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JE Menon wrote:That editorial in DT is incredible. I wonder at the source of the confidence... can't be just China.

CRamS wrote:

SSridhar wrote:CRS, I appreciate you for going to such discussions/meetings and asking pointed questions. May your tribe increase.

Thx boss for the compliment. What pains me is that whenever I go to such events, and believe me, I have been to several, I don't understand why Indians are so coy to speak up for the crimes committed by TSP, and instead allow the India TSP equal equal narrative to be the dominant theme.

I guess what happens is that in these kinds of events, everyone, from TSP RAPE, to gora bahadurs, to Indians on the panel, they obsess about India's faults so much (heck even the shameful Dadri slaughter of a Muslim man came up yesterday; WTF has that got to do with India TSP tensions), that most of the Indians in the audience are feel ashamed.

Now, I don't mean to pat myself on the back, but the true test of one's Indian pride is to stand up during times like this, and take a stand even if you are dismissed as a "Hindu extremist" and laughed at. One pompous American woman and an African American student all but called me that yesterday. My hitting out at Raza Rumi struck a raw nerve, especially when I drew the 9/11 analogy because that hit home the anger of us Indians and clearly contrasted with TSP perfidy. (they asked me to apologize to Raza Rumi).

But as long as the TSP RAPE like Raza Rumi talk "piss" BS and how Indian media is fueling tensions, then the colonial bahadurs can sit and nod their heads in approval about how much India & TSP have in common but 2 like juveniles they squabble, and most of the examples given as symptoms of this never ending squabble are from India, which may have an indirect bearing, but have the effect of completely blanketing out TSP crimes, the actual source of the discord.

RajeshA wrote:

JE Menon wrote:That editorial in DT is incredible. I wonder at the source of the confidence... can't be just China.

Iran has moved in as was expected, now that it itself feels unshackled.Pakis are known to have a good sense of the direction of the breeze. Loyalty is not their strong suit.

KARACHI:

After almost half its term at the helm, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) still continues to fend off allegations of election rigging and dismissive remarks over the country’s economic performance. While the government blows the trumpet of increasing foreign exchange reserves, critics tend to be indifferent over the progress as well, terming most of it as plagued with debt and borrowing.

But a quick look at the timeline and accompanying notes reinforces the popTular view that the increase in SBP-held foreign exchange reserves is mostly on the back of money that the government has either raised from global investors or borrowed from international financial institutions.

In its many reports on the economy, the SBP has made it abundantly clear that it is not particularly fond of the government’s approach to shore up foreign exchange reserves on borrowed funds.

The dire situation on the external-sector front left PML-N’s economic wizard Ishaq Dar with no choice but to seek help from the IMF – the lender of last resort.

Lisa wrote:Interesting comparison

Is Erdogan turning Turkey into the new Pakistan?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... istan.html

Falijee wrote: In other words, ignore the dictum of "living within your means", spend on necessities of life only (food, shelter, education) and do not buy expensive toys (arms) from your favourite stores ( Massa, Chini -blothers, Ummahs ) which you do not need.

A_Gupta wrote:

Falijee wrote: In other words, ignore the dictum of "living within your means", spend on necessities of life only (food, shelter, education) and do not buy expensive toys (arms) from your favourite stores ( Massa, Chini -blothers, Ummahs ) which you do not need.

This is an old Pakjabi problem. In the British raj era, before Pakjab was Pak, the Musalman landlords of Punjab would famously live way beyond their means, and to finance a lavish lifestyle, would borrow money from the Hindu baniyas - for consumption, not for capital-formation. When they were unable to pay back the loans, there was the danger of the Hindu baniyas taking their land. But these were the "sword-arm" of the British Indian empire. So the British passed a law, the Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900, which essentially prevented the creditors from seizing land as payment of debts.

SLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) top leader and current Prime Minister of Pakistan has denied all the allegations of taking money from country’s top spy agency ISI.

According to media reports, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials contacted PM and investigated about Asghar Khan case.

