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SSridhar wrote:TSP-US to establish 'full partnership'

What are these 'full' & 'half' partnerships ?

The Indian army has killed a dozen suspected militants in five days of fighting near the highly militarised Line of Control (LoC) dividing disputed Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

Indian army spokesman Naresh Vig said the fighting began on Monday after soldiers intercepted some militants crossing into a northern part of Indian-administered Kashmir from the Pakistani side.

Vig said Friday that militants also made attempts to cross into the Indian side at three other places in remote and mountainous northern Kashmir leading to fierce gunbattles with the army.

There was no independent confirmation of the fighting.

BAHAWALPUR: The Shia Council’s Divisional President Sheikh Manzoor Hussain and his younger son Haider Ali were killed as a result of firing in Rahim Yar Khan on Friday.
Hussain was leaving his house in Umar Block, Abbasia Town, Rahim Yar Khan with his son for participating in a rally led by Haidri Trust on ‘Youm-e-Quds’ when six riders on two motorcycles started firing on them just as they were about to enter their car.
Hussain and his son were seriously injured as a result and were brought to Sheikh Zayed Hospital, where both eventually succumbed to their injuries...........

Murugan wrote:Protest karna to koi inse seekhe

The US diplomatic missions to be closed on Sunday are in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Algiers, Algeria; Amman, Jordan; Baghdad, Iraq; Cairo, Egypt; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Djibouti, Djibouti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Doha, Qatar; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Erbil, Iraq; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Kabul, Afghanistan; Khartoum, Sudan; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Manama, Bahrain; Muscat, Oman; Nouakchott, Mauritania; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Sanaa, Yemen and Tripoli, Libya.

Im the Dim is launching a hunt for sporting talent as a flagship counter-terrorism policy in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

Terrorism has been very destructive for sports... that is why we are aiming at sports activities to end terrorism in the province

Terrorism has been very destructive for sports... that is why we are aiming at sports activities to end terrorism in the province

ISLAMABAD : As the government is aware that US sanctions may hamper financing for the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, it has decided to place a request before the new Iranian government for completely financing the vital energy project.

Iran had committed to the previous PPP-led government a loan of $500 million for laying the pipeline in Pakistan, which would cost more than $1 billion. The two governments also agreed to award construction contract to Iranian firm Tadbir Energy. However, the contract could not be signed in the absence of sovereign guarantees by Pakistan.

Singha wrote:since when are US diplomatic missions open on sat/sunday?

ISLAM As BAD:As the government is aware that US sanctions may hamper financing for the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, it has decided to place a request before the new Iranian government for completely financing the vital energy project.Iran had committed to the previous PPP-led government a loan of $500 million for laying the pipeline in Pakistan, which would cost more than $1 billion. The two governments also agreed to award construction contract to Iranian firm Tadbir Energy. However, the contract could not be signed in the absence of sovereign guarantees by Pakistan.Speaking to the media here on Friday, Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi stressed that the government would continue work on the IP gas pipeline and “we will discuss the project with the new Iranian cabinet for seeking the entire financing.”Iran was facing sanctions and the Foreign Office had been asked to assess the impact of US curbs on the project, he said. Turkey and Armenia are already getting supplies from Iran.

The killing fields of Afghanistan have again taken centre-stage. India has warned its ambassador to Kabul, Amar Sinha, of a plot by Pakistan-based bombers to assassinate him, and has recommended that he not leave home without a bullet-proof jacket nor travel in a convoy of less than three armoured Land Cruisers.

The warning of the specific threat to the ambassador's life is based on communication intercepts by New Delhi.

Sources privy to the communication told Mail Today the intercepts speak of the ISI paying half a million rupees to two militants of the Taliban's Haqqani network in Afghanistan to attack the Indian envoy two weeks ago.

Following the intercepts, there have been a slew of visits to Afghanistan. Deputy National Security Adviser Nehchal Sandhu, a former Director of the Intelligence Bureau, was in Afghanistan recently and met senior Afghan national security officials,

"It was a specific alert. A team of security officials was sent to Afghanistan for a security review and it has made some recommendations. Clearly the aim is to pin down our top diplomat so we back off from our work," a senior official told Mail Today.

The team, led by Malay Sinha, a police official in charge of security functions in the Foreign Office, comprised officials from the Research and Analysis Wing, Intelligence Bureau and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) that has commandos deployed to guard the Indian mission in Kabul besides its consulates in Kandahar, Heart, Jalalabad, and Mazar-e-Sharif.

Officials say that Sinha was called to Delhi for consultations and met senior officials, including Foreign Secretary Sujata Singh.

The recommendations include making it mandatory for the envoy to wear a bullet-proof jacket at all times when he goes out, not to get out of the car till it is in a security-cleared spot, to ensure that he only travels in a convoy of armoured vehicles always equipped with a jammer, and not to disclose the movements of the convoy to staffers till the last moment.

