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3
Sep

As if the ravages of the floods, the incompetence of the government, and the shenanigans surrounding cricket were not bad enough, there is an additional cause of national depression: a group – ‘Kondemn the whole Kommunity Klan’, or the KKK – is actively pushing the narrative that Pakistan is a failed state because this nation, culturally, does not have the attributes of a successful civilisation.

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The madness in Sialkot seems to have triggered their wholesale laceration of Pakistanis. This incident has been mounted on the billboards of ridicule as the final verdict on this all those who live here. According to one member of the KKK, our entire history is so designed as to only produce violence and bloodbath. In other words, we as a people, are historically, culturally, and politically wish death and destruction upon ourselves and on others.

Other members of the KKK are busy in drawing rooms spreading the argument that Pakistan’s experiment in attaining the level of a civilisation has failed. As exemplified by the horror of the beating-to-death of two brothers, those who live in this land have become permanently unhinged.

The cause of their anguish is understandable – the horrendous sight of humans being bludgeoned to pulp can wreck any soul and make people shout from the roof-tops in anger and hurt. But their conclusion is downright racist and alarmingly malignant – that this incident is further proof of a barbaric nature of the whole nation. continue

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3
Sep

The entourage of visiting Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Soeren Pind also included two journalists who were blacklisted by the Government of Pakistan and forced out of the country with the direction that they should not be granted visas in future.

Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Soeren Pind Danish Ministers Entourage Includes Previously Deported Persons

Sources in the Federal Government informed TheNation that Ms Puk Damsgard Anderson and Ms Semi Jan, both Danish journalists, were blacklisted by the Ministry of Interior and after cancellation of their visas, they were previously deported in May and June last respectively. It was clearly mentioned in the letter that both the ladies were blacklisted permanently and all the departments including Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other concerned departments were duly intimated in this connection.
Sources further informed that Government had bowed to the demand of Danish Government that both these ladies should be removed from the list of persons blacklisted by the Government of Pakistan for their clandestine and dubious activities considered detrimental to the national interests. 
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3
Sep

Hussain Haqqani Pakistan Diplomat Pakistan Diplomats Without Dignity

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. While the people of Pakistan are resilient enough to face natural disasters it seems they are hapless when it comes to man-made fiascos. One incident that had disaster written all over it took place in New York on August 26, 2010 which not only caused embarrassment for Pakistan, but left Pakistanis absolutely stunned. The president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), to show solidarity with millions of Pakistanis badly affected by the recent floods, graciously offered the Nasdaq screen on Time Square, New York, to Pakistan’s consulate with the sole purpose of generating public awareness about the heart-wrenching destruction and devastation caused to life and property in Pakistan. Highlighting the plight and misery of the flood victims meant gathering support and donations for the flood-drowned country.

In a dismal lack of sensitivity, instead of projecting images of the devastation caused in areas ravaged by the flash floods, our pompous, self-serving, incompetent and shameless officials decided to display their own photographs with a slide that read, “Welcome to New York from the Consulate General of Pakistan Mr. R.S.A Babar Hashmi.” One wonders whether these Pakistani diplomats were raising awareness about their country’s predicament or promoting tourism in New York? Failing to capitalise on the NYSE’s offer, these officials of the Pakistan Mission not only ruined a chance to collect a substantial amount for their flood-hit brethren but infuriated the NYSE members to the extent that one of them remarked, “We were stupid to offer this opportunity to Pakistan.”  continue

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2
Sep

… but when will we reciprocate in kind?

· Two anti-Pakistan Danish journalists were allowed entry into Pakistan this week
· A visiting US scholar secretly slipped into Balochistan and was deported but Husain Haqqani granted him a visa again
· It is high time the military realized that the US is no ally but a hostile state that has need of Pakistan and its military right now

After being abused willingly by the US on many occasions post-9/11 on the pretext of security, like so many other segments of the Pakistani state and its leadership, the Pakistan military finally chose to refuse such treatment henceforth – and high time too. That is why one welcomes the stance the Pakistan military delegation took when it was subjected to inappropriate behaviour by US security officials at Dulles International Airport – merely because some passenger found their conversation “suspicious”. The delegation simply cancelled its meeting with CENTCOM and returned home. Of course, the usual apologies were offered by the US Defence Department, but what use are these once Pakistanis have been insulted? Whatever the official position, Pakistanis are being singled out for abuse in the US. After all, this was an official delegation going for an official visit so where was the official protocol that we turn out every time any US official visits Pakistan?

Meanwhile, what do we do with US nationals travelling to and residing in Pakistan? We give them visas on demand and in haste; and allow them to ride roughshod over all our laws, including injuring and killing Pakistani citizens on the roads. We also provide them with extra access to bypass our normal security procedures when they travel, as witnessed by many Pakistani travellers at our airports. Were we to report every US citizen as “suspicious” at our airports, it would provide a good lesson to the Americans in terms of reciprocity – that is if our authorities would ever find the guts to take a nationalist position.

It is high time the military realised that the US is no ally but a hostile state that has need of Pakistan and especially its military right now. But to pander to US goals is debilitating for our own national security and regardless of the personal equation between our COAS and the US military leadership, there is a need to distance ourselves from the US and its increasingly questionable agenda in this region – especially the underlying nexus it has with India.

Nor is it just US citizens who are given privileges not enjoyed by Pakistanis in these countries. We have just had an official Danish delegation arrive with two journalists who were deported from Pakistan earlier for suspicious activities and were blacklisted from ever entering Pakistan again. But under pressure from the Danish government, the Pakistani authorities undermined their own laws and actions and allowed these two controversial figures to enter the country again. This is a repeat of the case of an American journalist posing as a scholar who was deported for suspicious activities in Balochistan and then given a visa to visit Pakistan again. No wonder foreigners feel they can abuse our laws and decisions at will just as their governments and nationals mistreat and abuse our nationals as they please. In this context, the military delegation’s actions must be appreciated; but what is more important is when will reciprocate in kind?

Editorial by The Nation

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1
Sep

Mohammad Amir and Salman RAWs role in Cricket Scandal: Daily Mail

The Lord’s episode another RAW ploy

— Indian ICC Chief working to get Pak team banned for 3 to5 years
— Pak govt smell rat behind the match fixing drama
— Bookie emerges as RAW man, introduced to Indian cricketers by RAW
— Bookie met Pak player in South Africa at a dinner for the first time in 2009
— Aamir like young players were the basic target
— English journalist got 50,000 Pounds to organize fake sting operation for RAW
— Indian High Commission at London played key role in Bookie’s bail
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International Cricket Council President Sharad Pawar, an Indian national and Scotland Yard are making futile efforts to involve Pakistanis players in spot-fixing with the yearn desire of 2-3 years ban on Pakistan for taking part in International cricket events; reveal the investigations of The Daily Mail.

These investigations indicate that pre-set drama reveals that ICC chief and its members, The News of the World and notorious Indian intelligence agency RAW were the mastermind behind all this planned mess with special focus on putting the career of new teenage pace sensation of Pakistan Muhammad Aamir at stake who emerging as main threat to the batsmen across the world in the coming years.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that picture of Salman Butt along with bookie and some reporter is clearly fabricated and created in photoshop computer programme that is installed at every newspaper office for sure. Furthermore the video of the bookie, Majeed giving Pounds to Wahab Riaz is also a creation.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the bookie Mazhar Majeed is a RAW front man and holds a key position in RAW’s illicit fund generation programme that includes running Mafia wings, running brothel houses, prostitution syndicates gambling dens, and betting on matches of Cricket, soccer and even tennis. He was merely a ticket blacker at movie theatres in Mumbai till a few years back when was hand picked by RAW like they did it in Chhota Rajan Case and was put under the command of RAW’s Special Operations Division SOD, headed by Chhota Rajan where he was trained for sports betting.

