Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2011

[shiv]

All visitors from Pakistan should be radio tagged.

Yes. With Cobalt 60.

[SSridhar]

11.1-bn-rupee bailout package insufficient for multibillion loss-stricken Pak Railways

As with any solution to Pakistani problems, that country must ask India for help with saving their Railways too. But, how can Pakistan do that ? Therefore, there is no solution to Pakistan.

[A_Gupta]

All visitors from Pakistan should be radio tagged.

Yes. With Cobalt 60.

i.e., Shiv wants them to go from dirty suicide bombers to suicide dirty bombers.

[rsharma]

11.1-bn-rupee bailout package insufficient for multibillion loss-stricken Pak Railways

As with any solution to Pakistani problems, that country must ask India for help with saving their Railways too. But, how can Pakistan do that ? Therefore, there is no solution to Pakistan.

Don't be too surprised if the WKK Inc. in India actually starts demanding from GoI, that we should bail them out and set a precedent. And before u know, Hark da Butt and UndeeTV will take up the issue and start shrieking day & night. And finally Arundotti Roy will write a 'brief' essay on it, in no less than 25,000 words.

That is what Aman-ka-Tamasha all about.

[partha]

http://tribune.com.pk/story/136483/isla ... lion-loan/

The IDB’s commercial lending rates are usually four per cent plus the London Interbank Offered Rate. Moreover, IDB’s lending is for the shorter term, usually for one to two years.

Err.. isn't this against Sharia and hence blasphemy? Considering the bank is "Islamic"?

[ramana]

I thought Dawood was going to take over the Pak railways?

[SSridhar]

Ramana, Dawood bhai is a terrorist-businessman. The PR lends itself to neither of his avocations.

[ramana]

I was hoping he takes PR and we can get some bhais to spike the diesel fuel!

http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 9#p1009849

[SSridhar]

Terry Jones finally burns the Quran
LET Cheif-Jihadist Hafeez Saeed rants from Pakiland

This is truly scareligious Behavior by Terry Jones, Pakis hsould not take this lying down..

The ummah leader (or wannabe ummah-leader according to one's own interpretation) is not taking it lying down. President Zardari opens his address to the joint session of the Parliament with a reference to this insignificant incident.

President Asif Ali Zardari chose to begin his address to the joint session of Parliament with a condemnation of the desecration of the Koran. Addressing the joint session for the fourth time — the first Pakistani President to ever do so — Mr. Zardari described the desecration as a serious set-back to efforts at promoting harmony among civilised communities throughout the world. The President also urged Parliament to adopt a resolution asking the U.N. to address the issue for the sake of harmony and peace in the world.

[Anujan]

Apparently the Pakis have sent a delegation to EU countries to "highlight the plight of Cashmere". Delegation headed by Fazl Ur Rehman (400% sure that he will be 400% convincing )

There is an un-named hurri-rat participant in the delegation as well. How on earth did GOI put up with this nonsense?

[SSridhar]

Apparently the Pakis have sent a delegation to EU countries to "highlight the plight of Cashmere". Delegation headed by Fazl Ur Rehman (400% sure that he will be 400% convincing )

There is an un-named hurri-rat participant in the delegation as well. How on earth did GOI put up with this nonsense?

Anujan, I posted this yesterday in the J&K thread and highlighted the presence of the Hurriyat person in the group. However, I was not sure if he/she was a member of the PoK Chapter of the Hurriyat Conference.

[sum]

How do the Pakis make sure that the said person might not be a Indian plant? Massive ISI vetting must take place before finalizing the person to join them in such trips!!

[SSridhar]

Wars not a solution: Gilani

“Wars are not a solution, talks are the only way forward between Pakistan and India,” Mr. Gilani told a visiting Indian peace delegation led by veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar.

He said his government would like to continue working with its Indian counterpart to “resolve all outstanding issues peacefully in just manner.”

Mr. Gilani said it was “his earnest hope” that upcoming talks “would serve to reduce the trust deficit and create a solid foundation for taking the process forward.”

He emphasised the need for an “uninterrupted as well as uninterruptible dialogue process {which means that Pakistan will be guaranteed of inaction from India in future terrorist attacks. So far, such a guarantee is implicit and Pakistanis want it explicitly} to focus on contentious issues and on promotion of trade, economic, intelligence-sharing, sports and cultural cooperation.”

