Bharat Rakshak

MALSIABAD: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that Britain will support Pakistan in solving the problem the country is facing at the moment.. Hague offered to assist Pakistan in developing a counter-terrorism strategy. He further applauded the first ever democratic transition of power in Pakistan and said that Britain will try to maintain the relationship with Pakistan.. On the topic of police investigations into a money laundering case related to the MQM, Hague said that the matter relates to the police who are looking into it. Talking about trade and investment between the two countries, National Security and Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz said,. Aziz said that trade between Pakistan and UK amounted to $3 billion and he saw it increasing to $5 billion in the times to come. He said that Pakistan wants inclusion in GSP Plus and a greater access to EU market and stressed that UK’s support in the matter was appreciated. “In coming years, we hope, we will have enhanced strategic dialogue to deal with security, economic and political issues,” Aziz said. He added that while the government was looking into reports of some Taliban members moving to Syria, he reiterated that the government had nothing to do with movement of Taliban personnel. Aziz said that he will be visiting Kabul on Saturday.

PAKISTAN / RAWALPINDI: A North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft infiltrated Pakistan’s airspace on Wednesday and flew around for a duration of five to six minutes, Express News reported.They were in breach of Pakistan’s laws, reported Express News. Later, military sources contradicted the news saying that no such incident had occurred.They said there was no question of airspace violation by the coalition forces aircraft operating in Afghanistan.Earlier, an airstrike on Pakistani border posts in November 2011 in the Salala area of Mohmand Agency had killed two dozen Pakistani border guards, an event that had sunk the Pakistan-American relation to an all-time low.United States blamed the cause of the incident on mistakes made by both sides.NATO helicopters had pounded a Pakistani checkpost for hours despite attempts by Pakistani troops to communicate with the NATO forces that they were friendly forces.

partha wrote:Pakistanis are claiming Turkey has decided to invest $1B in Pakistan. Of course, I could not find any Turkish source or Turkish news portals carrying this news. Only Pakistanis. So expect another denial.

arun wrote:The Islamic Republic of Pakistan via its Finance Minister, claims a Civil Nuclear Technology deal with the US is under discussion:

Pak US agree to discuss civil nuclear technology: Ishaq Dar

The US promptly denies the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s claims with regard to having agreed to discussions on civil nuclear technology :

No discussion on civil nuclear technology with Pakistan: US

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday said that Pakistan and United States have agreed to hold dialogue on cooperation in civil nuclear technology. {The Pakis should already realize there is a difference between chai-biskoot and reality. Haven't the Yindians given them sufficient training?}

Later, the minister told media that the US delegation has expressed willingness to invest in bio-energy sector in Pakistan to overcome power crisis. {Harnessing Pindi Chana explosions onlee}

Jhujar wrote:Pious Witesses of Nato Penetration in PakiProtectedSpace

NATO aircraft penetrates Pakistani "Air"-space(Mush Ka Doosra Naam )

PAKISTAN / RAWALPINDI: A North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft infiltrated Pakistan’s airspace on Wednesday and flew around for a duration of five to six minutes, Express News reported.They were in breach of Pakistan’s laws, reported Express News. Later, military sources contradicted the news saying that no such incident had occurred.They said there was no question of airspace violation by the coalition forces aircraft operating in Afghanistan.Earlier, an airstrike on Pakistani border posts in November 2011 in the Salala area of Mohmand Agency had killed two dozen Pakistani border guards, an event that had sunk the Pakistan-American relation to an all-time low.United States blamed the cause of the incident on mistakes made by both sides.NATO helicopters had pounded a Pakistani checkpost for hours despite attempts by Pakistani troops to communicate with the NATO forces that they were friendly forces.

ramana wrote:

partha wrote:Pakistanis are claiming Turkey has decided to invest $1B in Pakistan. Of course, I could not find any Turkish source or Turkish news portals carrying this news. Only Pakistanis. So expect another denial.

Where does Turkey have $1B to throw away in TSP?

It’s not surprising that this tussle, alongwith the latest revelation by an officer that the Indian government was involved both in the 26/11 and Parliament attacks, has been lapped up very willingly by the Pakistan media.

SSridhar wrote: Vipul, can you give a gist of what Praveen swami said in these programmes ? TIA.

PESHABWAR: A senior Pakistani Taliban commander has written to Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist shot by militants urging her to return home and join a madrassa.{Hmmm}...

