Terroristan - November 11, 2019

[sanjaykumar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYCXmCr ... iveOffence

Social media warfare, with a smirk.

[KLNMurthy]

Recent attempts hint armed groups opposing Belt and Road set sights on Karachi

Please tell me that RAW is funding and training these guys.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.firstpost.com/world/deaths- ... 40661.html
Deaths of Karima Baloch, Sajid Hussain bound to raise uncomfortable questions for Pakistan on Balochistan
The death of a high-profile critic of the Pakistan government, one that fled that country in 2016 and sought refuge in Canada saying she was in fear for her life because of the army and intel agencies, is in itself sure to raise uncomfortable questions for Islamabad
FP Staff December 23, 2020
Over the weekend, Karima Baloch, a prominent Baloch rights activist, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Canada.
The death of a high-profile critic of the Pakistan government, one that fled that country in 2016 and sought refuge in Canada saying she was in fear for her life because of the army and intel agencies, is in itself sure to raise suspicions in the minds of the public and uncomfortable questions for Islamabad.
And while the Canadian police have stated that there is no reason to suspect foul play, news of Karima's death, coming on the heels of the body of Sajid Hussain, chief editor of the Baluchistan Times, being discovered in Sweden earlier this year, should, at the very least, cause enquiring minds to, well, enquire.
After all, there are certain similarities between the two cases: both Karima and Hussain sought refuge in foreign lands, both were spotted in public spaces before going missing (the former albeit briefly and the latter for more than a month) and both were found drowned.
In addition, both were nuisances for the powers-that-be.
In 2018, raising the issue of gender inequality in Pakistan at the United Nations during the 39th Session of the Human Rights Council, Karima stated, "If a woman is killed by her brother in the name of honour, Islamic law allows him to settle the case with the father or the rest of the family. In most of the cases, the family forgives the murderer who goes scot-free. Also, as a testimony of two women is equal to one man, rape cases are less likely to be decided in favour of the victims."
In 2016, she was on BBC's list of 100 inspirational and influential women, in which she was described as a campaigner "for the independence for Balochistan from Pakistan".
Hussain, on the other hand, as per AFP, was writing about drug trafficking, forced disappearances, and a long-running insurgency in Balochistan. He came to Sweden in 2017 and secured political asylum in 2019 after facing threats in Pakistan.
As per the BBC, Hussain's wife, Shehnaz told Pakistani newspaper Dawn that before fleeing for Sweden, her husband had sensed he was being followed. As well as writing about forced disappearances, he had exposed a drug kingpin in Pakistan.
“Then some people broke into his house in Quetta when he was out investigating a story," she said. "They took away his laptop and other papers too. After that, he left Pakistan in Septem­ber 2012 and never came back.”
......
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
https://thediplomat.com/2020/12/suspici ... -pakistan/
Suspicious Death of Baloch Activist in Toronto Raises Uncomfortable Questions for Pakistan
Karima Mehrab was outspoken in her criticism of Pakistan’s powerful military.
Abhijnan Rej, December 22, 2020
Well-known Baloch activist Karima Mehrab (also known as Karima Baloch) was found dead by the police in Toronto on December 21. According to media reports, Mehrab, a former chairperson of Baloch Students Organization-Azad (BSO), a separatist group proscribed in Pakistan, was found dead a day after she was reported missing. At the time of filing this report, no further details around the circumstances of her death – including the result of the autopsy – is known. However, as many media outlets have already noted, the case’s similarity with that of Sajid Hussain Baloch’s – another activist who was found dead in a river outside Uppsala, Sweden in April this year – raises the distinct possibility of foul play.
Baloch activists such as the 37-year-old Mehrab have long been at the loggerheads with Pakistan’s powerful army and intelligence service, as they have demanded justice for human rights violations in Balochistan and the right to self-determination towards an independent “Azad” Balochistan. Pakistan, for its part, accuses them of being terrorists engaged in anti-state activities, and of working at the behest of archrival India and its security services. Most key Baloch activists are in exile.
Resource-rich Balochistan, the largest of the five provinces of Pakistan, has acquired additional salience for Pakistan in the recent years after China’s investments there toward the construction of the Gwadar port as well as other projects under the banner of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Pakistan has also maintained that India seeks to destabilize CPEC through the deployment of Baloch separatists.
Named as one the 100 most “inspirational and influential” women by the BBC in 2016, Mehrab’s asylum claim proceedings in Canada were suspended that year by the Canada Border Services Agency pending review in 2017 due to its determination that the BSO was engaged in subversive activities against Pakistan, the Toronto Sun reported in December 2016.
.......
Gautam

[Paul]

Ayesha Ijaz Khan
@ayeshaijazkhan
Naye Pakistan mein naye inkashaaf—saw a talk show today after a long time and learned that PIMS Islamabad has been handed over to the doctor who did Imran Khan’s hair transplant.

