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The Quest for American Popularity in Pakistan

Saleem Ali March 16, 2006

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#254 Posted by khalid_ahmad on March 20, 2006 10:23:24 am

Pakis are like the hyenas in the movie Lion King - in their nature, voice, attitude, everything. If you want to explain Pakis to children, simply rent out Lion King from Blockbuster and show them the hyenas.

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#253 Posted by arjun_m on March 20, 2006 9:55:42 am
#250 by zeemax on March 20, 2006 7:57am PT

They`ll drop the dime on him...just give it time..They`re pakis, aren`t they...on one hand they complain about ``abuses`` at gitmo and on the other hand they demand a fair payment for putting most of the gitmo inmates in gitmo..
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#252 Posted by jang on March 20, 2006 8:12:18 am
#250 good point..

more likely the pashtuns are not selling out...someone from pakistani agencies tipped off the americans (and got money), and someone (same or other) siumltaneously tipped off the al-quaida, and the tribal family was a mere pawn in the well-practiced game of running with the hares and hunting with the hounds.
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#251 Posted by pokershark on March 20, 2006 8:07:18 am
Tahmed: Gujju Bania normally does not write long posts like this even though he is also a lying injun obsessed with Pakistan. This must be Sadna.
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#250 Posted by zeemax on March 20, 2006 7:57:08 am
#246 by arjun_m

You`re assuming that for most pakis, islamist causes trump the values of their mothers..

No .. I mean really ... let`s walk through this argument .. Al-Zawahiri invited to a house in Bajaur ... to have pulao with barbecued lamb .. apparently he`s a regular there otherwise he wouldn`t agree to come ... a $25 million walking goldmine ... he`s tipped off and doesn`t show up and the Americans decimate the house as well as the sheep meant for dinner ... but no Al-Zawahiri .. The drones require a ground source to home in .. someone from within that household tipped Zawahiri off that he had been betrayed ... The moms and the kids died .. sure.

So I`m not assuming anything. You just proved my point. For Jehadis $25 million and their own families mean nothing.
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#249 Posted by tahmed32 on March 20, 2006 7:34:58 am
pokershark: khalid_ahmed is not sadna, but gujjubania in his latest incarnation. :-)
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#248 Posted by pokershark on March 20, 2006 7:17:37 am
Why is Sadna pasting as khalid_ahmad now. Pathetic.
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#247 Posted by khalid_ahmad on March 20, 2006 7:16:23 am

Q: What do you think of the criticism that the agreement creates a double standard that will encourage rogue nations to continue to pursue nuclear weapons?

A: When people are talking about a double standard, it gives the impression that there are lots of meritorious candidates out there and suddenly we have given the nod to one of them. If other countries are prepared really to get into a serious nonproliferation effort, which in a way approaches what India has done, then they might deserve some recognition, too. And in any event, they may deserve at least the idea of an international regime that allows them to buy the nuclear materials for the public use, for electricity, peaceful use as opposed to military use if they`re prepared to take international inspection and adhere to those standards.

Q: How potentially problematic is the fact that eight of India`s nuclear reactors would not be subject to inspection?

A: This is a subject of concern because India does have a nuclear military program. They have at least had a test or maybe more. . . . The Indians I think fairly point out that there is no evidence that they have in any way shared that knowledge or proliferated any materials to anybody else. It would appear to me that if the international committee has inspectors at at least 14 other reactors and others that may grow up, there is a presence in the country that perhaps is salutary with regard to security. This is a good bit further along than the international community has presently.

In the fullness of time, India may decide that it does not wish to develop nuclear weapons. But Indians for the moment would say that they have as a very big neighbor, China, and furthermore, a more erratic neighbor, Pakistan. There will have to be considerable negotiation and evolution before they feel, in terms of their own security, that they`re prepared to give all that up. At this point they are not. So we will finally have to make a judgment as to whether our relationship with India is enhanced by the type of arrangement that Secretary Rice and others have negotiated out there.

Question: What are your biggest concerns as you review this agreement?

Answer: The issues that would lead me to be most favorable toward this is, first of all, that India, in the course of the last several years, has become a major player economically and politically in the world. Ultimately, (it) will have the largest population of any country, and it does have a working democracy, and it has potential compatibility with our democracy and democracies around the world that are important for our mutual trust and security. It`s a tie -- strategic, political, economic -- that is important for us to do and to do well.

The dilemma obviously is that India developed a bomb with no word to the rest of the world, as did Pakistan right after that. And that has been a source of deep concern for the nonproliferation community.
If I`m finally satisfied that the new strategic relationship is in the best interest of our country, that there are considerable if not complete safeguards with regard to nuclear fuel, and that a substitution of nuclear for hydrocarbons is likely to come of this, then I`m likely to favor the legislation. But I`ve been cautious prior to getting the record and the testimony.

Q: How hard will it be to get Congress to go along with the agreement?

A: I don`t know at this point. I think it is an extremely complex issue in which some members may start with a bias with regard to India or with regard to international affairs altogether. I think we`re in a period in which some members -- I wouldn`t say have become isolationists/protectionists, but they, for the moment, are very suspicious of international agreements.

