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The Plan To Topple Pakistan Military
Posted by jang Nov 29, 2007 04:25 pm
was not paki military toppled in a racecourse ground a few decades back?
First it was Bangladesh now it Baluchistan
Posted by jang Nov 29, 2007 07:02 am
some parallels in baluchistan and assam..insurgencies, outsider colonizers vs local conflict, oil-natural gas, seperatism and so on. assam is much smaller as compared to baluchistan in proportion to rest of india-pakistan size.
Why the American War on Terror is Failing Miserably
Posted by jang Nov 20, 2007 06:44 am
zee, dont spread BS ...sikhs are doing just fine in the land of the free and home of the brave...the first sikh lawmakers portrait was unveiled at the capitol recently and turbans will be respected by the tsa.

http://www.sikhcoalition.org/advisories/TSADevelopsNewProcedure.htm

O ctober 17, 2007 (Washington, D.C.) - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) yesterday announced a new security screening procedure that will apply to all religious head coverings at U.S. airports. The new procedures will go into effect on October 27, 2007. The new procedures, designed to detect non-metallic objects, do not allow a TSA screener to touch a Sikh's turban without cause unless the Sikh traveler gives the screener permission to do so. The change is a direct response to the concerns raised by Sikhs and Sikh organizations, including the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), the Sikh Coalition, and UNITED SIKHS over the last two months.




The Empire Strikes Again in Pakistan
Posted by jang Nov 6, 2007 02:50 pm
"we wont let a few thugish landlords and their indentured slaves decide the destiny of Pakistan, and you can add to that a few ignorant pathans and their more ignorant mullahs"

yar borivli, you take away landlords, slaves, pathans and mullahs then whats left? who are these theykedards of pakistan that who decide the destiny exactly?
Pervez Musharraf Declares Emergency in Pakistan
Posted by jang Nov 3, 2007 10:34 am
i hope mushy got this cleared with condi rice and the pentagon. otherwise its gonna be big trouble.
Bobby & Jerry : Rise of a Coloured ‘son’ Retold
Posted by jang Nov 2, 2007 03:17 pm
"Born on 10 June 1971 to Hindu parents, who had immigrated to Baton Rouge, Louisiana just 6 months earlier, he converted to Catholic faith early in life in the most Catholic state in the whole of USA and changed his name to anglicized ‘Bobby’ from the given name ‘Piyush’ at age four."

can you clarify this sentence a bit..its not about english..the time-line of his conversion apparently is important to this article and this sentence is really confusing to me.
Mumbai\'s Farida Khanum Fiasco
Posted by jang Nov 2, 2007 03:13 pm
yar its just fine ..considering the event was meant for glitteratti.

can you explain what is a matriarchial presense and what you mean by "paid them obeisance with a couple of songs in Khayal".

thanks.
Curse of Arranged or Forced Marriages
Posted by jang Oct 31, 2007 10:27 am
#30 tahmed as ghalib would say "yaran tune to soonghi hi nahin".
sniffing instincts are a mysterious stuff..honed over millions of years of evolution..dont fight it.
Curse of Arranged or Forced Marriages
Posted by jang Oct 31, 2007 10:16 am
#21 yar tahmed, come to UP, and we can discuss the matter of if i was 6 year old or 16 there, why spoil this board with such moot matters?

hindus in particular should strongly oppose arranges marriage based on their mysthological scriptures. look at all the arranges marriages which Bhishma performed and bad genes which were propagated (story of amba-ambalika etc and gandhari).
Curse of Arranged or Forced Marriages
Posted by jang Oct 31, 2007 10:16 am
#21 yar tahmed, come to UP, and we can discuss the matter of if i was 6 year old or 16 there, why spoil this board with such moot matters?

hindus in particular should strongly oppose arranges marriage based on their mysthological scriptures. look at all the arranges marriages which Bhishma performed and bad genes which were propagated (story of amba-ambalika etc and gandhari).
Curse of Arranged or Forced Marriages
Posted by jang Oct 31, 2007 07:43 am
#19 yar we are talking about survival of the species here..evolution is at stake. this kinda tinkering is worst than green-house gases. let the prospective mates sniff each other and decode those mysterious pheromones.
Curse of Arranged or Forced Marriages
Posted by jang Oct 31, 2007 06:05 am
#14 ranjit, what parents bring is codified rigid baggage collected over generations. this is what is the big problem. what is necessary is natural mutation occuring out of "irrational" choices and associatd responsibility grown out of that. with arranged marriage the couple only has a partial responsibility ..many are not even financially independent of their parents and procreating.
Curse of Arranged or Forced Marriages
Posted by jang Oct 30, 2007 03:35 pm
"The corruption of the gene pool"

you have really hit the nail on its head ...this is so true. if you look at animals, only those who can improve the gene-pool are allowed to procrete..with arranged marriage, a person of poor genetic material gets to procreate even if he-she is not a positive conotributer...it produces corrupt societies (if mate-selection is dishonest..). we should not meddle unduely in the natural (or god-made if you will) mating dance with its mysterious age-old chemical signals.
Neoliberalism and Madrassas: An Unholy Connection
Posted by jang Oct 26, 2007 02:00 pm
in short, a new way to blame the other. great job.
Where\'s the news?
Posted by jang Oct 17, 2007 03:46 pm
Very interesting take, good read.
Whither Pakistan? The Presidential \'Election\' and Beyond
Posted by jang Oct 12, 2007 02:09 pm
considering this (dinar)is a good idea, perhaps indians should do it before without waiting for pakistani consensus etc. to build.
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