Bharat Rakshak

Pasha's China trip has been interpreted by some as a tacit act of defiance—a reminder to his American counterparts that the Pakistanis can always look east to their “all-weather” friend across the Himalayas rather than bend the knee to the will of the U.S.

But it also may be a sign of China's growing disquiet with Pakistan. Another top-ranking Pakistani military officer, Lt. Gen Wahid Arshad, had already conducted a considerable tour of China just weeks ago in a bid to improve ties. A few analysts have suggested that Pasha's trip — couched in vague terms about building a “broad-based strategic dialogue” — may have been less a visit and more of a summons.

Chinese officials claimed the attacks in Kashgar were authored by the shadowy East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a jihadist organization of mostly ethnic Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority that comprises the majority in the far-western Chinese region of Xinjiang. China routinely invokes the specter of the terrorist threat when cracking down on dissent in the restive region. Yet disturbances there tend to be triggered more often by social discontent — many Uighurs chafe at state policies they deem discriminatory and marginalizing — than militant connivance. Pasha's presence in Beijing may mark Beijing's continued efforts to root out Uighur dissidents and sympathizers beyond China's borders, as it has already done in Kazakhstan.

vikramd wrote:Another Aman-ki-Tamasha social engineering move

Indian Muslim living in America plans to open university in Pakistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 495171.cms

vikramd wrote:Another Aman-ki-Tamasha social engineering move

Indian Muslim living in America plans to open university in Pakistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 495171.cms

Gilani said the President House had rejected the news item saying Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Pervez Kayani had demanded the clarification or withdrawal of the statement by the prime minister.

According to an estimate by the PSEB, the industries export in 2011 stand at about $560 million and analysts believe that this value can rise up to $860 millions, if the Industry continue to grow at this rate...

Imran further said that the industry is working at full capacity on the HR side at this point of time but that does not mean all IT professionals have jobs. All this is because many fresh graduates do not have the skills required by the companies.

At least eight people were feared killed when a blast ripped through a Shia procession in Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday, media reports said.

The explosion occurred in Khanpur town shortly after a 'Chehlum' procession left a Shia 'imambarah' or prayer hall this afternoon.

Witnesses and reporters at the site said they had seen at least eight bodies. About a dozen people were also injured in the incident, according to reports by TV news channels.

Four people were killed in an abortive hostage-taking attempt by Taliban suicide bombers at the office of a local police chief in a southern district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Saturday.

The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the brazen attack on the office of District Police Officer (DPO) Sohail Khalid in Dera Ismail Khan city that also left four bombers dead.

"A long flag in the procession struck the high transmission power wire and caused the explosion in the transformer,” he told reporters.

shravan wrote:Video of Khanpur Explosion- 15 Jan 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Xzu2n32rJE

Pakistan learnt no lesson from 1971
Imran relates govt's treatment of Pashtuns to Bangalees
Staff Correspondent

Pakistani politician and former cricketer Imran Khan said if the Pakistanis who committed crimes during the Liberation War of Bangladesh had been punished, the present scenario in Pakistan would have been different.

The Caravan, a Britain-based magazine, published an interview of Imran on its January issue. Imran told the magazine the events (Bangladesh's Liberation War) in 1971 provided a lesson about the rule of law.

"Had people been punished, we [Pakistan] would not be going through this again," said Imran.

The cricketer-turned politician told the magazine he had overhead instructions to kill Bengalis in 1971 when he was in Dhaka to play a cricket match.

He claimed he had been on the last flight out of Dhaka before the Pakistani army launched an assault on March 25, 1971.

"These ears heard people saying: 'Small and dark. Kill them. Teach them a lesson'," he said. "I heard it with my own ears."

Imran, who was on a cricket tour as an 18-year-old youngster, however did not identify who gave the instructions and to whom.

Now the leader of Pakistani political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran said he now hears similar instructions within Pakistan.

"It's exactly the same language which I hear this time," he said in the interview, adding that today it is Pashtuns who are ill-treated.

"In Pindi, in Lahore, in Karachi, they've been picked up and thrown into jail because they are Pashtun. This is a sad legacy."

