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Marking World Food Day today, October 16, 2009, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) called on the world to remember the more than one billion urgently hungry people, nearly half of them in India, with inadequate access to food.

“World Food Day is actually "No Food Day" for almost one out of every six people around the world this year,” WFP executive director Josette Sheeran said in Rome. “Our challenge is to turn ‘No Food Day’ back into ‘World Food Day’ for the hundreds of millions without food on their table tonight.”
Babu Matthew, country director for ActionAid India, said: "The dark side of India's economic growth has been that the excluded social groups have been further marginalized, compounding their hunger, malnutrition and even leading to starvation deaths."
Among the developing countries ranked by Action Aid for Hunger, Brazil wins the top spot with B grade (no country gets an A on a scale from A to E), with the aid agency praising President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's support for land reform and community kitchens for the poor.
ActionAid said Brazil's success shows "what can be achieved when the state has both resources and political will to tackle hunger".
China (B grade) is also gets high marks for cutting the number of hungry by 58 million in 10 years through strong state support for smallholder farmers.

But the report is critical of resurgent India, which receives the lowest possible E (essentially an F) grade for hunger. It says 30 million Indians have been added to the ranks of the hungry since the mid-1990s and 46% of children are underweight. Pakistan, with grade D, is also ranked low, with 31% of its children underweight. Bangladesh, receiving C grade, is praised for reducing the number of chronically food-insecure people from 40 million to 27 million in the past 10 years and for improving childhood nutrition in the past two decades. But the report says Bangladesh has a long way to go to reduce overall malnutrition and build a sustainable agricultural system.
A recent British government report has described India as nutriti onal weakling. There is widespread hunger and malnutrition in all parts of India. India ranks 66th on the 2008 Global Hunger Index of 88 countries while Pakistan is slightly better at 61 and Bangladesh slightly worse at 70. The first India State Hunger Index (Ishi) report in 2008 found that Madhya Pradesh had the most severe level of hunger in India, comparable to Chad and Ethiopia. Four states — Punjab, Kerala, Haryana and Assam — fell in the 'serious' category. "Affluent" Gujarat, 13th on the Indian list is below Haiti, ranked 69. The authors said India's poor performance was primarily due to its relatively high levels of child malnutrition and under-nourishment resulting from calorie deficient diets.
According to Economic Survey 2008-09, presented by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan's economy grew by a mere 2.0 percent, barely keeping pace with population growth. The growth fell significantly short of the 4.5 percent target for the year, which was already very modest compared with an average of 7% economic growth witnessed from 2001-2008. As a result of the nation's economic troubles, there have been massive job losses and significant anecdotal evidence of increase in poverty and hunger. The lines for free food paid for by charities have been growing, with a sense of desperation not seen before, brought in sharp focus by the shameful deaths of several destitute women in Karachi scrambling to grab free wheat bags.
The ActionAid hunger score card is a sobering reminder for both India and Pakistan of how the nuclear armed neighbors lag most of the nations of the world in meeting the basic nutritional requirements of their people. Particularly disturbing are the high rates of underweight children at 44% in India and 31% in Pakistan. This egregious neglect of children by South Asians amounts to condemning their future generations to permanent brain damage.
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"I fear there will be a bloody revolution in India," a retired Indian military officer remarked to this writer and other guests during a recent visit to New Delhi. It was shocking to hear the comment from a soldier, in a country that supposedly had given a voice to its huge population and was believed to be all-inclusive.
It is obvious that India's much-praised democracy hasn't brought any real change in the lives of millions of Indians. That some of the poorest men and women are now up in arms in parts of India is evidence enough that democratically elected governments must do more to provide rights and justice to the rural poor and ensure even-handed development in different parts of the country.
The Naxalite violence in India has caused pain to most thinking Indians. For them it is a matter of anguish that a growing number of Indians are disillusioned with their country's democracy and see no hope of benefiting from India's steady economic progress. They have picked up the gun to fight for their rights.
The Maoist-linked violence is spreading and engulfing new places. The vast region affected by the insurgency include the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal and runs south through Orissa, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. It is usually called the "Red Corridor" because the leadership for the rebels is provided by communist cadres labelled as Maoists. The Communist Party of India (Marxists-Leninists), despite suffering splits, is still the standard-bearer of the rebels.