[ArjunPandit]

Recent attempts hint armed groups opposing Belt and Road set sights on Karachi

Please tell me that RAW is funding and training these guys.

we dont support terrorism..these are true freedom phaiters pls

[CalvinH]

As we close 2020 I am glad to see another year that saw Pakis downward journey continuing and accelerating. Im the dim has turned out to be a total nincompoop but with attitude of superiority. A combination that Pakis truly deserve.

This year saw no let up in open loot, confused policy decision followed by u-turns and establishment grip that was openly exposed. But the best part was establishment getting the fraudsters (mostly from overseas) in different positions and letting them set up the tone and policy (some have already left sadly). Its so glad to see these fraudsters doubling down on solving the only problems Pakis have. Their image and Indians 5/6/7 generation warfare against them. Both can be won in Twitter and Social media easily (with some on the ground activities like abductions). ISPR has already done that for the Army and the establishment.

Pakis are marching to a point of no return and since they are winning (as per them), I hope this continues in 2021.

[Bart S]

As we close 2020 I am glad to see another year that saw Pakis downward journey continuing and accelerating. Im the dim has turned out to be a total nincompoop but with attitude of superiority. A combination that Pakis truly deserve.

This year saw no let up in open loot, confused policy decision followed by u-turns and establishment grip that was openly exposed. But the best part was establishment getting the fraudsters (mostly from overseas) in different positions and letting them set up the tone and policy (some have already left sadly). Its so glad to see these fraudsters doubling down on solving the only problems Pakis have. Their image and Indians 5/6/7 generation warfare against them. Both can be won in Twitter and Social media easily (with some on the ground activities like abductions). ISPR has already done that for the Army and the establishment.

Pakis are marching to a point of no return and since they are winning (as per them), I hope this continues in 2021.

Another plus for India is that the PDM (which threatened to bring down the Imran govt) seems to be breaking up and running out of steam now. It is very much in our interests that Imran be the PM for as long as possible, and the 'establishment' be seen as the people directly propping him up.

[madhu]

Air force inducts 14 locally-built JF-17Bs

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) formally handed over 14 state-of-the-art indigenously developed fourth generation JF-17 Thunder Block-III — dual carrier fighter jets equipped with a long-range superior radar system and advance firing capability — to Pakistan Air Force (PAF) at a simple ceremony on Wednesday.

He mentioned that the project’s completion was not possible without the assistance of Chinese experts, engineers and technicians. This project had further solidified Pak-China friendship and bilateral defence ties, he said.

Speaking on the occasion, Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong said PAC’s successful acquiring of the capacity to build JF-17B Thunder Block-III aircraft set up a perfect model of Pak-China friendship. “Pakistan has become self-sufficient in developing JF-17 Thunder and an advance fighter aircraft producing country in the world. JF-17 Thunder has finally become the backbone of Pakistan’s defence,” he remarked.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.rediff.com/news/report/2611 ... 210102.htm
26/11 attack mastermind Lakhvi arrested in Pakistan
By M Zulqernain, January 02, 2021
Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on terror financing charges, according to an official statement, amidst growing international pressure on Islamabad to bring to justice terrorists roaming free in the country.
United Nations proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department of Punjab province. However, the CTD did not reveal the place of his arrest.
"Following an intelligence-based operation conducted by the CTD Punjab, proscribed organisation LeT leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on charges of terrorism financing,” the CTD said in an official statement.
......
Gautam
Time for biryani at state expense and plot future attacks.

[SBajwa]

Bakis declared that all Covid-19 vaccines are made with pork and monkey DNA and thus are haram.

[ArjunPandit]

kid shot with 17 bullets in isloo



https://www.dawn.com/news/1599257/5-pol ... abad-youth

He further claimed that the policemen had shot dead his son "brutally" over a mere exchange of words the previous day after which they had threatened his son. "My son lost his life due to an ordinary exchange of terse words," Satti said in the FIR, adding that his son had told him about the verbal altercation after it had happened.

