Bharat Rakshak

KLNMurthy wrote: Maybe someone else will have more interesting results. But I think the exercise itself is not required to formulate a proper pakistan policy. Also, I doubt that we will be able to scientifically predict the windows during which an attack is significantly more likely to come.

The foundation for a rational pakistan policy for India should exclude the assumption that any action or policy of India will influence paki attacks one way or the other. It should also exclude the expectation that we will "settle" things with Pakistan and have a meaningful "peace." The policy should simply focus on maximizing the benefit and minimizing the loss for India, minus these two assumptions.

IT has been more than a year and a half now that exports have been falling consistently. Initially the government took the line that this is a temporary state of affairs, then argued that the declines have to do with falling commodity prices.

Today we have exporter associations sending out SOS messages and professional economists telling us that this is a disastrous state of affairs.

Exporters typically point to the rising cost of doing business as the main reason, while more recent reports by economists have pointed towards an overvalued rupee.

Plugging external deficits through borrowing, privatisation receipts and remittances is not the answer.

General (Retd) Hamid Gul died of a brain hemorrhage in Murree late on Saturday.

Gagan wrote:This last one week was a series of bad news for the Al Bakistanis and Jernail (Retard) Gul.

First, a big huge spanner in the ISI/Taliban vs Afghan Govt piss talks was thrown when someone in afghanistan released info that MO had met his 72 many years ago.

Almost immediately, the taliban started fighting amongst themselves, there was a leadership struggle and everyone forgot about the talks.
The ISI ordered a car bomb attack in Kabul.
This made Ashraf Ghani really really angry, and he gave the Pakistanis a piece of his mind. He had some very choice words to say about Pakistan and in front of the whole international media too!

This whole "Piss talks" sham has been killed off for the foreseeable future, Pakistan has shown its terrorist hand once again.

Harami Gul was on TV after this, and HE WAS CUSSING and REALLY CALLING NAMES TO ASHRAF GHANI !!! He was really really upset.
Me thinks this triggered off the downhill spiral for him.

And my god, does the almighty have a sense of humor! Harami Gul had to die on 15th August !!!

chetak wrote:At least some good news on Independence day.

Former ISI chief Hamid Gul dies of brain hemorrhage

ramana wrote:Gagan, Please tweet it. World needs humor.

chetak wrote:At least some good news on Independence day.

Former ISI chief Hamid Gul dies of brain hemorrhage

General (Retd) Hamid Gul died of a brain hemorrhage in Murree late on Saturday.

mayo wrote:Yup. He died of Becturbation.

Time to update the dictionary with this word that Shiv ji coined.

At least some good news on Independence day.

Former ISI chief Hamid Gul dies of brain hemorrhage


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General (Retd) Hamid Gul died of a brain hemorrhage in Murree late on Saturday.

vayu tuvan wrote:

chetak wrote:At least some good news on Independence day.

Former ISI chief Hamid Gul dies of brain hemorrhage
hemorrhage requires something - be it liquid - in the space between the ears. I was under the impression it was vacuum. May be vacuum bulb explosion due to some kind of IED. May be somebody wil do a QED on this conj-e-cture.

chetak wrote:At least some good news on Independence day.

Former ISI chief Hamid Gul dies of brain hemorrhage

General (Retd) Hamid Gul died of a brain hemorrhage in Murree late on Saturday.

PAKISTAN’S diplomatic initiatives with Afghanistan and India have both collapsed.
It was evident from the outset that India and hostile elements in Afghanistan would work overtime to subvert this peace initiative. They appear to have succeeded.The Islamabad-Kabul understanding was based on over-optimistic expectations on both sides. Ghani’s ability to act against the TTP and the BLA was constrained by his lack of control of the Afghan security establishment, especially the National Directorate of Security (NDS) — Afghanistan’s intelligence agency — led by a Karzai holdover. Kabul proved unable (or unwilling) to kill, capture or expel Mullah Fazlullah and other TTP elements holed up in Afghanistan.Similarly, Pakistan promised too much in offering to bring the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table. To do so, Islamabad was obliged to revive or reveal its contacts with them. If the Kabul-Taliban talks had succeeded, few would have objected to the presence of Afghan Taliban leaders in Pakistan. Unfortunately, the revelation of Mullah Omar’s demise by the NDS upended the talks. (Pakistan’s failure was in either not knowing of Mullah Omar’s death or not preventing the NDS from gaining knowledge of this while senior Taliban commanders remained unaware.)As no doubt anticipated by the NDS and its Indian patrons, a leadership struggle ensued between the ‘fight’ and the ‘fight and talk’ factions within the Taliban. To salvage the talks, Pakistan’s agencies attempted to hastily gather the Taliban leaders to select Omar’s deputy as the new Amirul Momineen, further exposing the relationship. But the Taliban’s fighting faction, freed of Mullah Omar’s ghost edicts supporting talks, and fearful of losing ground to the self-styled ‘Islamic State’ (IS), escalated its attacks within Afghanistan, particularly against targets in Kabul.

