Why would Ban Ki Moon's pak trip upset India. Who is he?As UN Secretary-General Ban-ki-Moon quietly toured the flood-ravaged parts of Pakistan on Sunday to boost relief efforts, one of the leading dailies said he was keeping a low profile of his visit to Pakistan due to the "fear" of a possible backlash from India.
Bangladesh and Pakistan may re-establish rail links through India, 39 years after their separation and by Indian standard, 63 years after the subcontinent was divided.
So pakis can trade with Dhaka and we can trade with Kabul hain ji?Last month, while allowing Afghan trucks transit to India, Pakistan had refused to grant Indians passage to Kabul, saying this would have to wait till Delhi gave it transit to Dhaka, the paper reported.
Moni, who at 53 is Bangladesh’s second-youngest foreign minister, reflects new thinking in Bangladesh that wants to put the past behind and become part of a new fertile “green crescent” in which connectivity may be the panacea of all evils if Thomas Bernett is to be believed.
is this green cresent a new wet dream of some mulla that these abduls are chasing. Did they not halal the cresent on Dec 1971?The gaps in the railway and highway networks lie mostly in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. If these can be filled, the “green crescent” can be harnessed, says one South Asian observer.
You can also check 23rd page....Manish_Sharma wrote:...Will try to search on these lines.
Pakistan intelligence agencies have said that over 300 hardliners with links to terrorist groups have entered Lahore, acquiring houses in Afghan and Pakhtun populated localities.
According to the agencies' reports, numerous Afghan nationals are also amongst them, and posing as "Pakistani Pukhtuns" they also possess Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs).
It also disclosed that the business of clothes' transportation across the country from the Azam Cloth Market is in total possession of Afghan nationals.
"Hundreds of Afghan nationals and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa people are working in this market who have links with hardened militants," The Daily Times quoted a report, as saying.
"These Afghan nationals facilitate terrorists through their contacts and widespread business, and allow no one except Afghans to enter their inner circle," it added.
The reports further claims that there are several Afghan colonies established within the city's posh localities, where anyone can purchase anything, including weapons and drugs. (ANI)
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I flew with Capt. Chaudhry from Islamabad to London ....
Capt. Chaudhry was not in the cockpit at the time of my video as he was praying on board the aircraft (just by the first left door of the 747-300).
To make amends go back and delete your original post.Suppiah wrote:ok.ok...to argue this matter in this thread will only invite more 'blessings' so allow me to escape...
Paki reporters are mischievous modafogars. Nothing of teh sort is going to happenBrad Goodman wrote:Is this all part of good old amir khan's kanspiracy against pakis
Pakistan-Bangladesh Rail Link in the Works
"We would like to have transit and be connected to all South Asian nations, including Pakistan,” Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni told Kolkata-based newspaper The Telegraph. Islamabad has already said it wants the rail link revived, the paper added
http://firedoglake.com/2010/08/16/pakistans-tears/this point the death toll is estimated to be just under 2,000 people, but with so many people displaced and so little relief a huge cholera outbreak is imminent.
But, hey, priorities, right Washington Post?
With the Pakistani army taking the most prominent role in the government’s relief efforts, concern has grown in Washington that the flood will detract from the country’s battle against Islamic militants.
http://www.transparency.org/policy_rese ... 2009_tableRahul M wrote:I know it's very fashionable to Indian bureaucracy, but for all their faults they can't be compared to what we are hearing from pakistan. if nothing else, compare the responses of govt agencies to similar or even worse floods in India.
so if he visited India and said the exact same thing, he would have been wrong.
What a bunch of filthy perverts. Even if its a perceived H&D blow in accepting Indian aid, why can't they just quietly accept it instead of this maacho fraud?RajeshA wrote:Islamabad to decide on Indian flood aid after gauging world response
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?pa ... 010_pg7_12
Yeah right, Pakijabis are going to be give up their dreams of Moghul empire just because SDREs helped a few of their flood-stricken brethren.
Another Indian newspaper said in its reports that “India may have missed a golden opportunity to impart tangential impetus to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s dogged bid for lasting peace with Pakistan by not extending a helping hand in the neighbour’s flood relief effort”.
The newspaper said New Delhi’s silence on the flood devastation in Pakistan had not only been noted by influential sections in Pakistan, but also rankled sections of the Indian establishment. Some, in fact, have begun to rue missing what they called a “great opportunity” to reach out to the Pakistani people in their hour of need.
And so f%^&ing what if a terrorist, nuke-peddling state like TSP is militarily weaker than India? Why does it need to be propped up? Many Latin American countries are also militarily weaker than USA. Does that mean every goddam schizophrenic paranoia that they pull out of their rectums like TSP does against India has to be given credibility?
