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Drone kills ten suspected militants on Pak-Afghan border

PESHAWAR: At least ten suspected militants were reportedly killed and 14 others were injured on Wednesday during a US drone strike at the Pak-Afghan border, official sources claimed.

According to sources, some vehicles of the militants have also been destroyed in the attack.

Sources further said, US drones fired three missiles on a militant’s compound and on some vehicles of the militant group.

Media persons and journalists, having been barred, have no access to the area and the death-toll could not be independently verified.

Government sources could not ascertain the exact location of the attack.

The last drone attack occurred in the last week of December, 2013, killing three suspected insurgents.

Reports in the US media have suggested the drone strikes had been temporarily halted since then to provide the Pakistani government a chance to have talks with Taliban aimed at ending their seven-year insurgency.

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Malik made the offer during a visit to the social worker’s residence today.

she found spiritual peace after meeting the philanthropist

The offer was, however, politely declined by Edhi.

Peregrine wrote:Instead of India taking up Pakistan why not India ask the Pakistani Journalists - can't tell Jawed Naqvi to pack his bags as he is supposed to be an Indian - to pack their bags so that there will be a few unwanted Pakistanis out of India and back in Pakistan?

saip wrote:Regarding Polio, what is the incubation period? If a person is infected will taking the vaccine prevent him from spreading it? They seem to be giving the Oral vaccine at the airports. I do not think this will prevent the spread of the virus.

SSridhar wrote:

Peregrine wrote:Instead of India taking up Pakistan why not India ask the Pakistani Journalists - can't tell Jawed Naqvi to pack his bags as he is supposed to be an Indian - to pack their bags so that there will be a few unwanted Pakistanis out of India and back in Pakistan?

Peregrine ji, I do not think that there is any resident TSPian journalist in India.

LAHORE: Pakistan confirmed on Wednesday it had agreed to play six full series of cricket against India with official backing, four of which will be hosted by Pakistan, the first since the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks suspended play between the teams.

Pakistan is expected to host four of the matches over the next eight years, after its cricket board said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with India on the issue, and pending a legal agreement.

ramana wrote:Thats rue. Only Resident Non Indians (RNI) journalists work for TSP led by Javid Naqvi as Chief RNI Journalist.

Rahul Bedi comes close second.

partha wrote:http://tribune.com.pk/story/708416/paki ... sume-play/

Most probably one of those Pakistani reports which later gets denied. If true, is there a way to stop this nonsense through PIL in courts?

shiv wrote:

saip wrote:Regarding Polio, what is the incubation period? If a person is infected will taking the vaccine prevent him from spreading it? They seem to be giving the Oral vaccine at the airports. I do not think this will prevent the spread of the virus.

Poliovirus is a, "enterovirus" where "entero-" is derived form "enteron" meaning intestine. The virus colonizes the intestine and gets excreted in shit and infects others via the fecal-oral route. For example a poliovirus carrier has a crap at an airport, wipes his ass and gets virus on his fingers. Those fingers get on the door handle of the toilet and someone picks up virus from the door handle and then puts that hand in his mouth and the virus enters his intestine to grow there. Eventually a baby gets infected either via that contaminated hand or water supply contaminated with virus form someone's shit.

The oral vaccine is useful in stimulating a special brand of intestinal immunity that prevents proliferation and survival of the virus. Immunity takes about 3-4 weeks to develop so that period of time is needed between vaccination and travel.

putnanja wrote: Will the Injectibles vaccinations too have similar effect?

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan has refused to extend visas of two Indian journalists based in Islamabad for their alleged ‘unfriendly activities,’ officials said on Wednesday.

Snehesh Alex Philip of the Press Trust of India and Meena Menon of The Hindu were officially asked to leave the country by 20 May.

However, a senior foreign office official disclosed that the Indian journalists were asked to leave after their activities were found ‘incompatible to their professional mandate.’The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not provide any further explanation.