To a question from investigation team, PM responded categorically that ‘neither received money nor any such offer from anyone.”

“Why should be blamed? only because someone mentioned my name in his diary?” PM responded.

Earlier, Asghar Khan, Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan had mentioned Nawaz Sharif including many other leaders for receiving money from spy agency in 1996.

A_Gupta wrote:

Falijee wrote: In other words, ignore the dictum of "living within your means", spend on necessities of life only (food, shelter, education) and do not buy expensive toys (arms) from your favourite stores ( Massa, Chini -blothers, Ummahs ) which you do not need.

This is an old Pakjabi problem. In the British raj era, before Pakjab was Pak, the Musalman landlords of Punjab would famously live way beyond their means, and to finance a lavish lifestyle, would borrow money from the Hindu baniyas - for consumption, not for capital-formation. When they were unable to pay back the loans, there was the danger of the Hindu baniyas taking their land. But these were the "sword-arm" of the British Indian empire. So the British passed a law, the Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900, which essentially prevented the creditors from seizing land as payment of debts.

ISLAMABAD: Asia Bibi, a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy, has been put in isolation over fears of attacks by vigilantes enraged over a high-profile ruling in another blasphemy case that moderates said struck a blow against religious extremism.

Prison officials and rights activists said this week that they were concerned for Asia Bibi's life due to the security threat and her worsening health.

The move comes after "genuine" threats to her life were issued in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that upheld the death sentence for Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who sought blasphemy law reform in a separate, high-profile case.

The mother-of-five, whose plight has prompted prayers from the Vatican, has been on death row since she was convicted in 2010 of committing blasphemy during an argument with a Muslim woman over a bowl of water.

Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan. The country has never executed anyone on the charge — but anyone convicted, or even just accused, of insulting Islam risks a violent and bloody death at the hands of vigilantes.

"She (Bibi) could be killed by any inmate or even a prison guard, so we have to be careful," a prison official told AFP.

A second official confirmed that Bibi had been isolated, adding: "We are concerned for her life."

The second official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said Bibi's health had deteriorated.

Rights activists and family sources also voiced concerns for Bibi's health and said she suffers from asthma.

Bibi denies the charges against her. The Supreme Court agreed in July to hear an appeal against her sentence, but no date has yet been set.

Bibi is being held in a cramped, windowless cell in a high security zone of the prison, where other death row inmates are confined, the prison official told AFP this week.

The official, who said she has come into contact with Bibi several times while serving her food, said she appears withdrawn.

"I found her either staring at the floor or coughing," she said, adding prison officials were reluctant to come into contact with the dishes Bibi used for fear of contracting her illness.

At one point, she said, Bibi was temporarily allowed to prepare her own food after she refused to eat prison meals fearing that officials would try to poison her.

Bibi's husband has written to President Mamnoon Hussain to ask for her to be pardoned and allowed to move to France.

Critics including European governments say Pakistan's blasphemy laws are often misused to settle personal scores.

Christians make up around 1.6 per cent of the country's 200 million people.

US Not Leaving Afghanistan Anytime Soon

WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Wednesday indicated the United States would maintain extra troops in Afghanistan beyond the end of next year.

Under current plans, the United States will draw-down its troop numbers by the end of 2016 from about 10,000 currently to a crew of only about 1,000.

Echoing remarks he made at a Nato meeting in Brussels last week, Carter said it was important for the United States “to formulate options for 2016 and beyond and make adjustments to the planned US presence based on current circumstances.”

The Obama administration has come under criticism for its planned withdrawal of forces, with opponents saying the move opens up Afghanistan to more attacks by the Taliban, who just two weeks ago captured the city of Kunduz.

A swift response by US-trained Afghan security forces led to an eventual Taliban retreat.

“It's important to say these things because the narrative that we're leaving Afghanistan is self-defeating,” Carter told an Army conference in Washington.

“We're not, we can't, and to do so would not be to take advantage of the success we've had to date.” Nato forces have been in Afghanistan since 2001.