India, meanwhile, is straining the limits of the Indus Waters Treaty, a 1960 agreement on sharing the river system. To cope with its own severe electricity shortages, it is building a series of hydropower dams on Indus tributaries in Jammu and Kashmir State, where the rivers emerge from the Himalayas.
While technically permissible under the treaty provided the overall volumes flowing downstream aren’t diminished, untimely dam-filling by India during planting season could destroy Pakistan’s harvest. Pakistan, downriver and militarily weaker than India, understandably regards the dams’ cumulative one-month storage capacity as a potentially lethal new water weapon in India’s arsenal.
This is a classic case of setting up a false premise and then pleading helplessness. If Jihadis take over, the solution is simple: ally with India and reduce GHQ in Rawilpindi to a parking lot. Form a UN-sponsored coalition like what the west did in Iraq to rid TSP of any semblance of nukes. A little more muscle from US, even a fraction of what it is doing to deny Iran nukes, and the Pakijabi frauds will come out on the streets with their begging bowls.
The Pakistanis may never come to love us. But as the current spectacle of Islamic jihadists bringing emergency aid to flooded areas warns us, we can’t afford to ignore Pakistan’s looming freshwater crisis.
Good idea - but the jihadis have already taken over and are pulling the wool over unkil's eyes and saying "haaaalp. Jihads will take over. Pay us more!!"CRamS wrote: If Jihadis take over, the solution is simple: ally with India and reduce GHQ in Rawilpindi to a parking lot. Form a UN-sponsored coalition like what the west did in Iraq to rid TSP of any semblance of nukes. A little more muscle from US, even a fraction of what it is doing to deny Iran nukes, and the Pakijabi frauds will come out on the streets with their begging bowls.
Note to observers: Pakistani economic trend charts must be held upside down to match growth reflected in official government projections. Thank you!Pakistan’s Karachi Stock Exchange 100 index fell, posting the world’s biggest decline, as stockbrokers are barred from trading through brokers of the same exchange starting tomorrow. The stock index fell 3.1 percent to 9,523.16 as of 1:58 p.m. in Karachi, the most among 93 global equity measures tracked by Bloomberg and the biggest retreat for the gauge in two months.
Former President Pervez Musharraf, currently living in London on a self-imposed exile, will not visit Pakistan for the launch of his All Pakistan Muslim League party in September as decided earlier, according to a media report on Monday. Sources close to the former military ruler were quoted by the Daily Times as saying that Musharraf had decided to steer his party from London and that he would not come to Pakistan during this year because of "some formidable challenges and serious risks he would be exposed to here".
The moves a week after the Sindh High Court declared him a proclaimed offender following his non-appearance before it despite several notices. The sources told the newspaper that a core team of legal and political experts is finalising the manifesto of the newly formed APML and the party will be launched after Eid-ul-Fitr in London, Pakistan, Dubai and the US.
Asked about the requirement of an APML office in Dubai, the sources said the Middle Eastern city and London were political hubs for exiled or self-exiled Pakistani politicians and other personalities to meet their supporters. The APML office in Dubai will be a special venue for Musharraf to meet his fans, they said.
or, lets go all meet Allah...Suppiah wrote:http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/daw ... ning-qs-04
More floods in store..AOA is not done yet..
This could be TSPs best contribution to ROP - make us all like Allah..''Floods seem to be chasing us everywhere,'' said 45-year-old Ali Bakhsh Bhaio, as monsoon downpours pounded his makeshift tent.... ''Allah is punishing us for our sins.''
A related point is that we Americans owe Pakistanis a measure of basic human respect and compassion, as well as gratitude specifically for the sacrifices they've made at our behest in several wars in Afghanistan. When we repay this debt, it will also redound to our benefit. "It's high time we showed Pakistanis the best of America," disaster relief specialist Todd Shea told me last year. "If you're a true friend, you don't run out on somebody when you don't need them anymore. ... Pakistanis don't trust America anymore. We need to show Pakistanis who we really are."
I'm writing this article because I live and work between two worlds: the mainstream North America that I come from, and the Pakistani immigrant community. My job is to help bridge the gulf in awareness and sympathy between those worlds. What I'm seeing right now is that Pakistani-Americans and their admirable and effective nonprofit groups are jumping once more into the breach, as they always do. And, as always, they're confined - and confining themselves - to soliciting funds from each other.
Playing victim comes naturally to PakisI see troubling contrasts between the outpouring of generosity and attention that followed the earthquake in Haiti and the averting of eyes from the flooding in Pakistan. I see several reasons for this: Haiti is nearby; the earthquake killed 200,000 or more people all at once. In addition, though, there's the fact that Haiti is not a Muslim country.
