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It is given that exercise is a cover since it is in an area not far from Yemen.Anujan wrote:The "exercise" part is what I find suspicious.
RamaY wrote:Any idea if this is an Arap or wanna-be-Arap?sudhan wrote:Mean-e-while
One Arap gets 72 other 3 waiting in line after joint military exercise between Al-Barbaria and Al-Porks
Can't even claim a surprise toilet gas blast..
I think it is a surprising coincidence. This "Al-Samosa 5" seems to be in play for almost the entire month of March. Given the keen military prowess of the Araps, Im sure these casualties were incurred by them and not the wannabes..Anujan wrote:The "exercise" part is what I find suspicious.
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Vipul wrote:Thanks for Posting. She really rips the Track II basta**s, shopping jamborees in Kathmandu, Colombo, Dubai. Suffering from social desirability bias
(actually stockholm syndrome).
Though he was ineffective and couldnt do a thing, ten percenti came across as a man genuinely interested in peace and co-existence. Pity that he had to fight for his life (and chair) throughout his tenure. The combination of Pasha and Ashphuck was deadly. Pasha was such an A-hole that it now emerges that he was trying to overthrow Nawaz and that is after he had retired.Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday his party’s chairman and son Bilawal Bhutto is being ‘trained’ in London for the time being.
“Bilawal is receiving training in London. I believe that his thinking needs to mature and he needs to grow up. Once that happens, he will enter politics again,” said Zardari.
Ready for 1,000-year war with India over Kashmir: Zardari
Certainly, it is not a realization that getting involved in the Shi'a-Sunni war would be dangerous for Pakistan. I can think of the following reasons:Pakistan's parliament on Friday urged the government to stay out of the conflict in Yemen, rejecting Saudi demands for Islamabad to join its coalition against Shiite Huthi rebels.
A unanimous resolution passed by a special session of parliament backed the government's commitment to protect Saudi Arabia's territory, which has so far not been threatened by the conflict.
But it said Pakistan should play a mediating role and not get involved in fighting -- turning down longstanding ally Riyadh's request for troops, ships and warplanes.
" Parliament of Pakistan... underscores the need for continued efforts by the government of Pakistan to find a peaceful resolution of the crisis," the resolution said.
"(Parliament) desires that Pakistan should maintain neutrality in the Yemen conflict so as to be able to play a proactive diplomatic role to end the crisis."
The motion came after five days of debate on the Yemen crisis, in which the majority of lawmakers urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not to send Pakistani forces to join the fight.
Pakistan has pushed diplomatic efforts in the past week, holding talks with Turkish and Iranian officials to try to forge a way ahead.
Friday's resolution urged the government to begin work in the UN Security Council and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation bloc to bring about a ceasefre.
EconomicTimes @EconomicTimes 13m13 minutes ago
#Breaking: 26/11 plotter Zakiur Rehman #Lakhvi released from Adiala jail #Pakistan
I always felt that PA ex-servicemen were taking part in many Islamist jihadi organizations like IS, AQAP, Boko Haram, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Philippines (Abu-sayyaf) etc. There may be ex-officers as advisers etc. Pakistan might have already deployed a lot of ex-servicemen in KSA-Yemen too. Plausible deniability, for the time being. Once totally wet, the 'khimar' (head-cver) can be removed.JE Menon wrote:And the real intent is to deploy troops in Saudi in largeish numbers, which will then, suitably uniformed, leak across the Yemen border.
There's too much protestation about moving into Yemen. Formally.
Takeaway 1. The person asking the question sees "the Hindu Right" as the enemy, and not Pakistan, who has actual nuclear weapons pointed at India, including presumably her own family.
I think it is worth tracking. The articles are reasonably well-written with a low Pinglish quotient. This endeavor is the reasonable, suave and sophisticated face of the pakis and their Indian stooges. It is not an outlier, there are many powerful financial interests backing this effort. Any strategy to destroy Pakistan will fail if it doesn't account for enterprises like this one.Contributors
Samia Altaf was the 2007-2008 Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. She has worked for UNICEF, USAID, the District of Columbia’s Department of Health and taught at the Aga Khan Medical University in Karachi, Pakistan. Her book So Much Aid, So Little Development: Stories from Pakistan has been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in May 2011.
