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The Puppet Speaks
Posted by jayp Jun 24, 2008 01:53 am
Helping pakistan.

I have been criticised for simply pointing to the negative aspects of pakistan without any positive contribution. I intend to address this through occassional posts with meaningful suggestion to improve the lot of the paki brethern.
Here is the news followed by some suggestions.
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PESHAWAR: Rot sets in for Swat fish farmers



By Sadia Qasim Shah


PESHAWAR, June 23: Apart from other people associated with different trades and professions, the fish farmers of the tourist resort of Madyan in Swat valley have been hit hard by the armed conflict between security forces and militants as they can neither sell fish due to fall in number of tourists nor are able to export the commodity owing to lack of facilities.

Madyan, famous for trout fish, looks deserted despite peak of tourists’ season. “The fish farmers have no idea what to do with the fish in their farms,” said Mohammad Rasheed, who owns three fish farms in Madyan.

He said that before the conflict, the number of fish produced in the farms was enough for consumption of tourists who came here during the season.

“I have not sold any fish in this season. I have about 5,000 kilograms of fish in my three farms. I don’t know what to do,” he lamented and complained of sharp fall in the sale owing to the decreasing number of tourists during the last two years.
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trout is good fish and it can be preserved by smoking it, which can be easily done in teh NWFP with the fire wood available there.

If you can put a little marijuana into teh smoke, the fish can become addictive and can ensure a good market for Swat fish for years to come.

Regrads and best wishes to teh responsible chowk pakis who can pass on this idea to teh poor farmers.

Jayp
The Puppet Speaks
Posted by jayp Jun 24, 2008 01:44 am
Iraquisation of pakistan has started from teh FATA region. Already the jihadis are fighting among them selves, some are attacking the govt troops. With the nato attack, the pakis have moved interior.


17 guards kidnapped after attack on posts



By Ibrahim Shinwari


LANDI KOTAL, June 23: Armed men attacked three checkposts on the main Peshawar-Torkham highway in the Khyber Agency on Sunday night and kidnapped 17 personnel of the Khasadar Force.

Officials confirmed the kidnapping and said the Khasadars deployed at the checkposts had been caught unawares by the blistering attacks at midnight.
Anil Ambani Pursues Global Media Empire
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 03:00 am
Reliance, Walmart eyeing Malayalam film industry'

Kochi (PTI): Another controversy is brewing in the Malayalam film industry with the MACTA Federation on Monday alleging that Reliance, Walmart and Tatas have signed up at least three top actors, including Mamooty and Mohanlal, besides 10 reputed film directors, for their coming films.

This will destroy the industry and the directors, including Priyardarshan, Fasil, Siddiq, Joshi, Lal Jose, who broke away from the Malayalam Cine Technicians Association (MACTA) should withdraw from any agreement they have reached with the companies, Federation Treasurer, Baiju Kottarakara, told reporters here.
The Puppet Speaks
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 02:53 am
Re: # 16

That sums up the paki mind set. They have no idea abou the reality of their own country, they never admit poverty which by all accounts is worse than in india, on percentage basis.

The pakis think that their is a great country and that si why there is no attempt to imrove it. The pakis, with their head stuck in the book, cannot see anything outside.
Opportunity Missed
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 02:49 am
Madani, Many pakistanis ask , how can I comment on pakistan when I have not visited it. madani, read this, teh pakistan that you have never seen, but I have read and understood much better than you.

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from jang of today. Have you seen such posters in pakistan. You will deny it, you will not see it. But teh world knows about it.

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Then came the day when I was fresh again to go out and meet relatives and family friends in the city. As I went out, I saw the same poster pasted all over the city with a lot of white flags hoisted on all major intersections. I wondered what was going on, and the name Masood Azhar brought some old memories of watching this man on the news. Yes, this is the same Masood Azhar who founded the Jaish-e-Muhammad organisation and served time in Indian jails before getting freed by hijacking an Indian Airlines jet.

Bahawalpur was always a laidback small town where everyone knew everyone else. Masood Azhar was a neighbour of my cousins and used to have a small house which wasn’t even visible from the road. I remember when he was released. The BBC wanted to film his return, from the terrace of my cousins’ house, but they refused due to privacy concerns. Since then we heard little about him, in the news or in local gossip. In general, people didn’t give him much credibility.

