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Shrinivasan wrote:

SSridhar wrote:US wants India-Pakistan to hold talks to reduce tension along LoC

See where this "Pearl of Wisdom" has been shared... "Lunatic council", the nosy busybody which is the spaansar of all Track-II, III, IV , V diplomacy promoting "Aman Ki Tamasha", Siachen Piss Park projects.

It was an essentially private function. Exect for this AfPak guy, everyone else in the room was a Paki.

Here is the video if anyone wants to watch, through I don't see the point. The statement being tom-tomed is at 13:20

Cosmo_R wrote:

Anujan wrote:We can do gandhigiri too. Selective leaks about Whiskey, Women and money that all these jernails indulge in.

That too but bombz pleaze for Jernails and familia.

Why bombz? Armed with photos of Whiskey and Women, the more pious will take care of the rest. I am not joking. There is an entire industry in Pakistan, which thrives on Qadrifying the blasphemers/immorals. We dont need to do anything at all. "You had Whiskey during Ramzan" is a death sentence in Pakistan.

Anunjan, if it is that simple, we should start posting and re posting pics.. We can post it on dumb book, tweetit.. Post it in random threads of deaf and dumb forum. Anywhere else except BR. I can even open a bunch of wordpress and blogspot blogs for this. Any takers to join?

India is not the only neighbor fed up of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s behavior on the border. “Brotherly” fellow Islamic Republic of Iran, just as India is, is also fed up with terrorists sneaking into Iran from Pakistan.

Iranian news agency Fars reports that Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami warned that Iran will step in to contain the Pakistan-based terrorists if Islamabad refuses to take action to secure its borders and prevent the terrorists from slipping into Iran:

IRGC Commander Censures Pakistan for Lax Border Security

Sadanand Dhume in an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal points out that the Norwegian Noble Committees endevour to do an "equal = equal" between India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan by sharing the Noble Peace prize between Satyarthi Malala Yousafzai, is misplaced

The Nobel Committee may find sentimental symmetry in pairing an Indian and a Pakistani, but in the end Ms. Yousafzai and Mr. Satyarthi aren’t joined in a shared endeavor after all. Pakistan’s problems are all its own.

Malala and the Malaise in Pakistan

Dipanker wrote:

CRamS wrote:Guys. whats it with NYT giving a lot of space to TSP RAPEs. Yesterady, there was Mosharaff Zaidi, and today some RAPEette talking about how TSP is pristine but only has an image problem in the manner in which white west portrays it. If Indian elites have that colonial disease forever seeking west's gaze, TSP RAPEs who believe they are the west's TFTA counterparts in the region are so jolted when the whites portray them as terrorist pigLeTs that they are

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/opini ... gnize.html

Read the comments, NYT readers have come down her like a ton of bricks!

Those comments should warm the hearts of every Brfite. They are saying what we have been trying to teach the world for the last 15 years. Here are the top 5 comments as rated by the readers:

Nathan James
San Francisco Yesterday

Maybe the reason that "Homeland" isn't filming in Pakistan is that it's not SAFE for them to film in Pakistan. Sociopolitical nuance tends to get lost when the most vociferous members of Pakistani society scream (and enact) existential threats to the West. Unfortunately, this is an example of the high percentage of law-abiding Pakistanis suffering because of the outrageous acts of the few. The solution is to rein in your outrageous few – which Pakistani society has not done.

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This guy could be a Brfite or *gasp* our views have become mainstream now - even the old inside jokes:

chandigarhi
chicago Yesterday

While I sympathise with Bina Shah's overall point, I feel her standards of authenticity are too high. If Indian actors stand in for Pakistani ones, does it really make the show inauthentic? I'm from Pakistan and if I didn't read the credits, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart. Second, the difference between Pashtun and Bihari actors is just chauvinism. Not all Pashtuns are tall and light eyed, just as not all Biharis are short and dark. Get over these stereotypes, Ms. Shah, before you complain about others stereotyping your country.

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vid Tussey
New York City Yesterday

As a retired USN military pilot, let me assert that the military forces (and capabilities) displayed in Homeland are also unrecognizable. Such is Hollywood.

