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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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sorry if dup (didn't check earlier posts)

India says Pakistan must 'reinvent' itself
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 7LKHoy5gcA
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Lahore and Pindi / Islamabad are the heart of pakistan. All terrorist loving - India hating RAPE live here.

The cannon fodder terrorists come mostly form the smaller towns and cities and villages adjoining these two centers, and from the poverty stricken South Punjab.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Why there isnt any blast outside LMU yet ? :evil: ,we have already requested great baki mullahs via benis .........................
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Someone is really having a great time lobbing grenades all over the town.
Back-to-back 5 blasts hit Iqbal Town
LAHORE: Five back-to-back blasts of low intensity happened in Iqbal Town of Lahore within the last 45 minutes, triggering panic and fear among the citizens, Geo News reported Friday.

The blasts were caused by hand grenades hurled in different locations of Iqbal Town by a suspected person riding a motor bike, police sources said.
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Gimme money without checking how I use it! It is only a rounding error for Unkil.
Yawn
For 2008, Pakistan has received only $897m for its claim of $1.4bn. What one can make out from the report of the General Accountability Office is that the US Defence Department has tightened its guidelines to validate the reimbursement claims emanating from Islamabad. Comments such as “inadequate substantiation” and “compensation for collateral damage not reimbursable” pepper the report.

The question is: why? It seems that on several occasions Pakistan has failed to provide proper documentation and receipts while in other cases it has pressed for claims that are, at best, only very distantly related to the programme in question. And yet the fact of the matter is that the sums involved are a mere rounding error for the US: what after all is half a billion for a country that spends hundreds of billions of dollars yearly on its defence?
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Pakistani Senate objects to GUBO with used lubricants!

"Senate body flays import of used lubricants" is the headline of a story in Yawn.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Yawn news reporting that:
1. Some vehicle is going around the town of lahole dropping crackers.
2. Some wise guy is phoning the police to make false claims of a bomb blast in different parts of the city.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Pakis have started their own PPL with bang in Lahore. LaWhore Jihadees have made half century so far in 5 overs although first 2 overs were the big scoring !! :-) Awiating centutry from LaWhore Jihadees to make century.

Also, good chance to show Peshwaree But-Shikanis to retialitate with a bang in next match. Let there be big scoring PPL matches...

I must agree IPL is not having as much charm as PPL ;-)
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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:rotfl:

Gagan,nikhil, Its a protest against PCB
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cunning yindu banias are reporting lahore blasts as "low intensity"...forget it these are minor.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Gagan wrote:More blasts happening as we speak.
Possible 7th blast heard in lahore.
Are they celebrating Diwali there?


Bhai Sahab, Diwali nahi Diwala hai yeh , Pakistaniat ke nikalne ki hai. Lets hope no innocent suffer :twisted: in the blast by bad NSA or Miscreants. Allah is mad at them and there is nothing which Paki cant cure with more pristine Islam.

Mubarak ho sub ko samah yeh su"ar"hana
Mai kush hoon dekh IED Jashan E purana
Nazara, Najariye Paki, kare YYY ka Bahana
O Pak, Pakhana, Pakhana, Paaaaakhana .
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Jahil Hamid's past and present investigated in detail.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23672211/Zaid ... earch-work
Zaid Hamid's friend in University days Mohsin Ansari (currently Medical Director, clinical faculty, University of Maryland School of Medicine USA) wrote an article on 2 Feb. 2010 and he claimed that Zaid Hamid was suffering form a mental disorder called Bipolar with Maniac disorder in his university days in which the patient considers himself "a reedemer, a savior, and someone who possess grandiose personality"
So zaid hamid is actually suffering form Maniac Depressive Psychosis or Bipolar disorder with mania.
He needs medical help.
:P
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Gagan wrote:Someone is really having a great time lobbing grenades all over the town.
Back-to-back 5 blasts hit Iqbal Town
Wake up Lahore | Teaser 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVUfzkL9h4c
Check this. Note the words used. - Meri Maa etc.. :D
Under desperate conditions


Check the images used in this video. Check the repeated use of the partition footage and trains.
Analysis of these videos goves a mental picture of their world view and how they are trying to reconciling their present with thier past and also their ancient lore. Very fascinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXMHwakb8Uk
Zaid Hamid delivers a lecture in an event organized by Fashion Designer Maria B. and Students from various Universities of Pakistan. WAKE UP LAHORE
Zaid Hamid Wake up Lahore Part 1

Compare 1% of the Pakistani students in these videos and the 30% young population who are indoctrinated in jihadi madrassa
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Pak Fauj is seriously worried that the gen next of educated pakistanis are going the Islamin Jeehard way, International islamization way, and not concentrating on India.

