Guys you are valued participants, and we need you to keep providing your thoughts on here. So please cease and effing desist.

Look I am all for this action - I was just providing a alternate viewpoint of why/how we reacted the way we did this time. Maybe this is a new maturing of the Indian psyche where we dont really care much about trampling all things paki telling them to F*** off basically. Or alternatvely and more realistically someone in GOI realized belatedly we would be opening a door to them at a time when they dont deserve to soil even the neighbhood leave alone the house.VikasRaina wrote:Dear Jayram, How is not spending money on incompetent fools or known drug addicts a malicious act.Make no mistake this was a malicious act on our part justified or not
IPL brought them in the market and guess what , no one was willing to touch them with a barge pole.
It is a INDIAN event for the people of INDIA, paid by business houses of INDIA and watched primarily by people of INDIA and all these INDIANS
don't want to do anything which has Paki label on it.
Why there is so much of wailing if 11 Pakis were not picked for IPL. We don't owe them anything except for few visits of Agni's and Prithvi's.
PS: Never Forgive , Never Forget is not just a slogan.
If there is no prospect of India retaliating why exactly do you see the US holding the Pakis on a tight leash? Dharma perhaps? If there is terrorism in India it is because we slipped up. If there isn't any then it is because we're able to bring instruments of national power to bear on preventing it. I fail to see why Indians have such a hard time accepting that the GoI can be half competent.CRamS wrote: On one point though I agree with the sympathizers. In my opinion, that there has been no terror attack since 26/11 is only partly due to Indian vigilance, and virtually has nothing to do with any posibility, if it all it exists, of India militarily retaliating to the next provociation. Its more likely because of US presence, and despite equal equal in public (see Gate's latest insult to India with his sophistry on Al Queda provoking a conflcit between India and TSP), at least in private, US is keeping TSP on a tight leash. And any ferocious LeT type attack in the heart of India will put TSP on a diplomatic dock visa vi US.
Good question.anjan wrote:I fail to see why Indians have such a hard time accepting that the GoI can be half competent.
Since it appeared below my post, I am assuming it is directed to me. Apologies otherwise.archan wrote:Boss, I don't think 26/11 was politics. If an Indian does not want to forgive and forget it, it is not politics. I would not wish this to anyone, but those whose hearts bleed for papistan, or who regret not getting yet another opportunity to show "restraint" and gain moral high ground, wonder what those people's reactions would have been if God forbid, their loved one was blown into pieces by a jannat-seeking paki - as has happened to many Indians. It is easy to sing songs of peace when the terror has not hit close enough. Feel for your fellow Indians.
Being invited to particate in the auction does not mean there is a guarantee you will be picked. The local lottery keeps asking me to "participate" by buying tickets, and I am sure IIT also encourages all high school students to consider applying and sitting for the jay-yee-yee.Jayram wrote: (Make no mistake this was a malicious act on our part justified or not. We did invite the pakis to get involved in this years auction and we are now kicking them in the face).
Its a question of calibration. IMO, US would not like TSP to completely run rough shod over India with its terrorists, but at the same time, keep it would like India caged in an equal equal framework with TSP. Just read Gates's pronouncement.anjan wrote: If there is no prospect of India retaliating why exactly do you see the US holding the Pakis on a tight leash? Dharma perhaps? If there is terrorism in India it is because we slipped up. If there isn't any then it is because we're able to bring instruments of national power to bear on preventing it. I fail to see why Indians have such a hard time accepting that the GoI can be half competent.
IF the US is exercising any such leash it is purely because any Indian retaliation will cut supply routes into Afghanistan. Not out of the inherent goodness of their hearts.
GOI has obviously recently hired a PR expert!
1) aam paki gives crap about some rich Indians owning some of their players and IPL matches. They might care if it is an India-pak match. In this case, it is only those RAPEs who loves Indian markets and Indian money, but hates our immoral, Bollywood thigh-loving ways in public. They see it as an opportunity lost for making money and more importantly, a feeling of self-importance in the Indian red carpets and other IPL media blitzes. Where will they have even a remote chance to be feted, because they are a recognized brand like Bollywood? In Cannes? Or in LA?Jayram wrote: I think also this act will raise the securty risk a notch in the IPL matches. The aamm paki will be very very happy once a bomb goes off in an IPL game and the whole IPL thing is called off.. He afterall has no skin in the game now and in fact will activily want to disrupt it.
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No Pakistani in IPL is a matter of shamersingh wrote:Toi is in overdrive mode . It is trying to give political twist. There is blog link by some ghosh. I have never seen such spineless spiner in my life.good to see his musharaff wiped out in comment section. In wonder if editors of toi ever read comments.
I pointed this out long time ago; even Shashi Tharoor said the same thing. All that TSP has to do now is somw windwo dressing and love making begins. India herself perpetuates the equal equal paradigm.
Is the lovemaking in private bedroom or outside public place?CRamS wrote: All that TSP has to do now is somw windwo dressing and love making begins.
The government has cancelled a planned parliamentary delegation’s visit to India, National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza told the house on Wednesday.
She gave no reason for the cancellation about which she said she had been informed by the government.
But the announcement came immediately after opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced the withdrawal of a lawmaker of his PML-N party, Ayaz Amir, from the delegation to protest against what he called humiliation of Pakistani cricketers by their exclusion from the third edition of the Indian Premier League this year.
