Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 13, 2013

[jamwal]

[quote="anupmisra"]Good news for all the white collar and kameez commuters (see below) that use the vast network of paki railroad system to get to work on time. Now you don't have to lay on the tracks to demand more. Railways minister announces decrease in fares





Are the 2 momeens on extreme right djinns ?

[arun]

X Posted from the “Pakistani Role in Global Terrorism” thread.

Mohammadden “Charity”, ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) Development Foundation based in Canada reportedly funding Mohammadden Terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen operating in Jammu & Kashmir via an Islamic Republic of Pakistan based entity named “Relief Organisation for Kashmiri Muslims”:

Canadian charity funding terror in Kashmir?

More from the Toronto Star which first reported the story:

Star Investigation: Federal audit raises concern that Canadian charity funded terror

[jamwal]

Project in limbo: Indus Refinery sponsor struggles to revive project



Here is the misfortunate sob story ... Even the Ummah and All Weather Fliend bailed out.

Since then Shamsi has tried luck with Chinese, Arab and Pakistani investors but in vain. “Once we were so close bringing the Chinese but bombs started to go off at home and they pulled out at the last minute. {Isn't that a routine thing... bombs going off all the time? }”

So Cheenis pulled out after Pakis had series of explosions. I think this is a halaal method of birth control.
On a related note, how is this whine any different from Paki politicians making tall claims of achieving some ground breaking result before their efforts were nullified by some conspiracy or YYY axis ?

[neeraj]

Explosion in Parachinar kills one, injures two

An roadside blast near a vehicle in Upper Kurram tribal region's Pewar Tangi area killed one person and injured two others on Sunday, DawnNews reported.

Militant attack temporarily cuts railway link to Balochistan

Militants on Sunday blew up a portion of railway tracks in Quetta, temporarily shutting down the railway-link between the province and the rest of the country.

[neeraj]

Toxic liquor kills 18 in Faisalabad

LAHORE: At least 18 people were killed and around two dozen others suffered serious health issues after consuming toxic alcoholic drinks at two separate events, officials said on Sunday.

The public sale of alcohol is banned in Islamic Pakistan and many people prepare cheap liquor at home. (Pure than pure behaviour in the holy month of ramzan)

Another police official said that most of the victims had died after they returned home.

“Most of the people have died at homes, while a few expired in hospitals,”said Abid Zafar, head of the local police station.

[abhijitm]

This country is going down the gutter...and will pull down the neighbours with it.
[url=xxxhttp://dawn.com/news/1032536/eighth-polio-case-surfaces-in-khyber-tribal-region]Eighth polio case surfaces in Khyber tribal region[/url]

The latest case brings the total number of polio victims in the tribal region to eight, the highest in al of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Bara area has been under curfew for the past three years barring access to anti-polio vaccinators.

Moreover, apart from militancy, unchecked cross border movement also contributes as a factor to the increasing number of polio cases in the region.

[Vipul]

Shitistan displays its Pakiness in intentionally targeting Indian civilains on the Border with 82MM Mortars.

And this is how anti-dharmic and coward leadership under Mickey Mouse Singh reacts:

India considering Pak suggestion for talks on water, Sir Creek.

[Anindya]

To be read along with the news about India's decision to discuss sir creek and water issues....

Pakistani troops target civilian areas, one injured

Pakistani Rangers had targeted civilian areas in Manyari village late last night, injuring a villager, BSF officials said.

Earlier, BSF head constable Baljeet Singh was also injured in the firing, which began yesterday morning and lasted for about 15 hours in Poonch and Kathua districts.

A villager, Sohan, suffered injuries in the 82-mm mortars firing and was hospitalised in district hospital of Kathua, they said. His condition is stated to stable.

There were two ceasefire violations in Poonch and Kathua districts on Saturday.
...
Heavy firing had raged on throughout the day along the Line of Control (LoC) at Doda battalions forward in Kirni Shahpur and Mandi sub sectors in Poonch district .

"It was heavy arms firing with Pakistan using Rocket Projectile Guns (RPGs), Mortars, Medium Machine Guns (MMGs) and Heavy Machine Guns (HMGs) prompting the Indian Army to retaliate," official sources said.

[Baikul]

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Here is the misfortunate sob story ... Even the Ummah and All Weather Fliend bailed out.