Enter Jahil Hamid, to channel that anger and directed at India. This is what the 3.5 benefactors want. Pak fauj understands this.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Meri Dharti? Meri Maa hei?

I thought paquis refer to their desh as fatherland? Only SDRE refer to desh as motherland?

Whats going on?
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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It is really easy to make a ch**tiya of all Pakistanis - rich or poor, educated or uneducated.
Sprinkle your speech with a few words of arabic, quote the q'uran, etc etc.
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Gagan wrote:Pak Fauj is seriously worried that the gen next of educated pakistanis are going the Islamin Jeehard way, International islamization way, and not concentrating on India.

Enter Jahil Hamid, to channel that anger and directed at India. This is what the 3.5 benefactors want. Pak fauj understands this.
This is only one part of it. But younger gen have become disillusioned about the idea of PAKISTAN. Pakistan is not moving forward. There are different groups within the younger gen. The basic question of Pakistan is being scrutinized. This was not there before. ZA focuses only on the why Pakistan was formed. Huge question.
Pakistan was formed not to grant independence to the Muslims but to implement political filth to rule Muslims not to let them practice Islam as required but enforce fake inflation, poverty, no jobs, injustice with an inapplicable constitution, corruption & all the mischief one can think of. But in spite of all this Pakistan became a Nuclear Power which has taken peace of mind off of Anti Pakistan Community trying to impose a devilish rule here. Plus Pakistanis are awake from the sleep enforced
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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"Senate body flays import of used lubricants" is the headline of a story in Yawn.
:(( :(( :((
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Upto 8

http://www.geo.tv/3-12-2010/60946.htm
Iqbal Town hit by blast again
Updated at: 2328 PST, Friday, March 12, 2010
LAHORE: Another blast has hit Lahore’s Iqbal Town, Geo News reported Friday.

The latest in a series of blast has taken place at Bismillah Chowk in the densely populated town of the provincial capital.

So far, eight blasts rocked the cultural capital of Pakistan, in which more than 40 people were killed and 100 others injured.

According to police, the low-intensity blats are aimed at spreading fear and panic among citizens.

No casualties were reported in these attacks.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn4XL1DGv-Y
Check this at 2.05 min 4 Min. ZA talking in Lahore
He says at the end Pakistan has become underconfident. This under confidence has to be reinforced inside Pakistan and spread to the next generation of Pakistanis. In the internet, blogs and social media forums.
This kind of false hubris of Paki past is the one which India has to remove completely in the next 100 years.
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The blame game begins - can you beat this one?

http://www.geo.tv/3-12-2010/60944.htm
KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Syed Munawar Hasan Friday alleged that infamous US security firm Blackwater was behind all terror attacks in Pakistan under the supervision of Interior Minister Rehman Malik....The JI leader alleged that Karachi target killing and Lahore bombings were carried out by Blackwater. The Interior Minister was supervising all the activities of Blackwater across the country, he said.

Such incidents, he said, would continue unless the interior minister was removed.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Remember March 12th 1993? I do.
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No one in mumbai will ever forget march 12, 1993 add 26/11 to the list.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Today in Lawhore was NOTHING when compared to the massacre that took place during the 1993 mumbai bomb blasts or the terrorist attacks on 26/11.
Mainly two suicide bombers killed a lot of Pak army soldiers who had come to offer friday prayers. There has been no death in the subsequent grenade throwing incidents.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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There has been a massive campaign form Jun 2009 to Dec 2009 by ZA to create a war histeria.
False ghazwa Hind is being propogated.

Ghazwa-e-Hind define by Sir Zaid Hamid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV7aXc0VgWA
Pakistan because Ghazwa-e-Hind is our destiny. InshaAllah we will capture Dehli & complete India.
Ziad Hamids team have created a website to show its
importance and they have provided total 5 Hadiths for ghazwa-e-hind
The word ghazwa is only used for that war in which Our Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) was personally present, so how after him a war
can be said ghazwa?
plz brother ...he is playing with the emotions of pakistani youth..kindly read this research paper and then decide..
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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SonyTv had ANI news segment last night. The show was about people in POK complaining of adultrated food stuffs and who they are being cheated by TSP. And some mumblings about SWAT.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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I was not drawing a comparison between the events or the extent of damage, merely taking note of the date. Today is 12th March as well. Does this have some significance in the numerological/mytho-historical superstitions which fascinate the jihadis?
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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amdavadi wrote:Meri Dharti? Meri Maa hei?
I thought paquis refer to their desh as fatherland? Only SDRE refer to desh as motherland?Whats going on?
Their Fatherland is in Arabia, Persia, CAR and now UQ, Amrika as well China. Only the mothers came from present region/s constituting Pappustan hence in Lahore, logic demands to refer it as Motherland of Pakistanians.
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Rudradev, :shock:
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amdavadi wrote:Meri Dharti? Meri Maa hei?
I thought paquis refer to their desh as fatherland? Only SDRE refer to desh as motherland?Whats going on?
Too much hindi movies. The kids are ready for assimilation. Only Jahil Hamid stands in the way.
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Forex reserves fall to $14.72bn
KARACHI: Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves fell to $14.72 billion in the week ending on March 6 from $14.80 billion the previous week, a central bank official said on Thursday.

