New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #616 Posted by masadi on March 20, 2008 11:53:55 am

going by your ridiculous standards, everything can be credited to the first african who walked out of africa and evolved into the chinese...

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan US drones hovering over North Waziristan

Our Staff Reporter
BANNU - Bomb disposal squad Wednesday diffused here a bomb that was planted under a bridge on Bannu-Miran Shah Road.
The passers-by witnessed a suspicious box lying under Bannu-Miran Shah linking bridge in Mamash Khel area and informed the police. The police called bomb disposal squad, which searched the box and found locally made bomb that was diffused. The route upon which the bomb was planted is being used for the transportation of security forces to Miran Shah.
Online adds: The US spy planes were seen hovering over the headquarters of North Waziristan, Miranshah and its adjoining areas. According to a private TV channel, the flights of US drones over the Miranshah, Mir Ali and Ghulam Khan created concern among the tribal people, however, the drone did not carry out any action.
US drones fired three missiles three days ago resulting in the death of 20 persons while five sustained injuries.
Meanwhile, girls schools have been closed for indefinite period of time after receiving threatening letters from extremists in Darra Adam Khel. Noor Ali Kalay girls model school including some other schools received threatening letters, which caused the closure of these schools. Residents have refused sending their children to schools.
People are still under the fear after the blast occurred in Peero Waal Girls School some days back.

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #591 Posted by masadi on March 20, 2008 6:42:15 am


China did not develop its base by integrating into the global capitalistic economy,


yeah pal..they built it by reading mills..sure..

you may not be self-righteous hypocrite like prophet tahmed but gawd you're clueless..

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #465 Posted by ahmedmadani on March 19, 2008 6:03:55 pm

don't you think it's disingenuous of capt clueless to say he told you so about mushy when he's still covered with the shit from when he was all up mushy's butt?

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #461 Posted by ahmedmadani on March 19, 2008 5:30:36 pm

madani dude. I agree...A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds and all that..

but it's just plain funny how capt clueless pretends to be have been right everytime on everything when it's clear from his own posts that he doesn't know his ass from his elbow..

It's one thing to change your mind on somethings...and quite another thing to say "I told you so!!" when, in fact, you said the exact opposite thing...

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan It's funny how there's never a shortage of pakis to advise the US on how it should conduct it's foreign policy when you have pakiland having to grease up and bend over...

Assef: PPP may consider US request for bases
Kashmir should not be a hurdle between Pak-India ties

Akhtar Jamal

Islamabad—Pakistan People’s Party’s runner for top slot in Foreign Ministry, MNA Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali says an American request for bases in Pakistan may be considered and that Kashmir dispute should not be a hurdle in the normalization of relations between Pakistan and India.

Speaking to the official TV channel Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali who has already served as country’s foreign minister in early 90s under Benazir Bhutto said his Party believes in a negotiated settlement of unrest in Balochistan and in tribal areas.

Rejecting a suggestion by Dr. Condoleezza Rice that Pakistan should not hold talks with miltants in tribal areas, Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali said “we have not been elected by her but by the people of Pakistan and we will address the desires of our people”. He said, in a democratic society all issues are settled through peaceful negotiions and “our government will work for peace in Balochistan and tribal areas through peaceful negotiations”.

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan say...where's capt clueless? still got his head up mushy's rear?



#37 Posted by Romair on March 5, 2002 2:15:36 am

Also, now that Pakistan is getting world attention, these guys will have to face and debate at the world level with international intellectuals. They will realize that they are not the only ones who can speak English, and have elitist education. I don`t think they are ready for this, and they are now begining to realize this. Hence their poor show at international forums, like the one you mentioned.

Based on this, what Musharraf has been able to accomplish is incredible. He is now the symbol of Pakistan in the Western media. Just like when the West pictures Iraq, they think Saddam (= bad guy), when it pictures Pakistan, it thinks Musharraf (= good guy). This is now the image of Pakistan in the average American grandmother`s mind, and all the Ganguly`s of the world will not be able change it, provided we play our cards correctly.

I have seen very very few serving Generals, of any country, in my life who are so apt at dealing with the press, in such a straightforward manner (perhaps Colin Powell is another). Just take a look at how tongue-tied the US Generals get when they talk to the US media. I don`t know where Musharraf picked this up, because it certainly isn`t taught in any military I know of.

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #437 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on March 19, 2008 12:01:04 pm

your jokes are funny in the same place where pakis have won the argument: in your delusional alternate universe..

