http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/daw ... tack-ss-05SWAT: ANP MPA Dr. Shamsher Ali Khan was killed on Tuesday in a suicide attack outside his house in Dehri area of Kabal tehsil in Swat, according to officials.
The bomber, who was on on foot, targeted a guest house owned by Khan, a member of the secular Awami National Party, which dominates the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) assembly.
Is the SPIEGEL reporter being sarcastic here?Gilani: Of course there are Pakistani militants but the insurgencies are driven by foreign elements.
SPIEGEL: Let us guess: You believe that the Indian intelligence service is behind it.
One interesting nugget from the abovearun wrote:Kamran Shafi of Dawn receives death threats and had his house shot at. Kamran Shafi believes that “the threat were from inside the powerful security establishment, possibly from the military’s intelligence arm, Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI.”:
Pakistani Journalist Critical of the Military Is Threatened
Didn't we hear the very same words during 26/11 ?at exactly 17:33 on Nov 28, 2009, I received a telephone call from a woman speaking in uneducated Urdu and using a mobile phone. She asked if I was Kamran Shafi. When I said I was, she said that what had happened to me last night was just the ‘trailer’ and that the complete movie would also be shown.
I thought so too.sum wrote:Is the SPIEGEL reporter being sarcastic here?Gilani: Of course there are Pakistani militants but the insurgencies are driven by foreign elements.
SPIEGEL: Let us guess: You believe that the Indian intelligence service is behind it.
Good ol' squeezer plays along without realizing the sarcasm..
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has received only $345 million of the $1.61 billion commitments made by two agencies of the World Bank for 2009. Also, of the total commitment of $6.266 billion for 2004-09, an amount of $1.456 billion in net terms was transferred to Pakistan, according to the annual report of the World Bank for 2009.
The un-disbursed balance for 2009 is $1.83 billion. However, gross disbursements to Pakistan amounted to $940 million and after excluding repayments of $455 million, the net disbursement in 2009 stood at $485 million. After deducting banks’ charges and interest payments of $140 million from the net disbursement of $485 million, net transfers to Pakistan in 2009 amounted to only $345 million.
Where's my money?The un-disbursed balance from 2004 to 2009 amounted to $1.83 billion.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/daw ... -necks-129There is more: at exactly 17:33 on Nov 28, 2009, I received a telephone call from a woman speaking in uneducated Urdu and using a mobile phone (0300-274-9185). She asked if I was Kamran Shafi. When I said I was, she said that what had happened to me last night was just the ‘trailer’ and that the complete movie would also be shown.
When I asked why any of this should happen, she said, ‘One does not spit in the plate one eats from’, and that if I was not careful about what I write I would soon see the complete movie. I am a pensioner of the Pakistan Army, getting the princely sum of Rs1,200 a month, by the way. FIR No 827 has been registered at the Wah Cantonment PS in which I have in an additional application said that I suspect an ‘agency’ of doing the deed.
IMO, the bestest way to bankrupt TSP is to get Goldman Sachs and JPM to underwrite this TFTA aid and loans and all.... these noble firms being blue blooded and all will also immediately inform their trading desks to short TSP at once, even as the parent firms smilingly sign the deals..... the rest as they say, will be history...anupmisra wrote:Reality bites pookis
The real world of finance.
Pakistan gets only $345m of $1.61bn World Bank pledge
Dont know what Gilani eats to sit through such 'interview'sReally? The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed by an American drone. Don't you call this a success?
The picture you are drawing is not exactly ideal for attracting more foreign investment to Pakistan. This week you are visiting Germany to try to accomplish just this. What are you going to tell German companies?
That does not seem convincing enough for German companies.
Can you imagine what the German public would say if German arms manufacturers were to invest in Pakistan?
Couple of things. 1) "minister for community cohesion and social action" So, Londonistan has created a ministerial positon just for Pakis?anupmisra wrote:The male protesters accused her (Baroness Warsi) of not being a proper Muslim and supporting the death of Muslims in Afghanistan. The shadow minister for community cohesion and social action was then taken into a nearby shop.
Shows the IQ level of the "true" ruler of the land of Porkis..Dont know what Gilani eats to sit through such 'interview's
The Army.
Pakistan: U.S. President Obama offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, while warning against Pakistan's use of insurgent groups to pursue policy goals, The Washington Post reported 30 November.
