Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan- November 7, 2016

[Peregrine]

X Posted on the PESW Thread

Unable to compete: Over 30% of manufacturing capacity standing idle

FAISALABAD: Textile exporters have reiterated the demand for early announcement of the incentive package promised by the premier to control the widening trade deficit as substantial export capacity has been shut down because of high energy cost and other factors.

Commenting on recent trade figures in a statement on Tuesday, Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) Chairman Ajmal Farooq and Vice Chairman Muhammad Naeem expressed concern over the growing trade gap and shrinking exports.

They said Pakistan’s exports fell 3.93% to $8.18 billion from July to November 2016, down $334.68 million compared to the corresponding period of previous year.

On the other hand, imports grew 8.7% to almost $20 billion in the July-November period. The import bill stood $1.6-billion higher than the previous year.

They cited high cost of production and failure to compete in the world market as major hurdles in the way of export growth and if factors causing the industrial crisis were not addressed, the situation may aggravate in coming months.

The drop in exports would have dire impact on the economy which was already under pressure, they said.

In order to rescue the ailing textile industry, the prime minister had promised a relief package as the industry had lagged behind in the region, but even after a delay of months, it was still waiting for the relief.

Lack of a serious attitude of the policymakers was badly hitting the economy, they remarked. Farooq was of the view that the textile industry was facing a crisis-like situation because the cost of doing business was much higher than regional competitors.

“Over 30% of the manufacturing capacity is lying idle and production has gone down on account of lack of competitiveness,” he said.

“We are losing our share in global trade whereas competing countries like Bangladesh, India, China and Vietnam are rapidly multiplying their exports just because of the edge they have in the cost of doing business and other incentives offered by their governments.”

Farooq suggested that the government needed to frame pragmatic policies in consultation with the stakeholders in order to bring down the business cost by fixing input prices in line with competing countries, which would provide a level playing field.
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[Falijee]

Balochistan war: Pakistan accused over 1,000 dumped bodies-BBC
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Nearly 1,000 dead bodies of political activists and suspected armed separatists have been found in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province over the past six years.Activists say the figures, obtained from the human rights ministry by BBC Urdu, point to large-scale extrajudicial killings.Relatives say most victims had been picked up by security agencies.The government blames the dumped bodies on infighting among insurgent groups.Thousands of people have disappeared without trace in Balochistan since a separatist insurgency gained momentum in 2007.A military-led operation was launched in early 2005 aimed at wiping out the uprising by ethnic Baloch groups, who are fighting for a greater share of the province's resources.According to the Federal Ministry of Human Rights, at least 936 dead bodies have been found in Balochistan since 2011.Most of them were dumped in the regions of Quetta, Qalat, Khuzdar and Makran - areas where the separatist insurgency has its roots.

One of the more prominent cases of "kill-and-dump" is that of Jalil Reki, a political activist who lived in the Saryab neighbourhood of Quetta.He was arrested at his residence in 2009, and his body was found two years later in the Mand area near the Iranian border, some 1,100km (680 miles) south of Quetta."They came to our house in three vehicles. These were the vehicles of agencies. They took away Jalil," his mother told the BBC."The police did not take our report. Our male relatives later approached the then chief minister's office, but we could not get any response."Two years later some people found his body in Mand. He had one bullet in the head and three in the chest. His arms were fractured and there were cigarette burns on his back."

Relatives of the victims believe the number may be higher.The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) says it has recorded 1,200 cases of dumped bodies and there are many more it has not been able to document.Nasrullah Baloch, the head of VBMP, told the BBC most of the bodies "are of those activists who have been victims of 'enforced disappearances' - people who are picked up by authorities and then just go missing."His allegations chime with an independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) report in 2013 that noted "credible reports of continued serious human rights violations, including [enforced] disappearances of people, arbitrary arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings".

'Feuds and crime'
Provincial government spokesman Anwarul Haq Kakar denied that state agencies were involved in such acts."There are several explanations. Sometimes insurgents are killed in a gunfight with law enforcement agencies but their bodies are found later," he said."Militant groups also fight among each other and don't bury their dead fighters. Then there are tribal feuds, organised crime and drug mafia."There have been frequent protests by relatives of the victims and Baloch nationalist organisations over the years, while many have fled to foreign countries or safer locations within Pakistan.Naveed Baloch, who was briefly held by the German police for the 19 December truck killings in Berlin, left Pakistan in February to "escape persecution" in his village in Mand region.An activist of a nationalist party, he was arrested and tortured by Pakistani forces in Balochistan last year, and more recently his home in the village was raided again, his cousin, also called Naveed Baloch, told BBC Urdu.

This BBC Urdu report, just confirms what "everyone" long suspected; probably the real figures are much much higher than 1000. It is just that the BBC has a "good reputation" with the Aam Abduls of Pakiland !

[Falijee]

Paki Mohterma Argues For Press Censorship In This Opinion Piece .