...

Pakistan’s foreign reserves hit a record high of $16.5 billion in October 2007 but fell steadily to $6.6 billion by November 2008, largely because of a soaring import bill.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) emergency loan package of $7.6 billion agreed to in November 2008 helped avert a balance of payments crisis and shore up reserves.

The IMF increased the loan to $11.3 billion in July and the central bank received a fourth tranche of $1.2 billion on Dec 28.
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Inflation rose by 13.04pc in February
ISLAMABAD: The country’s economy has witnessed 13.04 per cent increase in CPI- inflation in February 2010, fuelled by double digits increase in prices of food, house rent, fuel and lighting, transportation cost and education expenses.

Independent economists believe that in real terms inflation was still higher than last year, when it was recorded in February 2009 at 21.07 per cent, but it was the ‘base effect’ that shrank and put it in a small figure.

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It also depreciated against other internationally traded currencies too. Currently, a US dollar is being traded in open market at about Rs86. This has also pushed up prices of essential commodities and made imports costlier another contributing factor for inflation.

At the moment, the government looks helpless to rein in the spiraling inflation and save rupee from free fall. Huge price pressure of necessary kitchen items compelled households to struggle for meeting the minimum standards of living and they might have no choice but to cut down their expenditures on health and children’s education.

Interestingly, in the domestic market oil prices were less than last year but unfortunately due to the government’s poor governance, it was not translated into lowering transportation cost. Transporters have not reduced its fares but instead increased it by about 30 per cent and are making unlawful profits.

Consumer price index (CPI) is a main gauge of price changes at the retail level which covers 374 items in 35 major cities and roughly reflects changes in cost of living of urban areas. In a month, it went up by 0.39 per cent in February when compared with January 2010, the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) reported on Thursday.

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Getting education is becoming a far cry for the low and fixed income masses, as inflation in this sector was witnessed a 13 per cent during the month under review. Inflation in other sections of the CPI-basket were also exorbitant, as during February 2010, fuel and lighting was expensive by 17.17 per cent, food and beverages 14.93 per cent, house rent 12.73 per cent, transport and communication 10.38 per cent and cleaning, laundry and personal appearance was expensive by 9.76 per cent over the corresponding month of the last fiscal year.

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The government seems to be indifferent to the plight of the poor and the lower middle class who find it increasingly difficult to make both ends meet with soaring prices of foodstuff and medical expenses. Other aspect of the inflation figures was, the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), which indicates price movements in the future, stood at a worrisome 19.29 per cent in February compared to 15.03 per cent in the same month last year.

The soaring WPI-based inflation indicates a further hike in retail prices of essential commodities in future, economists say.

The rising inflation is also making it more difficult for pensioners and low-income masses to live on their nominal fixed income. Eight-month average inflation from July-February 2009-10 was recorded at 11.08 per cent against 23.49 per cent in the corresponding period of last year.

It is interesting to mention that for each one per cent increase in inflation, more and more Pakistanis fall into poverty indicating that inflation was hitting poor Pakistani consumers harder than the more affluent ones.

The United Nations’ 2008 report released last year, says that soaring food prices pushed 10 million more Pakistanis into the ranks of hungry, taking their number to 70 million.

In 2004-06, there were 36 million hungry people in Pakistan, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s
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:(( :((

Karachi police files Ulemas’ killing case against renowned analyst Zaid Hamid

http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=159908
Karachi Police has filed Ulemas’ killing case against notable] analyst Zaid Hamid and also issued identity sketch of culprits, accomplice in firing on Maulana Saeed Ahmed Jalal Puri and his son....

filed case against notable analyst Zaid Hamid, as he used to issue threats against deceased Maulana over mobile phone.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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TTP claims responsibility of the blasts
Meanwhile, the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed the responsibility for twin Lahore bombings.
The pakistanis blamed BB's assassination on the TTP, which the TTP denied. Now TTP is openly claiming this one.

