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Agnimitra wrote:What is the origin of the "ram holding serpent" in the ISI logo above?

Agnimitra wrote:What is the origin of the "ram holding serpent" in the ISI logo above?

Jhujar wrote:Track Too Or Thirkee Thoo
Relations with India — the next five years

The second and most extreme scenario is a conflict brewing in the subcontinent due to some crisis in India. The fact that leaders of militant outfits are roaming freely and setting foreign policy agenda for the government does not encourage many. Modi’s government walks a tight rope where it ought to appreciate the need to focus on improving communal relations in the country which militant non-state actors could manipulate to their advantage. All it needs is a few sparks for someone to light a fire out of it.

Anand K wrote:Hey, is it just me or does the lower half of the snake in that logo have an Indian Tricolor scheme?

Gullu Butt, the baton-wielding man seen damaging vehicles in Lahore, fell unconscious on Thursday after being mobbed and assaulted in police custody by a crowd outside a Lahore court

Butt, also known as Sher-i-Lahore, came into the limelight after he was caught on cameras brazenly damaging several vehicles in the presence of police, during the clash between Pakistan Awami Tehreek workers and police in Lahore's Model Town on Tuesday

Police say he was kept at an undisclosed location for people might have attacked him in the lockup

Coca-Cola Co expects to start production in five new factories in Egypt and Pakistan over the next 18 months

three new plants open in the next 18 months in Karachi, Multan and Islamabad

Nandu wrote:The snake has white and blue of Israel, red white and blue of Amrika, and saffron white and green of India.

A member of the National Assembly (MNA) from Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was shot at and injured by unidentified motorcyclists in Iqbal Town area in Lahore on Wednesday.

Begum Tahira Asif left her house in Wafaqi Colony along with her 20-year-old daughter on a car. Two masked men on a motorcycle chased and intercepted her car near Moon Market in Allama Iqbal Town. As she came out of the car, the culprits opened fire on her, wounding her critically. She was taken to a hospital for treatment, where her condition is reported to be critical.

The MNA received four bullets in her legs and ribs. According to doctors, dozens of blood bags were injected to her due to excessive bleeding after one of the bullets ruptured her main artery. Police did not register the case till the filing of this report.
The MNA’s husband, FIA Assistant Director Mian Asif, said that his wife had been receiving life threats for some time. He said they formally informed the former CCPO some four months back but police did not take any serious action.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken notice of the firing and sought report from the IG.

SSridhar wrote:MQM woman MNA shot at in Lahore

A member of the National Assembly (MNA) from Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was shot at and injured by unidentified motorcyclists in Iqbal Town area in Lahore on Wednesday.....

Is this some local dispute ?

Fleeing discrimination and violence, members of the Ahmadiyya community have abandoned their homes in Pakistan to find an unlikely refuge in China

He is one of hundreds of people who have sought asylum in China in recent years

The Ahmadi refugees in Sanhe said they paid middle-men up to $3,000 each for Chinese visas – more than twice the average yearly income in Pakistan.

anupmisra wrote:Next stop - china. Exporting pakistaniyat

Persecuted Ahmadis seek shelter in China


How desperate does a paki have to be to seek asylum in china, hain?

Jhujar wrote:Let them figure out for themselves that rope they are holding tight is the tail of Cobra while Mamba is smiling ,sliding slowly toward them and light they are seeing at the end of Tunnel is TTP Train.

More than 10,000 Pakistanis are fleeing to neighboring Afghanistan, and tens of thousands to Bannu, Pakistan. A ground offensive against the Pakistani Taliban is expected any day.

Some of the displaced people said the most feared militants had disappeared overnight as soon as the army offensive was announced.

"It's very strange that those Taliban considered as anti-state disappeared mysteriously, but security forces continued to conduct raids on our houses and harass innocent people," said bank manager Wali Khan, 47.

"Why didn't they come out of their walled (army) compounds when the Taliban fighters were still in the town?"