Since then Shamsi has tried luck with Chinese, Arab and Pakistani investors but in vain. “Once we were so close bringing the Chinese but bombs started to go off at home and they pulled out at the last minute.............”

I'd imagine it'd be a very 'en-limpening' experience to pull out at the last minute with bombs going off around you....

Could be a script of a modern Pakistani love story though. Marquez style: "I was almost born in the glorious, riotous summer of 2007 in a camp outside Darra Adam Khel but my abbu-jaan had to pull out at the last minute due to bombs going off around him, but then it was just that one time and abbu-jaan was persistent as he visited ammi's tent between daily trips to the goat shed, and then in the winter of 2011, just on the outskirts of the magnificent gardens of the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Isloo, a glorious conjugation was achieved with no bombs going off nearby (although they did a few miles away but that did not put abbu-jaan off his stride), ammi hugging the aftermath to her secret self, and then 9 months later I came roaring into to this world, a lusty baby who all predicted would set the world on fire if not explode it completely...."

[neeraj]

No mercy from terror

Even Ramazan, the holy month when the faithful fast and pray and seek forgiveness of Almighty Allah for the sins they have committed, could not save Muslims from the supposedly religious fervour of supposedly ‘superior’ Muslims. Mentored to kill, teenage suicide bombers are dispatched from seminaries with kindly blessings and generous praise, to target citizens of other sects, in the pursuit of heaven. (aall iz well)

[neeraj]

Four more perish in Karachi violence

Different incidents of violence claimed four more lives in the metropolis on Saturday

[Lilo]

After Paki phorein affice , Mullah Diesel now chips in with his fears for an impending Civil war in Egypt .

Fazl fears civil war in Egypt

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema -e-Islam (Fazl) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has strongly condemned the Egyptian Army for arresting President Morsi and killing citizens, saying that Egypt is being pushed towards civil war. In a press statement issued here on Saturday, Fazl said that Army intervention has not only derailed democracy but has also led to the arrest of elected President Morsi for petty charges, which is against all international norms of human rights and democratic ideals.
He also criticised the role of the US, saying that it did not even call the intervention as coup and still providing military and material support to the military. He said that due to the US policies, which promoted dictatorial regimes in Middle East and Pakistan in the past, extremism and radicalisation has increased manifold. He also observed that role of all human rights groups, specially the UN and OIC, is a matter of great concern for the people who believe in democracy and moderation. He said that the role of the US and Egyptian army will strengthen the hands of extremists { Just as Tatte chook ing for Amirkhans has strengthened the hands of Paki Army over the years } around the world. He said that they will not only consume anti-democratic forces but will also consume moderate religion political parties.
He strongly condemned the killing of ordinary citizens and demanded immediate release of President Morsi.

[member_26255]

Drone-acharya shoots down 5 moo-jaaheed's

PESHAWAR: Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected US drone strike has killed five people in the tribal region near the Afghan border.

They say two missiles hit the Shawal area of North Waziristan Sunday evening when the men were crossing on foot into Pakistani territory from Afghanistan.........

[Brad Goodman]

Toxic liquor kills 18 at Pakistan parties

At least 18 people died and around two dozen others suffered serious health issues after partygoers at two separate events consumed toxic drinks, officials said on Sunday.

Victims were rushed to hospitals in the central Pakistani city of Faisalabad when they fell unconscious after drinking the alcohol at a birthday party and another gathering. Both of the events were held in private homes.

"The death toll from the two parties has reached 18. Around two dozens others are heavily affected by the toxic liquor and battling for consciousness," Javed Ahmed Khan, a senior police official, told AFP.

"The incidents took place in Batala colony. Five people were killed at a birthday party on Thursday and 13 others died in another get together in the same area on Friday," he said.

The public sale of alcohol is banned in conservative Islamic Pakistan and many people prepare cheap liquor at home.

Another police official said that most of the victims had died after they returned home.

"Most of the people have died at homes, while a few expired in hospitals," said Abid Zafar, head of the local police station.

looks like mujahids are breaking ramdan fast with spurious red label

[anupmisra]

Taliban Gain Foothold in a Pakistani City. New York Times article.

Groups of Taliban fighters are spilling out of the tribal belt in northwestern Pakistan into the region’s largest city, Peshawar

Militants have attacked inside Peshawar, a city of an estimated four million people, once a day, on average, for the past five months

...at his local mosque recently. “A man stood up and, without the permission of the imam, started preaching about the importance of jihad and its rewards in the hereafter".“Later we found out that he was a militant commander from Khyber,”

Several police officers, all speaking on the condition of anonymity, blamed the ambivalent attitude of the newly elected provincial government, led by Imran Khan, a former cricket star, for declining morale.

