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Secession and Partition!devesh wrote:what kind of "strategic confrontation" is BR talking about?
After bleeding Pakistan profusely, India suddenly had a change of heart in mid 2010 and softened its stance. Ongoing overtures of friendship by India are not without a purpose. From 26/11 till very recent, all Indian military and civilian leaders were spitting venom and were not prepared to reopen dialogue with Pakistan. The change has occurred since there are several important matters which it feels can be solved in its favor provided Pakistan agrees to cooperate.
These are: Pakistan doesn’t raise any objection to India becoming permanent member of UNSC and member of exclusive nuclear club; Pakistan settles Kashmir, Siachen and Sir Creek disputes in accordance with Indian wishes; Pakistan allows India to continue constructing water dams; Pakistan grants land route to India through Wagah border to Afghanistan for trade; Pakistan doesn’t object to the US desire of making India a key country in Afghanistan after its departure; Pakistan grants Most Favored Nation status to India for two-way trade; Pakistan agrees to eliminate India specific Jihadi groups supporting Kashmiri freedom fighters; Pakistan accepts India’s hegemony in South Asia’; Pakistan eliminates ‘first strike’ option in it’s nuclear doctrine.
They are already doing that and that too without any Indian pressure. PLA is taking over.Aditya_V wrote:He forgot the Most important- withdrawal from POK
The message that came on Kamran Khan Show was loud and clear; stop making friends, beat your wives twice a day, stop greeting others with hellos and perhaps public beheading of a female musician or two will take care of natural disasters, bad planning and climate change be damned.
shravan wrote:Suspected suicide blast at funeral leaves 20 dead, 50 injured in Lower Dir: Eyewitnesses
http://tribune.com.pk/story/252963/blas ... lower-dir/
He wanted not one but many to meet their Raisins I guessramana wrote:shravan wrote:Suspected suicide blast at funeral leaves 20 dead, 50 injured in Lower Dir: Eyewitnesses
http://tribune.com.pk/story/252963/blas ... lower-dir/
Guess the soosai bummer wanted to be part of the funeral.
Yaaba Dabba Doooarun wrote:^^^ Death toll in that demonstration of the IED Mubarak variant of the IEDology of Pakistan has climbed to 26:
Suicide bomber kills 26 at Pakistan funeral
Tazeen said...
Baloch sahab,
The only common factor between Ejaz Haider and I is that we both write in English.
I believe neither of us would like to be likened with the other.
There are various reasons I do not take up certain issues.
1- Its a god damned blog, |I don't have to cover everything.
2- At times I don't write because I am the laziest bone under the sun and its not like you guys pay me to write anything, do you?
3- I prefer not to write about things I don't know about, warna mujh mein aur Amir Liaquat mein faraq kya reh jayega.
4- Ejaz Haider!!! Come one, why should I write about a baba and his blabbering when I can do posts on Shahid Afridi and David Beckhams of the world.
15 September 2011 16:29
New Delhi, Sept. 11: One of the deadliest terrorist groups on the Indian subcontinent is unlikely to stop its attacks without covert operations and coercive diplomacy by New Delhi and Washington, research by an Indian-American computer scientist suggests.
By Huma Imtiaz - Published: September 15, 2011
According to the US official, al Shahri played a "key operational and administrative role for the group.
WASHINGTON: US officials said on Thursday that al Qaeda’s chief of operations, Abu Hafs al Shahri was reportedly killed in Pakistan this week.
According to a US official who did not wish to be named, al Shahri’s death was labeled as a blow to al Qaeda’s core group present in Pakistan. According to the US official, al Shahri played a “key operational and administrative role for the group.
“Abu Hafs al Shahri’s death, said the official, will also pose a challenge for Ayman al Zawahiri, now al Qaeda’s leader after Osama Bin Laden’s death in Abbottabad in May. Speaking to The Express Tribune, the US official said that al Shahri was a contender to assume the group’s second in command Atiyah Abd al Rahman’s duties.
Al Shahri “coordinated al Qaeda’s anti-US plotting in the region, and worked closely with the Pakistani Taliban to carry out attacks inside Pakistan.”
