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The Quest for American Popularity in Pakistan

Saleem Ali March 16, 2006

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#158 Posted by zeemax on March 18, 2006 2:17:59 pm
#157 by aquaris

Yes aquaris. Most of the best interactors have already left because of the very same reason. I had once tried to bring up this issue with the editors but they felt they couldn`t impose censorship because that would be against the very concept of having a Chowk.
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#157 Posted by aquaris on March 18, 2006 1:52:37 pm
its really getting frustrating, and irritating....


EVERY Topic and I mean In Every topic.....!!


Question: Why are these Indians Jumping up and down...
A gang of these indians not only posts similiar .... But some time the Same post
in any topic they find.... with the word.... no no not just the word... But a hint to the Word Muslim or Pakistani.....!!

Now this is really irritating...!!

We visit chowk to enjoy a good discussion, not this hate filled, troll stuff.... not in One or two But in every TOPIC......while the Indians GANG up...or may be they belong to an organization whose sole purpose is to `` INFLAME `` .....some Pakistanis retaliate....mostly out of this frustration....

Its really a waste of good bandwidth.... and will drive away any good debate... as every Topic and I really Mean every Topic becomes a Mud slinging Match....
with the Organizational gangs of Indians....at one end... and a lone or two pakistanis at the other end....


I mean the Editors should really look into it....!! ...its not good.... Not good...


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#156 Posted by HP on March 18, 2006 1:38:12 pm

#100 by sadna
#98
”You don`t get the point and don`t get it even after 60 years. Indian Muslims are Indians not Pakistani stooges.”

I got to agree with Sadna that Indian Muslims are Indian first and last and they should not be taken as Pakistani stooges.

But…The communalism is an Indian problem that has created a major fault line in the Indian nation and it is obvious as Dost Mitter implied in one of his posts that the majority community’s attitude towards Muslims certainly borders on racism and there must be lots of built up resentment in the Muslim community in India.

I just don’t know why and how it would not be a good policy to take advantage of a bad situation in India. So if Pakistan can, it should concentrate on this Indian vulnerability. Since communalism and Hindu- Muslim divide in India is an Indian problem and if it offers an opportunity for Pakistan, then Pakistani should go for it and see what results come out of that. If that leads to communal strife in India, then that is an Indian problem and they should have dealt with in the last 60 years. Since they did not, I think it is a good tactical move to exploit that vulnerability.

India did exploit a similar situation in East Pakistan when Bengali and Punjabi Pakistani had a power struggle back in 1971. So the precedent is there and there is no harm in testing the waters by Pak agencies to see what results a persistent effort (for at least one year) in Indian cities brings out. :)


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#155 Posted by zeemax on March 18, 2006 1:32:41 pm
well ... Faisluno won no doubt .. but I gotta say .. all Indians are not badboodaar ... at-least not that girl in Jakarta ... but I guess she was a Sikhni anyway .. no hindu ..
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#154 Posted by arjun_m on March 18, 2006 1:21:02 pm
Sheesh...what part of NO isn`t clear, huh?

Jehangir pleads for ‘package’ for both India, Pakistan

Washington—Stating that “this is not the time for an imbalance” in the South Asian region,” Ambassador Jehangir Karamat Saturday pleaded “there should be a package for both countries, and not country-specific deals on a subject as critical as nuclear technology.”
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#153 Posted by arjun_m on March 18, 2006 1:02:03 pm
#151 by hamidm2 on March 18, 2006 12:20pm PT


it seems this bpo/ito stuff has gone to their heads ..


That ``stuff``, besides earning a lot of money and creatign a lot of jobs, has put India on the map..

What`s Pakiland`s name most commonly associated with today? that`s right...it`s where the jihadis are from...

Indians have every right to be proud..
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#152 Posted by zeemax on March 18, 2006 12:58:05 pm
#125 by Mantolives

Yaar very interesting. Hugh Grant is off with Jemima ... and what is his long time flame Elizabeth Hurley doing with Imran Khan in Pakistan??? Tit for Tat I guess ...
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#151 Posted by hamidm2 on March 18, 2006 12:20:51 pm
Re: # 148

...... faisal mian,

.... you are right ...... of late i have noticed that a lot of indians are walking around with swollen heads too big for their pugrees and some are getting a little too big for their dhotis (and i don`t mean th at as a compliment to their masculinity !) ............. it seems this bpo/ito stuff has gone to their heads ...... i don`t grudge them thie new found place under the sun after centuries of squatting by the roadside, but this by no means gives them the right to be hateful towards fellow roadside squatters from the right side of the border .........