Mr. Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party favors talks with the Taliban over fighting

“What we need is a pat on the back, not daily derision,” one senior official said. “If Khan says this is not our war, then what does he think we are doing here sacrificing our lives?”

Wealthy businessmen have faced extortion demands.

But, all is well in the land of milk and honey, and things are just as normal as they would be in any western country. After all "we pakis are the same as you" based on how we frame our thoughts around western cliches:

“There is a clear and present danger”

[Anantha]

Received by email from a mango Indian, no URL; the word is spreading!!
Subject: A four letter word



Pakistanis evoke highly negative emotions worldwide, including in
Muslim majority countries, says a US survey. Not just the elites but
the common Pakistani too is culpable in the country's spectacular
failure.

It has never been easy being a Pakistani. Pick a terrorist act
committed anywhere in the world and chances are it has Pakistani
fingerprints all over it. In many places, the word "Paki" is a
four-letter word.

So it must be a nasty kick in the guts for the Pakistanis to learn
that their only allies, the Chinese, as well as the majority
populations of several Muslim countries, including Egypt, Tunisia,
Jordan and Lebanon, see them as a bunch of baddies.

A survey of 21 countries released a few weeks ago by the United
States-based Pew Research Center suggests that Pakistan is not only a
universally disliked country but the Pakistanis themselves have learnt
nothing from their history, continuing to support the very actors who
are responsible for their country's negative image.

It is a measure of Pakistan's penchant for exporting terrorists,
counterfeit currency and drugs that India has constructed a 2043 km
long steel fence across its border with its wayward western neighbour.
The floodlit fence is so bright it can be seen from space as a bright
orange line snaking from the Arabian Sea to Kashmir.

Now Iran is building a 700-km steel and concrete security fence along
its border with Pakistan to prevent border crossing by terrorists and
drug traffickers. When complete it will make Pakistan the most
fenced-in country in the world.

You get the picture. Pakistan is not exactly a popular tourist destination.

In four of the five predominantly Muslim nations covered by the
American survey, over half give Pakistan negative ratings. Jordan (57
percent), Lebanon (56 percent), Tunisia (54 percent) and Egypt (53
percent) had an unfavourable opinion of Pakistan. The only exception
is Turkey, where attitudes are divided (43 percent negative and 37
percent favourable).

In East Asia, 52 percent of Chinese see Pakistan unfavourably, as do
59 percent in Japan and 59 percent in India. The Chinese response is
not surprising as Pakistan-trained Uighur Muslims have launched terror
strikes in China. Japan, a nation historically distrustful of
foreigners, decided not to take chances and deported more than 15,000
Pakistanis after 9/11.

Every country has an army but the Pakistan Army has a country. The
Pakistani military runs a $20 billion commercial empire that includes
interests such as milk processing plants, bakeries, banks, cinemas,
heavy industry and insurance. Plus a good chunk of the billions of
dollars in American aid goes straight into the pockets of the
generals.

This corrupt empire is walled off from civilians. Defence analyst
Ayesha Siddiqa, author of Military Inc: Inside Pakistan's Military
Economy, says there is little accountability and widespread siphoning
of funds. The Pakistani military operates a virtual apartheid where an
increasingly poor civilian population faces discrimination at
virtually every level of national life from jobs to pensions.

Also, the Pakistani military has lost four wars against India. After
each of these wars Pakistan lost territory and the generals their
credibility. But bizarre as it sounds, this military is the most
respected institution in the country. As many as 77 percent say the
military has a good influence on the country, nearly the same
percentage (79 percent) as last year. The Pakistanis are either very
indulgent or very brainwashed.

Sure, the military's ratings have slipped from a high of 86 percent in
2009, but all it takes is one border flare-up for the ratings to
travel north. The generals always oblige. The media comes next with a
68 percent rating, followed by religious leaders at 66 percent.

President Asif Ali Zardari receives the most negative reviews. Only 12
percent believe he has a good influence, while 84 percent dislike him.
Attitudes about Zardari are particularly negative in Punjab (96
percent bad influence) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (95 percent).

Why is he so unpopular? Well, Zardari has done more than any previous
leader to normalise trade and diplomatic relations with India. His
mending fences approach lacks the customary anti-India sting.