Sin or Security: Media and National Defense
Aisha Saeed

A heavy proportion of a state’s survival in the world lies in the spine of a vigilantly orchestrated national security. Few components of this security paradigm comprise of nonnegotiable ribs while others variably revolve around internal “need of the hour” and changing external factors like global politics. Intertwined with the national interests, the national security or defense of a country not only determines the strategic placement of a state but also the capability of a state’s existence in the world. Non-state actors have gained remarkable swaying powers and have reached the intricate lines of defense where clash with the state institutions often ensues. Civil and military establishment are core organs of a firm national security, without the two maintaining a mutual understanding, the national security of a state becomes prone to internal and external breach. National security plan is devised by a state’s civil lung while it is implemented by the security agencies; forming the last line of defense of a country. Leading the list of influential non-state actors is the modern media. Journalistic media (pertaining solely to news and related content being aired or printed) is the point where the “pen” clashes with the “sword”. In the “information age” accuracy and source of any printed or aired material draws upon with skepticism, as media industry is a commercial entity worldwide with agenda of its own. “Information” has become an invisible weapon which in the wrong hands poses a great threat rather than protection of many state interests.

IOW, censor the information, even if true !

But to avoid the complexities that come along with granting of such freedom, PEMRA advices media to cautiously handle news related to the security of the country, with no exceptions made for the governmental agencies and the military. If media was "allowed" to speak the truth," East Pakistan" would not have become "Bangla Desh"

The New York Times, in 2007, received information from a source regarding U.S cooperation with Pakistan for safeguarding of nuclear arsenals. Knowing the strained relationship between United States and Pakistan, the paper abstained from publishing the story; keeping national interests of the U.S in consideration .This display of sound analysis earned New York Times an edge with the Department of State.

Author is talking BS ; no sources cited; secondly, Mush and others sought US help to safeguard Paki Jewels falling into the "wrong hands" !

lthough, there have been many occasions where Pakistani media failed to perform sensibly but bits of news leaked like those by Dawn News cannot be ignored. Defamation of military by law is a crime, though those involved in Dawn Leaks were not officially charged, yet the media was negligent to reflect upon the outcomes of the published story. National security and related matters like foreign policy at times call for excruciating decisions that need to be made in a short time. As claimed in the story by Dawn, the civil establishment called out on the military establishment to stop its dealing with terrorists organizations, despite the outcome of the story ,none of the sides fully verified the matter, the source remained unclear making the story least credible .

The paper was not "sanctioned", the news was real, the "leaker" was not taken to task, but the "poor reporter" fled to Massaland for the sake of his life

Past August, a helicopter of Pakistani government crashed in Afghanistan’s Taliban –held Logar province where the crew was captured by the militants. Usage of “backdoors” of diplomacy has often been denied by governments around the world but the practice remains and perhaps has become more crucial than regular diplomacy. The crew of the crashed helicopter was soon released when the military made backdoor contacts with the militants, saving the civil government’s dignity at home and abroad.It has been reported over and over again, that these militants were once upon a time, a veritable arm of the Paki Fauj, which because of "censorship" was hidden from the Aam Abduls

In 2010 , the cables of Wiki leaks were received by the New York Times which considered the documents significantly newsworthy but made the editorial decision of redacting the identities of any “confidential informants“. The paper, least on its behalf made a sensible editorial decision and tried limiting the reprisal of being negligent of U.S national security and of those performing their duties in the field. Most decisions of “leaking news” made by Pakistani media fall short in comprehending the importance of maintaining symmetry between their responsibility to inform the public and asking state and its agencies for better accountability, which forces agencies to resort to hasher media management and stricter laws- often resulting in a heated clash between the two. With the release of Quetta Commission Report, the media has again been deviating from its actual responsibility and is only fueling the matter more by at pointing the Minister of Interior –who holds another key of the national policy narrative and operates closely with the state’s security agencies. Although the report rises some fair questions but it lacks the understanding of the modus operandi of agencies and their need of secrecy about their informants. The happenings ( misssing persons, kidnapping of Chini engineers ) in the restive province of Baluchistan, if it is suppressed, will only delay the "emergence" of a new independent country, from what is remaining of Pakistan !

Newly appointed Director General of the Inter Services Public Relation, Major General Asif Ghafoor, will require countering the negative media coverage on various national security issues since claims such as those made by Dawn news or others in the past, however, it is a not a new subject in the history of Pakistani media and its scorn for the military which practically applies the national security on a larger domain :(( ( Mohtarma using lots of buzz words in her argument for press censorship !)

[Falijee]

Indian Citizenship Application Fees Reduced For Persecuted Minorities From Pakistan

Unequal fee for citizenship

New Delhi, Dec. 27: A new fee regime introduced by the Narendra Modi government for foreigners seeking Indian citizenship has sparked charges of religious discrimination for seeking a 100 times lower payment from select communities than from others.The home ministry, in rules notified last Friday, declared that Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan eligible for Indian citizenship will need to pay Rs 100 with their application.Other applicants will need to pay Rs 10,000 if they apply in India and Rs 15,000 if they apply through Indian missions abroad.Till Friday, all applicants for naturalised citizenship - independent of their country, region or community - needed to pay Rs 15,000.

. This action, (even if protested by Pakistan!) will make the decision for the persecuted minorites a bit easier! (IMO, it is part of a larger plan the "planned diplomatic isolation of Pakistan" )

Over 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils living legally in India will need to pay Rs 10,000 if they apply for citizenship here, as will over 100 members of the Ahmediya community from Pakistan seeking Indian nationality. Over the past six years, Shias in Pakistan have increasingly come under attack from militia groups - and some have sought Indian citizenship.Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar - where they are treated on a par with illegal Bangladeshi migrants - will need to pay the higher differential fee if they apply for Indian citizenship.Tibetan refugees - who number over 94,000 in India - will have to pay the higher fee.

Pakistan should replicate India's action by announcing a similar fee schedule for the (according to them ) "persecuted Muslim minorities" of India and offer them carte blanche visas .