According to media reports, around 30 to 35 million Pashtuns living in Afghanistan and Pakistan are the direct victims of the "war on terror" since 2001, when Pakistan became the partner of the USA in the “war on terror”. The media termed it "Pashtun genocide". Pashtuns want neither Taliban nor the army on their land.

The former cricketer believes if the Pakistani offenders of 1971 had been punished, the Pashtun would not be harassed in Pakistan today.

The magazine says until his visit to Dhaka in 1971, Imran had believed in the Pakistani state propaganda of the time, which painted the rebellion as the work of a few Indian-backed militants.

"That was the first time I realised that there was a separatist movement going on," he said. "We knew nothing about what was going on in East Pakistan."

Around three million people were killed and more than a quarter million women violated during the nine-month bloody Liberation War that started on March 26, 1971.

The Pakistani occupation forces launched a massacre on unarmed civilians at the night of March 25, 1971. More than 10 million people were displaced from the country and became refugees in India.

Thirty-nine years after independence, an International Crimes Tribunal was set up in 2010 to try the Bangladeshi war criminals, who not only opposed the Liberation War to foil the birth of Bangladesh but also actively helped Pakistani army to commit mass killings, genocide and other war crimes.

Seven accused Bangladeshi war criminals have so far been facing charges for crimes committed during the War.

Pattom wrote:At least 13 Shias killed in transformer Bomb blast during Chehlum procession

Officials had originally thought the explosion came from a malfunctioning electric cable, but later found that there had been a bomb, he said.

The trigger for the current crises is the accusation that the civilian politicians had tried to get U.S. backing for an attempt to purge the Pakistani officer corps of anti-democratic individuals, and reorganize the military so that it is firmly under civilian control. This would cause thousands of senior officers to lower power and money. Many more active and retired officers would lose economic benefits. The military pays lip service to civilian control of the armed forces, but threatens another coup anytime the government tries to interfere with military matters.

This war has been brewing for decades, as the military became more corrupt, greedy and unreliable. While the Pakistani military exists to protect the nation, it has never won a war and actually causes more tension with powerful neighbors, making Pakistan more, not less, at risk of war. For over three decades, the military has, pretty much on its own authority, waged war with India, using Islamic terrorists. The military has taken a growing portion of the national wealth and done nothing to aid economic growth, social welfare or national security. Now, the elected officials, who are also quite corrupt, are confronting the generals. This is risky, as if the military does not agree to submit to civilian control, there could be civil war, or another period of military dictatorship. The senior officers who benefit from this sorry situation find themselves with less support, even within the military, this time around. The lower ranking troops don't do so well economically, and are exposed to family and civilian friends who are increasingly unhappy with the cost (in cash and fear) of the Pakistani armed forces.

India has all but declared victory over Pakistan in disputed Kashmir. Security officials there declared Kashmir safe enough for tourists. Indian tourists have been increasingly common over the past few years, but the "safe for tourists" comments was meant for foreign visitors, who spend a lot more money and used to make Kashmir a very prosperous place. But decades of Pakistani-supported Islamic terrorism in Kashmir destroyed the tourism industry, and much else besides. There is still terrorist violence in Kashmir. Last year, there were 183 terrorist related deaths there. But 63 percent of the dead were terrorists, and only 19 percent were civilians. The year before (2010), there were 375 deaths (72 percent terrorists, 10 percent civilians). But most of the deaths took place in remote parts of Kashmir, near the Pakistan border. Here, the Indian troops have been increasingly successful at stopping Islamic terrorists trying to sneak over from Pakistan. It may take another few years of peace before the foreign tourists flock back to Kashmir, but Indian commanders are confident they can keep their trend going.

shravan wrote:Video of Khanpur Explosion- 15 Jan 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Xzu2n32rJE

Narad wrote:Let's not dilute the fun.

Pattom wrote:At least 13 Shias killed in transformer Bomb blast during Chehlum procession

''The United States is deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in Baluchistan, especially targeted killings, disappearances and other human rights abuses,'' spokesperson Victoria Nuland continued, adding that Washington takes the allegations of human rights abuses ''very seriously'' and had discussed these issues with Pakistani officials.