Having said that, I had a chance to visit Karachi in the mid 1980s. It was pretty awful. You could buy any drug imaginable on the street, and unfortunately many of our sailors did so. Hashish was sold in cakes that looked like bars of clear soap. I remember more than one time when someone seemed to randomly fire a machine gun into the air. Bribery seemed to be everywhere. I certainly had the impression that law enforcement, at least by any known Western standard, simply did not exist in Pakistan.

I know the history of Pakistan has been one of violence, dictatorship, and corruptions since its birth. And certainly in the 60+ ensuing years, India has far outpaced Pakistan in both growth and human rights, not to mention governance.

I would welcome a close-up examination of the real Pakistan. Let it start with a serious look in the mirror.

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Viveka
East Lansing Yesterday

Shah should realize that Pakistan is reaping what it sowed. Its long practice of nurturing home grown terrorist groups, and allowing its territory to be the training ground for Al Qaida and others like them, and its military and ISi giving succor and sanctuary for known terrorists like Bin Laden, Zawahiri and Mullah Omar, naturally translates into ready made Hollywood fiction. Now its homegrown Taliban is killing other Muslim minorities like the Shiites. If Pakistan wants the world to view it differently, it should do something about the monsters its society itself as created. Pakistan created its own bad Karma unfortunately.

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TDurk
Rochester NY Yesterday

I don't watch "Homeland," but I was fascinated by Ms Shah's list of the show's misrepresentations of Pakistani life and culture. I'm not sure that the difference between Urdu and Pashto matters much to most Americans, but it might be a big deal to an Urdu-speaker who wouldn't want to be mistaken for a Pashto-speaker. Pashto is the language most commonly associated with the Taliban supporting populace that straddles the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

That said, while nuance is important, what's more important is what appears to be the Pakistani government use of theocracy and terrorists as tools of their foreign policy. Lashkar-e-Taiba's 2008 attack on Mumbai was certainly abetted by Pakistani government officials according to subsequent inquisitions. And yes, Osama Bin Laden was being sheltered by Pakistani government services, ISI. So there really is a problem there, at least from western eyes.

So the real issue that Pakistanis should be concerned about, if they care at all how American culture depicts them, is the real use of theocratic terror as a tool of their national government. So long as the Pakistani population supports the Pakistani government's policies, well, you can expect Hollywood to portray Pakistanis pretty much the way they appear to the outside world.

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The comments on that thread are jewels. I went through the top 50 of them, and north of 80% of them could have been written by one of us.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1138519/pakist ... -secretary

In its diplomatic response to the situation, Pakistani government wrote letters to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the president of UN Security Council, besides briefing the envoys of P-5 countries in Islamabad and the rest of the diplomatic corps based here on the situation and directing Pakistani ambassadors abroad to raise the issue with their host countries.

“We took clear steps towards internationalising the matter,” the foreign secretary said and claimed the move had had “a sobering effect” on the Indians.
[There you go ]
Mr Chaudhry said the intensity of firing from India had decreased after Pakistan’s diplomatic offensive.

He hoped that Delhi would realise that “its approach was fraught with unnecessary risks”. [Sending jihadis of course has no risks whatsoever]

[quote="khanote="Dipanker"][quote="CRamS"
[/quote]The comments on that thread are jewels. I went through the top 50 of them, and north of 80% of them could have been written by one of us.[/quote]

Since the Homeland episode was called Shalwar Kameez, it was apt opportunity to tell NYT readers that this female dress was imposed on Paki males as punishment for harassing, ill treating their women.

Anujan wrote:There is an entire industry in Pakistan, which thrives on Qadrifying the blasphemers/immorals. We dont need to do anything at all. "You had Whiskey during Ramzan" is a death sentence in Pakistan.

Brings to mind an old story. In Ulan Bator there was a Paki wimmens from a noble LaHore family. She used to run a very glossy magazine, mainly fashion for paki wimmens. Lots of glossy ads for jewelry etc. Flourishing. Then Her Pakiness decided to publish the fine artwork of Hussein, who used to draw yindoo deities in the buff.

Appeals to reason fell on the usual deaf Paki ears.

Then one din, a few shocked notes appeared on one of these website you mention, run out of LaHore. One was from a Paki Mullah vijiting Ulan Bator. Expressing total disgrace that this wimmens from a great LaHore family was sunk to the level where she would publish p*rno yindoo pics. Haraam! Haraam!

Suffice it 2 say, said magazine does not exist todin.