Though the United States represents by far the largest contingent, Carter last week said several Nato defense ministers told him they were open to modifications to current plans.

SSridhar wrote:I am posting this editorial in DT today to show how much the Saudi-Pakistani relationship has slid. This could not have been expected even last year. This is the time for India to drive a wedge. We can no longer be mute spectators when it comes to Pakistan. Let us remember that Saudi-Pakistani relationship wasn't normal until mid 1960s.

Saudi defiance - Edit, DT

johneeG wrote:So, basically, Pakjabi landlords and Brits lived happily on Hindhu baniya money. Sounds like a dream for the pakjabis. I think they are hoping for a redux of this affair.

The lesson is not to trust the foreigners and to develop one's own arms.

ISLAMABAD: As the provinces start sowing Rabi crops, the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) is anticipating increase in water shortage to around 20 per cent, much higher than estimated a fortnight ago.
So the earlier numbers were fudged as usual !

Informed sources told Dawn on Tuesday that Irsa is considering requesting the provinces to prepare contingency plans in view of higher water shortage to cater for crop watering requirements.

The sources, however, said the regulator had to change its water estimates within a fortnight because river flows in the Indus and Kabul were not improving as anticipated and hence an adjustment in water probabilities would need to be made at the earliest to avoid loss to the crops at a later stage. The sources said the flows in the Jhelum region were moving almost in the same region as predicted earlier.

g.sarkar wrote:

Mihaylo wrote: Sorry for rehashing this, but the kulkarni madarc***d is wearing an Orange overcoat over a green kurta. This is no accident. Orange on the outside but green on the inside. Shove that book up his kundi sideways, I say.
On a side note, he looks like he shoved his face far up Kasuri's kundi and came out shining.
-M

Jo Lahore mein G@n*u so Mumbai mein bhi G@n*u.
Gautam

'Russians have historical relations with Syria. Russia is also concerned about the rise of Islamic State in Syria and this terrorist group is not only a threat to Syria or Iraq or countries of that region but it is threat to all mankind,” Asif said. Over the last 24 hours, Russia’s military aircraft have attacked positions of the Islamic State in the Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Raqqa provinces of Syria.

shiv wrote:I Tweeted the KSA embassy in Khan with a link
https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/654468063861932032

Falijee wrote: Water shortage worsens for Rabi crops

A_Gupta wrote:

Falijee wrote: In other words, ignore the dictum of "living within your means", spend on necessities of life only (food, shelter, education) and do not buy expensive toys (arms) from your favourite stores ( Massa, Chini -blothers, Ummahs ) which you do not need.

This is an old Pakjabi problem. In the British raj era, before Pakjab was Pak, the Musalman landlords of Punjab would famously live way beyond their means, and to finance a lavish lifestyle, would borrow money from the Hindu baniyas - for consumption, not for capital-formation. When they were unable to pay back the loans, there was the danger of the Hindu baniyas taking their land. But these were the "sword-arm" of the British Indian empire. So the British passed a law, the Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900, which essentially prevented the creditors from seizing land as payment of debts.

U.S. Exploring Deal to Limit Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal

By DAVID E. SANGER
OCTOBER 15, 2015
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is exploring a deal with Pakistan that would limit the scope of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, the fastest-growing on earth. The discussions are the first in the decade since one of the founders of its nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, was caught selling the country’s nuclear technology around the world.

The talks are being held in advance of the arrival of Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, in Washington next week. They focus on American concern that Pakistan might be on the verge of deploying a small tactical nuclear weapon — explicitly modeled on weapons the United States put in Europe during the Cold War to deter a Soviet invasion — that would be far harder to secure than the country’s arsenal of larger weapons.

