Bharat Rakshak

A Pakistan ship on Saturday evacuated 11 Indians from Mukallah where the security situation had become critical following a jailbreak by al-Qaida militants.

Through a discreetly planned exercise, said Pakistan in a statement, the operation was switched to nearby Ash Shihr port and 148 Pakistanis have been safely evacuated, earlier on Saturday.

"35 other foreign nationals also requiring emergency evacuation are also on board. These include 8 Chinese, 11 Indians and 4 British citizens," it said.

India too has so far evacuated three Pakistan nationals. Along with its own, India has evacuated nationals of Djibouti, Nepal, Bangladesh and Uganda from the war-torn country.

sunnyP wrote:Is Hockey India trolling the Pakistanis here?

Hockey India offers financial help to Pakistan Hockey Federation

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Neela wrote:Weren't the Paki players involved in crowd abuse during their recent trip here?
Rewarding bad behaviour are we?

arun wrote:

sunnyP wrote:Let the Islamic Republic of Pakistan buy one less submarine and use that money to fund their hockey team.

Pakistan PM approves deal to buy eight Chinese submarines: official

Paul wrote:

Lodhi talking about convening Blasphemy laws in thru a joint initiative by three Abhramic faiths. Watch 43:00 omwards

Everybody likes attention, and when suddenly deprived of it is upset, befuddled and quick to blame others. This is a common human predicament. In a sense, it is an apt description for Pakistan’s understanding of India in the 10 months the Narendra Modi government has been in office.

To Pakistan’s mind, the signals from the Modi government have been confusing. In May 2014, there was the invitation to the swearing-in ceremony. A few weeks later, there was a sledgehammer (in pure military terms, disproportionate) response to Pakistani incursions and firing on the line of control and the international border. New Delhi cancelled foreign secretary level talks because Pakistani diplomats met the Hurriyat leadership.

When Indian foreign secretary S Jaishankar visited Islamabad recently, it was posited as part of a Saarc yatra, rather than a two-nation event. Pro forma statements were made. No roadmap for a ‘composite dialogue’ or any other form of dialogue was laid out. No invitations were handed over

Are these disjointed, disparate occurrences or is a pattern emerging? Many Pakistanis have read a ‘Hindu hardliner’ message into Modi’s actions. That may satisfy lazy stereotyping but is not altogether correct. A better explanation is that on Pakistan at least the priorities of the prime minister’s office (PMO) and the foreign policy establishment, and those of the country at large, are finally merging.

These priorities are not so much those of hostility, but of indifference and recognition that things cannot really be repaired in a hurry. Resultantly or otherwise, India and Indians have other fish to fry.

This is the hard truth Pakistanis find difficult to digest: that Indians, and India, have lost interest in Pakistan. While the universe of Indian engagement with and coverage of the world has expanded in the past 15-20 years, the proportion of news or mind space devoted to Pakistan has declined. As prime minister, Modi is an embodiment of that societal and generational change; he has not created it.

For 15 years — under former prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh — the PMO virtually ran Pakistan policy, reducing the external affairs ministry and the Pakistan desk to a sideshow. Today, under Modi, some of that autonomy has been restored and the PMO is no longer micro-managing. Why then did Vajpayee and particularly Manmohan spend so much political capital on Pakistan?

There were several sets of reasons. Singularly important was that both Vajpayee and Manmohan belonged to a pre-1947 generation that had experienced the benefits of a seamless trading system that ran from Peshawar to Kolkata. They strived to recreate it within a two-country framework, and hoped it would lead to new avenues.

Modi is 20 years younger than his predecessors. Modi’s voters — 52% of India’s population is below 35 — are 50 years younger. They have zero memories of the composite trading network that existed before Partition and even the residual commerce that continued till the war of 1965.

Bluntly, there is no comparable economic imperative to consider to the northwest. As an economic geography it is cut off. This has given Pakistan very little leverage in contemporary India. In contrast, China, with all the history of contestation and suspicion, is a crucial business partner.

Where is Pakistan? By abandoning the trade and economic paradigm, it has written itself out of the India story. That is the harsh reality.

Some analysts believe Mullah Omar may be operating along or across the border in Pakistan.

Analysts also believe Osama bin Laden invented hiding along or oacross the border in Pakistan. However, later in life, bin Laden bought a house near Abottabad and settled down. It is said that Mullah Omar may also have vacation homes in Karachi on the other side of the Pakistani Border, Peshawar, on the third western side of Pakistani border and in Lahore on the remaining fourth side of the border. He is said to have planned an air castle in Gilgit to conquer the fifth border of Pakistan. It is said that in Pakistan the methane does not rise, but seeps. Therefore tunneling activities may have started 19 years ago to conquer the sixth dimension.

Amid a countrywide campaign against terrorist groups, at least four factions of Taliban militants are strengthening their influence in Tank and Dera Ismail Khan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing Mehsud elders and threatening traders for extortion, locals say. - See more at: http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/talib ... FeFx2.dpuf

John Isabeau wrote:TULUVAN:
Agree with you, 99.99%, not 100.00!
John Isabeau (BRF Trainee)

Also attracted by the certainties and a sense of superiority offered by radical Islam was Samiulla Khan, who lived just down the road from Mr. Hammer and often attended his basement parties. He also went to the school attended by the soccer star, Mr. Chaib, a mixed vocational and regular high school called Greaker.

The son of immigrants from Pakistan, Mr. Khan, according to people who knew the family, felt out of place not only among Norwegians but also among fellow Pakistanis. His father, a convicted murderer, brought further shame on the family after his release from jail by killing a woman while driving drunk. The father declined to comment.

shiv wrote:

John Isabeau wrote:TULUVAN:
Agree with you, 99.99%, not 100.00!
John Isabeau (BRF Trainee)

John Sneau?

John Isabeau wrote:http://www.dawn.com/news/1173965/resisting-saudi
Comment : Raheel (bad Sharif) decides,not Nawaz ( good Sharif )!

Anujan wrote: Because if she suggests that Blasphemy laws should be repealed, she will be bull cutlet.

The alternative is to suggest that everyone should come together and have a debate about blasphemy laws.

After senior Saudi officials in Riyadh requested a high-powered Pakistani delegation both ‘material and manpower’ to tackle Houthi rebels attempting to gain control of Yemen, the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is mulling over what to ask Saudi Arabia in return.

About economic benefits for the country, the sources said the Pakistani authorities were interested in receiving sureties from Saudi Arabia at the forum of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on some important issues. They said that if Pakistan joins the Saudi forces, then the GCC should ensure that when Pakistan feels threatened by India, then the GCC would not only slap restrictions on Indian employees working in the region but also support Pakistan on many fronts.

sum wrote:^^ Isnt the 1.5B provided few months back already taking care of the TSP favour?

Anujan wrote:

About economic benefits for the country, the sources said the Pakistani authorities were interested in receiving sureties from Saudi Arabia at the forum of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on some important issues. They said that if Pakistan joins the Saudi forces, then the GCC should ensure that when Pakistan feels threatened by India, then the GCC would not only slap restrictions on Indian employees working in the region but also support Pakistan on many fronts.