America\'s Opportunity in Pakistan\'s Tribal Belt The plight of trusted war partner:

It is sad to see that despite so much of humiliation, the poor pakistanis cannot ask teh US to get lost. I wish sulfi was alive, he would have asked the pakis to eat grass.

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PM walks, lavish spending but no seats for media

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

By our special correspondent

WASHINGTON: Pakistani diplomats are unable to explain why Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his entourage were treated almost with contempt when they arrived at the Andrews Air Force Base on Sunday afternoon.

The prime minister was made to walk from his plane to the shed, almost a two-three minute walk, where at the shed gate none higher than Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher met him. During the walk, Gilani and his wife were seen quite perturbed as neither there was an ordinary carpet nor the customary red carpet, as is usual on official visits.

All ministers and others were told to stay in the aircraft, including Information Minister Sherry Rehman, who also mildly protested at the treatment they were getting. A junior US official who had come to the aircraft to escort the PM reportedly told the minister that there was a threat of a thunderstorm and so they would be safer inside the aircraft but what baffled everyone was that PM Gilani was not provided a car to drive up to the welcome shed and had to walk, despite the thunderstorm threat.

Fissures in the Middle Good to hear that the US is going to direct funds for teh social development in the fata, to educate people, to create factories etc.

Per the news below it is also good news for the jihadis, more madrassas and more laison offices for them, thsi time built by the yanks and taken over by the jihadis.

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Militants take over PTV relay centre



By Anwarullah Khan


KHAR, July 29: Paramilitary forces on Tuesday pounded by artillery positions of militants who had occupied a PTV relay centre in the Kohi Ser area of Bajaur on Monday night.

Local people said a teenage girl was killed in the shelling.

About 70 militants took over the PTV centre and a nearby post of the Levies and raised their black flags at both the places.

A jirga sent by the political authorities failed to persuade the militants to vacate the centre which had been out of order for a few months.

The Frontier Corps (FC) fired artillery from the Bajaur Scouts’ headquarters to dislodge the militants.

Militants had earlier turned four government schools in the area into seminaries and a veterinary centre into Taliban’s liaison office.

America\'s Opportunity in Pakistan\'s Tribal Belt Militants take hostage 30 police, troops in Swat MINGORA, Pakistan, July 29 (Reuters): Pro-Taliban militants attacked a security post and took up to 30 hostages on Tuesday in Swat valley, officials said. Militants attacked a joint military-police post in the Kabal area, 35 km north-west of Mingora, and captured 30 police and paramilitary personnel, according to officials, though a militant spokesman put the number at 27. “They were asked to surrender or face death, and they gave up,

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Paki troops does it again, another dacca, this time to the tribals.

America\'s Opportunity in Pakistan\'s Tribal Belt A new take on tribals

It is always teh argument of the pakis that no one has been able to rule over the tribals, from alexander to the british.

The now the pakis have come up with a new scheme to fool the yanks, ROZ, turning the tribals into world class watch maker. No paki wants to talk about teh tribal history now, any source of dollar is OK. ROZ, military aid everything, as long as the paki generals can have all of the loot.

Patheitc it is zaid, to talk of ROZ and forget the oft quoted history of teh tribals.

Fissures in the Middle Gen Majid expresses concern over attacks



By Our Reporter


ISLAMABAD, July 28: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen Tariq Majid, has expressed concern over repeated cross-border missile attacks and firing by coalition and Afghan forces and stressed that Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected.

“Any violation in this regard could be detrimental to bilateral relations,” he said, during a meeting with Lieutenant General Martin E Dempsey, acting Commander of US Centcom, who had called on him at the Joint Staff Headquarters in Chaklala on Monday.

He also said that Pakistan’s armed forces were capable of handling any challenge to the country’s security.
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Pakistan talks about sovereignty, teh question is paki govt had no control over the fata. The forign fighters are crossing the border and the paki army has no control. A few saudis are killed in the latest missile attack
...halo paki foreign department, did they have any paki visa...there can be no concept of soverignity if there are no border controls, that is the essence of a nation..that is the role of the army. In pakistan the army is busy ruling..and they cannot talk about sovereignty.

Time for Musharraf to Quit It is not up to the pakistanis to decide when mushy should quit, it is for teh US. The pakis who cried blue when a few paki soldiers were killed by the US are happy when zardari asked nawaz to come with him to teh US to convince the US that mushy should go.

None of the educated pakistanis saw any surrender fo sovereignty in the action. Their own presdident remains in office as long as the US administration feels that he should.

Self respect...well let me check the book, there is no such notion...it is surrender to the laws of the book. AT last pakistan is a true islamic republic.

Why is Karachi Turning Into a Sell-Out?
Run zardari run, run bhutto run.

The jihadis are knocking at the gates of karachi, the jihadis from fata are moving in.
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Asif’s chief security officer gunned down in Karachi



By Tahir Siddiqui


KARACHI, July 22: Khalid Shahanshah, the chief security officer of PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, was assassinated on Tuesday afternoon outside his Clifton residence, police and witnesses said.

They said that gunmen on a white car sprayed him with a volley of bullets while he was stepping off his double-cabin vehicle in front of his house at Khyaban-i-Bukhari.

Pakistan’s Prevailing Political And Economic Mess The next calamity to hit the paki textile industry is the foreign currency loans. With the fall in the rupees, the loans outstanding are sky rocketting and many of the companies will be closed and equipments sold off.

It is sad to see that such economic malice is happening in pakistan. This can be traced to teh education system, where the incompetant have come to the top.

