Will Kayani move his men into North Waziristan?



Are Americans losing patience with Pakistan? Looks like. But how far can they go to discipline a slippery ally in fighting terrorism that announced its arrival in Times Square the other day?

Bomb-maker Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani American son of a retired Air Vice Marshal of Pakistan Air Force, has since come to be known as a Tehrik-e-Taliban recruit. He visited his instructors or handlers in the tribal North Waziristan (bordering Afghanistan) where the Pak Army hasn’t yet moved its troops to flush them out.

The Americans want Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to go after the Taliban and Al-Qaeda elements in that part of Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. But will he? It was rumored in the initial phase of the Pak Army offensive in tribal areas that the strategy wasn’t as much to take the Taliban (Al Qaeda) out as to let them escape to the North.

This brings one to the options available to the Obama Administration to make Kayani fall in line. Will the President consider boots-on-the-ground? In other words that means deploying American foot soldiers in a country where US-bashing is a thriving political industry.

Reports hint at the possibility. But that’ll be extreme action with no surety of success and serious possibilities of co-lateral damage in body-bag terms. If that happens, Obama’s image within the US will be as pathetic as the US’s in Pakistan.

A senior British diplomat once justified to me the use of Drones to fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda on Pak territory. He admitted to massive loss of innocent local lives and resultant growth in popular support for so-called jehadis who were killed but in ones and twos.

The strategy was to avoid arrival of body bags in the US and NATO countries where support for the war on terror has dwindled beyond recognition. “We couldn’t risk physical combat on a terrain suited to the adversary,” he argued.

We all now know that the strategy to fight a war without laying down lives has bred rather than eliminate terrorism. What then can Obama realistically do to make Kayani fall in line? Cut or curtail the $7.5 billion promised over five years but predicated — on paper at least — on Islamabad’s delivery on counter-terrorism?

Tame and of limited value, such a squeeze would hardly address the threat posed to American homeland by Pak-based terrorists. It wouldn’t also be sustainable unless, of course, Washington alters radically its strategy to hand over baton to Pakistan in the post-surge-and-withdrawal phase.

So, Obama’s caught in a cleft. He can count only on his luck. And the hope that another car bomber or airborne killer gang doesn’t make it to the American shores. Good Pakistanis can help him. But is Gen. Kayani one among them? India has no experience of that goodness. Not yet.

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  • vijay kumar

    :) :):) +++++++++++++++ REVEALED< THE TRUTH ABOUT PAKISTAN+++++++++++++++++ :) :):)

    Pakistan is a wierd country which has evolved what can truely be called the Pakistani model of growth and getting aid.

    After floundering without ideology and democracy till 1978 it was unlucky to get a cobra like the evil general and martila law dictator called General Zia-ul-Haq. WHatever remaining freedoms Pakistis had were destroyed, Art and music was islamiscised and throttled. AND THEN….

    The general discovered new and newer means to fool the world. — Create a crises and shout, give Pakistan aid or the world will blow up.

    And that is what Pakistan is doing ever since…..

    Sadly so, the poor decent Afghans have become a victim of this policy of Pakistan creating terror from that norht western Area and then breast beating , give us money so that we can tackle this threat….

    This in short is the Pakistani model of growth and history.

    I will give a more detailed thesis in my next writeup, so that our Pakistani friends can see the reality and help their country change :) :) :)

    Maybe even make my uncle Vinod change…. :) :)

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    Dear Vijay,
    Reading ur comments on this blog the first thing in the morning is a big let down. You must try and be more learned. That will make you less repetitive and boring. Your post has nothing to do with the immediate topic under discussion.

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    yash Reply:

    dear vinod,

    One can infer from what he has written about Pak that its not going to move against the terrorist elements in North Wazirstan. By the way what makes you react …. is the word “uncle” ?

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    vijay Kumar Reply:

    Thanks Yash!

