Aamir - A Film Review #18 Posted by dost_mittar on July 8, 2008 7:35:22 am

what about the militancy in kashmir..that began in 1989..

of course, unlike the vast majority of indians, you might not consider that a part of india.

pray tell..why are there ZERO indians in gitmo and a whole bunch pf pakis? why were the majority of the 9/11 terrorists from saudi arabia..a country that gives it's citizens pretty much free health care and the ability to study in the US on the government's dime..

injustice my mohammed...

Muslim Ghettoisation #330 Posted by aslam644 on July 8, 2008 7:28:35 am


“There was once a civilization


Emphasis on the past tense...

Muslim Ghettoisation
it is no doubt unfair to single out any community of people for blame.


so people should just ignore the whole london bombing, sound of ministry bombing plot, the mass poisoning plot and the atlantic bombing plot..

this is a tactic used by the apologists for the jihadis..portray the islamofascists as victims..

Aamir - A Film Review #16 Posted by aslam644 on July 8, 2008 7:09:21 am


Contrary to what jews would have us believe there were no persecution of them in western Europe

YGSM...you've gotta be shitting me..

Aamir - A Film Review #14 Posted by dost_mittar on July 8, 2008 6:14:18 am

now you're saying naxalites are the equivalent of your islamic jihadi buddies?

Aamir - A Film Review #12 Posted by nb on July 8, 2008 4:57:06 am


Dostmittar, have you not seen any poor Hindus in bastis?


in kuldip nayyar's worldview, muslims have an allah given right to a standard of living higher than non-muslims..

anything less and it means they are oppressed..of course, there's no waay some of it could be blamed on the muslims ocmmunity itself...absolutely not..

Who Sold the Centrifuges? #10 Posted by ijaz_gul on July 7, 2008 10:00:12 pm


As for fission and fusion, Pakistan is far ahead of India in Both. India has an edge at the Orissa Thorium Reactor, but that may be a very difficult threshold to cross.


stop embarrassing yourself by quoting information you got from the famous paki think tank: PIOMPA..

Who Sold the Centrifuges? #16 Posted by masadi on July 7, 2008 11:55:15 pm

masadi: this peon of the west is saying the same thing..



http://www.dawn.com/2008/07/08/ed.htm#4

Aid & Pakistan’s development


By Shahid Javed Burki

THERE is a belief among economists — a belief I happen to share — that the peaks and troughs one notices in the trajectory of growth followed by Pakistan since its birth in 1947 were induced by large flows of foreign assistance.

Up until recently, a significant share of the total amount of external capital that flowed into Pakistan came from the United States’ budget and from the institutions over which Washington had considerable influence.

The international financial institutions that supported Pakistan’s development — the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank — seemed to open their coffers to use by Pakistan during the periods when America was also being generous. The American generosity was linked with Pakistan’s willingness to advance Washington’s strategic interests in various parts of the world.

Thus in the early 1960s, when President Ayub Khan aligned Pakistan with the United States in order to help the latter contain the spread of communism in Asia, the Americans provided large amounts of military and economic assistance to Islamabad. The flow of assistance declined significantly after Pakistan’s war with India in September 1965 and also when the reins of power passed into the hands of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who sought to detach Pakistan from America.

The Russian invasion of Afghanistan and its occupation of that country for a decade — during most of the 1980s — brought Pakistan into an alliance with the United States and Saudi Arabia. Pakistan was prepared to use its territory to train warriors to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. In return it asked for and received both military and economic support from America and its western allies as well as from Saudi Arabia.

The third period of close American — Pakistani association began right after 9/11 when Islamabad responded to Washington’s pressure and became a partner in the ‘war on terror’. This partnership also came with support to the economy and the military. The latest estimate for the total amount of American support during the 2002-08 period is $12bn, or $2bn a year.

Each of these three periods of close donor association with Pakistan — the 1960s, the 1980s, and the early 2000s — profoundly affected the country’s economy. The most important impact was on the rate of GDP growth. Averaged over the three periods, the economy grew by more than six per cent a year, a rate of growth 50 per cent higher than the one Pakistan could have sustained on its own.

During the 1960s, this high rate of growth in GDP meant an increase of 3.5 per cent per annum in income per head of the population; in the 1980s, income per head increased at the rate of 3.8 per cent. The highest increase in per capita income occurred in the more recent period when the GDP growth averaged seven per cent and income per capita increased by 5.2 per cent a year, a record for the country.

The less apparent impact of the large amounts of donor money coming into Pakistan was to postpone some of the structural problems that have adversely affected the economy. The first was a persistent low domestic savings rate. With very low domestic savings, Pakistan could afford a rate of GDP growth not significantly higher than the rate of population increase. This meant that the problem of poverty could not be addressed.