It has been recommended that his armoured Land Cruisers travel in a convoy of at least three vehicles and that the vehicle carrying the ambassador be shuffled within the convoy with a decoy vehicle.

While the security team is in the process of compiling its report, Indian officials have sensitised Afghan officials on the threat and the security of the Indian mission has been beefed up with more permanent security posts. While the outer cordon of the mission and security is provided by the Afghan police, the inner cordon and the close proximity team comprises ITBP commandos.

The input comes at a juncture when India is in the process of providing fresh assistance of $100 million to Kabul in addition to the $2 billion it spent on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan that won the country enormous goodwill. The envoy, a diplomat with a distinguished career, was handpicked for his economic diplomacy skills. He has spent barely a month in Kabul. Diplomatic sources say the plan to attack the Indian diplomat is aimed at putting India's strategic outreach in Afghanistan on the backfoot.

"Pakistan has always sought to limit India's activities in Afghanistan and for this purpose has used a number of instruments, including an attempt to circumscribe the activities of Indian representatives, including Indian personnel involved in assistance projects," said Mr Vivek Katju, India's former ambassador to Afghanistan. "There is a valid reason for concluding the involvement of Pakistani state actors in violent attacks on Indian interests in Afghanistan, including our embassy," he added.

The Haqqani group, based in eastern Afghanistan and the Pakistani region of Waziristan, has been blamed by the Afghan, US and Indian governments for attacks on Kabul in the past three years against the Indian embassy, government ministries and hotels frequented by foreign diplomats and aid workers.

Pakistan's ISI has been directly linked to the July 2008 bombing of the Indian embassy that killed 54 people, including India's defence attache and a political counselor; Afghanistan's former Afghan intelligence director, Amrullah Saleh, had gone on record to confirm this.

Diplomatic sources say ISI officers have scuttled CIA efforts to kill or capture Haqqani network leaders by leaking details of the planned raids,

The role of the ISI in attacks on the Indian mission was corroborated by Mike Waltz, who worked in the US vice-president's office while George Bush was still President. "Through information and a series of events (not to mention preceding intelligence intercepts) it became pretty clear the Pakistanis were behind the (Jalaluddin) Haqqani network, which was behind the bombing," he had said. He then concluded, in a BBC documentary: "The question was how high in the Pakistani state this went. And the answer was pretty high."

The security situation in Afghanistan has been spiraling out of control in the run-up to 2014, when US-led forces are going to exit Afghanistan. The Taliban have been mounting deadly attacks and India will continue to be a soft target with Pakistan professing friendship on one hand and planning violent attacks against Indian diplomats on the other.

While India has been hit at will in Kabul, it has patiently played a diplomatic game of goodwill hunting even as its men are hunted. While beefing up the security of diplomats is fine, if New Delhi is looking for long-term strategic objectives in Afghanistan it will have to seek answers from Pakistan.

anupmisra wrote:So, Mr. Khan, what is your solution to combat terrorism?
Let Them Play.... Cricket

PTI to fight terrorism with cricket

Im the Dim is launching a hunt for sporting talent as a flagship counter-terrorism policy in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

Terrorism has been very destructive for sports... that is why we are aiming at sports activities to end terrorism in the province

A_Rai wrote:Default Pakistan plans to kill Indian envoy? Communication intercepts expose plot

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center published results of a public survey of gay tolerance in 39 countries worldwide.Among the least tolerant nations surveyed was Pakistan, where only 2 percent of those surveyed said society should accept homosexuality. That statistic might be unsurprising, considering that gay sex is illegal under the Pakistani penal code. But what is surprising is how those views compare to Pakistani search traffic around gay-*****-related terms.

partha wrote:

A_Rai wrote:Default Pakistan plans to kill Indian envoy? Communication intercepts expose plot

Seems like a very accurate intelligence input. Suicide attack and gunfire reported near India consulate in Jalalabad.

Anujan wrote:Jalalabad consulate has been attacked. No Indian national hurt. 10 women and children killed many more injured. Suicide bombing by vehicle borne explosive.

He said they were alerted about such an attack on the Indian consulate.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban or the Haqqani Network have been accused in the past of staging attacks on Indian officials and buildings in Afghanistan.

"There is report of eight Pakistani nationals who are living in Ballia on long-term visa and their visas have to be renewed every year. The district administration has got a complaint that these Pakistanis have got ration cards made and voter I-cards in their names and are availing facilities at par with Indian national", District Magistrate (DM) Sunil Kumar Srivastava told PTI.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday said the issue of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist imprisoned in the US, had not been raised with the US. “There are some multilateral arrangements which, if acceded to, can provide a basis for discussions on this matter. The Ministry of Interior is currently examining this aspect,” said the Foreign Office spokesman.