    I love my uncle. Guess he keeps getting angry with him for disagreeing with him ! :)

  • yash

    I dont think so. In that case they will have very little leverage left in Afghanistan. Seeing the track record of Pak army in wars with India and counter insurgency ops it doesnt seem to have stomach for counter insurgency or even for a conventional army. They are good at supressing unarmed Bangladeshis and poorly armed Balochis.

    Once can see everyday Gilani begging for talks since they are not able to hold onto the presently cleared areas in FATA and SWAT with the current troop strength and they want to move troops from the Indian broder. So cant really think of them taking on the Waziris in the North.

    thanks,
    yash

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  • vijay Kumar

    Dear Uncle Agent Vinod ,

    You may call me repitative>>> BUT….

    The sun comes out of the East everyday. WOuld you call it repitative???

    Look I understand your concerns. That we should read between the lines for Pakistani policy. My reading is clear. Nothing has changed in Pakistani policy over the years. Yes but my thesis is only proven to be abslutely correct.

    That Indian columnists who want friendly relations with Pakistan tend to ignore the threat it poses to India. Even in this column you have spoken of the THREAT TO AMERICA by Pakistani trrorists. Sir, can you point out whether in any of your columns you have spoken of the threat, Pakistani jihadists pose to India??

    Yes, a lone bomber in America is bad. But the thousands of suicide bombers who cross over from Pakistani Central schools of suicide bombing are a thousand times bad.

    Let us not have an inferiority complex that an American life is more important than an Indian life.

    PS: I know I have changed you over a peiod of time. At least you have spoken of the Pakistani terrorists in this blog for the first time. Though in concern for America, not India

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    Pyarey Bhanjey,
    You are repitative (?) even in your spelling mistakes. Where did you learn your Hinglish? In the RSS paathshala in Nagpur?
    And how have you changed me dear? By giving me a personality transplant? Must tell you that poodles* can’t change people.

    *poodle is a person who does what others tell hm to do. I’ve clarified this in recognition of your poor hold over the language— and to avoid any mistaken comparison with poodles (a particular breed of dogs).

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    yash Reply:

    hey come one that might be a typeo………..

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    Vijay Kumar Reply:

    Thx again Yash!! That was a keyboard error. That’s it!

    Uncle Vinod is really after me today!! :) :) !!

    I hope the editor has not given him a dose… :)

    C,mon uncle…. I have no problems with my English. Though I am more comfortable in Punjabi and Sanskrit….

    And Yes, I still believe I have changed you a wee bit. After all in this column you did acknowledge that the Pakistanis are slippery customers and are responsible for generating terror, unlike your hero Mani Shankar Aiyar who holds America responsible for terror and believes Pakistanis are friendly poodles incapable of killing a fly… :)

    PS: Mani Aiyar as counsel general in Pakistan could not even detect that Gen Zia had launched insuregency operations in Punjab. What a joker :)

    vinod sharma Reply:

    Dear Yash,
    What’s going on between u and Vijay. Luv?

    vijay Kumar Reply:

    Dear Uncle, :

    Nobody really faulted me for my English. Not in St Columba’s where I got among the highest marks in English, nor in IIT. Nor by the readers and reviewers of my fiction books, written in English.

    However I am not here to boast or anything of that sort. But I am equally at home and probably prouder when I speak Hindi. Does this make me an RSS guy?

    And ahem…. there is a spelling mistake in your biodata in your blog. The word is scrap book and not scarp book.