[ArjunPandit]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1598980/uk-mi ... wed-by-nab

According to reports, a high court in the United Kingdom has ordered a debit of $28.7 million from the accounts of the Pakistan High Commission in London over non-payment of penalty by NAB to the foreign firm.

....
They also said the deadline for the payment of the penalty owed to the firm was December 31.

Broadsheet LLC, a company that was registered in the Isle of Man in the Pervez Musharraf era, helped the-then government and newly established NAB track down foreign assets purchased through alleged ill-gotten wealth.


The company had filed a claim with the London High Court on behalf of the company to enforce the payment of the outstanding $22m owed to the firm. Last year, a claim filed with the high court showed that the company has applied for permission to enforce the London court’s judgement that the company should be paid $22m by the government of Pakistan. Broadsheet had also asked for an interest of $4,758 per day to be applied.

Controversy involves Pakistan’s anti-graft watchdog and US-based asset recovery firm

In Dec 2018, former English court of appeal Judge Sir Anthony Evans QC, as sole arbitrator, issued an order for payment of $22m to Broadsheet by the government of Pakistan. In July this year, the government appealed the arbitration, but was unsuccessful in its bid.

The arbitrator found that Pakistan and NAB had wrongfully repudiated an asset recovery agreement with Broadsheet and ruled that the company is entitled to damages.

Owned by Iranian-born former Oxford University academic Kaveh Moussavi, Broadsheet is now under the supervision of a court-appointed liquidator who initially funded the arbitration and previously served a yearlong prison sentence in England for contempt of court in unrelated proceedings.

Broadsheet claims that it was established to enter into an Asset Recovery Agreement dated June 20, 2000, and did so with the-then president of Pakistan, through the NAB chairman, for the purposes of recovering funds and other assets fraudulently taken from the state and other institutions, including through corrupt practices, and held outside of Pakistan.

Broadsheet maintains that it was created to be a company specialising in the recovery of assets and funds, and was therefore engaged to trace, locate and transfer such items back to the state.

Broadsheet’s services were terminated in 2003 by NAB, but the company says that it learnt that the accountability body struck a deal with the Sharifs which allowed them to live in self-exile in Saudi Arabia, and filed a claim on the settlement.

According to its lawyer, the company’s services were sought by Gen Musharraf to hunt down overseas properties owned by the Sharifs and other government officials.

long article but possibly 2 things
1. mushy is trying to get money and he needs money to sustain
2. paxtan is strangulated through legal claims globally

[CalvinH]

Bakis declared that all Covid-19 vaccines are made with pork and monkey DNA and thus are haram.

How will Baki government pay for the vaccine? They dont have any money. The only option is to wait for the Chinese version which was tested on Bakis earlier but suffer from low success rate. Chinese will not give it to them for free in any case.

In one year as most countries are vaccinated, Pakistan will remain the last holdout for the virus in the world. Just like the Polio virus. This is the Bakis way to get the vaccine free for their masses. Pakis will ask the world to help them to save the world

[g.sarkar]

Calvinji,
Pakistan has never paid for anything ever. China has never given anything for free, ever. In this equation lets us see who wins, my bet is on the Sugarland. Most probably, Pakistan will import and provide/sell vaccines to the military and the very wealthy. These groups will be protected. The rest will rely on Allah, which is a sound policy, and accepted by the masses. No one will want to take vaccines made from swine, for Islam Khatre mein hain. There is already talk about adulterated vaccines made by profiteers.
Gautam

[madhu]

https://youtu.be/HGfAtfIq1PU

An NGC documentory on PAF operation on india. This is from the pakis view point. The same narrative. PAF wanted to show their resolve by dropping bombs in an open area near Garrison.

[Manish_P]

.. No one will want to take vaccines made from swine, for Islam Khatre mein hain...Gautam

Gautam ji, all talk of 'Islam Khatre mein..' is made to vanish (or at least tried to by the ones in power) when they see 'Jaan khatre mein'.

A recent example for your reference..

'Halal certification' a concern for Muslims

Spokespeople for Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have said that pork products are not part of their COVID-19 vaccines. But limited supply and preexisting deals worth millions of dollars with other companies means that some countries with large Muslim populations, such as Indonesia, will receive vaccines that have not yet been certified to be gelatin-free.

"There's a difference of opinion amongst Islamic scholars as to whether you take something like pork gelatin and make it undergo a rigorous chemical transformation," Waqar said. "Is that still considered to be religiously impure for you to take?"

