More like a husband asking his wife"whose baby is in the tummy".Anujan wrote:Certain deep philosophical questions about the picture, OT for this dhaaga but completely in the domain of BENIS have already been asked
Translation: "Shut the f*** up and listen to me, or else I will s***w your happiness"Anujan wrote:
Can someone translate the Urdu caption?
What is so startling about it? I think if these people stop conning the world in general and Americans in particular, the world will be a better place. This is a very common thing in Porkistan and every one knows it. Obama knows and calls Pakistan a cancer, but still goes ahead and gives billions along with F-16s. What do you expect?shynee wrote:$133m cash to Pakistan missing: LugarWASHINGTON: The author of the Kerry-Lugar Bill, Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has made a startling disclosure that about $133 million given as “cash aid” to Pakistan had not reached the displaced persons (of Swat and Malakand) as intended.
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Senator Lugar, raising the issue seriously at the hearing, referred to the US Inspector General’s report for 2009 programme which said $44 million in cash transfer funds had not reached the IDPs. Likewise, Lugar revealed that staff visits earlier this month found similar concerns exist for $89 million cash transfer programme initiated earlier this year
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/daw ... cjp--bi-02shravan wrote:Defence Minister considers corruption as a 'right'
QUETTA: The Minister of State for Defence, Abdul Qayyum Jatoi, has said that corruption is the right of every individual, SAMAA reported Saturday.
"There should be equality in corruption. All should be given their due share."
Meaning--"Will take dictation and then blame government for it"Anujan wrote:
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh27 ... hphuck.jpg
Can someone translate the Urdu caption?
linkDiscouraging fashionable clothes: Varsity introduces dress code for girl students
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University has decided to strictly implement a dress code, prescribed only for girl students, to discourage display of ‘fashionable clothes.’
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Girls from rich families have made attending university like a fashion show. They wear new dresses everyday. This trend has caused other students to go into a (inferiority) complex. The length of the uniform is going to be such that it would not show their clothes,” he added.
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However, when asked whether it was not discriminatory as there was no uniform for the boy students, he argued that girls had a natural tendency to go for fashionable clothes while boys could just manage to wear one suite for a week
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That's a little extreme and unnecessary.A_Gupta wrote:I would strongly recommend BRFers taking the video down from whereever they have it posted. If it fades into the background, then perhaps it will not encourage dirty tricks.
Some where some mentioned that the area/location resembles some place like "Court House" or ground in SWAT. The faujis were Punjabi and asking the kids to do dua and say kalima. Who else they can be?A_Gupta wrote:Re: Swat video
Also posted here.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af8_1285266157
Started watching it. In the first 12 seconds for most of the time, there is an overexposed sky in the background. But between seconds 11 and 12 there seems to be a large red brick edifice in the background. Looks like a building with trees around it.
Imran Farooq, a founding leader of the Pakistani political party the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which represents much of Karachi's Urdu-speaking population, was stabbed to death outside his home in northwest London, where he has been living in exile since the 1990s....
A longer quote on the matter by Abdul Qayyum Jatoi who apparently has lost his Ministerial berth:shravan wrote:Defence Minister considers corruption as a 'right'
QUETTA: The Minister of State for Defence, Abdul Qayyum Jatoi, has said that corruption is the right of every individual, SAMAA reported Saturday.
"There should be equality in corruption. All should be given their due share."
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Jatoi ousted over attack on CJP, Army
* Minister had called CJP’s domicile fake, blamed army for Bugti’s killing
ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: State Minister for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Jatoi tendered his resignation on Saturday after failing to satisfy Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani over his hostile remarks about the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) and the army. Addressing a press conference at Bugti House in Quetta, Jatoi had alleged that the CJP possessed a fake domicile of Balochistan, and that the army was involved in the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti. ……………………
“The right of corruption was given to specific people and I believe that everyone whether he is a Baloch, Sindhi, Seraiki, Pashtun or Punjabi should be given an equal right to do corruption,” …………………..
Daily Times
What is the context? You just say this out of the blueAcharya wrote:BraHmos will be used to take out high value targets like Pakistani army chief General Kiyani placed in karachi, 320 km from Bhuj.
.Check the Indian army threadCRamS wrote:
What is the context? You just say this out of the blue
Weighing options
There is no denying it. Some sort of political change is now inevitable in Pakistan. But what and when are moot. Consider the omens.
Nawaz Sharif has finally declared that some sort of constitutional political change is needed sooner than later in order to thwart the increasing possibility of unconstitutional intervention to set governance right. He is also hinting that his PMLN is not interested in forming a coalition government in Islamabad right now with the help of discredited fair weather friends.
That suggests two possibilities: either lend support to a vote of no-confidence against the Zardari government and compel new elections immediately or lean on the Zardari regime to pull up its socks, straighten out the economy by taking some hard decisions, remove some contentious or corrupt ministers and promise an election in 2012 instead of the one scheduled in 2013.