Modi, ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, had said he would make India a home for victimised Hindus everywhere. In September 2015, the home ministry issued a notification allowing Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis from Pakistan and Bangladesh who were in India to legally stay as long as they wanted, without worrying about the validity of their visas or foreign passports.That notification also selectively paved the way for these communities to apply for citizenship - India's citizenship law forbids the grant of nationality to an applicant living in the country illegally.The new fee rules represent a challenge to the concept of a country uniformly welcoming to refugees and immigrants, said experts."This is very problematic," Paula Banerjee, one of India's foremost scholars on the country's history with refugees, and a professor at Calcutta University, told this newspaper. "It may also, I would argue, possibly be unconstitutional."

[sanjaykumar]

Surely Sikhs are also considered in the privileged group.

[SSridhar]

'Experience Pakistan' project being launched in United States: Jilani - DT

Hasn't the whole world 'experienced' Pakistan?

[partha]

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[Bheeshma]

Read it carefully..its meant for pakistani americans. They know the goras are not stupid enough to invest in pakistan, they are hoping to con the paki abcd's into coming to the la-la-land.

[Peregrine]

X Posted on the India-Russia News and Analysis & Managing Chinese Threat Threads

Russia, China and Pakistan for flexible ties with Taliban, India ignored

NEW DELHI: As Russia, China and Pakistan work towards building a new axis in Afghanistan to accommodate Taliban as a tool against the Islamic Sate terror group, it could have unforeseen consequences for the Russia-India relationship.

On Tuesday, China, Pakistan and Russia met in Moscow to discuss Afghanistan's "deteriorating" security situation, despite strong protests from the Afghan government. The three countries relented towards the end of the day's discussions and said that they would expand the group to include Afghanistan the next time. There is already a move to induct Iran into this group.

Nandan Unnikrishnan, Russia analyst at Observer Research Foundation, said, "In the present context of limited communication between India and Russia, Russia's actions could lead to a drift in relations." India only recently reaffirmed its ties with Russia by announcing almost $10 billion in defence purchases from Moscow.

The statement issued at the end of the meeting said, "The Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China as the UN Security Council permanent members confirmed their flexible approach to delisting Afghan individuals from the UN sanctions lists as their contribution to the efforts aimed at launching peaceful dialogue between Kabul and Taliban."

This could, if Russia and China press ahead, and if the US does not block, result in the removal of some top Taliban leaders from the UNSC sanctions list. Afghanistan, incidentally, has asked for the new Taliban chief to be included in the list.

Conspicuous by its absence at the meet was India, which continues to hold Taliban as the biggest threat in Afghanistan. Besides India, the Afghan government and the US both agree to this.

The Afghan government is currently going through its own political crisis, with the two key leaders of the unity government, President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah, at loggerheads. The US, which has 9,800 troops in a counter-terrorism role is unsure of how it will utilise its presence in Afghanistan under a Trump administration.

India is holding on to the "red lines" for integration of Taliban into the Afghan government but that seems to be getting diluted by the new axis, which is less Afghan-led and more Pakistan-led, putting Pakistan once again in the driver's seat on Afghanistan's future.

Iran, which has been doing its own outreach to Taliban, is equally apprehensive of the fallout of IS cadres relocating to Afghanistan as they get driven out of Syria and Iraq.

This is essentially a return to the good-Taliban, bad-Taliban argument, as everybody wants to do a peace settlement in Afghanistan. India will remain out of this move yet again. Russia is looking for two things -an opening to Pakistan and a lever against IS that Moscow believes could be at its doorstep, given Russians form the largest group of IS fighters.

The last time Russia was on India's side. But this time, Russia says its more worried about the IS than about losing India's friendship.

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[Falijee]

Chinese to outnumber Baloch natives by 2048- Pakistan Newspaper - The Nation

Genocide Alert !The thin edge of the Chini wedge; the planned demographic change ( of Balochistan ) by the "deeper than mountain" ally; similar to what they are doing in their own Muslim majority province of Xinjiang !

[Peregrine]

Read it carefully..its meant for pakistani americans. They know the goras are not stupid enough to invest in pakistan, they are hoping to con the paki abcd's into coming to the la-la-land.

Bheeshma Ji :

This Cwapistani stratagem is to to ensure that the piglets remain Islamic-Muslims First, then Pakjabi, or Sindhi or Balochi or KPKites and then and only then US Citizens.
Cheers

[Peregrine]

Chinese to outnumber Baloch natives by 2048- Pakistan Newspaper - The Nation

Genocide Alert !The thin edge of the Chini wedge; the planned demographic change ( of Balochistan ) by the "deeper than mountain" ally; similar to what they are doing in their own Muslim majority province of Xinjiang !

Falijee Ji :

Ub Ayega Cwapistanio Ko "Chini" Swaad! Long Live Chini Blothels - Only they can Contlol the Tellolisti Mullahs. Not a Dickie Bird from the Organization of Islamic Countries at the Hannization of Xinjiang by the Reduction of Muslim Population Content from Over Ninety Per Cent in 1949 to about Fifty Percent NOW. China will not rest until the Han content of the population, without including the Hui, is at least Fifty Five Percent if not More in Xinjiang!
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[Falijee]

Paki Govt Wakes Up From Slumber; Pakistan Railways Announces To Set Up Customer Service Call Center In December 2016

- How many years to go before it is fully operational

[Peregrine]

X Posted on the PESW Thread

Pakistan's Debt and Liabilities Profile Provisional (In Billion Rupees)

June 2016 22,461.8 September 2016 23,389.6

Debt Increase in Three Months = P. R. 927.8 Billion = US$ 8.858 Billion
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[Falijee]

Only 36 Countries Out Of 200 Have "No Visa Requirement For Pakistani Passport Holders

The group of countries in which Pakistan had been positioned is the countries which are suffering from the issues of terrorism.