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #428 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on March 19, 2008 11:33:24 am


Modi was and is a member of the BJP. Case closed.


congratulations..you win...now that you've won
1. NATO will stop bombing pakiland
2. Pakis won't get the TSA danda treatment at airports
3. visas for pakis won't have to be cleared in DC instead of islamabad.
4. any thing else I missed from your self-delusionary worldview.

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #423 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on March 19, 2008 11:12:18 am

don't pakis tire of self-deception and self-delusion...

It's not enough for pakis to make a comparison between the BJP and pakiland's numerous islamist terrorist groups and declare equivalence(even victory)..

you do realize that the rest of the world isn't buying it, right? right?

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan ending support to islamic terrorism....noooooo

koranic verses SMS to stop allah's homies from blowing stuff up...yup..that's the key..

SMS urge people to recite Quranic verses to stay safe

* Some term it campaign to make money
* Religious scholars call campaign a good omen

By Hasan Ali

LAHORE: After a series of suicide attacks in the country, people have started exchanging short text messages (SMS) asking each other to recite various Quranic verses to avert more suicide attacks.

Religious scholars have called the ‘campaign’ a good thing, saying that at least people would recite the holy verses in this way.

These messages contain various Quranic verses and God’s names. The senders ask the receivers to recite the verses before going to any place, especially crowded areas. “Before going to a mosque, office or bazaar, always read these verses,” the SMS read. The senders also request the receiver to forward the SMS to as many people possible for the betterment of humanity and the countrymen.

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031801353_ pf.html

India's Tata sets up delivery center in Ohio

India's largest outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services, is opening a services delivery center in a suburb of Cincinnati.

John Ribeiro
PC World
Tuesday, March 18, 2008; 12:19 PM

As Indian service providers get closer to their U.S. and European customers, India's largest outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has set up shop in a suburb of Cincinnati.

The company's new services delivery center will be its primary software development center for North American customers. Located in Milford, Ohio, the North America Delivery Center can accommodate up to 1,000 staff, most of whom will be hired locally, the company said on Tuesday.

A number of Indian outsourcers are setting up facilities to be in the same time zone and be physically closer to North American and European customers. Infosys, India's second largest outsourcer, and Wipro, the country's third largest outsourcer, have, for example, set up IT services and business process outsourcing operations in Monterrey, Mexico. Wipro, which last year acquired Infocrossing, an IT services provider in the U.S., is also planning a facility in Atlanta.

National Association of Software and Service Companies, a trade organization in Delhi, also remains positive about the growth of India's outsourcing industry. The industry is optimistic about achieving its target of US$60 billion in software and services exports by March 2010. In the Indian fiscal year to March 31, the industry expects export revenue of $40.3 billion, up 29 percent from export revenue in the previous year.

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #268 Posted by tahmed32 on March 18, 2008 1:44:59 pm

prophet tahmed: I know it must be incredibly hard for you to accept the fact that moderate dont-bring-up-dead-bangladeshis pakiland is associated with IT(islamic terrorism) and India is associated with IT...

of course, paki failure to accept reality doesn't alter reality...

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan while the discussions between britain and pakiland are about brit-pakis training for jihad in pakiland, the discussions with india are about other things..

Tata is 21st century Nissan: UK
12 Jan 2008, 0020 hrs IST,RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL,TNN

LONDON: Britain launches a mighty push for a 'new deal' with India on Monday with an ambitious stars-in-our-eyes dream blueprint for Tata to become the 21st-century's Nissan by using the UK as a beachhead for the large and lucrative European market.

The proposal, which is both a significant – and symbolic – indicator of the great tectonic shift eastwards in the new geo-politics of economics, comes just days after Tata generated headlines worldwide with Nano, the cheapest car in the world.

But this is just a coincidence, as evident from the well-laid, big-ticket plans outlined to TOI by Digby Jones, Britain's trade and investment minister, ahead of his arrival in Delhi on Monday, January 14.

A series of important deals are expected to be signed when British prime minister Gordon Brown visits Delhi in 10 days' time, on his first India trip since succeeding Tony Blair.

But Jones, a bluff and hearty lawyer-turned-businessman, who formerly headed Britain's employers' organization, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), refuses to spoil the surprise. Jones, who Brown appointed a government minister to "bang the drum" for Britain in the global marketplace, will only say that his big plan, for Tata to become the 21 st-century's Nissan illustrates the great shift in Britain's great expectations of India.