The first option is a non-starter for two reasons: this is not the right season for elections because the prevailing public sentiment is decidedly anti-politician and anti-sham-democracy. In the event, a low voter turnout is likely to hurt the PMLN rather than the PPP because its conservative vote bank is split into four factions representing the PMLN, PMLQ, APML and TI. Also, no politician in his right mind would want to be in the driving seat when hard belt-tightening economic decisions are bound to provoke an anti-government backlash from most sections of society.
Therefore the second option is more attractive from Mr Sharif’s point of view. It will set some of the parameters of the economy right for the long term but make the Zardari regime even more unpopular in the short term, thereby ensuring smooth sailing for the PMLN in the next elections and government.
The other signs of change are more ominous. The Supreme Court is not pulling its punches any more. After lying dormant for three months, the cases against President Asif Zardari have been urgently revived. The petition in the Lahore High Court challenging his right to hold two offices – that of the head of the PPP and President of Pakistan – has been supplemented by another petition claiming that he was not qualified to be President of Pakistan from the outset because of his political position as the chairman of the PPP. The other case, in which the SC had earlier ordered the government to write to the Swiss authorities and revive the money laundering case against Mr Zardari, has also been put on fast track by two aggressive moves: the original 5-member bench headed by Justice Nasir ul Mulk has been whittled down to a three member bench headed by the Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry himself, and an ad-hoc judge, Justice Rabbani, has been opted into it – the implication is obvious enough; the federal law secretary has been given short shrift and ordered to advise the prime minister to write the letter or face charges of contempt of court. He has now advised the PM that Pakistan cannot surrender its sovereignty by asking a foreign country to prosecute its president, supreme commander of the armed forces, head of state and indivisible part of a sovereign parliament.
The courts are also putting on the pressure by other means: two suo motu notices have been given, one to examine charges of political manipulation of flood water breaches by Sindh politicians allied to the Zardari government; and the other to investigate corruption charges against the federal water and power ministry in sanctioning dubious rental power projects with unduly high power-selling rates.
A dangerous gridlock is clearly developing between the SC and the Zardari regime. In consequence, Yousaf Raza Gilani, the prime minister thundered in parliament the other day that the cabinet would not accept any “unconstitutional” decision or order by the SC that violates the sacred “sovereignty” of parliament and constitution. He wants an accountability law that targets generals, judges and bureaucrats no less than the vilified politicians in the dock today. President Zardari has also held meetings with his party’s hawks and told them to shore up their defenses for resistance, saying “I will not go quietly into the night!”
But the footnotes in the thunder of the president and prime minister must not be missed. They say they are ready to take a fresh look at their economic and political mismanagement and even change some of their most controversial ministerial captains to appease their critics. In order words, put their house in order, cut wasteful expenditures, plug corruption and take the hard economic decisions needed to save Pakistan from going down the tube.
Will they reform themselves or will they have to be pushed and shoved out of business? A vote of no-confidence is certainly possible if a couple of Mr Zardari’s coalition parties like the MQM and FATA switch sides. But it won’t beget a new coalition government if Mr Sharif, who fields the second largest chunk of parliamentary votes, is not on board. The critical factor here is that Mr Sharif and Mr Zardari are obliged to weigh their options in a dynamic setting because the military and SC are also simultaneously weighing theirs against all politicians.
Islamabad, Sep 26 (IANS) Pakistan should immediately stop its 'one-sided' deficit trade with 'enemy' India which is only enabling it to buy more arms to threaten Pakistan and oppress the Kashmiri people, an editorial in a Pakistani daily said Sunday.
'For the last three years, Pakistan is carrying on one-sided trade with India under which at least 100 Indian trucks loaded with goods enter Pakistan every day but in all this period, not one Pakistani truck has gone to India,' the editorial in the Nawa-i-Waqt said.
'India is using the money earned from such trade to buy all kinds of arms from all around the world and is testing them on the Kashmiri people,' it said.
In the increasingly unstable world and open Indian ambitions of the Indian Ocean, the demand for naval competence and capability for the Pakistan Navy becomes a vital bottleneck for Pakistan's national security and foreign policy. The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Noman Basheer however, is busy filling his private coffers. With close ties and in partnership with Pakistani President Asif Zardari, a billionaire known infamously in Pakistan as Mr. 10%, CNS Noman Basheer is filling his pockets with the nation's meager treasures.
Rumors suggest that this corrupt PN officer is slated to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. This will not be the first PN officer to disgrace the Pakistani nation - he is following the illustrious career of CNS Mansoor who made his fortune in the infamous Agosta 90B deal with France
Much to the chagrin of the Pakistani people, the amusement does not end here - the CNS is now calling to cancel the Gwader Port contract and "hand it over to the Chinese", whatever that vague phrase means. For those who know, it means strangulating yet another strategic project for Pakistan, as if the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline deal's indefinite postponement was not treason enough.