The visa index report states that Britain is ranked as the first country getting the most free visa facilities. The citizens of Brittan are allowed to go in 166 countries without having a visa with no restrictions.

Here is the list of counties where Pakistanis can travel without having a visa:

Dominica
Haiti
Micronesia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Vanuatu

Pakistani passport holders should make a "beeline" and expedite airline bookings to these "haven" countries on the pretext of discrimination in their "own land"

elow is the list of countries which offer Visa on Arrival for Pakistanis:

Burundi
Cape Verde
Comoros
Djibouti
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Madagascar
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Nauru
Nepal
Palau
Tanzania
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tuvalu
Uganda

[Hari Seldon]

^Nepal in that list is worrisome.

[Peregrine]

X Posted on the IWT Thread

Want to resolve all issues with India amicably: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday said it wanted to "amicably" resolve all outstanding issues with India, including those related to the Indus Waters Treaty.

Radio Pakistan quoted Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria saying during his weekly media briefing that the government was assessing "India's activities" within the framework of the water sharing agreement between the two countries.

Zakaria said the treaty didn't allow unilateral abrogation of the agreement and " "Pakistan is keeping an eye on the evolving situation and would follow its strategy in case of any violation".

"There is an arbitration mechanism to resolve the dispute regarding implementation of the treaty and many IWT disputes were resolved amicably in the past," the state-run radio quoted Zakaria as saying.

"Pakistan is pursuing the policy of peaceful neighbourhood." perpetrating Terrorism in the neighbourhood in General and India in Particular."

The IWT was signed in 1960 to allocate the three eastern rivers of the Indus basin -- the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej -- to India, while 80 per cent waters of the three western ones -- the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab -- were allotted to Pakistan.

India has recently said it would fully utilise its 20 per cent share of the Indus waters and that the proposed water projects would not be in violation of the treaty. Pakistan has disputed India's contention and sought a World Bank intervention.

Zakaria said said the Kashmir dispute was a "bone of contention between Pakistan and India" and urged the international community to "play its role" in resolving the issue.

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[anupmisra]

Hasn't the whole world 'experienced' Pakistan?

Sridhar, I have to admit that I, too, experience pakistan every day. Some days, it's twice depending on what I ate and drank the previous night. After a stiff (kadak) ginger masala tea made the old fashioned way, I flush my inner pakistaniyat and watch it vanish into the 100-year old NYC sewer system, counter clockwise. The chai works wonders.

[anupmisra]

Only 36 Countries Out Of 200 Have "No Visa Requirement For Pakistani Passport Holders

That seems to be an old list. According to a more recent ranking, now there are 29 countries that permit visa-free travel for bakis. It seems seven more countries have seen the light. BTW, here's the positive spin bakis have put out:

While the Pakistani passport has been ranked as being the 2nd worst in the world for travelling purposes, there is a bright side to owning it, such as being able to travel to several destinations without requiring a Visa.

The only bright side I see is that as a paki you get special attention all the way and get groped.

Haram link: https://propakistani.pk/2016/03/03/29-c ... ut-a-visa/

[Peregrine]

TAN TARA TAN TARA TAN TARA

My Lords, Ladies & Gentlemen,

I bring thee following Abhinav Samachar Harshiyat Samachar :

The Henley & Partners - Visa Restrictions Index 2016 - Global Travel Freedom at a Glance

Country Rank Score

India------- Rank : 085----- Score : 52

Cwapistan- Rank :103----- Score : 29

The Score is the Number of Countries

Cheers

[sanjaykumar]

http://www.dawn.com/news/1305116/indian ... ue?preview

Indian author moots confederation to settle Kashmir issue

The readership is all for it, let us examine the balance sheet.

This is a great idea. It will resolve our issues for ever. The confederation idea is particularly ideal for Pakistani common man.

Advocating confederation while maintaining the present status as three separate nations is a very good idea. The aim will be alleviation of poverty and use of resources .

This is the best solution that time demands!

I wish to see this happen one day,, I also want to include Afghanistan in this,, this will not only help to reduce poverty but also help trade and people to people interaction and cooperation in many ways.. also this will strengthen Muslims of all four countries again,, I don't see any harm in this,,

Pakistan hopes to get:

democracy with a civilian controlled military
polio eradication
true federalism
a functioning supreme court
high economic growth rate
the sixth largest global economy, soon to the fifth
access to some, not all or even the majority, good educational facilities
mutual tolerance of religions, races, languages and cultures


India gets:

religion
true religion
more religion
genocides
colonisation as of Bangladesh, Baluchistan
mustachioed generals with cannon fodder-for-Islam-fantasies
ban on music, dance, painting, drama, Indian cinema
literacy, health care and higher education indices beggared only by Africa



So after shitting in their borrowed nest, they want India to clean it up for them. A truly garbage race.

[pankajs]

The author is the world famous p1ss activist Sudheendra Kulkarni.

BTW, SAARC was such a confederation but it did not work. Has been tried, did not work, Case closed.