    Don’t worry, I won’t make fun of this and call you a Hinglish speaker :) :)

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    Dear bhanjey,
    Oh! you went through my introduction with a fine-toothed comb. But the mistake you pointed out is what Yash (ur lover err lawyer) described as a typo. Not your repatative…. or whatever you wrote.
    Now you know where it hurts. Or else you wouldn’t have been repatitive :) ) with your reaction to my
    jibe at your Hinglish :) )
    PS: Good to know that you went to St. Columba’s. Did Yash teach English there?:))

    vinod sharma Reply:

    Dearest nephew,
    Oh! you went through my blog bio with a fine-toothed comb. But the mistake you have pointed out is what Yash (your lover….err lawyer) called a typo in an expression of his affection for you.
    Only you can tell why you responded twice to my remark. Perhaps now you know where it hurts. A good lesson that’ll keep you from rubbishing others.
    By the way, did Yash teach you English at St. Columba’s?:))

    Din Reply:

    Dear Vinod/ Vijay combo

    Why are you troubled about Hinglish or Columba or RSS?
    What can ail thee both?

    Jai Ho

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    shane Reply:

    vindo sharma, u r brarnier than abillion chinese and europeans too by ur english is superior logic…logic and u ..ha ha…
    now go and iscuss on uvernaculars get into iits and enginnering while u brainless go into lest wanted huamnities and tehn get employed by corrupt englihsh media and pakistan..get it…

    otehrwise u woudl not even get ajob….can u understand lowest lives people typing in ahurry to respond to jerks like u with as little time as poss ible.

    .do u even understand what atypo is …insteda u make it an isse demonstrating that english is a superior language and ur inferiority colonial feudal complex. u humanities gutys r bottom ranked and noncompetitive,,,get it no u dont for tht u nedd brains and factual knowledge of data..u also reflect ur feudal mindset by being a sycophant of teh dynasty…get uit idiot…dynasties are based on lneage and not merit.

    now u wont even rbe able to understand my message …it has typos but most brains will be able to by knwoing what waords ar what..and if u even ahd english literacy u would be able to tellw hich words r which but wht do u expect from corrupt sham,eless faruds who hate indian hindus like bjp and love pakistan for killing us….madhruri gupta is better than congress owned taritors like u who get paid by isi and hindu hating islamic lobbyy worldwide to plot against india and go easy on islamic countries like pakistan…..change ur name u shit to an islamic one…atleat u will be honest..chances r u r conceievd from islamic spermm in yuour adulterous hindu mom whne ur eunuch sharma senior was watching and pais some money for letting his wife enjy and conceive asecularist taritor fraud liek u…. no country has the sceular shit liek u only hindu india does because of traecheous loest lives like u get it…no u wont…..u r not even minimally brained..even dodgs will undesrand treason,fraud and u even cheat ur raeders who give u alivelihood…

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  • http://www.tanzeel.wordpress.com Tanzeel

    Pakistan need not to take dictation from anyone. If Kyani feels deployment of soldiers in Waziristan he will but I don’t think it would be possible at this moment since our troops are already engaged in other battle grounds.

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    http://www.tanzeel.wordpress.com

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    vijay kumar Reply:

    no dictation from anyone except of course from the US of America…. wahaan se darling Tanzeel, paisa milta hai na ?? :) :)

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    vijay kumar Reply:

    Aur danda bhi padhta hai….

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    yash Reply:

    @TANZEEL…

    go and read todays columb by Karman shafi in dawn news paper about Pak exporting terrorism….

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  • Rajiv

    Pak ruler, Kayani, moved his troops to S Waziristan. What happened ?
    Hakimullah Mehsud, is still in the ‘video’ making business and Kayani in ‘extortion’ business !
    USA calls it a ‘dispersal exercise’ by Pak army.

    Mrs Clinton, now says that past Pak rulers have played ‘double game’ with USA !
    What a shocker ! No one in the world knew that.
    The truth is, after every regime change in Pak, USA says that the past rulers were playing ‘double game’ while the new ones are sincere.

    The charade goes on.

    Regarding USA, being a fool, is no defense.
    For the Mumbai attack. USA courts have convicted Daood Gilani, on consiring and aiding LeT/ISI handlers in Pak. The attack killed 6 Americans. The fact that 150 plus Indians also dies, should not make that lesser of an attack !