The Daily Mail’s findings further indicate that Majeed was introduced to different bookies at Mumbai, Delhi, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Dubai by RAW official. These findings reveal that in 2007, RAW arranged Majeed’s meeting with Indian Cricket star Sachin Tendulkar, Harbajjan Singh and Rahul Dravid so that so that they can further introduce Majeed to different players of Cricket teams of different countries, specially Pakistan and world cricketers like Shane Watson do confirm the same. These finding further indicate that in September 2009, an Indian businessman Vijay Aaloowalia, based in Cape Town, South Africa hosted a dinner for Pakistani and Indian cricketers on the sidelines of Champions Trophy. Bookie Majeed was also invited to that dinner where some Pakistani players were introduced to him for the first time. Though the trick didn’t work and Pakistan team defeated India easily in that tournament but Majeed remained sniffing Pak players then onwards. continue

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1
Sep

lahore suicide blasts The Attack in Lahore was Not a Sectarian, that was Terrorist Attack!

A terror group based on Afghan border claims responsibility for the murder of Pakistanis in Lahore and Karachi, using teenage kids as suivide bombers. This is not a sectarian attack. This is a terrorist attack against Pakistan and Pakistanis. It is linked to the visit of Iran's presidential envoy to Pakistan tomorrow,… to the great and noble speech of Ayatollah Ali Khamenai in Paksitan's favor today, and to desperate US attempts to keep terror war ahead of flood sympathy for Pakistan. Our prayers are with our men and women, our Pakistani sisters & brothers who had fallen Shaheed a few minutes ago. More details in the next few hours about on the linkages of those who committed this terror. Analysed by Ahmed Quarishi

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1
Sep

dulles air reut Pakistani officials leaving in protest

A delegation of senior Pakistani military officials visiting the United States for a major defense conference headed home in protest Tuesday night after they said they were interrogated and rudely treated by security officials at Dulles International Airport.

The nine-member group of high-ranking Pakistani officers boarded United Airlines Flight 727 from Washington to Tampa late Sunday but were pulled off the plane after one of them "made a comment to a flight attendant," said Mike Trevino, a United spokesman.

United did not provide details, but Pakistani officials said the remark came from a general in the delegation who – weary of a long day of travel that began in Islamabad – said, "I hope this is my last flight," or words to that effect.

That sparked a call to Dulles law enforcement officials, who detained the delegation for 2.5 hours and refused to allow the officials to contact their embassy or the U.S. military officials who had invited them to visit, according to a Pakistani military official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Pakistanis were finally released after police at Dulles determined they did not pose a threat. But instead of proceeding to Tampa, the delegation was ordered to return to Pakistan by their military superiors in Islamabad, in protest of their treatment, the Pakistani official said, adding that they were "verbally abused." The group of officers spent the next 48 hours in Washington, waiting for the next available flight home, and were scheduled to depart the United States on Tuesday evening.

The Pakistani officers were originally en route to U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa to attend the annual conference of the U.S.-Pakistan Military Consultative Committee, said Maj. David Nevers, a Central Command spokesman. He said Centcom officials hoped to reschedule the conference.

Pakistani officials said they received apologies from Pentagon and Centcom officials.

By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Staff Writer

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31
Aug

How likely is China's launch of a limited war against India? This is the question that has animated South Asia watchers over the last two days ever since reports about the Chinese denial of a visa to a top-ranking three-star Indian army general, whose operational command includes the state of Jammu and Kashmir, became public.

China War Machine How likely is China launching a limited war over India?

Notwithstanding the very animated media and cyber responses that have spewed on both sides of the Himalayas, as a defence analyst, I would aver that the probability of an actual shooting war, however limited — between the dragon and the elephant — is very, very low but this will not prevent their growling at each other as can be evidenced.

Both India and China exude a similar sensitivity about contested territoriality and this is a very deeply embedded characteristic in the post-colonial state, wherein sovereignty is inexorably linked with the 'idea' of the nation-state that came into being when the colonial yoke was finally cast aside.

However, post 1947 when India attained independence and post 1949 when China became sovereign after the Long March, the deep anxiety and prickly sensitivity about the linkages between contested territoriality and perceptions about sovereignty are abiding.

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31
Aug

By Asif Haroon Raja

9/11 dramatically converted Pakistan from an international outcast under a military dictator aligned with extremist Taliban regime in Kabul to become a key strategic partner of America ’s war on terror. This change in status brought about by USA did not come about out of the blue but under a well conceived design. While Afghanistan was already on the hit list of USA since 1997, 9/11 gave a ready made excuse to forcibly occupy it and bring a regime change of its liking and to then work upon the laid down regional objectives.   

Pakistan and Israel Indo US Israel Afghan collaborative game against Pakistan

In its pursuit to denuclearize and secularize Pakistan , the US in concert with Israel , India and Britain worked out several contingency plans which ranged from coercion combined with inducement to destabilization, balkanization and fragmentation. Gen Musharraf was successfully coerced to ditch friendly Mullah Omar led Taliban regime in Kabul, to help US in militarily occupying Afghanistan, and to become a frontline state to fight US war on terror. Pakistan had to accept anti-Pakistan and pro-India Northern Alliance regime under Hamid Karzai in Kabul.

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31
Aug

It's true that Pakistani players do have a repo of bringing shame to the green but on a closer look and considering the magnitude of the negative coverage received, is the incident another deliberate setup to racially malign and target the Pakistani nation further? The classical "from the book" statement that the bookie gave [Pakistani cricketers only want women, food and money] may hint so. After all, aren't Indian and Aussies and Brits doing the same? Pakistani cricketers aren't the only ones here but get most attention everytime, why? More so, there is an Indian culprit [Dheeraj Dixit] involved too about whom the same media hasn't found the same zeal to talk about. So if Pakistani players want money and food, was he up to it considering it his religious duty? Pakistani players are indeed shameful but may have been set up too this time. Pakistan Observer has some findings here.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=49612

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31
Aug

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At least four NATO supply oil tankers were completely destroyed by militants Sunday near Torkham in northwest of Pakistan. Militants attacked NATO tankers supply caravan with rockets turning four of them into ashes in Khyber Agency tribal area near Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Xinhua said, citing local media reports. No casualties were reported in the attack.

Attacks on NATO supply truck have been accelerated this year where almost a hundred of trucks and oil tankers carrying supplies to 140,000 US-led NATO troops fighting insurgency in Afghanistan were frequently attacked and destroyed in southern Balochistan and troubled northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

In June, 60 NATO supply trucks were burnt to ashes and eight local drivers were killed in an attack near Islamabad. In April four policemen were killed as 12 NATO trucks were burnt in eastern Punjab province.

Some 70 percent of NATO supplies and 40 percent of its fuel are being shipped through trucks into the landlocked Afghanistan from the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi. Source: All About: Asia,Pakistan

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31
Aug

Informed sources in the Government of Pakistan have told Veterans Today that they are developing “hard evidence” indicating the Air Blue Airbus 320 that crashed July 28th outside Islamabad was a terrorist hijacking tied to rogue American security forces operating inside that country.

Air Blue Plane Crash Site CRASH OF AIR BLUE AIRBUS 320 OUTSIDE ISLAMABAD NOW BELIEVED HIJACKED, HEADING FOR  NUKE FACILITY

Sources indicate that the plane crash was an unsuccessful hijacking attempt intended to crash into the nuclear weapons facility at Kahuta, outside Islamabad. Such an attack may have been blamed on India and would likely have led to retaliation which could easily have escalated to a nuclear exchange between these two nations that have spent decades at each other’s throats.
Suspicions were raised inside Pakistan’s military and intelligence organizations when American military contractors employed by Blackwater/Xe showed up on the scene immediately after the crash, seizing the black box and “other materials.” There is no confirmation that parachutes or electronic equipment had been removed when Blackwater/Xe security relinquished control of the crash scene to Pakistani investigators.