[pankajs]

Bhell ... on the same page was this link to Interview of this world famous p1ss activist Sudheendra Kulkarni which deserves far more attention.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1217323/in-con ... d-in-india
In conversation: ‘Jinnah’s truth has to be understood in India’ {Meaning Jinnah has been misunderstood in India! Were else did we hear that?}

Sudheendra Kulkarni is chairman of the Observer Research Foundation Mumbai. Last month he hit the headlines when some members of the far-right Hindu party Shiv Sena inked his face at the launch of Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book Neither a Hawk nor a Dove in Mumbai. A former member of the Communist Party, Mr Kulkarni joined the BJP in 1996. Recently he was in Karachi to take part in the launch of the book organised by Oxford University Press.

Who the heck inducted a former communist into the BJP?

[sanjaykumar]

As an incubator of these ideas, let us propose Pakistan and, oh say, Bangladesh or Afghanistan form a trial confederation for 50 years. After all they have many cultural characteristics in common, and very little really with India.

[Falijee]

Min- Pakistan In Dhulagarh , West Bengal !

Mob chanting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ burnt my home: Dhulagarh riots victim

What happened in the Howrah district of West Bengal, especially in the Dhulagarh region, has been a closely guarded secret by the state government. This was enabled by silence of many celebrity journalists like Rajdeep Sardesai, who maligned people talking about riots instead of questioning the state government over the law and order situation.Now the media house where Rajdeep Sardesai works, TV Today has come up with reports that corroborate what many social media users have been saying – parts of West Bengal instead saw communal riots with the Hindu community largely bearing the brunt of the violence.

A special report filed by an India Today correspondent talks to victims of the riots. These victims confirm that the state administration was unable to protect them. In fact, the state police have been accused of being a silent spectator while the rioters burnt and looted their property.

The riots had started around December 12 after Eid-e-Milad-Un-Nabi celebrations but the media failed to report about it. India Today correspondent found an entire colony that was deserted after the residents fled the rampaging rioters. The families have still not returned; some took shelters at a local temple, while others came back to pick a few things they could find undamaged.

The report also quotes a victim claiming that she heard chants of “Pakistan Zindabad” from the mob that looted her home. Valuables like jewellery, cash, electronics have either been looted or burnt by the rioters. The state government has announced compensation of 35,000 rupees to the victims, who find it totally inadequate given the losses they have suffered.It should be noted that Zee News was among the first one to report on the riots, because of which an FIR was filed against them. India Today’s Rajdeep Sardesai too had rejected Zee News reports, but now his now channel’s reports confirm communal riots.

Perhaps the only escape route now remaining is a group of apologists masquerading as human rights activists visiting the area and submitting a “fact finding report” that blames obscure Hindu organisations for creating an environment that triggered violent reactions from Muslim mobs.

[Bheeshma]

RSS needs to organize in WB and start a godhra like retaliation. The pissful always respond positively when dealt with a stick. Like they say latton ke bhoot batton se nahi mantey.

[Falijee]

" Wrongly Caught " Baluchi In Berlin Attack Now Fears For His Life !

Man wrongly arrested over Berlin attack says he fears for his life

Naveed Baloch was crossing a road in central Berlin on the evening of 19 December, having just left a friend’s house. He was halfway over it when, seeing a car heading towards him, he increased his speed. “I then realised it was a police car. I stopped when they beckoned to me, and showed them all the ID had on me.” Wrong man at the wrong place, at the wrong time !

Speaking exclusively to the Guardian just over a week after being wrongly arrested for the attack which killed 12 and injured 48 others, Baloch is now in hiding, fearful for his life and no longer feeling safe in the country in which he sought refuge as a member of a secular separatist movement in Balochistan, a province that is a frequent target of religious extremists in Pakistan.

Members of his family in Pakistan have been contacted by the security services and have been receiving threatening phone calls following the widespread distribution of his photograph and name. “My family and I agree we would be safer if we speak out, and the sooner the better,” he said.On the night he was arrested police brought in a translator who did not speak his native Balochi, but Punjabi and Urdu (the latter he understands a bit though cannot speak it much). Baloch said he was asked whether he knew what had happened in Berlin earlier that evening. “I said I didn’t know, and they told me: ‘Someone took a vehicle and drove it into a crowd killing many people. And you were behind the wheel of that truck, weren’t you?’

“I calmly told them I cannot drive at all. Neither can I even start a vehicle. I told them there’s death and war in my country; that’s why I ran away to seek help. You in Germany are providing us with food, medicine and safety. You are like my mother. If you find I was doing these things to your country, you should not give me an easy death, you should cut me up slowly.”He said he could only assume they understood his answers, though he could not be sure because communication was very awkward.On being questioned further he told them he was a shepherd by profession, that he had arrived from his Balochistan in February this year, and that he was a devout Muslim who prayed five times a day. They balked at his concern over a looming deadline to pay a fine he owed for fare-dodging on Berlin’s transport network days before. “They said to me: ‘You’re worried about paying a fine, when many people have been murdered?’ I told them I just didn’t want to get into trouble.”

By the time Baloch had been told he was off the hook, the police were already looking for Anis Amri, a Tunisian whose documents had been found in the footwell of the Scania truck that had ploughed into the market and who was later shot dead by police officers in Milan. Like Baloch, Amri was 24 and dark-skinned, but there the similarities ended.

fter his release Baloch was taken to a hotel and told he was not to leave unless he informed the police, not because he was still under suspicion, but because his life might be in danger, and that he should under no circumstances return to the refugee shelter at the disused airport in the south of Berlin he had been living in.

