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The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing
Posted by jayp Jul 5, 2008 01:12 am
KARACHI, July 4: A large contingent of the police assisted by the Rangers moved into strife-torn Lyari on Friday evening in an effort to establish the lost writ of the government in the locality.

The gang war between the groups of Rehman Dakait and Arshad Pappu has been raging in the area for years and has cost hundreds of lives. Scores of innocent passers-by and bystanders have been caught in the crossfire between the warring criminal gangs. Subsequently, several parts of Lyari have virtually turned into no-go areas.
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If parts of a major city like Karachi are no go zones for teh police, why should any one pay for electricity...just asking
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing
Posted by jayp Jul 5, 2008 01:07 am
Here is a classic example what could work in any other country will not work in pakistan. Giving away energy efficient bolbs will not make any difference to the paki electricty peak demand.

In pakistan 30 percent of teh elcetricity is stolen, they have a word for it, Kunda connections. In some parts of karachi, the theft is as high as 60 percent. For tehse people who do not pay for electricity have no incentive to reduce consumption. With teh gas and kerocence prices going, which cannot be stolen like electriocity, the demand will only increase.

With 30 percent stolen, there is no way that electricty generation in pakiland can be economically viable. The few will have to pay for the theft, and with hight tariffs, incetives for theft increases.

This is a viscious cycle for pakistan, in a country where murder ios not a crime per the book....let me check what teh book says about e;lectricity theft...well electricty is not mentioned in the book, it is not stolen with hand..cannot even chop the hand off.
Muslim Ghettoisation
Posted by jayp Jul 5, 2008 12:56 am
One has to realise that gettoisation is very common among muslims all over the world. Reason, simple, if one has to pray to god five times a day, and has to be reminded by a mullah shouting from a mosque, then the muslims have to live around the mosque.

Take hindus, they never crowd around a temple, no the budhist.

It is time that muslims have a good look at their own actions and take responsibility.
Muslim Ghettoisation
Posted by jayp Jul 5, 2008 12:53 am
This article is really pathetic, according to Iftikar mulsims in Britan are being discriminated. Why simply because they ask for it.

A woman wearing burkha and men wearing teh funny beard are asking teh others, look here I am different. These are deliberate and purposeful actions, and the people treat them different according to the werers whisjes. So what.

These dress related actions are not like colour or otehr kind of un-avoidable differemnces.

Muslims are asking to be treated differently, no doubt thsi helps the muslims to stck together because they declare their religious identity so loudly and it is ligitimate and reasonable that the other religionist treat such muslims differently. They ask for it.
Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Posted by jayp Jun 30, 2008 03:24 am
Re: # 124

It is a pure statement of fact, polio cases are increasing throughout pakistan, it is due to the policies of teh govt, jihadis have banned the polio vaccinations in the FATA and Fps as corrupting teh pure muslim bodies. Accept the reality of pakistan and give it value premise change.

Any way the pakis are doing it, with a changed value premise they can do it wholeheartedly. A nation that is now training children below 15, girls and boys as suicide bombers, will gladly subscribe to teh value premise I suggested and teh bhuttos and the zeemax of my idea will happily go along.
Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Posted by jayp Jun 30, 2008 03:11 am
Re: # 121
majumdar,

Helping pakistan is a series at the request of ahmadmadani as he wanted the indians to provide constructive ideas to improve pakistan. These are realistic and feasible actions that pakistanis can take to improve the situation, and has nothing to do with anything other than good workable ideas suited to pakistani mindset.

Leaving aside the value judgements, assess it based on practicality in the paki situation. See how my approach will ensure that teh british will take a very long time to find out, rather than the stupid actions the pakis have done.
Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Posted by jayp Jun 30, 2008 02:57 am
madani saab,

Helping pakistan.
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UK alleges misuse of aid given for polio vaccine



By Baqir Sajjad Syed


ISLAMABAD, June 29: Britain has protested over what it calls misuse by the finance ministry of the £15 million assistance for procuring polio vaccine, according to sources in the British High Commission.

The issue is likely to affect another £280 million British aid Pakistan expects to get under the National Health Facility Part-II for the next three years.

British Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander, the sources claimed, would raise this issue with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani, during a meeting with him here on Thursday.
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The above news item is pathetic and shows that the paki system has to improve. This is the procedure.

