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May 12: One Year Passed, No Lessons Learned

Mehroz Sadruddin May 11, 2008

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#26 Posted by mabdullah on May 15, 2008 10:51:42 pm
nasah....

i don't think violence is a solution because it is against Islam and it is against law. the best punishment to those who insult our religion and our country is to raise critical awareness amongst our people, through education and peaceful protest, so that Rushdi Juniors such as Maloon M Bokhari and his promoters at pkpolitics.com face a social boycott.

actually I found the following website quite 'enlightening' about the so-called pkpolitics.com

http://letusbuildpakistan.blogspot.com/
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#25 Posted by nasah on May 15, 2008 8:02:29 pm
"Also, someone with the id of mbokhari on that website openly praises Salman Rushdi."(mabdullah)

Ya Khoda -- keya zamana budal geya -- that mbokhari guy is still alive? let's post some more money on his head.
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#24 Posted by mabdullah on May 15, 2008 10:14:00 am
Guys,

I would like to know your views about the website: www.pkpolitics.com

I have heard that this website is quite selective in promotion of certain politicians and is all abusive against PPP, ZAB, BB, Zardari, MQM, JUI etc.

Also, someone with the id of mbokhari on that website openly praises Salman Rushdi.

Actually, I have found some links:

http://allahsavepakistan.blogspot.com/

http://letusbuildpakistan.bl ogspot.com/

Any comments? Do share your thoughts.
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#23 Posted by nasah on May 14, 2008 9:35:15 pm
For Zardari from now on -- the proof of the pudding will be in the eating -- not in his worthless wording.
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#22 Posted by arjun_5 on May 14, 2008 7:22:52 am
#20 Posted by ahmedmadani on May 13, 2008 7:05:14 pm


the problems we have gone through emmergency, election of poresident, firing of judge, loss of former prime minister, turmoil and rioting by sindhis, resistance put by mqm agaist cj who wanted to visit and make problems, some problems, continuous terrorist activities led by bla terrorists, american arrogance, tribal insurgency, sugar scarity due to speculators, loss of generals party, scarsity of whaet and speculators, all time rise of international iol price upgradation, loss of market share in textile, law and order problems


yeah...other than THAT, things are going swimmingly..
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#21 Posted by nasah on May 13, 2008 7:20:45 pm
Zardari one hopes has come to his senses -- if he had any still left in him since his head swelled up with his self-appointed helmsmanship of PPP post Benazir sad demise -- now Zardari should know that Nawaz was not bluffing -- now he should also know how many sandals and shoes were flying from all over the world for his betrayal of the deposed judges reinstatement.

It was an utterly stupid imitation of Musharraf junketeering – for Zaedari to be loafing around London -- and dining around Dubai – while his house of cards of broken promises that he was trying to erect – without the restoration of Nov 2 judiciary -- was on fire and near collapse in Islamabad.

There is still time -- the N can return if the Z restores -- otherwise Zardari can very well go and become Musharraf’s messus working on his feet the rest of his life – who cares

Nobody is suprised Zardari could not handle his brief post assassination 'respectability' through contrived Gandhian "reconciliation". But to expect Zardari to turn into a Gandhi overnight is to expect Attilla the Hun -- after a night rampage -- to show up at church as a transvestite Nun in the morning.

The lesson learnt will be the same what Musharraf learned at great expense to his fame and fortune -- don't ever mess with the Supreme Court judiciary of Nov 2 -- trying to remake it in your own corrupt image -- you will not only lose your shirt -- you will by reduced in size by electoral magic -- from a roaring tiger -- to a purring pussy cat overnight.

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#20 Posted by ahmedmadani on May 13, 2008 7:05:14 pm
Re: # 15 mr. arjun ..... i understand graph and how to interpreat graphic mateial. pakistani dollar has gone aboy down with respect to indian rupee.from graph in one year the value has gone down by about 10%. But if you look over one year the problems we have gone through emmergency, election of poresident, firing of judge, loss of former prime minister, turmoil and rioting by sindhis, resistance put by mqm agaist cj who wanted to visit and make problems, some problems, continuous terrorist activities led by bla terrorists, american arrogance, tribal insurgency, sugar scarity due to speculators, loss of generals party, scarsity of whaet and speculators, all time rise of international iol price upgradation, loss of market share in textile, law and order problems if you take all this the pakistan rupee is doing extra ordinarly,16.5 imbalance in trade import and export. it is to credit to all big economist dr. shamsad bank chief managing is creditable. if you know she got price for beibg best national reserve bank director. no country can withstand so many calamilites with only 10
% loss i currancy. now that comparison is not good as there is no official trade between india and pakistan much till k problem is solved to satisfaction of people of pakistan/ which includes kashmir for you information.
now indian companies are in trouble as foreign companies do not want indian goods as neighbour low currency aLLOWS HIM MORE STUFF FOR SAME DOLLARS.indian business are worried by high indian dollars. even great nation of china keeps its dollar down and usa want is up. having up indian dollar is harmful especially when competet with pakistani goods in international business. just for your information dr. akhatar said 13 billion dollars on way from foreign markets, that is going to break back of dollars. did you made money by investing in pakistani mutual fdunds managed by foreign country managers. for few years kse hhas done better than china market. also real estate is flaming hot in karachi. every hector of land in karachi is more costly than newyork.
please do not worry about pakistani dollars. it is doing just fine. but thanks for showing concern which is not your business. but again kse is defying gravity laws and just going up for your kind consideration.
you have good day , put money at kse and dig gold and then you will different about pakistan, humble suggestion. one request please stop smuggling pakistani wheat to india as it is creating problem. we can not take responsibility of feedibnng indians, we are doing best by providing cement so indians can build houses for poor. thabnks and good day.