Dont really understand the guy is acting like a sniper for a moment he flashes his islamic mijjile and then hides behind his amrikan gora bushes. Any amirkhan sarkari lurkers reading this post please take a lookI was jolted the other day when another friend suggested that being asked to donate to the excellent Islamic Medical Association of North America "could possibly turn some people off." He's probably right, but we goras need to get over our knee-jerk aversion to the word "Islamic." Your doctor might be a member of IMANA. As a Haitian woman told Paul Farmer years ago, "Tout moun se moun" - all people are people. We're all in this together.
Kandahar police have seized a truck carrying 17,000 kg (37,478 lbs) of explosives skillfully placed in boxes marked paint and pickles, authorities said.
The truck, with Pakistani license plates, was seized by Kandahar customs agents on Sunday as it came in from the Quetta province in Pakistan, officials said.
"Our enemies use various techniques with the purpose of destroying our country, but our alert police have been defusing their plans, as you see from today's good example," said General Mohammad Shafiq said Sunday.
Pakistan has money for explosives but no money for flood affected peopleshravan wrote:Officials seize truck with 37,000 lbs of explosivesKandahar police have seized a truck carrying 17,000 kg (37,478 lbs) of explosives skillfully placed in boxes marked paint and pickles, authorities said.
The truck, with Pakistani license plates, was seized by Kandahar customs agents on Sunday as it came in from the Quetta province in Pakistan, officials said.
"Our enemies use various techniques with the purpose of destroying our country, but our alert police have been defusing their plans, as you see from today's good example," said General Mohammad Shafiq said Sunday.
The guy could be a fan of 'Ethan Hunt'!ramana wrote:Ethan Casey guy am sure will turn more pious sooner than later. He is already a chatterati jihadi.
“A six-member NATO team is in Islamabad to discuss modalities for the air bridge and to assess Pakistan’s needs,”...
“This is an unprecedented flood and international effort should also be unprecedented,” [Qureshi] said.
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- A special meeting of the UN General Assembly will be held in New York on Thursday to discuss flood situation in Pakistan, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Monday.
He made it clear that the special meeting will be to express solidarity and support with Pakistan and not a pledging session. He, however, said the meeting would help strengthen hands of the UN, which has already launched an emergency appeal of 460 million dollars for relief related activities. The amount is meant to take care of needs of six to seven million people for three month and it would be reviewed after one month.
Last week, the United Nations launched a $459m (£294m) appeal for emergency aid for Pakistan, and said that billions of dollars would be needed in the long-term. The UK government has pledged £31.3m, nearly £17m of which has so far been allocated.
Speaking at a question-and-answer session in London on Monday, Mr Clegg said: "About close to one quarter of the aid already devoted to Pakistan has come from this country.
"The response from the international community as a whole, however, I have to say, bluntly, has just been lamentable. It's been absolutely pitiful." Speculating on why donations had been lower than for previous appeals such as the Haiti earthquake in January, the deputy PM added: "One of the reasons may be because this is a disaster on a scale that people are struggling to understand. "The flooded area is the same size as England."
Also from Pakistan Meteorological Department:Chief amounts of Rainfall (mm) during last 24 hrs: Nawabshah=72mm, Sialkot=65mm, Islamabad=63mm, Padidan=55mm , Bahawalpur=36mm, Murree=32mm, Sibbi=29mm, Lahore=16mm, Sahiwal=15mm, D.G.Khan=13mm, Garidupatta=13mm, Pattan,Kotli, Sargodha&Okara=9mm.
Next 24 Hrs: Scattered rain-thundershowers with few moderate to heavy falls are expected in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhawa, Punjab including Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, upper Sindh and Kashmir. Extended Outlook: Punjab, Upper Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa,Sindh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir would receive scattered rains at times heavy during next 2-3 days
Since he hob knows with Jihadi Lodhi, his views on Kashmir are RAPE fed versions? His view of Kargil was that it was by "freedom fighters"?kenop wrote:Ethan Casey's bio is here
Climate Change Debate Rises with Pakistan Floods (IPS)ramana wrote:Have they given a comprehensive reason for this sudden flooding. Looks like a once in a millenium floods.
Translation for madrassa educated Baki mango abduls:"Above-normal temperatures in the Indian Ocean give rise to increased precipitation. And in the north of Pakistan, when moisture-riddled wind currents collide with the mountains and are pushed up into cooler altitudes, moisture is released in the form of cloud bursts," added Khalid Rashid, a mathematician and physicist who studies changes in global weather patterns. "This is what seems to have happened this year."
Could be a combo name made from "Ethan Hunt" and John CaseyRajeshA wrote:The guy could be a fan of 'Ethan Hunt'!