However, the official made it clear that Pakistan would stick to the bilateral agreement under which the two countries have a reciprocal arrangement of allowing two correspondents from each country to be stationed in the other’s capital, hinting at the possibility that Pakistan may accept their replacements.

“It is regrettable and unfortunate that the two Indian correspondents in Pakistan have been asked to leave prematurely and suddenly only a few months after their arrival there.”

“Not allowing independent journalists to function is a retrograde step especially as free flow of information between India and Pakistan has long been recognised as an important confidence building measure,” the spokesperson said.

Pakistan could acquire more Jordanian Lockheed Martin F-16 A/B Block 15 aircraft, as it prepares to receive the final two examples of the current deal for 13 aircraft.

An air force spokesman says the number of F-16’s could increase, but did not provide specific numbers.

From late April, Pakistan has received 11 former Jordanian F-16s. The arrival of the last two aircraft is expected soon, says the spokesman.

Pakistan decided to acquire used aircraft, as opposed to new ones, owing to budgetary concerns.

Based on Flightglobal’s World Air Force’s directory, the deal reduces Jordan’s F-16 fleet to 29 examples, and boosts Pakistan’s to 50.

Media reports from Pakistan quote air force officials saying that on average the airframes still have 3,000 flying hours, and should serve for an additional 20 years.

A_Gupta wrote:

An air force spokesman says the number of F-16’s could increase, but did not provide specific numbers. . . . Pakistan decided to acquire used aircraft, as opposed to new ones, owing to budgetary concerns. . . . . the deal reduces Jordan’s F-16 fleet to 29 examples, and boosts Pakistan’s to 50.

Vipul wrote:. . . General Dimaag Gul claiming twice that Shitistan is going to receive more F-16's at "throwaway" prices.

This is all well planned by all 'players' involved. The US is agreeing to the transfer (and, mark my words, is going to upgrade the older version and this news will come out later to soften the blow to India), KSA is paying for all of it, Jordan will be compensated in other ways, the US will make it appear as a deal between two other nations and Pakistan will have its way.

pgbhat wrote:This is unkil running a hawala racket.

ISLAMABAD: Malaysia is becoming most preferred tourist destination for Pakistani tourists and only last year over 80,000 Pakistanis visited Malaysia for business, tourism and education.“Malaysia does not treat visiting Pakistanis as terror suspects the way Europe and America treat and we feel delighted to find Pakistanis in our country,” Malaysian High Commissioner to Pakistan Dato Hasrul Sani Mujtabar told a media briefing at newly constructed Malaysian High Commission building in Islamabad.The envoy said at political level both the countries enjoy excellent relations and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has sent letter of invitation to his Malaysian counterpart to visit Pakistan at his convenience.“Malaysia offers best education at par with western standards at very economical price to students from Asia and rest of the world and which is why there are over 100,000 foreign students studying various disciplines in our country from under graduate to PhD level,” Mujtabar remarked.The envoy said Pakistani fruits particularly Mango is very much liked in Malaysia and there was great potential for Mango exporters to export the king of the fruit there.peaking about tourism, Mujtabar said over 25 million tourists visited Malaysia last year from all around the world, adding that there was no security issue with high quality hotels and food were affordable.

A_Gupta wrote:F-16s:
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... 6s-399245/
Short news-item, reproducing it in full:

Pakistan could acquire more Jordanian Lockheed Martin F-16 A/B Block 15 aircraft, as it prepares to receive the final two examples of the current deal for 13 aircraft.

An air force spokesman says the number of F-16’s could increase, but did not provide specific numbers.

From late April, Pakistan has received 11 former Jordanian F-16s. The arrival of the last two aircraft is expected soon, says the spokesman.

Pakistan decided to acquire used aircraft, as opposed to new ones, owing to budgetary concerns.

Based on Flightglobal’s World Air Force’s directory, the deal reduces Jordan’s F-16 fleet to 29 examples, and boosts Pakistan’s to 50.

Media reports from Pakistan quote air force officials saying that on average the airframes still have 3,000 flying hours, and should serve for an additional 20 years.

