military prep school founded by Gen.Ayub Khan. The school counts an ISI chief (Javed Nasir), sundry generals, and several corps commanders among its alumni.
Asked on the flight to Islamabad if she was ''convinced that there is no more collaboration between the military and the ISI in assisting certain terrorist groups like Lashkar e-Tayyiba,'' Clinton bluntly answered, ''No.''
It is located in Hasan Abdal, Attock District, Punjab, Pakistan.ramana wrote:...where is this military college?
Ofcourse. One view is that the whole Pak Army/Talibaan affair is kind of year end FPR process (performance apprisal). The Es and Fs are being eliminated. All those who fight *with* pak army are As / Bs and will be promoted.ramana wrote:So fundoos are being indoctrinated even before they make it to Kakul? So all those who fail to make the grade can still pursue the trade in the irregular Army of Allah.
ramana wrote:So the terrorist adopted an Anglo Saxon name?
Daood Gilani --> David Coleman Headley!
What was the mental process in this transformation? And where is this military college?
ramana wrote:So the terrorist adopted an Anglo Saxon name? Daood Gilani --> David Coleman Headley!
What was the mental process in this transformation?...
Page 9 of the charge-sheet says:kasthuri wrote:For those who are interested: Here is the pdf copy of the charge sheet against David Coleman Headley... PDF Link
HEADLEY changed his name from "Daood Gilani" in or about 2006. In an August 2009 interview with Customs and Border Patrol, HEADLEY advised that he changed his name to raise less suspicion when he traveled.
Yes, of course, but it goes one step beyond. The creation of Pakistan has been a long term major political disaster for Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. They have been split into three disparate political bodies that cannot work together to improve their own lot. And one of those bodies is disintegrating further rapidly even as we speak.ramana wrote:A very good article in DNA
A Medieval State
Thank you mom and pop, for not migrating to Islamic state of Pakistan because I would have also exploded if not imploded by the jihadi forces that are consuming Pakistan now.
Page 23 of the charge-sheet says:kasthuri wrote:For those who are interested: Here is the pdf copy of the charge sheet against David Coleman Headley... PDF Link
59. In another email on July 8, 2009, HEADLEY told Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A that "I think when we get a chance we should revisit our last location again and say hi to Rahul." Following his arrest, HEADLEY acknowledged that, in this email, "Rahul" refers to a prominent Indian actor with the first name "Rahul."
63. (3). How long do you think I will need to stay at Rahuls place to complete this task.
63. (4). Will I have to stay there continuously for a while, or back and forth like before.
Most probably SRK. He may be completely unaware of this.ramana wrote:Which one is that?
More likely to be Sallu. His images were flashing in an flash advert on Dawood Ibrahim's website. Zee TV news made it a point to focus on that when they first broke the story of the D gang website.Acharya wrote:Most probably SRKramana wrote:Which one is that?
Bollywood shows feed this network and also gives them legitimacy to visit India and elite Indians.