Dipankar Gupta was Professor of Sociology, Center for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. From September to December 2007, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Ahmed Kamran was an active member of the previous student movement for political and social change in Pakistan.
Bettina Robotka is a historian and a Senior Researcher at the Seminar of South Asian History and Society, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Shreekant Gupta is visiting the National University of Singapore on leave from the University of Delhi.
Aakar Patel is a former newspaper editor who lives in Bombay.
Anil Kala: Who am I? When I find out, I will tell you.
Excellent point!CRamS wrote:KLNMurthyJi, is there a new ISI strategy to carefully calibrate the pressure on BJP ("Hindu right"). I wonder if you saw the latest Lakhvi release circus? In an ideal world, I mean a unite India, there would have been universal revulsion in India. But the most puke worthy, pathetic spectacle was a clip I saw Cong Manish Tiwari accusing ModiJi for the release of Lakhvi. The bloody moron went on to add that Lakhvi is released because ModiJi-led BJP wants him out. My point being that 26/11 has become more of a slug-fest between BJP and Cong than about bringing justice to the victims. And none benefits more than ISI as this narrative plays out.
vijaykarthik wrote:Christine Fair vents on WOTR. Nice read up.
groundhog-day-in-u-s-pakistan-relations
Fair is going for the US/SD are idiots and keep on being idiots premise, as she has always done. They are idiots in her eyes because they ignore her, and she is not an idiot because she can see what the idiots at the US/SD can't seem to see.The United States generally, and the U.S. State Department in particular, seem perennially unwilling to grasp the realities of Pakistan. Refusing to recognize that Pakistan pursues ideological goals through the use of terrorism under its ever-expanding nuclear umbrella, the United States persists with the same strategy it has always used to handle the “Pakistan problem” – namely, attempt to induce better Pakistani comportment through handsome allurements. The most Panglossian American policy makers believe that there is some magical combination of rewards and engagement that, over some time horizon, will transform Pakistan from the regional menace it is today, into a state that is at peace with itself and its neighbors. The most pusillanimous of policy-making poltroons fret that should the United States curb its generosity and demand that Pakistan honor its varied commitments like any other responsible state, Pakistan may fail and the Islamist barbarians will knock down the nuclear gates with grisly consequences for humanity.
partha wrote:FWIW -
http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-asi ... 93486.htmlReady for 1,000-year war with India over Kashmir: Zardari
Golden words, worth repeating.Zardari said democratic governments had played a key role in moving forward on the Kashmir dispute.
“When Zulfikar had spoken of waging a thousand-year war, he never said he would not do it through talks or negotiations,” he said.
President Zardari said regional peace was inextricably linked to the settlement of the decades-old dispute over Kashmir.
“We cannot de-link regional peace from peace in Kashmir. We have highlighted this thinking in the world and will keep projecting it,” he said.
Describing Kashmir as the “jugular vein” of Pakistan, the President said: “Soon the time will come when the world will take important decisions regarding Kashmir”.
Zardari said Pakistan and India should learn to live in peace.
“We know that we cannot change our neighbours but they should also know that they can also not change their neighbours,” he said.
Which higher power? Iran? USA? Taller than Mountains?? Arrah?SSridhar wrote: ...
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Good. Maybe we can save on chai-biskoot ka paisa for a while.pankajs wrote:EconomicTimes @EconomicTimes 13m13 minutes ago
#Breaking: 26/11 plotter Zakiur Rehman #Lakhvi released from Adiala jail #Pakistan
A person like Manish Tiwari can say anything. So can other Congis, freelance seculars, traitors and so forth. India has all these people like an old house, otherwise nice and comfortable, has rats in the basement. We are non-violent SDRE Yindoos only, with non-killing rat traps, and won't go for extermination using cyanide gas like TFTA murricans. So, we just have to live with the rats.CRamS wrote:KLNMurthyJi, is there a new ISI strategy to carefully calibrate the pressure on BJP ("Hindu right"). I wonder if you saw the latest Lakhvi release circus? In an ideal world, I mean a united India, there would have been universal revulsion in India. But the most puke worthy, pathetic spectacle was a clip I saw Cong Manish Tiwari accusing ModiJi for the release of Lakhvi. The bloody moron went on to add that Lakhvi is released because ModiJi-led BJP wants him out. My point being that 26/11 has become more of a slug-fest between BJP and Cong than about bringing justice to the victims. And none benefits more than ISI as this narrative plays out.