US National Security Adviser James Jones delivered the offer, including an effort to reduce tension between Pakistan and India, to President Asif Ali Zardari. It was accompanied by assurances of increases in U.S. military and civilian efforts in Afghanistan and no early withdrawal plans.
Jones supposedly threatened that if Pakistan cannot deliver, the United States may use any means to rout insurgents based along Pakistan's borders with Afghanistan.
Comment: The New York Times and the Washington Post both published journalist reports that Zardari is in trouble and his government is in danger of collapse. That might be the case, but Readers should not understand those dire warnings as predicting the collapse of the government in Islamabad.
Pakistan’s national government is a modified presidential-parliamentary system, owing to changes Musharraf made but failed to institutionalize. Zardari swore an oath to relinquish the powers of a strong president and did transfer control of nuclear weapons to the Prime Minister over the weekend – two years after he vowed to surrender that and other powers.
The US has a public declaratory policy of dealing with governments not personalities, but in the case of Pakistan every policy action has been based on the personality of the Pakistani president.
Zardari promised in 2007 and 2008 that the government would revert to the Westminster model. One of the reasons for the strong political opposition is his failure to keep that promise. He is corrupt. His appointees are corrupt. His lack of sensitivity to national security issues felt strongly by the Army leadership is astonishing. The Army despises him. Plus, he has not been a visionary or a good economic manager.
All of that does not add up to the collapse of the Pakistani government, only to a shift in the center of power, back to the Parliament, most likely with Army backing. The Army leaders seem to get along with Prime Minister Gilani, who should be the constitutional head of government.
The nuances of the political crisis in Islamabad were buried deep in the US press treatments. Personal assurances by President Zardari or by Army Chief General Kayani are not the same as agreements between governments. Every Reader knows that Zardari was acting on borrowed time in violation of his own promises. Any US officials who predicated policies on his longevity made foolish judgments. The same is true of Kayani who must retire in six months or so.
Zardari’s reversion to a ceremonial president, which is the direction government is heading, does not mean necessarily a reduction in government leadership. It means Pakistan is trying to return to its parliamentary roots, departing from the Musharraf era’s dalliance with an American-style presidency.
The unanswered question is whether the Pakistan Army Corps commanders are willing to accept government by the elected representatives of the people, as opposed to government by appointed officers in a closed, elitist and unrepresentative military social system.
US support for the last steps in Pakistan’s political normalization – including the reversion of the president to ceremonial status -- will be critical to ensuring the Army does not seize power again. Zardari is an easy target for international news coverage, but he is not the government of Pakistan and he has always known it!
If you want to see the character of a nation and how they defend their honour and dignity, look at Iran, North Korea and Venezuela.
from the same article you quote, about the writer:MurthyB wrote:Not sure if this has been recognized by the forum as a new addition to the glorious lexicon of Pakistani English:
A BAD SMELLING KISS
The said Carry Logger Bill
After escaping across the border into Pakistan in 2001 and 2002, al Qaeda's leadership established a safe-haven there.
Read it all:After consultations with our allies, I then announced a strategy recognizing the fundamental connection between our war effort in Afghanistan, and the extremist safe-havens in Pakistan.
:Read it all in the Wall Street Journal:From 2004 onwards, we witnessed a gradual shift in the terrorist center of gravity. The Taliban started to re-emerge in Afghanistan and gradually gained a dominant role. They developed ties with the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal areas, especially in North and South Waziristan. With a grand strategy to destabilize the whole region, the Taliban and al Qaeda established links with extremists in Pakistani society on the one hand and with Muslim fundamentalists in India on the other. They pose a grave threat to South Asia and peace in the world.
It is important to note that in most cases the groups from East Balochistan don’t share an agenda with their comrades from Iranian controlled Balochistan. A majority of the Baloch are Sunnis, which is no problem in Pakistan but is in neighboring Iran, a country where the Farsi Shiites have the power. The Baloch resistance against Tehran, Iran’s capital, is of an al-Qaeda type. But the guys we’re with, from East Balochistan, are Marxist-oriented and secular, of all things.