According to reports in the Indian media, more than 220 districts in 20 or so states are now affected by Maoist-linked violence. Indian intelligence agencies believe the movement has at its disposal 20,000 armed cadres and over 50,000 regular members. Apart from the rural poor, indigenous tribes such as the Girijans in Andhra Pradesh and Santhals in West Bengal have been flocking to the Naxalite movement. The movement has appeal for the dispossessed and the under-privileged. In the words of its present leader, Mupalla Laxman Rao, in hiding somewhere in eastern India and better known as Ganapathi, his party's influence has grown stronger and it was now the only genuine alternative before the people of India.
The Naxalite movement began as a peasants' uprising in May 1969 in the village of Naxalbari in West Bengal. It was initially led by 49-year-old Charu Mazumdar and its aim was to seize power through an agrarian revolution by overthrowing the feudal order. Mazumdar died in police custody 12 days after his arrest in Calcutta in 1972 and became a hero to Maoist cadres that have increased in number and strength over the years despite splits in the movement. The Naxalite insurgency has sprouted after every defeat and is now stronger than ever.
India's share of the world's poorest people has increased to 39 percent from 25 percent in 1980. In comparison, the Below Poverty Line population worldwide has decreased from 1,470 million to 970 million. There are reportedly 301 million Indians below the poverty line, just 19 million less than in 1983. The Human Development Report by the UN has been ranking India among the lowest 60 or 65 countries in the list of 193 nations that are part of the annual study. India's poor performance on this score was in spite of the around nine percent growth rate in its GDP. There are reports in the media about farmers committing suicide or selling their wives to pay mounting debts. Though the recorded figures of such cases aren't high in a big country such as India with 1.17 billion people, it still indicates the desperate state of certain communities.
Bangalore is an Indian city where hi-tech and crippling poverty live side by side.
As the rate of development in Bangalore gathers pace, some fear that the many impoverished communities that also call the city home may be left behind.
Since the liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s, the Indian tech sector has expanded rapidly.
The major players - including Microsoft, Infosys, Cisco and Google - exist in enormous "tech parks" crammed with tall, shiny office buildings.
Meanwhile on the same block, piles of rotting rubbish, beggars and stray dogs surround traffic that is heavy with pollution and often locked in a loud and aggressive jam.
Contrast in this city is not new; the levels of poverty are growing faster than the tech industry as migrant workers from other states join the population to aid the development.
There are concerns that this impoverished population could be left behind in the city of the future, unless big businesses acknowledge that the local infrastructure is under a great deal of pressure.
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Many foreign businesses have set up outsourcing hubs in Bangalore and beyond - India is a leader in this type of business.
Meanwhile non-governmental organizations and aid workers struggle to support the poorer aspects of society, and many believe that big businesses could have a more influential hand in helping those who are not doing so well out of the tech boom.
Azim Premji is the chairman of Wipro, one of the largest companies in India. He recognized the issues of his local communities and created the Azim Premji foundation.
It is a separate venture to his corporation and privately funded. It addresses methods of education in the hope that supporting youth will mean creating a better society in the long run.
####And I dont see any UNDP link so far (of yr tall claims) from your majesty?????####
Here he throws the towel this Pakistani lier.......but I still give him a chance to come with a UNDP link that PROOVES his point beyond any rebuttal-refutal.......
Rest in piece resident moulivi of chowk.....
You are welcome to make a total fool of yourself any where, any time, any topic, by baring your fangs loaded with unadulterated venom against Muslims and Pakistanis. It only exposes your unabashed bigotry and extreme hatred, completely devoid of any logic, reason or intelligence.
Ohh so you are begging for attention like million Karachi beggars? LOL
I will follow you, and yr lies every where on earth, but I can not follow you to dozakh-hell....there you be alone with yr typical lies against kafers you hindu hater......
And I dont see any UNDP link so far (of yr tall claims) from your majesty?????
Come clear my namby pamby google chacha aka resident moulivi of chowk........
It's about two Indian-Americans arrested by a third Indian American for violating US securities laws to enrich themselves dishonestly.
Go get your band of bigots to pounce on it.
No manuplation from My part, both datas are on a same page. However I have given a link below for the year 2006 (for both countries and see)
http://www.photius.com/rankings/economy/population_below_poverty_line_ 2006_1.html
QUOTE:
"In Pakistan, poverty declined until the 1990s. Since then, slow economic growth, low human capital - especially for women -- and poor governance have contributed to rising poverty. Today, about 32 percent of the population live below the poverty line."