The US official did not comment on the circumstances leading to al Shahri’s death, however earlier this week, the media reported that at least three people had been killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan on September 11.
On August 22, another US drone strike in North Waziristan led to the death of alQaeda’s second in command Atiyah Abd al Rahman.
Another senior US administration official confirmed to The Express Tribune that al Shahri had been killed in Waziristan earlier this week.
“Al Shahri’s death will further degrade al Qaeda’s ability to recover from the death last month of al Qaeda’s number two, Atiyah, because of his operations experience and connections within the group. Al Shahri’s death removes a key threat inside Pakistan, where he collaborated closely with Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan to conduct coordinated attacks.”
By PPI - Published: September 16, 2011
The Grand Cross of Military Merit award is the highest military honour conferred by the King of Spain. PHOTO: REUTERS
MADRID: Spain conferred the country’s highest military honour upon General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani on Thursday.
The Grand Cross of Military Merit award is the highest military honour conferred by the King of Spain for distinguished service. The award was in recognition of Pakistan Army’s contribution in the fight against terrorism.
According to an ISPR press release, COAS, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani visited the Spanish Joint Staff Headquarters in Madrid where he had meetings with Spanish Defence Minister Ms Carme Chacon and other defence and military officials including Secretary General for Defence Policy, Chief of Defence Staff and Chief of Army Staff.
The focus of the meetings was bilateral defence and military relations and other matters of mutual interest.
So most likely the TSP was doing something in the biotech insititute and hence made it off limits to visitors..
US official attempts to enter nuclear research facility
FAISALABAD : A US security official’s attempt to enter a ‘sensitive’ area of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in Faisalabad was foiled by security agencies, who forced him to return after a heated scene at the institution’s gate.
Reports claim that on Wednesday, Mr. Jaison Berger, Security Officer of the US Consulate Lahore, visited Faisalabad to check and inspect security arrangements for a US delegation’s scheduled visit to the city on September 13.
While visiting different areas of the city, Berger reached the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), a centre of nuclear research working under the direct command of the PAEC.
Police staff and officials on duty stopped the US national at the gate after receiving orders from their superiors at a provincial and national level. The officials requested him to steer clear of the area which was not included in the US delegation’s scheduled plan but Berger refused to acquiesce.
After a heated debate between the US official and security agencies including NIBGE commandos, Berger was forced to leave the site. Following the incident, the official abruptly cut short his visit and headed for Lahore.
Following the tense encounter, sensitive agency personnel and Faisalabad police took up the matter seriously and sent SOS reports to officials concerned about Berger’s attempt to force entry.
By AFP - Published: September 16, 2011
A handout picture shows US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen (L) talking with Pakistan's Army Cheif General Ashfaq Kayani during their meeting in Rawalpindi on December 16, 2009. PHOTO: EPA
WASHINGTON: The top US and Pakistani military leaders were to meet on the sidelines of NATO talks in hopes of fixing strained ties following the US raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a US defense official said Thursday.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen and his Pakistani counterpart General Ashfaq Kayani are to meet on the margins of a NATO conference beginning in Spain on Friday, the Defense Department official, who asked not to be named, said.
It will be the first meeting between the two military leaders since the May 2 night time military raid in which US Navy Seals, without first notifying Islamabad, killed the Al-Qaeda leader in Abbottabad.
“It’s not like the relationship has totally ended, but some rebuilding has got to be done,” the military source told AFP.
As relations worsened in the aftermath of the raid, Washington had announced that it could cut some of the $2.7 billion in military aid received by Pakistan.
Pakistan, for its part, in the aftermath of the operation ordered as many as 200 military trainers out of the country.
While relations are frayed, Pakistan is seen as key for US military operations in Afghanistan, where the United States is to trying to beat down a resilient Taliban insurgency.
WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday designated " Indian Mujahedeen," which has claimed responsibility for many terrorist attacks inside India including the most recent bombings in Mumbai and New Delhi, as a global terrorist organization with links to Pakistan.
He wanted not one but many to meet their Raisins I guessAditya_V wrote: Guess the soosai bummer wanted to be part of the funeral.