Royal Television in Islamabad, owned by the brother of the head of Pakistan’s powerful JI (Jamate Islami), the Islamic political party, has reported that investigations are underway tying American based contractors to the planning of the attack. Pakistan’s ISRP (Inter-Services Public Relations) has failed to confirm this but private sources indicate that an active investigation of these allegations is, not only underway but has established ties between an American group and the hijackers. Military and intelligence officials inside Pakistan, in concert with the American embassy, are withholding all official details of the investigation and are likely to continue doing so. continue

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29
Aug

Pakistan is reportedly seeking the extradition of Shamim Khan, the who allegedly hurled a shoe at President Asif Ali Zardari during a party rally in Brimingham earlier this month.

According to sources, the interior ministry has provided “criminal records” of Shamim to the British authorities, and asked them to hand him over to Pakistan for further action. “Khan, a resident of Palai Gala, Sehnsa tehsil (occupied Kashmir), has been declared a proclaimed offender in an attempted murder case. In 1993, he injured his opponent and inspector Shadab over an enmity and then managed to flee to UK,” The Dawn quoted sources, as saying.

Earlier, it was reported that it was one of a disgruntled Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) who had hurled the shoe at Zardari, but further investigations have revealed that Shamim had never been associated with the PPP.

“It has been transpired that Khan had never been a PPP worker and he entered the place along with Lord Nazir Ahmed,” a PPP leader said.

The leader, who refused to be named, added that now Shamin claims to be a close associate of PML-N’s (occupied) Kashmir chapter president Raja Farooq Haider. However, Haider has denied any relation with the attacker.

“I would like to ask those who portrayed Khan as a ‘thorough gentleman’ to look into these facts,” Haider said.
Meanwhile, Zardari’s spokesnman, Farhatullah Babar, insisted that no shoe hurling incident took place during Zardari’s rally.
“Therefore there is no question of extradition of anyone,” Babar said. (ANI)

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28
Aug

By Kamran Shahzad

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Relief work has been performed in sukkhar Fallah e Insaniat camp and at sanghi area near sukkhar where flood devastation occurred due to our honourable minister Mr. Khursheed shah ordered to destroy the water shield in order to save his lands destroyed acres and acres of poor farmers land. 

seen horrific and terrible human devastation

May Almighty extend us a strength and opportunity to provide max relief to muslim and countrymen in this hard time.

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28
Aug

Pakistan Army Pakistan not to drop its guard against India: Army

The Pakistan Army is unlikely to change its assessment of the threat from India despite heavy demands on its troops to provide flood relief while also fighting militants, a senior security official said.

The Wall Street Journal said this month Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had decided – for the first time in the country’s history – that militants had overtaken India as the greatest threat to national security. But the security official suggested this was a misinterpretation of the stance of the Pakistan Army, which views the threat from militants and India in very different ways, rather than comparing them against each other.

“These are two mutually exclusive threats. The magnitude, the type, is quite different. One is an internal threat which is insidious, difficult to quantify. It is a clear and present danger. This is a very serious threat,” he said. “The other is a conventional threat. What has India done, politically and militarily, for this threat to have been reduced?”

Another official said the threat from India had if anything increased into both a conventional and unconventional threat, as it used its presence in Afghanistan to support those fighting against the Pakistani state in its western border regions.
India denies accusations by Islamabad that it backs rebels in Balochistan. With flooding which has uprooted some 6 million people further destabilising a country already battling militants, the WSJ report raised the possibility the Pakistan Army might revise its assessment of the threat from its much bigger neighbour. The Nation News

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28
Aug

Newsweek Pakistan(1) Why I Love Pakistan

Aimless life is certainly a sin. Many people have no definite aim in life. They are like the travelers going a head without any destination. Such people lead an aimless life and what they do in life, is largely a matter of chance, determined by the circumstances in which they happen to be placed. Aimless people do not achieve any thing in life. They just live because they have to live. One should have a definite purpose of life. The people who want success in life, first of all, determine their target. They keep before them their circumstances, their virtuous, their qualities, their talents and their ability to work. They select some definite target of their life and remain successful.

* I love Pakistan because despite the corrupt politicians and rulers of past .. we as a whole nation has progressed alot in the past 63 years when compared to nations which were formed 200 – 300 years back. We are considered around the world as an emerging market which has great potential. This is all because of one reason .. people of Pakistan .. public of Pakistan .. they are really hard working .. infact one of the hardest working nation in the world. I love Pakistan … I love people of Pakistan.

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27
Aug

Lately, we have been too depressed to notice a piece of real good news. Our very own ISI has been ranked the world’s top intelligence agency. And just in case one had never heard of the “smashing lists website”, a look at it would be worth its while. The ratings are done professionally. That the ISI carries out its primary mission — forewarn external threats and counter covert operations — reasonably well, must have counted, but “no double agents or defectors, no one ever caught on camera, and all of this on a modest budget”, seem to have clinched us the gold medal.

Only the other day the agency was complimented, even though back-handedly, to have helped a rag-tag militia in Afghanistan, frustrate the world’s mightiest military alliance, Nato. Calls for a double celebration, I suppose!

After the Soviets left Afghanistan, the US, our partner during the occupation, had a change of heart. Since we had “misused” our frontline status to upgrade our nukes, we had to be punished for this impertinence. Invoking Pressler (Amendment) should normally have sufficed; except for a problem. The ISI having played the lead role during the Afghan resistance — helped no doubt from some of the best in the business — was now raring to join the big league. An efficient secret service of suspect loyalty can become a pain in the neck. When General Brent Scowcroft, a former US national security adviser, publicly acknowledged that the ISI’s assessment of Iraqi forces in Kuwait was better than theirs, it was time for the upstart to be cut to size.

Before it is killed, a dog is given a bad name, and the ISI was hence labelled a rogue organisation. In Afghanistan it was no longer helping a national resistance but “building-up a client regime”; if some religious literature found its way to the newly independent Central Asian Republics, it must be the ISI “exporting regressive ideologies”; and its support to the uprising in Indian-held Kashmir was but “state-sponsored terrorism”. And the baggage that the ISI carried because of its involvement in domestic politics — an upshot of the military’s role in Pakistan — made all this easier for our detractors.

If the outfit withstood the onslaught and is again lauded as the best of its kind, it must have done something good. However, there is another reason that the ISI must be wooed, once more: it is America’s best bet to clinch a face-saving deal in Afghanistan. I have no idea what our super spooks have done to earn this recognition, but if there was any reality in the perception that the ISI has kept the Taliban in good shape against all odds, then at least in my reckoning it has done us all a big service. Without an effective resistance, the occupation of Afghanistan is not likely to be vacated. And unless that happened, our western borders would remain on the boil.

Intelligence agencies are not a panacea for all ills. They can at best ward off immediate threats and provide space for other organs of the state to find long-term remedies. Admittedly, it is the harder part and ours counts amongst the softer states. It would rather abdicate its duty to the ISI and then call it “a state within a state”, or do worse: bring an external intelligence agency under command of the interior ministry and send its spymaster abroad to face criminal charges.
How to deal with this “mother of all threats” is a different matter. For now, the ISI has other battles at hand, and would do well fighting them one at a time.

Lt-Gen(r) Asad Durrani
Published in The Express Tribune, August 27th, 2010.

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27
Aug

Pakistan Politics Lets Burn Politics

Our political parties have yet to unite for fighting the floods unitedly. If the floods have failed to unite the politicians, what can? Obviously, their individual political ideologies don’t permit them to unite. These ideologies have been ferociously fighting each other since Pakistan’s birth for selfish motives. Let alone the current national holocaust, even if the skies were to fall there is not even an iota of possibility that the professional politicians would absolutely honestly unite. We desperately need a mighty miracle. Earthquakes keep hitting us periodically. But we need a unique kind of earthquake which destroys our political ideologies. Let’s call it an ‘ideology-quake’.

For years, the country has been sinking deeper and deeper into an economic morass. The devastation is a creation of our politics. We can rescue the country only by burning our politics at the stake. We should no more be ruled by politics. But obviously, there must be an alternative.