Source Asian Development Bank:
http://www.adb.org/Pakistan/povertyred.asp
Quoting "The News" from Pakistan who are quoting Pakistani Government source:
roughly estimated the rising inflation in the wake of high prices of petroleum products and food commodities, has caused a hike in the number of poor people to 64 million or 40 per cent of the total population of 160 million.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=168412
In recent times Pakistan pooors have increased due to high inflation, so dont defend your country on this count, as the best indicator is that of Karachi´s million beggars LOL
I know you won't stop here in your pursuit of false glory for PAKISTAN (and you) by continuing to play to play this game of falsehoods. But I am sure most objective readers can see through your dishonest intent.
Does it make any sense to you to compare 2001 data for one nation with 2007 data for another for ranking purposes? Or is it too much for your malnourished feeble brain to fathom? These tactics indicate to me that are either a complete moron or a big fraud. I'll let you choose which you prefer.
It;s the same story on HDI rankings. You are misleading the readers by presenting incorrect data from a secondary source, Worldvision, rather than correct data from the primary source which is UNDP.
I know you won't stop here in your pursuit of false glory for India (and you) by continuing to play to play this game of falsehoods. But I am sure most objective readers can see through your dishonest intent.
Ohh Really?
Most poorest countries!
1 Liberia: 80%
56 Pakistan: 35%
83 India: 25%
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_pop_bel_pov_lin-economy-population-be low-poverty-line
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Pakistan is ranked 142 on the Human Development Index, compared to India 118 and Uganda 146. United Nations Development Programme.
http://meero.worldvision.org/sf_pakistan.php
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ISLAMABAD (October 06 2009): Pakistan's Human Development Index (HDI) rose by 1.30 percent per annum from 0.402 to 0.572 during 1980-2007 period, which improved the country's rank to 141 from among 182 countries against India's 134, Bangladesh 146 and Nepal 144. The two extremes are that Norway ranks first and Afghanistan and Niger are at 181 and 182 end, says Human Development Report 2009, launched by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). BY Paki source:
http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=968129
SHAME ON YOU AND YOUR LIES SENIOR PAKI ALUMINIUM........
As usual, you continue to offer blatant lies rather data or cite credible sources. It's clear you have no interest in seeking the truth.
The 42% real poverty rate in India, according to UN, is about twice the rate in Pakistan.
The following UN data should expose your lies:
"Poverty rates also went down in South and South-West Asia. One of the most striking achievements was in Pakistan where between 1990 and 2004 the share of the population living on less than $1.25 a day declined from 64.7 to 22.6 per cent. Other countries in the subregion, except Turkey, also made progress, if more slowly than Pakistan. In India, for instance, between 1990 and 2005 the poverty rate fell from 51.3 to 41.6 per cent in 2005. Since these countries have large populations, falling rates mean that many millions of people are escaping poverty."
http://www.unescap.org/stat/data/syb2008/17-poverty-and-in equality.asp
Causes of death in India and Pakistan or worldwide vary. And there are hundreds of them. Unfortunately few of them are available but not all of them. Should you have the complete list, please copy n paste it here then!
####And how do you explain India being ranked worse than Pakistan on World Hunger Index?####
Simply because Pakistan has 35% poverty rate versus India´s 25% now you do the math if you lack the common sense to come to a conclusion.
The figure that there are million beggars alone in the city of Karachi should SHUT your mouth LOL
Do you want me to paste these gory pictures of Pakis lined up for dole? LOL
http://www.topnews.in/beggars-paradise-karachi-receives-one-million-begga rs-during-ramzan-265591
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/beggar s-paradise-karachi-receives-one-million-beggars-during-ramzan_10093895.html
####Indians are dying in large numbers from hunger and poor sanitation. ####
So why R Pakis dying earlier than Indians? which is a fact that you can not refute:
"7.85 deaths/1,000 population (Pakistan)
6.4 deaths/1,000 population (India)"
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_dea_rat-people-death-rate
20 muhatarma died of stampede when collecting free flour bags in deseperation - show me any such example from India in recent time? Pakistani inflation rate is about 22% vs India´s about 7%, and Pakistani ruppee is 84 to USD vs India´s 46 so which country out of the two would have more hungry n beggars? take the course of economic 101 LOL
So which nation has more hungry n poor now? need a calculator? or a common sense?
