Can some one estimate how many kiya-nahi units it will take for the Talibs to reappear in Orakzai??
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Your link vs my link.shiv wrote:Yahya Khan on the situation in East Pak in July 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9cHUJBt2Sw
Mine is from Time. And westerners call him a reasonable man.Westerners who know him well describe Yahya as a reasonable man but stubborn, proud and discipline-minded,
Neela wrote: Your link vs my link.
Time Magazine Aug 1971 - The World: Good Soldier Yahya KhanMine is from Time. And westerners call him a reasonable man.Westerners who know him well describe Yahya as a reasonable man but stubborn, proud and discipline-minded,
I win!
And Naved is off the mark with 2 runs on the very first ball!!naved wrote:It's my first post, and I'd like to begin on a happy note...
IED Mubarak!!! 2 killed in a blast in Hub
Itseems it was in a market that sold bangles for the wimmens
Cheers and happy hunting i say
It will soon be nine years since the 9/11 attacks on the US homeland. Since that time the Muslim World has continued to be bled by the US which remains traumatised nine years on. And the world has not only become more polarised, but also more violent and more bloodied by conflicts and asymmetric wars. Meanwhile, the US has neither been able to restructure the Muslim World as it wished, nor has it been able to convince its people they are safer than they were before 9/11 happened. All that has happened is that after an inconclusive war in Iraq the US has had to withdraw its troops, leaving behind a dissipated country weakened and polarised – a ready breeding ground for external players to fight proxy wars, while seeking to fill the vacuum of power.
Unfortunately, Pakistan is the only country which has fallen in line with US diktat, thanks to it successive pusillanimous leaders. As a result, Pakistan has and continues to suffer, more than any other, directly as a result of 9/11 and its disastrous aftermath resulting from a vengeful and misguided US policy in this region. The irony is that none of the perpetrators of 9/11 were Pakistani or connected in any way to Pakistan. Yet, the world has conveniently forgotten the Arab origins of these terrorists as the US has successfully wedded their identity with Pakistan!
But surely Pakistan must have gained some advantages by becoming the frontline state for the US-led “war on terror”. Well, there were some short-term monetary benefits which could have translated into long-term gains had we reformed and restructured our economy. Instead we let ourselves become hostage to the IMF. Again, the market access promised to us by the US and EU never happened but we kept delivering to them as they dictated and still continue to do so.
Our military got some new tactical toys including the F-16s but all these have come with debilitating conditionalities and since we had fared well without US military toys we should have continued on that conditionality-less path.
Don't pakistanis consider themselves as arabs hain??Yet, the world has conveniently forgotten the Arab origins of these terrorists as the US has successfully wedded their identity with Pakistan!
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city, killing 18 people, including 14 women and children and four officers, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country.
The civilians killed were the wives and children of police officers, said Khalid Omarzai, the city's top government official. Another 94 people were wounded in Tuesday's bombing, he said, adding that they had been taken to hospitals after rescuers cleared rubble of over two dozen collapsed houses and shops.
From that competitive
Some fantastic myth-making by Pakistanis and their Western allies from very early time.After partition, like most of the subcontinent's best soldiers, he opted to become a Pakistani (India, the saying goes, got all the bureaucrats).
Yahya (pronounced Ya-hee-uh) Khan claims direct descent from warrior nobles who fought in the elite armies of Nadir Shah, the Persian adventurer who conquered Delhi
That is an expensive over!!Dilbu wrote:Women, kids among 18 dead in NW Pakistani bombingPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city, killing 18 people, including 14 women and children and four officers...
This is the fourth arrest of a Pakistani spy from this region over the last two months.
The International Monetary Fund has set four pre-conditions for continuing with Pakistan’s $11.3 billion standby arrangement (SBA) and withheld the release of two remaining tranches of $2.6 billion till the government meets the criteria.
The government did not meet the performance criteria set for the quarter (April-June 2010) and the review had to be delayed.
An official said Pakistan could have secured the emergency support through a simple letter, instead of spending a lot of time, energy and resources in the United States.