    Why is the USA not persuing to interrogate , Daood Gilani’s Pak handlers, including those in so called Pak custody ???
    Why Why Why ? While its all over Pak to interrogate anyone linked to Shehzad, even thought no Americans died ?

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  • A.M.FAZIL

    Sir,
    The situation in which the Americans are at present reminds me of the saying,’As you sow,so you reap’.It was the U.S.A. that encouraged the Pakistan based terrorist groups to create chaos in India by giving them latest arms and ammunitions in the Kashmir valley.Gradually these terrorist groups developed into terrorist organisations with different names and they made explosions after explosions wherever they wanted in the name of ‘Sacred War’.Hardly had the Americans uttered a word when these accursed creatures went on killing thousands of innocent people. And it was only when the World Trade Centre was attacked,the Americans understood the gravity of the folly they had been committing by nourishing these miscreants.

    And Sir, your assumption is right. The Americans are now losing their patience, and they are desperate.It’s silly of them to expect that a Pakistani General is going to help them in their fight against terrorism. I think Mr.Obama & Co.will be forced to find some other solutions to tackle these anti-human powers.

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  • Rajiv

    @A.M.Fazil

    Ever heard of the beast called Pak army-ISI-Jihaditerrorist group ??

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  • A Pakistani

    Pakistanis should understand that Pakistan army is a bigger threat to the existance of Pakistan than any threat from India itself. Pakistan army is the biggest hurdle in letting Pakistan- India relation ship improve because once the relationship is improved they will lose their special status,perks and previldges they enjoy in the name of guardians of National Soverignity. To counter that India should offer uniletral measures to improve relationships such as abolishing travel restrictions, trade concessions ,and establishing people to people contact making Pakistan army irrelevant. or exposed.

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    Akash Reply:

    Yeah man. We empathize with you, but when will you stop giving donations for jihad in Kashmir. Most of it goes to fund Let. Practice what you preach.

    Aab aya na uut pahad ke niche. Jab ga*nd fati to hai hai. Now sit back and enjoy the music. When the US says, severe consequences, be very warned. Expect really nasty things, not dossiers that our Mohana keeps handing over for you to gift it to raddiwala.

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    yash Reply:

    dude are you really a pakistani… i never thought anyone of you will be enlightened

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    A Pakistani Reply:

    Yash, I don’t know if Indians are really so ignorant about Pakistan or want to always underestimate Pakistan for self pleasure. I will give you one example , in USA there are 15 thousands Pakistani doctors as opposed to 60 thousand Indian doctors. You may be surprised but I believe that Compare to where the two countries stood in 1947 Pakistan has progressed much more in many aspects than India. If your self serving superiority complex serves you better so be it but remember the saying ” superiority complex is a form of inferiority complex” and by the way I also believe that the Division of India in 1947 was wrong which should not have happened.

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    Akash Reply:

    Pakistani,
    It’s not just us Indians who have a negative image of Pakistan. The whole world now thinks that the biggest export(of bad variety) of Pakistan is terror. I don’t doubt your claims that Pakistan may have progressed faster than India since 1947, but at what cost. It’s for all purposes a client of US ready to do its bidding. Even about the progress part, I am not sure. Any argument there it seems has to be seen via Islam. It gets so boring.

    Nikhil Reply:

    Dear Pakstani,

    The number of doctors in the US of either Indian or Pakistani origin is a testament of success to the American way of life. There is no point in taking undue credit. If it signals anything it is this: flee Pakistan to the US.

    yash Reply:

    Dear Pakistani,

    I think the division of India was absolutely necessary and good for India. Otherwise we would have ended up as neighbours to Afghanistan and also the Tribes in Pak would have become a part of us. Its sad that not all of them migrated. That would have been the best for India.

    Thanks,
    Yash.

