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Friday, December 31, 2010

Video - Politicians in #pakistan debating policy matters

Non-reform of #pakistan's blasphemy laws tells a wider story of religious persecution #Christianity #Jesus

The case of Aasia Bibi, a Christian farmhand who was sentenced to death in Pakistan, teaches us how difficult it is to bring law, democracy and an end to extremism to the country

Suspected Islamic terrorists caught by Swedan had earlier been released by #pakistan

Arrested, but later released by Pakistan last year and spent 10 days in a Pakistani prison last year for having entered the country illegally.

2011 Shaping Up as One Long Corridor of Uncertainty for #Pakistan

As a dismal year draws to a close, Pakistani cricket fans may be hoping that 2011 will bring a little respite from the torrent of bad news that has engulfed their national team.

The lesson of Pakistan’s recent cricket history, though, is that however bad things may seem to be, there is often worse to come.

Yet another setback for the cricketing nation where things all too often go from bad to worse.
"terrorists have a good thing going in #Pakistan. Why move out of the comfort of 1 cave to take up residence in another"

#fact Widespread concerns about illegal detentions & humanright abuses by #pakistan's #military

Widespread human rights abuses, bordering on pogrom & genocide, carried out by the predominantly Sunni Punjabi pakistan Army on its other ethnic minorities in order to maintain their pre-eminence in their control of affairs of the Islamic Republic of pakistan

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Alcoholism, prohibited in #Islam, a major problem in #pakistan

Beneath the veneer of possessing & upholding puritanical Islamic values, the citizens of the Islamic Republic of pakistan are known to engage in every possible vices prohibited in Islam & often on scale far greater than what is considered normal by communities that consider no such prohibition.

#pakistan and its Hindus have a problem #religion #Islam #persecution @UN

Twenty-seven Hindu families from the troubled province of Balochistan in Pakistan have sought political asylum at the Indian high commission in Islamabad. These families have cited an increase in rapes, kidnappings, and murders of members of their community, and an unresponsive administration.

It is true that Pakistan has not worked out a harmonious way of integrating its minorities, an issue that its leaders and people have to solve for themselves. Christians experience the same sense of insecurity that the affected Hindu and Sikh families have experienced in recent times.

As #pakistan approaches bankruptcy, patience of foreign lenders wears thin

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Hindus fleeing #pakistan to escape brutal persecution & killing

More than two dozen Hindu families have asked for visas and political asylum in India because of kidnappings and target killings are on the rise, officials say.

As many as 27 Hindu families from Balochistan have sent applications to the Indian Embassy for asylum in India

Persecution of non-Muslims, including Shia & Ahmediyya Muslims, is rampant an considered as an act of serving God by the dominant Sunni Muslim population in the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

#pakistan's blasphemy law seen as tool of oppressing Non-Muslims #Religion #Islam #Christianity #Jesus

Muslim cleric Muhammad Salim isn't worried that a court or Pakistan's president might spare a Christian woman from this village who has been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges.

After all, if Asia Bibi, a mother of two, escapes the hangman's noose, he's confident someone else will kill her.

"Any Muslim, if given the chance, would kill such a person," Salim said calmly, seated cross-legged on a straw mat at a mosque here. "You would be rewarded in heaven for it."

A cleric in Peshawar has offered 500,000 rupees, or $6,000, to anyone who kills Asia Bibi, if her execution doesn't take place. Other hard-line clerics have warned they would mobilize nationwide protests against the government if President Asif Ali Zardari pardoned her.

The nation's Shiite Muslim minority has been victimized by extremist Sunni Muslim groups for years. Members of the smaller Ahmadi sect, viewed by most Pakistanis as traitors to Islam because they revere another prophet in addition to Muhammad, have been frequent victims of suicide bombings, kidnappings and other attacks.

Last year, in the central Punjab city of Gojra, a mob of 1,000 Muslims set fire to more than 40 Christian homes, killing seven people.

Various subsections of the law carry different penalties, but under the section Asia Bibi was prosecuted, the only sentence is death.

The law dates to the 1980s and the rule of Gen. Zia ul-Haq, who instituted a policy of Islamization to placate hard-line religious parties in exchange for their political support.

Human rights advocates say the law is frequently used by Pakistanis embroiled in property disputes or as a tool to bully Christians, Ahmadis or other minorities. Usually, evidence in blasphemy cases is scant, apart from the accounts given by the accusers.

Asia Bibi's husband has received death threats and has had to go into hiding with the couple's two teenage daughters.