Let’s pray: “O’ Almighty God! Please pity us! Our politics has been eating the very bones of the masses. Please, help us.” If our lamentation was accepted by God, we would be blessed with a unique breed of rulers. These rulers would be mortally allergic to politics. They would rule as great humanitarians but not at all as professional politicians. Let’s name such rulers Anti-politics Rulers. continue

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27
Aug

MQM & Blackwater in Karachi Blackwater MQM Ready for Bloodbath in Karachi

MQM has ordered its elite terrorist wing to move from South Africa to Pakistan for the final round with the Armed Forces and make Karachi Beirut of Pakistan leading to the separation as independent territory. Though it might not be relevant to the South African government now but may become problem in future. It is understood that elite terrorist unit is active by looking at the targeted killings of 18 Haqiqi (Mohajir Qumi Movemnt) in the month of January 2010 alone, and 81 members from June 2009 – December 2009 in six months period, the total number of Haqaqi workers killed in the past eight years from 2002-2010 is shamefully 154. There are other groups whose members have been killed allegedly by London – Edgware based MQM-Altaf group.

Approximately 16 or more members of MQM elite terrorist wing have entered into Pakistan some with different IDs in the past four weeks. Some of the people arrived in Karachi had bounty on their heads and are wanted in Pakistan for heinous crimes. The master mind of the group is known as Qamar Ghalib Teddy (Johannesburg), Sohial Commando, Rizwan Haider, Nadeem Mullah.
Minister for Ports and Shipping Nabeel Gabool, claimed in an interview published on 25th January 2010 that an MQM assassination team has arrived from South Africa to eliminate him. The minister claimed that, ‘he was called in by the Intelligence Bureau and warned face to face that his life could be in danger.’ The minister confirmed the names of the elite terrorist unit mentioned above.

South African MQM assassins will be taking over the command of the local elite terrorist group known as ‘Shurfa Committee’ aka (Gentlemen’s Committee). Some of the members of this committee are Sultan Keel, Ejaz Gorchani, Naeem – East Sector (Maleer) nephew of a cleric Shahturabul Haq, Manzoor Landhi Wala, Sohial Commando, Farooq Baig, Aslam Chor, Anawar Alam, Hishamul Zafar and ring leader Saleem Shazad. Some of the members are not known to the local sectors as they only report to MQM London Head Office and mobilised to do elite operations. They are provided every facility in the world. Their families are protected and supported. They are the real hired guns. continue

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26
Aug

RAW AND BANGLADESH is an illuminating book written by Mr. Zainal Abedin, a senior Journalist of Bangladesh and published by Fatema Shahad in November 1995. It is printed by Madina Printers and distributed by Madina Publications, 38 Banglabazar Dhaka – 1100, Bangladesh.

Mr. Zainal Abedin is a former student leader and a freedom fighter who crossed over to India in 1971 for military training, joined the Mujib Bahini and fought for the freedom of Bangladesh alongside the Indian Army. Mr Abedin holds a masters degree and a BEd.
In the book Mr Abedin ponders over the events of 1971 and 'one particular incident chastises me the most', he writes, It was in April 1971 in the district headquarters of Noakhali, his home district, where the freedom fighters were gathering, that he met his neighbour. A middle-aged, mature and sober person, his most staunch supporter and admirer. 'He got hold of my hand and took me to a nearby restaurant'. Narrates Mr Abedin, 'As we sipped tea, he started narrating the history of pre-1947 Bengal. He mentioned gory details of how the Hindus used to treat the Muslims and explained the reasons for creation of Pakistan. He said that struggling for one's right is different from break up of the country. He stated that India would first weaken us by breaking our unity and then exploit us. He added that his life time experiences had told him that India would never be sincere to Muslims. With tears in his eyes and hands trembling with emotions he quipped, 'Are you again going to make us the slaves of the Hindus?'.
Mr Abedin admits that he did not give any serious thought to the urging of his neighbour at that time as he was too young and emotional. 'The said question now haunts me often', he writes. 'The realization of what lay in store for us started soon after I crossed over to India. The attitude of our Indian handlers and trainers indicated that they treated us (the Freedom Fighters) not as friends but as agents. The real Indian face lay bare after the surrender of Pakistani forces, when I saw the large scale loot and plunder by the Indian Army personnel. The soldiers swooped on everything they found and carried them away to India. Curfew was imposed on our towns, industrial bases, ports, cantonments, commercial centres and even residential areas to make the looting easier. They lifted everything from ceiling fans to military equipment, utensils to water taps. Thousands of Army vehicles were used to carry looted goods to India. History has recorded few such cruel and heinous plunders. Such a large scale plunder could not have been possible without connivance of higher Indian authorities'. continue

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25
Aug

The Obama Administration’s policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of “suspected militants” in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children.

USA Drone Attacks in Pakistan US Drone Strike Destroys House Full of Children in Pakistan

The combined toll from the blast was 20 people killed, with at least four women and three children among the slain. At least 13 other civilians were also reported wounded, including a number of other children.

Pakistani intelligence officials say most of the “suspects” killed in the attacks were Afghans, but it is unclear how much evidence they had of wrongdoing. Large numbers of Afghan civilians have been living as refugees in the tribal areas since the 2001 US invasion.

The large numbers of civilians (700 in 2009 alone) killed in the US drone strikes has fueled considerable anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. When pressed during a previous visit Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shrugged off concerns about the civilians, saying only “there’s a war going on.”

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Aug

MahmoudAhmadinejad123 Ahmadinejad to visit flood hit Pakistan: minister

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will soon travel to flood-hit Pakistan to witness first hand the impact of the natural disaster that has engulfed Iran's eastern neighbour, the interior minister said Tuesday. "The president has decided to personally visit the affected areas to decide how to better help the flood victims," ILNA news agency quoted Mostafa Mohammad Najjar as saying. Najjar did not specify when Ahmadinejad's visit would take place.

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24
Aug

India Offer Financial Aid To Pakistan Flood Victims Indian Money Tainted With Kashmiri Blood

     A US client regime In Islamabad accepts insignificant Indian aid on US prodding

No respect for Kashmiri blood & no thought to Indian terrorism In Balochistan

The Government of Pakistan has truly shown its subservience to the United States on whose orders it chose to accept the puny amount of $5 million Indian aid for the flood relief. This money has the blood of Kashmiris on it and one wonders how our Kashmiri brethren must be feeling as they face the bullets of Indian forces every day and see us taking Indian "aid".

Some would say that we also took Indian assistance in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake but that was different in that the Indian aid was in kind and basically the two sides of Kashmir were opened up on humanitarian grounds. Later, it transpired that most of the Indian material aid, specifically targeted for Azad Kashmir, was tarnished. But even at that time we had refused to accept India's offer of helicopters for relief work – an offer which also had the conditionality that Indian crews would come with these copters.

But to accept money from India at a time when the Kashmiri youth have risen afresh against the Indian occupation and are being killed on a daily basis, and at a time when India is targeting Pakistan on false charges again on a regular basis, is a shame for the entire nation. Even as PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif was declaring that Pakistan did not need Western assistance, the US ordered the Pakistani leadership to meekly accept the Indian aid offer. In fact, barely had Senator Kerry departed that the Pakistanis accepted US diktat yet again. Kerry also compelled the government to target Pakistani religious charities doing a remarkable job of relief work.

Here is a country, India, with whom we have fought wars; a country that was instrumental in breaking up Pakistan; a country that continues to deny the Kashmiris their right of self-determination; and the moment the US commands, we accept a meager amount of aid from this same India. How can anyone take our position on Kashmir seriously when we are prepared to forget the people of Kashmir at the mere offer of a blood-soaked $5 million Indian loan? Certainly this reflects our total abandonment of the Kashmiri people in their hour of dire need and moral support.

What can you expect though from a government which allows its President to break all protocol and stand next to a mere Senator from the US for a press conference? This is our shame today – we have effectively become a vassal state of the US.

