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Color-Blind Love
Posted by banneditem Apr 4, 2008 07:21 am
The book of Nehemiah

13:27: Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives.
Color-Blind Love
Posted by banneditem Apr 4, 2008 04:39 am
Nice statistics, please make sure that the %s add to 100 though.
In 60 years what has Pakistan done for Pakhtuns?
Posted by banneditem Aug 19, 2007 07:14 am
Paktoon Khan,
"Ask not what a country can do for you, but what you can do for the country". Now other than complain what exactly has a pathan done for the country other than running GTS in ground. Learning to ride a bicycle is not really an achievment rather a personal acomplishment.
Moral Bankruptcy of Political Leadership in Pakistan
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 01:06 pm
Re: # 18 and the one by abu-safwan

Dear Sirs,
I asked my "naukars son" whom we educated all the way to university a simple question.
Q: What would you do if you were elected as a President/PM of Pakistan?
A: I will ask your grandfather on what to do.

I then repeated the question his repsonse
A: Sir Ji, meh achi jee khoti banasaan ( I will build a house).

With democracy comes responsibility. And please dont compare US political system with Pakistan. US still has to elect some green peace weirdo, but they havent, Bush got re-elected because of one state Ohio. Similarly India has mature insitutions. While Pakistanis can acheive that status it iwill take some time. All I am saying is let Musharraf do it, he is a good guy and means well. Just because he is a bit heavy handed doesnt mean to chop his hands off, he got the slap all will be well.
Just like in Pakistan when there is a roadside minor accident and people start hitting the bad guy, someone from the crowd comes to the rescue saying
"choR do ji, rayn diyo, bichara ghareeb admi hi, maaf kar dau"
Moral Bankruptcy of Political Leadership in Pakistan
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 12:08 pm
tahmed32, In order for pakistanis to have rights they really need to clean their consitution first and treat everyone as a citizen not 1st class 2nd class(ahmadi etc)...
Lets see the same compassion that Aithsaz Hussien displayed with CJ and have him tackle that. Then we can talk about removing ppl and electing ppl. Just because 2% of the pakistani community(lawyers) stood up against the military doesnt mean that the rest of the majority can pick a right leader. In Swat mullahs won simply because of their electoral symbol (the book...quran) and the saying that anyone that doesnt vote for the book is not a muslim. Is that how people decide to pick their leaders and is that the right approach to democracy, this BTW is similar to "roti, kapara, aur makan" not so long ago in times of ZA bhutto. Nawaz shariff used yellow cab scheme to garner support. This gives you an glimpse of what an average pakistani is made of and how easily he can be bought (regardless of how fevereshly fanatically inclined he may be). Flash them(pakis) a greenback and they will have a horse that can deal cards in a casino.
Moral Bankruptcy of Political Leadership in Pakistan
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 11:09 am
Link

There is a saying; smile and the whole world smiles, cry and you are all alone. Similarly people forget the good things that Musharraf has done for the country and remember the bad things. People make mistakes all the time, so what if Musharraf slipped a few times.
Here is an excerpt from the above mentioned article.

"Pakistan's economy has grown rapidly, expanding at an average rate of 7% over the past five years. An ambitious privatization program, fueled by gulf-country investments and led by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, a former Citibank banker, is widely regarded as the reason for that growth. Total direct investment reached $6 billion in the past fiscal year, up from $4.5 billion in the 2006 fiscal year. The U.S. has also funneled billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to the country since the Sept. 11 attacks.

But those benefits haven't reached the majority of Pakistanis and inflation remains high at 7.7%. Political instability also threatens economic gains. Standard and Poor's recently lowered its outlook on Pakistan's credit rating."
Khuda Ke Liye
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 09:10 am
#72 Keep on dreaming, but do update your website man.I told the mullah of my local mosque about your site and he has been sitting there pressing F5 key fevereshly, forgetting his duties i.e baang deyna bhi bhool gya
Khuda Ke Liye
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 08:49 am
Re: # 67
Hahaha What else does Echoboom tell you? Talk about bosom buddies and their words (that are echoed) coming out of wrong ends, what else to expect when words come out a hole conveniently located between two valleys.
Khuda Ke Liye
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 08:29 am
zeemax the 22 arab countries did not include pakistan which tries to act so arab. I feel bad for JI folks that are so in bed with their arbi handlers, and their handlers dissed them, all the "allah hafiz", "ya habibi" and other words that have been mainstreamed all lost. Poor Fanatic Muslims of Pakistan that got left behind by the sheikh arbi.
Khuda Ke Liye
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 08:04 am
#61 if you cant see the point then you are summun, bukmun, AAumyun.
Khuda Ke Liye
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 07:24 am
Post #52 is a reply to post #50 not post #44. Apologies.
Khuda Ke Liye
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 07:23 am
#44 Lovely and thanks; now whenever mosques are blown up I wont feel that bad, since now a place of worship is deemed armory for local militias per zeemax.
Zeemax, just the other day 22 arab countries got together and sent a delegation to Israel to kiss up and make friends. Two points one is that Pakistan (daayum) once again was not invited in the 22 arab country get together, point #2 the 22 countries had to send egyptians and jordanians to Israel, since the other countries dont have diplomatic relations with them.
Ironically speaking foriegn direct investment in Israel is booming and guess what, its the arabs that are funding the FDI injection.
Khuda Ke Liye
Posted by banneditem Jul 31, 2007 07:01 am
Is the movie being shown in Peshawar? They can really use some entertainment other than killing little innocent school girls in soccer stadiums.
Militarily Troubled Pakistan and Terribly Administered Tribals
Posted by banneditem Jul 30, 2007 03:32 pm
"banneditem: The current onslaught is not being carried out under the banner of "Pukhtoonwali" but under "Jihad". If it was Pukhtoonwali, the bombs wouldnt be going off in Peshawar and Bannu. I know its frustrating to see this senseless carnage, BUT channel your frustration to the culprits, this has nothing to do with ethnicities."
AK,
Unfortunately paktunwali and jihad is a cocktail of which taliban is the product. One of the examples of that is when the western govt/s asked taliban (predominantly pashtun) to hand over OBL, they refused with one of the reasons being "our guest", besides many others (jihad,money,inter marriages, "yeah right", "dream on" etc). Channeling frustrations Naah. Not my cup o' tea mate.
Militarily Troubled Pakistan and Terribly Administered Tribals
Posted by banneditem Jul 30, 2007 08:58 am
#28 Isn't Ghazi's brother the hero who ran wearing a burqa. LOL LOL LOL on the proud ghazi borthers that defied governemnt and civil insititutions by rallying 15 and 16 year old girls to do thie dirty job. Zeemax there is no difference between them using women to do their dirty job or you posting pics of women in off the wall to make your useless point. FATA will be "serviced" by BATA.

I love the FATA khyber pass with a the flag of Paistan flutteringso proudly and gracefully with the back drop of a calm blue sky with a few F-14s and B-190 bombers dropping their loads off.
Militarily Troubled Pakistan and Terribly Administered Tribals
Posted by banneditem Jul 30, 2007 08:36 am
Zeemax,
Its not about what I have done or what you have done, if someone can be so stupid as to take arms because of a slogan "Allah Akbar" and fight a war that has nothing to do with religion, but a geo-political agenda...be it water dispute, or gas pipelines. I say more power to the people that can sell pathan a war in exchange for a mercedes bus. Similarly what good is pashtunwali if the pathan himself is a hypocrite.
Pakisan ka mutlab kiya
FATA kai Illawa Insha-Allah.
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