The majority consensus from past debates over pork gelatin use in vaccines is that it is permissible under Islamic law, as "greater harm" would occur if the vaccines weren't used, said Dr Harunor Rashid, an associate professor at the University of Sydney.

In 2018, the Indonesian Ulema Council, the Muslim clerical body that issues certifications that a product is halal, or permissible under Islamic law, decreed that the measles and rubella vaccines were "haram," or unlawful, because of the gelatin. Religious and community leaders began to urge parents to not allow their children to be vaccinated.

"Measles cases subsequently spiked, giving Indonesia the third-highest rate of measles in the world," said Rachel Howard, director of the health care market research group Research Partnership.

A decree was later issued by the Muslim clerical body saying it was permissible to receive the vaccine, but cultural taboos still led to continued low vaccination rates, Howard said.

[Lisa]

I found this blog as I was researching this individual after he wrote an anti Indian article. I will not provide any links but just for humour, his experience with a puki passport. Surprisingly, although there are many such articles in his blog, he does not ONCE relate to WHY he and his county men are being treated this way.


"The setup: this was my second trip to the city of Barcelona but first with Camp Nou tickets. I saw not one but two games, and real doozies too: a CL knock out tie against City in which Messi had a night that can only be described as "filthy" and a tight Clasico (2-1) with a lateish Suarez winner. It was pretty much the perfect 5-6 days.

Anyway, my flight back to the U.S. is supposed to take off very early morning. I end up at the airport around 6 a.m. but the flight is delayed by 6-8 hours.

Somehow my bleary-eyed self somehow gets through this interminable wait with the aid of bad orange juice and a greasy breakfast sandwich. I read a little but I'm too sleepy, I surf a little but the screen is hurting my eyes.

I trudge my way to the boarding area, where I hear my name called for "additional" screening. Uh oh. Of course, I had had the dreaded "SSSS" on my boarding pass.

Now, some background. The letters "SSSS" on the bottom right of your boarding pass means you will get extra screening off on the side in the boarding area: more questions, your bags opened, your passport and documents checked, etc. You only know for sure when you check in, and when you do, then you know you're in for a ritualistic 10-30 minute humiliation.

I am here to tell you that every single time (or 85-90% of time at least) I flew into the U.S. from a place other than Pakistan, I had this SSSS thing on my boarding pass. Why other than Pakistan, you ask? It's basically this, but for airport security:

You see, Homeland Security has set it up such that when you are coming from a scary (i.e. brown) place, the security everyone receives is insane. So in those cases, they are not worried about isolating the "problematic" individual. If I'm coming in from Pakistan, that means I'm flying through Dubai/Abu Dhabi/Istanbul/Doha and DHS trusts those places to treat all US-bound flights like potential flying missiles and everyone is patted down and questioned accordingly.

But if I'm coming in from Mexico or Canada or Europe, well, then I signify individualistic trouble to the American state and I need to be differentiated from the peaceful masses. Thus the SSSS every time going into the US from Western places. And without fail, every time I got the boarding pass, I would seethe. "It's so goddamn obvious what's going on," I would mutter to myself, my wife (if she was there), and the guy doing the SSSSing, who would plead ignorance but know exactly what was up.

Anyway, so back to the story: I'm in Barcelona, going to Boston, so of course, I have SSSS on my boarding pass. Sure enough, my name comes over the loudspeaker and I am called to a literal pen, as in for pigs, where my shoes come off, my bag is essentially strip searched, I am asked dumb and lame questions about what I do and where I'm going and...

Suddenly, I hear a loud yell in the distance, maybe 20-30 yards to my left. It was not a pained exclamation but an excited one, but so involuntary that almost sounded like a dog yelping, like a "woah" combined with a "wow" with a "ruff". I look up and suddenly there was a throng where there was a basically empty airport hallway a few seconds prior. There is a crowd of men with phones and cameras in their hands, walking backwards at pace like some family of bizarro lobsters, all the while clicking furiously. I turn my head a degree to see what the fuss is about. This entire sequence, by the way, takes less than second.

From the crowd emerges one Lionel Andres Messi Cuccitini. Impish, head bent down, flustered, and with an embarrassed smile that suggests "Hey guys, let me through, what is the fuss about?" Next to him is Javier Mascherano, more somber and determined to work himself through the crowd with the same hard-headedness that he brings to midfield duels. I slap my head. "International break. Right." The two are headed back to South America. They're at the airport. They walk right in front of me.