Also the announcement "A hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani" was a bit gratutiuous. Sathyarthi has said he has marxist leanings, he might be an atheist for all we know. Did anyone check with him first before passing him off as a Hindu? Secondly, what if he were a Muslim? Wouldnt he be eligible for Nobel peace prize then? Why didnt they introduce Yitzak Rabin and Arafat as a "Jew and a Muslim" ?

partha wrote:So one RAPE motorma wrote a blog on pak tribune saying she agrees with Sam Harris and Bill Maher regarding their criticism of Islam and Muslim societies.
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/24414 ... ill-maher/

I agree with Sam Harris and Bill Maher

And this is how her picture looks at the end of the blog post. Blurred!

Probably to prevent abduls from attacking her for agreeing with kufrs? Maybe I am reading too much into it but I'll not be surprised if that's actually the case.

Not really, if you look deeper

Haramilinkam
Doctor who deserted army asks officers to join Taliban

PESHABWAR: Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JA), a splinter group of proscribed Tehreek-i- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has released video of a renegade army doctor, asking military officers and soldiers to join Taliban’.Sitting beside JA spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan in the video, the man with black beard and wearing black turban is introducing himself as Capt Dr Tariq Ali who claimed to have served in Frontier Corps Balochistan, 80 Brigade Siachen, and various places in Punjab. He cited posting in Waziristan the reason for leaving the army.He said in fluent English that he had spent two tenures in North and South Waziristan agencies and refused order of the Second in Command official when he was asked to go for the third time.“I refused to obey the orders of 2-IC (Officer Second in Command) and a few days later I took a flight to London,” he said. He is critical of the media and blames it for spreading a bad image of Taliban.He called upon officers to join Mujahideen for the enforcement of shariah and Islamic system.Addressing senior officers and soldiers in Urdu and English Tariq Ali who is also known by the name of Abu Obaidah Al-Islamabadi said that his “PA” number was 103907 and he passed out with 18th course of the Army Medical College.He said that he worked in the army for nearly seven years and about nine years ago he left the army and migrated to London where he did general surgical training in London and Cambridge.Simultaneously, he said he used to call non-Muslims to Islam.“Allah blessed me with the passion of Jihad. I left Britain with an intention to go to Iraq and join Islamic State, but I was arrested on the way and sent to prison in Croatia,” said Dr Tariq.Then he was deported to Pakistan and initially he faced some difficulties in the beginning. Later he joined JA. “May be it was the will of Allah that I should join the Mujahideen of Khorasan instead of Iraq and Syria,” he said.

http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-asi ... 85559.html
Pakistan is capable of inciting violence in Kashmir, says Musharraf
Islamabad: Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf might himself be mired in a slew of legal cases in Islamabad, but this doesn't stop him from commenting on India and Kashmir.
Just a day after a Pakistani court threatened to issue an arrest warrant against Musharraf in connection to a 2007 murder case, the former Pak Army chief in an interview to a local media channel, issued a threat to Kashmir, saying Pakistan was capable of inciting violence in the valley.
Warning of another war, he said that millions of Pakistani troops were willing to fight for Kashmir.
"Kashmir is waiting to be incited and Pakistan is capable of inciting violence," Pak media reports quoted him as saying.....
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Gautam

Did anyone watch the Arnab show last night? Apart from name-calling and the street-fight that ensued, the frothing-at-mouth-corner Brigadier from Pakistan called Chari of BJP a small-minded man.

SSridhar wrote:Did anyone watch the Arnab show last night? Apart from name-calling and the street-fight that ensued, the frothing-at-mouth-corner Brigadier from Pakistan called Chari of BJP a small-minded man.

That Brigadier Miyan have death wish . he has been making rounds on TV etc advocating Nuking India.
This man had the acute Khujli attack after Baghliar Verdict.

Lahore High Court upholds blasphemy death sentence to Asiya Bibi - AFP

A Pakistani court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy four years ago, as her lawyers vowed to appeal.

Asia Bibi, a mother of five, has been on death row since November 2010 after she was found guilty of making derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed during an argument with a Muslim woman.

“A two-judge bench of the Lahore High Court dismissed the appeal of Asia Bibi but we will file an appeal in the Supreme Court of Pakistan,” her lawyer Shakir Chaudhry told AFP.

Sensitive issue

Blasphemy is an extremely sensitive issue in Pakistan where 97 per cent of the population is Muslim and unproven claims regularly lead to mob violence.

