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Afghanistan Reflections

Ras Siddiqui October 8, 2001

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#130 Posted by SameerJB on October 18, 2001 12:44:56 am
RSaxena, Zafar, Stuka and bong_dongs: You need a neutral person like me to decide between Delhi amd Mumbai hotties. Invite me to these two cities and let me judge by first hand experience. I promise not to favor Punjabis over others, although I would not mind to convert a Hyderabadi Hashmi into a proud Rajput.



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#131 Posted by Eklavya on October 18, 2001 4:30:11 am
re: bong_dongs # 133

Bong-dongs,

Attitude no doubt, but what delicious attitude...



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#133 Posted by rsaxena on October 18, 2001 12:57:10 pm
Re: dost-mittar

``The hotties in both Mumbai and Delhi are mostly Punjabis.``

I suppose you could say that, if you`re into slightly larger women :)

The hotties in Bombay are from all groups. The Parsi ones are particularly notable.

But quite frankly, neither of these cities compares to a good Scadanavian city in this regard.



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#134 Posted by stuka on October 18, 2001 12:57:10 pm
Rsaxena:

Where? Ghungroos? And aren`t Delhi babes a little chunky?

Looks like you`ve been away from Delhi a while too. I had the same problem, but I went in 99 for a couple of weeks. New Hangout is Djinns at the Hyatt.

Chunky? Well, thats the Punjabi influence. Same in Bombay Punju girls too



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#135 Posted by stuka on October 18, 2001 8:48:52 pm


But quite frankly, neither of these cities compares to a good Scadanavian city in this regard.

Well DUh

Parsis huh?

Well, I don`t know any, but I`ve heard they are very standoffish, and won`t give you any bhav if you ain`t one yerself.



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#137 Posted by rsaxena on October 18, 2001 11:55:00 pm
Re: dost-mittar

``We Punjabis like a little bit of flesh in the right places..Raquel Welch anytime over Aly Mcbeal (name?) any time....but then, you`re probably too young to know about Raquel.``

But what do you do when Raquel turns into Roseanne?

``For the same reason, we prefer italians over Scandinavians...though those luscious Italian things don`t know how to age gracefully...``

No complaints about Italians here. The images from one trip down south to Sicily can haunt you for a while ...

Oh and while we`re on this topic, don`t forget the Venezuelans.



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#138 Posted by scout on October 19, 2001 1:07:48 am
dost-mittar #142, ``We Punjabis like a little bit of flesh in the right places.``

(yeah, so do we)

oops, i`m thinking out loud.



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#139 Posted by fuzair on October 19, 2001 7:50:15 am
Re: Romair #122

Actually, Gen. Usmani`s departure was a foregone conclusion. The Army hierarchy goes like this:

COAS (General)
Vice-COAS (also General)
Deputy-COAS (Lt. Gen.)

In the absence of an officer specifically posted as VCOAS/DCOAS, the CGS is the de facto acting DCOAS. The VCOAS and DCOAS posts were both created by Gen. Zia to take some of the workload off him and were both unfilled since Aslam Baig became Chief since the Chiefs after him had no job other than his military one.

When Usmani was posted to GHQ, quite a few people expected that he would be promoted to General and made VCOAS. When he was neither promoted nor appointed VCOAS, it became clear that either there was some sort of an internal tussle as to who was to become number 2 and/or that PM wasn`t sure who he wanted as his number two and was basically clearing the decks for a reshuffle in the slightly more junior positions.

So Usmani`s departure was not a big change in so far as he was simply marking time in his new posting until PM decided how the Army high command was to be handled. However, the timing of the departure may have had something to do with the current crisis and the American`s insistence that some housecleaning be done.


Gen. Yusuf, who is not Punjabi but a Ranghar although the Ranghars are now de facto Punjabis so the distinction is moot anyway I suppose, is Musharraf`s clear heir apparent for the time being. In case anything happens to Musharraf, the VCOAS will automatically become Chief since there is no President or PM to sack him and appoint someone else. Or at least thats how it worked for Aslam Baig.