Militant groups such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban have limited appeal
among Pakistanis. Relatively few Pakistanis express a positive view of
either Al Qaeda (13 percent) or the Taliban (13 percent). Attitudes
toward groups affiliated with the Taliban fare no better in the eyes
of the Pakistani public. Tehrik-i-Taliban, an umbrella organization of
Taliban-linked groups in Pakistan, and the Afghan Taliban are viewed
positively by only 17 percent and 14 percent of Pakistanis,
respectively. The secretive Haqqani network, which is also associated
with the Taliban movement, is viewed favourably by only 5 percent of
Pakistanis.

The attitudes toward Lashkar-e-Taiba are somewhat more positive, 22
percent say they have a favourable opinion of this militant group.
This is hardly surprising because the Lashkar mostly targets India.

When asked which is the greatest threat, India, the Taliban, or Al
Qaeda, a clear majority named India. Roughly a quarter cited the
Taliban and only 4 percent say Al-Qaeda. This is despite the fact that
Al Qaeda blew up the Karachi naval base last year.

Only 22 percent of Pakistanis have a favourable view of India,
although this is actually a slight improvement from 14 percent last
year. Supporters of the two major opposition parties , former Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and
cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
(PTI) are much more likely to name India as the biggest danger (71
percent and 61 percent, respectively) than those that affiliate with
Zardari's governing Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), where this view of
India is held by 46 percent.

Pakistanis in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions are more likely to
dislike India. For example, 84 percent in Punjab and 90 percent in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa see India as a serious threat, while 64 percent in
Sindh and 61 percent in Baluchistan say the same.

This should alert liberal Indians who rush to the border to hold
candlelight vigils for peace. Most Pakistanis are united by their
hatred and fear of India. It is only a matter of degree; some hate
more, others less.

India does not get any aid from the United States and yet among all 21
nations Pew surveyed, Indians seemed most favourably disposed towards
it. Only 12 percent said they had an unfavourable opinion of the
United States.

On the other hand in Pakistan, which is heavily dependent on American
cash and weapons, 80 percent had a negative opinion of America, with
74 percent regarding it as an enemy country. Around four-in-ten (38
percent) said US economic aid is having a mostly negative impact on
Pakistan, while just 12 percent believed it is mostly positive.

Curiously, 40 percent said American military aid is having a mostly
negative effect, while only 8 percent said it is largely positive.
Pakistan's military stockpile is largely American supplied. Do the
Pakistanis believe their North Korean knock offs will do a better job?

One of the ironies of Pakistani life in the West is that they pose as
Indians, the very people they hate so much. According to Asghar
Choudhri, the chairman of Brooklyn's Pakistani American Merchant
Association, a lot of Pakistanis can't get jobs after 9/11, and after
the botched Times Square bombing, it's become worse. They are now
pretending they are Indian so they can get a job, he told a US wire
service.

That is because Indians are among the highest educated and best paid
ethnic groups, besides being highly integrated immigrants. Pakistanis,
on the other hand, have been accused of honour killings, cousin
marriages, child sex rackets, and terrorist activities in the very
lands that gave them shelter.

From Ramzi Yousef, who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 (eight
years before Osama Bin Laden) and is now serving a 240-year prison
sentence to Mir Aimal Kansi, who shot dead two CIA agents and was
later executed by lethal injection, to Faisal Shahzad, the Times
Square Idiot Bomber, there is a long list of Pakistanis who have left
a trail of terror.

The Indian mask that many Pakistanis wear is to get
around Western suspicions. Back home, it's business as usual. Two
incidents amply demonstrate that Pakistanis have learnt nothing about
the dangers of flirting with terror. One was the widespread outrage
across the country over Bin Laden's killing by American commandos. The
other was the unholy fracas over Kansi's execution.

The day after a Virginia, United States, court handed the CIA shooter
the death sentence, four Americans were shot dead on the streets of
Pakistan. After his execution in 2002, Kansi's funeral was attended
by the entire civilian administration in his hometown Quetta, the
local Pakistani Corps Commander, and the then Pakistani ambassador to
the United States.

Thousands of mourners turned out as Quetta city shuttered down.
Kansi's coffin, draped in black cloth with verses from the Koran
embroidered on it in gold, was carried on the shoulders of young men
some 10 miles from the airport to his family's home in Quetta.