But I can't get a selfie or a picture or autograph (not that they were doing many, but just by being in that throng, I would have got one) because I am being discriminated against, stuck in this random half open jail with my shoes off and my suitcase open. I was literally within 5-10 feet of them. This cabbie could have been me

Maximum possible sad score, obviously. Moderately high humiliation score because of the SSSS thing. "

[SRajesh]

3000 police encounters in Napak
Extra-judicial killings
https://youtu.be/KXanfugZSxg
Yet they keep shouting at the top of their voice on supposed Indian excesses whether in J&K or rest of India

[KLNMurthy]

Bakis declared that all Covid-19 vaccines are made with pork and monkey DNA and thus are haram.

Also, they are injecting nanobots for tracking everyone, and COVID stands for Certification of Valid Identity Document. Also, they are worried that Paki DNA is going to be improved with pig and monkey DNA

[g.sarkar]

https://www.firstpost.com/world/islamic ... 68961.html
Islamic State's killings of Hazaras in Balochistan show persecution of community in Pakistan continues unabated
Hazaras are said to be disproportionately targeted by sectarian violence as they are easily identifiable due to their distinctive physical appearance
FP Staff January 04, 2021
The deaths of 11 Shia Hazara coal miners in a terrorist attack in Pakistan's Balochistan bring into sharp focus the persecution of the community in the country.
Notwithstanding Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's public condemnation of the attack, little action seems to have been taken to secure the rights of the minority community.
Authorities in Pakistan as well as international human rights groups have taken note of the plight of Hazaras in Pakistan, but targeted crimes against the community seem to continue unabated.
Attack on coal miners
Eleven coal miners were shot dead from a close range shortly after being abducted by the armed terrorists in the province’s mountainous Machh area, the police said. The miners were going to work when they were abducted, PTI quoted senior police officials as saying. Six of the miners died on the spot while five succumbed on their way to a nearby hospital, the officials said.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the killings, as noted by a BBC report.
Murtaza Jatoi, an official of the Balochistan Levies, said that the terrorists first carried out an identity parade of the miners before taking them away to execute them. Others were left unharmed. Balochistan chief minister Jam Kamal Khan has condemned the incident and sought an inquiry report from the authorities concerned.
.....
Gautam

[g.sarkar]

https://www.business-standard.com/artic ... 063_1.html
US House presents bill to terminate Pak designation as Major non-NATO Ally
Introduced by Republican Congressman Andy Biggs, the bill removes Pakistan’s designation as a major non-NATO ally, a status that allows for various benefits such as access to excess US defense supplies and participation in cooperative defense research and development projects.
Nilavro Ghosh, Washington, US, Jan 04, 2021
On the first day of the 117th Congress, a lawmaker has introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives to terminate the designation of Pakistan as a Major non-NATO Ally.
Introduced by Republican Congressman Andy Biggs, the bill removes Pakistan’s designation as a major non-NATO ally, a status that allows for various benefits such as access to excess US defense supplies and participation in cooperative defense research and development projects.
The bill also notes that the US President cannot issue a separate designation of Pakistan as a Major NATO ally, unless a presidential certification that Pakistan continues to conduct military operations that are contributing to significantly disrupting the safe haven and freedom of movement of the Haqqani Network in Pakistan.
It also seeks a presidential certification that Pakistan has taken steps to demonstrate its commitment to prevent the Haqqani Network from using any Pakistani territory as a safe haven and that the Pak government actively coordinates with Afghanistan to restrict the movement of militants, such as the Haqqani Network, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
......
Gautam
No more Munna? No way!

[Mort Walker]

^^^This is the 2nd time he has proposed this. It was done before in Jan. 2019 and went nowhere.

The bill is unlikely to see the light of day as it has no Dem sponsor and the Dem leadership will quietly oppose it. It won't even make it out of committee. Terroristan is going to reap huge benefits with the incoming administration when they submit their proposed budget through the OMB (OMB head is another self-hating Indian origin person Neera Tanden) in late February. Stay tuned. There will be pdf links of the proposed FY22 budget posted.

[Bart S]

I found this blog as I was researching this individual after he wrote an anti Indian article. I will not provide any links but just for humour, his experience with a puki passport. Surprisingly, although there are many such articles in his blog, he does not ONCE relate to WHY he and his county men are being treated this way.

