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arun wrote:Is the killing of 30 Muslims during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan “Jihad fi Sabilillah” or translated into English, “Jihad in the way of Allah"
It is regarded as an auspicious time to escalate violence in the name of jihad.
Karachi, Aug 31 (IANS) Pakistan’s cricket chief Ijaz Butt was off the mark when he claimed last week that Pakistan will receive around $18 million from the International Cricket Council (ICC) after settling its 2011 World Cup dispute with the game’s governing body, sources said Monday.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) stands to gain about $12 million from its deal with the ICC that was struck in Dubai last week.
By Ahmad Faruqui
Monday, 31 Aug, 2009 | 08:02 AM PST |
Some of the writing about the Indo-Pakistan war of September 1965 borders on mythology. It is no surprise that generations of Pakistanis continue to believe that India was the aggressor and that one Pakistani soldier was equal to 10 Indian soldiers.
A few have argued that the war began in August when Pakistan injected guerrillas into the vale of Kashmir to instigate a revolt and grab it before India achieved military dominance in the region. That was Operation Gibraltar.
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The Punjabi dominated military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, setting aside the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, subjects its minority Pashtun to torture and summary execution.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur :
Bodies of 30 Taliban found in Pakistan's Swat valley
South Asia News
Aug 31, 2009, 14:07 GMT
Islamabad - The bodies of 30 Taliban were found on Monday in Pakistan's restive Swat valley, a day after a suicide bomber killed 16 police recruits in the same region.
A spokesman for the Pakistan Army said the militants were killed during clashes with the security forces.
But the locals suspected they were summarily executed by the troops who have been fighting with Islamist militants in Swat, located some 140 kilometres north-west of the capital Islamabad, for three months.
The locals found the bullet-ridden bodies lying along the streets in Banjot and two nearby areas in Charbagh sub-district on Monday morning, said local journalist Fayyaz Zafar.
'Our troops launched an operation after the suicide bombing and exchanged fire with the militants in these areas,' Colonel Akhtar Abbas, an army spokesman in Swat, told reporters. 'The clashes left 30 Taliban dead and one soldier was martyred.'
But a resident from Banjot said at least three of the bodies he saw bore signs of torture. 'There were no weapons near the corpses which clearly show that they did not die in a fight,' said the local who spoke on condition of anonymity fearing reprisal from the authorities. …………………
That brings me back to a variation of the question I had earlier posed in the third last post on the previous page of this thread.
Why does the Punjabi dominated military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan think it acceptable to wage war on the Pashtun during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan while it was previously claimed by a head of the same military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan that it was not acceptable for the US to wage war on the Pashtun during Ramadan ?:
Musharraf: Ramadan strikes risk Muslim backlash
November 7, 2001 Posted: 9:02 AM EST (1402 GMT)
...................... “The attacks should not go on during Ramadan because that would have very negative effects on the Muslim world," .....................
The Pakistan Army absolutely cannot be given a free hand to direct American money against India or to violate agreements about the use of U.S. weapons and aid. But the U.S. should not assume that Pakistani military modernization is an unambiguous sign of its lack of commitment to internal security. Indeed, India itself has expanded its conventional and nuclear forces with an eye on China even as it battles various separatist and Maoist insurgencies at home. It should come as no surprise that Pakistan is similarly trying to keep up with its own larger and increasingly powerful neighbor.
LAHORE: PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal initially announced a 24-hour deadline for the PPP to stop its “propaganda campaign” before extending it to 48 hours, a private TV channel has reported. He told journalists the party would respond in kind if the campaign were not stopped, it added. daily times monitor
If it is violent and has some manner of an Islamic stripe, it is inevitable that sooner rather than later a connection to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan will emerge :
Delhi concerned: Trained Pak men ‘guiding’ pirates off Somalia coast
Pranab Dhal Samata
Posted: Tuesday , Sep 01, 2009 at 0515 hrs New Delhi:
Authorities have confirmed the first case of alleged Pakistani involvement with Somali pirates in a revelation that has raised concerns here about a possible link between piracy and suspected terrorist groups.
On April 28, a Russian warship apprehended 12 Pak nationals — along with Somali pirates — for attempting to attack a tanker off Somalia’s coast. An investigation, sources said, pointed to Pak nationals having played a “lead” role. Their nationality was confirmed through identity cards and “evidence” was handed over on May 8 to MSS Rehmat, a Pakistan Maritime Security Agency ship, 12 miles of Gwadar. …………………..
Neither Americans nor Indians always understand how threatening their military strength can look to weaker countries. This dynamic is clearly at play in the case of Pakistan -- Indians feel that they are self-evidently not a threat,
What? Pakistan "threatened" by India? What rubbish. How can black monkeys threaten the fair ones?
Let me add a data point.