Meanwhile, within hours of comments made by US Secretary of State John Kerry in Islamabad, Washington sent a correction through the spokesperson of the State Department clarifying his remarks. These remarks were made in an interview on the state channel that the US drone attacks would end ‘very soon’.

Three hours later, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki clarified and not denied that the number of drone strikes had declined owing to the drawdown of American troops from Afghanistan and because of the progress in curtailing the al-Qaeda threat. “Today, the secretary referenced the changes that we expect to take place in that programme over the course of time, but there is no exact timeline to provide,” she said in a statement.

Another comment from the State Department was: “In no way would we ever deprive ourselves of a tool to fight a threat ‘if’ it arises.”

Intercepted dispatches suggest Pakistan's intelligence services 'hired assassins' to attack India's ambassador in Kabul

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/in ... z2auMikDXf

By Saurabh Shukla

PUBLISHED: 22:23 GMT, 2 August 2013

The killing fields of Afghanistan have again taken centre-stage.

India has warned its ambassador to Kabul, Amar Sinha, of a plot by Pakistan-based bombers to assassinate him, and has recommended that he not leave home without a bulletproof jacket nor travel in a convoy of less than three armoured Land Cruisers.

The warning of the specific threat to the ambassador's life is based on communication intercepts by New Delhi.
Indian envoy to Afghanistan Amar Sinha (left) with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai

Indian envoy to Afghanistan Amar Sinha (left) with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai

Sources privy to the communication told MAIL TODAY the intercepts speak of the ISI paying half a million rupees to two militants of the Taliban's Haqqani network in Afghanistan to attack the Indian envoy two weeks ago.

Following this, there have been a slew of visits to Afghanistan.

Deputy National Security Adviser Nehchal Sandhu, a former Director of the Intelligence Bureau, was in Afghanistan recently and met senior Afghan national security officials.
Officials say Amar Sinha was called to Delhi for consultations and met senior officials, including Foreign Secretary Sujata Singh

Officials say Amar Sinha was called to Delhi for consultations and met senior officials, including Foreign Secretary Sujata Singh

"It was a specific alert. A team of security officials was sent to Afghanistan for a security review and it has made some recommendations. Clearly the aim is to pin down our top diplomat so we back off from our work," a senior official told Mail Today.

The team, led by Malay Sinha, a police official in charge of security functions in the Foreign Office, comprised officials from the Research and Analysis Wing, Intelligence Bureau and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) that has commandos deployed to guard the Indian mission in Kabul besides its consulates in Kandahar, Heart, Jalalabad, and Mazar-e-Sharif.

Safety measures

Officials say Sinha was called to Delhi for consultations and met senior officials, including Foreign Secretary Sujata Singh.

The recommendations include making it mandatory for the envoy to wear a bullet-proof jacket at all times when he goes out, not to get out of the car till it is in a security-cleared spot, to ensure that he only travels in a convoy of armoured vehicles always equipped with a jammer, and not to disclose the movements of the convoy to staffers till the last moment.

It has been recommended that his armoured Land Cruisers travel in a convoy of at least three vehicles and that the vehicle carrying the envoy be shuffled within the convoy with a decoy vehicle.
Earlier attacks

While the security team is in the process of compiling its report, Indian officials have sensitised Afghan officials on the threat and the security of the Indian mission has been beefed up with more permanent security posts.

While the outer cordon of the mission and security is provided by the Afghan police, the inner cordon and the close proximity team comprises ITBP commandos.

Haqqani hand

The input comes at a juncture when India is in the process of providing fresh assistance of $100 million to Kabul in addition to the $2 billion it spent on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan that won the country enormous goodwill.

The envoy, a diplomat with a distinguished career, was handpicked for his economic diplomacy skills.

He has spent barely a month in Kabul.

Diplomatic sources say the plan to attack him is aimed at putting India's strategic outreach in Afghanistan on the backfoot.

"Pakistan has always sought to limit India's activities in Afghanistan and for this purpose has used a number of instruments, including an attempt to circumscribe the activities of Indian representatives, including Indian personnel involved in assistance projects," said Mr Vivek Katju, India's former ambassador to Afghanistan.

"There is a valid reason for concluding the involvement of Pakistani state actors in violent attacks on Indian interests in Afghanistan, including our embassy," he added.

The Haqqani group, based in eastern Afghanistan and the Pakistani region of Waziristan, has been blamed by the Afghan, US and Indian governments for attacks on Kabul in the past three years against the Indian embassy, government ministries and hotels frequented by foreign diplomats and aid workers.

American input

Pakistan's ISI has been directly linked to the July 2008 bombing of the Indian embassy that killed 54 people, including India's defence attache and a political counsellor; Afghanistan's former Afghan intelligence director, Amrullah Saleh, had gone on record to confirm this.