Jhujar wrote:One way to fix Polio is to tell every Paki Muslim that Polio drops are the essence Drops of Sweeter than Honey-Friend China. Small Doses of Drops reconfirm its organic origin from China.

putnanja wrote:
Will the Injectibles vaccinations too have similar effect?

A_Gupta wrote:F-16s:
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... 6s-399245/
Short news-item, reproducing it in full:

Pakistan could acquire more Jordanian Lockheed Martin F-16 A/B Block 15 aircraft, as it prepares to receive the final two examples of the current deal for 13 aircraft.

An air force spokesman says the number of F-16’s could increase, but did not provide specific numbers.

From late April, Pakistan has received 11 former Jordanian F-16s. The arrival of the last two aircraft is expected soon, says the spokesman.

Pakistan decided to acquire used aircraft, as opposed to new ones, owing to budgetary concerns.

Based on Flightglobal’s World Air Force’s directory, the deal reduces Jordan’s F-16 fleet to 29 examples, and boosts Pakistan’s to 50.

Media reports from Pakistan quote air force officials saying that on average the airframes still have 3,000 flying hours, and should serve for an additional 20 years.

Karan M wrote:
That's 150 hrs a year, in a small fleet. So much for PAF is first world onlee, flies intensively onlee.

shiv wrote:

Karan M wrote:
That's 150 hrs a year, in a small fleet. So much for PAF is first world onlee, flies intensively onlee.

Well I guess that is a small mercy that we should be thankful for. The news also says that the airframes will have "on average" a life of 3000 hours each. The words "on average" are interesting. Some will have fewer hours left, and will probably end up being cannibalized sooner.

But the smell of the seats and the impression of the Jordanian pilots' ass on the seat will be of great comfort to the Pakistanis since Jordan is closer to Saudi Arabia.

partha wrote:I don't think these F16s are India specific. I am sure they are for fighting polio.

At a time when Track II specialists in India are trying to manipulate the incoming Narendra Modi regime into taking up the Kashmir issue with Pakistan on a priority basis – though this is not the agenda on which the BJP has sought and received votes – the exposure of Aman ki Asha due to internal differences within Islamabad is fortuitous. Coinciding with unsolicited advice to convert the Line of Control into the international border, the scandal exposes the Indian peaceniks and provides a respite to the BJP which has not yet been officially declared winner of the election, much less been sworn in.

Aman ki asha! Pakistan denies visa to longest serving Indian scribe

Readers would recall that previously, the Times of India’s senior journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, an interlocutor of the Government of India on Kashmir, was found accepting hospitality from the notorious ISI-funded Ghulam Nabi Fai, who vociferously promotes the Pakistani case to acquire the whole of Kashmir. Even if one accepts Padgaonkar’s plea that he was unaware that the ISI was funding Fai, he (and Radha Kumar who attended similar conferences in Europe) could hardly be unaware of the anti-India content of the seminars.

The news that the Jang Group was backed (or prodded) by the Pakistan Government and the ISI broke out within Pakistan on May 12, 2014 when managing director Shahrukh Hassan got into a verbal spat with Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and reminded him (Imran) that he had favoured the Aman ki Asha project. In fact, PTI leaders Asad Umar and Shafqat Mehmood are part of the Aman ki Asha committee. Imran Khan himself participated in an Aman ki Asha programme on May 8, 2012, and applauded the movement several times.

In a report to The News, the English newspaper of the Jang Group, Shahrukh Hassan admitted that Government officials were briefed about the programme and that ISI former chief Lt General (retd) Ahmed Shuja Pasha, civil society and political parties were in the loop. He said industrialists and traders also backed Aman ki Asha in the hope that improved ties with India would stimulate economic growth in the region.