Regards.

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#140 Posted by Eklavya on October 19, 2001 10:39:11 am
re: scout # 144

Badmash :)



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#141 Posted by SameerJB on October 19, 2001 10:39:11 am
dost-mittar: How come so many Punjabis ended up in Mumbai? Movie Industry? By the way Hydrerabadi Hashmi is Tabbu and instead of proud Rajput, I meant really honorary Rajput.

Yes Punjabans are bulkier than rest at all the right and sometime wrong places. But their loose dressing up, unlike sari-clad women, they successfully hide the fatty acids. Most Punjabi women shed lots of weight beyond 40s and 50 years of age.



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#142 Posted by Lajwanti on October 19, 2001 10:39:11 am
Nuggets from the Urdu press

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Nasibo Lal in trouble

According to Khabrain, folk singer Nasibo Lal, while singing at Gujranwala Arts Council, allowed fuhush (obscene) dancers like Alisha, Khushboo and Lashana, to perform lasciviously in front of a local audience. People responded with great enthusiasm although the event was against the rules of decency. They repeatedly performed bhangra while ignoring ideology of Pakistan.

Milosevic and Osama

Historian of Afghan jehad Raja Anwar, writing in Khabrain, said that if Milosevic could be brought under trial in an international court why couldn`t Pakistan or any other state ensure that Osama bin Laden is brought before an impartial court? He could be punished only if found guilty. Raja Anwar wrote that Afghanistan had given nothing to Pakistan but kalashnikov culture and was not willing to make any concession, not even on the Durand Line.

Mufti Shamzai`s fatwa

According to Nawa-e-Waqt, Mufti Shamzai of Karachi`s Banuri Mosque issued the fatwa that when the Americans land in Pakistan his followers should immediately take over the country`s airports. Fifty thousand followers did bayat-e-jehad (pledge of war) on his hand. He said anyone fighting on the side of Christians against Islam would go to hell.

Sharif brothers part ways

According to daily Din, Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif fell apart in their hideaway in Saudi Arabia and that Shehbaz Sharif had bought a residence of his own separately from the family still led by Abbaji. The paper opined that since Shehbaz had decided to part ways with the family he may lose Saudi financial help.

Pakistan`s paradox

Renowned columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that Pakistan had a strange history of upheavals. Bhutto, a liberal, chose a fundamentalist officer General Zia for promotion to army chief, who overthrew him and converted Pakistan into a fundamentalist state. Bhutto was a secularist but spent more time banning alcohol in Pakistan and apostatising the Ahmedis to please the mullahs. The initial paradox was that Jinnah was a secular leader who was opposed by the mullahs, but later Pakistan was to be moulded in the vision of not Jinnah but mullahs. Then General Zia chose Nawaz Sharif as his heir but in 1997 he was elected for his economic policies; instead he chose to enforce shariat after coming to power. But for a man devoted to shariat he chose General Musharraf, a non-Islamist, to head the army. General Musharraf who toured the cantonments to defend Nawaz Sharif for sacking an earlier chief, was later to remove Nawaz Sharif. And an Islamist army was now ready to get rid of the jehadi mullahs and rid the state of fundamentalism. Nawaz Sharif was opposing his anti-Taliban policy from Saudi Arabia although his brother chief minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif had clearly said during his tenure that the Taliban were training the terrorists targeting Pakistani leaders.

What will Pakistan give?

Famous columnist Irshad Haqqani wrote in Jang that Pakistan and the US had discussed the matter of Pakistan`s offering landing facilities during the invasion of Afghanistan but there was no discussion on territorial rights. But General Hameed Gul, through a letter, said that he had trimmed his anti-Musharraf position when assured by him that neither land nor landing facilities would be granted to the American troops.