India is building some fallout shelters proving that Pakistani nukes are deterring India. But Pakistan is not doing that, showing that they are not deterred by India's fakes.
The Sindh government has suspended a Horticulture Department official for harassing provincial minister Sassui Palijo by writing her love letters . . . Iliyas Hulio, a superintendent in the Horticulture Department in Karachi, wrote a love letter in his blood and sent around 100 emails to the Sindh culture and tourism minister.
The Sindh government has suspended a Horticulture Department official for harassing provincial minister Sassui Palijo by writing her love letters . . . Iliyas Hulio, a superintendent in the Horticulture Department in Karachi, wrote a love letter in his blood and sent around 100 emails to the Sindh culture and tourism minister.
This is injustice. How can a bonafide TFTA mard keep to himself when his Minister looks like this:
Now I wonder if Groper shouldn't give her a promotion and bring her to Isloo?
On April 28, a Russian warship apprehended 12 Pak nationals — along with Somali pirates — for attempting to attack a tanker off Somalia’s coast.
An investigation, sources said, pointed to Pak nationals having played a 'lead' role. Their nationality was confirmed through identity cards and “evidence” was handed over on May 8 to MSS Rehmat, a Pakistan Maritime Security Agency ship, 12 miles of Gwadar.
The US has taken "very seriously" the reports about illegal modifications made in the American-made Harpoon anti-ship missile by Pakistan, to expand capabilities to strike land targets, a potential threat to India, even as Islamabad has agreed for "mutual inspections".
Why this sudden and new found takleef when Pakis have been
a. Selling nukes to everyone who can pay. And the guy who sold it is still free, and last was spotted writing photochored articles in newspapers
b. Selling Unkil's technology to cheenis
c. Modifying Unkil's f16 to carry nukes
PML-N gives 48-hour ultimatum to PPP
Accusing the presidency of backing a ‘smear campaign’ against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-N on Monday gave a 48-hour ultimatum to the Pakistan People’s Party to stop the drive or be ready for a befitting response....Warning that the PML-N had ‘a 100 times more stories’ to expose PPP’s wrongdoings, Mr Iqbal said the purpose of the smear drive was to divert public attention from the issues of rental power and Steel Mills, sugar scandals and former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s trial...Replying to a question, he said the government would have to face the fallout of the smear campaign, but the PML-N would fight for the Constitution and democracy and not allow any adventurer to play with the future of the country.
This should be interesting after 48 hours. The Lion of Punjab is under much takleef after his previous job of being a comfort girl for Paki army has been outed recently.
Rawalpindi, Sep 1 (ANI): Pakistan’s Adiala Jail, where the trial of Mumbai terror suspects are going on, has acquired 87 acres of land to build family suites for married prisoners in compliance with a decision of Federal Shariat Court (FSC) that married prisoners can maintain contacts with their spouses.
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He said the prisoners had been provided food according to a special diet program. (ANI)
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Most of the high profile terrorists stay in Adiala Jail. Now they can run their own terror camps from inside the jail.
The spat between Washington and Islamabad over allegations that Pakistan illegally modified U.S.-supplied missiles to improve its ability to target India reveals a deeper schism in the relationship: Pakistan's military establishment remains unmoved by Washington's best efforts to persuade it that the Taliban, rather than India, is the primary threat facing Pakistan — and that's bad news for the U.S. effort in neighboring Afghanistan.
ISLAMABAD: Sources on Tuesday has revealed that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Hakim Ullah Mehsud is also dead, Aaj News reported.Sources told Aaj News that interview given to BBC in the name of Hakim has actually the voice of his brother.
In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, as a Dhimmi, you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Even if they had done the opposite and fasted they very likely could have been nobbled because, believe it or not, “Posing As a Muslim”, is an offence under Pakistan’s Penal Code:
Pakistani Police Arrest Two Christians for Eating During Ramadan
Washington, D.C. (September 1,2009) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 25, police in Pakistan arrested two Christians for eating during the Islamic fasting season of Ramadan in the city of Silanwali.
Gull Masih and Ashir Sohail were traveling to Lahore when their bus stopped at the Bismillah Hotel to let off passengers. After the waiter served them tea and a snack, several policemen started to question them as to why they were desecrating Ramadan by eating during the Islamic fasting season. The two Christians told the police that since they are Christians, they are not supposed to fast during Ramadan.
The police then threw them in a van and took them to the Silanwali police station and registered a case against them, alleging that the Christians desecrated the Islamic fasting month. ………………….
Azzaq Bhatti, the father of Gull Masih and paternal uncle of Ashir Sohail, in an interview with ICC said that, “during Lent, all Muslims eat, drink and smoke publicly and neither police nor government authorities take notice of it. And none of the Muslims are arrested for desecrating Christians’ Lent season.” ………………….
anuj wrote:पाकिसतानियो को हिन्दी समझ आति हे. + उने अंग्रेजी और उर्दू दोनो लिकने और पदने आता हे.