This column was published by TheNation. Reach Dr. Mazari at callstr@hotmail.com

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23
Aug

The scale of the disaster caused by the floods in Pakistan, is barely comprehensible. As Juan Cole has written, expressing near disbelief : "The submerged area of the country is as big as the United Kingdom, fourteen million Pakistanis are affected, two million are homeless." Six million need immediate relief, according to the UN., and thirty six thousand are suffering from acute diarrhoeal symptoms, with cholera already diagnosed. 1,600 are reported dead, with the number certain to multiply. Famine is a real possibility.

The great Indus river, one of the world's longest, which flows also through China, India and Kashmir, rising in Tibet and flowing in to the Arabian Sea, has flooded Sindh and Balochistan provinces, forcing the evacuation of over ninety percent of the villages. With no place to hide, people watched their homes washed away, in a monsoon season that continues through September. Hundreds of villages are inundated or completely under water, with roads, rail links, thus transportation cut, as frantic people try to flee to safer ground. It is the worst flooding in the country's history, with some experts saying the region worst affected for nearly one hundred years. A far wider area is now threatened.


Pakistan Map(1) Humanitarian Warfare in Pakistan: Bombs not Bread.

When the waters subside, the million-plus people who are directly or indirectly dependent on the mangroves, will have had their livelihood affected or erased, as will the fishermen along this great expanse.

Looking at US., news sites, the enormity of this tragedy has evoked not pity, but almost universal vindictiveness. One with over 19,000 comments are typified by: continue

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22
Aug

Canadian Sikh Leader Says The Sikh Nation Will Stand By Kashmiris, And Wants Freedom For Sikh Homeland

Worried Indian diplomats sneaked behind the curtains of the windows at the building of the Consulate General of India in this Canadian city as Kashmiris, Pakistanis, and Sikhs gathered across the street, drawing the attention of the Canadian media and public to an important idea whose time has come: an end to the Indian occupation of Kashmir.

Kashmiris Protest against India in Tronto Canada Get Out Of Kashmir, India

World Kashmiri Diaspora Alliance held a peaceful rally in front of the Consulate General of India in Toronto to ask the world powers important questions that must be answered that must be answered: “Should India get away with defiance of international agreements?”  and “Who has given India a license for the genocide of the Kashmiris and other minorities?”

The demonstrators included children, women, and the elderly. They raised slogans of protest saying, “Kashmiris demand the right to life.”

Protesters were carrying placards demanding “Indian Army: quit Kashmir”; “We demand self-determination, as agreed upon in 1948”; “India honor her pledges given at the UN”; “Stop killings & inhumane crimes in Kashmir”; “Stop state terrorism in Kashmir”; “Kashmiris demand peace & justice”. continue

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21
Aug

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who was away from his country when it was hit by the worst floods in 80 years, has topped a unique list of influential people who were conspicuously absent when they were needed the most.

zardari Zardari Tops List of Leaders Who were Absent when Needed Most

Releasing the list of five such people, the prestigious 'Foreign Policy' magazine said Zardari was travelling in Europe when millions of people had been affected by the devastating floods and hundreds others hit by political violence in his country.

"For a world leader, being seen directing relief efforts (or at least showing sympathy for the victims) is usually a good idea when a natural disaster strikes. 

"But for Pakistan's Zardari, forging ahead with a tour of Europe seemed more important -even after US officials privately urged him to discontinue the lavish trip, which allegedly included hotel stays that cost more than USD 11,000 a night," the Foreign Policy magazine said. Zardari's officials fired back, saying the President chose the "cheapest five-star hotel" in London — the Churchill Hyatt Regency — and even chose not to sleep in the royal suite, the magazine wrote. 

"The President's trip wasn't all fun and games, though — at a public speech during one of Zardari's final stops in Britain, a 60-year-old British-Pakistani protester hurled his shoes at the President in light of his decision not to return home. "This was the only means of protest available in front of me at that time," it quoted the demonstrator as saying after he was released by police. 

Zardari's absence continued on August 18 with a visit to the Black Sea resort at Sochi, Russia, where he met his Russian, Afghan, and Tajik counterparts for a security summit. "Perhaps wisely, Zardari decided not to stay for lunch and left quickly after the meeting," the magazine said.

Among other leaders part of the unique list are Yuri Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow, who was receiving physical therapy in the Austrian Alps while his city was engulfed with wildfires; and Wyclef Jean, a Hip-hop artist-turned Haitian presidential candidate who was "in hiding" at the time of reconstruction of the disaster-stricken country.

BP CEO Tony Hayward, who was on a yacht off the Isle of Wight during the oil spill in the Gulf; and Tony Woodley, General Secretary of Unite, Britain's largest labour union, who during the British Airways strikes was on a Mediterranean island villa, also figured in the list.

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20
Aug
  • Both US And PAF Are Responsible For Flood Relief Hurdles
  • Aid workers confirm they can’t reach half a million victims due to a US-related security cordon
  • Jacobabad cut off from the rest of the country

Shahbaz Air Base Jacobabad Pakistan Who Really Controls Shahbaz Air Base?

Pakistan Air Force arranged a hurriedly organized media tour yesterday to prove that the base is not under US control. But this does not appear to be the whole truth. Over the past eight years, PAF offered and withdrew different types of facilities to US military at the base. The Americans used the base mostly for logistical purposes and not to stage direct attacks against targets in Afghanistan or inside Pakistan’s northwestern region. But there were times when the number of US personnel at the base crossed 200, including special-forces operatives. According GlobalSecurity.org, Pakistani newspaper Daily Times claimed on 10 March 2004 that the airbase was under US control, “with an inner ring of facilities off-limits to Pakistan's military,” according to the paper. But in August 2010, there is credible information that new special residential barracks for US personnel have been constructed. Unfortunately, Pakistan has accepted to house US personnel who will ensure the country’s doesn’t ‘misuse’ the new F-16s. So despite PAF’s – and US Embassy’s – sharp reaction, it is clear there is some merit to the statement of Federal Health Secretary Kamran Lashari that US presence at the base is preventing using the base for flood relief operations. Another related issue is the level of Pakistani involvement in CIA drone attacks inside Pakistan that have killed a huge number of innocent Pakistanis and turned Pakistani citizens against their country. [PakNationalists.com] continue

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Aug

Pakistan Flood Victims Reject US/Indian ‘Help’

Will US now dictate how Pakistanis help their own flood victims? US is forcing ISPR to give media coverage to US helicopters, and wants the puppet Pakistani govt to ban Pakistani charities that are doing a good work just because US considers them enemies, while US puppets in govt refuse to do anything or even donate despite being millionaires? Jacobabad air base can’t be used for aid dispersement because US personnel are housed there to check we don’t misuse F-16s? And now this US-installed govt is accepting aid from India? Thieves in power fully protected by US & their local guarantors. May God have mercy on Pakistan where national spirit lies in the pits today thanks to these Abdul-Dollars. – Ahmed Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi appealed to the international community to provide more and immediate aid to cope with the humanitarian crisis due to the floods. Moreover, Pakistan has decided to accept flood aid from its neighbour India, saying the offer was a “very welcome initiative” as both countries look to improve their tense relations. Foreign Minister Qureshi told India’s NDTV television in an interview broadcast Friday that Islamabad would take India’s offer of five million dollars which was made last Friday.

“I can share with you that the government of Pakistan has agreed to accept the Indian offer,” Qureshi said from New York, where he addressed a special session of the UN General Assembly called to boost aid for flood victims. “I think this initiative of India is a very welcome initiative.”

India and Pakistan have made major efforts in recent months to build confidence in their relations, which were badly strained by the Mumbai 2008 terror attacks, which Indian blamed on militants from Pakistan. The United States urged Pakistan earlier this week to accept the Indian offer and not let rivalry stand in the way of helping its citizens in flood-ravaged regions. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rang his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday “to express his sense of sorrow and to condole the deaths resulting from the huge floods,” Singh’s office said.

The catastrophic floods in Pakistan have claimed nearly 1,500 lives and affected 20 million people.

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Aug

SPECIAL REPORT

Pakistani Politicians Where Are Pakistan’s Millionaire Politicians?