Haha I found the blog and it has some juicy titbits including the anecdote about a BRF-ite (in terms of lingo at least) CBP officer in NY:

Out of the din, I hear a conversation between two (of many) CBP agents, one that is loud 33% because the room is crowded and they are not that close to one another, 33% because they're New Yorkers, and 33% because they're cops. They are trying to explain/coordinate about the airlines that have come in and who is handling which airline.

One of them says in a thick NY accent, and I quote, "I got Pack-is-tan comin' out my ass." Pack-is-tan. Coming. Out. Of. His. Ass.

[ArjunPandit]

https://www.newsweekpakistan.com/u-s-sh ... mran-khan/

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said Pakistan wanted the U.S. to be even-handed in its dealings with Islamabad and New Delhi, adding it was “difficult to predict” the trajectory of ties between the two states under the incoming leadership of president-elect Joe Biden.

“That’s all we want,” he said of Washington treating Pakistan and India equally. “What we not want is what is happening now where India is supposed to be this big ally of the Western countries against China,” he added. In a wide-ranging interview with Turkish outlet A News, he said that he could not understand why the U.S. felt the need to shore up support to counterbalance China.

“This policy is difficult for Pakistan because then the whole thing gets lopsided; India is favored, Pakistan’s legitimate rights are ignored,” he claimed, adding that Pakistan had rendered “huge sacrifices” for the U.S. during the Afghan jihad of the 1980s and its aftermath.

Stressing that India was ruled by the RSS-inspired Modi government, Khan claimed that the neighboring country’s current regime believed India was only for Hindus and there was no space for Muslims and other minorities. He said the Kashmir issue remained a lingering cause of conflict between Pakistan and India, and accused Delhi of being the main hurdle to a referendum allowing Kashmiris the right to self-determination.

Pretty neat after publicly destroying a temple

Hazara killings

During the interview, the prime minister addressed the ongoing Quetta sit-where protesters have blocked a major highway with the bodies of coalminers that were executed by Islamic State militants over the weekend. The protesters have claimed they will not end their sit-in until the prime minister personally visits them and addresses their concerns, but the government has been dithering on the issues, claiming it could set a bad precedent.

Describing the brutal killing of the coalminers—as well as the destruction of a Hindu shrine in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province by an enraged mob—as “unfortunate” and “terrible,” he said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government was committed to protecting religious minorities. He reiterated his stance that minorities in Pakistan were “equal citizens,” and it was the state’s duty to ensure their safety.

Khan attributed the Hazara killings to “the legacy of the 1980s” when Pakistan participated in the Afghan jihad. “One of the worst outcomes of the jihad was [militant] sectarianism in Pakistan. So we have been lumbered with this legacy. We had these militant sectarian groups and the Hazara Shia community in Balochistan was targeted by these Sunni extremist groups,” he said, adding that those groups had now morphed into the Islamic State militant group, which claimed responsibility for the coalmine attack.

The prime minister said he understood the pain of the Hazara community because he had personally visited their sit-in in 2013 when they were also refusing to bury their dead in protest. “We will assure them of complete support and protection,” he said.

Khan also addressed the attack on the Hindu shrine in Karak, noting that the government had “immediately taken action and arrested everyone” as well as funding its rebuilding.

Islamophobia

To questions on Islamophobia in the West, the prime minister said Muslims leaders had failed to address the gap between Muslims and non-Muslims in Western countries. “I saw the evolution of Islamophobia in Western countries and if I have to put a date on it, it was that awful character Salman Rushdie; he wrote this book which insulted our Holy Prophet (PBUH),” he said.

“And since then two things happened: One, in the west they could not understand the reaction of the Muslims when our Holy Prophet (PBUH) was insulted. And because they could not understand it they believed that Islam was against freedom of speech. So they put it on freedom of speech that [a] man can write anything in a book not understanding the love, respect and reverence we have for our Holy Prophet (PBUH),” he added.

He claimed that Muslims living in Western countries were driven to violence due to such offensive acts, adding that they believed their faith was being deliberately targeted. “The fact is that the Western people do not understand, they cannot understand the way we feel for our Prophet (PBUH) because they don’t consider their own holy sacred entities the way we do. In fact, they don’t treat religion like we do, especially in Europe,” he said.


If this gap had been properly addressed in the past, he claimed, the West could have been aware that insults to Islam’s Prophet or the holy Quran in the garb of freedom of speech are bound to provoke a reaction. “Unfortunately, the Muslim leadership did not do so. Therefore this gap over a period of time, especially after 9/11, has just grown more and more and so has Islamophobia. This gap of misunderstanding and Islamophobia have grown together,” he said, and criticized the French government for equating terrorism to Islam. “Marginalization creates radicalization,” he added.

