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The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 09:29 pm

After the US, the Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, Nobuaki Tanaka delivers a thappad. He says don`t show us the begging bowl after 2008:

“Putin will be stepping down in 2008. Presidential elections in South Korea are also taking place in 2008. So all in all the political landscape of the world will change significantly and by that time the international commitment to Pakistan in financial terms will also come to an end. Meanwhile, Pakistan needs to stand on its own feet,” the ambassador explained.

He was of the view that Pakistan had a golden opportunity to bring positive changes in every sector during these three years. “Now enough money is pouring in from foreign countries. If you spend it on increasing literacy rate, training manpower, improving export competitiveness and infrastructure, and ensuring constant electricity supply to the factories then Pakistan would definitely stand on its own feet,” he maintained.

But we know what Pakis will spend it on: grand mosques, osama safehouses, glow in the dark U-turn signs, women`s burqas, tribal attire for its soldiers, howitzers, babur, F-salah, and chinese condoms.


The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 09:12 pm
President George W. Bush. This was Yesterday. Can someone pass this on to Mushy and Kasuri, they are wasting too much time trying to sabotage this deal, instead of doing something more productive like sending more jihadis to Varanasi:

It`s in our interests, our economic interests that we work an agreement with India to encourage their expansion of civilian nuclear power.

Secondly, unlike Iran, for example, India is willing to join the IAEA. They want to be a part of the global agreements around nuclear power. Thirdly, India has got a record a nonproliferation. They`ve had 30 years of not proliferating. Fourthly, India is a democracy and a transparent society. You find out a lot about India because there`s a free press. There is openness. People run for office and are held to account. There`s committee hearings. It`s an open process.

I feel very comfortable recommending to the United States Congress that it`s -- they ought to agree with the agreement that Prime Minister Singh and I have reached. It`s important -- it`s important -- it`s also an important relationship. For too long, America and India were not partners in peace. We didn`t deal with each other because of the Cold War. And now is the time to set the Cold War behind us. It`s over, folks. It no longer is. And let`s think about the next 30 years.

The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 09:02 pm

How can there be any diversity in Pakistan? First of all all non-muslim minorities have been killed off. Now shias are the target of weekly Friday genocide. Then the paki inbred marriages that result in genetically defective progeny, and the effect of which is seen the world over. And any woman following the natural instinct of diversifying the gene pool is quickly disposed off in honor killing. Let the pakis stew in their own consanguinous terrorist moghul gene pool. Hatred can never be wiped out in Pakistan.
The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 08:56 pm

Mullah terrorists, eat this along with grass. So what do you do next? Send some jihadis to UCal?

With a view to facilitate research activities spanning numerous areas between scientists and researchers in India and the United States, government today signed an MOU with the University of California. Both the sides have agreed to spend about 10 million dollars per year on projects carried out in areas such as bio-medicine, molecular biology, drug designing, mobile telephony, nano technology, energy, material sciences, marine systems, global warming and water management, he said. The agreement would help scientists, researchers and university students work together on common projects, he said.

The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 08:53 pm

WASHINGTON, MARCH 20: Building rapidly on the civilian nuclear deal, Washington has now invited India to appoint military officers to liaison posts in the US Strategic Command (Stratcom), its largest and most critical defence set-up mandated to control strategic nuclear assets, space and missile defence and global deterrence against weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

The Stratcom, whose area of operation spans the globe, controls all American nuclear delivery platforms, including ballistic missile submarines, B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers, Minuteman-III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and Tomahawk land attack systems.



The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 08:29 pm

Hypocrites who write of progress with one hand and issue mullah emails with the other are the reason why Pakistanis are not trusted by the world. It is one thing for a mudarrasa holed head-bobber to be an ignorant hypocrite, but the emergence of the anglo-phone hypocrite closet-mullahs portend great harm in the coming times.

That is the reason we will never see developments such as this in Pakistan:

By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: In what is being described as a “stunning example” of India’s progress from doing back-office work for foreign companies to a “centre for leading-edge innovation”, IBM has decided to move all the design and development of its business consulting offerings to India.


The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 07:54 pm

Nadeem has been exposed as just another closet mullah issuing Allah mass junk emails all day. And HE talks of hypocrisy. What a self-deluded bunch of jokers, these pakis.

Images and Symbols -- Deconstructing the Iraq War
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 10:56 am

#51 by Mohar
[why would US gov`t see to destroy it`s own security center, the pentagon? ]

I will tell you why. Because these morons believe in believing exactly what they would do. It is just like us civilized folks wondering, ``why would saddam set fire to his own oil wells``. Same thing for why the Pakis sank their own ships when Indians were putting them back into the hole where they crept from.

That is the nature of their hyena-brained thinking. So they will extend that maderassa logic to everything they see. Their brains are just not capable of analyzing anything rationally.