Less than 5000 killed and 10000 injured is peanuts compared to the real victims of terrorism.in 303 suicide attacks carried out in almost every nook and corner of Pakistan 4,808 people were killed and 10,149 others injured in the decade to September 11, 2011, according to Ministry of Interior data.
There are three ways to get into Afghanistan: through Russia, through Iran, and through Pakistan. You take your choice
Please, can you find the story at http://www.elmundo.es ?BijuShet wrote:From Tribune news (posting in full). Spain pays jaziya to escape terror.
Spain confers highest military honour upon Kayani
Christine Fair needs a dose of piskology herself.abhishek_sharma wrote:Is Pakistan's Army as Islamist as We Think? BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR
shiv wrote:abhishek_sharma wrote:Is Pakistan's Army as Islamist as We Think? BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR
Using Army recruitment data from Pakistani analyst Shuja Nawaz, with whom I co-authored a paper in the Journal of Strategic Studies this year describing these data and the changes they evidence, I find no systematic evidence that conservative areas are producing more officers than other areas as late as 2002.
In the absence of ideal data on officers, I did the next best thing: provide insights into the kind of areas that produce officers. To do so, I used the data obtained by Nawaz, which provided the numbers of officers recruited and retired from specific districts for several years between 1992 and 2002. To characterize these districts that produce officers, I used data from Pakistan's Federal Bureau of Statistics.
400% correct! They can count to the 10 million Indian soldiers in Kashmir.First, among the demographic variables, districts with more people who could do basic math were more likely to produce officers.
Second, districts with more private high schools in a district are less likely to produce officers than those with fewer private high school.
Third, as in the United States, the presence of retired officers is a strong and significant predictor of recruitment outcomes.
Fourth, our analysis of social liberalism characteristics suggests that in many ways more liberal districts are producing officers. One of the most important indicators of social liberalism, the propensity of households to send more sons to private schools, was strongly associated with recruitment in a district. Private-school utilization correlates with socially liberal views in Pakistan. (This appears to conflict with the finding above, but it does not. The numbers of private high schools reflect an aggregated demand for elite education -- few Pakistanis attend any high school, much less private high schools -- and signifies financial wherewithal to pay for such schools. Taste for private schools at a lower level signifies social liberality, holding district economic factors constant.)
LATEST NEWS 12:45 POLITICS
Chacon and army chief of Pakistan value the efforts in Afghanistan
EFE News
Madrid, 15 sep (EFE) .- The Minister of Defence, Carme Chacón, and Chief of Staff of the Army (JEME) of Pakistan, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani today have valued the efforts of the international community for the stability , reconstruction and development of Afghanistan and in neighboring countries.
Chacon has received at the headquarters of Defence to General Kayani, who is on official visit to Spain.
During the meeting, a statement of defense, has analyzed the current situation in Afghanistan and in neighboring countries as well as issues of common interest to both countries in the field of defense.
Regarding the situation in Afghanistan, the minister and Pakistan JEME have appreciated the international community's efforts for stability, reconstruction and development of the country, which is essential for strengthening security in Central Asia, according to the department of Carme Chacón.
Why does anybody need a sample size of 1 million? If it is officers of TSPA we are talking about, then there could be around 40000 officers in all of TSPA. So, I guess a sample size of 1000 should be statistically significant.In principle, one could do surveys, but the sample size would have to be enormous (perhaps as high as 1 million) to identify enough military personnel to say anything meaningful about their views
A_Gupta wrote:This one has a picture too - essentially the same story as above though.
No mention of medal.
I don't really doubt that the King of Spain had a fit of insanity.
Just want to see what the Spanish papers say.
http://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/Serviciosde ... nistan.htm
Spain's Ministry of Defence site with Kayani pics and details (in spanish)A_Gupta wrote:Please, can you find the story at http://www.elmundo.es ?BijuShet wrote:From Tribune news (posting in full). Spain pays jaziya to escape terror.
Spain confers highest military honour upon Kayani
Thanks in advance.
PS: or at http://www.elpais.com ?
Thanks again!