Mr. Gilani also called for increased people-to-people contacts and exchange of parliamentary delegations.

The first priority of the PPP-led government is development of the well-being of the people of Pakistan, for which peace and stability in the country are critical, he said.

“Pakistan hence wishes to have friendly, cooperative and good neighbourly relations with India,” he said.

Mr. Gilani said that “he had personally invested in the peace process, given his ancestral and family’s long-standing historical contributions to the joint Indian war of liberation and India-Pakistan friendship.” {What is this nonsense of his family's historical contribution ? Was somebody part of the 1857 War of Independence ?}

Clearly, this liar is saying all these in view of the upcoming Secretary-level talks next week.

[SSridhar]

Fear Reigns - Anita Joshua in Frontline
Excerpts

More worrying is the extent of the radicalisation. Though the religious political parties do not count for much in legislatures, their hold over society is clearly evident. This has put a question mark on the widely held perception that Pakistan – despite the jehadist elements – is peopled by a “moderate majority”. Gone is the myth that religious fundamentalism is the domain of the unlettered masses.

Sherry Rehman has stopped doing so publicly after ‘fatwas' calling for her death were issued by clerics opposed to her bid to move a Bill in the National Assembly to amend the blasphemy law.

In fact, circumstances prevailed upon Sherry Rehman to give up the Bill after Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani announced in the National Assembly that she had withdrawn the draft legislation. Though Sherry Rehman maintained that she had done nothing of that sort, she said: “But since the Prime Minister has announced that there cannot even be a discussion on procedural amendments, and the committee announced by the party to amend laws has been disbanded, then as a PPP Member of the National Assembly, I have no option but to abide by the party decision in Parliament.''

Seen along with the developments in West Asia and northern Africa, talk of a revolution has been in the air, with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) once again speaking of a French Revolution-like uprising in Pakistan. This is the second time in less than a year that MQM chief Altaf Hussain has called upon patriotic generals to lead a revolution.

Though all the conditions for a revolution are present – widespread disenchantment with the government over spiralling prices, corruption, inefficiency, bleak economy, drone attacks, law and order, and so on – the apprehension is that an uprising in Pakistan will result in anarchy as there are too many fault lines – including the blasphemy law – plaguing the country and society. And it will be anything but bloodless.

[RajeshA]

X-Posted from Managing Pakistan's failure Thread

Published on Mar 23, 2011
By Feroz Khan

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http://pakteahouse.net/2011/03/23/pakistan-the-silent-coup/

Pakistan: The silent coup

The pointing finger points to the silence of the Pakistani army towards the murders of Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti. Has no one wondered why the security establisment has been so silent on the issue? Can no one hear the loudness of this silence? When something is too obvious, it is not really obvious and when all other possibilities are eliminated, what is left no matter how improbable is always the truth.

There are serious things presently afoot in Pakistan and the events clearly hint of a massive imbalancing of the scales of political power in Pakistan. There is a silent coup d’ etat underway in Pakistan and Pakistan, as a state, is quickly becoming a state of martial law. Two events, isolated yet connected, have changed the nature of power in Pakistan and those two events were the extensions given to General Kayani as the Chief of Army Staff and to General Pasha as the head of Inter-Services-Intelligence (ISI).

What these extensions imply is that the Pakistani military and the Pakistani military intelligence (ISI) have institutionally merged and the idea of a political power, which was always considered to rest with the chief of the army staff, will now be equally shared between the chief of the army staff and the director-general of the ISI.

This means that the pantomime of a civilian democracy in Pakistan has become irrelevant and the civilian government has become a bonsai government and the Pakistani army, sub voce, has become an autonomous center of power in Pakistan accountable to no one but its own ideological world view and its own metrics of interest in the Pakistani political system. It also means that interregnum of democracy in Pakistani politics, which started in 2008, may be coming to an end.

In a sense, both Generals Kayani and Pasha had held important positions during General Musharraf’s military rule and with both having secure extensions to their tenures, it can be safely said that Pakistan has reverted back to the status of quo of February 2008; a state of political reality which had existed in Pakistan before the elections of February 2008.