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#19 Posted by arjun_5 on May 13, 2008 7:07:56 am
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#18 Posted by tahmed32 on May 13, 2008 5:53:46 am
akcheema #16 I dont think anyone can predict what will happen over the next few years. Beyond that, I have no doubt that the inspiration provided by the Chief Justice, coupled with broader socio-economic trends (growing middle class, appreciation of the significance of the rule of law and human rights), will serve to ensure that no ambitious general or politician in future dares to attack the Pakistan Constitution.
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#17 Posted by arjun_5 on May 13, 2008 5:37:15 am
madani..that's a chart of the indian rupee v/s/ the paki rupee...unlike urstruly, I'm sure you can read a graph..
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#16 Posted by akcheema on May 13, 2008 5:35:44 am
Re: # 14; tahmed

what is your prediction for the future?


Arjun mian,

you need to teach me how to do that
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#15 Posted by arjun_5 on May 13, 2008 5:31:14 am
madani...rupee at 42 is a good thing..
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#14 Posted by tahmed32 on May 13, 2008 5:22:45 am
nasah #13 Actually Zardari had gained respectability after Benazir's death: People were pleasantly surprised when Zardari spoke out for national unity the day after she was assassinated. Virtually everyone I talked to was praising him for this. And his sordid past was forgiven altogether once he was seen as walking the talk. And he was close to being discharged from the "Corruption Rehab Clinic" altogether when he joined Nawaz Sharif in signing of the Bhurban declaration. All he had to do was continue to walk the talk.

Now he is back where he was all along - a man who does not respect his own words, who puts his misconceived notions of personal or family interest before the national interest even in these critical times.

On the bright side - Nawaz Sharif has stood firm like a rock on this key principle of the rule of law, and Pakistan may have found its badly needed needed national leader during this time of crisis.
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#13 Posted by nasah on May 12, 2008 11:14:33 pm
Re: # 10

"let us hope that Zardari realizes that he is making the same mistake that Musharraf made - namely, underestimating public demands for the restoration of the Chief Justice."(tahmed)


tahmed -- it is hoping against hope -- it is really against the nature of the beast.

If Zardari -- now one of the Musharraf's most favourite Durbaris -- would have realized that -- then he would not have needed -- like an ordinary criminal -- a mountain of NRO bribes -- from a bribe-giving criminal -- and just like briber giver Musharraf -- he wouldn't have to stay mortally afraid of an independent judiciary.

Zardari knows that Musharraf messed with the SC judiciary and lost all respectability overnight -- but Zardari also knows that for him with no comparative education, no intellect and no past respectability -- like that of Mushrraf -- Zardari will lose nothing because he had hardly any to start with.
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#12 Posted by ahmedmadani on May 12, 2008 9:43:51 pm
Indian economy in trouble, rupee melting. Hope Bad news company notes what is happening in their backyard.

MUMBAI, May 12: The Indian rupee weakened past 42 per dollar for the first time in more than a year on Monday after data showing factory output grew at its slowest in six years raised concerns about a slowdown in the economy.

Everybody feels forppor indian which is suffering at hands of undemocratic elite govt supported by usa to suppress poor indians and they are dieing in hundreds / farmers killing themselves. No uicides here. All wheat produced in Pakistan is smuggled to india, central asia.
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#11 Posted by tahmed32 on May 12, 2008 8:31:44 pm
#8 arjun: where did i say anything about indians?
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#10 Posted by tahmed32 on May 12, 2008 8:29:28 pm
#4 uratruly: For the sake of pakistanis who dont have the luxury of chatting on the internet, but rather have to worry about their next meal, let us hope that Zardari realizes that he is making the same mistake that Musharraf made - namely, underestimating public demands for the restoration of the Chief Justice. If he goes down the same disastrous path as Musharraf, then God help Pakistan.
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#9 Posted by echoboom on May 12, 2008 8:26:51 pm
Lessons learnt?