  • Nikhil

    Vinod,

    There will be no change in the US-Pak relations. No matter what the state department may say in public, the alliance between the Pentagon and the Pakistan army remains undisturbed. Gen Kayani may go in to North Waziristan if the US makes an offer which he cannot refuse; a nuclear deal, squeezing India or more weapons may work? If there is another attempt of terrorist attack in the US that could be traced back to Pakistan, I’m sure the Pakistani govt will promptly arrest the masterminds. No demand for evidence or dossiers: the Pakistani goodness, in return for American largesse, is never in short supply.

    For Indians, the relevant question should be, will Gen. Kayani go in to Southern Punjab in Pakistan to root out terrorists there?

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    Dear Nikhil,
    Southern Punjab has direct linkages with Waziristan for training and recruitment. It will remain intact as a terrorist hideout and sanctuary as the provincial Punjab regime led by Nawaz Sharif’s party lacks the political will to act against the LeT and the Jamat-ud-Dawa.

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    vijay kumar Reply:

    dear Vinodji,

    Just for my knowledge, can you let me know of one party in Pakistan which has the will to act against LeT and JuD ?

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    Dear Vijay,
    I think the PPP has the will but lacks the wherewithal to standup to the Army to take the matter to a logical conclusion. The Awami National Party is the other entity that’s serious— even more than the PPP.

    Nikhil Reply:

    Dear Vinod,

    Could you please elaborate on the terms ‘political will’ and ‘wherewithal’ that the political parties in Pakistan need to stand up to their army? Thanks.

  • Rajiv

    @Every commentator on Pak issues, particularly those as lieful as Kuldip Nayar etc

    Read the following by Pakistani , Dr Manzur Ejaz, who writes for Dailytimes from Washington.

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    The terrorist Question.
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    No other Muslim country sponsors private religious and sectarian militias for domestic use or to achieve strategic goals. Probably, every state, other than Pakistan, knows fully well that the rise of private militias is bound to threaten the state’s monopoly of using power and coercion

    We may console ourselves by
    parroting the ‘conspiracy against Pakistan’ mantra over and over but the fact remains that most bombers are traced back to Pakistan. American-Jewish-Hindu conspirators may be out there to target Pakistan, but how does one explain the failed Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad, or Aimal Kansi, all originating from Pakistan? It is a puzzling question if one goes a bit deeper.

    Afghanistan is occupied by the US, Palestine by Israel and Kashmir by India, but how come none of the terrorists caught in Mumbai, Washington or New York is an Afghan, Palestinian or Kashmiri? Why do the nationals of these countries struggle on their own land instead of throwing bombs in far off places like Mumbai and New York? Therefore, the claim that terrorism, emanating from Pakistan, is triggered by the oppression of Muslims does not hold. If it was so, the bomber should be coming from occupied lands or other Muslim countries like Indonesia and Malaysia as well. Therefore, an explanation other than ‘Muslim oppression’ has to be sought.

    The main difference appears to be the perpetual indoctrination of morbid ideology and state sponsorship of private religious militias in Pakistan: no other Muslim country, even theological states like Saudi Arabia or Iran, sponsors private religious and sectarian militias for domestic use or to achieve strategic goals. Probably, every state, other than Pakistan, knows fully well that the rise of private militias is bound to threaten the state’s monopoly of using power and coercion.

    In addition, the US funding and concoction of international jihad — never a part of Muslim ideology before the anti-Soviet crusade in Afghanistan — broke the camel’s back. Pakistani Muslims were always vulnerable to such a disastrous worldview because of the indoctrination based on fictional history of the Muslim invasion and conquest of India.

    Most importantly, the Indian Muslims led by immigrants from north and central Asia had a streak of pan-Islamism. They seriously believed that they had conquered India, not for economic gains, but to spread Islam and end ‘kufr’. They had a typical imperialist mindset to perceive themselves as civilisers of the pagans and backward people. Like all colonists, the idea of universality of their faith or worldview and its imposition was essential to justify their occupation. The British, and later on the Americans, have used similar logic for colonialism and imperialism.