My attention was drawn to the graffiti around me. Gone were the usual slogans of old times, directing people to visit miraculous witchdoctors for the solution of all their problems. The walls were filled with anti-West hate slogans, with “Al-Jihad al-Qital” (holy war, bloody battle) written everywhere around the central mosque. This was not the Bahawalpur I knew.
Who is Making the Oil Fume ?
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 02:38 am
The required structural changes are slowly taking place. Several SUV and truck plants in teh US have been closed. Ford company is shaky. More SUVs will be scrapped for smaller cars. Public transport usage will increase. Once there is a decline in oil demand, the prices will fall.

It will take a year to achieve this, and the US has the most dominant effect. US consumes 8 times more oil than india. A .5 percent reduction will be phenomenal.
Who is Making the Oil Fume ?
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 02:38 am
The required structural changes are slowly taking place. Several SUV and truck plants in teh US have been closed. Ford company is shaky. More SUVs will be scrapped for smaller cars. Public transport usage will increase. Once there is a decline in oil demand, the prices will fall.

It will take a year to achieve this, and the US has the most dominant effect. US consumes 8 times more oil than india. A .5 percent reduction will be phenomenal.
The Puppet Speaks
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 02:29 am
There is so much talk about the cause of paki jihadism, it is due to iraq, due to afghanistan blah blah and has nothing to do with the religious notion of jihad.

hello...why did the muslims do the 9/11. That preceded the iraq and afghnaistan.

Simple, jihad is about killing off the infidels...it is a religious mandate and teh muslims are driven by it with no regard to teh feasibility of doing it..simple.
Opportunity Missed
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 02:20 am
Madani, when I say post a human interest story, I mean something like this. Post one you can find from pakistan.

from times of india of topday

lavazhaki’s life has all the elements of a fairytale. Growing up in a slum in Vyasarpadi, she had to work hard for things that most children take for granted. As a fish-cart puller, her father Irudhayaraj brought home earnings too meagre to feed a family of five. Ilavazhaki had often forgone her meals for the sake of her younger sisters, Ilakiya and Sevanthi. Needless to say, she considered buying school books unnecessary expenditure for her struggling family. And there was no bitterness when she had to discontinue studies after class IX.

But for a square-shaped wooden board, Ilavazhaki’s life would have been totally devoid of hope. She was six when she first tried a hand at carrom. This was not surprising, because the game is an integral part of life in the slums. Often, a carrom board is the only entertainment slum-dwellers can afford. Many of India’s greatest carrom players are from the slums.

Watching his eldest daughter play, Irudhayaraj, a competitive carrom player himself, realised early that his family had an exceptionally talented child. Driven by ambition to make Ilavazhaki famous, he found the energy to train her everyday, after spending tiresome hours on the road.
Dad’s determination

His efforts were not in vain. Winning the junior nationals thrice, Ilavazhaki was well on track for the kind of glory that he wished for her. And she kept his hope alive after graduating to the women’s category, winning three golds in the Asian championship in 2005 and picking up another three in the SAARC championship, held the same year. The moment daughter and father were waiting for arrived in 2006. After striking it rich again in the SAARC championship, she won the World Championship in New Delhi.
Opportunity Missed
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 02:19 am
Madani saab, cry for your country. It is not the engineers that is the problem, it is teh social norm that any one can get away with anything, there is no legal system, there are no institutions...it is a failed state.

Chief Minister Secretariat consumes Rs20m in excess of allocated funds
Monday, June 23, 2008
Khalid Kheshgi

PESHAWAR: The Chief Minister Secretariat, which hosted three chief ministers during the outgoing year, has consumed Rs20 million in excess of the fund allocated for it in the annual budget for 2007-08, and half of the extra fund has been spent on entertainment and gifts.

The supplementary budget statement for 2007-8 reveals that a sum of Rs10.8 million had been spent in addition to Rs4.9 million under the head of entertainment and gifts. The figures indicate that chief executives of the cash-strapped NWFP have spent Rs1.3 million monthly from public exchequer on their official and private guests, whereas a total Rs20.7 million had been allocated for the whole provincial Labour Department in the year 2008-09.

Former chief minister Muhammad Akram Durrani resigned from his office on October 8, 2007 after developing differences with a major component party of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal over the presidential election and former Wapda chairman Shamsul Mulk was sworn in as caretaker chief minister on October 10, who occupied the Frontier House till May 30, 2008.
Aitzaz’s Monumental Blunder
Posted by jayp Jun 23, 2008 02:03 am
Zeemax,

Here is news for you. The iraquisation has started, with the army pushed out of FATA, the factions are fighting one another. The successful one need to be finshed off by the yanks.