Also, the military rule that started in 1999, with a lapse of three years from 2008-2011, has been reestablished. It means that the policies of the Musharraf era vis-a-vis Afghanistan, India and towards the United States will be followed faithfully by the dyarchy of Kayani and Pasha. This means that with the end game in Afghanistan fast approaching its point of eventual terminality, there will be resurgence in the Pakistani Army-ISI’s support of jihadi organizations and groups as possible strategic assets to secure its interests in a post-Americanized Afghanistan.

This also means that the military-mullah alliance had to be recalibrated in view of these newly emerging realities and obstacles to that alliance had to be removed. The murders of Salmaan Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti and the silencing of all liberal dissent against the spread of an intolerant religious ideology have to been seen and understood in the light of this shared consensus between the Pakistani military, ISI and the religious groups in Pakistan.

The Pakistani media’s role is, and has been, the vocalization of this agreement and to facilitate this aim by creating a climate of fear, hostility and insecurity in which no voice can be raised against this development; the cementing of the Pakistani military’s ideological and political view point onto the politics of Pakistan.

This coup d’ etat, by the Pakistani military, is different from the past coups in Pakistani history. Unlike the past coups, this time the military has no wish to share power with the civilian politicians and unlike the past, where it covertly supported the religious parties; it is now overtly supporting the religious parties’ attempts to influence political power by its silence and refusal to condemn their acts of terror and violence in Pakistan.

The glue, which is binding and reinforcing this alliance is the fact that both the military and the religious groups in Pakistan see eye to eye and agree on the key issues of foreign policy, domestic politics, ideological moorings of Pakistan and on their political perceptions on what is the right course of action in Pakistani politics: the move towards an ideologically conservative society, which protects the traditional roles of the military and the religious groups as the defenders of Pakistan’s ideological, geographic and moral frontiers.

It is in this vortex that the story of Raymond Davis starts to make sense and it is this logic which explains the outbreak of the intelligence war between ISI and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Once the CIA realized that it could not count on ISI to tackle the problem of jihadi organizations acting against the United States interests, it decided to act unilaterally to deal with the problem and this act of independence by CIA threatened ISI, and Pakistani military’s strategic calculations towards the region (read post- United States’ influenced Afghanistan).

Therefore, CIA and its unilateral policies in Pakistan had to be stopped at all costs and it is within this prism that the murders of Salmaan Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti also make sense. If the politics of Taseer and Bhatti had been allowed to be successful, and the repeals to the Blasphemy Laws had, indeed, been affected, it would have immeasurably strengthened the cause of liberal-secular politics in Pakistan and would have caused untold harm to the military-mullah alliance itself. Both Samaan Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti were seen as a threat not because they had the political constituencies of support behind them, but because they had the potential to galvanize such a constituency not only within Pakistan, but also internationally and that would have undermined the military’s traditional importance to the United States as the sole interlocutor for the United States’ interests in Pakistani politics.

Frederick the Great of Prussia had once remarked “audace, tojour, audace” on the eve of a battle to his generals telling them that it was audacity, which won battles and not courage. The first rule of a successful coup is not to be losing side and the second rule is to do everything possible to make sure that one comes out on the winning side and this is exactly what has happened in Pakistan.

Faced with the prospect of a defeat and the lessening of its role in Pakistani politics and internationally, the Pakistani military mounted a desperate coup d’etat inside Pakistan to secure its long term interests and the first shots of this coup, which were heard all over the world were fired on January 4th 2011 and since then, Pakistan has become a different country and because of this, may be, the world has also changed.

Feroz Khan is a Toronto based political analyst with interests in military history and issues of conflict management and conflict resolution.

[Charlie]

The Nation's Editor-in-Chief calls for Jihad against India

The Nation's editor-in-chief and Nazria Pakistan Trust (NPT) Chairman Majid Nizami has reiterated that Pakistan must wage jihad against India to 'free' Kashmir.

"I ask every Pakistani who acts upon the spirit of Islam to make oneself ready for Jihad," The Nation quoted Nizami, as saying while presiding over a sitting at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan.

He said that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had termed Kashmir a jugular vein of Pakistan and had ordered the then army chief to send Pakistani forces into Kashmir for its independence, but the latter had refused to follow Jinnah's order.