We can simply express pity that some so-called humans have not evolved beyond their instincts as the rest of the intelligent species has.
The Quest for American Popularity in Pakistan
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 10:32 am
Richard C Holbrooke, US ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration:

``I predict he will succeed with the Congressional group on the nuclear deal``
``It is my prediction, my absolute prediction, that Congress will approve the deal.``

``Congress will approve the deal for three reasons. First, India is an important country in the world. Second, they will approve it because the President will say it is in the national security interest of the United States. Third, the Indian-American community is becoming more and more influential. They will support the deal and they have influence in both (Democratic and Republican) parties.``

The Quest for American Popularity in Pakistan
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 10:23 am

Pakis are like the hyenas in the movie Lion King - in their nature, voice, attitude, everything. If you want to explain Pakis to children, simply rent out Lion King from Blockbuster and show them the hyenas.

The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 10:15 am

[religious programs on tv like alim online are too busy discussing if it`s ok for a woman to pick her nose in public...]

...while other irrationals are sending out Allah chain mails on the world-wide web. And then they hide their skull caps inside their panties and pretend to be astute rational commentators. Actually these closet mullahs are much more dangerous than the relatively honest Osamas of the world.




Assalaam u Alaikum

Take 60 seconds & give this a shot! Let`s just see if Satan stops this
one.

All you do is:

1) Recite:

a- Subhan Allah
b- Alhamdolillah
c- Allah-o-Akbar
d- La ilaha ill Allah Muhammadhar Rasoolul Allah
e- Allahuma salay aala Mohammedhin wa alaa aalay Mohammedin kuma sallaita
alaa Ibrahima wa ala aalay Ibrahima inna ka hammedun majeed.


2) Then send it on to five other people or more. Within hours five people
have prayed for you, and you caused a multitude of people to pray to
Almighty Allah for other people. Then sit back and watch the power of
Almighty Allah work in your life for doing the thing that you know HE
loves.


Who sends these?


The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 08:37 am

[What`s behind one of the world`s most surprising economic success stories? In part, September 11. ]

That`s funny. The headline says it all but the jingos are jumping up and down in glee. It could have as well read: ``While the free world is attacked by islamic terrorists, Pakistan demands ransom for stopping terrorism.``

Growth? Ha. Let us see how Pakistan`s dicktator and private banker are able to answer ADB`s serious allegations of fradulent chinese accounting by December.


The Quest for American Popularity in Pakistan
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 07:16 am

Q: What do you think of the criticism that the agreement creates a double standard that will encourage rogue nations to continue to pursue nuclear weapons?

A: When people are talking about a double standard, it gives the impression that there are lots of meritorious candidates out there and suddenly we have given the nod to one of them. If other countries are prepared really to get into a serious nonproliferation effort, which in a way approaches what India has done, then they might deserve some recognition, too. And in any event, they may deserve at least the idea of an international regime that allows them to buy the nuclear materials for the public use, for electricity, peaceful use as opposed to military use if they`re prepared to take international inspection and adhere to those standards.

Q: How potentially problematic is the fact that eight of India`s nuclear reactors would not be subject to inspection?

A: This is a subject of concern because India does have a nuclear military program. They have at least had a test or maybe more. . . . The Indians I think fairly point out that there is no evidence that they have in any way shared that knowledge or proliferated any materials to anybody else. It would appear to me that if the international committee has inspectors at at least 14 other reactors and others that may grow up, there is a presence in the country that perhaps is salutary with regard to security. This is a good bit further along than the international community has presently.

In the fullness of time, India may decide that it does not wish to develop nuclear weapons. But Indians for the moment would say that they have as a very big neighbor, China, and furthermore, a more erratic neighbor, Pakistan. There will have to be considerable negotiation and evolution before they feel, in terms of their own security, that they`re prepared to give all that up. At this point they are not. So we will finally have to make a judgment as to whether our relationship with India is enhanced by the type of arrangement that Secretary Rice and others have negotiated out there.

Question: What are your biggest concerns as you review this agreement?

Answer: The issues that would lead me to be most favorable toward this is, first of all, that India, in the course of the last several years, has become a major player economically and politically in the world. Ultimately, (it) will have the largest population of any country, and it does have a working democracy, and it has potential compatibility with our democracy and democracies around the world that are important for our mutual trust and security. It`s a tie -- strategic, political, economic -- that is important for us to do and to do well.

The dilemma obviously is that India developed a bomb with no word to the rest of the world, as did Pakistan right after that. And that has been a source of deep concern for the nonproliferation community.
If I`m finally satisfied that the new strategic relationship is in the best interest of our country, that there are considerable if not complete safeguards with regard to nuclear fuel, and that a substitution of nuclear for hydrocarbons is likely to come of this, then I`m likely to favor the legislation. But I`ve been cautious prior to getting the record and the testimony.

Q: How hard will it be to get Congress to go along with the agreement?

A: I don`t know at this point. I think it is an extremely complex issue in which some members may start with a bias with regard to India or with regard to international affairs altogether. I think we`re in a period in which some members -- I wouldn`t say have become isolationists/protectionists, but they, for the moment, are very suspicious of international agreements.

But my guess is that in due course, a majority of members of the Senate . . . are probably going to come down on the side of the legislation.