चिनियोको अंग्रेजी और mandarin दोनो लिकने और पदने आता हे.
हमारा advantage कहा हे?
ये ऐक request हे हमारे adminओसे से कि वे हि्न्दि को recommend करना शुरु करे. तमिल बेहतर होता पर शुरुआत हिन्दी से करते हे. कया बोमते हो?
What earthly use it it for BRF? To a person outside of the Hindi belt this request - though politely worded is a blow in the balls. We have had discussions of how Indian languages are being relegated to the dustbin. Using Hindi instead of English gives no joy to the Kannada speaker whose culture gets equally flushed down the toilet. This in my opinion is an absurd, and totally pointless request in this thread and can only serve to start a a flamewar.
It is a form of trolling. Kindly desist.
minus 3 points for this post. Minus 1 for the post and minus 1 each for लिकने and कया बोमते हो?
Times Now has accessed a report prepared by top US nuclear scientists that suggests that Pakistan is busily enhancing its nuclear weapons and productions capabilities across the board.
The report states that Pakistan is readying a new nuclear capable ballistic missile for deployment and two nuclear capable cruise missiles.
It also says that Pakistan is building two new plutonium production reactors and a second chemical separation facility.
The nuclear weapon facilities that are being expanded are located in Chasma, Khushab and Dera Ghazi Khan in southern Punjab.
Pakistan, according to the report by top strategic experts, is renewing work on a partially built separation plant at Chasma, and is also planning to build three more nuclear reactors at Chasma.
The details of three separate nuclear facilities at Khushab, Chasma and Dera Ghazi Khan have not been available in the public domain till now, and expose Pakistan’s secretive attempts to build up a substantial arsenal, likely to target India.
With regard to Khushab – the report says the country is building two heavy water reactors at the site which will more than triple the nation’s plutonium production and processing capability. Plutonium is one of the main fuels for nuclear weapons. The nuclear reactor will thus become a source while the under construction separation facility nearby, a means to purify the plutonium.
Based on official estimates of Pakistan’s current uranium and plutonium technology, scientists had so far thought the country far short of having a 100 nuclear war heads in its kitty - however the new report seems to suggest that Pakistan has much exceeded these earlier estimates, and from being able to build 30-40 nuclear weapons it actually could possess as many as 70-90 – a disturbing figure from India’s point of view and that of the US, currently debating financial and military aid to its friend in keeping with the Af-Pak agreement.
Moreover, if this report is true Pakistan is clearly going beyond the moratorium existing as an unwritten code of conduct in S Asia to halt the arms race. “The sheer aggressiveness of its activities is disturbing,” remarks in-house defence expert Maroof Raza.
According to the report, Pakistan has decided to supplement and replace its heavy uranium-based weapons with smaller, lighter, plutonium-based designs that could be delivered further by ballistic missiles than its current war heads. Ballistic missiles are important as they could reach targets as far a field as Mumbai – cities so far not covered by Pakistan’s earlier delivery programme. Ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and the refitting of nuclear bases and nuclear reactors certainly could be bad news for India and something New Delhi will undoubtedly have to take note of.
In an ironically revealing interview to MSNBC in May this year, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari had dodged the question whether his country was expanding its nuclear facilities. “It not a fact, it’s a position that some people have taken, we are not adding to out stockpiles as such. Why do need to?” he asked rhetorically, but when pressed to give a categorical answer, he said: “I don’t think so, no” and then added “Even if I did I wasn’t going to tell you.”
The strategy behind Pakistan’s secret nuclear expansion is to increase and enhance its nuclear forces, build new facilities to provide the Pakistani military several options and build new facilities to fabricate weapons that use plutonium cores. It also wants to build new facilities to make composite cores and/or 'boosting' warheads yield, and supplement and replace heavy uranium-based weapons with smaller lighter plutonium-based designs to expand its range of ballistic missiles. In fact, Pakistan is already ready to deploy its short-range ballistic missile the Ghaznavi – a solid-fueled, single-stage missile which can deliver a 500-kg payload and has an on-paper range of 500 kms.
Pakistan is also currently developing two nuclear capable cruise missiles – the Babur cruise missile based on a new and smaller plutonium warhead, and a submarine-launched nuclear capable cruise missile.
It is also poised to induct its Shaheen I missile into its force. Shaheen I is ‘a reverse-engineered M-9 missile supplied by China’ and has a range of approximately 700kms.
Another development is that Pakistan is planning to replace the Ghauri with the Shaheen II, a still under development missile which has a range of 2,050 kms.
I fail to understand the hullabaloo over A Q Khan and plagiarism. After all, is he not the same man who begged and borrowed the technology that got this nation the 'bum' it is so proud of? No one accused him of plagiarising then.