Two high-profile politicians — the then Punjab Gvernor Salmaan Taseer and minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti — were murdered in 2011 after calling for reforms to the blasphemy law and describing Bibi’s trial as flawed.

The blasphemy allegations against Bibi date back to June 2009. She was working in a field when she was asked to fetch water. Muslim women labourers objected, saying that as a non-Muslim she was unfit to touch the water bowl. A few days later the women went to a local cleric and put forward the blasphemy allegations.

Pakistan’s tough blasphemy laws have attracted criticism from rights groups, who say they are frequently misused to settle personal scores.

Last month, a prison guard at the notorious Adiala jail in Rawalpindi shot and wounded a 70-year-old Scottish man with a history of mental illness who is on death row for blasphemy.

The jail also houses Mumtaz Qadri, the former bodyguard of Governor Taseer who gunned him down in an Islamabad market place. He was given a death sentence but heralded by some as a hero for killing Taseer. — AFP

Just to recall. In the aftermath of the Qadrification of Taseer and the huge support the killer received in Pakistan, the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, went as far as to say he would shoot any blasphemer himself.

Another cleric in Karachi declared Ms. Sherry Rehman as ‘wajib-ul-qatl’ (permitted to be killed) for having sponsored a bill to tighten procedures before arresting anybody for blasphemy even as the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, advised her to leave the country for her own safety. Later, she withdrew her proposed bill for amendments. The right-wing religio-political Islamist parties hailed the killing of Taseer and described the killer as a ghazi and warned people not to eulogize the slain Governor Salman Taseer as that would amount to blasphemy. Fearing this decree by the Berelvi cleric, the Chief Minister of the Punjab province, of which Taseer was the Governor, decided not to attend the funeral services. The COAS, Gen. Kayani said that he did not publicly condole with Taseer's family because there were too many soldiers in the ranks who sympathised with the killer. The lawyers showered rose petals on the killer when he was taken to the court. Among the lawyers defending Qadri was the retired Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, Khawaja Sharif. In September, 2011, the judge of the Anti-terrorism Court in Lahore pronounced Qadri guilty and awarded him two death sentences. Immediately thereafter, there were calls to kill the judge and even rewards were announced for the same. After the lawyers attacked his courtroom and there were a spate death threats against him, he went on an indefinite leave and into hiding. The judge, Pervez Ali Shah, had to be relocated to Saudi Arabia for his own safety. Justice (Retd) Khwaja Mohammed Sharif, the retired Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, offered his services to defend Qadri in the appeal to the higher court while no lawyer has been willing to take up Aasiya Bibi’s case. The Jama’at-e-Islami termed the judgement as a manifestation of “unfortunate secularist atmosphere”. JuD Chief Prof. Hafiz Saeed said the court’s decision was part of “the conspiracy against Islam” and an attack on Pakistan’s ideology.

In such an environment of hatred and religious extremism among all sections of the society, how can the High Court judge alone be expected to behave differently? They will not survive to tell the tale after releasing the poor accused Christian lady, even if they are unexpectedly made of sterner stuff. Pakistan Paindabad.

So yeevil yindoos tested a Crooj Mijjile successfully.. Time to test a Nasr again.. or fling another ding dong and pray that the shower of scrap metal happens on an shia/ahmedi settlement..

Anujan wrote:

Anujan wrote:We can do gandhigiri too. Selective leaks about Whiskey, Women and money that all these jernails indulge in.

Cosmo_R wrote:That too but bombz pleaze for Jernails and familia.

Why bombz? Armed with photos of Whiskey and Women, the more pious will take care of the rest. I am not joking. There is an entire industry in Pakistan, which thrives on Qadrifying the blasphemers/immorals. We dont need to do anything at all. "You had Whiskey during Ramzan" is a death sentence in Pakistan.

Since when is Womanizing a crime in Islam. In fact, womanizing Kufr women brings so much sawab, that a little Whiskey may even be pardoned, for after all Islam treats all Kufr women as if they were she-dogs!

A momeen enjoying wimmen is just very Islamic!

But whiskey photos can be useful!

It will be recollected that during the press conference held by the Norwegian Noble Committee an unidentified attending journalist suspected to have roots in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan did ask a question touching upon the suitability of Malala Yousafzai sharing the Noble Peace prize. Turns out that the journalist did indeed have roots in the Land of the Pure albeit as one of the “less Pure” for being a Shia Mohammadden and is named Rehan Naqvi aka Nakvisson.