I live in a remote area in the border region between Bangalore and Jharkhand. There are ravines nearby and Col.Prohit's underground fully secret nuclear powered Hindu terrorism facility has one entrance nearby. (the Google Earth coordinates are marked on my blog). That actual facility is 4 km underground. I see beautiful girls being taken in and in the morning bodies of minorities lie around to be eaten by rats that are worshipped by the local people. A day before the IPL tamasha a fleet of IPL helicopters with Lalit and Narendra Modi had visited the area. They had a special minority burning ceremony to mark the occasion.pgbhat wrote:^
Saar, people are looking for yindu extremists as part of huge conspiracy. it is all YYY.
Shiv saar, I'm having a hard time calling this a jhapad at all. This was a sound business decision - nothing more , nothing less. There were doubts on whether the paki players would be given visas and all team owners wanted to make sure that whichever player they signed up could actually show up for the match. If the visa doubts were absent, and yet the pakis were shunned, then it would have been a real jhapad.shiv wrote:What intrigues me is our own (forum) penchant for demanding private participation when government agencies fail (LCA/Arjun etc) , and now - IPL a private body has gone right ahead and shown the gumption that the GoI never had - we look for clues of the GoI's hand in this.
I think IPL jhapad is a private jhapad based on hard nosed calculation of $$$ and not gooey neither her nor there "friendly also not friendly also" GoI action. This is a clear case of knowing which side of bread is buttered and not a GoI case of "Oh there is no butter on either side but we will butter both sides by reservation on one side and BPL/minority on the other side"
What about Pakistan? A rich country in natural resources, having coal reserves around 185 billion tones only in Thar, which are equivalent to 618 billion barrels of crude oil. If we compare it with the oil reserves of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, these are more than twice and are equal to the total oil reserves of the top four countries.
Not only coal, Pakistan is rich in gold, copper reserves, with the world's fifth-largest reserves of gold and copper discovered in Chaghi and as per briefing of Director General of Provincial Department of Mineralogy more than 200,000 tonnes of copper and 400,000 ounce of gold can be produced annually and this not only includes the quantum of gold reserves found in Zohb and Lasbela districts.
The petroleum advisor in a briefing to the Senate said that Pakistan has more than 326 million barrels of oil and 29,790 billion cubic feet of gas reserves and the total demand of oil is 19.2 million tonnes a year and gas 5.3 million cubic feet a day.Moreover, there are unlimited amounts of oil and gas reserves under the barren mountains of Balochistan and the hot sands of Sindh, which are yet not touched. Further, Pakistan has fertile land ready to feed an area twice as big as we are now. Pakistan has the best irrigation system of the world awaiting more reservoirs to enrich it and the best quality cotton and rice.
ISLAMABAD: Water flows in Chenab declined by 40 per cent to about 6,000 cusecs on Wednesday from a 10-year average of about 10,000 cusecs, mainly because of construction by India of over a dozen hydropower projects upstream, reduction in rainfall and diversion of river waters. Pakistan’s Permanent Indus Waters Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah told Dawn that Chenab river flows on the Pakistani side were recorded at 6,213 cusecs on Wednesday. The last ten-year average flows stood at about 10,000-11,000 cusecs. He said that the flows this year were better only than about 5,000 cusecs recorded in the 2002-03 dry year. He said Pakistan had asked India to proportionately reduce their water use on its side .
He said India was irrigating about 800,000 acres in Chenab area against 1,345,000 acres permissible under the 1960 Indus Waters .He said that India was developing more than a dozen hydropower projects and dams over Chenab to generate 8,696MW of electricity.
said a detailed investigation was needed to determine why the authorities concerned in Pakistan had so far failed to protest the construction by India of Dulhasti, Dugar, Gondhala, Reoli/Dugli, Sach-Khas, Tandi, Teling Tinget, Sawalkot, Seli, Raoli and Kirthal hydropower projects.
Mr Abbasi said India was justifying the decline in river flows on the wrong premise of climate change, although India itself was responsible for causing the melting of Himalayan glaciers through unnecessary military presence and massive deforestation in Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh regions and adding to the effects of the climate change.
I accept that - but the media (and BRF and Paquis) have been treating it like a jhapad. Clearly the IPLs business is cricket and the GoI's business is security. For IPL 2 the GoI said IPL and elections will offer too many juicy targets for the Paquis - and IPL made the sound business decision of shifting to SA.nachiket wrote: Shiv saar, I'm having a hard time calling this a jhapad at all. This was a sound business decision - nothing more , nothing less. There were doubts on whether the paki players would be given visas and all team owners wanted to make sure that whichever player they signed up could actually show up for the match. If the visa doubts were absent, and yet the pakis were shunned, then it would have been a real jhapad.
vina wrote:Ouch. Very very very Ouch. This must hurt all Paki H&D really bad. After the lashing from Robert Gates, lookie.. A photo in AFP, published in this morning's Al-Hundi . Robert Gates and Anthony shaking hands , right under the famous photo of "Tiger" Niazi surrendering the surrender instrument in Dakha. This sure is an absolutely clear psy-ops statement if there is one.
Yankee and Yindoo shaking haath, right under the greatest moment captured of Paki H&D loss.
Click on link Anthony and Gates under Paki 1971 surrender photo