Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010

[A_Gupta]

Question: how does the nation of Pakistan pay for its internet connectivity to the outside world?

Why do I ask:
Dawn

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan acknowledged the ''suffering'' caused by its bans on Facebook and YouTube, but said it would only consider restoring the websites if they take down pages considered offensive to Islam, the information technology ministry said Friday.

Now, originally the ban was till May 31. Now it is until pages considered offensive to Islam are taken down, which could practically mean "never".

Now, all long distance carriers - not just Pakistan - have a problem very soon after youtube's introduction - that youtube grew to 30-40% of the bandwidth consumption, but they don't get an additional rupee of revenue for carrying all this traffic.

So I'm wondering whether some bright soul figured out that Pakistan might save some money if they shut down youtube access in Pakistan. As we know, Pakistan is stretched thin in its ability to pay. It can't keep jet fuel for foreign airlines (presumably because the Pakistani corporations involved aren't considered creditworthy by the jet fuel suppliers). Similarly I believe there is a diesel shortage and a gas shortage and so on.

While it is not logically connected, this 2005 story got me thinking.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/46334.html

The above hypothesis will make sense if and only if Pakistan has a usage-based payment system to long-distance fiber and satellite carriers. Hence the question.

[Prasad]

Rangudu sir,
I thought Rajput were ferociously hindu? not so? Any pointers to their history ?

[JwalaMukhi]

Ahh!!great news!!
A napalm goes off under Kiyani and his chalis chors.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/2010 ... rorismties
Philip Shenon – 1 hr 53 mins ago


The official, who has been briefed on details of the Times Square bombing case, says Pakistanis have also been told that the United States is concerned by the large number of connections between Pakistani military officers and some of the recently uncovered terrorist plots aimed at the United States and its European allies.

Not so great news to me. The message explictly excludes tiels between TSPA and terrorists targeted towards us SDREs. Oh did I forget, how dare do I compare SDREs with citizens of United States and its European allies; they are God's chosen people. How can I act so uppity.

There are known good jihadis. There are unknown good jihadis. There are known bad jihadis. There are unknown bad jihadis. Known knowns, unknown unknowns and known unknowns
The known good jihadis and unknown bad jihadis are having connections and that is cause for concern, because these connections yield unknown targets or bad choice of targets.

[Rangudu]

tsriram,

Rajputs can be Hindu, Muslim or Sikh. Many clans converted to Islam during various times in history.

[Anujan]

Wah!! What an auspicious occassion! We gave the TSP dhaaga a 72 on a fridin!!

[Prasad]

Wah!! What an auspicious occassion! We gave the TSP dhaaga a 72 on a fridin!!

Rangudu sir,
thanks! Was this as a result of the Rajputs being pally with the mughals from akbars times? Or even earlier? How did they get along with the other Rajputs who didnt convert?

[pgbhat]

Now we need a few more IED mubaraks to celebrate. AoA!!

[Rupesh]

AoA... We have reached page 72. IB4TL Time in my second favourite thread

[Carl_T]

Question: how does the nation of Pakistan pay for its internet connectivity to the outside world?

Why do I ask:
Dawn

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan acknowledged the ''suffering'' caused by its bans on Facebook and YouTube, but said it would only consider restoring the websites if they take down pages considered offensive to Islam, the information technology ministry said Friday.

Hey....in that case, let's keep starting offensive facebook groups under different profile names while Facebook shuts them down so we make sure the nation of TSP stays off facebook.