Bharat Rakshak

TSP is projected to have 200 nukes by 2020 per twitter. We have to assume that at least 1% will get used.
How do we manage this nightmare?

Baa Baa Baaki Have joo any nooks?
Yessir yessir Do sau hidden in toobs
Sau phor Karachi, tees for Imran
But none for the Faujis who panicked and ran

Nandu wrote:Any idea why TFT refers to Zia as Terry Thomas?

Was wondering why on earth would Adani apologize on the PM's behalf

UlanBatori wrote: Ah! This is deja vu for the famous Mushy Myooshik Bheshtifal.

Baa Baa Baaki Have joo any nooks?
Yessir yessir Do sau hidden in toobs
Sau phor Karachi, tees for Imran
But none for the Faujis who panicked and ran

Tuvaluan wrote:"Russians are miffed at our diversification drive wrt weapons. They are courting our rival to make us feel jealous. Theek his let them try that gambit."

Seriously, this is not some dating game, though you make it sound like one. Money talks. Russia's economy is being placed under pressure by the US, and if India works to assist the Russian economy in some way, India will retain some influence with Russia, otherwise not. For example, India could seal a deal to buy oil from Russia for the long term at some rate, even if the rate if higher in the short term -- the retards in KSA will have to increase the prices to previous levels in a year or two, when their own economy comes under pressure. It all depends on how India negotiates a way to do business with all the entities and gets what it wants, as this is what all the other players/countries are also doing.

ISLAMABAD: “Sir, I take it an opportunity to tell you that I had prayed for you and your success during Haj,” former ISI Director General Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam told Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif during his farewell meeting at the Prime Minister’s House on Nov 5, sources privy to the meeting told The News/ Geo News.

Donning the traditional Shalwar Qameez and waistcoat, Nawaz passed a smile and thanked the outgoing ISI boss.Sources claim that around a week back the prime minister asked super bureaucrat Fawad Hassan Fawad, a trusted DMG officer, to draft a letter thanking Gen. Zaheer for the prayers he had offered for him during Haj.Fawad drafted the letter and put it before the prime minister. The premier went through the text and signed the letter with his green-inked pen.

According to officials of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), only 550,000 people filed income tax returns for fiscal year 2013-14 by November 21 (Friday), the last date of submission. As many as 835,000 people had filed tax returns the previous year.

rsingh wrote:

Tuvaluan wrote:"Russians are miffed at our diversification drive wrt weapons. They are courting our rival to make us feel jealous. Theek his let them try that gambit."

Seriously, this is not some dating game, though you make it sound like one. Money talks. Russia's economy is being placed under pressure by the US, and if India works to assist the Russian economy in some way, India will retain some influence with Russia, otherwise not. For example, India could seal a deal to buy oil from Russia for the long term at some rate, even if the rate if higher in the short term -- the retards in KSA will have to increase the prices to previous levels in a year or two, when their own economy comes under pressure. It all depends on how India negotiates a way to do business with all the entities and gets what it wants, as this is what all the other players/countries are also doing.

If somebody think that Russian forgot Bakistan's role in Afgan war............he/she is wrong

In recent weeks, there has been a lot of activity taking place in various parts of Pakistan in the name of the abominable, but also ineluctable, Islamic State (IS). Apart from some senior commanders of the Mullah Fazlullah-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) faction who have announced their allegiance to the IS’ Caliph Ibrahim a.k.a. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, there are reports of other smaller groups of militants who have cast their lot with the pestilential IS. Graffiti and posters of the IS have appeared in Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, Bannu, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Wah, Hangu, Kurram, Bhakkar, Dera Ismail Khan and other towns and cities of the country.

One big disadvantage that the IS will suffer in its quest to make Pakistan a province of its Caliphate is that, for now at least, it doesn’t enjoy the support of the Pakistan Army which continues to back Mullah Omar, the other pretender to the title of Amir-ul-Momineen.

Clearly, Baghdadi would be smacking his lips at the prospect of a nuclear-armed Islamised Pakistan (part of the legendary Khorasan) becoming a province of his caliphate. For their part, many Pakistanis too would be looking forward to becoming a part of such an abomination because that would fulfil their quest for living in a pure Islamic caliphate. And given the sort of intolerance that exists in Pakistan, it is ideally suited to become a province of IS. All that remains is to get rid of that other pretender and then the path will be clear for ‘Caliph’ Ibrahim.

highlighting every group beheading of islamists in China

In recent months, hundreds of young men across the region have been detained by Chinese security forces in a campaign that is ostensibly aimed at stanching jihadist activity but which critics say is often arbitrary and abusive.

In the days after Mr. Tohti’s conviction, three of his students, dressed in orange prison vests, appeared on state-run television to confess that they had exaggerated ethnic tensions on Uighur Online, the website run by Mr. Tohti. In his confession, Perhat Halmurat, the sociology student and a former editor of the website, blamed his teacher for an article he posted about a fight between a Han and Uighur student that had taken place on campus. “His unspeakable goal is to split the country,” he said.