........... but i am an optimist and one of these days, after we have managed to get rid of goons in khaki and their halwa brigades, the pakis should be able to pay them back in spades - after all, we are better looking and kill cows to eat them .............
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#150 Posted by pokershark on March 18, 2006 12:04:44 pm
Faisaluno has been class act throughout and is only dealing with gobar gao mutra injuns hell bent on negative propoganda about Pakistan. We cannot fault him. And he has given them a good firm beating. Go faisaluno.
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#149 Posted by sadna on March 18, 2006 11:59:57 am
hamidm2#whichever
I am the one having the last laugh here. The best thing my country`s founding fathers ever did for me was to kick you whiners, freeloaders and terrorists out.The problem is now reduced to keeping you out.
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#148 Posted by faisaluno on March 18, 2006 11:26:57 am

honestly, i dont come here to fight. nor do i come here very often. but whenever i do, i find the same budboodaar indians spreading their gundagee. and since chowk-staff have no intentions of keeping this place saaf suthra, someone must so the dirty job.

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#147 Posted by hamidm2 on March 18, 2006 10:52:37 am

faisal 7 ; arjun 2

.......... i think this round goes to faisal even though he is an amateur compared to gujjubania, arjun, frau sadna and other shiv saniks at this sort of thing .......... shiv sanik?...... i might be wrong but i think that`s what they call those guys and gals with khaki shorts and big pitchforks who are out to avenge a thousand years of humiliation at the hands of turkic muslim invaders and the local converts ....... it is sad to see this display of juvenile one upmanship (or womanship) but since the dung flinging match is on i feel obliged to support the pakistani team ...........

..... good job, faisal !

p.s. typically, at this point the schoolyard brawl is setted by one of the boys pulling down his shorts to prove that he is bigger ............. frau sadna keeps the issue from being resolved in this time honored manner ...........
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#146 Posted by faisaluno on March 18, 2006 10:25:15 am

so how many indians did pakistani terrorists killed last year?

http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=338167

Encephalitis toll in eastern UP rises to 1103

The toll from Japanese Encephalitis in eastern Uttar Pradesh reached 1103 today with one more person falling prey to the deadly disease since last night, official sources said here.

A total of 4585 patients have been admitted to the BRD medical college here and district hospitals of adjoining districts since the outbreak of the disease, additional director (health) C B M Tripathi said.

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#145 Posted by arjun_m on March 18, 2006 10:19:20 am
Maybe India needs to stop giving visas to pakis seeking medical treatment in India..why is it India`s problem if Pakiland has really poor medical facilities?

PAKISTAN: Rare Congo fever kills three people

ISLAMABAD, 27 Feb 2002 (IRIN) - Three people have died in Pakistan of what health authorities suspect is a rare incidence of the highly contagious Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF).

Prof Abbas of the Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, told IRIN that the three had died in the past week, including a woman doctor who caught the virus while treating a female patient.
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#144 Posted by faisaluno on March 18, 2006 10:16:52 am

hey pakistanis, we need to check pakistanis who travel to india. otoh, some of their diseases are exotic so it might be pointless. maybe we should suspend all contacts:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050718/asp/nation/story_5002970.asp

Monkey virus breaches human barrier

Monkeys may be revered residents in temples across South Asia. But scientists have warned that a virus called SFV might jump from temple monkeys into humans.

Scientists say SFV — or simian foamy virus — does not cause disease in monkeys or humans, but they point out that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS emerged decades ago after a relatively harmless virus crossed the “species barrier” from monkeys into humans.


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#143 Posted by arjun_m on March 18, 2006 10:11:43 am
The name of the baby in the photo is Noor Fatima..

Pakistani baby bus traveller operated on in India

A two-year-old Pakistani girl who had holes in her heart and came to India on a newly resumed bus service for treatment underwent successful surgery on Tuesday, medical officials said. Surgeons in the southern Indian city of Bangalore operated on Noor Fatima for six hours to fix the two holes in her heart and a valve problem she was born with, they said. Fatima and her parents were among the passengers travelling from Pakistan to India last week on the first bus service in 18 months between the nuclear-armed neighbours. The two countries severed all transport links and came close to war over the Kashmir dispute last year. Since her arrival in New Delhi after a 13-hour journey from the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, Indians made donations and prayed for the Pakistani girl, seen as a symbol of the thaw in ties between the South Asian rivals. ``A lot of people offered prayers so that everything goes well. Their prayers have been answered,`` a spokesman for the Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital in Bangalore told Reuters.

Fatima`s father, Nadeem Sajjad, a scientist at a fertiliser company in Pakistan, said doctors at the hospital had worked hard at the operation. ``If the two countries attain peace because of this, then what can be better?`` Sajjad told Reuters. India is becoming a popular low-cost destination for complicated surgeries and medical treatment for people in its neighbourhood. But the absence of direct transport links had hit Pakistanis wanting to access such services. Flying to India through third countries is expensive. India and Pakistan are trying to build on a thaw in ties after Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in April urged talks to resolve the Kashmir dispute, the chief cause of their animosity.
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