Pakistanis in 2009: A Thoroughly Indoctrinated Population

Re: # 219

Thanks for your post with a promise of hope.

The powers that be, still love their guns and steel. As many nations have already based their alliances on the IED you suggest, for our nation, though needed right away, it is still a long haul to such alliances. The Soviet Union is a lesson in the mechanisms of the history, a reminder to our nation to correct course, IMMEDIATELY.

Re: # 217 Freehussaini

We won't be fighting yesterday's wars with guns and steel. Our future alliance will be based on ideas, economics and diplomacy. Don't forget that the Soviet Union was undone without firing a single shot

Re: # 203

BBC

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned Pakistan that relations with the US will be threatened unless Islamabad combats the rise of the Taleban.

His comments echo a warning from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Mrs Clinton said on Wednesday that Pakistan poses a "mortal threat" to the world by abdicating to the Taleban.

Earlier on Thursday, Pakistani troops were sent to tackle Taleban militants who had advanced into a region just 100km (67 miles) from Islamabad.

One policeman was killed in the assault in Buner district, which is next to the Swat valley, where the Taleban holds sway after government forces failed to quell an insurgency.

Re: # 216

In view of Pakistani nuclear arsenal, India can not venture anything comparable to 1971. It will have to be the United States this time.

Re: # 173 Freehusseini

Consider an alliance with India - they can free you from the Taliban and Punjabi clutches. Check with a few a Bengalis - -they'll tell ya!

Re: # 214

I will give all what I know for half of what I don't know.

Rene Descartes

#213

[[Reading is an art.]]

why don't you learn it then? then we'll call you an 'artist'.

Re: # 212

Reading is an art.

Re: # 210; majumdar

may be it is an old favourite of masadi's called CIA-mike??

there is also a 'hussaini chowk' in my beloved hometown in southern Punjab! ... known for all sorts of interesting 'people'!

Re: # 210

Let the history tell who is who!

Hussaini (???) sahib,

It looks like you are a Hindoo hatemonger writing under a Muslim penname and faking Paki identity. Please stop playing games, sir!

Regards

People of Karachi!

Send an e-mail at the link below to the President of the United States of America seeking military help to survive.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

Some International organizations must pay attention for arresting some students based on just suspision. They have demolished all equipment , computers . What poor student can do against UK police system which is based on hatred of Muslims. Some very good lawyer combined with Human rt organizations must sue for punitive huge , millions of pounds in UK courts. I wonder nobody care for poor international students who made mistake of being scholar and went study to usa after spending so much money. It appears pakistan "terror" may be little but UK terror is official, shame on UK they are now useless unworthy of their great forefathers who ruled all seas.
Good day.

tahmed:

Take a look at this link about Punjabi Taliban:
http://www.allvoices.com/news/2948292-recently-released-video-highligh ts-punjabi-taliban
Riaz Haq, PakAlumni Worldwide

Re: # 202

Nonstop criticism of the U.S. is the favorite deflective tactic of those who do not wish to discuss the issues in their own cultures and politics. DISTRACTION. DIVERSION. EVASION. CONFUSION.

Re: # 168 tahmed: "I dont think so. While the Pakistani nation went along reluctantly to the handing over of Swat to the taliban, permitting themselves to be ruled by these animals is a different matter."

Recently Pervez Hoodbhoy wrote a piece about how Punjab has become radicalized since 1980s. Here's an excerpt:

(Punjabi)Villages have changed drastically; this transformation has been driven, in part, by Pakistani workers returning from Arab countries. Many village mosques are now giant madrassas that propagate hard-line Salafi and Deobandi beliefs through oversized loudspeakers. They are bitterly opposed to Barelvis, Shias and other sects, who they do not regard as Muslims. The Punjabis, who were far more liberal towards women than the Pukhtuns, are now beginning to take a line resembling that of the Taliban. Hanafi law has begun to prevail over tradition and civil law, as is evident from the recent decisions of the Lahore High Court.

Several recent terrorist incidents in Punjab have reportedly been carried out either by Punjabi Taliban or with collaboration of Punjabi sympathizers of Taliban. Also, the class warfare used by Talban in Swat is finding resonance in rural Punjab dominated by feudal lords.


Riaz Haq, PakAlumni Worldwide