This gives us a good handle on understanding how to differentiate Indian Muslims from their baki counterparts.RamaY wrote:Excellent point!CRamS wrote:KLNMurthyJi, is there a new ISI strategy to carefully calibrate the pressure on BJP ("Hindu right"). I wonder if you saw the latest Lakhvi release circus? In an ideal world, I mean a unite India, there would have been universal revulsion in India. But the most puke worthy, pathetic spectacle was a clip I saw Cong Manish Tiwari accusing ModiJi for the release of Lakhvi. The bloody moron went on to add that Lakhvi is released because ModiJi-led BJP wants him out. My point being that 26/11 has become more of a slug-fest between BJP and Cong than about bringing justice to the victims. And none benefits more than ISI as this narrative plays out.
What Manish Tiwari and other eminent strategic analysts like Sri Bharat Karnad essentially are saying is primarily India-Pakistan equation is unresolved Hindu-Muslim conflict. On top of it they want to convince the world that BJP is the Hindu party. What they dont say directly but infer is Congress is party of sub-continental muslims. If you remember Shashi Tharoor presented this exact world view when he visited Pakistan. I wrote a blog post on that.
Nehru-Jinna conflict is more of who is the legitimate successor to Mughal empire. Jinnah followed the Nizam route and established a (Hyderabad-like) empire in Pakistan while Nehru kept Delhi.
Now its up to others to accept this theory or not and come up with alternative world-view. Modi is doing exactly that. I can see what that view is but it is OT.
This vision will become evident circa 2020.
I was not aware that BRF is Pakistan-centric.KLNMurthy wrote: We can't really control what the pakis will do with their non-state actors; if they actually punish Lakhvi through their court system like we punished Kasab, they will stop being pakis and we would have to wind up BRF. Or even if their soothasians come out on the streets in solidarity with the victims of 26/11.
I was just kidding, making a point onlee, A_Gupta.A_Gupta wrote:I was not aware that BRF is Pakistan-centric.KLNMurthy wrote: We can't really control what the pakis will do with their non-state actors; if they actually punish Lakhvi through their court system like we punished Kasab, they will stop being pakis and we would have to wind up BRF. Or even if their soothasians come out on the streets in solidarity with the victims of 26/11.
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RAWALPINDI: Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was released from Adiala jail on Friday following the Lahore High Court's dismissal of detention orders issued against him by the Okara DCO on March 14.A central leader of Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), Lakhvi was released from the prison early this morning after furnishing Rs2 million in surety bonds. According to jail authorities, following his release he was picked up by JuD members amid tight security with his current location not known.Prior to his release today, the LHC orders were confirmed with Chief Secretary Punjab Khizar Hayat Gondal, who provided the clearance for the JuD leader's release.However, a case against Lakhvi is still pending in the Islamabad High Court. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had filed an appeal in the IHC in January seeking cancellation of the bail granted to Lakhvi by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Dec 2014. He had paid surety bonds worth Rs500,000 before he was released on bail at the time. If the IHC decides to cancel the bail granted to him by the ATC, he could be re-arrested.
Pakistan annuls India's criticism
Pakistan, while reacting to Indian remarks over Lakhvi’s release, said it would not be proper to cast aspersions on Pakistan’s commitment to countering terrorism at a time when Pakistan has entered a critical stage of defeating the menace of terrorism.Answering the concerns of Indian ministry spokesman, Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasneem Alsam reminded India that the case of Mumbai attack suspects is subjudice.She said “inordinate delay in extending cooperation by India complicated the case and weakened the prosecution”. "We respect the judicial process and are confident that it would serve the interest of justice," she said.Lakhvi is among the seven persons charged with planning and helping carry out the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The six other men facing trial in Adiala Jail for their alleged involvement in Mumbai attacks are Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Younas Anjum, Jamil Ahmed, Mazhar Iqbal and Abdul Majid.At the time of the attacks, Lakhvi was believed to be the operational head of the banned Laskhar-i-Taiba (LT) that has been accused by India of carrying out the attacks in India's financial capital.