15 killed in fighting between militant factions


LANDI KOTAL, June 22: Clashes between two militant groups, Lashkar-i-Islam and Ansarul Islam, continued in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Sunday as the toll from two days of fighting rose to 15 dead and dozens wounded.

The violence began on Saturday when loyalists of Lashkar-i-Islam leader Mangal Bagh, who is trying to control the area, attacked a stronghold of Ansarul Islam, led by Ustad Mehboob.

The two sides are using mortars and rocket-propelled grenades and there were conflicting accounts of casualties.
Aitzaz’s Monumental Blunder
Posted by jayp Jun 22, 2008 02:25 am
"This is just one instance of the state of denial that colours our response to criticism. When radical Muslims from all over the world travel to Pakistan to receive training in bomb-making, and indoctrination in extremist interpretations of Islam, we hold up our hands and claim we are not responsible. Never mind that these training camps are located within our borders, and those running them are well known to our intelligence agencies. When graduates from these camps kill and maim innocent people in the West, we wash our hands of all responsibility.

Similarly, when drugs were a major export from Pakistan, we conveniently blamed the addicts for pushing up demand and prices in the West. When illegal immigrants from Pakistan cross borders all over the world, we claim we can do nothing to halt this traffic. And when supporters of the Taliban cross over into Afghanistan, or when jihadis traverse the Line of Control into Indian Kashmir with or without the connivance of our intelligence agencies, we pretend complete ignorance."
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A honest pakistani. Is there any like him on chowk. from dawn of today
Opportunity Missed
Posted by jayp Jun 22, 2008 02:14 am
Madani,

Here is a challenge for you. Post a human interest story from pakistan, like the one below from india.

Over 300 varieties of mangoes on one tree!

Lucknow (PTI): Toss the word "mango man" in Malihabad, it would refer to Haji Kalimullah Khan.

His rare technique of growing more than 300 varieties of mangoes of different shapes, sizes and hues on one tree has helped him get Padma Sri recently.

When Khan talks about the variety of mangoes grown by him in his orchards in the renowned 'dussehri' belt in Malihabad, it seems that he is fondly referring to his family members.

Khan's prized tree is about 100 years old on which he started work in 1987 to develop the craft of growing different varieties on one tree.
Opportunity Missed
Posted by jayp Jun 22, 2008 02:08 am
KARACHI: Karachi under growing video surveillance



By Imran Ayub


KARACHI, June 21: As the city government allows law-enforcement and intelligence agencies access to its recently-established command and control system, which monitors signal-free corridors I and II, the police authorities have begun installing cameras separately, mainly in the ‘red zones’ of the metropolis, for video surveillance.

More than 150 cameras being installed in southern parts of the city are designed to be monitored through centres established in different areas by police personnel, sources in the department told Dawn.
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Madani saab,

Read the above, it is total stupidity on the part of pakis to waste money to install the cameras. In karachi the problem is not about knowing who commits teh crime, the police are in cohort with teh criminals.

There is no law enforcemenbt agency in pakistan, in many parts of karachi teh residents are creating road blocks to p[rotect them from attackers who come in cars and loot them.

This is stupidity, pakistan trying to look like a civilised society.

Let us read the book together, the book never talks about TV cameras and they are haram. Ask jihadis to blow them up.
Aitzaz’s Monumental Blunder
Posted by jayp Jun 22, 2008 01:58 am
Zeemax,

Good to see taht you are once again in teh business of classifying the jihadis. The sectarian jihadis, kashmir juhadis, al quida.

Add one more, the bank robing jihadis, or that can be done by any jihadi.

How about teh cristian kidnapping jihadis of peshawar, read todays dawn.

Jihadi seeks death, and he will kill the infidels or any one the muullah tells him to kill ( remember the paki miliatry doctor was killed by a jihadi ). The jihadis have one ideology, kill, any jihadi is a general purpose killer.
Aitzaz’s Monumental Blunder
Posted by jayp Jun 22, 2008 01:55 am
Re: # 275

Madani saab,

Marching to kashmir by pakistanis, a non-violent march, if I recall that is what gandhi wanted to do, but from india.

Are you telling that jinnah and his TNT is finally dead, that pakis are ready to smash the photos and take a non-violent march.
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