Recognizing Israel

To a question, Khan reiterated that Pakistan had no intention of formally recognizing and normalizing ties with Israel. He claimed that doing so would result in Pakistan losing its moral standing on the Kashmir issue, adding that it also went against Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s policy of not recognizing Israel until Palestinians were given their own homeland.

He reiterated that no one had or could “put pressure on me” to recognize Israel because Pakistan was a democratic country.

COVID-19

On questions about Pakistan’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the prime minister claimed the country had relied on targeted lockdowns that protected both lives and livelihoods. He said the government was in contact with China to procure COVID-19 vaccination on priority basis.

The prime minister also hailed Pakistan and Turkey’s historical linkages, and hoped these would be enhanced further in the future. He stressed that his vision for Pakistan was the same as that of Jinnah—a state based on justice, welfare, education, research, and democracy.

new parents

[Vadivel]

https://www.newsweekpakistan.com/u-s-sh ... mran-khan/
new parents

Not parents, more like twerking for the new sugardaddy.

[Ambar]

Aapne ghabrana nahin hain ! Power outage across pakiland tonight. Reports of stalled grids due to large scale cyberattacks !

[srikandan]

I seriously doubt that pakistan's power grid has any cyber in it to aid cyberattacks -- they seem to be unable to generate enough power to keep up with their demand. Maybe Afghanisthan can return the favor to pakistan by taking out more of their power grid infrastructure. Clearly, western powers have no interest in a stable afghanisthan, seeing as to how they deliberately involve the paki taliban in all afghanisthan negotiations. Western powers need to be thrown out of the region.

[Guddu]

Bakis declared that all Covid-19 vaccines are made with pork and monkey DNA and thus are haram.

Also, they are injecting nanobots for tracking everyone, and COVID stands for Certification of Valid Identity Document. Also, they are worried that Paki DNA is going to be improved with pig and monkey DNA

Actually they are correct in a bakistani way, the Astrazeneca vaccine from the Uk, uses a viral construct designed to infect chimpanzees. For this and other reasons, my suggestion is to use the Indian vaccine which is a traditional vaccine made with inactivated sars-cov-2 virus DNA.

[g.sarkar]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55606598
Pakistan power cut plunges country into darkness
Electricity is gradually being restored in some areas of Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, with every city reporting outages.
Homes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.
Officials appealed for calm but warned that it could take several hours before electricity is fully restored.
Power cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.
"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system," Pakistan's Power Minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.
.......
Gautam
When Dimran said Riyasat-e-Madina, he meant no electricity.

[CalvinH]

Pakis power sectors is great case of open loot by the ashraf class of Pakistan. The circular debt from the sector stands at PKR 2150 B (Mashallah!). Pakistan is now surplus in electricity generation but has poor distribution infrastructure that is not catching up in the growth in generation.

The core issue is that Pakis are fudging their GDP rate for many years. Electricity generation need to grow x% of GDP and this provides power ministry to allow more generation capacity every year to independent power producers (IPP) who make free money for not even producing electricity as there is no real demand (GDP growth was fudged). The IPPs are paid fixed capacity charges if electricity is not produced though their plants have not be audited for whether such capacity actually exist on the ground.

Pakis rely on imported coal and fuel oil (used by IPP) for power generation. Gas plants (cheaper) are artificially choked by not importing gas on time and diverting the gas for residential use. This mix leads to higher generation cost. New plants are being constructed every year with fixed capacity payments. Pakis also suffer from highest electricity theft in the world. All this results in increased electricity prices on yoy basis that further lowers the demand and the cycle continues.

Every ashraf family has the hand in his cookie jar some way or the other. No wonder circular debt is the only thing showing double digit growth in Pakistan's economy.

[la.khan]

How pathetic is the electricity/power situation in p*kiland?

The Russian Energy Giant Mining Bitcoin With Virtually Free Energy

Thanks to the climbing price of Bitcoin, this week the cryptocurrency’s energy consumption topped that of Pakistan--a nation of more than 200 million people.

Mining cryptocurrency consumes more power than p*kis

[CalvinH]

More tidbits on this

From Wiki:

Installed electricity generation capacity - 37,402 MW [2020]
Maximum total demand coming from residential and industrial estates - 25,000 MW
Transmission and distribution capacity - ~22,000 MW

Pakis have more power generation plants under construction currently.The one under private players and Chinese companies will be paid capacity charges when they come online making electricity costlier and increasing the theft. Which will lead to more cost and more theft.....