Seems to me that the TTP is teasing the pakistanis by taking responsibility for the blasts.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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While all the time its the ISI and its minions cleaning up the soft-liners in order to pass the hard liners as good Taliban.

8)
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Gagan wrote:TTP claims responsibility of the blasts
Meanwhile, the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed the responsibility for twin Lahore bombings.
if tweets are to be believed 9/10 blasts have taken place today [12th]. The who is to take responsibility for the other 7/8 non-death blast :|
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On the Understanding Islamism threads, one of the history gurus had analyzed the Islamists' fascination with choice of dates for terrorist attacks in considerable detail. Can't find that link for the moment but I will try to dig it up. Just as an example, http://www.danielpipes.org/5247/symposium-holiday-jihad Daniel Pipes notes Robert Spencer (of Jihad Watch) mentioning that 9/11 was the anniversary of the Poles' breaking the Ottoman siege of Vienna:
Bruce Tefft is of course correct: there is no direct correlation between jihad terror attacks and certain dates. Still, there are some curious resonances. Many have noted that the breaking of the siege of Vienna on September 11, 1683 (although some say September 12) led Osama bin Laden, within a culture that is famous for its long historical memories, to choose that date for the 2001 attacks as a means of signalling that now the mujahedin were picking up where they left off back then. However, even if this connection is absolutely true, no one could have predicted it in advance: it is not that well known as a historical landmark, and the date is not celebrated or memorialized by anyone. This indicates that it is essentially a worthless exercise to try to gauge terrorist strategy by scanning over notable dates in history
FWIW. Though I, too find it curious why the jihadists would pick their anniversaries from something so un-Quranic as the Gregorian calendar.

He is right that it is pointless to look at history books for dates of significance to Islamic history and use those to predict the likelihood of jihadi terror attacks.

However, once the idea of such a correlation is established in the public mind, dates could be chosen so as to send a message. No one might have thought of 9/11 as the anniversary of an "important" event before the 2001 attacks took place, and that connection (if at all valid) is only apparent in hindsight. But after the fact, the resonance of the dates of previous attacks persists, and their annual/monthly anniversaries could be deliberately chosen for future attacks by Jihadi groups wanting to send a message.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Hiten wrote: if tweets are to be believed 9/10 blasts have taken place today [12th]. The who is to take responsibility for the other 7/8 non-death blast :|
It is a "soft-terror" tactic that we've seen employed before, notably in Bangladesh:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4158478.stm

On August 17th, 2005 about 300 low-intensity bombs went off all across Bangladesh, but only two died and about 50 were injured. Jamatul Mujahedin Bangladesh claimed responsibility.

The message here is "look what we could do to you if we wanted... you are not safe". It is directed at the people, to intimidate them but not provoke them to the point of mass outrage with an atrocity. Whereas high-casualty "hard-terror" attacks are directed more towards the state in order to force a change in policy, by targeting citizens and assets via sub-conventional warfare.

What's worth noting is that (in places like TSP) the state itself can benefit from organizing soft-terror attacks without much cost. It can frighten its people in order to manipulate them, while running less risk of crossing the threshold of outrage that a high body count brings.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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Night watch Comments 3/11/10
Pakistan: A shuffling of general officers was announced by Dawn News today. According to the news service, 29 brigadiers were promoted to major general and at least seven major generals are to be promoted to lieutenant general in the coming weeks.

Among those to be gradually replaced by the incoming officers are Special Plans Division chief Lt. Gen. Khalid Kidwai and Peshawar Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Mohammad Masoud Aslam. Special Plans controls nuclear forces.

Four lieutenant generals are currently on extension, and more extensions are likely in the next few days. Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani presided over the 10 March meeting where the decisions were made. Kayani faces mandatory retirement this summer. He has not served long enough to fill the general officer ranks with his own men, as his predecessor, Musharraf, did.

The promotions are cyclical and routine. In the end, efforts to perpetuate policy through the power of promotions seem to fail in Pakistan. Kayani’s successor will be loyal to the Pakistan Army, that is about all that may be trusted. How he interprets that trust may not resemble Kayani’s policies any more than his resembled Musharraf’s, especially his policy of protecting the Afghan Taliban leaders.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Feb. 26, 2010

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That is an interesting youtube of Hammad Zaid (hehe), more so for the rapt attention and conspiratorial laughs of the college audience, at India's expense.

You would think these brave gazis who bark so furiously would do better in battle, but India will, I think, have to look to China for a worthier opponent.

I wonder how it feels to realise that the hated kafir, in ten years, will have a seat at the manor table while the servants fight over a drink of water in the stable.
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