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India: The Empire Strikes Back

William Dalrymple August 21, 2007

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#104 Posted by risingstar on November 24, 2007 4:49:57 pm
It is so interesting to have a read that Mukesh Ambani's networth is more than twice the fiscal budget of Pakistan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Pakistan

For Mukesh Ambani's networth, just google, internet is full of results.

A few such individuals can truly run national budgets of other states in south asia...truly amazing!!
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#103 Posted by tahmed32 on August 24, 2007 8:21:28 am
jayp: does a scientist discuss anything with a mental patient other than to help the latter get well? of course not.

should i discuss anything with a self-proclaimed "paki basher" like you beyond recommending he get mental help? of course not. so, dont write "serious posts" to me.
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#102 Posted by tahmed32 on August 24, 2007 8:10:48 am
Santani: "muhajirs" in pakistan include Edhi and a lot of other fine people, not just mqm and their supporters. So, dont just switch from "paki-bashing" to "muhajir-bashing" assuming I will join you in this crap.

Dont they teach you indian boys anything beyond bashing one damn community or another?
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#101 Posted by Sanatani on August 24, 2007 2:42:15 am
Re: # 95

Masadi please refer to Chacha as Sir when you abuse him. As in Sir Slave of West etc.
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#100 Posted by Sanatani on August 24, 2007 2:41:32 am
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#99 Posted by jayp on August 24, 2007 2:03:45 am
tahmed 89,

Thanks tahmad, now I can better understand you and you do not abuse any one on chowk, where the word abuse is a punjabi word.

Pathetic you are. Some honesty, well that cannot be a pakistani idea, because if all that one can do is to be obedient to the book, then there is no concept of individuality and hence honesty.

Then agian what is abuse for a pakistani, there can be nothing other than blasphemy which is the only crime against teh state.

tahmed, you are a well and truly k for kafir educated pakistani punjabi
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#98 Posted by arjun2 on August 23, 2007 8:38:27 pm
Uh-oh..the kuldip nayyar clones won't be happy..

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/23/business/AS-FIN-COM-India-N okia.php

Nokia plans to make India its global export hub

NEW DELHI: Nokia Corp. Thursday said it plans to make its manufacturing plant in India, now the second-largest market for its handsets, a global hub for exports.

"We are exporting to 58 countries from the India plant and we are looking at this (unit) as a global plant for global operations," President and Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told reporters.

Nokia, which set up a phone making plant near the southern city of Chennai in 2006, has already made 60 million handsets in 18 months, Kallasvuo said.

The world's largest handset maker by volume also said India has already over taken the United States to emerge as the largest market for Nokia handsets, after China, he said citing data for the first half of the year.

"Out of 185 million mobile phone users in India, 85 million use Nokia phones," said D. Shivkumar, managing director at Nokia's India unit said.

India's mobile market is one of the fastest growing in the world, fueled by low tariffs and rising middle-class incomes.
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#97 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on August 23, 2007 1:11:02 pm
For the record, please note that there are many Punjabis who don't abuse - a few of them even visit Chowk. :)
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#96 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on August 23, 2007 1:09:19 pm
{"Long live Masadi Sahib. "}

Masadi Sahib,
That was NOT a typo. I was merely agreeing with Madani Sahib for supporting you - ever since Lal Masjid, I have a better appreciation for your viewpoint. :)
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#95 Posted by masadi on August 23, 2007 12:05:44 pm
Madani sahib, thanks for your continual support, May Allah bless you with ever increasing knowledge...
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#94 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on August 23, 2007 12:00:05 pm
#88 Madani Sahib,
I have never read any abuse that can be attributed to you, kind Sir. I have always found you to be polite yet very direct, blunt, and sometimes brutally honest. You have a unique way of circumventing bullshit and laying the blame squarely where it belongs. I honestly look up to your sense of what is right and what is wrong. Please do continue to post in your inimitable style. More power to you and don't ever let rejection by the opposition affect your views. Long live Masadi Sahib.
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#93 Posted by laddu on August 23, 2007 6:53:07 am
...it was a movement for 'the rights of muslims...


The rights of "muslims" are with respect to Quran and Hadiths only......"muslimness" is always with respect to Quran and Hadith-- it is essentially a religious identity-- to deny that is only taquiyya.
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#92 Posted by Dash_Dot on August 23, 2007 6:40:03 am
tahmed32 not good enuf.....you have to abuse in the choicest of Panjabi adjectives tracing their ancestry in somewhat incestous terms and establishing conjugal relations netween them and their family and relatives with no discrimination to sex

you poonjabi or what?
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#91 Posted by tahmed32 on August 23, 2007 6:22:32 am
oye Sanatani bhayryaa: oye ^%*&*^!! TooN panjabi fraternity toN maenoo kadan ayaaN??!! oye *&(&&dya maiN taynooN fraternity toN kad kay madani bhayya di &***& tay soot maraaaN ga, oye!!!

:-)
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#90 Posted by Sanatani on August 23, 2007 2:20:20 am
Oye Tahmadiya,

Teri Pan**, Maaa***,teeh** nu &*&^%%*&(+|.

If u do not abuse you are not Punjabi. Pls remember in Undivided Panjab all ICS had to learn Panjabi from a book called "Panjabi Baat Cheet", which was nothing but a compendium of abuses. Towards the end of his learning Panjabi the Munshi would ask the Gora ICS (later Gujju, Bangali and Tamil etc also) that it is said (by other people) that Panjabis are an uncouth and uncultured race and the new Rangroot would have to abuse such People in the choicest of Panjabi adjectives tracing their ancestry in somewhat incestous terms and establishing conjugal relations netween them and their family and relatives with no discrimination to sex. The Munshi would beam and sign on his Pass Book passed.

Since you and DM do not abuse you are expelled from our fraternity. Zeemax will put you in a gas chamber in Pak and i will do the same here.

Or else you can do tauba, reaffirm your faith and do Nikaah with your wife again.

Teri Maa**&^, Teri Paan __)(*(*, Teri teeh #@#&*(,

Sanatani
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#89 Posted by tahmed32 on August 22, 2007 10:10:09 pm
mr. madani: i am panjabi and i dont abuse. dost mittar is panjabi and he doesnt abuse. there are a gazillion panjabis who dont abuse.

so perhaps you need to re-evaluate your statement about you being urdu-speaking and therefore non-abusive and your uncalled for negative remarks about panjabis. please refrain from such stupid stereotyping - duh!!
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