Baloch agreed to meet the Guardian this week, above all because he now fears greatly for his safety, and that of his family back in the village of Mand in the Mekran region of Balochistan. He hoped that by telling his story he would be better understood – and safer. He fled the area of arid plains and mountains, a coastal strip of the Arabian Sea in the very south-west of Pakistan, around a year ago because of death threats he said he had received for his political activism on behalf of the Baloch National Movement, which strives for the independence of Balochistan from Pakistan.

During the two years before he paid human traffickers to smuggle him into Germany, Baloch went on the run, leaving his house one morning at 4am and roaming from village to village across the Mekran district, staying at party workers’ houses for an average of three to five days before moving on to avoid detection by security forces and intelligence. Despite this, he said, he was arrested and tortured by Pakistani forces in Balochistan last year, after which he left for Germany. His three-month journey took him on foot to Iran, then on to Turkey and Greece, before he arrived by train at Munich’s main station in February.It took him three days to realise he was in Germany, a country he knew nothing about, he said. Even now, 10 months on, he knows very little about where he has landed, only that he would like to find work and learn the language.

Following his arrest it did not take long for the news to reach his family, via Pakistani media, that the Balochistani in question was their son.
“When I was released the first thing I did was to contact them,” Baloch said. “It was my mum who answered, via WhatsApp. She asked me: ‘Did the police torture you?’ I told her no, that I had been caught up in an investigation but that it was over now. Never did she suspect I had done anything wrong, despite the Pakistani media saying – and continuing to say – the German authorities had caught a terrorist from Balochistan.”

Much of the reporting continues to say that Baloch has brought the reputation of Pakistan into disrepute, because of German authorities identifying him as a Pakistani and failing to mention Balochistan.Baloch’s non-appearance since his name was cleared has only fuelled speculation – both in Germany and Pakistan – that he might have somehow been involved in the attack after all. He has already been accused of sexual assault, a charge he vehemently denies. He has been told by police in no uncertain terms that his life might be in danger if he returns to his refugee shelter, possibly from Pakistani nationals there who might view him as an enemy of the state, or possibly from German rightwing extremists. He must stay on his own in the secret location provided for him by the police for the next two months, living on meals-on-wheels and having to inform the police every time he steps outside. He is not as concerned for his own safety, he said, as for his family – his parents, four brothers and five sisters – who earn their living from farming.

He has been suffering from insomnia since his arrest, and while he is visited by fellow Balochistanis, he said that at night in particular he felt very alone and intensely anxious. “There is no knowing what they might do to my family.” he cited the names of three political activists from his village who had applied for asylum in Germany but returned to Balochistan in May because they feared for their families, who had been threatened in their absence.“The mere fact they had left in the first place made them a focus of suspicion,” Baloch said. “They were picked up by intelligence agents and they are still missing.”

The only solace he and around 10 fellow Balochistanis – asylum seekers from around Europe who have joined him in Berlin to give him support – have, he said, is that the incident might help highlight their underreported plight.“In the meantime I just hope that one day they will stop associating my name with that terrible attack,” he said. “Thank goodness they found the man who did it.”

As part of the already announced plan of diplomatically isolating Pakistan, India should seriously consider a new policy about granting some sort of protection to these kind of people !

[Falijee]

(Only) In Pakistan, Santa Has An Armed Guard

[Falijee]

Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Failures
December 29, 2016
Afrasiab Khattak

Unlike in the rest of the world, December is a sad month for Pakistan. It marks the anniversaries of two of our most prominent victims of terrorism.Last week, we mourned the death of my lion-hearted colleague Bashir Ahmed Bilour. A suicide bomber killed him on December 22, 2012, shortly after attending a party meeting -- a staple of Pakistani political culture. Bilour never gave up mingling with ordinary people despite years of threats and failed assassination attempts.As the world prepares to welcome the new year, we remember the cruel murder of our former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on December 27. She was killed amid a crowd of cheering supporters nine years ago.Her murder is yet to be resolved.

The hand of the "Deep State"- directly or indirectly cannot be discounted in both cases !

Bhutto and Bilour are among more than 60,000 Pakistani victims of terrorist violence since 2003. Their suffering and the injustices that millions of Pakistanis have endured speak volumes of the failures, hypocrisy, and double-dealings of the state institutions responsible for counterterrorism in the country.Foremost among these is the failure of the country’s security institutions to put the lives and well-being of Pakistanis before any perceived and often wrong notions and paradigms of security. It is no secret that since the 1970s, Pakistan has recruited, trained, and empowered the greatest number of jihadists anywhere in the world to undermine its enemies and secure a stable future. But tens of thousands of Pakistanis paid with their lives when many, if not all, of these zealots turned against their erstwhile allies and masters in Islamabad.

Despites the toll Pakistanis paid, terrorist networks are still considered strategic assets and used as instruments of policy in both internal and external affairs. The country’s civil and military leadership often make pious anti-terrorism noises -- perhaps to cover their tracks, deflect attention, or absolve themselves of the bloodshed that has defined recent Pakistani history.Their failure, however, is institutional and systematic. While the world focused on Pakistan and Afghanistan as the locus of contemporary terrorism after the 9/11 attacks, Islamabad squandered years by denying the nature and scope of the terror problem it faced. Even when it grudgingly came to concede the existence of the problem, it failed to muster the political will to eliminate the threat all together. The Deep State seeks the assistance of the Jihadists to implement its fanatical and "fantastic" policies !

