Bharat Rakshak

ISLAMABAD: Unidentified men kidnapped Afghanistan’s former governor of Herat province in Islamabad on Friday, police and embassy sources said.Sayed Fazalullah Wahidi had arrived in Islamabad along with his family to get visas to travel to UK, diplomatic sources told The Express Tribune.The former envoy had gone to a restaurant with his 12-year-old grandson when unidentified persons arrived in two vehicles and kidnapped him, leaving the child, sources said.According to a police official, the former governor was staying at a guesthouse in Islamabad’s F-7 sector and was near Rana Market when he was abducted.Following his disappearance, “the embassy has registered a case with the police,” a diplomatic source said.Several embassy officials also visited Kohsar Police Station to register a first information report (FIR) of the former governor’s disappearance.Meanwhile, Afghan ambassador in Islamabad Dr Omar Zakhilwal said he is seriously concerned over the unfortunate incident and is in touch with Pakistani authorities, an embassy source added.Fazalullah Wahidi was considered an influential governor as he remained very close to former president Hamid Karzai and also served as governor of Kunar province.

Jhujar wrote:Pakistan, Once a Life Time Adventure: No Life After Visit

Former Afghan governor abducted in Islamabad

Fazalullah Wahidi was considered an influential governor as he remained very close to former president Hamid Karzai and also served as governor of Kunar province.

ramana wrote:

Falijee wrote:Mushy Update Part II -
Spinal cord pain: Musharraf discharged from hospital after checkup

Is this a polite headline for pain in da butt?

The video testimony of David Cameron Headley in an Indian Court corroborated the Indian version of speculation surrounding the 2008 Mumbai attacks because according to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) facilitator/terrorist, the ISI orchestrated the whole attack, handling each LeT member from this side of the border.

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Kashi wrote:U.S. okays sale of eight Lockheed F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan: Pentagon

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-p ... SKCN0VL2C6

Lawmakers have 30 days to block the sale, although such action is rare since deals are well-vetted before any formal notification.

India said it was disappointed with the U.S. decision. "We disagree with their rationale that such arms transfers help to combat terrorism," Vikas Swarup, a spokesman for India's Foreign Ministry, said on Twitter

Gagan wrote:Dunno if this video precedes Dawood Geelani's testimony, but here is this paki panel discussing perhaps stopping terrorism in J&K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Jhjq_MdJM

AbhiJ wrote:Watching Mushy interview on India Today, He said:

Pakistan Army is 200% ready to counter any Indian........

Non-PoliticalThe thwarted attack on Hyderabad jail was meant to free Omar Saeed Sheikh, Daniel Pearl's murderer. He called Musharaf to threaten him and Zardari pretending to be an Indian official, all from his jail cell. (self.pakistan)
submitted 3 hours ago by PakistanCicerotulli
One extremely interesting character. Raised in the UK, has a degree from LSE. He was caught trying to kidnap foreigners in India, jailed and then freed after jihadis hijacked an Indian airliner in Afghanistan. It is confirmed alleged that served as the bagman for the 9/11 attacks. Musharaf says in his book that Sheikh was first recruited by the MI6.
In 2002, he murdered Daniel Pearl and handed himself over to the ISI (handler).
While in jail, he called up Gen. Faisal Alvi (commander SSG and an excellent officer) to threaten him. He was killed a few days later. Alvi had warned Mushi of the attack and pointed to some ISI officers as culprits (crime remains unsolved)[1].

In late 2000s, he called the then president Mushi, once again from his jail cell, and threatened to kill him and Kayani [1].

In 2008 following Mumbai attacks, he called Zardari, yet again from his jail cell, pretended to be an Indian minister/diplomat and threaten to invade Pakistan. Zardari believed him and panicked (and in the process precipitated an international crisis) [2].

[1] http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/12/omar_saeed_sheikh_pl.php
[2] https://youtu.be/N7jO3d_HVdg

Falijee wrote: . . .for which, I think, they had to apologize later- cant recall the sport

Falijee wrote:Pakistan beat India 1-0 to clinch gold in South Asian Games hockey

Usual boasting, as expected in the newspiece
No mention that India fielded a B-Class team against the Pakis
No display of "mardangi" in the stadium, as was done one time ago (for which, I think, they had to apologize later- cant recall the sport)

This massive international telecommunications fraud scheme, allegedly led by Noor Aziz, 53, of Karachi, Pakistan, involved unauthorized access to the computer systems – commonly known as PBX systems – that ran the internal telephone networks of numerous businesses and organizations in the United States. Foreign-based hackers targeted the telephone systems of the victim corporations and placed calls to those systems in an attempt to identify unused telephone extensions.

Once the hackers identified unused extensions, they illegally reprogrammed the telephone systems so that they could be used to make unlimited long distance calls, all of which were ultimately charged back to the victim corporations.

The United States has expressed its concerns about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear stockpile and tensions between Islamabad and its arch rival New Delhi.

“We’re concerned both about the security of those nuclear weapons, and that’s been a common refrain… in our discussions with Pakistan; but we’re also concerned… about tensions between India and Pakistan in the region,” US State Department’s deputy spokesperson Mark Toner said in response to a question during his daily press briefing.