The army has launched daily air strikes in North Waziristan but a full-scale ground offensive has yet to start.

shiv wrote: A much milder comment was not allowed - or maybe they will appear tomorrow because I can't believe that no one has commented yet.

ISLAMABAD: In a move to transfer responsibility of retiring Rs2.6 trillion debt obtained for budget financing on the shoulders of next political setup, the federal government is seeking to extend the statutory deadline by another four years, to 2023.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sought extradition of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah from Afghanistan and dismantlement of the militant outfit’s longstanding hideouts in Kunar and Nooristan provinces, The Express Tribune has learnt.But a government official familiar with the development told The Express Tribune that Pakistan had requested Karzai Administration to stop supporting the TTP and seek extradition of its fugitive chief, who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan.The official, who asked to remain anonymous, said Pakistan had compelling evidence suggesting that Mullah Fazlullah and other TTP commanders were enjoying ‘patronage’ of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency.“Afghanistan’s support is very crucial for the success of operation in North Waziristan. They need to dismantle TTP’s sanctuaries on their soil. They must stop supporting Fazlullah,” said a security official.
During the weekly briefing at the Foreign office on Thursday, spokesperson Tasnim Aslam told reporters that Afghan authorities had assured their cooperation to Pakistan.It was decided that an Afghan delegation would also soon visit Islamabad to carry a special letter from President Karzai that would list some proposals and would also discuss future plans with Pakistani side.President Karzai also underscored the need to coordinate with the anti-terror war strategy with all key regional players, the statement said, adding: “the Afghan President also called for extra care to avoid civilian casualties during the war on terror.However, it was not clear whether the Karzai administration was willing to extradite Mullah Fazlullah and destroy TTP hideouts on the Afghan side.Afghan intelligence agency is believed to be providing refugee to TTP in an effort to use them as a bargaining chip with Pakistan over the issue of Afghan Taliban as well as Haqqani network, which allegedly has safe heavens in Waziristan.

It seems fudging has become an official habituation. The PML-N government had no reasons to do wonders in its very first year. But it began with the fudging of GDP data by claiming over five per cent growth in the first quarter of 2013-14. . Deformation thus built into the series has been carried into the estimation of the annual number. A good and much-needed initiative lost credibility from day one.On the budgetary side, the fiscal deficit continues to be the Achilles’ heel. When the IMF is looking over the shoulder of the government, it becomes the centre point of policy. In the absence of meaningful tax reform and expenditure management, all kinds of tricks are played to show it at the targeted level. Shahbaz Rana has stolen the gimmickry of treating the Saudi grant and the other development expenditure in a way that scales down the fiscal deficit. What is more worrying, however, is the massive surplus imposed on the provincial budgets. In the last budget, this surplus was only Rs23 billion. The revised figure, not given in the budget, is around Rs200 billion. In the budget for 2014-15, the provincial surplus is pitched even higher at Rs289 billion. As the increase in the provincial share in the National Finance Commission resources is Rs218 billion, the practice means that the federal government will take back from the provinces more than what it gave as additionality. It works to cover up the federal government’s inability to restrain its current spending and development enthusiasm despite the devolution of most development activity to the provinces. Also, it enables continued bestowing of exemptions and exceptions in the tax structure to vested interests. For the provinces, this back-hand deal involves development expenditures lower than what they would have been. Social sector and agriculture, the sectors that relate to the poor most, fall wholly in the provincial domain.The icing on the fudged cake is the poverty data. Although Pakistan is seriously lagging behind on most MDG targets, the one related to reducing poverty to 13 per cent by 2015 was achieved in 2010-11! At least that is what the latest Economic Survey claims by estimating the headcount ratio at 12.4 per cent. At his post-budget press conference, the finance minister placed over 50 per cent of Pakistanis below the poverty line. He was referring to the $2 a day poverty estimates by the World Bank. Who does one believe? Kis ka yaqeen ki jeeaye kis ka na ki jeeaye (Who should be believe, who should we not believe).