Keeping the law on the books in effect sanctions the marginalization of minorities

Monday, December 27, 2010

"Kill three million of them & the rest will eat out of our hands"
"[General] Yahya [Khan] hasn’t had so much fun since the last Hindu massacre"

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Leading journalists in #pakistan use Twitter to mock Balochistan's freedom struggle #fail

Leading Pakistan journalists appear to be privately concerned about the goings-on in Balochistan, but still poke fun at Baloch leaders past and present, their tweeting on twitter Tuesday revealed.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

#pakistan: The Blasphemous Use Of Blasphemy Law #Religion #Christianity #Islam #Jesus

The brutal oppression, persecution & discrimination of Non-Muslims, including Shia & Ahmediyya Muslims, takes on varied forms in the Islamic Republic of pakistan in the hands of its over-overpoweringly dominating Sunni religious clerics & millionaire Army Generals.

Massive protests in #pakistan over Govt's attempt to prevent misuse of blasphemy law for oppressing non-Muslims


Pakistani Islamists are demanding the government leave the country's laws against blasphemy alone.

Thousands rallied in Karachi and other cities Friday to warn government officials any effort to repeal the laws would have serious consequences.

One Pakistani cleric has said if the government fails to go ahead with the hanging, his mosque will offer $6,000 to anyone who kills her. 

Convictions under the law are common

Protest leaders are calling for a nationwide strike if the government tries to heed calls from the West to change the blasphemy law.

Pakistan's Christians, who make up less than 5 percent of the country's 175 million people, have long complained of discrimination.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Tense #Christmas Weekend Ahead In #pakistan #Jesus #Christianity #Islam

Christians in Pakistan face tense Christmas weekend because of the possibility of violence by Islamists.

#China pulls a fast one on #pakistan - refuses to import goods from pakistan even after promising to do so

China has withdrawn its unilateral offer to facilitate import of an additional 263 items from Pakistan out of Free Trade Agreement (FTA), sources in Commerce Ministry told Business Recorder. In the middle of current year, Commerce Secretary Zafar Mahmood had announced before the Advisory Council of Trade Policy that China would facilitate import of a number of additional items out of FTA.

Despite widespread impoverishment & economic disarray #pakistan to increase defense budget

Outcome when a country is held in the vice-like grip of its Army, who constitute the richest citizens of the country.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

US Commandos given the go-ahead to hunt down terrorists in #pakistan's Quetta region

Pakistan has finally bowed its head to U.S. demands to take on the dreaded Quetta Shura, the cream of the Taliban based in the Balochistan capital Quetta, the WorldNetdaily publisher Joseph Farah has reported.

600 industries, 380 CNG stations, 0.1 million powerlooms shut down in #pakistan

More than six hundred industrial units including 100,000 Powerlooms remained closed on third consecutive day, here on Saturday, while 380 CNG Station were remained closed on second day. Resultantly, 400,000 workforce most of them daily wagers becomes jobless and prevailing situation creating worst ever financial crisis for small-scale textile ancillaries.

#pakistan's industries to get no special preferance from the European Union

The Council meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has rejected the move of the European Union (EU) to offer Generalised System of Preference (GSP) facility to Pakistan for 75 of its export items.

Musharraf [@PMpakistan] bribed with alcohol & cigars to appear in documentary #pakistan #Islam

The makers of an acclaimed documentary on slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto claim they had to resort to "much flattery", a bottle of Chivas and Cuban cigars to get former president Pervez Musharraf to do a short interview for the film.
"There is mistrust for #pakistan all over. It's from neighbours, from allies, from everywhere"

#China's Hong Kong tennis team refuses to visit #pakistan to play matches

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Polio vaccine developed to immunise human children mostly ineffective in #pakistan

Authorities in Pakistan have come out with a shocking figure about polio cases. More than 78 percent of such confirmed cases in the country involved children who had been administered polio drops, raising questions about the efficacy of vaccine.

Banks in #pakistan to register lowered profits

Misallocations of resources by the pakistani govt and its military establishment, towards supporting Islamic Terrorist activities around the world forces it to borrow heavily from its banks which in turn force the banks to raise lending rates to the common citizens of pakistan, deterring people from taking loans in the first place, thereby causing losses or lowered profit to banks operating in the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

Chinese Company caught smuggling #Nuclear material to #pakistan

The United States on Tuesday fined the Chinese subsidiary of a US firm nearly four million dollars for exporting coatings to a Pakistan nuclear site.

PPG Paints Trading in Shanghai, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PPG Industries, agreed to pay 3.75 million dollars over the exports

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Support for Islamic Terrorists forcing #pakistan to shut down its Rail network

Shortage of Electricity caused by rising impoverishment owing to diverting disproportionate amount of its meager resources towards supporting Islamic Terrorism worldwide, has forced the authorities in the Islamic Republic of pakistan to progressively shut down rail connectivity throughout the country.