Q: Why has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to support this?

A: They believe that it`s an enormous source of jobs and new wealth for American industry. The suppliers of both the technical as well as the hardware for all of this will come in large part from America if we are competitive. . . . It does open up to the industry of the United States apparently an extraordinary amount of new exports and new business.

Q: The administration appears to have consulted more closely with you and other lawmakers than they have on other foreign policy issues. Is that correct?

A: It`s been a very, very different story from the very beginning. I attended the state dinner for the prime minister of India, to begin with, on the day that they really came to the agreement. . . . From then on, we have been hearing about the India situation from somebody in the administration continuously. From India, (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Nick Burns) called me to indicate that, although they were not at liberty to talk over unsecured phones, that they wanted me to know that they felt an important breakthrough had occurred in the negotiations. I think that probably does signify a very different approach to these affairs.

Q: What should the Islamic Republic of Pakistan do to get a similar deal?
A: Ghaas khate jao, chabate jao. Eat still more grass. If the goats have already eaten all the grass, you gotta order some Chinese. MSG or no MSG.

Interview with Sen. Lugar
Rethinking Foreign Policy -- Can Pakistan and India Agree?
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 06:55 am

A man went into a cafe, ordered a milkshake and then realised he had to go to the bathroom. Worried that someone might steal his drink, he took a paper napkin and wrote on it, “World’s Strongest Weightlifter.”

Leaving the warning under the glass he disappeared into the men’s room. When he returned a few minutes later, the glass was empty and under it was a new napkin with a new message that said, “World’s Fastest Runner.”

I wish Pakistan also had runners and athletes like that, for our team at the ongoing Commonwealth Games is being badly beaten. Only yesterday alone, we lost every event of the day and with “flying colours’, I mean the colour flew off the face of our team manager every time the results were announced. The loosing spree of our helpless warriors seems to continue to the end, and I foresee a Doomsday scenario when it eventually comes to the final award distribution.

Having already bagged quite a bulk of gold, our Indian neighbours as usual stand out victorious and a million times better than us. It is not just the Commonwealth Games that India has successfully managed to eclipse our image of “born sportsmen” as we once used to be, it has outplayed us on almost every count. See diplomacy for instance. Do we stand a chance against India on any issue, leave alone Kashmir?

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The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 06:53 am

[I wonder why you are defending ISI- the organ of fascism that is throttling the Pakistani Republic and its true ethos- ?]

ISI is the Frankenstein-ul-haq monster of hatred Pakistan is destined to suffer intensely. There is no escaping the ISI or for that matter the Taliban. Hatred blinds and then consumes everything. However hard you try, you can`t export it off to the bhindians.

Without even throwing a bone the western master has merely patted on the back before jumping this leaky boat and the eastern master has given $300 million loan to buy his condoms so that there is no reckless AQKhan-ing of the population.

The sign of times to come. ``Rise and serve`` - that is precisely the role of the ``meretricious`` Pakistan so proudly established by the Paki elite. ``who else has two masters like we do? paindabad``


The Bubble Bursts
Posted by khalid_ahmad Mar 20, 2006 06:39 am
Here`s proof that the elites have let down Pakistan, and hence must head for the guilo`s. Want to know why?

Having already bagged quite a bulk of gold, our Indian neighbours as usual stand out victorious and a million times better than us. It is not just the Commonwealth Games that India has successfully managed to eclipse our image of “born sportsmen” as we once used to be, it has outplayed us on almost every count. See diplomacy for instance. Do we stand a chance against India on any issue, leave alone Kashmir?

Bounties of all kinds are being showered upon Delhi from everywhere in the world, while our Foreign Office is just complaining as it always does.

Even in commerce and trade, IT and software, politics and government, language and literature, art and culture, you just name it, and India is there to surprise you.

Do you know why? It’s very simple. The Establishment in India is headed by the political elite of the country, whereas it has always been the military oligarchy that has called the shots in Pakistan. And unfortunately, even the oligarchy has always been commanded by some of the most incompetent human specimens. Hence, signs of disaster seen on every milestone this poor country has made since inception.

However, our beloved General says that we don’t have to be Indocentric. What is that supposed to mean? Does that mean we are no match for India and should just mind our own business in order to stay out of trouble? Having said and done so much in six decades, we shouldn’t be Indocentrie? Well, what “centric” else should we be then? Ego centric perhaps, like most of the generals we have seen in the past?

I shall be the last person on the planet to say “no” to the peace process going on with India, but I shall definitely not expect any positive results from the so-called peace onslaught led by some of the most incompetent bureaucrats in Islamabad. I earnestly doubt their capability, I doubt their commitment and I even doubt their patriotism.

Yes, I may sound extremely cynical and sareastic, but I would call myself realistic instead. Take a little guided tour of our recent history and you may soon find out what I am trying to maintain here today.

Have a brief stopover at various milestones (or tombstones) such as the Indus Basin Treaty, Wullar Barage, Baghlihar Dam, Kishanganga Project and of course the famous UN resolution on Kashmir.

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