IED Mubarak!A 17-member Pakistani delegation stayed in the United States for more than 10 days for talks with the IMF on a belated macroeconomic review. A few members of the delegation have stayed back after completion of the official visit to celebrate Eid with their families.
So Yahya's ancestor was a common foot soldier in Nadir Shah's marauding army and left his "seed" in one of the local women. Did he stick around after that tryst with "Destinee" to raise his new found family? What does that make Yahya?SSridhar wrote:And, of course, like all true Pakistanis who trace their ancestry to either Prophet Muhammad, PBUH, or Babur, Ghazni etc,Yahya (pronounced Ya-hee-uh) Khan claims direct descent from warrior nobles who fought in the elite armies of Nadir Shah, the Persian adventurer who conquered Delhi
Neela wrote: Time Magazine Aug 1971 - The World: Good Soldier Yahya KhanMine is from Time. And westerners call him a reasonable man.Westerners who know him well describe Yahya as a reasonable man but stubborn, proud and discipline-minded,
I win!
He began a drive on corruption last year by summoning senior civil servants and telling them that they were all "a bunch of thieves." The bureaucracy ground to a halt in protest, and Yahya soon gave up the effort. But he shows no sign of yielding with the Bengalis, whom he reportedly calls macchar —Urdu for mosquitoes.
During World War II, he fought in the British Indian army in North Africa and Italy. After partition, like most of the subcontinent's best soldiers, he opted to become a Pakistani
Of course, a son naturally will have affection for his father. But, the Raja of Mehmoodabad played a significant role in the creation of Pakistan. In 1940, at Lahore, when the Pakistan Resolution was introduced, he asserted that Pakistan would be an Islamic state based on Shariat. That tortured and tormented soul went to live in Pakistan, never to return to India.My father was a very tortured and tormented soul. I was so privileged to be his son. He was a very fine man. A poet rather than a politician.
He was 40 something when Partition took place and was the youngest member of Jinnah's working committee.
In 1947 he was shocked to see what had happened and went into self-imposed exile to Iraq as an Indian and took all of us there.
We built a house in Karbala. It had two fountains -- one inside and one outside. There was a library with books and manuscripts.
He lived in Karbala and Baghdad for 10 years till '57. He lived there for two reasons because Karbala is city of the prince of martyrs and being in the vicinity of such a place, my father must have felt a certain solace that he was in the shadow of a shrine and this would be an expiation, a purging of the soul for sins he had never imagined could be committed as a result of Partition.
He was a very good man and had he not been that I would not have won the election with an unprecedented majority.
A majority of the people of Mahmoodabad are Hindu. They remembered the man and not the man connected in the creation of Pakistan.
When he was in Karbala perhaps he wanted his wounds to heal. He had a very ascetic life and great admiration for Gandhiji.
He went from there to Pakistan in '57, I came to India with my mother in '53-'54.
Philip - you are a true judge of character. Yahya was a man to admire..read onPhilip wrote: Yahyah Khan was a man after my own heart.What a comedian lost to the silver screen! Blunt and to the point.His ability to show that he was anywhere in control of the situation was flawless.What a great team the late Peter Sellers,Herbert Lom and Yayha would've made.The current crop wouldn't fill a theater even if feee tkt. was given to the mob.
Lalmohan wrote:the time article also highlights that the americans swallowed the paqui spin - hook(er), line and sinker!! this comes from their strategic ignorance of 'south asia' from post ww2
At least he didnt declared that he was direct decendent of Nadir Shah and the Lal-quila rightfully belongs to him.SSridhar wrote:From that competitivelink by Neela,
And, of course, like all true Pakistanis who trace their ancestry to either Prophet Muhammad, PBUH, or Babur, Ghazni etc,Yahya (pronounced Ya-hee-uh) Khan claims direct descent from warrior nobles who fought in the elite armies of Nadir Shah, the Persian adventurer who conquered Delhi
Thanks for posting this book excerpt...am reading it online now!shiv wrote: Philip - you are a true judge of character. Yahya was a man to admire..read on
That is an excellent article that explores Pakiness from all angles after doing a minor equalequal.Brad Goodman wrote:Funny I always thought paki's took offensive to be called as "paki" but seems like now they have taken a liking to it
Culture of Corruption is deep-rooted in Pak
Look at the banner held up by a student on 1st slide.