In Islamabad, the capital city, lawyers and university students
poured out on the streets in support of their newest martyr.

Veteran's view

Veteran Indian writer Khushwant Singh is hardly the sort of person you
would call anti-Pakistani. In fact, he's been accused of trenchant
secularism because he often backs the Muslim view against the
Hindu-Sikh narrative. For decades, Singh's house has been a watering
hole for many of his Pakistani friends, who come to vent their
frustrations. His mostly tabloid rants aren't taken too seriously bu
he has a finger on the Pakistani pulse.

In November 2008, 10 Pakistani terrorists raided the Indian city of
Mumbai, killing 166 people , mostly innocent civilians. How did the
common Pakistani react when confronted with the fact that it was an
operation planned and executed by their countrymen?

On the first anniversary of the attack here's what Singh wrote in his
column in the daily newspaper Hindustan Times: To begin with, there
was blank denial of any Pakistani being involved in the crime. This
was tinged with apprehension that India may retaliate by carrying out
similar operations in Pakistan and trigger off yet another mutually
destructive war. When that fear proved baseless, it was replaced by a
sense of achievement, a feeling of pride that their countrymen could
plan and execute such a daring exploit with such finesse.¦Even the
fact that among the innocent victims over 40 were Muslims was brushed
aside. The sense of false pride in performing a foul deed still
persists.

This is a snapshot of Pakistani society where the arrow of time is
travelling backwards, taking it into a spiral of medieval madness.
Where the death of a terrorist merely means he will be instantly
replaced by a hundred clones.

Is it any wonder that Paki is a four-letter word?

[SSridhar]

After Paki phorein affice , Mullah Diesel now chips in with his fears for an impending Civil war in Egypt .

Fazl fears civil war in Egypt

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema -e-Islam (Fazl) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has strongly condemned the Egyptian Army for arresting President Morsi and killing citizens, saying that Egypt is being pushed towards civil war.

So, we can see Pakiban in action in Alexandria & Cairo very soon, adding to the long list of places where they have shown up all over the world already.

[SSridhar]

Pak faces currency devaluation against USD - PTI, Business Line

Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar met the Governor of the State Bank and discussed the fast devaluation of the local currency against the US dollar in the money market in the last few days.

A government official said that the finance minister had also held a meeting with currency dealers to tackle the alarming situation.

The official said Dar had also expressed concern over the increasing difference between the Interbank and Kerb market rates recently.

“On Friday, he met with the currency dealers and State Bank Governor and today with representatives of exchange companies. The currency dealers want a ban on gold imports that siphoned off dollars from the open market,” he said.

Sources said that the meeting was held at the State Bank in the presence of the Governor to develop a strategy to deal with the fluid situation of the exchange rate regime.

Gold imports increased by 500 per cent since February this year.

Most of this gold is smuggled to India which has increased import duty on gold.

Pakistan has no duty on gold imports.

Since banks do not provide dollars for gold imports, importers buy dollars from the open market. {So, kafir bania cunning India is indirectly dragging down the value of the Pakistani Rupee ?}

Malik Bostan, the Chairman of the Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan (ECAP), said that this was an alarming situation since in February this year the gold import stood at 280 kilos per month which is now 1,400 kilos per month.

He said because of this the dollar demand had increased from $20 million per day to $40 million per day while the size of the market is estimated around $20 million.

In the first 50 days of the present government, the rupee lost 4.5 per cent in the open market and 2.4 per cent in inter—bank against the US dollar.

[arun]

^^^ Hmmm ………… the wealthy Mohamadden momin of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan import 1,400 kilograms of gold a month while the poor Hindu Kaafir Dhimmi’s of India import 86,470 Kilograms a month which is 62 times the monthly import levels of the Islamic Republic.

Is there something Un-Mohammadden about buying Gold :

Gold imports decline 11.8% in April-February period of 2012-13

[neeraj]

Electricity theft at mosques

I WANT to draw the attention of the government towards electricity theft in mosques. In my city, Naudero, and its suburbs mosques measuring 12 by 12 feet are kept cool by two to three airconditioners runnng 24 hours a day without meters.

Even people sleep in mosques after prayers, especially during Ramazan. All mosques are getting power from illegal ‘kunda’ connections without paying any bills, but paying bribes to meter readers. (getting free electricity to mosque is halal - this is a right)

The authorities should take stern steps, as early as possible, to stop power theft by mosques.