    The Muslim intelligentsia, particularly the historians, presented exaggerated and distorted characterisations of their invading patrons. Every Muslim ruler was presented as a destroyer of idols and appropriator of pagan wealth. The numbers were fudged and exaggerated to make their patrons more palpable to occupiers/immigrants and the audience back home in north and central Asia.

    For example, Mahmud of Ghazni is presented as the destroyer of the Somnath Temple, who took back home gold and silver loaded on 100 camels and horses. Ms Thapar, an Indian historian, has proved that old manuscripts (Pali, Gujrati, etc) do not show that Mahmud ever reached Somnath or it was ever a significantly wealthy Hindu temple. Instead, it was a local temple rarely maintained by the local Hindu rajas. Furthermore, given the size and impoverishment of the population of those days, the amount of gold looted from Somnath does not make any sense. Most probably, it is a make-believe story concocted by Muslim court-historians. It suited Hindu nationalists too to make a case against Muslim occupation and, therefore, they did not challenge it either.

    The converted Muslims remained backward and looked up to the invader/immigrants’ intellectual leadership and adopted their worldview. After the decline of the Mughal Empire, the Muslim intelligentsia never gave up the idea of Muslim domination and was always keen to start revivalist movements. Like their perception of fictional history, they were so detached from world reality that while Turkey was taken over by the secularist Kemal Atatürk, Indian Muslims were demonstrating for the restoration of the Usmania (Ottoman Empire) caliphate. The movement for the restoration of the ‘Khilafat’ was the most farcical, to say the least. In those days a ‘danda force’ led by a lunatic named Ilam Din in Lahore exhibited the crude violence a Muslim revivalist movement can resort to.

    Whichever way one interprets the twists and turns of the history of the Pakistan movement, the new Muslim state inherited the traditional Indian Muslim mindset. The invader/immigrant worldview of history was the ethos of the Pakistani state from the very beginning. Even Jinnah’s personal secular thinking and lifestyle could not sway the traditionalists and in a couple of years Islamisation was put on the agenda through the ‘Qarardad-e-Maqasid’ (Objectives Resolution). School curriculums were structured by the traditionalists, specifically the Deobandis, portraying the Muslim invasion of India as an act of benevolence by great Muslim emperors. Even invaders like Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali, who just came for loot and plunder, were portrayed as great men. Pakistan’s naming of its missiles after these invaders’ names shows how much the morbid worldview of traditionalist Muslim history has been transferred to our new generations.

    The core of the Pakistani establishment has always remained loyal to the traditionalist Indian Muslim skewed worldview. Even secularists like General Ayub Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could not change this discourse in a substantial way. In this backdrop, when Ziaul Haq intensified the process of Islamisation and private religious/sectarian militias were sponsored by the state, the dynamics of theocratic radicalisation and destabilisation were unleashed. The US funding and training of these militias transformed them into a lethal force. They were deployed against the Soviets and then against India, but ultimately they were going to threaten the state of Pakistan and its cohort superpower, the US.

    The Pakistani establishment is forced to undo these private militias but at the same time it is trying to stick to the core traditionalist ideology. It has not confronted the essence of its self-created problem and has not found an alternative ideology to govern and achieve its strategic goals. The entire political establishment has grown up with the traditionalist Pakistan ideology. Therefore, sometimes, the National Assembly committees are more conservative than the bureaucracy and military establishment.

    All in all, Pakistan remains very far from undoing the debilitating received traditionalist worldview that is the mother of every kind of religious extremism, sectarianism and proliferation of religious monasteries and militias.

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    Rajiv Reply:

    I forgot to give the link for the above. Here it is.

    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20105\12\story_12-5-2010_pg3_3

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    Akash Reply:

    Good one, Rajiv. By the way, there is another Rajeev, who is sullying your good name.
    :)

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    vijay kumar Reply:

    India hass IIT (where I studied). USA has MIT, famous for its R & D and noble winning scientists.