Former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf’s mantra of “enlightened moderation” and the current government’s National Action Plan (NAP) proved to be camouflage for the policy of double-dealing. At most, Pakistan eliminated the “bad terrorists” responsible for attacks in the country but is still tolerant of the “good terrorists” who often target neighboring Afghanistan and India.

Fortunately, all is not lost in the complicated struggle that more than 190 million Pakistanis must wage to secure a terror-free tomorrow. I agree with a recent judicial report on one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in the country. Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s objective 110-page report on the killing of 75 people, mostly lawyers, nailed it. A generation of attorneys was killed in the suicide attack on August 8 inside a hospital in Quetta, capital of southwestern Balochistan Province.Isa notes that Islamabad doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel. “The solution to the menace of extremism and terrorism is straightforward. Abide by the laws,” he recommends. But as he rightly notes, “It is an abomination to have laws and not enforce them.”

Pakistan can open a new chapter in its antiterrorism struggle by probing major recent terrorist incidents in an open, transparent, and comprehensive judicial inquiry. Its findings and abiding recommendations will end the current games being played in the name of countering terrorism and provide a road map for an effective and meaningful war on terrorism.

[anupmisra]

(Only) In Pakistan, Santa Has An Armed Guard

Note that all the guards are facing the platform (and not the other side) as the train pulls in.

[anupmisra]

Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Failures
Bhutto and Bilour are among more than 60,000 Pakistani victims of terrorist violence since 2003. Their suffering and the injustices that millions of Pakistanis...

Very clever ploy by the bakis to keep harping on being the victims.

[Falijee]

Refugee praised as 'inspirational' by BBC deemed inadmissible to Canada

A refugee named by the BBC as one of the world’s 100 most “inspirational and influential” women in 2016 has had her asylum claim suspended by Ottawa because of her activism.Karima Mehrab was recognized by the British Broadcasting Corporation for her “campaigns for independence for Balochistan,” an area that had been under the British rule until 1947 and was later acceded to Pakistan as one of the country’s four provinces.Ironically, Mehrab’s efforts are also what got the 33-year-old chair of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO), one of the groups behind the Balochistan separatist movement, into trouble in Canada.

Mehrab is facing an inadmissibility order by the Canada Border Services Agency because of the group’s involvement in “subversion” against the Pakistani government. Her asylum claim has been put on hold pending the outcome of an inadmissibility hearing by a refugee board tribunal in early 2017.The Baloch Students Organization is banned by Islamabad but it is not among the terrorist entities listed by the Canadian government. Mehrab was scheduled to go forward with her refugee hearing in late October.Mehrab said she joined the organization in 2006 while attending Atta Shad Degree College in Turbat and climbed the ranks to lead the student group after the abduction of its former chair, Zahid Baloch, in 2014. After a year in hiding, she arrived Canada in November 2015.According Mehrab’s asylum claim, as the Pakistani military cracked down on the movement, her family home was attacked with mortar shells on at least three occasions and one of her cousins was abducted and tortured by officials looking for her.“I feared for my life and the danger to my life was increasing daily. I am thankful to the Canadian government officials that they helped me and a few of my other colleagues to move to this free country,” Mehrab said in her claim.

In their order, Canadian border officials said Mehrab is inadmissible on security grounds for being a member of an organization that engages, has engaged or will engage in an “act of subversion against a democratic government” as “understood in Canada.”Canadian border officials would not comment on the inadmissibility order against her, as the matter is still before a tribunal.Mehrab said her people have been denied the most basic human rights such as access to education, land and natural resources ownership and the rights to practice and preserve their cultural heritage. Some 20,000 Baloch people, mostly youths, have been disappeared by the Pakistani security forces since 2003, she said.Nadeem Kiani, press minister at Pakistan’s high commission in Ottawa, said Mehrab’s allegations about the military crackdown are unfounded.“We have a democratic government. We have a free, vibrant press in Pakistan. We have not heard these (accusations) in Pakistan,” Kiani told Torstar News Service. “It is unfortunate that these people seek asylum in Canada on the grounds of atrocities. They are just not true. There are no such situations.”The BBC is simply misguided when naming Mehrab as “inspirational and influential,” he added. This official mouthpiece of the Pakistan Govt , who often lies for the good of his nation ( AKA DIPLOMAT ) wants to give a -wrong- impression that the BBC is less credible that his employer [/qntani army’s and paramilitary’s suppression and “enforced disappearance” of its members.“We have never engaged in any violent act, which is against the BSO’s constitution. The allegations that BSO has engaged in violence are not correct,” Mehrab told Tortsar in an interview.“I’m surprised I’m facing these accusations by Canada while the Pakistani army itself that has committed all these violent acts is not asked any question.”

As Tarek Fatah, the Canadian activist from Toronto, has noted, the present Liberal Govt in Canada , is "loaded" with ethnic Canadian MPs and even Cabinet Members who are sympathetic to radical Islamist or Khalistani causes ; it would not be surprising that some Paki origin MPs may have meddled in this matter !

London-based immigration lawyer Elizabeth Ruddick, who has represented refugees from Balochistan, said she has never had such an asylum case refused in the United Kingdom.“The seriousness of the human rights crisis in Balochistan is such that any Baloch nationalist who gets a fair hearing by someone who takes the country evidence into account is ultimately granted refugee status,” said Ruddick, who has been consulted by Berger.
“In no case of which I am aware have the British authorities ever suggested that the BSO is involved in terrorism or armed struggle.”Berger said his client has been upfront in her asylum claim about her membership and leadership within the students organization and she plans to vigorously fight Canadian officials’ accusations of her group’s “subversion by force” against Pakistan.