Since that day, no army chief even tried to please the Quaid-e-Azam's soul, he regretted, adding that jihad is the only solution to the Kashmir dispute.

Nizami also said that there must be a war between Pakistan and India on water issues.

"India is constructing dams at rivers' flow from Kashmir to Pakistan, conspiring to turn our land into waste, " the NPT Chairman alleged, adding that the country would convert into desert if it fails to free its jugular vein from Hindus.

Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lieutenant General (retired) Hameed Gul, who was the chief guest on the occasion, observed that India wanted to deprive Pakistan of water with the support of international imperialists, but their actual target was the country's atomic assets.

"Our national security and internal solidarity is at stake until the settlement of water issue", he added.

Gul said the irrigation system of Pakistan had a vital role in the security of the country, yet India intended to destroy the same.

He was of the view that the Pakistan People's Party, the Awami National Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were responsible for energy crises in Pakistan, and stressed that Pakistan must build other reservoirs besides Kalabagh Dam. (ANI)

[Charlie]

J&K: India's complete surrender?

The recent spate of scams has so exhausted the fund of public outrage that the die-hard votaries of peace with Pakistan have found this the opportune moment to shamelessly back away from our post-Mumbai stand and restart dialogue with Pakistan - in all but name.

The public in India is so preoccupied with local issues of corruption that this Peace-At-Any-Cost lobby has decided to exploit that sense of emotional ennui and exhaustion to push their pet agenda through surreptitiously.

Such an earlier attempt at Sharm-el-Sheikh had come too soon after the Mumbai massacre and caused such public outrage that the government was forced to backtrack.

This perplexing urge to resile from a principled stand goes against our national interest and global image as an emerging global power. The worst part is the callous lack of concern it betrays for the lives of ordinary Indians.

163 innocent Indians were massacred in Mumbai. What steps has Pakistan taken to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism? What has it done to bring the perpetrators to justice?

Why, then, this overarching compulsion on the part of India to resume dialogue and in fact, grovel before the perpetrators of terror? What really has changed except the Bleeding Hearts Brigade's perception that now is the opportune time to get away with it?

It is disturbing to note this cynical lack of concern for the lives of ordinary Indians that seem to matter so little to this Bleeding Hearts Brigade.

There is however a second aspect that is of equal, if not greater concern. Are we compromising on our national interests under pressure from America?

Bruce Reidel - who wields considerable influence over America's Af-Pak Policy, recently wrote a book called Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of Global Jihad. In this, he emphasised that the cancer of jihadism has spread deep into the vitals of Pakistan.

He lamented that "Nothing could be done unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved to Pakistan's entire satisfaction. That alone will make it a normal state not preoccupied with India. It would also remove the rationale for the Pakistan Army's disproportionate role in Pakistan's Security Affairs."

The construct is very disturbing. It is Pakistan that has the Jihadi cancer but it is India that is required to undergo the surgical operation of giving up Kashmir simply because the Jihadis want it and to get peace, we must tamely surrender the province.

Besides, Bruce Reidel's argument is seriously flawed. The surrender of Kashmir will only whet the Jihadi brigade's appetite to dismember India.

There is the issue of River Waters which is likely to be blown up next and maps of Mughalistan are rife in the Urdu Press in Pakistan. The Pakistani Army gains its prima donna status from the centrality of the disputes with India. Will it tamely relinquish its overarching role and power?

The J&K settlement, supposedly arrived at in Musharraf's tenure, was derailed by his conclave of Corps Commanders and the ISI. Mumbai blew up in our faces.

We can therefore, expect the next terrorist strike anytime now that we are going down the Munich lane again.

So the central premise of Bruce Reidel is seriously flawed. It has, however, apparently resulted in backdoor pressure on India to compromise and we seemed to have caved in suddenly and completely.

An article by Juan C Zarate, a former American National Security Advisor, in the Washington Post reinforces this thesis and calls for" pressure on both parties to pave the way for a constructive dialogue on Kashmir".

The Americans, of course, are solely interested in safeguarding their own citizenry. Even a single CIA operative's life is precious.

The contrast with the attitude of the India state to the safety of its own citizens could not be more stark. It is the Indian state's callous lack of concern for its slain citizenry that is cause for concern.