Evidence compiled from the experience of high growth developing economies by development institutions such as the World Bank suggests that the rate of GDP growth has to be two to three times the rate of increase in population for a palpable difference to be made to poverty levels. To ensure such rates of growth overtime, Pakistan needed to increase domestic savings. Or it could rely on external flows. Since the latter often became available in large amounts, policy-makers set aside the difficult decisions they would have had to take to increase domestic savings. The most important of these was the restructuring of the tax and public expenditure systems.

The second structural problem, policy-makers have failed to address, concerns the development of the country’s large human resource. Since 1947, the year of the country’s birth, Pakistan has witnessed a profound demographic change. The size of the population has increased five-fold from 30 million in 1947 to an estimated 165 million in 2008. The number of people living in the urban areas has increased 12-fold, from five million to 60 million.

The median age of the population has declined continuously. Today it is only 17 years which means that nearly 83 million Pakistanis are below the age of 17 years. Such a population can either become a large burden for the country or it could become a major economic asset. What will make the difference is the interest the state takes in education and skill development and in providing basic health care.

The Pakistani state has done poorly in these three areas. Public sector expenditure on education in the early 2000s was less than 2.5 per cent of GDP. The expenditure for healthcare was even less than that. Even compared to the countries at its level of development, Pakistan spends a very small part of its GDP on research and development.

As the Indian experience has shown, a well educated and trained workforce can become not only a major asset for the economy. It can also bring about significant social changes that contribute to the modernisation of the economy and the society and their better integration into the fast changing global system. Pakistan’s large and very young population can move in either of the two directions: opt for a greater play in the development and modernisation of the economy or drift towards Islamic radicalism and isolationism.

The third structural change that did not happen was the integration of the economy in the rapidly evolving global system, particularly through increased exports. No developing country has developed without emphasising the development of the export sector. Pakistan, on the other hand, has allowed its share in global trade to decline. The World Bank’s latest World Development Indicators, shows that Pakistan had a share of 2.4 per cent in global population, 0.23 per cent in global output but only 0.15 per cent in global exports.

What lies in Pakistan’s future? Now that the United States is developing some misgivings about Pakistan’s contribution to the ‘war on terrorism’ there is the possibility that American aid may decline once again. Should that happen, what would be the impact on the Pakistani economy?

Who Sold the Centrifuges? #7 Posted by mkamd on July 7, 2008 8:37:21 pm

I'm sure you can produce some link to some report somewhere about pakiland's supposed possession of a fusion device...

and no...PIOMPA reports won't do...

Who Sold the Centrifuges? #5 Posted by mkamd on July 7, 2008 1:20:42 pm


then Pakistan's signature fusion technology


Umm..pakiland doesn't have the fusion bomb...it has the fission bomb..

you do know the difference, right?

Yet Another Immigrant Story masadi..

At Magnet School, An Asian Plurality
Group Forms 45% Of Freshmen at Thomas Jefferson

By Michael Alison Chandler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 7, 2008; A01

Asian American students will outnumber white classmates for the first time in the freshman class at the region's most prestigious public magnet school this fall, a milestone reached as the number of African Americans and Hispanics has remained low and the Fairfax County School Board prepares to review the school's admission policy.

At Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in the Alexandria area this year, more than 2,500 applicants vied for 485 seats. Asian American students got 219, or 45 percent of the total, while white students got 205, or 42 percent. About 38 percent of the school's students were Asian American in the past school year.

T.J., as the school is known, draws students from several Northern Virginia jurisdictions. It ranks among the nation's top public schools in some surveys because of its rigorous curriculum and high-achieving students. Its average combined SAT score in 2007 was 2155, compared with 1639 countywide. More than 150 of its students that year were semifinalists for National Merit scholarships.

Who Sold the Centrifuges?
This might make another dent in his thus far good credentials with his principal mentors the United States of America.


Good credentials? ROTFLMAO....

the US knows mushy was involved..it just turned a blind eye as mushy threw AQ under the bus..

only a retard could think that AQK did this all by himself

Muslim Ghettoisation #178 Posted by BJ2 on July 6, 2008 4:19:17 pm

really? fulltime students are allowed to work 60 hrs/week? OPT is after you complete your course, isn't it?

Muslim Ghettoisation hey masadi...we're still waiting for you to tell us how you worked 60 hrs a week..doesn't an F1 only allow 20hrs/week?

drove a cab illegally?

Muslim Ghettoisation so muslims are the new jews?

Muslim Ghettoisation #95 Posted by Eklavya on July 5, 2008 6:18:15 pm


And since you cannot prove that there is no grand conspiracy against Muslims


Kaalchakra...anyone who says shit like that is clearly a troll and not who he's pretending to be...you've possibly run the biggest scam on the internet ever...