Lesson learning starts once Teaching-a-Lesson stops.

These are Cantonment and Colony Caninines. They LOVE to be mistaken for the goraa by their walk, talk & dress. They Love the english language especially as imitation artists of their masters.

They are Kuttaas, Ba Ba Blacksheep. toaa mainaas, performing Bunders, Hyenas and mules ( khachhars)..

These Kanjarisaed Khachars will never ever learn a lesson..they love to be educated...

They are not learned, the are EDUCATED! They never had the benefit of a Madresssa education..they feel proud that they know only EASY URDU. They feel "faarinish" in their miserable OFFENCE-COLONIES..

Thier drooling asses & Lickety-Lick tongues are always yelping for the goraa to never stop their orgasmic-orgies of killing muslims wherever they find them & their Masonic-Satanic agenda gets implemented & they experience that mother-of-all-orgasms as a grand-finale.
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U.S. paid bounty for Khadr arrest in Pakistan

COLIN FREEZE

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

May 12, 2008 at 9:32 PM EDT

A U.S. intelligence agency paid a bounty of $500,000 (U.S.) to Pakistani military officials who arrested a Canadian citizen wanted for links to al-Qaeda, according to a new Federal Court ruling.

Mr. Justice Richard Mosley ordered an Oct. 19, 2004, RCMP memo released yesterday after lawyers for The Globe and Mail fought for its disclosure. The newspaper obtained the document more than a year ago, but chose not to publish it after Crown lawyers warned that the release of the information could illegally reveal a state secret.

U.S. officials – likely from the Central Intelligence Agency – had regarded the bounty as sensitive information passed along to Canada in confidence, prompting officials to fight to keep it secret.

Marked “Top Secret,� the internal Mountie memo was addressed to former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli. Its subject matter was the arrest in Pakistan of Abdullah Khadr, now 28 and jailed in Toronto, the oldest living male member of Canada's infamous Khadr clan.




“He is deemed to be a national security threat and has a $USD 500,000 outstanding bounty for his capture,� the memo reads. “He is deemed to be a great intelligence asset due to his close relationship with Osama bin Laden and other [al-Qaeda] members.�

The suspect is the older brother of Omar Khadr, who was arrested at 15 in Afghanistan and sent to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Like his siblings, Abdullah Khadr was raised in Afghanistan by a fundamentalist father, a naturalized Canadian, who befriended Mr. bin Laden while fighting the Soviets.

The family fled to Pakistan in late 2001, where the local army killed the Khadr family patriarch in 2003 and arrested Abdullah Khadr a year later. He was questioned by a host of U.S., Canadian, and Pakistani agents while in custody for nearly a year. During that time, he is alleged to have made several admissions about running guns and rocket launchers to al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan.

Mr. Khadr was released in 2005, and Canadian officials facilitated his repatriation, but he was arrested within days of landing in Toronto. More than two years later, he continues to fight extradition to Boston on a U.S. indictment alleging material support for terrorism. While the Mounties say they considered Mr. Khadr a “primary target� of their own investigation, they never laid any charges in Canada.

So far, Mr. Khadr's allegations that he was tortured in Pakistan, and his battles for disclosure of documents in Canada, have stymied all attempts to extradite him. Officials allege he admitted running guns across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border – “I only buy and sell weapons for al-Qaeda,� he told authorities, according to a transcript – and also said he used a GPS device to map out co-ordinates for Pakistani jihadists plotting to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

It was amid the Canadian disclosure battle that federal officials inadvertently released to Mr. Khadr's lawyers the top secret Mountie memo as part of the case's voluminous court filings.

Citing secrecy provisions in the Canada Evidence Act, Crown officials tried to pull it back within hours of its release last spring, and, after learning The Globe and Mail had obtained a copy in the interim, warned that publication could lead to prosecution.

That set the stage for a court battle that ended yesterday with Judge Mosley supporting the news media's right to publish the document. “It is a reasonable inference from the public evidence filed in this application that the bounty was offered and paid by the U.S. government,� his 47-page decision reads.

Judge Mosley then went one step further, confirming that the payment was made, even though the memo said only that the bounty was offered.

“The evidence heard in camera supports the conclusion that the bounty was offered and paid by the U.S.,� Judge Mosley said in his ruling.

The Federal Court found that the information was supplied to Canada in confidence, and that the attorney-general had acted in good faith by striving to keep it secret. Even so, Judge Mosley ruled that the memo is crucial to Mr. Khadr's defence and the public has a right to know about it.

“The fact that a foreign state paid a bounty for the apprehension of a Canadian citizen abroad and that Canadian officials were aware of it at an early stage is also a matter in which the public would have a legitimate interest,� the decision reads.

