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Pls note that Masadi sb has been banned and so cannot respond to you.

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Re: # 74...lol..............
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Re: # 73; hamidm sahib

at least he is getting published ... and we are spared the randi rona (praise the moon-god) ... that's a small price to pay for the constant whining before

masadi mian,

..... sorry it took me this long to post my comments, but i read your article ten fifteen times and still don't understand a word of what you are trying to say ..... either i am stupid, or you are a mad man ..... i like to think that you are a looney .... but, i might be wrong

Living hell of trapped bodies after blast..THE NEWS
PESHAWAR: As the wounded tried to flee, they were engulfed in flames and buried alive by falling masonry. With one deafening boom, a congested Pakistan street full of women and children was transformed into hell.

“It was like a massive earthquake. Everything in my shop fell on me. There was so much smoke. When everything fell on me I passed out,” clothes shop owner Ali Akhbar told AFP from his hospital bed in the city Peshawar.

Rescue workers fished out charred bodies from the debris where a woman was buried in the rubble near a mosque, three buildings and five cars that were destroyed in scenes of armageddon, an AFP reporter said.

Bodies were trapped under huge slabs of concrete and crumbling bricks, the slow rescue heavily constrained by the collapsed buildings, pushing the death toll ever higher as cranes were mobilised to pluck survivors to safety.

The smouldering wreckage was devastating testament to a routine shopping trip or a pleasurable day out turned into bloody carnage for scores of ordinary families in the historic city of Peshawar and the largest northwest.

“I saw a flash of blue and white light and I was thrown to the other side of the street. I’m surprised I’m alive,” said Shahid Khan, 15, who was standing with a popcorn cart on the side of the road when the bomb went off.

“My entire shop fell on me. Smoke filled my face,” said Raza Ali, 30, a grocery store owner whose face was badly burnt.Crowds ran screaming down alleys in the market place, desperate to get away from the congested Meena market, fearing that a second bomb could explode. Others lifted out the casualties, their clothes splattered with blood.

“I was inside my shop. All of a sudden, there was a huge blast. It was dark everywhere. The roof of my shop fell on me, trapping me in the debris. Then I don’t know what happened,” said another survivor in hospital.

Television footage showed harrowing images. A young man was seen biting his fingers in disgust watching his shop and livelihood go up in flames.Another person in the crowd repeatedly shouted out name of a loved one, his panic rising with the passing silence. Some were seen rushing out with bundles of their belongings loaded on their backs.

The agony of loss was overwhelming at the hospital, where survivors wept over dead loved ones, crying into mobile phones, with staff struggling to cope with each new consignment of casualties as a state of emergency was declared.
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Masadi sahib anyone who says something against cruel ignorant Taliban you label them as CIA employees,today barbarian Taliban killed 105 people in Peshawar,what was their crime,were they CIA'S employees too? Terrorists showed their ugliest faces by targeting women and children in Peshawar. According to reports, 70 women and children were killed and 25 suffered injuries.
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Re: # 69

Dost sahib:

A short story called "Shatranj ke Khiladi" by Munshi Premchand. It is very apt and applicable don't you think?

Yesterday's news on CNN was that Obama administration has got budget approved to pay dollars to buy Teliban (presumably good Taliban). West's strategy as I have often stated here, is to create a sustainable "Chaotic Buffer" so that terror acts can be contained in that area. British did that earlier in that part of the world.

KHYBER:

"The military acknowledges that it has struck deals with two other militant factions, both Mehsud rivals who focus their attacks in Afghanistan. Displacing the Taliban might empower those groups, some analysts said."

The amazing thing is that, despite a multitude of such reports, there are deluded Pakistanis who think that the civilian govt. and army are now of one mind in cleansing Pakistan of all jehadis. If they are of one mind, it is only that they have this notion of anti- and pro-taleban (thanks zee!). And there is no better way of doing so that calling some taleban as hindu and zionist agents. Works like a charm!

Cheema sahib: i did not red-flag your posts. if you have anything substantive to say please say it - dont just parrot trite gora phrases ("cuckooland") and think that proves anything other than what i said below about your emitting nothing but gas.

Re: # 53
haneef...
who will give chance?
If Pakistan tries to maintain military balance with India, it will never be able to find an effective democracy...
The other factor, which will hinder progress is traditional islamic value system...If you allow civilians to use arms, you are bound to bring trouble to yourself...In that respect both muslas and Communists are real danger for democracy....

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cheema sahib: thanks for the character certification (I shall frame it and place it on the wall), since you have nothing to contribute to the discussion other than gas, I will have to wish you a nice day and last post.

some of us are foolish enough to take events in Pakistan seriously, rather than watching in amusement from a safe distance.

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#61 cheema sahib: such modesty on top of such...er...stratrospheric enlightenment!!

like I attempted to clarify for the benefit of your friend on UP, I am only as 'khandani' as you are sir