This is a lesson for the whole Pakistani nation. If you are a Pakistani reading this, please tell others. While the world’s rich dole out money to help Pakistan’s flood victims, Pakistan’s rich political elite refuses to budge. By now we should have been seeing members of this ruling elite buying tents, building shelters and providing gallons of clean drinking water to the homeless millions. But in every flooded district of the country, you will see Pakistani civilian and military volunteers. But not the politicians.

Consider this:

On the first day of a nationwide Saudi campaign to raise funds for the victims of floods in Pakistan on Monday, 17 Aug. 2010:

- King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdelaziz Al Saud, donated US$5.3 million from his private money to Pakistan flood victims

- Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdelzziz Al Saud gave away US$2.7 million from his private money

- Interior Minister Nayef bin Abdelaziz Al Saud gave away two million Saudi riyals

- Governor of Tabouk donated one million Saudi Riyals

- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al Saud gave ten million Saudi riyals

- Businessman Eesa bin Mohammad al Eesa, president of the Samba Financial Group, donated two million Saudi riyals

This is not to mention the sight of Saudi women who thronged public aid collection camps in different Saudis cities and were photographed by the international media donating their jewelry to King Abdullah’s campaign in support of Pakistan.  continue

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Aug

USA Airbase in Pakistan Airbase near Jacobabad under US Control

Health relief operations in Jacobabad are not possible because the airbase in the area is controlled by the US.

The stunning statement was made by Health Secretary Khushnood Lashari during an appearance at the Senate Standing Committee on Health on Wednesday.

“Health relief operations are not possible in the flood-affected areas of Jacobabad because the airbase is with the United States,” Mr Lashari said while answering a question asked by Senator Semeen Yusuf Siddiqui of PML-Q.

Dr Jahanzeb Aurakzai, coordinator of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Centre, said: “Foreign health teams could not start relief operations in remote areas because there are no airstrips close to several areas, including Jacobabad.”

The town has been evacuated and 500,000 to 700,000 people have been affected. People displaced from Jacobabad, Thul, Kandhkot, Kashmore, Ghouspur and Karumpur are camping in Dera Allahyar.

“It is very unfortunate that Americans can launch a drone attack from Shahbaz airbase but the government is helpless even in using the country’s base for relief operations,” Senator Semeen said while talking to this correspondent.

She said the health ministry should have requested the army to ask the US to allow relief operation from the base.

“I don’t know why the health minister failed to report the matter to the quarters concerned, specifically the Pakistan Army.

“The airbase, which I think the government has given on lease to the Americans, should be used to provide immediate health relief to the flood-affected people.”

The committee, headed by Senator Kulsoom Parveen, was briefed by officials on health-related operations in the affected areas.

APP adds: Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman has ordered PAF to form an air bridge of relief supply for Jacobabad which has been cut off from the rest of the country and make operational an airfield near Sibi for immediate supply of relief goods to flood-hit areas in the vicinity.

Presiding over a meeting, he asked the air staff to use all available human and material resources to provide timely relief to the affected people.

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18
Aug
  • Indian company controls dam on Kabul River, tens of dams control flow of Kashmir water into Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan
  •  Flood gates of Afghan Sarobi Dam, Indian Baglihar Dam were opened to drown Pakistani plains
  • Two US allies, the puppet regime in Kabul and the ‘strategic ally’ in New Delhi, declare water war on Pakistan
  • The tragedy one again raises question marks on the US double game against Pakistan in the region
  • · Melting glaciers have nothing to do with this tragedy; it also doesn’t explain why Kabul river surged

Pakistan Super Flood Check Indian, Afghan Dams For Floods In Pakistan

It’s not as if the clouds dodged borders and focused on Pakistan only. Pakistan’s water flows from Indian-occupied Kashmir and from US-occupied Afghanistan. A natural deluge should have shown some spillover effect into Indian and Afghan regions adjoining Pakistan. It is interesting that a second and a third wave of floods is expected in Pakistan when there’s no rain to justify it. Where is the water coming from? Here’s a perspective by Mr. Zaid Hamid, a security analyst at BrassTacks, and Ms. Gulpari Mehsud, a researcher at PakNationalists.com. [PakNationalists.com] continue

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18
Aug

Aey Watan K Sajeely Siyasat dano
Sare Raqbey tumharey Liye Hain

Kothiyon K Talabgar Ho Tum
Ploton K Parastar Ho Tum

O, Zalalat Ki Zinda Misalo
Saray karzey tmharey liye hain

Tum Hi Se Qaim Budget Ka Khsara
Lahoo pi lo ghariboo ka sara

Aey Jahanum k zinda nishano
Sarey Funds Tumarey Liye Hain

Aey Pak Watan K Ghadaro
O, America K Wafadaro

Ye jitni bhi hain is jahan mai
Sari Lanatain Tumhare Liye Hain…

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17
Aug

The recent floods have most strongly highlighted what absence of dams can do to a country. I have great trust in Pakistan and that Allah will not abandon us especially when Pakistanis want to take up the role that Allah wants for muslims and so I would more likely be inclined towards calling these recent floods a signal from Allah to make dams by shattering the propaganda on dams. Its true the floods have inflicted great hardship and azmaish on Pakistan but at the same time have also shattered the so called ANP and anti pakistan elements propaganda on KBD and other dams. Pakistan must urgently move towards making dozens of dams and without any delay. Whosoever stands in hindering it, should be put brought to good justice. This is a signal from Allah reminding us many things, one of which is dams also. Otherwise, there is no other way for Pakistan to confront India's plans working on Indus Water Treaty. Once it was more of apprehensions, now it has become reality. At the same time, we should also turn to Allah with honest hearts seeking His forgiveness and work to re-establish our link with Him by fulfilling our promise for Pakistan. He may be trying us but at the same time exposing everything working against Pakistan too. For sure He is the best planner. Pakistanis should more strongly raise their voices for constuction of dams in Pakistan.

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Supreme Court has been moved for immediate construction of the controversial Kalabagh Dam on Tuesday. The petition was filed by Advocate Azam Khan Sultanpuri, who made federal and provincial governments, members of the National Assembly and Senate the parties in his application. Advocate Sultanpuri argued that the World Bank had pledged to fund dams in Pakistan at the time of Indus Basin Treaty. However, these projects were ignored due to political compulsions, he said. He contended that the ongoing floods proved that the deluge could have been averted, had there Kalabagh Dam been constructed. The petition urged the apex court to order immediate construction of Kalabagh Dam so that flood-like natural catastrophes could be prevented in the future.

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16
Aug

Pakistan Flood Pakistan Flood Disaster is More Manmade than Natural‏

BrassTacks Report

There is a very sinister aspect to the floods in Pakistan which no one is discussing in media. While there were rains and flooding in some rivers of the country, the size, scale and amount of water which came into these rivers so suddenly defies logic, considering that rains have slowed down for couple of weeks now but floods continue to rise in Indus and Chenab. There were no flooding in India or in Afghanistan but the rivers that flow into Pakistan swelled beyond logic, causing death and devastation of unprecedented scale. Indians and Afghans have used water as weapon for the first time to deluge Pakistan. There is no doubt about it. This flood disaster is more manmade than natural.

All major rivers flowing into Pakistan including Indus are blocked by Dams by India. On Chenab River, Baglihar is the biggest project. After the first wave of floods, all the other inflowing rivers are flowing normally and there are no extra ordinary rains as well but suddenly Chenab and Indus Rivers go into high floods. Baghliar Dam has opened its flood gates to cause flooding in Chenab. While Sarobi Dam near Kabul controls Kabul river entering Pakistan.