In an open letter released Wednesday, Adnan Rasheed, a former air force member turned TTP cadre, said he personally wished the attack had not happened, but accused her of running a "smearing campaign" against the them.

"It is amazing that you are shouting for education, you and the UNO (UN) is pretending that you were shot due to education, although this is not the reason ... not the education but your propaganda was the issue," Rasheed wrote.{AoA to that}

"What you are doing now, you are using your tongue on the behest of the others."

He accused Malala of seeking to promote an education system begun by the British colonialists to produce "Asians in blood but English in taste" and said students should study Islam and not what it called the "satanic or secular curriculum".

"I advise you to come back home, adopt the Islamic and Pashtun culture, join any female Islamic madrassa near your home town {Bismillah !}, study and learn the book of Allah, use your pen for Islam {She has a PEN ! }and plight of Muslim ummah (community)," Rasheed wrote.

The letter, written in English...

Gagan wrote: Vipul, is there a link to the Siddarth Dhanrajgir program?

The early warning signs should have been clear at passport control when the woman there rifled through my passport, asked “You’ve been to Pakistan?” and quickly sifted me through to the interrogation room where everyone incidentally was either Arab or Muslim. My fears of racial and religious discrimination, instead of being proven overblown and hyped up as I had hoped, were quickly justified.The “guilty until proven innocent” ordeal began with a brief period of questioning about my personal details and motives in visiting and lasted for ten hours in which I was questioned four times. The perpetrator was a blond woman who seemed eager to prove right all the stereotypes I had ever held about Israelis. Indeed on this occasion, I would like to quote from “Naughty Nomad”, an infamous traveller whose advice I quite closely follow:“The worst thing were the attitudes. Israeli women are forced into the army for two years and many come out the other end as little monsters…”The interrogators read all my WhatsApp and text messages in a blatant violation of privacy while they repeatedly insisted they knew I was up to something untoward and threatened me with severe consequences if I didn’t inform them of my hitherto unknown plan. Of course, these claims were made with no evidence whatsoever, and despite my calm exterior, left me incredibly flustered. As expected, exactly what I feared transpired and I was told that I would be denied entry to the state of Israel upon a “security risk”.My luggage was put through an “explosion detection” machine and after an uncomfortably thorough body search, I was hounded into a van with two security guards. They drove me for five minutes into a gated, white building surrounded by huge fences that one would only accord to a jail or a police station. The doors in our cells were without knobs, the windows were double barred and the rooms incredibly humid and damp – a fact made worse by the presence of six individuals in mine. We all had to make do on small bunk beds covered by furry grey blankets. And thus, it was like this that we were left that night – hungry, thirsty and worried without any fresh water, without any food and unable to sleep a wink due to the heat.
At times during my brief stay, the calls of “hanzeer” (pigs) by the Arabs holed up with me in reference to the Jewish race almost resonated with me and yet, if a solution is to be found to this conflict, the rational amongst us must ensure that we don’t fall blindly into the same category of bigotry and hatred of which the Israelis are guilty

KARAN-KII: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) on Wednesday evening disconnected power supply to Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) because of outstanding payment of Rs930 million, Geo News reported.KESC spokesman said PSM has to pay Rs550 million, out of Rs930 million outstanding dues today, however, it failed to do so. As a result, the utility company cut power supply to Steel Mills.Meanwhile, PSM spokesman said they will pay Rs100 million to KESC on Thursday. He said cut in power supply will cause billions of loss to Steel Mills.The spokesman said it will take two to three days to restart the plants of the mill.

Jhujar wrote:

SSridhar wrote:The PSM issue would flare up every time Mian Nawaz Sharif assumes power.

When you are a country without education, culture or integrity you will also have complete and total breakdown of law and civil behaviour. We are now buffeted daily by random killings, bombing, mayhem, murders, looting and all the ills that identify a failed society.

partha wrote:

SSridhar wrote:The PSM issue would flare up every time Mian Nawaz Sharif assumes power.

SSji, Pak Gobermint has announced that they want to sell PSM to a private party. Cutting electricity seems to be a part of this plan. Shutdown the plant and put out a for sale advt.