Diplomatic sources say ISI officers have scuttled CIA efforts to kill or capture Haqqani network leaders by leaking details of the planned raids,

The ISI's role in attacks on the Indian mission was corroborated by Mike Waltz, who worked in the US vice-president's office while George Bush was still President.

"Through information and a series of events (not to mention preceding intercepts) it became pretty clear the Pakistanis were behind the (Jalaluddin) Haqqani network, which was behind the bombing," he had said.

He then concluded, in a BBC documentary: "The question was how high in the Pakistani state this went. And the answer was pretty high."

The security situation in Afghanistan has been spiralling out of control in the run-up to 2014, when US-led forces are going to exit Afghanistan. The Taliban have been mounting deadly attacks and India will continue to be a soft target.
A target for the Taliban

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SIALKOT: An RPV (Remotely Piloted Vehicle) was seen entering Pakistani airspace and exiting through the border with India on Saturday, Express News reported.
Express News correspondent Asif Faraz said that the RPV entered Pakistani airspace near the Chaprar sector in Sialkot at around 1:55pm. It remained in Pakistani airspace for a minute and a half and was sent when it came to the attention of the Pakistani Air Force.
The RPV was reported to be green in colour and flying at a height of 3,500 feet.
Earlier in June, two Indian fighter planes entered Pakistan’s airspace near Head Sulemanki border. The planes were reportedly five to seven miles inside Pakistan.

agastya wrote:Indian RPV enters Pakistani airspace: Express News

http://tribune.com.pk/story/586002/indi ... ress-news/

SIALKOT: An RPV (Remotely Piloted Vehicle) was seen entering Pakistani airspace and exiting through the border with India on Saturday, Express News reported.
Express News correspondent Asif Faraz said that the RPV entered Pakistani airspace near the Chaprar sector in Sialkot at around 1:55pm. It remained in Pakistani airspace for a minute and a half and was sent when it came to the attention of the Pakistani Air Force.
The RPV was reported to be green in colour and flying at a height of 3,500 feet.
Earlier in June, two Indian fighter planes entered Pakistan’s airspace near Head Sulemanki border. The planes were reportedly five to seven miles inside Pakistan.

To all Guru's, which RPV does our army use?

Suicide attack near Indian consulate kills 8 kids in Afghanistan
India Today Online Kabul, August 3, 2013 | UPDATED 15:39 IST

At least eight children were killed in a suicide bombing near the Indian consulate in Jalalabad in Afghanstan's Nangarhar province on Saturday.

All Indians in the mission are however safe.

Bombers blew the explosive-laden car near the mosque leading up to the consulate killing eight children attending religious classes and injuring 21 people, said tweets by Afghan TV channel TOLO News.

Among the dead were three suspected bombers.

Read: Intercepts suggest Pakistan's ISI hired 'assassins' to attack Indian envoy in Kabul

The channel quoted Nangarhar police chief Gen Sharif Amin.

India's Ministry of External Affairs said the explosion took place in front of the consulate and in touch with India officials, all of whom were safe.

The police chief told the news channel that Jalalabad police had been alerted about an attack on the Indian consulate.

Security forces have now cordoned off the area and the victims have been taken to the provincial hospital.

No group including the Taliban or the Haqqani Network has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Three years ago, two guest houses in Kabul popular among Indians were attacked, killing more than six people.

The Indian embassy in Kabul has been bombed twice in 2008 an 2009, killing scores of people.

The Jalalabad attack comes after the US decided to shit its embassies in a number of countries for the weekend due to security threats.

At least eight people, including five policemen, were killed in different incidents of violence in Karachi.
Unknown motorcycle-riding gunmen opened fire targeting a police mobile deployed for duty at the bridge linking Shah Faisal colony area of the city with the Korangi Industrial Area.

What do you think of dick pics? Do you know why Pakistan is obsessed with them? Leave us your thoughts in the comments section.

LAHORE : Pak Business Express, a joint venture between Pakistan Railways and the Four Brothers group, is in jeopardy. The Karachi to Lahore train that was once famous for its punctuality is now making late arrivals, as exemplified by Tuesday’s train that arrived seven hours late.

Ali cites the fact that the staff was assured AG-30 locomotives but for the last 45 days have been given outdated locomotives which often fail during the journey and cause delays on arrival.

According to Hussein, Pakistan Railways never signed an agreement to provide Pak Business Express with AG-30 locomotives.

He also added that Pak Business Express owes Pakistan Railways around Rs502 million.

Jhujar wrote:Talibans have denied their involvement in Jalalabad Consulate attack. It leaves only Pakistan and Bangui as two obvious usual suspects, culprits. we can rule out only one .