[CRamS]

All Indian WKK p!ssnicks like Kulkarni, and their TSP brethren should read this from a KM (I will cross post on J&K thread)

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinio ... m-4447772/

[Falijee]

Raheel Agrees To Become A "Saudi Servant"

General (R) Raheel Sharif to be appointed as defence advisor of 39 Islamic States Military Alliance

General (R) Raheel Sharif is expected to be appointed defence advisor of Saudi Arabia-led military alliance of 39 Muslim countries to fight terrorism.

Raheel Sharif, who recently retired as Pakistan’s Army Chief, has arrived in Saudi Arabia as a Royal Guest in a special plane.A grand ception is hosted in his honour in Riyadh, the capital of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It will also be attended by the members of Saudi Royal family.

The Joint Command Centre, headquarters of the military alliance is located in Riyadh. The coalition was formed by the efforts of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef.

If, this is true, it is hard to believe that this is the same "Bad Sharif" who turned down Saudi request for "Paki muscle and machine" in the Yemen Imbroglio and decided to make Pakiland stay neutral in the Sunni-Shia tussle . Raheel, during his tenure, has been the object of too many rumours, innuendos, speculations (Field Marshall banega ya nahi, extension milega ya nahi), but I see some credibility in this unconfirmed report ; if he lands this super-fantastic job, he may well become the FIELD MARSHALL ( of his dream !) that he wants to be ! . Imagine, what his curriculum-vitae will state: single handedly demolished the "terrorist threat" to Pakistan, excellent at multi-tasking (head of military and civilian administration of a nation comprising 150+ million people ); enjoys the confidence of his peers ; a person with such qualification, does not have to worry about where his next meal is coming from !
Pakistan's loss is Saudi Arabia's ( and the Islamic Ummah's !) gain

PS: In his new position, will Raheel use his "influence" to "get" the "bum" from Pakistan for his new "employer"

[Falijee]

Tarbela dam power generation level reaches at its lowest

So, India has started "stealing" Paki water as promised by Modi-ji?

[Falijee]

PM Nawaz Sharif writes letter to Sushma Swaraj


Ganja in Christmas and New Year spirit

[Falijee]

PTI MNA slapped in Abbottabad

ABBOTTABAD: (APP) A youth slapped Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Dr Azhar Jadoon during a ceremony held at Jalal Baba Auditorium here on Thursday.PTI suspends basic membership of 10 leaders.According to police sources, the incident took place when a provincial Minister for Health was distributing Sehat Insaf Cards ( A PTI animal ? ) among deserving persons.PTI announces schedule of its public Jalsas
The youth suddenly took to stage and started slapping Dr Azhar Jadoon.Police had arrested the youth and registered a case against him.

So, the Aam Abduls of Abbotabad are not happy with Immy Rule

[Peregrine]

Getting rid of Mullah not possible: Fazl

SWABI: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) head Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday said that it was not possible to get rid of Mullah, adding that the US would be gone, but Madaris would stay because the students of seminaries follow the true religion of Islam.

He was addressing a public meeting on the playground of the Government High School in Swabi. He noted that even after 69 years of independence, there was no peace in the country even though it is a prerequisite for economic development and prosperity of the nation.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the British colonialists enslaved our people and now the US wanted to keep them backward by dominating their affairs one way or the other. “It should be kept in mind that there will be no existence of America on earth but religious seminaries and students will stay on because they follow the true religion of Islam,” he stressed.

The JUI-F leader came down hard on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government headed by his party. He said the PTI was making hollow claims about the change in KP though no progress has been noticed by the people of the province.

“Instead of change, corrupt practices and nepotism prevail in the province,” he claimed. Maulana said the Bank of Khyber scandal was brushed under the carpet in the KP while the PTI chief focused on Panama Papers’ leaks at the federal level. He said the people were aware of all this and they cannot be fooled by such tactics.

The JUI-F chief said there was an ideological war between the PTI and the JUI-F, and this started during the 2013 general election and is continuing. He said that party politics is ending now and the results of next general elections will be entirely different. He predicted that the PTI would face defeat in the next general election in 2018.

“The PTI chief represented Western traditions and culture. We won’t let him succeed,” he declared. Maulana Fazlur Rehman said it was a big surprise to know that the PTI leadership first supported the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, but it later started the blame-game for political point-scoring.

He reiterated his opposition to the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “The government should resolve this issue in accordance with the wishes of the people, especially the jirga members who represent the tribal population,” he explained.

He suggested to the government to hold a referendum on the issue of merger of Fata into the KP so that the people could get the right to decide their fate. Federal Minister Akram Khan Durrani, former provincial minister Maulana Fazle Ali Haqqani, JUI-F KP head Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan, former MNA Maulana Shujaul Mulk and Maulana Attaul Haq Darvesh also spoke on the occasion.
Cheers

[Gerard]

PS: In his new position, will Raheel use his "influence" to "get" the "bum" from Pakistan for his new "employer"

Some of those bums are already in Saudi with Pakistani troops guarding them. The bums were paid for by the Saudis.

[anupmisra]

India caused the 2010 floods. Proven by a baki scientist. Watch and laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG9vUekVyKE