Karachi alone having million beggars should stop this balderdash from your end if you have an iota of shame - other than that, keep on being the joker here with red nose, if not black eyes LOL
You claim you always cite sources. What is the source of your information about death causes in Pakistan and India?
And how do you explain India being ranked worse than Pakistan on World Hunger Index? How do you explain India getting the worst grade on hunger by ActionAid just two days ago?
And how do you explain the UNICEF statistics that sanitation in India is the worst in South Asia, with India being far behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and, even Afghanistan, that causes over 2 million Indian children each year to die from poor sanitation?
Let me see how you distort so many different sources of data saying essentially the same thing: Indians are dying in large numbers from hunger and poor sanitation.
The pattern and variables of deaths are different in the USA to that of Pakistan. For example the Traffic accicdents, violent homicides and suicides and so on. More, white americans are least affected by these factors:
American-Indian children ages 1 to 4 have the highest death rates (49 per 100,000), followed by African-American children (46 per 100,000), Hispanic children (29 per 100,000), non-Hispanic white children (28 per 100,000) and Asian/Pacific Islander children (23 per 100,000)
The violent death rate (suicide, homicide, and accidents) among the young in the United States has recently increased and is currently higher than ever recorded.
Pakistani people of dying more by virtue of tubercolosis, hepatitis, hunger, malnutrition whereas americans are not!
####engage in more distortion of the data####
I have always provided the source, something where you are on a slippery slope. Example gratia: On beggers you could not provide any STATICTICS, yet blabbering big time on the same issue with hollow words. This is like shooting in the foot.
Just think about this a little more before you engage in more distortion of the data, and more personal abuse and insults that reflect badly on you.
So why R Pakis dying earlier than Indians? which is a fact that you can not refute:
"7.85 deaths/1,000 population (Pakistan)
6.4 deaths/1,000 population (India)"
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_dea_rat-people-death-rate
On a life expectancy, Pakistan is in the bracket of 60-65 whereas India stands tall at 67.5 to 70.......
And here is mother of all the source/intelligence/ information from CIA Factbook: Life_Expectancy_2008_Estimates_ CIA_World_Factbook
Both the statictics match and make the sense why pakistanis are dying ahead of Indians just because their life expectancy is shorter than Indians.
Use your Madersa math and come to conclusion.......and yes if you want war of words - I deliver like no other, when provoked......so dont even come there....keep focused on your Paki fellows who are dying of stampede either in Mecca or on a flour bags..
I don't need to fool a fool, it's unnecessary.
Read the latest UNDP data as reported by your India newspaper: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india-inching-up-un-human-developmen t-index-shows/372351/
It clearly shows India's life expectancy at 63.4, China at 72.9, Pakista at 66.2, etc.
Pakistans is in the bracket of 60-65 whereas India stands tall at 67.5 to 70.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_Expectancy_2008_Estimates_ CIA_World_Factbook.svg
Thats why you will find Paki mortality higher.....since Islamic culture has degraded a moslem burqa clad walking trash bag women who are known as sex machines, breeding factory thus them dying younger. LOL
And this namby pamby google chacha is dishing out lies about India.....Get lost from here you resident moulivi of chowk....
6.4 deaths/1,000 population (India)"
As you tout this data as proof of Pakistan's dire straits, did you notice from the same website data that most of Western Europeans as well US have higher death rates than Pakistan?
Do you also realize that Pakistanis' life expectancy at 66 years is three years longer than Indians' at 63 years, according to UNDP?
Clever cherry picked wordings to score brownie points though!
But you failed once again to tell me WHY R MORE PAKISTANI DYING EARLIER THAN INDIANS ?
HERE IS A SHAMEFUL STATICTICS OF A COUNTRY CALLED PAKISTAN.
Because you use women as a breeding machine to increase the numbers of Muslims and these women with multiple births year after year die early......
7.85 deaths/1,000 population (Pakistan)
6.4 deaths/1,000 population (India)
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_dea_rat-people-death-rate
On a food security scale worldwide, while India is at high risk, Pakistan is termed to be at extreme high risk at number 11 while india is better placed at 25. LOL
http://www.maplecroft.com/news/food_security_research_reveals_differing_f ortunes_of_key_economies_04.php
SHOW ME ANY ONE REPORT WHERE INDIAN WOMEN DIED FOR FLOUR BAGS - AS IT HAPPENED IN PAKISTAN??????
In your extreme bigotry, you ignore some basic facts and data.
