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Pakistan: A Downward Spiral?

Anjum Altaf July 30, 2007

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#56 Posted by giani_240 on August 6, 2007 2:21:29 pm
Re: # 41
Even a drowning man clutches at straws ! Zeemax, what is the matter with you.... quoting Rush in your defence ?

I thought you had said go ahead "Make my day ... we will gather ulema and teach these yanks a lesson"

Funny !!!
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#55 Posted by Urstruly on August 6, 2007 7:29:49 am
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#54 Posted by Urstruly on August 6, 2007 7:29:26 am
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#53 Posted by cliftonbridge on August 5, 2007 7:15:23 pm
we are on the same side viq ! i wasnt kidding about the affection chowkies have for their tormentors, if you stay tuned you will soon agree with me.
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#52 Posted by viqarm on August 5, 2007 6:16:33 pm
Cliftonbridge - I am thrilled to know that people in this forum are deeply in love with each other. I apologize for any misunderstanding; I certainly do not suggest that it is Chowk's fault that there is banaspati hostility between certain posters.

You are ight. The discussion here does establish our identity. Back to regularly scheduled perfectly intelligent conversation.
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#51 Posted by cliftonbridge on August 5, 2007 3:06:51 pm
viqram - such is the power of the individual that many people will still have perfectly intelligent and rational conversations with people they disagree with.

This site is dedicated to the identity of india and pakistan. Its not chowks fault that there is so much real or pretend hostility for each other in both identities.

BTW the abuse on this site is actually flirting, most of the people here have known each other for years and like each other quite a bit.
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#50 Posted by viqarm on August 4, 2007 10:16:27 pm
This is indeed one of the most thought provoking articles for Pakistanis that I have seen in this forum.

What baffles me, though, is how do you expect to have any serious discussion about the issues it raises, in this forum, given as it is to petty name calling between Indians and Pakistanis?

Please don't tell me you wrote it to just get some money from Chowk, for I don't see what else you'll get out of it.
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#49 Posted by jayp on August 4, 2007 3:24:02 am
Tribals and weapons

All talk about waziristan and the tal;iban. The tribals are one of the poorest lots in pakistan and one might wonder how they are able to get weapon. Well well, now the secret is out, they are provided by the pak army, and a major part was supplied during kargill operations as it was carried out by the tribals.

The waziristan people were provided the weapons as part of the deal to take them to kargill.
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#48 Posted by Chennai on August 2, 2007 8:09:37 am
#46 Posted by zeemax on August 2, 2007 5:55:08 am
#42/43

Did it ever occur to hindooo idiots who do nothing but c/p news reports that Pakistanis have already read the newspapers?

Really..Is this a capability statement or a capacity statement, moron...
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#47 Posted by rhh on August 2, 2007 6:19:03 am
#44

You make Pakistani Biryani sound like it's an institution, like the burqa. Maybe we ought to bomb all the bawarchis making biryani. I wonder how many beautiful women in burqas make excellent biryani?
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#46 Posted by zeemax on August 2, 2007 5:55:08 am
#42/43

Did it ever occur to hindooo idiots who do nothing but c/p news reports that Pakistanis have already read the newspapers?
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#45 Posted by Kamath on August 2, 2007 5:54:08 am
Re: # 43
Barak Obama is shooting hot gas from both sides of his mouth. He honestly believes he is the 21st century Jack Kennedy. People say lots of these BS during election time.
Kamath
01837Hrs
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#44 Posted by Kamath on August 2, 2007 5:50:45 am
Re: # 42 and Anjum Altaf:

Sirs: The statement,"..Pakistan is not on a downward spiral. for the first time in the history of islam..." is highly exaggerated. You people give a false impression that 'the sky is falling kind of doomsday scnario. These troubled times will be over and may turn out to be only footnotes of history.

BTW I stull think Pkistani Biriyani is still one of the best. Women when out of Burkha can still be very beautiful. What else do you need in life?

Kamath
0833HRs
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#43 Posted by Chennai on August 2, 2007 5:40:14 am
Pakiland's way of drumming support from the Democrats ...

Pakistan slams 'ignorant' Obama threat Article

August 02, 2007 08:57pm
PAKISTAN accused Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama of "sheer ignorance" today for threatening to launch US military strikes against al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil.

Mr Obama warned today that if he is elected president, he would order US forces to hit extremist targets on Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan if embattled military ruler President Pervez Musharraf failed to act.

"Such statements are being made out of sheer ignorance," Pakistan's Minister of State for Information, Tariq Azeem, said.

"They are not fully apprised about the ground realities and not aware of the efforts by Pakistan."

Islamabad has bristled against a string of similar threats in recent weeks by the administration of US President George W. Bush, whose top counter-terror official in July refused to rule out US strikes in Pakistan.

Mr Musharraf, struggling to contain a wave of Islamist violence unleashed by the army's bloody storming of the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad three weeks ago, himself firmly rejected any US action last week.

"We have said before that we will not allow anyone to infringe our sovereignty," Mr Azeem said.

"If there is any actionable intelligence they should tell us and only our forces will take action on it and they are quite capable of it."

The minister suggested that Mr Obama's comments were prompted by Washington's inability to curb the ongoing Taliban insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan, where US-led forces toppled the hardline regime in late 2001.

"This seems to be a reaction to their own failure in Afghanistan to control the US casualties and instead of addressing the situation there, they are finding scapegoats and damaging their own cause," Mr Azeem added.

Pakistan foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam today warned against "point-scoring" by US presidential candidates on vital security issues.

Mr Musharraf abandoned Islamabad's support for the Taliban in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the US.

He has said that a top US official warned that Pakistan would be bombed back to the "stone age" if it failed to join Washington's "war on terror".

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#42 Posted by jayp on August 2, 2007 3:34:29 am
Pakistan is not on a downward spiral. for the first time in the history of islam, the jihadis have become an assdet for pakistan. They collected billions from the americans to create the jihadis.

Now they are collecting billions to kill them off. The latest is helicopter gun ship attack on their own citizens, termed militants and the americans are going to pay for that. Even 100 dollars per jihadi is a good money there are millions to be killed.

They have even caught a few al quida guys in quetta. When the pressure on pakistan goes up, they kill a few of their own and collect the bounty money.

It is easy money for the pakistanis, at the givernment level killing is a paying job. In the streets of karachi people are being killed to rob mobile phones.

The only good news is the demand for new state called Afghania, it is a combination of india and afghanistan. The five consulates that india has got in afghanistan seem to be doing good work.

Pakistan as a nation appear to be in terminal state, people seem to eb preparing for its partition.
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#41 Posted by arjun2 on August 2, 2007 2:31:39 am
#38 Posted by zeemax on August 2, 2007 12:50:01 am


Haha


barry hussein wants to talk to iran and syria and attack pakiland

hardcore islamist like you is quoting Rush Limbaugh...RUSH LIMBAUGH!!

It's a bizzaro world..
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