A good example here on chowk is YLH, he is supposed to be US educated, but is completely bigotted, has no sense of reality, keeps telling that gandhi was a supporter of caste system, and was a muslim hater.

If YLH represent the elite educated of pakistan, no wonder that the all of teh paki polices are crazy.

Time for Musharraf to Quit When a few soldiers got killed in the afghan border by the US all of teh educated of pakistan talked about paki sovereignty. Now the same educated shamelssly are talking about arrangements with teh US to get rid of mushy.

Hallo, the educated of pakistan, is it not the ultimate insult to teh notion of sovereignty.

NO I made a mistake, for a muslim to be killed by an infidel is terrible, that is per the book, the eductaed only clothe the religious dogma in modern terms like sovereignties.

The book is silent of the infidels selecting the rulers, hence it is OK for the paki educated.

What is destroying pakistan is this pretance of modernity, hiding the religious dogmas.

There has been not even a single article stating that the rulers being selected by the US is an insult to teh sovereignty. And that is pathetic

Pakistan’s Prevailing Political And Economic Mess thanks madani saab

The Non-Existent Tourist’s Guide To Pakistan MQM - the tourists from FATA are at your door. They are ready for war to oust teh sindhis from karachi.

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Allied forces advance on Pak-Afghan borders
Updated at: 1320 PST, Tuesday, July 15, 2008
PESHAWAR: Allied troops’ movement on Pak-Afghan borders in North and South Waziristan has geared up.

Hundreds of Allied troops armed with their choppers, tanks, mortars and high-tech weapons have arrived at the Pak-Afghan borders, while the tribesmen viewing the situation threatening have started shifting from the bordering areas. Sources said that hundreds of Allied troops armed with their helicopters, tanks, mortars and high-tech weapons have started arriving since last night near the bordering areas Ghulam Khan, Shawal, Amir Chapsar and Alwara. Allied forces warplanes were also seen hovering over these areas, sources said.

Following the arrival of Allied troops and hovering of the aircrafts in the sky, the tribesmen fearing the worst have started evacuating these bordering areas.

Edward De Bono\'s Point C: Situtation in Pakistan There are a few point Cs that can save pakistan from the jihadis.

One is teh korean option, get rid of the bomb, the world will let pakistan have its own way.

The other is the dismantling of the ISI. The world beleives that teh ISI is acting on its own in supporting the taliban

Banana Republic What a difference between the two countries


Raining free tomatoes

KOLAR: With no solution in sight for the minimum support price for tomato, tomato growers have decided to stage a novel protest here on Tuesday.

The Kolar Jilla Tomato Belegarara Sangha, a newly formed association of tomato growers, has resolved to dump a truck load of tomatoes in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office for free distribution.

“This peaceful agitation is to convince the authorities about the problems of tomato growers,” honorary president of the sangha Eshwarappa said.

The farmers in Kolar and Chickballapur district have been waging a struggle for the past two weeks demanding Rs. 5 as support price per kg of tomato.

Banana Republic If only these wom,en could grown bananas. More than likely that the jihadis will carry out bank roberies to support their activities.
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PESHAWAR: 80pc handicraft centres closed in Swat: Pressure from militants



By Ali Hazrat Bacha


PESHAWAR, July 14: About 80 per cent of the handicraft centres in parts of upper Swat have been closed due to pressure from militants, people in the business told Dawn.

A number of embroidery centres, being supervised by non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations, were closed in Khwazakhela when the organisers received threatening letters from unidentified militants, a source said. In the letters, the women were warned to avoid coming out of their houses without male family members. Thus many of the women preferred to stay at home instead of taking risk of life, she added.

The Non-Existent Tourist’s Guide To Pakistan Genuine tourist attaractions are there in FATA and they should be publicised. One of them is the p[ak army training of teh surrender ceremony, drilled into teh head of every paki soldier. here is one such ceremony, that should have been a big tourist attaraction, paki army men surrendering to the jihadis, and the paki army camp being blown up.

The shallow humour of teh author hides genuine tourist opportunities.


Militants in Hangu loot, blow up FC fort



By Abdul Sami Paracha


KOHAT, July 14: Militants blew up a Frontier Constabulary fort in the Shinawarai area of Hangu district on Monday night after looting arms and ammunition.

Witnesses said that about 250 militants had besieged the fort, 30kms from Hangu town, and asked FC personnel to vacate it or face action.

After some time, the personnel decided to leave the fort. They were given ‘safe passage’ by the assailants.The militants entered the fort and loaded their vehicles with arms and ammunition. “Later, they planted explosives in the fort and blew it up,” a local man said.

Swat: Can the deal work?
Helping pakistan.

the pakistanis have to learn the abc fo trading. You do not export any item, other than the jihadis, without an irrevicable letter of credit so that you get the payment.

Madani saab, go and teach your stupid paki trtaders about international trade. That will help pakistan rather than borrowing money from teh saudis.

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$15m export loss likely as US firm files bankruptcy



By Our Staff Reporter


KARACHI, July 12: A leading importer of readymade garments from Pakistan has filed chapter 11 in the US court for bankruptcy thereby threatening remittances of millions of dollars against shipments made by many exporters.

The importing company Steve & Barry’s had been a leading buyer of garments from Pakistan. However, for some reason the company for last several months stopped remitting proceeds against shipments from Pakistani exporters.

According Rafiq Godil, the chairman of the action committee formed for the rescue of victims of Steve & Barry exports income over $15 million would be lost in case the company is declared bankrupt.