Avinash R wrote:Kasuri and his biradar Sudheendra Kulkarni doing Gandhigiri

saip wrote:Pakistan submarine fires at four Indian boats, 24 fishermen arrested

Link

Pakistan using subs to hunt Indian fishermen now?

ramana wrote:

Avinash R wrote:Kasuri and his biradar Sudheendra Kulkarni doing Gandhigiri
If Kachori and his ilk had done Gandhigiri before 1947 none of the killings would have happened.

WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is reported to have shortened his visit to the United States from five to three days, cancelling at least two major engagements in the process.

The prime minister had earlier planned to arrive in Chicago on Oct 19 to address a meeting of potential Pakistani-American investors the following day.
The visit to Chicago, however, has been cancelled, apparently because the government fears that the PTI may turn it into a protest against the prime minister, as it did in New York last month when the finance minister went to a mosque to say his Eid prayers.

So the organisers planned a community meeting in Washington on Oct 23. The Chicago meeting was planned jointly by the Pakistan Embassy and the local chapter of PML-N. Hundreds of invitations had already been sent for this meeting by Oct 12, when the invitees received another email from the organisers saying that the event has been cancelled.
Since the organisers offered no explanation, the cancellation caused wild speculations, ranging from a possible PTI protest to the “sensitive nature of the PM’s engagements in Washington that require the PM’s complete attention,” as a local PML-N office-bearer explained.

But the PM’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz told reporters in Islamabad that Mr Sharif would discuss the stalled dialogue between Pakistan and India with the US president. “A number of other issues would also be discussed,” he added.

ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Scotland Yard on Thursday handed over to Pakistan the evidence of Indian intelligence agency RAW funding Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, Dunya News reported.

The sources told Dunya News that Scotland Yard has handed over a list of over 10 names who were involved in the process.
Who are these "sources"
Reportedly, these people used to take direct funding from the Indian agency and provide it the MQM.

The Scotland Yard has reportedly prepared the list after interrogation from Altaf Hussain and Muhammad Anwar.

Adviser to Prime Minister, Ishtar Ausaf held meetings with the Scotland Yard regarding the case. The government has begun investigation over the issues of RAW funding and money laundering.

A massive operation against terrorism and target killing in Karachi is ongoing and the authorities are also investigating and taking to task the outfits or parties who allegedly have links with foreign funding sources.

MQM has strongly condemned and has been vocal against the targeting them in guise of the operation. Their lawmakers have even resigned from the assemblies in protest.

PESHAWAR: Standing outside his house with his two blind children in Charsadda's Mian Kalay village, Zahirullah Khan's grief is inconsolable. "Two of my other children also died after reaching puberty," says the tearful father.

For the past 40 years, almost every third home in the village, which is situated some 30 kilometres south of Peshawar, has children suffering from birth defects.

Disabilities range from blindness, cerebral palsy, mental disorders, thalassemia, physical deformities and hearing and speech impairments to name a few.

Doctors have termed generations of inter-family marriages in the village — which has 350 households — as the main cause behind birth defects in children. There are two major tribes in the village, Miya and Shpon, and unions between men and women from solely these two clans is the ongoing tradition.

A local journalist in Charsadda, Muhammad Tayeb, says all the men in the village belong to either of the two aforesaid tribes, and cannot marry other girls due to cultural restrictions.

"Inbreeding can cause problems in first, second and even third generation offspring," says Dr Ali.

The doctor discounts suggestions that environmental factors contribute to the birth defects and deformities, saying that a poor environment is indicated by conditions like diarrhoea and fluid build-up in infants, which has not been seen among the children of Mian Kalay.

In the meantime, he suggests that 'torch test' can be performed on couples to screen for deficiencies that can result in potential birth defects, following which preventive measures can be taken before conceiving.

The Pakistani passport this month dropped 14 places in the global travel ranking making it one of the worst passports to travel with, a report revealed.

The Visa Restrictions Index 2015, prepared by Henley & Partners, ranked Pakistan at 106th, making it one of four of the worst passports in the world.

In 2014, Pakistan was ranked at 92, sharing the spot with Somalia, with citizens of both countries enjoying visa-free access to only 32 destinations around the world.