“Islamabad is using the weapons Washington gave them to fight the Taliban against us,” Umit said. In his hand was the same Kalashnikov his father had used many years before. Umit is the last one left from a family whose members have taken part in the five Baloch armed uprisings since Pakistan annexed Balochistan in 1948. Today, though, Cobra helicopters fly above regularly, many of them left over from before Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. It is believed that the former Iranian shah Reza Pahlevi gave this “Made in USA” weaponry to Pakistan for free, with the aim of helping to put down a Baloch insurgence threatening to extend itself to those Baloch areas under Iranian control.
“Why should we sacrifice our right to freedom to a federation ruled by just one nation?” Umit wondered. The obvious answer is that they shouldn’t. But after 60 years, the question must seem increasingly rhetorical.
Newspaper reports on investigation dossiers submitted by Pakistan to the Prime Minister of India indicate that no evidence has been presented linking high-level Lashkar commanders to the attacks. Only low-level cadres have been implicated. Even evidence of movement of funds concerns low-ranking cadres — no evidence is offered on the source of those funds. Essentially, the prosecution case will never net upper-level Lashkar decision-makers
Shortly after the Mumbai attacks, amid heavy criticism from the international community, Pakistan represented to the Security Council on December 9, 2008 that amongst other anti-terrorism measures, it would proscribe the Jamaat-ud-Dawa. This it has not done, and must do.
Malayappan wrote:Willie Brigitte was trained by Pakistan militaryThe Daily Telegraph
Actually finding it difficult to post excerpts as there are too many specific references!
WHEN Willie Brigitte was sent to Pakistan for terrorist training, he thought his identity would be safe.
A fair assumption, since it has just been revealed it was rogue elements in Pakistan's own army that trained, armed and deployed him to Australia to carry out a terrorist attack.Transcripts from in-camera evidence in his 2007 trial reveal Pakistan security forces supplied trainers and arms to Lashkar-e-Toiba extremists as they trained hundreds of foreign operatives in a complex in the mountainsOne army/LET officer Brigitte met was called Sajid and it is he who sent the French national to Sydney to link up with an already established terror cell. It is Sajid who British M15 now suspect has plotted - and is still plotting - a terror attack in Britain.
There is an Interpol warrant for his arrest as well as a number of Pakistan military and intelligence officers identified as terrorists.
TOI has misreported the story somewhat, it appears. The Sikh gentleman was beaten up and threatened with conversion, he was not beaten up for refusing to convert, which is a slightly different matter (though disgusting, all the same). As it turns out, the reason he was beaten up is because he is a divorce lawyer by profession and took up the case of one Mrs. Safina Kanwal who was married to a Mohammed Amin and seeking a divorce. Mr. Anup Singh was on the verge of winning the case for his client and the ex-husband would have lost a lot of money along with his H&D. The assailants were led by the ex-husband and they tried to intimidate the lawyer by cutting of his hair and beard and threatening him with conversion.Jarita wrote:Not a pretty picture. Pakistani Sikh thrashed for refusing to convert
http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.a ... 757&SKIN=W
Another news report about the incident:the advocate was reportedly assaulted for fighting a separation case for Amin’s wife, Safina Kanwal. ‘‘The goons made my brother sign on a blank paper, after which they cut his hair, beard, moustaches and threatened him to convert to Islam if he wanted to live in Pakistan.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/daw ... ters-ha-06ISLAMABAD: Three security personnel were injured when a suspected suicide bomber tried to attack the Naval Headquarters in Islamabad on Wednesday, according to a DawNews report.
Security officials at the main entrance of the headquarters of Pakistan Navy located at Margalla Road in Islamabad intercepted a suspected suicide bomber when he tried to enter the building. According to DawnNews, the bomber then blew himself up, injuring three security personnel.
in Islamabad. This time the target is Naval HQ.
Why poor AF HQ, saar? Moi would settle for the militents blowing up any 1 of the only 2 F-solahs that still fly in the TSPAF.James B wrote:After attacks on General HQs and Naval HQs, will Airforce HQs will be next in line??.
how then will admiral sahib be able to enjoy benefits of being near centre of power?amdavadi wrote:Navy HQ shouldnt it be karachi? Where they keep most of their naval fleet?
Because INS Viraat cant sail to Slumabadamdavadi wrote:Navy HQ shouldnt it be karachi? Where they keep most of their naval fleet?
Stop posting 'deff and dumb' type stupid doubts. Think for yourself/ or Google/ yahoo/ Bing.amdavadi wrote:
Navy HQ shouldnt it be karachi? Where they keep most of their naval fleet?