Sir: This is with reference to Dr Rasul Bakhsh Rais’ article “Southern Punjab’s troubles”. (Daily Times, June 16) I could not help responding with my own observations over the last sixty years on both sides of the border, especially during my travels in Bihar, UP, many parts of Rajasthan and some newly created states. One witnesses the same rot of bureaucratic mismanagement, indifference and political deception of the highest order. We share a common heritage and gene pool, and I am afraid a large part of that genetic code is for backstabbing, glib talk, public apathy, lack of civic sense, feudal leadership and taking the hapless public for granted. There are very few islands of excellence, but as Dr Rais has rightly written, unfortunately we continue to elect the same inefficient and corrupt leaders time and again. Will we ever come out of this cycle; will South Asia ever shine the same way as Malaysia, Singapore or other countries in West Asia?
What we are leaving for our next generation is no different to what our forefathers left for us: a divided society, pathetic infrastructure, and in place of old kings, the present rulers with their shiny Land Cruisers and Cadillacs. Will we ever develop and shine in this dark part of the world, or will we continue to suffer at the hands of this archaic governance model based on the Whitehall structure?
KK SHARMA
India
shiv wrote:
Using Hindi instead of English gives no joy to the Kannada speaker whose culture gets equally flushed down the toilet. This in my opinion is an absurd, and totally pointless request in this thread and can only serve to start a a flamewar. ?
Using English makes that culture washed (in a jacuzzi) and TFTA ?
shiv wrote:
Using Hindi instead of English gives no joy to the Kannada speaker whose culture gets equally flushed down the toilet. This in my opinion is an absurd, and totally pointless request in this thread and can only serve to start a a flamewar. ?
Using English makes that culture washed (in a jacuzzi) and TFTA ?
The Pakistan military's unshaken focus on its eastern border stems in large part from advances by its rival, including the recent testing of a nuclear submarine. The fear, says retired general Masood, is that "every major induction [in India's military arsenal], whether it is from abroad or indigenous, can be used against Pakistan more than any other." That, of course, may be based on an exaggerated sense of Pakistan's importance in India's strategic thinking: India is establishing itself as a regional power to rival China, which guides the development of its military capability.
The Pakistan military's unshaken focus on its eastern border stems in large part from advances by its rival, including the recent testing of a nuclear submarine. The fear, says retired general Masood, is that "every major induction [in India's military arsenal], whether it is from abroad or indigenous, can be used against Pakistan more than any other." That, of course, may be based on an exaggerated sense of Pakistan's importance in India's strategic thinking: India is establishing itself as a regional power to rival China, which guides the development of its military capability.
Americans are very sensitive to Paki threat perception
An American friend told me that Paki army is not budging thinking that Indian army is in the eastern border. When he realised that there is no threat from the Indian side he told that Pakis are fooling US.
Pakis have used this threat from India as bait on Americans to help them and gain sympathy for the last 35 years after 1971
Saudis are rolling out the red carpet for gola. Possibly sending a message to badmash to back off from persistent demands to prosecute him. One wonders what gola did to get this favor from the Saudis.
Anujan wrote:Saudis are rolling out the red carpet for gola. Possibly sending a message to badmash to back off from persistent demands to prosecute him. One wonders what gola did to get this favor from the Saudis.
Musharraf's services to the USA at least are well-documented (his perfidy also). Saudis are probably taking in Musharraf at the prodding of the Americans. Now that some time has passed, and memory of his 'disservice' to Islam has faded a bit in the memory of the Islamic collective, and other players in Pakistan are making the headlines, it was probably deemed fit for the Saudis to take Musharraf under their hood.
Perhaps Americans did approach the Saudis earlier with the request of providing exile to Musharraf, but they probably deemed it too early for that. He was on Al Qaeda's 'Most Wanted', and Lal Masjid siege was fresh in memory. So the Saudis financed Musharraf's house in London and told him to cool his heels there.
A study of the pre-engineering group results issued by the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi showed that the pass percentage of 21 institutes, including three government and 12 private colleges and three government and private higher secondary schools each, remained zero. In the general group exams, the pass percentage of 24 institutes, including a government college, 19 private colleges, and four government higher secondary schools, remained zero.
Similarly, the performance of 47 other colleges and higher secondary schools remained abysmally low, with the pass percentage of pre-engineering students from 34 institutes and that of general group from 13 colleges at less than 20. A further break-up of figures shows that the 34 institutes with very poor performance included seven private and 21 government colleges, and one private and five government higher secondary schools. It was found that most government colleges, which failed to perform well in both the exams, were located in the low-income localities or in the suburbs of the metropolis and perhaps that was the reason senior teachers managed to avoid getting posted there, leaving students of the respective colleges to be taught by junior teachers.
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