#fact Girl in #pakistan gang raped in one of its most affluent areas #fail

Some car-riding criminals, allegedly, gang-raped a girl after abducting her from Clifton, a posh area of Karachi, and later left her at Sea View and fled.

poverty-stricken terrorism-sponsoring #pakistan begging IMF to defer loan repayment

Having diverted majority of its resources towards sponsoring and supporting Islamic Terrorism around the world, the Islamic Republic of pakistan is left with no more money to repay the multi-billion dollars worth of loans it has been borrowing from multiple International donors

#Iran ready to control border if #pakistan shirks its duty

Tehran regards ties with Islamabad as important, but Pakistan does not deal with terrorists seriously.

If Pakistan does not take serious measures to halt terrorist activities along the border with Iran, Iran will take control of the borders.

2 Ways of Looking at America's Covert War in #pakistan #Terrosism

Our country is fighting a covert war in Pakistan, commanded by clandestine operatives. The Pakistanis know this. We know this. The people of indeterminate nationality who are being blown up by drones know this. From whom is the war a secret, that it has to be fought by secret agents?

Perfidious Musharraf ( @PMpakistan ) & his Recent TV Interview - Part I #pakistan

Fisking the former Dictator of the Islamic Republic of pakistan.

#pakistan lines up for #China's cash

Okay, so the signs, from the original title, has been changed to lines just to let you know what the article is all about.

No Cricket Borad agreed to #pakistan's fantasy of hosting a tournament in 2012

The Sri Lankan cricket team came under attack from Islamic Terrorists, initially reared and nurtured by the pakistan Army to do its bidding in neighboring countries, in midst of a tournament.

The Islamic Republic of pakistan remains the nerve center of Islamic terrorism, receiving state patronage and support from its military establishment as long as they focus their attention on other countries and attempt to further pakistan's nefarious intentions.

Monday, December 20, 2010

#Iran may be forced to launch an attack on #pakistan

Pakistan should destroy all terrorist training centers on its soil, “otherwise Iran has the right to defend its citizens through making the atmosphere unsecure for terrorists,” spokesman for the Parliament's (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Sunday.

#WikiLeaks sanitary napkins sold exclusively in #pakistan

It will not begin leaking until Julian Assange releases it

12 suspected terrorists of #pakistan origin arrested in Britain #Terrorism #Religion

British counter-terror police arrested 12 men early Monday in a "large-scale, pre-planned, intelligence-led" operation, they said.

The suspects are all of Pakistani descent, a security source tells CNN

Monday, December 13, 2010

U.S. Taxpayers Help Create Seven Pakistani Billionaires #pakistan

Pakistan Grabs U.S. Aid - Keeps Taxes Low for its Rich

US is paying for #pakistan protection racket #Terrorism

US aid, particularly military aid, flows to Pakistan in huge quantities and senior American government and military figures accentuate the positive, rhetorically at least, in public endorsements of Pakistan and its civilian and military leaderships. Behind the scenes however is a blunt and unflattering characterization of Pakistan, of the corruption and incompetence of its elites, of its erratic behaviour – not least with respect to nuclear weapons – and, above all of Pakistan relations with, and use of, terrorist and insurgent groups as instruments of state policy.

Pakistan supports at least four terrorinsurgent groups – the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, the Hekmatyar network, and Lashkar-e-Taiba – but there is nothing the US can do to affect Pakistan's support for these groups.

US is paying to defeat its own objectives in Afghanistan and paying to support state-backing for regional and global terror movements that pose a real threat to US and wider western interests. The US knows this, Pakistan knows this, but still the aid and supportive rhetoric flows.

Policy-makers questioning the wisdom of continuing with this kind of support would do well to reflect on the outcome of the Bush administration's $11-billion military aid to Pakistan between 2001 and 2008. Most of that money was spent on India-centric weapons, on bridging Pakistan's balance of payments gap and on vastly expanding the Pakistan army's economic and financial assets. Only a small proportion was spent on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency inside Pakistan. Even the latter contained absurdities like the US paying Pakistan to patrol its own borders, something which, outside the Kafkaesque world of Pakistan, most states take for granted as part of their duty in relation to the maintenance of internal and external state sovereignty.

Given Pakistan diverts military aid away from its principal donor's most pressing security concerns and given the US acknowledgement that Pakistan supports terrorist groups, is it time to ask if US military aid be stopped?