An Afghan mother claims to have killed 25 Taliban militants and injured several others after she found her son, who was a police, dead in a fierce gun battle with the insurgents at his check post in western Farah province.
"Reza Gul" the Afghan mother who rushed to take revenge of her son's death stood behind an armament and claimed the lives of 25 insurgents.

"Taliban are foreigners, they are servants of Pakistan, if they attack 100 other times, I will continue to defend my country and will shed their blood to not let them dare to enter my village" the little fighter added.

SSridhar wrote:Pakistan operates on 'feel good factor' alone and it is into one such orgasmic point at this time. We must do everything to inflict pain following the perceived pleasure.

In an irony of history, the new state of Israel, a year after its founding in 1948, was "inspired" by Pakistan in enacting laws to seize the property of defeated Arabs.

Mark Twain’s quip, "Buy land, they’re not making it anymore," could have served as the Zionist motto. Starting with the arrival in Palestine of Jews from Europe in the late 19th century and accelerating in the 20th century, the drive was to acquire land: to make Jewish settlement possible, to transform Jewish existence from the ghettoes and cities into working the fields, and to fulfill the biblical promise of return to the Land of Israel.

Money was donated by Jews throughout the world and land was bought from Arab landowners on the principle of willing seller, willing buyer.

Yet with all the effort, by 1948 only 5.7 percent of the land of then Palestine had been purchased. The War of Independence that year opened the way to far-reaching changes: the land allocated by the United Nations partition plan to Jews was extended by 38 percent as local Arab militia and invading Arab armies were defeated and driven back.

The government seized the lands of Arabs who had left their homes, whether they fled outside the borders or remained inside. The new state ended up owning some 93 percent of the land, with the rest remaining as private property belonging to Arabs, Jews, Christian churches and the Muslim Waqf.

Israel the conqueror did not behave uniquely: in seizing properties, policies were evolved from what had been done elsewhere in the world. Regulations to eliminate all rights of former owners derived from Britain’s Trading with the Enemy Act of 1939 which dealt with Nazi Germany, and by the actions of other countries where mass exchanges of population had taken place.

In the government debates to decide what to do with the Arab "abandoned property," the prime minister’s special adviser on land and border demarcation, Zalman Lifshitz, argued for the permanent use of refugee property for the political and economic benefit of the new state. He said that countries in similar situations, such as Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, had taken on vast powers to liquidate refugee property for state use and he urged the Israeli government "to proceed in a similar manner" as "there is no shortage of precedents."

He focused on Pakistan, the Muslim state which had come into violent existence in 1947 in the partition of colonial India. There too, as in Palestine, Britain had ended its rule. There too, as in Palestine, the coming of independence set off inter-communal strife which led to the flight of large numbers of refugees hostile to the new state, and the entry of large numbers of supporters. The difference was in the figures: the India-Pakistan conflict gave rise to 13 million refugees compared with Israel’s 750,000.

It cannot be said if Lifshitz was aware of the irony of the new Jewish state using the legal techniques of a new Muslim state to deprive its own mainly Muslim refugees of their properties. Whichever, he proposed "a new law, similar to the… Pakistani regulations and based on the principles they contain." Pakistani lawmakers, he noted, had drawn on Britain’s Trading with the Enemy Act, but had also introduced new elements to assist expropriation and transfer of ownership: they had created a mechanism for seizing Hindu and Sikh refugee property in Pakistan and its reallocation for the settlement of Muslim refugees from India.

Lifshitz presented his report on 30 March 1949 and the Knesset, parliament, duly enacted laws later that year. The legal machinery to appropriate Palestinian refugee land, he noted, was "based squarely" on the Pakistani legislation of 1948.

But unlike Pakistan and others, a state (for Palestinians) did not come into existence at the time. So Palestinian refugees did not have the benefit of state sponsorship and they landed up in limbo in surrounding Arab states and inside Israel. Ever since, Palestinians, and the world, have paid dearly for that omission.

Having seized Arab properties, Israel recognized the need, for both legal and moral reasons, to pay compensation: it was the way to draw a line under its actions. Many Arab owners also recognized this, and refused to apply for compensation.

The UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine, set up in 1949 charged with the mission of its title, had no success before fading away in 1966. But it did issue a "Valuation of Abandoned Arab Land in Israel" which assessed the value of seized Arab land at US$281,074,511, with a further US$54 million for movable goods. Arabs said the value was too low and Israel dismissed it as "academic," noting the land had been obtained through war and not as a business transfer.

Excerpted from "Drawing Fire: Investigating the accusations of apartheid in Israel" by Benjamin Pogrund, with permission of the publisher, Rowman & Littlefield. All rights reserved.

South African-born, Benjamin Pogrund was deputy editor of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail when it was closed down because of its opposition to apartheid. He came on aliyah in 1997 to found Yakar's Center for Social Concern in Jerusalem, devoted to dialogue.

Peregrine wrote:News for Jinnah on a Democratic and Secular Pakistan

1. How to rethink 'Pakistan isn’t made for democracy'

2. Western democracy cannot be enforced on Pakistan: Mush the Tush

Cheers

Meanwhile, in Pakistani Kashmir, 1,000 people protested in the region's main town of Muzaffarabad, denouncing the elections in Indian-held Kashmir as “fraudulent”.