Invite Zeemax to set up a bogus pharma com[pany in Dubai. Order 15 million pounds worth of polio vaccine. Zee will send you zam zam water. Give this as medicemne to the tribals and other poor people of pakistan. Zee will collect the money and with 5 percent comission, return it to the govt which can be used to buy more houses in UK for the Bhuttos.

This policy is very good because the polio infection causes permanent physical damage, and such children cannot become jihadis, with hand and legs going all over the place, they cannot handle weapons and hence no jihadi. This can be claimed as a fight against terrorism. All are happy.

Madani saab, send thsi post to teh senior public servants of pakistan.
Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Posted by jayp Jun 30, 2008 02:49 am
Re: # 114

tahmed,

Yes the tanks were moving through teh streets of peshawar to demoslish one mud hut. So much for the paki army. No one is taking the charade that there is an army operation against the jihadis. There will be none for fear of suicide attackes.
The Lame Duck Government
Posted by jayp Jun 30, 2008 02:02 am
Grass eating time

"The PPP is, therefore, bound to fail if it doesn’t break that strait jacket. If it again fails it will fade into history as a spent up political outfit."

What is wrong with PPP fading into oblivion, that si what its founder wanted. It was Bhutto who said that pakistan will have the bomb and teh people will eat grass. With the food shortage, crime and every other evil possible the pakis are eating grass.

Bhutto and PPP was responsible for the dismeberment of pakistan, teh bangladesh, and the same has been acheived by PPP, again...The NWFP is gone, even the army dares not to come out into teh streets. They came out wityh their heavy weapons, not even a single jihadi was killed, they have declared success and gone back. NWFP and FATA have been surrendered by teh PPP
Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Posted by jayp Jun 30, 2008 01:55 am
Dacca to peshawar - a short journey

What is happening in peshawar is very similar to that in Dacca. The paki troops were hiding in their forts, waiting for the indian troops to attack. They went straight to dacca. With the supply lines cut, all their exit routes blocked, the great tiger niazi had no option but to surrender,

The scenario is exactly the same in peshawar, 70,000 paki troops are in their barracks. The streets are controlled by the jihadis. The great action of the lat two days is the final sign of surrender, very much like that in the Dacca race course. The paki troops went out, demolished one house and are back, have declared teh city safe.

It will better for thge paki troops to wuthdraw from FATA and peshawar now. One should not forget that teh situation in fata is the same for a few months, the 200 paki soldiers surrendered were actaully providing supplies to teh trapped troops. That si why the paki troops are withdrawing from fata now, they have no options.

The options for peshawar is alos the same. In another few months, the paki troops will be trapped in their barracks, Dacca style, with the taliban controlling the roads.

The re is no way that the paki troops will dare to be out in the streets.
The Puppet Speaks
Posted by jayp Jun 29, 2008 02:30 am
Jang editorial of today. Read the educated of pakistan, is it a country worth defending, even on chowk

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As for the grisly drama seen in Bajaur on Friday, reports suggest that as many as 5,000 people may have gathered about 10 kilometres to the west of Khar to watch the public murder of two Afghan nationals who had been found guilty of spying for the Americans. They were found guilty by a local jirga working as a Sharia court and we must assume that it is unlikely that either man had the benefit of representation by a defence lawyer. It is said they confessed their 'crime' but we do not know by what means their confession was extracted, though we may assume that violence played a part in their admission of guilt. Once the men had been murdered to the obvious satisfaction of the onlookers their severed heads were paraded for all to see, prompting an enthusiastic outbreak of aerial firing which left a couple more dead and several seriously wounded.
Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Posted by jayp Jun 29, 2008 01:57 am
Thanks Baitulla mian for reading my post. Each predator attack is carried out with the support of the paki army, the predators are slow and low altitude UAVs, can be shot down by any garden variety missile. Each predator attack has to be followed up with attacks on paki army, as it was done before.

Then of course, the paki army has to talk in terms of kill rates. Initially, paki troops should offer ten to one, that is if one soldier is killed, ten of baitulla tribe will be killed. or any suicide attack should be followed by a B52 raid. Paki troops shoudl aim for a bombing density of of 100Kg per square metre in FATA, and thsi can be easily delivered by B52s.

Thsi is the only feasible option for the paki army.
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from dawn of today




Baitullah warns of attacks in Sindh, Punjab



By Alamgir Bhittani


TANK, June 28: Pakistani Taliban on Saturday suspended peace talks and accused the government of going back on its word and continuing crackdown against militants.

Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud told Dawn: “The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan is suspending peace talks with the government. This will apply not just to South Waziristan but all areas, including Swat.”

He, however, did not go as far as announcing resumption of hostilities. “If the (security forces’) operations continue … people will see Sindh and Punjab turn into furnace.”

He said the people had voted the ANP and PPP into power on the premise that they would bring peace. “But now, they are talking about use of force and are launching operations against our people in Tank, Jandola and Darra Adamkhel.”

“Let the people ask their government why it has gone back on its word,” he said. “It will be unfortunate if violence engulfs the whole region again.”

The government was holding talks with Baitullah Mehsud and militant groups in Bajaur, Mohmand tribal region and the semi-autonomous arms manufacturing town of Darra Adamkhel through tribal interlocutors.

Muslim Khan, the spokesman for the militant group in Swat, told Dawn: “We have not yet received any instruction” from the Taliban leadership.

Baitullah Mehsud tried to justify the killing of members of the peace committee in Jandola and said he had repeatedly asked military authorities “to curb their criminal activities”.

“They were criminals and we had no other option but to go after them.”

Baitullah Mehsud reiterated that regardless of the situation in tribal areas, “the holy war against Americans” in Afghanistan would continue.

He warned that the militants would wage a ‘jihad’ against Pakistan Army if it helped the Americans launch attacks inside tribal areas.
Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Posted by jayp Jun 29, 2008 01:43 am
Kiyani the fool,

The paki CAOS is more stupid than he looks. He has accepted the full responsibility for the military operations against the jihadis while the politicians are engaged in peace talks. The paki people loves their jihadis and by this arrangement, kiyani has made enemies of the abdul paki.

In the military operations, only people he will listen to are the yanks, and thsi will anger more of abudl pakis. The path of kiyani leads more to isolation and split with the politicians and the people, leading to another coup and the cycle repeates.

By thsi latest policy acceptance, kiyani has aligned fully with the US military. No wonder, the Gates of the USA are very happy.
Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Posted by jayp Jun 28, 2008 11:50 pm
That is a good beginning, IAF plane over islamabad.

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Pakistan minister leaves for home in IAF plane
New Delhi, DHNS:
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi leaves for his country in the wee hours of Saturday, cutting short his visit to India, as his mother-in-law passed away in Lahore.


Interestingly, an Indian Air Force Embraer jet took Mr Querishi to Pakistan. “The IAF plane was provided on humanitarian grounds,”
Nawaz Sharif’s Moment of Truth
Posted by jayp Jun 28, 2008 11:10 pm
ISlams moment of truth.

Good to see that TNT-islam offers options to women of pakistan. Suicide bomber or get honour killed.


TANK: Seminary forcing girls to train as bombers, allege police


TANK, June 28: A local leader of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), who is running a madressah here, has been accused of forcing girl students to train as suicide bombers following disappearance of two girls from the seminary, an official said.

DSP Liaquat Shah told Dawn that Bakhta Jan and Said Alam, residents of Payee village, had accused Maulana Samiullah Qureshi of sending their daughters from his madressah to North Waziristan to get training of suicide bombing. The cleric had been missing for the last three days and an FIR has been registered against him, he added.

Sources said that Nazmeen and Saeeda, aging 15 and 12 years respectively, went missing from the madressah of Maulana Qureshi, who was the district chairman of Ushr and Zakat Committee during the MMA government. The two families have accused the cleric of alluring the girls towards getting training of suicide bombing.

The sources said that the madressah girls were attracted to jehad because they were frequently shown jehadi videos and movies. Relatives said that the family members went to North Waziristan tribal region to retrieve the girls.

Meanwhile, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Maulvi Omar, while talking to this scribe, expressed ignorance of the disappearance of the girls from the madressah. However, he revealed that the Taliban were giving training to girls for suicide bombings but with the permission of their families.

“Taliban are giving training to girls and women for suicide bombings, and for this the consent of their parents is necessary,” he said.
Nawaz Sharif’s Moment of Truth
Posted by jayp Jun 28, 2008 10:48 pm
No one is believing.

All the news media have reported that paki army is taking on the jiahdis in peshawar. Well....wellll, no jihadi has been killed. They have been moved by the army to other places before shelling their buildings.

The fact is that teh girls schools demolished will not be re-built. The fear and influence of the jihadis in pashawar will only inmcrease because this military action will prove to any intelligent paki that the army is in cohout with the jihadis, noting that no jihadi has been killed in action.
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