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Pak suffers heavy casualties as govt gives troops free hand

The August offensive of 2013 had begun after Pakistan forces had killed five Indian soldiers patrolling the border. The killing had followed the January beheading of an Indian armyman leading to nationwide outrage. Forces of the two countries exchanged bullets for the whole month before an understanding was reached in September.

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SSridhar wrote:This entire Immy-Dimmy & Qadri-Padhri drama has been so comical, deadlines after deadlines, Immy's marriage proposal, last-bath, dancing to drumbeats etc. And, some of our forumites felt the Last Day was around the corner a week back. Pakistan has seen so many of them. It has survived from far greater disasters and survived to not only tell the tale but cock a snook at everyone, especially India. Looks like that the PA/ISI are losing their vaunted ability in grabbing power.

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Amidst growing ceasefire violations from Pakistan, BSF DG DK Pathak on Tuesday warned the neighbouring country of 'retaliation' for unprovoked firing. "Indian forces are retaliating to Pakistan's unprovoked firing. We do not initiate firing along LoC but will retaliate when needed," Pathak said.

"Pakistan is now targeting civilian areas using high powered explosives," Pathak said. "Launch pads are located close to border. We want peace but can't be silent when they target us," Pathak added.

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley will hold a meeting on Tuesday with the three service chiefs to discuss the security environment in and around the country against the backdrop of continuing ceasefire violations by Pakistan.

The Minister is expected to discuss the steps required to be taken by the forces to tackle the situation along the LoC and the International Border, Defence Ministry officials said.

The Defence Minister is also likely to be briefed by the three services on the various infrastructure development projects along the border with China.

There have been 95 ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the Line of Control and it has also breached the ceasefire pact 25 times on the International Border.

Jaitley has stated that India has been responding effectively and strongly to the ceasefire violations by Pakistan side. India has also further strengthened its counter infiltration grid to tackle any attempt by Pakistan to push in militants during the ceasefire violations.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday reviewed the situation along the border with Pakistan and directed BSF to take all possible steps to ensure security of civilians in the areas subjected to shelling.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday reviewed the situation along the border with Pakistan and directed BSF to take all possible steps to ensure security of civilians in the areas subjected to shelling.

The Home Minister, who has already asked BSF to give befitting reply to firing from Pakistan, reviewed deployment of the border guarding force and steps being taken to ensure safety and security of personnel protecting forward posts.

As far as political experiments go, the last one takes the cake. It also makes it most obvious that Khan is either genuinely dim to believe that asking a duly elected Prime Minister to take a leave of absence is normal or that his obsession to become the prime minister has clouded his judgment.

partha wrote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 874090.cms

Pak suffers heavy casualties as govt gives troops free hand

No wonder Pakis wanted a DGMO meeting ASAP to cool things off.

The August offensive of 2013 had begun after Pakistan forces had killed five Indian soldiers patrolling the border. The killing had followed the January beheading of an Indian armyman leading to nationwide outrage. Forces of the two countries exchanged bullets for the whole month before an understanding was reached in September.

That beheading still makes my blood boil. I don't understand how we let off Pakistan. I guess the same way we let them off post 26/11.

Rajagopal wrote:24/7 Wall St journal just released the list of 11 countries that can soon go into bankruptcy.

Guess who is at 3#?..guessy, guessy..

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Dirty politics: Qadri demands extreme punishment for Sharifs

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on Tuesday said the current situation will not be simply resolved with the resignations of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, but only with their hangings.

“Now the matter will not be resolved with the government’s resignation but with the Sharifs being hanged,” said the PAT chief.

Speaking to his supporters in a inflammatory speech, Qadri said that the prime minister and Punjab CM were both responsible for the Model Town incident and have to be punished for it.

“Nawaz Sharif you are not safe any longer,” said the PAT leader.