US to take intelligence help

Famous columnist Hussain Haqqani wrote in Jang that during the Afghan war the Americans used Pakistani intelligence to fight the Soviet Union but this cooperation was not really beneficial; but this time, he hoped, it would be more fruitful. This was a crucial point of time in the Pak-US relations.

Osama wanted me killed!

Leader of the PPP Ms Benazir Bhutto said in daily Din that Osama bin Laden paid Nawaz Sharif of the PML ten million dollars to topple her from government through the device of a no confidence vote. She said that Osama also planned to get her killed, but his plans failed twice.

Present land holding against Islam

According to daily Din, Council of Islamic Ideology came to the conclusion that the present land holdings in Pakistan were against Islam and must be undone because the child born in the house of a feudal lived in luxury while the one born in the house of a poor man was deprived. In the past, land reforms were undone by the Federal Shariat Court on the question of annexation of land without payment of market price.

Beaten up for singing `mahiya`

According to daily Pakistan a police officer ASI Shameem Gondal of Malka Hans had the habit of following a lady school teacher singing the mahiya songs of Mansoor Malangi loudly to seduce her into thinking of love. But the school teacher suddenly took off her burqa and started beating him up with her shoe. Other school girls accompanying her joined in and also beat him up with their shoes. After the beating it was discovered that one tooth of the thanedar ASI was broken but he was allowed to go only after he swore on a copy of the Quran and made the school teacher his sister.

It is not aunt`s home!

According to Nawa-e-Waqt, ex-ISI chief General Hameed Gul said that after the Taliban shot down two unmanned spy planes of the United States, the Americans were bound to run away from the battle field. He said all would soon be well because defeating the Taliban was not khala ji ka ghar (easy as being in one`s aunt`s home).

Zia wanted Afghanistan

Quoting a journalist once close to General Zia, Maqbul Sharif, daily Pakistan wrote that General Zia did not want the Russians to leave Pakistan at the end of the Afghan war. He wanted the question of a new government in Kabul resolved before their exit. In fact he wanted to send Pakistani troops to Kabul in the same manner that India had sent its troops to East Pakistan.

Jehadi organisations are fake

Quoted in Jang, ex-ISI chief General Javed Ashraf Qazi said that 90 percent of the organisations engaged in jehad in Kashmir were fake. Hew said leaders like Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Maulana Samiul Haq were interested only in amassing funds and advancing their political ends. If they were sent to Afghanistan to fight they would jump out of the bus and run away. He said in the past the Taliban were warned many times that because of them Pakistan was being labelled a terrorist state but they did not listen.

Israel did it!

Talking to daily Pakistan, Sipah Sahaba chief Maulana Azam Tariq said that those who attacked New York and Washington should be sought in Israel and India because Osama bin Laden was blameless. He said if Afghanistan was attacked he would issue fatwa for the murder of Americans and Israelis. He said America wanted to attack Pakistan`s nuclear installations while pretending to attack Afghanistan. He added that there would be civil war in Pakistan if Islamabad continued to support the Americans.

Hekmatyar will join Taliban!

Editor Ausaf Hamid Mir wrote that if Pakistan were to sever relations with the Taliban in the wake of similar action by the UAE and Saudi Arabia, it will force two offended Afghan leaders, Hekmatyar and Sayyaf, to join the Taliban and make an anti-Pakistan alliance. This new alliance will stop the advance of the Northern Alliance but Pakistan would be forever deprived of the friendship of its precious Afghan brethren.

Allah will answer Mulla Umar`s call!

According to Khabrain Mulla Umar of Afghanistan had prayed to Allah for special intervention against the American attack, as a result of which Allah had sent down a storm off the coast of Karachi as a sign. Before this, Salahuddin Ayubi had also prayed like Mulla Umar and his prayer was heard and a Christians army was caused to be gharq (sunk) by Allah.

A Lahori heir to Afghan throne speaks out!