Most Pakistanis do not eat rice, the staple food in Pakistan wheat, and per capita consumption of wheat in Pakistan is about twice that in India. Average Pakistani consume about three times as much milk as Indians, use 50% more sugar, and 6-7 times as much meat and poultry as an average Indian.
Go check the statistics at FAO website.
http://faostat.fao.org/site/609/default.aspx#ancor
The number of deaths by hunger in India run in the many millions each year, even if you do not take into account the fact that India is a "n utritional weakling" condemning its future generations to permanent brain damage by denying them basic nutrition.
Are you saying Pakistan is not exporting its rice despite its 35% poor people who are quasi hungry and dying in the stampede en masse just for a bag of flour? LOL
There is no such parralel in India, now you see where does Pakistan stand!
On a food security scale worldwide, while India is at high risk, Pakistan is termed to be at extreme high risk at number 11 while india is better placed at 25. LOL
http://www.maplecroft.com/news/food_security_research_reveals_differing_f ortunes_of_key_economies_04.php
And this namby pamby google chacha is dishing out lies about India.....Get lost from here you resident moulivi of chowk....
Iran is rolling out a line of “Islamic Cars”, which is basically a normal car, made in Iran, with a compass that tells you which way the qiblah is and a little compartment for your Quran.....LOLL
So why is India exporting rice for dollars when the Indian people are going hungry?
Here is what WFP says about India:
Nearly 50 percent of the world's hungry live in India, a low-income, food-deficit country.
Around 35 percent of India's population - 350 million - are considered food-insecure, consuming less than 80 percent of minimum energy requirements.
Nutritional and health indicators are extremely low. Nearly nine out of 10 pregnant women aged between 15 and 49 years suffer from malnutrition and anaemia.
Anaemia in pregnant women causes 20 percent of infant mortality. More than half of the children under five are moderately or severely malnourished, or suffer from stunting.
http://www.wfp.org/countries/india
APEDA data shows Saudi Arabia imported 499,584 tonnes of basmati rice and Kuwait 109,067 tonnes in 2006-07. India exported 104,998 tonnes to the UAE during the same period.
India's share in the global market for basmati rice is about 53 percent and efforts like buyer-seller meets, mounting trade delegations abroad are afoot to expand the consumer base even more.
DHAKA: India has regained its position as the number one import source for Bangladesh, beating China, in the first nine months of the financial year ending June 30, official figures said.
Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan, the fourth-largest cotton producer, allowed the import of 500,000 bales of the fiber from India to help boost stocks, after poor weather and pest attacks damaged the crop.
"The import of short-staple cotton has been allowed through land routes via the Wagah border," Ashfaque H. Khan, the government's economic adviser told reporters in Islamabad today. Pakistan buy Indian cotton LOL
Despite the boom in China's service outsourcing, it will be difficult for China to catch up with India, the giant in the international outsourcing industry. India has enjoyed both large market volume and fast growth, achieving an average annual growth of 37% over the past four years. bIn 2008, India captured nearly 37% of the global outsourcing market, while China took less than 10%.b
India's outsourcing industry seemed invincible until one event in 2008 changed the situation. The Mumbai attacks, which reportedly caused 172 deaths, highlighted the potential risks of travel to India. It raised questions regarding the safety and stability of the Indian business environment, which is one of the major factors in the selection of an outsourcing partner.
The development of China's outsourcing industry lags ten years behind that of India. Chinese outsourcing companies are usually small. India has many outsourcing companies with annual revenue of over US$1 billion, but in China there are few outsourcing companies with annual revenue exceeding US$0.1 billion. Also, Chinese companies are engaged mainly in coding, whereas Indian rivals can provide comprehensive solutions to clients.
Therefore, performance figures such as outsourcing exports and growth are not the only differences between the outsourcing industries of China and India. Like manufacturers, China's outsourcing companies always emphasize low cost to attract clients. Although the global financial crisis highlights such advantages, cost is still not the most important factor for potential clients. Clients pay more attention to service capabilities, including intellectual property protection, language skill, and ability to provide comprehensive solutions.
So, what are the requirements to be a caliph?-you might ask.