But my guess is that in due course, a majority of members of the Senate . . . are probably going to come down on the side of the legislation.

Q: Why has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to support this?

A: They believe that it`s an enormous source of jobs and new wealth for American industry. The suppliers of both the technical as well as the hardware for all of this will come in large part from America if we are competitive. . . . It does open up to the industry of the United States apparently an extraordinary amount of new exports and new business.

Q: The administration appears to have consulted more closely with you and other lawmakers than they have on other foreign policy issues. Is that correct?

A: It`s been a very, very different story from the very beginning. I attended the state dinner for the prime minister of India, to begin with, on the day that they really came to the agreement. . . . From then on, we have been hearing about the India situation from somebody in the administration continuously. From India, (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Nick Burns) called me to indicate that, although they were not at liberty to talk over unsecured phones, that they wanted me to know that they felt an important breakthrough had occurred in the negotiations. I think that probably does signify a very different approach to these affairs.

Q: What should the Islamic Republic of Pakistan do to get a similar deal?
A: Ghaas khate jao, chabate jao. Eat still more grass. If the goats have already eaten all the grass, you gotta order some Chinese. MSG or no MSG.

Interview with Sen. Lugar
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#246 Posted by arjun_m on March 20, 2006 7:02:27 am
#237 by zeemax on March 19, 2006 11:21pm PT

You`re assuming that for most pakis, islamist causes trump the values of their mothers..
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#245 Posted by pokershark on March 20, 2006 5:57:48 am
Tahmed32 - hahahaha good one. You got these CREIPS real good.
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#244 Posted by tahmed32 on March 20, 2006 5:51:08 am
pokershark: Pakistan Zindabad!!

Once again, indians have proved no match despite their numbers. they are no match for young faisaluno, and all they can do is spin around in circles, writing lengthy posts, spitting insults. poor arjun spent his entire weekend trying to match faisaluno, and now his job with the Indian Government is at stake.
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#243 Posted by pokershark on March 20, 2006 5:35:24 am
Mashallah Faisaluno you are doing a great job defeating Injuns and pointing out why Pakistan is a far superior developed country.
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#242 Posted by einsteinwallah on March 20, 2006 5:08:49 am
Pakistan will remain into forseeable future a semi-jihadic state and it will be forced to whore for US. Its relation with US will remain ambivalent like of a whore who cannot make up her mind about whether she loves her client.
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#241 Posted by faisaluno on March 20, 2006 4:25:59 am

retard, see this article? there is a source for it. we will take this further once you provide a source to your article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,866383,00.html


In India, 690 million people have no access to proper sanitation. The result: 150,000 die from water-related diseases every year...

But for the residents of Bells Colony, a slum in southern India, it is a daily battle. The main enemy is the pig. The colony has no latrines, and so every morning the slum-dwellers troop off into the dense green thornbushes to relieve themselves. This is not a pleasant experience. The pigs flourish amid the excrement, and have been known to attack small children. Then there are the snakes. ``There are lots of them lurking in the bushes. You have to make sure they don`t bite you,`` one slum-dweller, Mrs Valli, explained.

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#240 Posted by herono1 on March 20, 2006 4:15:54 am
Faisaluno,
Pakistan`s very clean hospitals and very clean Pakistan-read about it on chowk.
Loss of two precious lives
Yahya Noori
March 9, 2006


I was dragging myself with a very heavy heart. I knew her for more than five years and now she was in the ICU of Agha Khan University Hospital struggling for her life. When I reached there, the news I feared was waiting for me. Doctors had confirmed her brain death and friends told me that she was even bleeding from her eyes. I did not have the courage to stay there, so I came back after some time. The same night at her funeral, we were not even allowed to shoulder the coffin as her body was tightly sealed and kept on a truck.

Dr. Yusra Afaq, a charming lady, a brilliant student and a nice friend parted from us on the 20th of November 2005. The cause of her death was presumably “Viral Hemorrhagic Fever,” a deadly disease, which she probably contracted while working as a house officer at Civil Hospital Karachi in the ENT department. She was only 25 years of age and had just married about three months back. Her death was shocking for all of the people who knew her. The house officers were furious at the attitude of the hospital authorities, who said that they were not “officially” informed about such an incident. They immediately went on a strike, which continued for almost a week and ended, when the health secretary ensured that all necessary measures would be taken to improve the environment of CHK and an infectious disease unit and isolation ward would be established at CHK.

This was not the first incident and about two months back another doctor Dr. Zia Siddiqui, a senior Post graduate trainee at Neurosurgery had died of the same cause. The authorities said that this was a normal phenomenon that these cases do occur in the months of October to December, but irony of fate was that nobody on the frontlines was notified to take the precautions. Had they been notified, it is possible that loss of such precious lives could have been prevented.

At this time, CHK remains the breeding home of cats, dogs, rats and all the other pests which one can imagine. It can become an epicenter of any outbreak in the city and remains a threat to the environment of the localities and to all who work there. The conditions remain the same and the patients continue to arrive with bleeding from different orifices of their bodies. Perhaps the authorities are waiting for some more deaths to take some necessary action.
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#239 Posted by khalid_ahmad on March 20, 2006 1:18:01 am

Where is bin Laden?

H E R E


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