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23
Feb

The founder of modern Pakistan, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, was a muslim Pakistani. He was enigmatic, eloquent, and determined. Like Turkey's Grey Wolf, Ataturk, Jinnah helped a great people find a place in the modern world. This brief documentary captures the spirit of the Pakistani Grey Wolf.

Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah

tafbutton blue16 JINNAH: Pakistans Grey Wolf
Category : Pakistan News
22
Feb

With Pakistan still undecided when to formally seek intervention of the International Court of Arbitration against controversial construction of Kishanganga hydropower project by India in violation of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, New Delhi has started preparations to build another big dam on River Chenab.

Documents available with Dawn suggest that the government of Indian-occupied Kashmir has invited bids for a ‘topographical survey of Bursar Dam (on Chenab) for acquisition of land and property’. New Delhi plans to begin construction by the end of the year.

Bursar Dam is considered as the biggest project among a host of others being built by India on two major rivers – Jhelum and Chenab – flowing through the state of Jammu & Kashmir into Pakistan and assigned to Islamabad under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty. The proposed dam would not only violate the treaty, international environmental conventions and cause water scarcity in Pakistan but would also contribute towards melting of Himalayan glaciers. continue

tafbutton blue16 India plans dam on River Chenab
Category : Pakistan News
21
Feb

This was my first interaction with the soldier who commands the seventh largest military force on the face of the planet." With this catchy line, Dr. Farrukh Saleem began his brief and fascinating account of a meeting with General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. On Feb. 10, 2010, Gen. Kayani met a group of Pakistani commentators and security analysts. The briefing was the third since the military began asserting Pakistan's legitimate security and strategic interests in Afghanistan and the region. 

On January 28 and 29, Gen. Kayani told NATO commanders in Brussels that Pakistan's legitimate security interests will have to be respected. Earlier, he told Adm. Mike Mullen, Gen. David Petraeus, and Gen. Stanley McChrystal that instead of worrying about appeasing India, Washington better start paying attention to Pakistan. This is a major development in the eight-year US-led war in Afghanistan. At one point, Mr. Saleem makes an interesting observation about Gen.Kayani's cool demeanor.

"Yes, he has the capacity for abstract thought, cold rationality and coarse creativity – all in one," he says. "And yet he inhales reconstituted tobacco. Yes, he uses a filter and a cigarette holder. Yes, he never takes deep puffs and, yes, he only consumes half a cigarette at a time." At another point, Mr. Saleem makes an interesting use of pun. Talking about the general's smoking habits, he says the following: 'He knows that some of the things that he is doing are wrong, but still won't give them up.' Probably it's a polite reference to the conspiracy theories that fill the US and British media, or the Am-Brit media, about Pakistan, its military and its intelligence agencies. So some skepticism is natural. Source – Ahmed Quraishi continue
tafbutton blue16 A Smart Coup: Why One Last Military Intervention In Pakistan Remains A Possibility
Category : Pakistan News
19
Feb

Pakistan army chief has offered to train the Afghan army. This is part of a list of demands – not all of them made public – that seek to correct a basic American mistake: While courting Pakistan as an ally, Washington secretly empowered India.Until last month, Washington was hoping that India’s relatively cheaper soldiers will come handy where the Europeans won’t, and that a bungled Afghan project could be continued on, well, a leaner budget.

Washington is now in the process of correcting this mistake. And not because of any real change in heart. It’s just that Islamabad is reasserting itself.This has sent alarm bells ringing in New Delhi. And within the pro-Indian media in Washington.Exhibit A: an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Let India Train the Afghan Army, written by Indian analyst Sumit Ganguly on Feb. 14. The op-ed could have been written in the national security adviser’s office in New Delhi. The talking points might as well have originated there.Mr. Ganguly basically begs Washington to consider the Indian army for a role in Afghanistan. Not doing that, he warned, would amount to ‘a grave strategic error’. The op-ed actually ends with these three words.The Indian analyst sounded almost desperate with his pushy sales pitch [Example: India’s army enjoys ‘an optimal "teeth to tail" ratio, specifically trained in counterinsurgency operations’]. continue
tafbutton blue16 India is one of the reasons for the US debacle in Afghanistan
Category : Pakistan News
19
Feb

Gen. (R) Hamid Gul in an exclusive interview on Al Jazeera:

tafbutton blue16 Fear Is No Policy Surrender Is No Option: Gen (R) Hamid Gul
Category : Pakistan News
19
Feb

Mossad role in Turkey coup plot revealed – Tuncay Gueny is suspect of attempts to topple Turkish government. *Israel's national intelligence agency Mossad has been behind a failed coup in Turkey, the Turkish daily newspaper,/ Milliyet/ reports. *

A secret investigation into detained Ergenekon group members and other studies outside Turkey indicate that Mossad orchestrated the coup plot against the Turkish government, the report says. The Ergenekon group is a Turkish neo-nationalist organization with alleged links to the military, members of which have been arrested on charges of plotting to foment unrest in the country. Investigators uncovered evidence that show a Jewish rabbi named Tuncay Guney, who worked for Mossad and fled to Canada in 2004, was a key figure behind attempts to overthrow the Turkish government.

A document uncovered this week by the /Sabah/ daily shows how Guney purposefully infiltrated Ergenekon and another organization known as JITEM, an illegal intelligence unit in the gendarmerie suspected of hundreds of murders and kidnappings . The rabbi was taken out of Turkey and sent to the US for protection after his identity was exposed in an investigation by Turkish police, according to Sabah.

Guney is also reported to have links with Israeli espionage activities in Egypt. According to Egyptian security forces, at least one of three suspects currently being pursued by the Egyptian government for spying was in contact with Tuncay Guney. Meanwhile, a separate report by Turkish daily /Yeni Safak/ has claimed that Turkish security forces have discovered some bags in Guney's Istanbul house that include the Israeli flag and Mossad's slogan.

According to an earlier report by/ Aksam/another Turkish daily, Mossad has been involved in several ambiguous events in Turkey. The report claimed that Turkish security forces have discovered documents that disclose information concerning suspicious investment and economic activities by certain Jewish businessmen in Turkey. The Jewish businessmen are alleged to have had significant relations with individuals, political groups and cultural organizations, which investigations show are affiliated to the Ergenekon group. Turkish security forces have detained many members of the Ergenekon group, including retired army generals, politicians, popular lawyers and famous journalists. The individuals currently face trail on charges of plotting to overthrow Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

tafbutton blue16 Israeli Mossad Role in Turkey Coup Plot Revealed
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