As far power demand is concerned, Just as a comparison, Delhi's Peak power demand in 2019 was 7400 MW. Peak Power demand in MH state is 20,000 MW plus.

[Vivek K]

CalvinH - what are the installed capacities of Delhi and MH? Thanks.

[CalvinH]

Delhi around 2500MW and MH around 42500 MW.

India has much bigger national grid so a deficient state like Delhi can gain from surplus states like MH.

[srikandan]

https://www.newsintervention.com/cpec-p ... ily-basis/

100 billion pakistani rupees lost in the power. projects due to skimming by the chinese power companies. Unlike the morons in the US state dept. that handed billions to pakistan as an ally in the war on terror, only to find Osama hiding in Army territory, Pakistan is on an ultra-tight leash with the chinese govt.

The more they try the same shenanigans with the chinese that they played with USA in the past 3 decades, chinese skim off their "loans" to pakistan and do a reverse-scam on pakistan. So pakistan now owes the Chinese 100s of billions of paki rupees that they never laid hands on inthe first place. Always nice to see the pakis go around begging to new entities that want to fund them for their own reasons.

[Vips]

The more they try the same shenanigans with the chinese that they played with USA in the past 3 decades, chinese skim off their "loans" to pakistan and do a reverse-scam on pakistan. So pakistan now owes the Chinese 100s of billions of paki rupees that they never laid hands on in the first place.

[ArjunPandit]

This video is pure gold..10 minutes of pure delight..must recommded..btw this guy seems to be is a F16 pilot..

[g.sarkar]

https://www.rediff.com/news/special/pak ... 210113.htm
Pakistan's devotion to LeT's Saeed runs deep
By KHALED AHMED, January 13, 2021
The perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attack, who shot dead 166 people, had confessed to details that should have been enough to hang him, but Pakistan enjoyed his anti-India rhetoric and let him spread his tentacles.
A revealing excerpt from Khaled Ahmed's Pakistan's Terror Conundrum.
When an 'under pressure' Pakistan initiated '23 cases against Hafiz Saeed and his 12 aides over terrorism-financing', the news was immediately flashed in all the major Indian and Pakistani newspapers. Daily Times in Pakistan carried the story on 4 July 2019:
The counter-terrorism department (CTD) said it had launched 23 cases against Hafiz Saeed and 12 of his aides for using five trusts to collect funds and donations for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Two banned LeT-linked charities, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), were also targeted, the department said in a statement.
"All the assets of these organizations and individuals will be frozen and taken over by the state," said a counter-terrorism senior official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly.
The CTD was quoted as saying that "the action is in accordance with UN sanctions against the individuals and entities".
No mention was made of the courts Saeed had been running across the country. The News (on 9 April 2016) had earlier disclosed that Saeed had been doing something unforgivable, that is, running stealth courts in violation of the constitution of Pakistan:
The supra-constitutional Sharia courts, established by Jamaat ud Dawa, operate across the country and only the Lahore court of this parallel judicial system has issued verdicts in 5,550 cases, including murder trials.
The pressure in 2019 to 'do something' had come from the Paris-based FATF, which placed Pakistan on its 'grey list' of countries with inadequate controls over money laundering and terrorism financing.
.....
Gautam

[nam]

Pak's CPEC fiasco and Gwadar..

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... to-nowhere

I was always under the impression that China will be using Gwadar as naval base. It hasn't built the infra yet for such a place. Probably because Djuboti was available.

Now I am thinking, they will want Gwadar as a naval base, because it will be exclusive. Why haven't they done it yet? Looks like China is planning to make Gwadar, China's "Flakland".

Create a gated township, move loads of Chini civilians, create factories to make it self sustained. Then move the navy in the name of providing security. Pay off the Pak for sovereignty over the piece of land.

[Bart S]

This video is pure gold..10 minutes of pure delight..must recommded..btw this guy seems to be is a F16 pilot..

The guy is retarded retired PAF chief!

You can see their level from his laughable claims, and the way that people in the comments are hyping him like he is some kind of legend. In fact everybody is bashing the interviewer, but the real joke here is the retired Air Chief.

BTW, his name also came up in some corruption/scam related to real estate in Dubai or somewhere, that the ISI quickly put the lid on.