"Tata (could start) the second generation of inward investment into this country; the first was Nissan in 1983...and then there will be all the camp followers of the big one, Tata...the next generation (of greats) is going to be a Nissan, it's going to be a Tata".

Jones's yesterday-Nissan-tomorrow-Tata mantra is important, for India just as much as the UK. In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher's Britain gave Nissan permission to become the first Japanese carmaker to set up a production facility in Europe. Nissan's spit-and-polish plant in Sunderland breathed new life into one of England's most depressed areasit and as Jones points out "within four years, the top 10 auto component manufacturers in the world were there". The Indians, he says, can repeat that, to considerable profit for themselves.

Jones' desire to add a spicy Indian top-note to the Japanese success story will dictate his Delhi sojourn as he precedes and then accompanies Prime Minister Brown. Accordingly, his 60-company entourage features 26 from the automotive sector, with the rest chosen from the newly-lucrative environmental tech and public-private-partnership sectors.

It is not for nothing, says Jones, that he has opted to plough his ministerial brief by starting with India, symbolically and somewhat ritualistically, making his first overseas trip since being appointed to Delhi, the new Mecca for marketing men anywhere in the world.

"India, a skills-based economy is a natural fit with high-level manufacturing with British know-how"," he says.

He adds, "Tata owns (Anglo-Dutch steelmaker) Corus; it may buy Jaguar and considering the major part of a car is steel, this could be something made in heaven".

Ahead of this, his second trip to Delhi in barely four months, Jones briskly insists his mantra is "to hit the ground running" and tie up a slew of ambitious deals for big-ticket Indo-British collaboration in the advanced engineering, aerospace, transport and infrastructure sectors.

The underlying logic, says Jones, is the realization soothing to Indian ears that "China is really a low-cost manufacturer...(while) India's place at the top table is going to be at the value-added high-end (market)".

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan what's this manto? pakiland out with the begging bowl?

btw: the paki rupee and indian rupee used to be 50/60 to the $..now the indian rupee is around 39 and the paki rupee at around 62. also, the paki forex has been at the sub 15 billion $ mark forever...indian's forex reserves, OTOH..well..you know..





China, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar: Pakistan looks for fiscal support
ARIF RANA
ISLAMABAD (March 15 2008): After Saudi Arabia, Pakistan has approached four other friendly countries, China, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait and Qatar, for seeking financial support to reduce budgetary deficit and keep economy on the move.

Sources told Business Recorder on Friday that following a $300 million grant from Saudi Arabia early this week for helping Islamabad offsetting impact of the rising oil prices on the economy now Pakistan has taken the case with other four countries, which could extend it financial support when current account deficit (CAD) was widening to alarming level.

The list of the countries to which Pakistan approached for financial support shows that Islamabad is heavily relying on the friendly countries to come out of the worsening financial crisis.

Economic analysts are of the view that Pakistan needs minimum $5 billion to keep its house in order and to fulfil fiscal responsibilities. Such support is also needed to keep the rupee parity with US dollar at some reasonable level, besides keeping foreign exchange reserves at certain limit to support the rupee.

The government economic wizards seem helpless in plugging budgetary deficit through usual means. Pakistan's move is indicative of serious threats as a result of unprecedented high oil prices in the international market and much poor performance of different key sectors of the economy.

Islamabad can not make things happen smoothly when all key indicators of its economy are not performing up to the mark. Its two major sources- revenue collection and exports-have not been showing any good signs. Revenue collection is likely to remain much less than the targeted figure and, similarly, exports have gone down making it clear to the policy makers that they will be left with Pakistan's huge trade deficit at the end of the current fiscal year.

This disorder can subsequently add to Pakistan's financial woes. For the last few years, the economic managers in Islamabad had been plugging the gap in income and expenditure by raising money from international market through global depository receipt (GDRs), privatisation of national assets and from borrowing.

They managed to create the impression for a common man that Pakistan's economy was robust as a result of reforms and their professional approach to meet the future challenges without any problem.

Perhaps they expected some divine force to come and remove the weaknesses in the economy. The campaign of getting whatever any friendly country can give it for financial support is now telling the true story of the economic successes of the last almost one decade.

New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan #240 Posted by zeemax on March 18, 2008 9:54:29 am


looking to invest in familiar markets with potential. That's Pakistan.


They've already invested big time in your IT market...Islamic Terrorism...who do you think funds the madrassahs that produce the jihadis that whack the pakis?

about investing in the land of the pure, name 3 companies that can hold their own in the world...(and no, despite what manto might think, orascom is not a paki company)