[RCase]

^^^
Are those 12x12 mosques jail cells? Islam is the fastest growing religion of jailbirds! Two to three ACs? Wow, that sure sounds a place where guys get to cool their heels!

[ArmenT]

Are the 2 momeens on extreme right djinns ?

Photoshop onlee. Nice catch.

Wonder why they photoshopped those two in? Not enough crowd? Or was there some "undesirable" in the photograph?

[Prem]

At the 11th hour: Kerry’s visit postponed over security concerns
Vasleen Vial Was not ready

ASLUM ABAD: The much-awaited visit of US Secretary of State Kerry Jija Ji has been postponed once again after his original travel plan was leaked to the media, official sources told The Express Tribune.Secretary Kerry was set to arrive in Islamabad on Sunday. However, US authorities rescheduled his two-day visit at the last moment, citing security reasons.Diplomatic sources and Foreign Office officials confirmed that US secretary of state would not be arriving over the next couple of days.Speaking on condition of anonymity, a government official said the US was keeping Kerry’s travel plan under wraps this time around. “But he (Kerry) will certainly visit before Eid,” he added, without giving any exact date.Another official disclosed that US authorities cautioned their Pakistani counterparts that the visit may be postponed again if the dates are made public.This is the second time Kerry’s trip was being rescheduled. He was originally supposed to visit Pakistan in June. The original plan was scrapped, however, owing to developments in the Middle East.The PML-N government has already made its expectations from Kerry’s visit very clear. The government intends to persuade the US into halting the CIA-led drone campaign in the country’s tribal areas.But security and Afghanistan-related issues will not be the only features of the meetings between Kerry and Pakistani leaders. According to a foreign ministry official, Pakistan also wants to discuss several bilateral issues.One of them is to resume the ‘strategic dialogue’ which is aimed at dispelling the impression that Pakistan-US cooperation is merely confined to security-related matters. The strategic dialogue could not take place since 2011 due to fragile nature of relations between the two countries.The PML-N government will also seek to enhance economic and trade cooperation with the US.“One of the central aspects of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s foreign policy is economic diplomacy,” commented one of his senior aides. He said based on this principle, the government would seek to broaden its cooperation with the US by bringing the biggest begging bowl ever made in China.

[ArmenT]

From the BBC:
Toxic Pakistan alcohol claims 18 lives

At least 18 people have died and dozens more fallen ill after drinking contaminated alcohol in Pakistan, officials said.

The victims, believed to be mostly Muslim and Christian labourers, consumed the toxic drink at two parties in the central city of Faisalabad.

Only non-Muslims are allowed to buy and consume alcohol in Pakistan, but many people illegally brew alcohol at home.
...
...
Victims fainted after drinking the alcohol at a birthday party and another private event in Faisalabad, authorities said.

Somehow I'm not buying the bit that these guys were just simple day laborers, if they were attending parties in Faisalabad. Sounds more like middle-class or upper-middle-class people. Drinking during Ramadan too!

[sum]

^^ brave TSP-ian writing a article on D and calling him a "Indian terrorist"

Will India ever mount an operation to capture Dawood Ibrahim?

Ten years ago on a balmy, sunny day in Karachi, my father asked me to accompany him to a great seth’s house. People in Karachi sometimes gather at houses of major industrialists’ to see their impressive sacrificial animals, purchased for Bakra Eid.

I was only too eager to go to one such grand place which turned out to be at a distance of just two kilometres from my house. When we arrived, we found crowds of people gawking at expensive animals. As I took in the sights and sounds, the owner of the house came out, flanked by his guards and kids.

I wondered aloud who this intriguing man could be, my father chuckled: “He has many names. In India, he’s the most wanted man. And here some know him as Ibrahim Mushtaq and others call him Tiger Memon!”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given my age, this didn’t mean a whole lot to me at that time. But it would soon change.

Indian terrorists { Even our "secular" junta dont use such direct terms}, it became clear to me, had integrated well in Pakistan’s society.

When I went to Karachi next, I tried conducting my own investigation. I knew Tiger Memon’s house and had seen the state patronage he was living under, but I was more interested in the even bigger fish who was also said to be living in Karachi, and was the main accused in the 1993 Bombay blasts.