Jhujar wrote:Deported from Israel for being a Muslim who visited Pakistan

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The early warning signs should have been clear at passport control when the woman there rifled through my passport, asked “You’ve been to Pakistan?” and quickly sifted me through to the interrogation room where everyone incidentally was either Arab or Muslim. My fears of racial and religious discrimination, instead of being proven overblown and hyped up as I had hoped, were quickly justified.The “guilty until proven innocent” ordeal began with a brief period of questioning about my personal details and motives in visiting and lasted for ten hours in which I was questioned four times. The perpetrator was a blond woman who seemed eager to prove right all the stereotypes I had ever held about Israelis. Indeed on this occasion, I would like to quote from “Naughty Nomad”, an infamous traveller whose advice I quite closely follow:“The worst thing were the attitudes. Israeli women are forced into the army for two years and many come out the other end as little monsters…”The interrogators read all my WhatsApp and text messages in a blatant violation of privacy while they repeatedly insisted they knew I was up to something untoward and threatened me with severe consequences if I didn’t inform them of my hitherto unknown plan. Of course, these claims were made with no evidence whatsoever, and despite my calm exterior, left me incredibly flustered. As expected, exactly what I feared transpired and I was told that I would be denied entry to the state of Israel upon a “security risk”.My luggage was put through an “explosion detection” machine and after an uncomfortably thorough body search, I was hounded into a van with two security guards. They drove me for five minutes into a gated, white building surrounded by huge fences that one would only accord to a jail or a police station. The doors in our cells were without knobs, the windows were double barred and the rooms incredibly humid and damp – a fact made worse by the presence of six individuals in mine. We all had to make do on small bunk beds covered by furry grey blankets. And thus, it was like this that we were left that night – hungry, thirsty and worried without any fresh water, without any food and unable to sleep a wink due to the heat.
At times during my brief stay, the calls of “hanzeer” (pigs) by the Arabs holed up with me in reference to the Jewish race almost resonated with me and yet, if a solution is to be found to this conflict, the rational amongst us must ensure that we don’t fall blindly into the same category of bigotry and hatred of which the Israelis are guilty

KARACHI : Money is time, time is money.

Or so goes the saying, one that thirty-eight-year old Faisal Naveed Asif firmly believes in.

“There will always, always be people who need to travel fast,” says the CEO of Scaled Aviation Industries, the only lightweight aircraft maker in the country’s private sector, as he recalls the example of a Lahore-based surgeon who wanted to visit patients in rural Punjab and be back home by the evening. “We have identified a market which is just going to [keep growing].”

According to Asif, the fuel efficiency of his company’s Bombardier Rotax engine-driven plane, built to run on petrol, is more than the Cessna. After the company started marketing its planes in 2009, it has been making sales regularly.

“We are making 23% of the airframes locally,” he says. “This includes landing gears, internal seating, flaps and other components.”

Scaled Aviation manufactures and markets the aircraft under licence with Kolb, which has been acquired by ATR Aircraft.

ISLAMABAD : The government on Thursday turned down a request of Pakistan Railways that the state bear the burden of $112 million (about Rs11.5 billion) worth of debt liabilities that the sinking enterprise owes to China, which is feared to worsen the financial condition of the corporation.

Federal Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique asked the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet, in a meeting held on Thursday, to take on the $112 million debt as the railways was not able to service it, officials say. The railways had obtained the loan from China’s Export-Import Bank for procurement.

However, the government refused to bail out the railways. On the contrary, it approved a Rs7 billion life line for Pakistan International Airlines last week.

The railways wanted its debt to be made part of the national debt aimed at cleaning its books. However, ECC Chairman Ishaq Dar, who is also the finance minister, rejected the request, arguing that after Pakistan Railways other entities would also start seeking similar treatment.

The country’s total public debt has already crossed Rs14.5 trillion or 63.5% of gross domestic product, far above the ceiling of 60%. End March 2013 Total Debt = Pak Rs. 1,5445.7 Billion. Expected End June 2013 (End of FY) = Pak Rs. 16,200 Billion. GDP = Pak Rs. 22,909.11 Billion. So Debt on 30-06-2013 about 70.7%

Pakistan Railways is facing acute financial problems and is unable to pay salaries and pensions to its employees without seeking grants from the government. Last week, the government gave a grant of Rs500 million to the railways for repairing out-of-order locomotives.

Nandu wrote:Pakistan to try to mend fences with Afghanistan
Sartaj Aziz visiting Kabul. I doubt there will be any fence mending.

Peregrine wrote:'ere we go, 'ere we go - Again

Fly away : Producing planes in Pakistan

According to Asif, the fuel efficiency of his company’s Bombardier Rotax engine-driven plane, built to run on petrol, is more than the Cessna. After the company started marketing its planes in 2009, it has been making sales regularly.