The argument which the traitor ANP always gave to block the construction Kalabagh Dam was that it would drown and submerge Nowshehra city upstream, non-sense logic to start with. Ironically, even without this Dam, the city of Nowshshra and Charsadda were drowned in artificial floods created in Kabul river created by their Indian and Afghan patrons. Even more ironic is that fact that Charsadda is the stronghold and base regions of ANP!! Now they should be put on trial for their role in helping Indians to cause these floods! InshAllah soon. continue

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Aug

USA Military Support for Flood Relief in Pakistan U.S. Military’s Relief Effort in Pakistan Prompts Suspicions About Its Intentions

The U.S. military is pressing ahead in its efforts to support Pakistan’s army in bringing relief to millions of people affected by the worst flooding in the country’s history, undeterred by suspicions about its intentions.

Amid conspiracy theories that U.S. forces deployed in Pakistan could also be used against terrorists, a senior officer says the military does not spend a lot of time or energy worrying about rumors of hidden agendas behind the assistance.

“We would chase these things endlessly if we decided to make that our focus,” U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Michael Nagata told reporters in a conference call from Pakistan.

“What we try to do every single day is provide the support, the assistance and the partnership that the Pakistani government and military ask us for,” he said. “We’re not here to conduct anything other than humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Pakistan Sunday he had never seen such devastation, despite having witnessed the results of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and this year’s earthquake in Haiti.

Although the current death toll, around 1,600, is much lower than those earlier disasters, an estimated 20 million people reportedly are affected, with two million homeless and some six million in serious need of food and water. Cholera and other waterborne disease epidemics are looming, health experts warn.

The longer term damage in the still-unfolding disaster is harder to quantify, but huge swathes of Pakistan’s farmland have been destroyed, setting the scene for a major food crisis in the coming months.

The cotton crop also has been ruined. According to the Center for Research and Security Studies cotton and related products account for 67 percent of Pakistan’s export earnings.

Although the flooding has affected all four of Pakistan’s provinces and the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the worst-hit area for fatalities (about 1,000) and destruction of homes (415,000 plus) has been Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly the North-West Frontier Province), according to Pakistani government figures.

On August 4 the U.S. Army deployed six helicopters from Afghanistan to an airbase in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and over the ensuing days they rescued more than 3,500 stranded people and delivered hundreds of thousands of pounds of emergency relief supplies, despite poor weather conditions.

On August 11 Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered in 19 U.S. Marine and U.S. Navy helicopters, and the first of these, U.S. Marine CH-53E Super Stallions, began arriving the following day. Some are deploying from the USS Peleliu, an amphibious assault ship now in waters off Karachi.

As happened in the aftermath of a massive South Asian earthquake in 2005, charities linked to militant organizations are reportedly carrying out relief missions in flood-stricken areas where government aid has yet to reach, especially in the north-west. continue

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15
Aug

Pakistan Unity at Independence Day 63rd Independence Day: Destiny Beckons

63 years ago we made a covenant with Allah and had a tryst with destiny. Serried like tidal waves under the proud banner of Islam, led majestically from the front by an indomitable great leader, imbued and buoyed by the stirring lessons imparted by the poet of the east, swept over by a frission of unwanted unity and unheard of camaraderie, the multitude fell into a paroxysm of collective greatness and by defying and re-writing the known laws of human conduct altered the course of history forever. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did what hardly any other man can be credited with doing; Creating a nation state!

When the situation and the man meet, the machinery is set off by which history takes one direction instead of the other. The man met his situation with legendary aplomb and fate descended from the heavens to have a rendezvous with those who stood behind him like a rock, animated with the singular desire of making the greatest and most significant experiment in the entire human history. Pakistan was the result of that monumental and epoch changing experiment; a corollary of the man’s meeting with the situation; a testament of the rendezvous between the fate and a nation!  continue

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Indian Kashmir - Part Of Pakistan Bharat Mata   Mother India Kashmir: Trapped Within Hindu Nationalist Imagination
Greater Kashmir Movement Bharat Mata or Mother India

 

On 26 January 1992, Murli Manohar Joshi, the leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, after travelling by road all the way from the southern tip of India, was airlifted from Jammu to the heart of Srinagar where he half-raised the Indian flag near historic Lal Chowk. All of Kashmir was put under severe curfew, and the army was given shoot-at-sight orders. Throughout the day soldiers shot dead more than a dozen Kashmiris in the streets of Srinagar. Over the previous two years, the Indian government had unleashed a reign of terror on the people, with massacre upon massacre of unarmed protestors dotting Kashmir’s timeline. Joshi’s Ekta Yatra (Unity March), protected and provided of full support by the Indian government, was an important reminder of the nature of the Indian state and the relationship it sought with the people of Kashmir. The event was designed to put on display the majoritarian character of Indian nationhood, and line up power of the state behind it to send barely coded messages to audiences in India and in Kashmir.

In the 1980s, overt Hindu nationalism, after years of keeping a relatively low profile, had been gaining momentum across India. Post-Emergency, Indira Gandhi openly started pandering to Hindu chauvinism. On an election campaign in Jammu in 1983, Gandhi shocked many with her rabid communal pronouncements. The Congress party’s changing discourse gave fillip to even more extremist parties. While Congress soon ranged its guns at Sikhs, other Hindu nationalists gathered storm around the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya. The Congress government of Rajiv Gandhi, which came to power after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, was not only soft on the rise of Hindutva, but clearly displayed a soft Hindutva of its own. From communally charged rituals, like the foundation laying (Shilanyas) ceremony for the proposed Ram Temple near the 16th century mosque, Hindus in India were mobilized into a frenzied movement that would realize some of the social and political projects whose history dates back to the pre-1947 politics of the subcontinent. continue

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India 2010 Commonwealth Games India Expected To Raise Tension With Pakistan During Commonwealth Games

Security analysts who reviewed India’s record fear New Delhi might use terrorism at Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 to divert international media’s attention away from deeply embarrassing preparations for the event.

Traffic jams, shoddy game venues and a lousy organization are expected to create an international embarrassment for India in the Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 in October. Already the media coverage is giving Indian officials sleepless nights, with less-than-inspiring headlines such as Commonwealth Games: Safety fears grow amid chaos‎, Organizers of India’s Commonwealth Games Face Corruption Allegations and Commonwealth Games: Safety fears grow amid chaos‎.

But the worst could be yet to come: a terrorist attack on New Delhi killing international athletes carried out by any one of the one hundred deadly terror groups active in India. These groups fuel fourteen violent insurgencies that receive little coverage in the international media. Topping the list is the Naxalite insurgency that covers most of northeastern India.

This is to say nothing of the freedom movement in disputed Kashmir where angry Kashmiris are breathing down on New Delhi because of extrajudicial killings and mass rapes by the Indian army. Security analysts say that experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan indicate there is bound to be blowback from an angry suppressed population.

Diplomats from New Zealand have already warned their government about the chances of a terror attack targeting the games.

Already in February this year a German bakery frequented by tourists was bombed killing seventeen people, including four foreigners. No one claimed responsibility but the location could mean one of the northeastern Indian militant groups might have been involved.

Blame It On Pakistan continue

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PKKH Editorial | Sarmad Gilani

Jashn-e-Azadi Mubarak!

Do not lose faith because of our hardships and misfortunes; despite
what any person may try, Pakistan is safe and sound. Having a bad
driver or bad directions doesn’t take away from the grandeur of a
priceless vehicle.

Pakistan is more than a nation. It is a gift, a mission, and a vehicle
that is to be steered at the behest of its Creator. The misfortune is
not of Pakistan itself or our esteemed people; the misfortune belongs
to those who abandon Pakistan and instead enrich themselves, because
they are missing the opportunity to cement their name in history as
being the leader that steered Pakistan towards it’s destiny.

Politicians are not in control; they can merely grab the steering
wheel and try and give Pakistan a jolt as it travels on the road of
destiny. Inshallah, our destiny is one of prosperity, progress, and
peace; moderation, modernity, and staying firm to our Islamic
principles.

Celebrate not just our independence as a state, but our independent identity.
We are not Sindhi, Balochi, Punjabi, or Pathan–we stand strong and we
are Pakistan.

Pakistan Zindabad.