First, despite the rising tide of Islamic extremism and terrorism in Pakistan, the Pakistan army and government, and Pakistani analysts routinely excoriate the West for exaggerating the threat to Pakistan's stability from terrorism and extremism. The argument they make is that Pakistan is robust, that the army and ISI can handle extremism and terrorism, and that the risks of Pakistan breaking up or falling to militant Islam are miniscule. If this rebuttal is accurate then the US can safely withdraw military aid. If it is not, then the US would still be better off putting aid into civilian programmes that undercut radicalization and, above all, into policing, which is the better response to terrorism.

Second, while Pakistan is undoubtedly providing some assistance with the war against al-Qaida, there is evidence also that it is aiding al-Qaida and its affiliates, and that bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are being sheltered somewhere in Pakistan. To the degree that Pakistan has its own interests in combating al-Qaida there is no axiomatic reason why cooperation with the US against al-Qaida should not continue even if US military aid is stopped.

Third, Pakistan regularly reassures the world that its nuclear weapons are safe and that the safety measures it has in place to defend and protect its nuclear weapons are fool-proof. Again, accepting Pakistan's rebuttal as accurate there can be no reason to believe that ending US military aid would, per se, jeopardise the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

Fourth, as the US and Nato begin the drawdown in Afghanistan from July 2011, and as logistical land-routes through the Central Asian states mature over the next few years, the reliance on Pakistan as logistic and over-flight space is certain to diminish and thus the fourth argument for open-ended military aid to Pakistan weakens and falls.

Finally, the US has already all but lost its struggle with China for durable influence in Pakistan. While the US spends billions pursuing short-term interests in the AfPak region, China is laying the foundations for a long-term primary partnership with Pakistan building sustainable infrastructure, pipelines, the giant port at Gwadar, economic and resource investment, and a rapidly increasing intelligence presence. China is tellingly wasting few resources -- at present -- on military aid to the Pakistan army and ISI

Taken together these arguments suggest that US military aid could be stopped without the security situation in Pakistan deteriorating significantly or the role Pakistan plays in relation to the war on terrorism and the war in Afghanistan changing substantively (for good and ill) either. Pakistan complained bitterly about the strings attached recently to US military aid, but if the piper is not playing the tune then why continue to pay the piper?

The United States fears Pakistan's coercive options: that it might enhance its support for terrorism and insurgency still further and become a greater challenge to the US and the West, and that Pakistan might even be incentivized to transfer nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons know-how to terrorist or insurgent groups.

In other words the United States is being subjected to an old-fashioned protection racket by Pakistan: pay up or things could go bad for you. Those making money out of extortion and blackmail always come back for more. It's a measure of the US's waning global strength that it seems to have no option other than to keep paying.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Munni’s Darlings Sell The Silver: leaks expose #pakistan’s double game, tarnishes leaders

Why Pakistanis Are Hopping Mad

* Gen Kayani wanted to depose Zardari. Has provided bases for US drones and allowed the special forces to operate in the tribal areas.
* Nearly allowed the US to take out spent fuelcontaining uranium from Pakistan’s nuclear facility
* ISI maintains links with Israel
* Zardari said he wouldn’t make any political move without consulting the US, promised to grant Musharraf immunity from prosecution
* Gilani says he would protest the US drone attacks in Pakistan but later forgets about it

Friday, December 10, 2010

#pakistan newspapers confess to being complicit in publishing fake #WikiLeaks cables

Leading Pakistani newspapers have admitted to publishing articles citing fake, non-existent WikiLeaks documents, containing crude anti-India propaganda.

#pakistan in a vice-like grip of extermist Islamist religious lobbies #fact

After years of nurturing by its military establishment in an effort to impose an identity that seeks to recognize itself as not-Indian, the religious Wahhabi Sunni Islmist organizations now run the writ in the Islamic Republic of pakistan, brutally & without disdain crushing all non-Muslim religious identities, including that of Shia Muslims & Ahmediyya Muslim who are not even recognized as Muslims in pakistan, in spite of worshiping Allah as their god.

Calls for Asia Bibi, a Christian, to be executed under draconian blasphemy laws show religious leaders have no answer to Pakistan's crises

Thursday, December 9, 2010

#Pakistan media caught publishing fake #WikiLeaks cables

Under orders from their all-power quasi-dictator military Generals, the subservient media houses of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan have taken to publishing false news reports claiming to have sourced them from WikiLeaks documents, in their attempt to further the illusion of invincibility of their military, ensuring their preeminence in the state of affairs in its misgovernence, while providing no references to the original WikiLeak document they claim to be quoting in their articles.

[Photographs] #pakistan Army surrendering to the Taliban #fact

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