The Indian state is hardly six decades old. It cannot afford to dilute its sovereignty or give in so supinely to the demands of separatism. J&K is a major test case for the core Indian constitutional principle of secularism.

If we let the five million Kashmiri Muslims of the valley secede purely on the basis of a religious/communal agenda, we revive the two-nation theory.

Worse, what right will we then have to the continual loyalty of 150 million loyal India Muslims who voted with their feet at the time of partition to stay in a secular India and not migrate to a theocratic Pakistan?

A retreat from our sovereignty in Kashmir could set up dangerous precedents and models for other insurgents in the North East. How can we deny similar dilutions of sovereignty then to the Nagas or Manipuris or Assamese?

The back-channel diplomacy has proposed solutions that are dangerous. How can we demilitarise a state that has been attacked five times in the past by the Pakistanis and Chinese militaries?

Massive deployments of Pakistani and Chinese troops are still arrayed against the state. It is the presence of the Indian Army that is the check against Jihadi Is infiltration. Remove the Army and you might as well hand over the state on a platter to Pakistan.

Is the resumption of the dialogue the thin edge of the wedge of complete capitulation on the issue of Jammu & Kashmir?

[Arya Sumantra]

Many would think that uncle might be applying pressure on papistan to reform/mend its radical ways. But how many actually think that uncle himself is getting impressed and picking up the ways of our neighbour?

Uncle now has organizations on its uniformed campuses like Cadets for Christ etc. Sometime ago I had read a link posted on nakedcapitalism blog about how a formerly ambitious lady serving in uncleAF had been preached and influenced on AFcampus by Cadets For Christ into getting married and tone down her ambitions. Her family members who regretted the loss of her ambition sued uncleAF for allowing such organizations on campus.

To see which way their general thought processes are headed, listen to this lady atleast the part after 0:36 sec although it is from a controversial movie Jesus camp.



As is the company so are the traits picked up. Uncle may be close to begin replicating what Zia did.

[Raman]

I don't buy this argument made by Feroz Khan.

If the politics of Taseer and Bhatti had been allowed to be successful, and the repeals to the Blasphemy Laws had, indeed, been affected, it would have immeasurably strengthened the cause of liberal-secular politics in Pakistan and would have caused untold harm to the military-mullah alliance itself.

It is based on a false premise that Taseer and Bhatti could have affected the repeal to the Blasphemy Laws had they continued to live. They had absolutely ZERO chance of making even the slightest dent in the already Islamized political and social climate prior to their deaths. Their assassinations had no effect on the repeal effort whatsoever. This is not to say that the military-mullah alliance had nothing to gain by their deaths. The assassinations were performed to signal to the Islamists that their political and social space were safe and that their agenda was irreversible, regardless of pressure that America was applying.

[anandsgh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJk5_vTsX2s

According to this video apparently Veena Malik is in India while she is receiving life threats back in porkiland.

[James B]

Pakistan to confer highest civilian award on its past GUBO Master Holbrooke

The Pakistan government has announced it would posthumously confer the Hilal-i-Pakistan, one of the country's highest civilian honours, on late United States Special Representative Richard Holbrooke

[Brad Goodman]

Rocket attack kills four, wounds 17 in Pakistan

AT least four people including two traffic policemen were killed and 17 others wounded in a rocket attack in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province overnight, police said.
Officials blamed the attack on Baluchistan separatist insurgents who are fighting for political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.

too many dot balls this week

[menon s]

Northern Shipping Routes To Afghanistan, increasing in volume!
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/63126

“[Around] 60 percent of all the fuel that goes to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan now comes down through the Northern Distribution Network,” she says. “If you were to consider that if, for some reason, the Northern Distribution Network stopped working, if they couldn’t get 60 percent of their fuel, that highlights how important it is.”
Started three years ago, the NDN has two sections. The first originates at the port of Riga on the Baltic Sea, travels along the old Soviet rail network through Russia and Kazakhstan, passes into southern Uzbekistan, and then crosses into Afghanistan at the Termez border.
The southern section, known as NDN South, starts at the Georgian port of Poti. Cargo there is placed on rail cars that travel through Georgia and Azerbaijan, then across the Caspian Sea by boat into the port of Aktau in Kazakhstan. From there, the loads are trucked through Uzbekistan.