Rehan Naqvi aka Nakvission runs a blog as well and his take on the shared award of the Noble Peace Prize to Malalala Youfzai is posted there. A Bio on himself is also available at the bottom of the page:

Between hope for Malala and realism – an eyewitness account of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement

Rehan Naqvi has also posted under the name Nakvisson an extract on You Tube of his complete question and answer interaction with the Norwegian Noble Committee:

Questions to Norwegian Nobel Committee on Malala's achievements – Full

sudhan wrote: . . . pray that the shower of scrap metal happens on an shia/ahmedi settlement..

or Sunni Brelvi, Hindu, Sikh, Christian area

http://www.dawn.com/news/1138522/pakist ... -cases-who

Pakistan responsible for 80pc polio cases: WHO

WHO is not helping correct what is Pakistan's image problem. Pakistan demands WHO correct its statement and say "Pakistan is number one market for polio vaccines". World should recognize Pakistan's efforts in keeping jobs alive in polio vaccination industry.

Why is the response being tagged 'disproportionate' btw? Lets see - Porkis fire on us at the border - We have to put down what we're doing, pick up the gun, shoot the bloody mfers, get back to what we were doing, curse them for spoiling the mood, bear the cost of maintaining a gun & bullets + cost of the time wasted. All this means a bullet for a bullet is actually not the actual equal response. For every bullet a bunker is the proper response. How about that eh IA?

partha wrote:http://www.dawn.com/news/1138522/pakist ... -cases-who

Pakistan responsible for 80pc polio cases: WHO

WHO is not helping correct what is Pakistan's image problem. Pakistan demands WHO correct its statement and say "Pakistan is number one market for polio vaccines". World should recognize Pakistan's efforts in keeping jobs alive in polio vaccination industry.

In fact shitistanis deserve even more credit than that. Because of them no one in the world can stop administering polio vaccines to children. Ever. Pakistan is the Polio Khilafat of the world.

After mushy said million pakis would join the way with yevil baniya the recruting has started
Four million people to get jobs soon: Shuja

Punjab Minister for Excise and Taxation Finance Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman has said that under the chief minister's employment scheme, 4 million people will be provided jobs during the current financial year.

He said that subsidy of Rs 10 billion would be given to farmers on DAP fertilizer as the farmer community was a backbone of our economy. Shuja said that the Punjab government wanted to upgrade growth rate of the province to 8 per cent till the next four years and in result of it, more than seven million people will be able to live above poverty line and two million people will be provided technical training to make them self-sufficient.

He said that specific objectives of programmes launched by the provincial and federal government were to reduce the under five mortality rate to less than 40 per thousand live births target 40/1000, to reduce maternal mortality ratio to 140/10,000 and to increase proportion of deliveries attended by the skilled birth attendants at home or in health facilities to 90 per cent by 2015.

Other things he said off camera was promise of flying carpets, magic lamps, jeannie for every abdul yada yada....
Must have smoked something from the fresh harvest coming from jalalabad.

Looks like some brfite wrote this under his pen abdul name

Pakistan and India

Sir: A few days back, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said that if India wants its army to speak the language of war, then Pakistan’s army is prepared to respond in the same language. However, I have to admit with a heavy heart that Pakistan is not capable of matching India’s power, and neither is our army ready to respond on an equal footing. From the first day of Eid-ul-Azha onward, the Indian army targeted more than 14 people, and destroyed multiple houses with heavy artillery, but our response had been restrained, to say the least. We have actually become accustomed to such foreign aggressions and interventions {read GUBO}. The US regularly sends drones to Pakistan but neither the army nor the government have ever discussed the matter openly or persuasively. We as a nation need to know what is our foreign policy and our stand on important issues, especially those concerning our sovereignty.

Bahram Sayad

Turbat

Brad Goodman wrote:Looks like some brfite wrote this under his pen abdul name

Pakistan and India

Brad Goodman Ji :

Bahram Sayad may be or may not be but here is another comment on the same Article :

Acha Desh • 14 minutes ago
Wat pakistan is suffering in frequent GUBO from everyone.