According to Islamic law, (ref: Reliance of the Traveler, published by Amana Publications, Bettsville, Maryland, 1999, pp.640-642, law number o25.3) the mandatory qualifications of an Islamic caliph are:
1. must be a Muslim
2. must be a male
3. must be from the Quraysh tribe of the Arabs
4. must be a freeman (i.e., not a slave)
5. must be of sound mind. This provision of Islamic law means that the world (the Pan Islamic world) must be ruled by an Arab (from the Quraysh stock, probably from Saudi Arabia or Jordan) and no one else.......
Poor soul namby pamby google chacha resident moulivi of chowk!
The answer is simple Quran.....but I guess they want to go beyond the obvious answer of Quran... since not all Pakis on chowk who also believe in Quran are delusional like you.
Now go to all discussions on Chowk and other Paki forums and copy paste ur this above BS....like you always do...and dont forget RAW sponsored PAK alumni Worldwide blog of urs...if atleast one more dollar of that charity you pakis got 4m US goes into anti India weoponry then RAW s investment in you should be worth it... because India shd be better off if your people live in abject poverty and just read Quran....ultimately it will lead to self destruction lik its happening now....
Stop hyperventilating. Accept the reality of India's E ( really an F) grade on hunger. Try and fix it, rather than engage in bigoted and misguided Pakistan and Islam bashing that has become your hallmark on Chowk.
Zafar Agha
Thank God, I am not a citizen of the Islamic state of Pakistan. Imagine if my parents had been enamoured of Jaswant Singh's newfound hero Mohammad Ali Jinnah and migrated to the Islamic State of Pakistan.
What a tragedy could have befallen my family and me! I could have either myself turned into a bigot or my kids could have taken up guns in the pursuit of a puritanical Islamic state like Saudi Arabia. I am extremely indebted to my parents for sticking to their roots in Allahabad and happily accepting the citizenship of 'Hindu India' instead of saltanat-e-khudadad-e-Pakistan (godly kingdom of Pakistan).
Ironically, there is nothing godly or saintly about Pakistan today. Pakistan could never become a modern republican state. So the state eventually withered away and got out of everyone's control. There was a time not too long ago when the world believed that it was the Pakistan army whose writ ran the country. How naive was this understanding.
Once considered the most powerful power centre, the Pakistan army headquarters in Rawalpindi is now under attack from Pakistani jihadis. The world also thought that the Punjabi elite had a tight grip over Pakistan establishment. Now the Punjabis themselves are not secure in their beloved town of Lahore where terrorists' strike at will.
Who then controls Pakistan? Is it the democratic establishment led by Asif Zardari? No, not at all! There is no consensus between Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif, the two leading rival democratic parties, even in these moments of grave internal crisis. Are the executive and judiciary now acting as the watchdog? Well, both sympathise with the likes of Hafiz Saeed and nuclear technology smuggler AQ Khan more than the state of Pakistan. Saeed and Khan are the two ideological masters of Pakistani jihadi philosophy.
All the Pakistani terror groups revere them. So it is neither army, nor the Punjabi elite that controls Pakistan any longer. Instead it is men like Saeed and Khan who do, ideologically at least.
You cannot arrest Saeed in Pakistan because he is the ideological pope of jihad. You cannot prosecute him either. The police would make such a weak case that it won't stand in a court of law for a minute. The judiciary would let him walk out because of his 'heroic services' in 'destabilising India'. And even America cannot harm Khan.
After all, he delivered a nuclear bomb to the insecure Pakistanis, stealing and smuggling nuclear technology from all over the world. The world is convinced that he smuggled dreaded technology to North Korea and Iran. He is the last hope of the jihadis who believe that Khan would one day deliver them a nuclear device to destroy their hated enemy, America.
Pakistan is today controlled by the syndicate of Taliban, al Qaeda and Punjabi terror outfits like Jaish e Mohammad. But why is it that Pakistan has failed in modern sense of the word state? A modern state in the post renaissance and post industrial revolution world is essentially run by the will of the people through democracy.
Pakistan has nothing to do both with renaissance and industrial revolution. Its ideological frontier very soon after its inception was a medieval Islamic state whose only function was to destroy India.
So the people were always kept at the margin of state affairs. Pakistan elite facilitated the military takeover of the establishment to fight India and 'liberate Muslim Kashmir from Hindu hands'.
When the entire Pakistani establishment failed to harm an emerging modern Indian state and got truncated in 1971, it vengefully came up with the idea of jihad against India 'to bleed India in Kashmir'.