US approves sale of F-16s to Pakistan

The spokesperson; however, said his country wished for a meaningful dialogue between the two south Asian countries which could help alleviate tensions between them. “We want to see a dialogue between those two countries, clearly, to help alleviate some of those tensions,” Toner said.

The remarks come just two days after the US government approved sale of F-16 fighter jets, built by Lockheed Martin Corp, radar and other equipment in a deal valued at $699 million, to Islamabad.

The F-16s would allow Pakistan’s Air Force to operate in all-weather environments and at night, while improving its self-defence capability and bolstering its ability to conduct counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations.

The US announcement had; however, met a cold response from New Delhi, which expressed its ‘disappointment’ over Washington’s decision to notify the sale of F-16 aircraft to Pakistan.

US envoy summoned: India outraged at sale of F-16 jets to Pakistan

“We are disappointed at the decision of the Obama Administration to notify the sale of F-16 aircrafts to Pakistan,” India’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup had said in a Twitter message.

India and Pakistan have been arch-rivals since gaining independence from Britain in 1947 and have fought three wars — two of them over Kashmir. The territory is divided between the two countries but claimed in full by both.

SSridhar wrote: I thought for a moment that this guy was talking about setting up an automobile manufacturing industry in Pakistan. It turned out that he was a local dealer for Porsche talking about opening a showroom for that car!! They call it revolutionizing Pakistani automobile industry !!!

CRamS wrote:Guys, DDM is reporting a massive fire at Make in India event which PM ModiJi inaugurated. So far, there is not TSP connection, but I cannot help but speculate that given that at the very least, this is a huge embarrassment for India, but given so many celebrities, I won't be surprised if this was an out and out Paki operation.

arun wrote:

CRamS wrote:Guys, DDM is reporting a massive fire at Make in India event which PM ModiJi inaugurated. So far, there is not TSP connection, but I cannot help but speculate that given that at the very least, this is a huge embarrassment for India, but given so many celebrities, I won't be surprised if this was an out and out Paki operation.

Come, come, lets put a firm lid on putting out conspiracy theories when practically nothing is know besides that there is a fire that has been contained.

ISLAMABAD: Car manufacturers in the country have turned down the demand for a reduction in vehicle prices despite a decline in the value of Japanese yen.

The Japanese yen has lost over 5% of its value since the start of the year against the Pakistani rupee in the open market.

Carmakers said the government was collecting 34% in taxes and their cost of production stood at 33% with a 33% profit. “Therefore, we cannot cut car prices,” he said.

Peregrine wrote:Dangerous groups operating within Pakistan: US envoy Richard Verma

SSridhar wrote:

Peregrine wrote:Dangerous groups operating within Pakistan: US envoy Richard Verma

This is a customary statement to please Indian ears while arms to attack India with are freely flowing to Pakistan.

Suraj wrote:Pakistan Default Risk Surges as $50 Billion Debt Bill Coming Due

Speaking to Mail Today, a senior ICC official said if so many Pakistani athletes can travel to India and participate in the SAG meet, there is no reason why 20 people can’t be allowed to represent the country at the mega ICC event.

“I don’t really get it. What is this double standards all about? If the Pakistan government can happily allow more than 100 athletes to go and participate in SAG, why can’t some 20 people - players and support staff - be allowed to go and play in the World T20? Are they trying to say that the security threat is cricketer specific? This isn’t a bilateral series and personal issues have no place in an ICC event,” he clarified.

The decision of the Barack Obama administration to sell eight F-16 Block-52 aircraft to Pakistan worth $699 million in the face of US lawmakers' opposition to the deal over Islamabad's alleged support for terrorist groups, has been most unfortunate. It belies the hope that the US actually wants to upgrade strategic ties with India beyond the money that US firms can make with India opening up to foreign investment in all sectors including defence.

But coming to Washington's love of Islamabad, while Pakistan's terror export has been supported by the US through financial and military aid — no matter how inadvertently — besides ignoring blatant nuclear proliferation by Pakistan (not even interrogating AQ Khan), of significance is the recent statement by James R Clapper, Director US National Agency to the US Senate Committee on Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Committee on 9 February, 2016. While multiple issues including terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and proliferation, and counter-terrorism were covered by him, the 30-page statement devotes just four lines to Pakistan, that too clubbed with India which says:

Relations between Pakistan and India remain tense despite the resumption of a bilateral dialogue in December. Following a terrorist attack in early January on Pathankot Air Force base in India, which New Delhi blames on a Pakistani-based group, India’s engagement with Pakistan will probably hinge in 2016 on Islamabad’s willingness to take action against those in Pakistan linked to the attack.

What more to signify the bias of the Obama administration and US intelligence towards a country that is acknowledged as the mother of terrorism?

From the foregoing, it appears that Obama administration’s interest in India does not go beyond cooperation on the high seas and as long as its interest in Asia-Pacific is secure and cooperation by India is available in the Indian Ocean Region, it does not mind India losing territory along the Himalayas to the China-Pakistan nexus — even if it is at the cost of India’s strategic interests.