Here is an earlier account recorded by HRW from a local resident of Swat of an extra judicial killing which bears a great deal of similarity to the events shown in the video above:
Another resident told Human Rights Watch: “On February 16, 2010, the army shot all four dead in the area of the Grid Station in the town. We heard the shots that killed these individuals. The corpses of Mullah Banorey and Mullah Shanko were tied behind military vehicles and dragged publicly in the areas of Char Bagh, Bagh Dheri, and Matta as warning. The people were encouraged to spit at and throw garbage on the bodies of the two dead Taliban commanders, who were feared and hated. But the entire local population knew that Saleem and Murad were innocent. Why did the army kill them?”
Since September 2009, when the Pakistani military re-established control over the valley, Human Rights Watch has received numerous credible reports of extrajudicial executions allegedly committed by soldiers operating in Swat or police acting at the behest of the military. Human Rights Watch has since February researched alleged human rights violations in Swat based on an initial list of 238 suspicious killings provided by local sources and the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Human Rights Watch has corroborated about 50 of these cases. In no case examined by Human Rights Watch was a killing falsely reported, suggesting that the total number of killings is as high as or greater than those reported. The information for each case includes names or numbers of victims, place names, and dates. To date, the Pakistani military has not held any of the perpetrators accountable for these killings.
Brad Goodman wrote:Pakistan Navy Chief Corruption Puts Navy at Risk
Pakistan needs more IslamCNS Admiral Noman Basheer would do well to remember the Iranian revolution and what happened to the Shah's men. In the event that insh'Allah Pakistan becomes an Islamic State, those who have looted the nation are insh'Allah going to receive compensation for their services, as long as there is enough rope to hang them with, and enough trees to hang them from.
Once a week without fail, the Thar Express makes its way from the Karachi Cantonment Railway station to Zero Point in the Tharpaker Desert. Travelers from there on go to India to visit relatives, for business or simply explore the country they are so madly in love with. "You cannot take India out of the hearts of the people of Karachi," says Muhammad Mansuri, a seasoned journalist. One reason being that many of the people of the city — the Muhajirs (immigrants) trace their origins to parts in North India, particularly UP. That is why in Karachi areas have been named after places left behind: UP Morh, Benaras Chowk, Delhi Colony, Amroha Society — all places in this bustling city.
Trade continues despite all the hurdles. Almost every pan shop has the Pan Parag and Indian gutka. Indian brands are easily recognised. That is also because the most popular TV channel in the city is Star Plus.
"Thousands of people tune into Indian soaps every day," comments Muhammad Ayaz, a media planner, who says that this reality means that Pakistani advertisers are keen to plug their products on Indian channels. But the government will have none of it.
In fact, the local TV regulatory board has not only disallowed such advertising but also banned the airing of such channels. But enterprising cable operators still air them.
Most of the travel now is one way, with Indian nationals, by and large, staying away from Pakistan
At the same time, people of Karachi continue to go to India. Given the excessively tight foreign currency regime between the two countries, most travelers either buy Indian currency from local money changers or go for the "done" business.
In this, you go to one of the "done" shops in Motandas Market. Here you make a payment to the shopkeeper, who gives you a small parcel containing possibly handicrafts or even dry fruit. This you carry in your luggage. Once you have arrived in India, you ring the number provided, someone comes to collects the parcel and gives you the Indian equivalent of currency. It is strange system which has survived and benefitted many.{this is also useful for money laundering for terrorist activities}
Many people here live and breathe India. Indian movies do roaring business while people who bring in Indian clothes in their baggage are able to make a tidy sum by organising dress exhibitions.
Fashions for both the rich and poor are also drawn from Bollywood. It is said that the innovative movie shops here make sure that a film is "released" in Karachi on the same day as it is in India — albeit usually through a pirated print smuggled via Dubai.
With the India obsession, one can only wonder why the people of Karachi don't do more to enhance relations between the two countries. "We try our best and leave the rest to Islamabad," says Moina Niazi, a housewife. So far, that best has not been good enough, say others.
Let them dig their own goddamn grave..Let them publicize the video. Once it gets enough publicity and there would be an investigation..A_Gupta wrote:Re: Swat video - it is being presented as Indian troops killing Kashmiris, here:
http://www.kalam.tv/ur/video/44827/index.html
This is a Iranian channel/website iirc and i have a user account there. I will try sending a mail to the channel.A_Gupta wrote:Re: Swat video - it is being presented as Indian troops killing Kashmiris, here:
http://www.kalam.tv/ur/video/44827/index.html
Read the comments. No one seems to be fooled.Altair wrote:Do Indian Officers sport 6 inch beards???A_Gupta wrote:Re: Swat video - it is being presented as Indian troops killing Kashmiris, here:
http://www.kalam.tv/ur/video/44827/index.html
Let them dig their own goddamn grave..Let them publicize the video. Once it gets enough publicity and there would be an investigation..