GUBO

This is an abbreviation for "Grease Up and Bend Over", something that Pakistanis are very adept at doing, every time a visiting American general or politician flies in for a visit or discussions. The first GUBOs were alleged to have been administered by Al-Quolin Bin Powell and Amritraj, a few days after the events of Sept. 11th 2001. GUBO behavior has also been noted during meetings with banker types for fresh loans.

Cheers

Brad Goodman wrote:After mushy said million pakis would join the way with yevil baniya the recruting has started
Four million people to get jobs soon: Shuja

He said that specific objectives of programmes launched by the provincial and federal government were to reduce the under five mortality rate to less than 40 per thousand live births target 40/1000, to reduce maternal mortality ratio to 140/10,000 and to increase proportion of deliveries attended by the skilled birth attendants at home or in health facilities to 90 per cent by 2015.

This is some amazing shyte. When I was researching my ebook with generous help from BRFites, I specifically looked for such data and made a mention of such indices. What amazed me then was that the only time Pakistanis ever mentioned such statistics was when they were smearing India and saying how bad India is..

Now a decade later this stuff is coming out of Packee mouths.

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RajeshA wrote:
But whiskey photos can be useful!

I was thinking Djinn and tonic

Nandu wrote:Since Unfair is being repeatedly quoted here:

She still holds on to the view, and repeats it often enough, that India is interfering in Balochistan. In turn, the Pakis use this to convert terrorism into an equal-equal problem. I would be wary of her.

interfering in balochistan is different from looking after political refugees fleeing pak persecution there. after all as the largest neighbour & a major power it is our moral duty to do so. nothing wrong in that per se.

India might take up Balochistan issue more actively and provide moral support ( you know what it means) to the freedom fighters. yesterday one Indian commentator was quite open about it and asking Paki commentator about merger of balochistan in to Pakistan and drawing parallels. That paki kernail, who was in isi earlier if I remember correctly, was fumbling for words. That was refreshing change from the cacophony of Dorrnob debates.

I agree with Sam Harris and Bill Maher

by Sameen Qazi!

Sameen Qazi is now Wajub-ul-Qatl.

Nandu wrote:Since Unfair is being repeatedly quoted here:

She still holds on to the view, and repeats it often enough, that India is interfering in Balochistan. In turn, the Pakis use this to convert terrorism into an equal-equal problem. I would be wary of her.

My philosophy is as follows. If you get paper that is toilet tissue on one side and sandpaper on the other, use the side that suits you and throw it away. We use what suits us from Fair's statements.

Pakistan accounts for 80% of polio cases: WHO

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, which accounts for nearly 80 per cent of polio cases globally, remains the "greatest single risk" to eradicating the crippling disease due to a ban imposed by militants on immunization, the WHO has said.

The WHO in May imposed travel restrictions on people travelling from Pakistan to other countries.

Cheers

This Arnab Interview regarding Terror Confession by Mushy

http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-TerrorCon ... 466654.cms

Brad Goodman wrote:TV Shows Helping Bridge Divide Between India, Pakistan

Paid news. Paid by Monkey Asses.

Nandu wrote:Since Unfair is being repeatedly quoted here:

She still holds on to the view, and repeats it often enough, that India is interfering in Balochistan. In turn, the Pakis use this to convert terrorism into an equal-equal problem. I would be wary of her.

I know she said that before, but has she mentioned this == of late?

i don't remember seeing that in her last few pieces. the boston review piece was quite good imo when looked at as a 'piece by american for american audience'.

Brad Goodman wrote:TV Shows Helping Bridge Divide Between India, Pakistan

strictly going by evidence. India & pak had the most serious flare-up in a decade and half within a month of zindagi starting to air these serials ! bridging the divide indeed !

Before people complain about polio from Pakistan, they should realize Pakistan itself victim of polio. Other countries complain about 1-2 polio cases. Pakistan has 200 polio cases. With almost one case reported per day. Polio has no religion or nationality and any one could get polio. It is wrong to blame a single country for polio. It is the failure of the entire world that polio is still lurking in Pakistan. Just condemning polio won't work: root cause of Pakistani polio, like poverty, illiteracy and unsolved issues like Kashmir should be addressed and solved. More people to people contact, relaxing travel restrictions and aid are the best ways to combat polio.

India and Pakistan have fought 4 wars over Kashmir and over 1 billion people live on less than $2 per day in the subcontinent. Our Lahore correspondent contributed to this report.