LAWHORE: Upholding a sessions court’s ruling, the Lawhore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday ordered police to register an FIR against the PML-N’s top leadership – including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif – over violence that took place in Lahore's Model Town in June.At least 11 workers of Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) were killed and over 100 people injured in clashes with police on June 17 in the Model Town locality.PAT workers had submitted an application with police to file a First Information Report (FIR) against a total of 21 people, which included the prime minister, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, former Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah, Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique, and others.An additional district and sessions judge had ordered police to register the FIR on the request of the PAT, although the order was challenged in the LHC by four PML-N federal ministers — Khawaja Asif, Pervaiz Rasheed, Saad Rafique and Abid Sher Ali.The case was heard by Justice Mehmood Maqbool Bajwa of the LHC, who also directed the joint investigation team (JIT) to submit its report in court before the verdict was released.Reading out a short order, the high court upheld the lower court’s ruling and dismissed the federal ministers’ request not to file the FIR.Earlier today, the court dismissed a request by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to become a party in the appeal challenging the sessions court ruling.

partha wrote:http://www.dawn.com/news/1127910/dirty- ... or-sharifs

Dirty politics: Qadri demands extreme punishment for Sharifs

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on Tuesday said the current situation will not be simply resolved with the resignations of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, but only with their hangings.

“Now the matter will not be resolved with the government’s resignation but with the Sharifs being hanged,” said the PAT chief.

Speaking to his supporters in a inflammatory speech, Qadri said that the prime minister and Punjab CM were both responsible for the Model Town incident and have to be punished for it.

“Nawaz Sharif you are not safe any longer,” said the PAT leader.

Oh ho..it got escalated.

Rajagopal wrote:24/7 Wall St journal just released the list of 11 countries that can soon go into bankruptcy.

Guess who is at 3#?..guessy, guessy..

http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-sh ... 0826.htm#1

MurthyB wrote: Bakistan's credit rating should be the average of Amreeka, Saudi, and Britannia onlee.

Gus wrote:I was about to post that SBajwa.

Wonder what is the trigger. army trying to shift attention from political crisis? testing new leadership?

Anujan wrote:So they wheeled out musharraf for an interview and he had some advice on how to defuse the crisis

Also Good Sharif met bad Sharif and then immediately met lawyers. Read what you will.

suspected militants blew up the shrine of a Sufi saint in Balochistan's Mastung district

Government sources fear that if the agitation turns violent, the army could exploit the situation to seize power.

"It is unlikely," said the military source, referring to the chances of Sharif stepping down or the army forcing him to quit. "But if events overtake ... one can't say," he said. "We should all work to avoid extreme possibilities."

Philip wrote:The eternal Q in Pak,"to coup or not to coup,that is the Q"!
Let us therefore enjoy the spectacle of Paki buffoons cavorting like circus performers .They are doing splendidly setting their own tent on fire.

The inquiry team noted fears among council staff of being labelled "racist" if they focused on victims' descriptions of the majority of abusers as "Asian" men.

Earlier this year, the former Home Secretary Jack Straw was criticised after he suggested that some men of Pakistani origin saw white girls as "easy meat".

In Rotherham the "majority" of known perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage, the report says, which led to police and council workers "tiptoeing" around the problem.
In the council and the police there was a perception among staff that they should "downplay the ethnic dimensions of child sexual exploitation".
Frontline staff became confused as to what they were supposed to say and do and what would be interpreted as "racist".
Prof Jay adds: "From a political perspective, the approach of avoiding public discussion of the issues was ill judged."
Other than two meetings in 2011, there was no direct engagement with the Pakistani community about the issue of child sexual exploitation, despite "strong concern" from community leaders that there should be.
One of the local Pakistani women's groups described how Pakistani-heritage girls were targeted by taxi drivers and on occasion by older men lying in wait outside school gates at dinner times and after school.
They also cited cases in Rotherham where Pakistani landlords had befriended Pakistani women and girls on their own for purposes of sex, then passed on their name to other men who had then contacted them for sex.
The women and girls feared reporting such incidents to the Police because it would affect their future marriage prospects.

MALSIBAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif on Tuesday agreed to resolve the prevailing crisis “in the best nation" anal interest”.Prime Minister Nawaz met the army chief on Tuesday as a political deadlock over mass protests to demand the government’s resignation showed no signs of resolution. Nawaz’s press office said army chief Raheel Sharif and the prime minister discussed the protests and agreed to resolve the issue “expeditiously in the best national interest”. The meeting was one of many the two leaders have held in recent weeks over the impasse, said a senior source at the army headquarters in Rawalpindi.“They are discussing solutions,” said the official, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to talk to reporters. “This situation is very alarming for the army. We are dealing with mobs. What if things get violent?” The army’s media wing ISPR declined official comment. Protesters led by Imran Khan and firebrand cleric Tahirul Qadri have vowed to occupy the capital, Islamabad, until Nawaz resigns - a demand the premier has firmly rejected.
Thousands of protesters are now camped out in the heart of Islamabad - the so-called “Red Zone” - but the gathering has a festival-like atmosphere. Security forces protecting nearby installations have not used force to disperse the crowds. Whether the protests fizzle out or take a more violent course ultimately depends on the stance taken by the military. “No one wants to take any steps that would make the situation worse,” the military source said.
The government fears that if the agitation turns violent, the army could exploit the situation to seize power. “It is unlikely,” said a military source. “But if events overtake ... one can’t say,” he said. “We should all work to avoid extreme possibilities.” Sources said the army chief and the prime minister discussed a possible solution to end the present political impasse as a result of the sit-ins by PTI and PAT leaderships on the Constitution Avenue. The crucial meeting was held as the PTI and PAT sit-ins enter their crucial phase, with both Imran Khan and Qadri sticking to their demand of resignations of PM Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. Till date there has been no breakthrough in the government-PAT negotiations despite resolve of both the sides to continue with the stalled dialogue process. But a similar dialogue process initiated by the government-nominated committee and PTI had completed its three rounds. The government has agreed to five demands of PTI.On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered protest leaders and the government to find a compromise solution so that the “Red Zone” - home to parliament, the prime minister’s home, embassies and government offices - could be cleared by the following day. But protesters defied the court’s orders and stayed put for the 13th day on Tuesday, scattering the area with garbage as a putrid smell of human-not waste and rubbish hung in the air.

ramana wrote:Sufis are sunnis!

ISLAMABAD: The mistrust between the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s (PAT) protesters and the workers of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) may lead to a stink, as the civic body’s sanitation staff has stopped collecting garbage and other waste from the site of the sit-ins.The otherwise clean and well-maintained Constitution Avenue wears an ugly look now, especially the sit-in sites in front of the Supreme Court and Parliament House. The smell emanating from the piles of garbage and waste dumped there has made the area quite unpleasant to visit.Also read: CDA cleans up sit-in venuesAccording to a CDA sanitation directorate official, the authority’s workers were initially cleaning the mess created by the protesters when the activists were stationed near Aabpara Market since August 15.The cleanup remained regular even after the protesters entered the Red Zone on August 20. However, the garbage collection stopped after August 24 as the senior officials did not assign the sanitation staff to clean the sit-in sites.
A senior CDA official accepted that the sanitation staff had stopped undertaking their routine assignments at the sit-in site since a few days. He, however, said that this was not because they were ordered to stop working there; rather it was because they feared the protesters.“The workers stopped working at these sites on their own, the protesters harassed them and raised suspicions on their presence among them,” he said.He also pointed out that the PAT leaders had earlier claimed that CDA was supplying infected drinking water to the protesters, after which the civic body stopped supply water to them.He added that on Monday when the sanitation team was fumigating the area for dengue prevention, the protestors presumed it was hazardous chemical to deter the protesters and turned angry.Since then, the official said, the sanitation staff stopped working in the area.Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency Former Director General Asif Shuja said that the uncollected waste causes air pollution and the infected air spreads to other residential sectors of the federal capital and pollutes them as well.He said that because of torrential monsoon rains, the waste would also seep into the ground and it would spoil the environment of this area even months after the ending of sit-ins.

Anujan wrote:Also Good Sharif met bad Sharif and then immediately met lawyers. Read what you will.