A jihad genie like Jaish e Mohammed was created with the ideological training from men like Saeed and Talibani madrasas spread across the tribal belt of Pakistan to harm India. The genie is now out of the bottle consuming the state that created it.
A medieval Pakistani state, run by an army and ideologically driven by myopic people like Saeed and terror outfits like Jaish, has had to finally come to this pass where no one now understands who runs Pakistan.
Pakistan shunned renaissance wisdom and post-industrial democratic institutions.Such a medieval state has had to run out of steam sooner or later. So it is now implodingand being consumed by the medieval and tribal hatred it nurtured against India.
Thank you mom and pop, for not migrating to Islamic state of Pakistan because I would have also exploded if not imploded by the jihadi forces that are consuming Pakistan now.
http://www.dnaindia.com/opinion/main-article_a-medieval-state_1299884
What a shameful day for Islamic jhamooriyat of Pakistan, the country of momeens, most of whom (85%) are just struggling for daily bread - 140 million pakistanis on USD $ 2 per day........What a shame! whereas kafers are living better life, where is Allah, where is Quran, where is Prophet? LOL
WFP is assisting the Government of Pakistan to mitigate the negative impact on households in the areas most affected by high food prices. WFP’s assistance is aimed at reducing the gap between most basic food consumption needs and what the government of Pakistan and others can provide, by reaching half a million households through schools and food-for-work activities in 20 most food insecure districts.
QUOTE: Pakistan: A Crisis within the Crises
In late 2008 there were an estimated 24 million Internally Displaced Persons spread across fifty countries around the world. Within the span of just two months in 2009, an additional 3 million persons were internally displaced from the Swat and Buner districts in Pakistan: a collateral damage of the global war on terror. Displaced from their homes and means of livelihoods, these men, women, and children are suddenly basically without protection: Pakistan’s formal social protection system is rated among the worst in Asia. Pakistan’s economy is in serious crisis with opportunity, security, and governance diminishing at alarming rates.
http://www.ifpri.org/event/pakistan-crisis-within-crises
Pakistan GDP growth rate is just 2 % LOL against India´s almost 7%
On a food security scale worldwide, while India is at high risk, Pakistan is termed to be at extreme high risk at number 11 while india is better placed at 25. LOL
http://www.maplecroft.com/news/food_security_research_reveals_differing_f ortunes_of_key_economies_04.php
And this namby pamby google chacha is dishing lies about India......
Rephrase it as Pakistani failure - India is not under default!
The fact is that your country is a net debtor, who has got billions of dollars loan from everywhere, they did not leave a tiny singapore for a mere 80 million loan, so much for Pakistan´s desperation to get hold of funds from overseas....
So of course, when a country, which lives beyonds its means and has no intention to pay, will always live good. This hefty sum that is owed by Pakistan is still not paid ( it was rescheduled ) so the money has been absorbed by its people, so they will live better than any other responsible nation who know they have to pay........
But with Pakistan - it says payable when able!
Hence no country is helping and coming forward to finance because they have seen the past pattern of squandering the money, and not even able to pay the interest. This time thier all weather friend china did not help either for cash. LOL
Tough times ahead kafer hater, namby pamby, google chacha, brace up......
I still cant forget how these 20 some women in Pakistan lost thier lives just for simple flour - similitude has never happened in India. DESPERATE PAKISTANI WOMEN STRUGGLING TO FEED THEIR DOZEN KIDS AND AND UNEMPLOYED MIAN........I WONDER WHY THESE WOMEN CAME OUT TO COLLECT THE FLOUR BAGS, WHAT WERE MEN DOING? OHH I FORGOT....ITS A MALE DRIVEN SOCIETY AND ISLAM IS ITS NAME.....WHERE A WOMAN IS KNOWN TO BE INFERIOR TO MAN AS PER QURAN.......
Tabari IX:113 "Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur'an."
Tabari I:280 "Allah said, 'It is My obligation to make Eve bleed once every month as she made this tree bleed. I must also make Eve stupid, although I created her intelligent.' Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid."
Qur'an 4:3 "If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with orphans, marry women of your choice who seem good to you, two or three or four; but if you fear that you shall not be able to do justice (to so many), then only one, or (a slave) that you possess, that will be more suitable. And give the women their dower as a free gift; but if they, of their own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you, eat it with enjoyment, take it with right good cheer and absorb it (in your wealth)."
Qur'an 4:11 "Allah directs you in regard of your Children's (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females.... These are settled portions ordained by Allah."
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