According to Russian news agencies, the Duma, the lower house of parliament, ratified an agreement on February 25 that would allow the United States to move troops as well as supplies across Russian territory for military operations in Afghanistan.

[sum]

No comment ( interesting headline though) :

Welcome gunfire in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The manner in which Pakistan's cricket team cruised into the semi-finals on Wednesday evening has been the best news in months.

For once the sound of fire-crackers and gunshots that rent the air in celebration as Kamran Akmal hit the winning boundary was a welcome sound in a country that has learnt to live with a daily dose of blasts and gunfire.

And, it came on a day when the nation was marking the 71st anniversary of the adoption of the Pakistan Resolution, making it a double celebration of sorts. It is a great gift to the nation on ‘Youm-e-Pakistan,' tweeted Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Though a berth in the semi-finals seemed a certainty for Pakistan after its win over Australia last Saturday, “Boom Boom Afridi's” 11 gave people back home a performance of a lifetime, demolishing the Caribbean defence like a house of cards.

[vic]

11.1-bn-rupee bailout package insufficient for multibillion loss-stricken Pak Railways

The Pakistan Railways is set to get a hefty 11.1-billion-rupee bailout package to improve its current situation, but insiders believe that this amount would be nothing more than peanuts before the multibillion losses faced by the organisation.

"The bailout package will help PR a lot to run the system as a great number of locomotives are in a dire need to get repaired and some part of tracks also demand repair," The Nation quoted Railways Secretary Shahid Hussain Raja, as saying.

However, the Pakistan Railways (PR) is not able to clear its outstanding dues to the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) due to serious financial crisis, he added.

Replying to a question, Raja said that the Pakistan Railways had suffered losses worth billions of rupees due to last year's floods in the country, but it repaired and rehabilitated its infrastructure with its own resources.

Official sources in the Railways Ministry said that the approximate daily expenditure of the organization was 2.5 billion rupees whereas its daily earnings were estimated around 1.5 to 1.7 billion rupees.

The Pakistan Railways is in dire need to arrange money for 250 non-operational locomotives to make them functional, the ministry sources said.

So far around 4000 wagons are waiting for locomotives, and with the revival of 250 non-operational locomotives, the ailing organisation running into deficit may be stable for some time, they added. (ANI)

This nothing, Delhi NCR will alone be spending 100 times this amount on Railways, METRO, single line etc

[shravan]

Five killed, 25 hurt in Hangu blast

HANGU: At least five persons, including personnel, have been killed and some 25 hurt in a bomb blast targeting Doaba Police station on Thursday morning.

The injured persons include 11 personnel and were taken to hospital for urgent treatment.

Police sources told the media that the blast damaged the nearby buildings also.

Reports say that the causalities can increase.

[shravan]

Karachi mosque hit with rockets

Karachi—At least nineteen people were killed and several injured in separate firing incidents in various parts of the city during the last 24 hours Wednesday sending shock waves to the residents.

Hundreds of people were shot dead in Karachi during last few months but rocket firing was not common in Karachi. On Wednesday morning, unknown miscreants fired two rockets at Karachi’s Malir area from unidentified directions. However, no loss of life was reported. An official at the Saudabad police station confirmed that one rocket hit Mustafa Masjid in the Kalapul area, damaging its wall. The Mustafa Masjid also runs a madrassah but students were not present at the time of the incident, he said, adding that officials of bomb disposal squad reached the spot to examine the rocket.

The second rocket landed on an empty plot in the Fateh Ali Bagh Area and caused no damage to life or property. Police claimed that three suspects were apprehended from Memon Goth.

[Narad]

Suicide car bomb blast kills five, wounds 25 in Hangu

Allahoo Akbar and IED Mubarak !!!

“The bomber, driving an explosive-packed car, blew himself up near a police station, killing five people and wounding 25 others,” Rashid said.

The bomber had been aiming to strike the building but failed to do so because of barricades that had been erected outside, he said.

Part of the police station was still completely demolished by the blast, Rashid added, with the impact also damaging at least 10 nearby houses.