Peregrine wrote:Offer derailed : Govt refuses to take on $112m Pak Railways debt

Peregrine wrote:This raises the question “How will the Govt of India ensure that it gets paid for the Electricity, Natural Gas, Refined Petroleum Products etc. etc. & etc. in the light of Pak Railways defaulting on the Debt to the Chinese to the tune of US$ 112 Million?”

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has asked India to clarify its position over the recent revelations by an Indian government officer that the 2001 Parliament and 2008 Mumbai attacks were engineered by New Delhi.Foreign ministry spokesperson Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry confirmed on Thursday that Pakistan’s High Commissioner in New Delhi contacted the Indian government over the startling disclosure.The issue, according to sources, was also raised by Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani during a meeting with newly-appointed Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Raghavan. The Indian envoy met the foreign secretary to officially take charge of his new responsibilities on Thursday.Separately, Federal Information Minister for Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rasheed said Pakistan would give its reaction once it formally received the Indian response.Last week, a former officer of the Indian home ministry alleged that Indian government orchestrated the two high-profile terrorist attacks – for which New Delhi has officially held Pakistan-based militant groups responsible.According to India’s Times of India (TOI) newspaper, RVS Mani, who as home ministry under-secretary signed the affidavits submitted in court in the Ishrat Jahan ‘fake encounter case’, said that Satish Verma, a former member of the Central Bureau of Investigation-SIT probe team, told him that both the 2001 attack on Indian parliament and the 2008 Mumbai attacks were set up with the objective of strengthening counter-terror legislation.Mani maintained that according to Verma, the attack on the Indian Parliament was followed by the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act and the attacks in Mumbai were followed by an amendment to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.According to a foreign ministry official, Foreign Secretary Jilani and the new Indian high commissioner also discussed prospects of resumption of third-round of composite dialogue between the two countries. The official disclosed that the third round was expected to begin soon as the two sides were finalising roadmap for the series of meetings at the official level.

Let’s go further, to page 130, and be horrified that the air chief was woken by the COAS at 0207 on May 2nd and asked to “scramble” his aircraft to shoot down the intruders “over Abbottabad”, by which time the Americans were well away and having refueled at Kala Dhaka, well on their way to Afghanistan and the protection of the dozens of fighters and AWACs which were in the air. The PAF takes no responsibility at all, taking shelter behind the fact that Pakistan was a Non-Nato Ally of the US and they perceived no danger from the western border.

And now to a new and even greater danger: the launch of the Global Jihad from this poor country which is just trying to scrape along given its moronic institutions (see above). The TTP have proudly announced (and then withdrawn their announcement as they are wont to do to keep the State destabilised) that they are soon going to be in Syria — some reports suggest they are already there — to help the Islamic (read Sunni) fighters against the Alawite (read Shia) regime of President Bashar alAssad.I am not surprised. On April 5, 2011 I wrote in Dawn: “Let’s say it straight: why will their apologists not understand that the Taliban and their friends and associates … Al Qaeda or Hizbut Tahrir or Al-Muhajiroun or Afghan Taliban or Pakistani Taliban … are all linked … and are in the business of taking over the state of Pakistan, a first step to global jihad? And that they will kill and maim all who come in their way: innocent men and women and children; our army soldiers; our police, even their own apologists such as Maulana Fazlur Rehman simply because he too is a part of the organised state.”On September 8, 2012, in “If only if”, published in this same space, I had said to IK when he was threatening to take 100,000 people to South Waziristan in a peace march and which ended up a damp squib before they even got to Fata:
“Does he understand that the Jihadi arms of the Deep State, nurtured and protected like favourite sons, ARE the problem? He wants to go to Waziristan with a 100,000-strong caravan to show solidarity with the ordinary, lay people there. But what about the Jihadis, many of them foreigners with only one aim: the takeover of the State of Pakistan/launching Global Jihad and setting up the Caliphate? I doubt it.”
And yet again in my piece, “Ambushes and talks” in this same space, I had written clearly that while I was being shouted down by my fellow panelists on a talk show on Dunya TV, I did manage to say that once the Americans were gone from the region, the TTP would turn its guns upon the world through Pakistan. I also refuted their Ghairatmand argument that all of the TTP were actually loyal sons of Pakistan, and said that large numbers were Uzbeks and Tajiks and Chechens and Arabs and Indonesians and Somalis; even Uighur Chinese whose agenda was the takeover of the state and the start of the Global Jihad from this hapless, helpless country.Well, let’s see where this particular Tsunami takes us ….
P.S: Would that the Abbottabad Commission had asked the FO/MOI who issued Umar Patek a visa. Or, many years ago, Richard Reid the shoe bomber, or Jose Padilla the Dirty Bomber, both low-life, filthy criminals of no fixed abode who visited the Citadel of Islam several times each before they did their dirty work?!

