Musharraf Spilling the Beans—Why Now?

#137 by bongdongs

Abey bongey ... looks like you missed that comment by Kaalchakra that Muslims are never concerned about `bread and butter` issues. That is the sole pursuit of macacas.

#139 by hamidm2

Buddy .. if you had asked if I had ever been to Miranshah, it would have been an appropriate question .. !

Or better yet .. if you had asked if I had ever been to Jalalabad and Kabul would have been an even better question ...

To further add to my views on Iran. Economic performance should be measured by the standards of what is possible for that country. Iran is a blessed country today, a young well-educated workforce (with incresing numbers of women in workforce). A massive endowment of natural wealth not just in oil but in the emerging gas trade. In addition to LNG, GTL Iran should be a natural hub for all energy intensive industries like Aluminium. Oil/Gas pipelines from CA states should be criss-crossing Iran on their way to massive oil terminals/LNG plants at Bandar Abbas and onwards to India/Pakistan.

But watch the difference between US allies like Qatar and UAE (countries with little intellectual capital) and Iran and see how much of a an influence America still has on the world.

#142 by bongdongs

True. Only that Iran will never import russian and chinese streetwalkers to encourage foreign investment. But you obviously don`t know what I`m talking about.

#122. Just a correction here. Jinnah was born in Thatta Sindh (some historians state his birth place as Karachi) and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was born in Nao Dero, Larkana, Sindh. In other words both these gentlemen were from Sindh which is part of Pakistan and not India.

Re: # 146

salim mian,

`` irrational reactions to well-intentioned provocations`` ...... i love that !

..... lately i have been busy trying to prop up the capitalist system which is seriously threatened by professor masadi and his minions and have not been paying much attention to what is going on - has the pope finally declared war against the infidels ? ........... now that orianna is dead, i am thinking of applying for her position as the great defender of western civilization and personal hygiene and am looking for a few good men (and women) to help me in this task ..........

Hamidumdum2 #133 {``........... also, i have taken note of salim mian`s attempt to defame mrs hamidm and will respond at the appropriate time ............ however, i must clarify that unlike the wives and concubines of other great muslims, she was not captured in battle and her father and brother are still alive with their heads attached to their bodies ...............``}

Hamidumdum Sahib,
I apologize for your extreme reaction to my innocent suggestion that you may have uttered the referenced quote from Lt. Gen Khalid Bin Valid (RA, MBBS, DDS) as your marriage proposal to Mrs. Hamidumdum2. As to the good news about the preservation of your brothers-in-law`s and father-in-law`s heads, I am glad to note that they were not part of the German opera. In this age of irrational reactions to well-intentioned provocations, we need a constant dialogue to preclude violence. Thank you, sir and my regards to the Mrs. :)

Re: # 141

zeemax,

..... actually you don`t have to go to miranshah or jalalabad to see the scourge of talibanization - you can simply go to raja bazar, dhok piran faqiran, or saddar bazar in rawalpindi ..........

........... forty years ago my grandmother and her sister, who lived on gurdat singh road in quetta, would walk to the nearby cinema without a burqa to see the matinee show at least once a week ........... last year there were hardly any women on the street, and the few that were out were all cloaked in a gobi burqa - white or blue ............ my gandmother`s sister, who is in her nineties, sadly said, ``my great grand daughters cannot go out like we used to because of the taliban`` ............... as she said that, she looked over at her bearded grandson chewing on his islamic twig and then looked over at her son`s potrait on the wall - a handsome clean shaven man in a striped suit who had been a professor at the local college ......... and the cancer will continue to spread unless radical surgery is carried out with daisy cutters ..........

zeemax cares about butter issues..he cares about how he can disguise explosive gels as butter in his pursuit of 72 virgins...

#147 by hamidm2

All I can say to this is that this is what happens when you keep pushing people into a corner and keep using them and discarding them and insulting them ... then they become vicious and rebellious and form an identity completely contrary to yours.

As for Taliban, they`re fine people. They`ll just not be pushed anymore. That`s all.

#132
``From what I have heard, Pak establishment leads a very ``unislamic`` lifestyle that is both lavish and full of vices including liquor, women etc. Yet the same establishment sees no hypocisy in supporting the Taliban for Afghanistan. Putting morality aside, even from a practical point of view, having a Talibanized Afghanistan will destabilize Pakistan itself by increasing jihadi violence in Pakistan and by becoming a center for international terror - not to mention a completely ruined economy in Afghanistan that would depend on Pak handouts.``


As long as they can profit from the heroin, send their daughters to the best Ivy League schools and drink to the successes of the Taliban in the finest contraband, Pak support for the Taliban qualifies to be called a `principled` stand. If the narcotics industry can buy politicians and state officials with their profits, just think how much newspaper propaganda they can buy to eulogize the Taliban. It is the economy stupid.

#150 by hamidm2

As I had advised you earlier, Buchwald would be a better choice than Fallaci who was just a bigot finally consigned to hell!

some people, and zeemax is amongst them, will never be happy till all the worlds non-muslims are exterminated and everything he considers unislamic.

They are giving us warning here of their intentions (see any of his posts (from 130 upwards). Should we ignore these facists dressed up in relgious garb.

They are facists first and foremost. nothing more than little Hitlers. Unfortunately they are in the process of highjacking religion for their nefarious works.

#156 So, Hamidm wins in this battle against the scourge against humanity!! Congratulations, hamidm.

many years ago i travelled from uk to pakistan by road, and i travelled through afghanistan, believe me they were living in stone age, i suppose that`s the price you pay for avoiding colonialism. what they need is 20+ years of nato presence and massive capital investment to bring modernity.