Under pressure to avoid blame for the security failures in Kabul, and aware that Islamabad was no longer able to deliver the Taliban to the negotiating table, President Ghani took the easy route of placing all the blame on Pakistan. His Aug 10 statement was indistinguishable from Karzai’s familiar diatribes against Pakistan. Chief Executive Abdullah and other factions joined him in whipping up the anti-Pakistan animus. The ‘gathering’ of Taliban leaders to choose Mullah Mansour as Omar’s successor was used as a basis to extrapolate that Pakistan maintained Taliban sanctuaries and bomb-making factories, and connived in the Taliban attacks. Ghani declared that he did not want Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the table but to “prosecute” them.Kabul was the scene of orchestrated demonstrations against Pakistan, the burning of Pakistan’s national flag, calls for boycott of trade with and even ‘jihad’ against Pakistan. A demand was made that an Afghan delegation be immediately received by Pakistan’s prime minister and army chief.Instead of protesting Kabul’s unsubstantiated charges and demanding an apology for the desecration of Pakistan’s national flag, Pakistan’s leadership meekly received the angry Afghan delegation to clear the “misunderstanding” ( to quote Sartaj Aziz).

Pakistan will be able to evoke respect for its national interests only if it respects its own dignity and honour. Pakistan should demand an apology from Kabul for the desecration of its national flag and a retraction of the wild accusations voiced by Ghani and other Afghan leaders. If they desire a trade boycott, Pakistan should fulfil their wish and halt all trans-shipment and transit until they reverse their hostility.At the strategic level too, there is need for a careful policy review to deal with an Afghanistan that is likely to be embroiled in chaos and conflict for some time. Pakistan should: first, secure its border against TTP and BLA infiltration from Afghan territory; second, devise strategies to eliminate their safe havens in Afghanistan; third, promote coherence among the Afghan Taliban; and, fourth, work with China, Russia, the US, Iran and Saudi Arabia to resume the Kabul-Taliban talks and insulate Afghanistan from infiltration by the IS.The debacle on the west is intimately related to the disturbing developments in the east. Apart from working to scuttle a Pakistan-Afghan rapprochement, India has rejected Pakistan’s endeavours to resume the ‘composite dialogue’ and exerted direct pressure on Pakistan to keep it on the diplomatic and military defensive — thus the Line of Control (LoC) violations, threatening statements and the hostile media and diplomatic campaigns.
Instead of a muscular response, Pakistan has virtually endorsed the Indian premises for normalisation in the Ufa statement by restricting the Pakistan-India talks to terrorism, evoking public denunciation within the country and disappointment from Kashmiri leaders.The Gurdaspur incident, on the eve of the scheduled terrorism talks, is no accident. Indian agencies are past masters at stage-managing such events to suit their purpose. The Indian media has been unleashed to pin blame for this incident also on Pakistan. Yet, Pakistan’s national security adviser plans to walk blithely into this Indian entrapment in New Delhi next week.Instead of submitting to Modi’s agenda, Pakistan should remind the world that: Kashmir remains a nuclear flashpoint and must be addressed, bilaterally or multilaterally; that India’s arms build-up will oblige Pakistan to respond appropriately; and that the danger of a disastrous conflict can be avoided only through a comprehensive dialogue encompassing Kashmir and reciprocal arms control between Pakistan and India.

The Afghan First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum joined the Afghan security institutions and top government officials for blaming Pakistan’s military intelligence for the ongoing violence in the country.

Gen. Dostum is currently in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan to coordinate military operations against the anti-government armed militant groups amid deteriorating security situation in this province.

He said the Pakistani military generals and the country’s powerful military intelligence – Inter service Intelligence (ISI) are plotting and coordinating attacks across Afghanistan, under the name of al Qaeda, Islamic State affiliates and Taliban militants.

According to Gen. Dostum, the ongoing violence in Afghanistan could end only if Pakistan’s military and ISI truely coopeate with the Afghan government.

Ramesh wrote:Rediff reporting explosion in pakjab. Home minister buried.

7 killed in Pakistan as blast hits Punjab Home Minister’s office
The blast brought down the roof of the office building and around 20 to 25 people, including the minister, were buried under rubble.
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