Hate is a powerful sentiment, much more powerful than love. Unabated and unrestricted, it can wreak havoc in your personal life; you can lose your family, friends, job and even your children. However, if it is a symbol of national pride and the only emotion that can bind us together, it can be tremendously ‘useful’. That is why we Pakistanis love to hate everybody in the world. From Japan in the Far East to Alaska in the US, and from the North Pole to Antarctica, we abhor almost every country across the globe except (maybe) Saudi Arabia and China. I wanted to add Iran and North Korea in the list of our favourite nations, but I guess they have become too controversial after our last ‘business deal’ with them regarding a stolen technology.Theologically speaking, we hate every other religion in the world, including (but not limited to) Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism and Christianity. Nevertheless, we ‘pray’ for their followers; we implore them to listen closely to their hearts and look for the ultimate reality beyond the comforts of their mundane lives. We are certain that deep down their conscience always tells them about the truth and they realise the fallaciousness of their ideology. But, they are hesitant to concede because they are scared of their society, their families and their friends. Yet, if they really hate lies and fabrication in religion, their fear will evaporate in no time, and they will, without question, turn towards the enlightened path and eternal bliss. In this journey, our job is to help them, and we should never leave them alone as faith is not a personal matter between them and their God, it is a social issue. We have to try our best to show them the right path, at least once. After that, we need to attempt once more by taking them to the ‘appropriate’ place of worship, and after that, may be one more time by letting them talk to the appropriate preacher. Even with all that well intended hard work, if they do not acknowledge their shortcomings, we can in that case of stubbornness just tell them to burn in hell forever and withdraw our sincere efforts immediately. In future, we have to stay away from such sinners to protect ourselves from their satanic influence.Considering it as one of our major problems, we also detest sectarianism. We hate plurality of ideas and loathe diversity in religion. We believe it is against our fundamental beliefs to have conflicting points of view. Therefore, we urge everyone to make an effort to bring unity and peace in our country. To achieve this goal, we would like everyone to join our sect, and in the name of God leave their questionable beliefs aside. In this way, we would not only be able to get rid of blasphemy, apostasy, heresy and innovations in our faith, we would also set the precedent for other nations to prosper spiritually and advance their metaphysical powers up to the celestial bodies beyond our universe.
I am afraid so-called modernisation will become fatal for our future if we fail to recognise the threat. So beware folks, in reality, all progressives hate religious people (God forbid) and as agents of Zionism they accuse all of us of fundamentalism, terrorism and religious bigotry. We should never keep quiet in response to their allegations, and always confront them with the truth. We should tell them they are not moderates (since we are the moderates). They are in fact liberals, the fascists who are going to burn in hell along with infidels for a long time. Liberals should also know there is no place for them in our society. They are the trouble makers, western agents with vested interests. Even the ‘semi secular’ Jamaat-e-Islami agrees with this assertion and its Ameer finally has pronounced on television that Pakistan is for the people of (single) faith only. In my opinion, the cure for this disease of enlightenment is simple: compulsory education of everyone in the madrassas for 10 years straight. And by the Grace of the Almighty we are working on it.In the end, when all other measures fail to bring victory for us, we just have to pray for Armageddon, by which we mean near complete annihilation of the human race except the rightly guided souls. Ordinarily, it can be considered as a disturbing idea, an event that we should all pray really hard to avoid and ask the Almighty to protect all human beings from its devastation, but as the people of right faith, we demand just the opposite. We look for the signs of the end of days everywhere. We discuss it at great length on television; we go through all the religious texts — even those that we claim to be untrue — to find its clues in modern times and keep it close to our hearts as the last sign of optimism. For us, all those who would suffer and die in the process would suffer and die fighting for evil, and would therefore get the treatment they had chosen for themselves. We cannot be responsible for their acts.As you can imagine now, a tremendous amount of hate boils in our hearts and is all good because it determines our resolve and ignites our national spirit. It helps us attack minorities through false allegations of blasphemy, apostasy and heresy. It is also one of the few assets, besides population, corruption and terrorism that is growing at break neck speed in our country. We should always encourage it.