    And Pakistan has its MIT’s .— Maddrassa Institutes of technologies !!! :) :)

    Which produce bombs and suicide bombers ——-

    Why don’t all its well wishers like our dear uncle Vinod insist that Pakistan has to burn its current schooling curriculam which produces sleaze balls of hate like Faisal and Kasab and copy the Indian NCERT style schooling so that the next generation of Pakistanis come out as humanity loving nerds and not Masood Azhar’s and Lakhvis…..

    Rajiv, what do you hav to say on this??

  • ram

    Dear Vinodji,

    1)My point is whatever the Americans do or do not do, whatever Pakistanis bluff or do not bluff the Indian elite and Government simply do not have a clear policy about how to deal with Pakistan tactics of terror.In fact in my humble opinion they re too self seeking greedy and rapacious as they have not time from scandals and money grabbing and squabbling over caste to entrench perpetual family rule and dynastic succession!

    2)As a mature democracy and with wealth of intellectual capital surely India can do a better job. It is tiring to hear the same old lies and wishy-washy response from PM office and Foreign minister optimistic speeches which belie the ground realities. Forget the 26/11 bomb attacks in Mumbai and look back to the train attacks in Mumbai where 166 inocent victims and and many more families were deestroyed. Does India have a any answer to Pakistani machinations and American pressure?

    Please comment and request for true and factual piece from your pen confronting true reality where Pakistan hits at Indian civilians and Indian government and elite are not bothered as they are not rue victims of Pak terror as thousands of crores of rupeees or millions of dollars are spent to protect them from ageing filmstars to grand children of ministers, MPs and MLAs at public cost????

    Warm Regards

    Ram

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  • yash

    @ ALL PAKISTANIS

    “ANOTHER P-A-KI ARRESTED IN CHILE FOR TERRORISM ”

    THERE IS A CONTINUOS CHURNING OF TERRORISTS FROM PAK…

    BOTH INDIAN AND PAK ARE IT SUPERPOWERS…

    IN INDIA IT IS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

    IN PAK IT IS ISLAMAIC TERRORISM HAHAHAHHA

    BEING A P-AKI SHOULD BE VERY ASHAMING NOW HEHEHEH SO MUCH FOR THE CITIZENS OF “LAND OF PURE”…. IT SHOULD HE RENAMED AS “LAND OF TERRORISTS”…. EVEN PAK COMMENTATORS IN DAWN, THENEWS, DAILYTIMES ARE QUESTIONING WHY ALL TERRORIST ACTS INTERSET AT PAK ?

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  • vijay Kumar

    @vinod sharma

    I agree with you on Awami Party. ( At least we agree on something :) )

    But regarding PPP i have my reservations. Whenever it is out of power it makes the right noises. Yet in power it becomes hostage to its past.

    Remember Benazir and the rapport she had with Rajiv Gandhi ? Well the moment she came to power she allowed and financed the Jihadi forces in Kashmir, laying the seeds of the disaster which followed for the Kashmiri people. She further felt that her English and her feminity would floor world leaders and a few Indian journalists who would write purple prose praising her.

    Net result— Indo Pak relations never took off.

    And then when she lost power and visited Delhi, again she made the right noises and floored our journalist community.

    So it is with Zardari.

    So it is with Shah Qureshi who sounded so passionate about India- Pakistan when he met Pranab. And the very next day 26/11 happened.

    Now the same Shah Qureshi shouts like a maniac on how India has had to bend to talk to Pakistan.

    Don’t think PPP can ever be trusted too much…. :)

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    Rajiv Reply:

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    Pakistan cannot reform itself.
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    Change ( change of ideological orientation of its army and change in governance of Pakistan by the army and ISI ), cannot come to Pakistan by peaceful means.

    Just like change in Hitlers Germany, Musolini’s Italy and Monarchy in Japan could not possibly come by peaceful means.
    Pak army and ISI grip on Pakistan is as severe as the Nazis grip on Germany and the middle class in Pakistan are itself too compromised with the army and ISI and constitute a major chunk of it.