It didn’t take a lot of finding-out. Dawood Ibrahim, who featured among the top in Forbes list of most wanted dreaded criminals, was living openly in Clifton, Block 4, Karachi, near Café Flo, known as an elite hang-out. Last year when I visited Karachi, I asked my friends where Dawood Ibrahim lived and I was told time and again the same location.

When I went to that particular area, I observed containers had been put-up and the street was blockaded. People were frisked and IDs checked before one could be granted entry into the mansion. Pakistan Army Rangers patrolled the road.

I realised that Pakistani journalists weren’t very keen to chase up this fantastic story because they did not want to suffer the same fate as Daniel Pearl, Saleem Shehzad and Ghulam Hasnain.

Ghulam Hasnain wrote a wonderfully detailed account of Dawood’s lavish lifestyle in Karachi and Lahore. Subsequently, he was kidnapped and when he returned, he had suffered several fractures on his body.

American journalists do not write about him either, because they are not interested in Dawood Ibrahim. Also, America needs Pakistan to buttress its Afghan policy and support a peace deal with the Taliban. It is for this reason that the American government and media do not feel the need to pressurise Pakistan to stop supporting Dawood Ibrahim.

If India has any intentions of ever capturing Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon—or other top terrorists, Maulana Masood Azhar and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed—it needs, first, to rid itself of the illusion that Pakistan’s criminal justice will help.

Take the example of Hafiz Saeed: Known throughout the world as a terrorist, at home he’s a television celebrity, represented as a pious man. Back in 2009, Saeed was acquitted of several terrorism-related charges by the Lahore High Court. The prosecution lawyer, Latif Khosa, convinced the judge that Saeed had links to al Qaeda. But the judge still ruled in Saeed’s favour, since having connections with al Qaeda was no offence under Pakistani law.

Imagine that a country which has lost over 50,000 of its citizens to al Qaeda supported militants, and has suffered a $70 billion economic loss, is still unable to pass a legislation banning al Qaeda. This goes to show what Pakistan’s priorities are.

The Pakistan government’s only strategy is denial. Will India eventually mount an operation to get Dawood Ibrahim, as shown in D Day, akin to the one America mounted against Osama bin Laden? Or will India keep on waiting endlessly for Pakistan to punish those terrorists who are causing mayhem in India and inciting violence from across the border?

Only time will tell.

Anas Abbas is an investigative Counter Terrorism Analyst. He blogs at aacounterterror.wordpress.com and tweets at @Anas_Abbas1.

As hard-hitting as it gets!!

[RamaY]

At the 11th hour: Kerry’s visit postponed over security concerns
Vasleen Vial Was not ready

“But he (Kerry) will certainly visit before Eid,” he added, without giving any exact date.Another official disclosed that US authorities cautioned their Pakistani counterparts that the visit may be postponed again if the dates are made public.This is the second time Kerry’s trip was being rescheduled. He was originally supposed to visit Pakistan in June.

Hint hint.... 786,000,072 Ebil yindoo agents in bakistan...

[Baikul]

Re: Dawood Ibrahim, these days how do mauleners place him and his ops in the context of the K'rachi badlands? Did he, or does he, have any significant involvement with or links into the MQM or the various Pakhtoon gangs operating there?

I'm wondering how he has managed to stay out of the crossfire for such a long time now that even ISI offices get hit with some regularity. No one but India wants a piece of him?

[SSridhar]

Baikul, Dawood Ibrahim is closely linked to LeT. This is not surprisingr considering that he is a prop of the PA/ISI. Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq has been a long time LeT supporter and fund raiser in Saudi Arabia. He coordinates fund raising with Saudi NGOs and businessmen for and on behalf of LeT. Dawood Ibrahim is very closely associated with him. LeT has a significant presence in Karachi. Remember that Kasab & Co trained there and set sail from there.

[Baikul]

SSridhar, thanks for the LeT perspective. Yet I can't help but think that if he is is still a leading light in the Karachi underworld, he surely must have rubbed someone the wrong way? I'm just surprised that in that fractious society where someone even tried to kill a serving COAS (Mushy) Dawood bhai seems to walk on water....

[ramana]

As long as Pawar and his coterie are in power in India DI is safe. A lot of brickbats will be thrown at him like the IPL match fixing case but in the end he still is safe.
In fact he is perfect stool pigeon where the INC stalwarts loot an blame Dawood Ibrahim for their crimes.

[anupmisra]

5.3-quake shakes upper parts of Pakistan

What, pray tell me, are "Upper Parts" of Pakhanistan? Is that where the "paani ki tanki" is located that is used to flush the inner pakistaniyat away?

