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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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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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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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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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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.

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