Can we get the 929 page publication? It might contain nice tidbits. It can be useful now especially since the situation is eerily similar.Neela wrote: Read this fascinating piece. Save this article folks. IG calling the US bluff and the role of Tibetans and Tibetan lives lost for a nation that was not theirs.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/dec/26claude.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9cHUJBt2SwPhilip wrote:
Yahyah Khan was a man after my own heart.What a comedian lost to the silver screen! Blunt and to the point.His ability to show that he was anywhere in control of the situation was flawless.What a great team the late Peter Sellers,Herbert Lom and Yayha would've made.The current crop wouldn't fill a theater even if feee tkt. was given to the mob.
Another aspect that is not well known is the dubious role played by Gen Maneckshaw ... see this interview of Gen JFR Jacob - http://www.hinduonnet.com/nic/karan-gen-jacob.htmNeela wrote: Read this fascinating piece. Save this article folks. IG calling the US bluff and the role of Tibetans and Tibetan lives lost for a nation that was not theirs.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/dec/26claude.htm
I would not call Sam Bahadur's role dubios. First of all, war plans break apart at the first contact with enemy. Second, based on our capabilities and perceived capabilities of the enemy, it is necessary to make realistic assessments. No 1 paki = 10 SDRE or vice versa kind of crap. Also note that the officers were generally from the same school, and some of them worked together in WWII, so they could make an assessment of the other.Pranav wrote:Another aspect that is not well known is the dubious role played by Gen Maneckshaw ... see this interview of Gen JFR Jacob - http://www.hinduonnet.com/nic/karan-gen-jacob.htm
Talking about equal equal, I am truly mystyfied why Paki corruption, spot-fixing and their expose causes so much self loathing introspection among deracinated Indian elites? The same elites who are ever so willing to pelase and suck up to the west as if the white are role models of honor and truthfulness. Here is Sagarika Ghose, "humble correspondent" as she refers to herself, with her filthy equal equal that is beneath contempt; so much so that she has to subtly drag in Hinduism to justify her self-loathing pain:shiv wrote:That is an excellent article that explores Pakiness from all angles after doing a minor equalequal.Brad Goodman wrote:Funny I always thought paki's took offensive to be called as "paki" but seems like now they have taken a liking to it
Culture of Corruption is deep-rooted in Pak
Look at the banner held up by a student on 1st slide.
Recently, I met a former Hindustan Times reporter now working for a newspaper here in US. He told me that Sagarika's dad was some big wig in West bengal and thats how she managed to get into the higher echelons of India's pontificating elite. So much for her "humbleness". Furthermore, somebody should educate her on the "moral" and "righteous" path that whites took to reach where they are now; and with absolute power over us SDREs, racist pipsqueaks like Michael Atherton and Mathey Hayden can point a derogatory, condescending finger at us.
The degradation of religion is also one of the reasons why we have become personally dishonest. The founders of modern India were deeply secular and pluralist yet came from a society which drew strength from an un-self-consciousness religiosity.
Not religion defined by hatred of others, violence and noisy political ideology, but religion defined as an old quiet traditional faith that provided an unobtrusive moral compass. Today, multi-crore events like dahi handi show that religion is a stage-managed artificially euphoric extravaganza that is failing to create role models of passionate honesty and courage.
Two years ago Ayub’s son, Gohar, claimed his father had given him the name of an Indian Director of Military Operations from the 1950s who had sold the country’s war plans to the Pakistanis for 20,000 rupees. At the time this was dismissed as a silly if not pathetic lie. However, a few journalists like me tried to take Gohar seriously. We quizzed him about the six officers who had served as DMO in that decade. They were brigadiers Manekshaw, Daulet Singh, RB Chopra, KS Katoch, DC Mishra and Amrik Singh. But Gohar refused to name the one. If I recall correctly, Pranab Mukherjee, who was then Defence Minister, dismissed the allegation as laughable. But now I wonder, does Gohar know something we don’t?