[anupmisra]

Am I the only one that thinks that this chini ship docking in k'rachi is grounds for getting suspicious? Chinese Navy Hospital Ship 'Peace Ark' reaches Pakistan

as part of an overseas voyage to provide medical services to local residents

the Chinese ship was escorted by PNS SAIF. The Ship prior reaching Karachi has visited Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Cuba, Costa Rica, Jamaica and other countries

the Chinese ship was escorted by PNS SAIF

First of all, I didnt hear of any request/SOS made by the pakis to the chinese to provide emergency medical care. Why would the chinibhais go about doing this when their own situation is precarious? How does the ship get replenished? Why the navy escort? Obviously, not subject to any routine inspections.

Secondly, why Cuba? Cuba has better medical facilities and services than the chini nation. Anytime I hear of Cuba and ships, I think of illicit arms transfers. And, which other countries? NoKo? Something is black in the lentils.

[Raja Bose]

Are the 2 momeens on extreme right djinns ?

Yes, they are photochor djinns. BTW is that a chipanda loco in the background or a pindigenous one?

[Peregrine]

Are the 2 momeens on extreme right djinns ?

Yes, they are photochor djinns. BTW is that a chipanda loco in the background or a pindigenous one?

Raja Bose Ji :

Seems to be one of the ALCO 12, 18, 20, 24 Class originally of 1962 - 1965 Vintage and was possibly rebuilt in the period 1977 - 1986.

Cheers

[RCase]

What, pray tell me, are "Upper Parts" of Pakhanistan? Is that where the "paani ki tanki" is located that is used to flush the inner pakistaniyat away?

"Upper Parts" of Pakhanistan is the place for the origin of pindi channa gas. The "Paani ki Tanki" is the jaguar vein under Indian control, with dams that act as the controls for the flush. Everything gets flushed in the Krachi area.

[kish]

Good Taliban is fighting kufr cowardly paki police to release their people .

Militants attack prison in NW Pakistan

A prison in north-west Pakistan has come under attack from militants, local officials say.

The attack on the jail in the town of Dera Ismail Khan began with several explosions, according to reports.

Gunmen then opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns, police chief Sohail Khalid told the Reuters news agency.

Iam really surprised that paki police is putting up a fight. Last time, Brave paki police mingled with the prisoner wearing prisoner uniform and escaped from the prison.

[anupmisra]

Good Taliban is fighting kufr cowardly paki police to release their people .

Militants attack prison in NW Pakistan

The attackers were chanting "God is great" and "Long live the Taliban"

Ironic and funny. Looks like both sides were chanting the same battle cries.

[Gagan]

What, pray tell me, are "Upper Parts" of Pakhanistan? Is that where the "paani ki tanki" is located that is used to flush the inner pakistaniyat away?

"Upper Parts" of Pakhanistan is the place for the origin of pindi channa gas. The "Paani ki Tanki" is the jaguar vein under Indian control, with dams that act as the controls for the flush. Everything gets flushed in the Krachi area.

Masha-allah,
This thread is turning into the Benis-e-dhaaga.

Hila-le-Bakistan award to Anupmishra-ulla and RCase-ulla

[Anujan]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 08e17f.2c1

More than 230 prisoners including hardcore militants escaped late Monday after Taliban insurgents armed with mortars and rocket propelled grenades attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan, officials said.

[SSridhar]

ToI is reporting 'more than 300' prisoners were freed and carted away by the Taliban. These are 'very bad' Taliban.

Anyway, I suspect that this jail break was done under the direct leadership of Khan Said, the new commander in place of the killed Sheikh Wali-ur-Rehman. Now, Khan Said is no ordinary man. He was the planner for the Taliban attack on PNS Mehran naval airbase, Karachi in c. 2011. Later, in April 2012, he also planned a jailbreak in Bannu when 400 Taliban prisoners, including 20 ‘very dangerous’ prisoners, were released and taken away. That included Adnan Rashid, who was on death row for his involvement in an assassination attempt against former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

In c. 2008, many Taliban commanders were released as part of the 'peace deal' by Pakistan and within a few weeks, the Taliban raided the Sarposa prison near Kandahar and released over 400 jihadists. Kandahar on one side and Peshawar on the other side of the Durand Line are the ones that the Taliban want to control in order to consolidate.