The question from @cadet1081 was provocative, asking the State Department why the United States does not intervene in Baluchistan and help the Baloch achieve freedom. But Nuland was circumspect in her response, noting for now that ''This is a complex issue,'' and Washington strongly believes ''that the best way forward is for all the parties to resolve their differences through peaceful dialogue.'

SureshP wrote:The cricketer-turned politician told the magazine he had overhead instructions to kill Bengalis in 1971 when he was in Dhaka to play a cricket match. "These ears heard people saying: 'Small and dark. Kill them. Teach them a lesson'," he said. "I heard it with my own ears."

anupmisra wrote:

The cricketer-turned politician told the magazine he had overhead instructions to kill Bengalis in 1971 when he was in Dhaka to play a cricket match. "These ears heard people saying: 'Small and dark. Kill them. Teach them a lesson'," he said. "I heard it with my own ears."

Isn't that the same as the complicity of the average Germans who knew about the holocaust by the Nazis and the concentration camps but did not participate in the actual killings? There is an international law about this situation somewhere, I am sure. IK may have just about spoken out of turn here.

anupmisra wrote:

SureshP wrote:The cricketer-turned politician told the magazine he had overhead instructions to kill Bengalis in 1971 when he was in Dhaka to play a cricket match. "These ears heard people saying: 'Small and dark. Kill them. Teach them a lesson'," he said. "I heard it with my own ears."

Isn't that the same as the complicity of the average Germans who knew about the holocaust by the Nazis and the concentration camps but did not participate in the actual killings? There is an international law about this situation somewhere, I am sure. IK may have just about spoken out of turn here.

ISLAMABAD: Intercepted militant radio communications indicate the leader of the Pakistani Taliban may have been killed in a recent US drone strike, Pakistani intelligence officials said Sunday. A Taliban official denied that.

The claim that the Pakistani Taliban chief was killed came from officials who said they intercepted a number of Taliban radio conversations.

In about a half a dozen intercepts, the militants discussed whether their chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed on Jan. 12 in the North Waziristan tribal area. Some militants confirmed Mehsud was dead, and one criticized others for talking about the issue over the radio.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Asimullah Mehsud denied the group’s leader was killed and said he was not in the area where the drone strike occurred.

In early 2010, both Pakistani and American officials said they believed a missile strike had killed Hakimullah Mehsud along the border of North and South Waziristan. They were proved wrong when videos appeared showing him still alive.

Anurag wrote:Someone posted this in the previous thread, just making sure it comes through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26lC3A7d ... r_embedded#!

Ambar wrote:Hakimullah Mehsud reportedly killed in drone strike!

Brad Goodman wrote:

Anurag wrote:Someone posted this in the previous thread, just making sure it comes through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26lC3A7d ... r_embedded#!

One interesting comment he made was. Pakjabis hate Punjabi language and which translates into them hating every one who loves their mother tongue (Sindhi, Baloch & Pashtu). They have inferiority complex with Punjabi language. We should explore this point. Bajwa ji, Surinder ji you guys are much closer to Punjab & culture to dissect this than most of us can you please take a look

CRamS wrote:Boss, are you naive or what? What the f$%ck is "international law" BS?

Dipanker wrote:

anupmisra wrote:Isn't that the same as the complicity of the average Germans who knew about the holocaust by the Nazis and the concentration camps but did not participate in the actual killings? There is an international law about this situation somewhere, I am sure. IK may have just about spoken out of turn here.

Yes and he is not the only one, there are 100,000 of them Paki genociders who India first save from the Bangladeshis lusting for revenge and then let them go practically scot free. India should have left these savage barbarians in the hand of Bangladeshis who would have butchered them all.

anupmisra wrote:

CRamS wrote:Boss, are you naive or what? What the f$%ck is "international law" BS?

CRamS, what's your problem?

Really! Can you not indulge in a decent discussion with others without shooting off your mouth first? Although your point was clearly spelled out in the second half of your response, and it almost matches mine, do you have to, at the first get-go, go out of your way in all your opening arguments to convince others that you are a jerk? Can you not accept others' points of view as theirs and state yours, and leave it at that? You seem to have made it your goal in life to get on the wrong side of almost everyone on this fora.

Altair wrote:Check out India map in http://maps.google.co.in/
There is no LOC. Entire J&K state is shown as part of India.