[Mahendra]

^
Huh! not enough, we need a performance on par with Boom Boom Afridi's demolition job on the Windies Kapphirs

[Manny]

The World Cup Cricket is on. Porkies are doing well. if and when they reach the finals, it is going to be held in Mumbai.

There is going to be a bunch of Porkies applying for Visa to come for the Finals. I am sure the ISI is salivating at the prospecting of sending some ISI/LeT blokes over.

What should India do to avoid this?

[sum]

The World Cup Cricket is on. Porkies are doing well. if and when they reach the finals, it is going to be held in Mumbai.

There is going to be a bunch of Porkies applying for Visa to come for the Finals. I am sure the ISI is salivating at the prospecting of sending some ISI/LeT blokes over.

What should India do to avoid this?

For starters, the MHA has atleast done this:

Threat to world cup finals worries Chidambaram

Pakistan has already reached the semi-finals by crushing West Indies by 10 wickets on Wednesday. Their rivals will be known at the end of Australia [ Images ] and India quarter-final to be played today in Ahmedabad [ Images ].

The home ministry's intelligence bureau has sent spotters to keep an eye on those entering India by Waga Border to watch the game on March 29.

[sum]

Blurb in Rediff:

A total of 331 US officials in Pakistan, most of them suspected of engaging in espionage under diplomatic cover, have been "identified to leave the country" under a secret deal between the two sides for release of American national Raymond Davis.

Pakistani authorities have agreed not to declare these US officials "persona non grata" if they voluntarily leave the country within a stipulated time.

Islamabad was almost ready to summarily expel these persons who have various levels of diplomatic immunity as most of them were issued Pakistani visas without getting prior no-objection certificates in line with standard operating procedures.

[Lalmohan]

ISI at one fell swoop has removed all the unkil peepal who were watching those that ISI didnt want watched
this will set unkil back quite a bit

[Suppiah]

Lalmullah, it also means Unkil will now assume the worst - at least with spooks around there was a chance that 60-70% of what these ISI animals did was considered legitimate and not anti-US. Now without the scope for confirming that, Unkil has to assume the whole of ISI and anything it does is anti-american. Coming as it does after holding RD for weeks, angering many in CIA and elsewhere (Davis must be spilling a lot upon return)...this is NOT good for Pakbaric animals; In any case in a land of fanatic barbaric animals, putting a gora life at risk is always crazy when you can find some of these turds to do it for money...

[Rangudu]

ISI at one fell swoop has removed all the unkil peepal who were watching those that ISI didnt want watched this will set unkil back quite a bit

Unkil has not agreed to anything. This "331 US spies" is a fake story planted by the TFTA to maintain their H&D and quiet the faithfools who were calling Kayani and Pasha traitors for letting Davis go.

This 331 will join the "100,000 Kashmiris killed by India" and "700,000 Indian troops in J&K" etc.

[shiv]

ISI at one fell swoop has removed all the unkil peepal who were watching those that ISI didnt want watched this will set unkil back quite a bit

Unkil has not agreed to anything. This "331 US spies" is a fake story planted by the TFTA to maintain their H&D and quiet the faithfools who were calling Kayani and Pasha traitors for letting Davis go.

This 331 will join the "100,000 Kashmiris killed by India" and "700,000 Indian troops in J&K" etc.

...just as I suspected

A US that got a Raymond Davis out of prison is hardly likely to buckle in this way.

[RajeshA]

This 331 will join the "100,000 Kashmiris killed by India" and "700,000 Indian troops in J&K" etc.

At least they have learned not to use rounded off numbers anymore. From now on they'll be using only primes!

[jjambunathan]

Terrorist plotting world cup attack nabbed: Malik

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 781076.cms

Malik said there were reports that the Taliban had started their activities in India and that he had warned the neighbouring country's
government of this menace.

"I am saying this on record and I have also informed India. We must work together to stop the work of terrorists," he added.

Malik however did not give details of the Taliban's "activities" in India.

trying their best to do a af-pak-India

[Narad]

^^^
Relax !!! It all boils down to the last line.

Noble lauded Pakistan for collecting data on terrorists and announced aid worth two million Euros.

You need to be seen doing something to deserve the baksheesh.

[ramana]

Politicsparty guy was expecting the West Indies to be defeated. Lets see if the other part comes out true.