According to daily Din, Ashraf Durrani of Lahore was discovered to be in the line of descent of Ahmad Shah Abdali Durrani who established the first Afghan empire. Ashraf Durrani formally laid claim to the throne of Afghanistan and stated that the Afghan people were not satisfied with the government of the Taliban. He also laid claim to the diamonds presently owned by the Queen of England and said that the diamond had belonged to his ancestor Shah Shuja.

Allama Iqbal`s joy

Famous historian Dr Safdar Mehmood wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that Allama Iqbal would have been overjoyed to see that the civilisation of the West was no longer obsessed by women but by a bearded man called Osama bin Laden.

Ms Mazari is anti-America

According to Ausaf, former chairman of the state-run Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad, Mr Niaz A. Naik, wrote to the Foreign Office saying that the present chairman of the institute, Dr Shireen Mazari, was anti-American and was harming the interests of Pakistan by writing against the United States. The paper said that upon an inquiry made by the Foreign Office, ex-foreign minister Agha Shahi stated that she had criticised the United States while defending the interests of Pakistan.

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#144 Posted by tahmed321 on October 19, 2001 10:39:11 am
Fuzair #145 Thanks for an informative post. So, in the line of succession we now have this Gen. Yusuf. In fact, after Zia disintegrated and after his useless successor Aslam Baig bumbled out of the army, the army has in fact had a string of four first rate individuals as COAS starting with Asif Nawaz, than Kakur, then ?? (his name slips my mind), and now PM. (I think I got that right in terms of the succession of COAS`s, but correct me if I am wrong).



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#145 Posted by anNy on October 19, 2001 12:01:52 pm
yesyes scout...but i like mine lean and mean...lots of bharam..abhor shiny bumpy muscles...byukh..

tellme...ever had a halfpunjabihalfkashmiri? im not one for `this caste has this trait` `this race this feature` but maaaan these guys are delicious...rugged and jhanglee yet very very gentlemen like...also mohajirs...very classy..bohat scrumptous

:P



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#146 Posted by bong_dongs on October 19, 2001 12:01:52 pm
``I had once a neighbour with a Venezuelan wife, put the Biblical commandment to challenge!!``

A nice chat with her in which you try to discuss something of more significance than the next sale at Macy`s would have helped you control your libido :-)



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#147 Posted by rsaxena on October 19, 2001 3:29:37 pm
Re: bong-dongs & dost-mittar

``A nice chat with her in which you try to discuss something of more significance than the next sale at Macy`s would have helped you control your libido :-)``

Forget the neighbor`s wife, I suggest a trip to Caracas. Learn a bit of Spanish and you might pass as Raul Julio Rodriguez. And if you`re married and can`t pull something like that off, my sympathies...



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#148 Posted by fuzair on October 19, 2001 5:36:32 pm
Re: Tahmad`s post on COAS

After Aslam Beg (Muhajir) the Chiefs were Asif Nawaz Janjua (Punjabi), Abdul Waheed Kakar (Pathan, though not from NWFP), Jahangir Karamat (Punjabi) and finally Pervez Musharraf (Muhajir). Of these last four, Karamat is the only one known for his intellectual ability: I`ve heard him described as being a better professor than a General and also criticized for being prone to over analyze any issue/problem (analysis paralysis?). Kakar was a considered a complete nonentity in the Army (having neither a dominant intellect nor personality) but he surprised everybody by removing both Nawaz Sharif and Ghulam Ishaq Khan, so still waters run deep, I guess. Asif Nawaz wasn`t known for his swift intellect either BUT he was known for being able to make tough decisions quickly and not flinch in carrying them out. PM, I`ve heard, has no lack of physical courage but is no Jahangir Karamat in the IQ department and that he tends to get discouraged and give up if the objective is not carried in the first assault. Who knows if any of this is true but this is the scuttlebutt in the Army.

Regards.

PS: I included the ethnicity of the last few Chiefs as a counter to the usual propaganda that the Pakistan Army is a Punjabi Army.

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