By all accounts, the crisis blew up when Geo TV journalist Hamid Mir, whose car was ambushed on April 19, accused ISI chief Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam as the man possibly behind the attack. Hamid Mir was shot at by unidentified persons on motorbikes as his car was leaving the Karachi airport. Within 40 minutes of the attack, Mir’s statement that if anything happened to him, the ISI chief should be held accountable was broadcast on Geo TV. Mir was rushed to hospital and survived the attack.

Geo TV tried to retrieve the situation behind the scenes, but on April 25, Hamid Mir’s brother Amir Mir, read out a statement on his behalf from hospital, comparing the current situation in Pakistan to the time when Geo TV rose against President Musharraf’s military regime. The journalist claimed that the ISI was angry with him for reporting about the thousands of missing persons in Balochistan.

As rival newspapers, media groups and politicians rushed to curry favour with the Government and the ISI, former cricketer Imran Khan alleged that Geo TV and the Jang Group had launched the Aman ki Asha venture at the behest of India! This forced the Group to reveal that Islamabad and the ISI were in the picture from the start!

Indeed, the then ISI chief had stated on record – in the presence of the then Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) director general – that the organisation was a “partner” in Aman ki Asha. In fact, the military, through the ISPR, was continuously in touch with many activities of the venture and held detailed discussions regarding events relating to security.

Angry at Imran Khan’s allegations, the Jang Group countered that its managing director submitted details of the objectives of Aman ki Asha to the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, who endorsed the move and promised unreserved Government support. He urged Jang to take the armed forces into confidence.

Accordingly, the Jang Group met the then DG ISPR, Maj Gen Athar Abbas, and gave him a copy of the formal advice given to the Prime Minister. Later, at a meeting in Lahore with DG ISI Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the Jang Group briefed him in detail about the peace initiative; Maj Gen Athar Abbas was present. Gen Pasha reportedly asked a volley of questions on different aspects of the move and told them that Kashmir was a security issue and that the stated position of Pakistan should not be compromised.

Shahrukh Hassan reportedly informed Gen Pasha that the signing of agreements was the prerogative of the Government, and that Aman ki Asha would simply facilitate attempts towards flexibility on different issues, including Kashmir and water. The Jang managing director claimed that it was the establishment (read ISI) that suggested that the Group appoint Lt Gen Mehmud Ali Durani as security adviser as he was well versed with the Pakistan Government’s and ISI’s views on security issues, especially Kashmir. Lt Gen Durani was reportedly involved in all ‘strategic conferences’ organised by Aman ki Asha.

Senior officials of Military Intelligence (MI) attended several events where security issues were discussed or where former DG RAW, former senior military officers of India and former DG ISI were involved. The Jang Group kept all the leading political parties, including the PML-N, JI, MQM, in the loop. The Jang claims it never accepted any funds from the Government or any other source for the meetings, but as everyone in the business knows, there are ways and ways of supporting an enterprise that has official backing.

Though these revelations are nearly 48 hours late, the notoriously anti-BJP Indian media has ensured a conspiracy of silence regarding the issue.

SSridhar wrote:The first thing that must be done by the incoming government should be to scuttle this Aman-ki-Asha tamasha. It has gone too far and we no longer have a Punjabi-speaking nostalgic Prime Minister.

partha wrote:

SSridhar wrote:The first thing that must be done by the incoming government should be to scuttle this Aman-ki-Asha tamasha. It has gone too far and we no longer have a Punjabi-speaking nostalgic Prime Minister.

Be assured if Modi becomes PM and scraps aman ki tamasha, his critics will join RAPEs in spinning it as Hindu fundamentalist -> war monger -> anti Pakistan -> anti Muslim -> butcher of Muslim.

But who cares. He should just go ahead and put an end to it.

ISLAMABAD: Police say a bomb attached to a motorcycle has exploded outside a restaurant near the capital, Islamabad, wounding only 15 people. Police officer Abdul Majeed says the bomb exploded late Thursday in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad. Majeed says rescuers transported all the victims to a nearby government hospital. Majeed declined to say who could be behind the attack. Pakistan has witnessed hundreds of bomb and gun attacks in recent years, with most being blamed on local militants.