Attack in Mohmand #167
AH Amin's piece is objective, concise and immensely readable.

Twenty Three Students Expelled From Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad Reflects the level to which intolerance has grown in Pakistan or to which the Mullas are calling the shots even when institutions of higher learning are concerned.

Mohajirs Are People Too What are we talking about here? The Sindhis reflect the softness of the Sufi culture, it is visible in their demeanour. Far superior and quite opposite to the Magadhi Muhajirs about whom the writer is waxing eloquent.

Hillary Clinton a Better Presidential Candidate Obama has not been a much popular figure in Pakistan ever since he expressed his desire to bomb Pakistan

How to End Politics of Hate and Intolerance It is interesting to read how a part of the Pakistani intellegentia keeps griping about lawlessness and other ills facing the Pakistani society. Blaming Musharraf is fine but he is just a symptom of a malaise which has much deeper roots. The poor quality of political leadership Pakistan has had right from the inception is a major cause or else Ayub Khan would not have been able to institute military preponderence in the body politic of the country. The biggest blunder Pakis made was to play 'frontline' against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The Americans got what they wanted, the Russians left licking their wounds, what did Pakistan get? None of the strategic depth which Zia had dreamed of but 3 million Afghan refugees who wont go back because they are thriving at the cost of Pakistani jobless, a gun culture (which unfortunately most Pakistanis think macho)no civil society can be proud of and an unhealthy rise to prominence of retrograde Mullahs who will ensure Pakistan goes down the drain. The ever present desire to upstage India has also resulted in Pakistan's unhealthy dependence on their military .
Now that the people have voiced their preference, the first task before the civilian leadership is to rein in the military and send it permanently to the barracks and keep there for good. Let the generals look after their corps and divisions rather than meddling in politics.
With Nawaz Sharif who has a steady head on his shoulders and the PPP we hope will give Pakistan a new direction

How did Hindus Become Vegetarians? A good read.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment Was in Tashkent last week. Met a Pakistani youngster. Said he was flabbergasted at seeing see so much white pusey. Throughout his stay he did nothing but drink and fornicate. According to him you cannot see any firangs in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar. They all get abducted, he said.
Thanks to Musharraf?
Promised to visit again and again. He need not be so sure. A few years ago all Pakistanis had been unceremoniously bundled out of Uzbekistan, most, it appears, were trying to incite islamic fundamentalism among local population.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment In response to the now famous US line "you are either with us or against us" and facing the threat of Pakistan being bombed out, the great "statesman" in uniform started shitting bricks and overnight decided to dump the Talibs and present his backside to the Mricans, the only condition for his total capitulation being that India be left out of any operations to be carried out in Afganistan.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment Re: # 68
That Pakistan had nuclear weapons was known to India. The explosions conducted by India were a successful attempt to get the Pakistanis to reveal what they had, so this talk of Indian leaders going soft on their posture on Pakistan consequent to the explosions is just bullshit.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment The struggle for independence of India was a movement encompassing the whole subcontinent and it produced an entire generation of leaders, who could steer the country in its nascent stage. So, even when Gandhi was no more on the scene, India continued with Nehru and other political leaders who had been well groomed to provide solid leadership.
On the other hand, after MAJ there was no dynamic leader who could rise to lead Pakistan, and the chaotic situation that followed gave Ayub Khan the opportunity to meddle in governance of Pakistan. The military which had tasted blood would not like to leave the political scene. Musharraf's take over of power is just another chapter in the military dominated political life of Pakistan. He is just a person of ordinary intellect ( although he has good linguistic skills which, despite his being a Muhajir, enable him to speak Urdu in Punjabi accent in front of the troops)who derived his power from the army of which he was commander. All generals in Pak army think that they can rule Pakistan better than the civilians.
Until this is corrected and the rudder is firmly in civil hands, Pakistan will not be able to make progress as a democracy.

In fact, had ZAB been strong enough, he should have put the army firmly in the barracks particularly after the humiliating defeat of 1971 which dismembered Pakistan.

As for the so called change in Musharraf's policy toward India, it is in fact the humiliating withdrawal of Pak troops from Kargil heights convinced him that he cannot mess with India. So the next best option was to make friendly overtures. Mind you, his position on Kashmir is only acceptance of what Pakistan will in any case never get.

Interview: Imran Khan on Elections and Boycott Imran Khan comes across as an honest and sincere man who feels for the people. It is a pity that he has not been able to make a real dent in Pakistani politics. It is no wonder, because only scoundrels can thrive in politics.

Fall of Dacca Re: # 134
Hear, hear!

Fall of Dacca Re # 129, 130

These scoundrel commies must be thrown into the Bay of Bengal, including Brinda Karat, Bardhan et al, all having extra-territorial loyalties

Fall of Dacca On http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1187/913075687_c48c8e7f98.jpg?v=0 we can see only the torsos of the Pakistani chicks, are they dressed lower down as American cheerleaders, too? That's where the resemblance would be determined.

Fall of Dacca Re: # 36

A smart lot, these Moplas. There was this guy called Abdul Aziz Kutty in the academy. The drill ustad was a Muslim and the DS a Malyali officer. On the drill square AAK always wore a name tag "K Abdul Aziz" and where the DS was conducting a lecture it was "AA Kutty".
Many old Moplas who migrated to Pakistan have come back to India and refuse to go back because they want to become Indian citizens and live in God's Own Country.

Fall of Dacca The Pakistani army officer whose interview has been reproduced at #53 should get the whiner of the century award. He must remember that a success is a success whichever way you look at it,whereas there no justifying defeat particularly when it is so humiliating as in '71. He is also indulging in self deception when he says the ceasefire offered by India should not have been accepted and peace should have been agreed to not until territory equal to East Pakistan had been captured by Pakistani army on the western(India's) front. A large chunk of the Indian army from the Bangladesh sector had already begun to redeploy in the Punjab sector in the immediate aftermath of Dacca's fall, so any thoughts of capturing territory in the West was only wishful thinking on the part of a retired Pakistani officer who unfortunately never was a part of a winning force throughout his life. In fact Pakistan would have ended losing a large part of whatever was left on the western side had the ceasefire not been accepted.