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Pakistan is the modern incarnation of a people, a culture and a civilization that stretched across ten centuries and beyond from Central Asia to Sindh River basin, to India, uniting languages and cultures, from the Persians, Turks, and Arabs to Aryans, and Indians.

In its modern form, for 63 years since Independence in 1947, Pakistanis have shown themselves to be a resilient nation, marching against all odds. Our enemies have tried to punish us with terrorism directed against ordinary Pakistanis on many occasions, in the 1970s and 1980s, and during the past eight years. These days many of us face daunting challenges. Our people in Kashmir continue to face terror and repression. But Pakistanis are coming together to help their own.

Sixty-three years ago, skeptics claimed this nation won't survive. We had our share of setbacks but we also wrote a new chapter in the history of politics and nation-states.

Today, Pakistan's young, close to one hundred million, are now the guardians of the vision of the Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Pakistan is a proud, modern, Islamic nation. This is a story of brave women and men, products of a great history, now contributing to the global march of civilization with pride, a unique history, and a glorious future.

A salue to the nation on Pakistan Independence Day 2010.

 

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Pakistan Floods Brings Unease to People The Soul of the Land of the Pure   Pakistanis

Photographs of ordinary Pakistanis offer a glimpse into the soul of the nation [GETTY]

It is the sheer scale of the devastation that leaves one speechless. As one surveys the overhead photos of vast lowland plains inundated with swirling brown water or stares at the upland images of mighty torrents washing away roads, bridges, entire villages, it is the utter scope of the disaster which almost defies comprehension, which far outstrips the power of words to convey.

Only the flint-hearted could be left unmoved by this. The heart aches for Pakistan.

But it is only in the photos of the people that one begins to grasp the full dimension of what is happening and, through that prism, to gain a glimpse into the soul of the Land of the Pure. continue

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onedaysoldier SOLDIER FOR A DAY

On the 63rd Independence day Master Abdul Basit a 15 year old boy made a history to become soldier of Pakistan Army for a day. The young, patriotic lad, who is suffering from blood cancer had expressed his desire to Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani through an NGO “Make A Wish Foundation” that he wanted to be soldier of Pakistan Army, may be for a day. Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani took special interest and allowed the child to become a soldier for a day and spend time in a unit on the Independence Day of Pakistan.

Master Abdul Basit, though very weak and fragile, because of his ailment put on the uniform like a professional soldier and reported to unit of Punjab Regiment at Malir Cantt Karachi. The young soldier was warmly welcomed at the unit. Later, Master Abdul Basit spent a busy day with officers and men of his unit.

Master Abdul Basit after a day’s work with soldiers said that his life time dream to join Pakistan Army has come true and he cherished every minute spent with the soldiers. 

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There's something happening, something building up against Zardari & Co., and it's something big. Infact, it always has been there, just that these floods didn't add any water to the fire. There are reports of growing public anger against the PPP government, infact against every man and woman they know by the label of 'Politician'. This time however, it's not mere anger. There have been signs of riots and civil unrest too because of a colossal political failure and an attitude of unending indifference towards the nation. And while the playboy Zardari was in UK to ready another curse for Pakistan [in the form of his own boy this time], we didn't see any other famous crooks on the ground.

Just what has any of these bloody politicians done except even denying helping the Pakistanis with a least donation. We don't need these leaders, who made them leaders in first place. I think these floods have done it. Zardari government, in fact all of this political structure of sham, this wicked borrowed democracy, is coming down. Someone said it right, lynching awaits them. continue

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Pakistani Nation Don’t Let It Fall   My Countrymen

It is a humbling reminder that the worst is not over yet. As you read this in the comfort of your homes or offices, remind yourselves of the responsibility and debt you to this country and its unfortunate masses.

Pakistan is still facing the worst of calamities. As we stand at 63rd independence , our hearts and minds are bruised with the most recent and painful incidents such as plane crashes, sectarian and target killings, suicide bombings and the worst of all, the biggest flood disaster in the country’s history. Over 5000 lost lives, 15 milliondisplaced or affected and 1.4 million acres (about 570,000 hectares) of farmland under water, 80 % of infrastructure destroyed.

Mothers rock their children to sleep on empty stomachs. Others wait to hear news of loved ones lost in the floods. Some men agree amongst themselves to go back to their homes, hoping to salvage some clothes, rice, anything they can find, but return empty handed and barely able to face their wives and children. All the dreams and hopes are washed in merciless water.

Evil has appeared on land and sea because of what the hands of men have earned (by oppression and evil deeds), that He (Allâh) may make them taste a part of that which they have done, in order that they may return (by repenting to Allâh, and begging His Pardon). Verse:041, Sura Al Room

Have we pondered upon the fate that has befallen us. “Why” is the big question to ask! continue

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zardari & israel relationship Zardari Administration Secretly Working to Establish Ties with Israel

In a development that could trigger a serious political backlash against the government, Pakistan is said to have opened its camp office in Tel Aviv, while the two sides are engaged in a series of covert talks to find out possibilities to establish direct links, top-level diplomatic sources told The Nation.

Most interesting part of this episode is that a prominent politician who is also the chief of a religious party, has played vital role in bringing the two sides at a point which could lead Pakistan, following footsteps of Turkey, to recognise Israel in near future.

Sources told TheNation that Pakistani authorities including a prominent politician belonging to a religious party, have been holding talks with Israeli authorities, which took place in Paris and London recently. When contacted by this correspondent on telephone, FO Spokesperson Abdul Basit strongly denied such reports and saying Pakistan’s policy towards Israel was very much clear and it was using no backdoor channel to establish link with Israel.

It is pertinent to mention here that Pakistani authorities, keeping in view Israel ‘s position in global scenario, have many a time met Israeli authorities on different occasions in the past. Israel and Pakistan are key allies of the US, and there have been indications of warming ties between them.

In 2005, Israel’s then-foreign minister, Silvan Shalom met his Pakistani counterpart, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, in Turkey, sparking protests from Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan. In September 2006, Musharraf had said Pakistan’s government would have to recognise Israel after an independent Palestinian state was established-but not before. “We cannot do something that sidelines us from the Muslim world,” Musharraf had said at that time. Another secret meeting between former President Musharraf and Israel’s defence minister took place in Paris in January 2008.

The two states have no diplomatic ties, and their officials rarely meet. But Musharraf and Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak held a scheduled 20-minute meeting in January 2008 in Paris.

The Nation  

 
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Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has called for adequate steps to purge Afghanistan of the terrorists’ havens. General Kayani made this demand during the daylong 31st meeting of the Tripartite Commission held in Kabul on
August 9.

“Such a demand from the Pakistan Army has come for the first time since inception of the Commission comprising USA-led ISAF, Afghanistan and Pakistan,” well-placed sources privy to the meeting informed TheNation on Wednesday. According to the informed sources, General Kayani emphasised the need for elimination of safe sanctuaries being used by the terrorist groups inside Afghanistan.

Sources said General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Chief of Army Staff, General David H Petreaus, Commander International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and General Sher Muhammad Kirmi, Chief of General Staff of Afghan National Army, who headed the respective delegations, attended the meeting.

Sources were of the view that General Kayani called upon the allied commanders of ISAF and ANA for elimination of the terrorists’ hideouts on Afghan soil, as they were equally creating problems for Pakistan through illegal border crossing. Sources said that General Kayani regretted that despite massive resources both in terms of men and material ISAF and ANA had failed to curb illegal border crossing and infiltration of militants into Pakistan.

He also pointed out the measures taken by the Pakistan Army on the Pak-Afghan border to curb the illegal border crossing, but he was disappointed over the lack of adequate security checkpoint on the Afghan side of the border.General Kayani, the informed sources said, also expressed his disappointment over the Western media’s allegations about existence of the terrorists’ sanctuaries in Pakistani territory bordering Afghanistan.

He had also taken serious exception to the baseless criticism against the ISI by the so-called independent Western media, and brushed aside the unfounded and baseless allegations against Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency.The meeting agreed to further enhance coordination to improve the security on Pak-Afghan border.

The Nation

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