Government lawyers had argued that a “third-party rule� in intelligence circles keeps vital information flowing among states. Global counterterrorism agencies swap secrets on the understanding that sensitive foreign-generated information should not be publicly produced domestically. To jeopardize the third-party rule is often seen as tantamount to risking the entire flow of information.

Peter Jacobsen, the lawyer who acted for The Globe and Mail, called the ruling a victory for transparency. “It was a crack in the system that allowed The Globe to know this information even existed,� he said. “… One wonders how much other information is out there being unjustifiably kept from the public in the name of risk to national security or international relations.�

Mr. Khadr's lawyer, Nathan Whitling, said the memo is crucial. “The secret payment of this bounty is another illustration of the U.S.'s notorious practice of ‘outsourcing torture,' � he said in an e-mail.

“Rather than getting its own hands dirty, the U.S. simply paid the Musharraf regime $500,000 to arrest Mr. Khadr, knowing full well what Pakistan would do to him.�

When asked which U.S. intelligence agency paid the bounty, another one of Mr. Khadr's lawyers said it was obvious. “The CIA,� said Dennis Edney. Asked if he had any doubt about that, he said, “none at all.�

Mr. Edney added that records show that the CIA questioned Mr. Khadr for 17 days at the beginning of his detention in Pakistan. Defence lawyers intend to argue that the CIA grilling sessions informed, influenced and tainted all subsequent interrogations, nullifying any admissions Mr. Khadr may have made.






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#8 Posted by arjun_5 on May 12, 2008 8:25:02 pm
prophetboy: we're waiting for you to tell us how indians opening threads caused nawaz to withdraw from the government and messed things up...you've already told people who post simple balance of payment numbers that they're spiteful..as if, by posting the numbers, they caused the mess that pakiland finds itself in..
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#7 Posted by tahmed32 on May 12, 2008 8:19:25 pm
arjun#5 it is obvious from your post that you have trouble putting two meaningful sentences in english. you are better off just cutting and pasting irrelevant things from the internet and decorating it with some gibberish about "paki! paki! paki!".
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#6 Posted by tahmed32 on May 12, 2008 8:17:09 pm
anil sahib #3 while i admire the confidence with which you make these predictions, i think before predicting the future one should focus on what has already happened - thus, you make no distinction between the respective stands on the judges issue by Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari. When in fact the difference the difference is night and day - with Nawaz Sharif doing the honorable thing, and with Zardari doing the dishonorable thing.

Leave grand generalizations that gloss over obvious realities to lesser individuals than yourself. You can do better than that.
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#5 Posted by arjun_5 on May 12, 2008 8:01:27 pm
prophetboy: what happened to your CJ dude? I thought the super duper democratically elected government(first in south asia) was going to remove mushy...the mushy who, all by himself in hsi basement, trained, armed and funded islamic jihadis...without whom there would be no islamic jihadis in the land of the pure...
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#4 Posted by Urstruly on May 12, 2008 7:58:24 pm
Nawaz Sharif has not done enough by just resigning his party from the cabinet. This game was played by fukking sarkari moulvis in the last round of musical chairs when they were given the bones of the government of NWFP and Baluchistan to chew on and they became the goddamned opposition. Havn't we seen enough of this circus for the last 5 years. Nawaz has to resign his whole party from national and provincial assemblies. We don't want to see the moulvi striptease once again. Or they can all go to hell and wait for the day of reckonning in guillotine parks, which is just around the corner.
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#3 Posted by anil on May 12, 2008 7:22:58 pm
Tahmed sahib:

This act by Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari are no more than posturing to give a respectable space to a hot-headed punjabi. NS will get his way, justices will be restored, but not through a legislative order - as he wanted, but through a constitutional amendment. Neither of them, in my view, have the courage to destroy the mandate from awam, which has trusted these two to deliver and not to walk away.
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#2 Posted by tahmed32 on May 12, 2008 6:51:10 pm
nasah: Exactly! Nawaz Sharif has acted with honor. And Zardari has acted in a disgraceful manner - there can be no excuse for this turnabout. There was an excellent piece on AajTV by Talat Hussain who showed clips from PPP leaders (including the current foreign minister) saying that without the Chief Justice being restored the independence of the judiciary would be compromised, and similar other clips. Talat Hussain ends the program saying that if PPP has decided to do a turnabout on this issue, it should at least explain to its workers why dozens of them sacrificed their lives last year on this very issue!!
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#1 Posted by nasah on May 12, 2008 11:23:33 am
3 cheers for Nawaz Sharif -- it was the only honorable thing to do in a very dishonorable situtation. 'sur daad nu daad dust dur dust-e Yazid'.
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