A popular woman Pashto singer has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, capital of restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

Gulnar alias Muskan (38), was targeted by four gunmen in the upscale Gulburg area of the city on Wednesday. A police official said that four gunmen entered the house of the singer and shot her dead last evening.

The singer originally hailed from Par Hoti area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mardan district, but had settled in Peshawar.

Artists in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa are often targeted by the Taliban militants as well as relatives some of whom consider singing and dancing as against the family honour. Taliban consider music and dancing as anti-Islamic. They frequently attack music shops in the province and ask artists to stop singing. — PTI

Jhujar wrote:http://tribune.com.pk/story/724417/paki ... extradite-

Hamza said the teacher beat him and then asked her husband to hang him upside down from a ceiling fan. “I was crying and promising that I would never be late again but they kept beating me,” the nine-year-old said."

anupmisra wrote:More pojitive news for bakistan. Coca-Cola plans expansion in Pakistan

Coca-Cola Co expects to start production in five new factories in Egypt and Pakistan over the next 18 months

three new plants open in the next 18 months in Karachi, Multan and Islamabad

That's right. Pakis need more sugar, caffeine, and narcotics.

“We watch the needle in Pakistan and almost every month we red-line on what our capacity is,” Curt Ferguson said, adding that he expected sales growth of around 20 per cent in Pakistan this year. “We’re just scratching the surface there.”

Yet it won’t be a typical solar-driven car too. The next generation hybrid can consume an assortment of energies, some which you won’t even be able to name. Besides solar, the long list of its fuels includes kinetic, organic cell, pneumatic, magnetic generator and even external electrical or battery charging. The man behind the idea is no MIT-graduate but an engineer with no fancy degree or alumni. Aslam Azad has made his name in the field of air conditioning. Sans an elaborate marketing team, the Shaikhupura native has pioneered in designing and manufacturing of energy saving central heating system since 1997 using brand name ‘Economia’.

JE Menon wrote:What Pakistan needs is more Islam, not less.

A_Gupta wrote:More pojitive news for bakistan. Coca-Cola plans expansion in Pakistan

Coca-Cola Co expects to start production in five new factories in Egypt and Pakistan over the next 18 months three new plants open in the next 18 months in Karachi, Multan and Islamabad

That's right. Pakis need more sugar, caffeine, and narcotics.

“We watch the needle in Pakistan and almost every month we red-line on what our capacity is,” Curt Ferguson said, adding that he expected sales growth of around 20 per cent in Pakistan this year. “We’re just scratching the surface there.”

Something is going on. Why are Pakistanis drinking more Coke?

Peregrine wrote:Your nextgen hybrid car will be purely Pakistani

Yet it won’t be a typical solar-driven car too. The next generation hybrid can consume an assortment of energies, some which you won’t even be able to name. Besides solar, the long list of its fuels includes kinetic, organic cell, pneumatic, magnetic generator and even external electrical or battery charging. The man behind the idea is no MIT-graduate but an engineer with no fancy degree or alumni. Aslam Azad has made his name in the field of air conditioning. Sans an elaborate marketing team, the Shaikhupura native has pioneered in designing and manufacturing of energy saving central heating system since 1997 using brand name ‘Economia’.

Cheers

majorlyp wrote:How do I get into India-Pak track 2? Apparently the job entails going to nice places and not doing anything. I would love to contribute.

shiv wrote:People - I am having some thoughts about this entire "Paki army action in Waziristan" matter. I am unable to put my finger on it but let me simply put my thoughts down here - maybe my thoughts will clear or someone else will see something.

It's like this:

The people of Waziristan have been living alongside the Taliban (in their villages) . They know that and they admit that.

So why didn't they run away?

Either
1. They had no specific problems having the Taliban there - the presence of the Taliban did not affect their lives greatly
or
2. There were some issues but they were under threat not to leave.

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