    Only a cataclysmic event can change the ideological orientation of the Pak state.
    When that will happen is hard to tell but its unlikely to come by peaceful means .

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  • A Pakistani

    Akash, I agree with you . Unless Pakistani society is able to free it self from self imposed religious mania and decides to be a modern democratic secular nation it has no future.

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    Akash Reply:

    May your tribe increase..

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  • karuna

    What are the options of US? Limited. What are the options of Pakistan? List ‘A’ and a duplicitous list ‘B’.

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    Rajiv Reply:

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    Options for US.
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    1, Stop every economic assiatance to Pakistan. Stop IMF assistance.
    Let the state go bankrupt in 6 months and let Pakistan take measures, like every other country, to address its own economic issues. The army/isi and the government will have less time and resources to think about terrorism.

    2. Get out of Afganistan.
    3. Use tomahawk missiles launched from the Arabian sea, to target only the leadership of
    terrorist groups in Pakistan and Afganistan , that attack other countries. What people do inside Afganistan or Pakistan, is there business.

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    Options for Pak
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    Thats for Pakistanis to sort out.
    Outsiders should not finance or in any manner aid them until and unless they
    stop breeding terrorists that go accross borders.
    What Pakistanis do inside Pakistan, is there business.
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    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Dear Vinod Sharma ji
    It is not very realistic to believe that Pakistan army will ever be able to control militants operating in the tribal areas of Waziristan, whether it is in the north or the south of this region. The rugged mountains hardly provide a hospitable ground for an infantry to reach the hide outs of tribal headmen. For that reason, the drone attacks may be of some help in fighting the Talibans.The army even can not take stock of its success at an point of the operation, the case of Hakimullah Mehsud is an example to elaborate the point. The army seems to be acting in these tribal areas simply to please the USA, but I hardly believe that they are very honest in these operations, going by the nexus of the army and ISI people withy Pakistani Talibans. The tribal regions have remained for ages the autonomous areas of the undivided India and the same situation continues even after 1947. Moreover, Pakistani army is hardly conversant with the mountain war fare and thus the chances of their success are very little. I am not at all surprised that neither NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan nor Pakistani army fighting in Waziristan have been able to get hold of any Taliban or Al-Queda leader . I am sure USA is going to abandon Afghanistan one day like they have in Iraq and the situation will get back to what was there before 9/11. It may not matter much to Pakistan but it will not be a happy situation for our country unless we are able to cultivate in some way the Afghan Talibans. May be President Karzai could still prove to be our trump card even in those conditions..
    Regards
    BNA

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  • Azhar Hussain

    Same bloggers making same make belief comments. As far as Uncle Sam and European white boys are concerned, they want help and they want it fast. These folks are stuck in Afghanistan and putting the heat on Pakistan. Our idiotic friends to east think (make belief) that with the help of US and India can do something. Yes indians can do something and that is only on the internet blogs and talk big. Look what in T/20 world cup.

    Indian and India cannot do anything against Pakistan unless the white boys help you.Think about it if two superpowers failed in Afghanistan, what makes you think that India can face Pakistan.
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    Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

    By Mark Memmott

    “If there is one thing that just about everyone can agree upon when it comes to Afghanistan,” NPR’s Jackie Northam reported today on Morning Edition, “it’s that the battle against Taliban insurgents (in Afghanistan) can not be won by military means alone.”

    And as she reports, “lately there are tentative discussions about the need for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban

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    Rajiv Reply:

    @Azhar,
    Indians dont want to do anything to Pakistan !!!!!!!!!!

    Pak army and ISI are doing a better job than any outsider can !!
    They lost 1/2 the country in 25 years of 47 and lord knows what more they are capable of !!

    Our interest is to not let the septic tank of Pakistan spill over into India and contain Pakistan within its borders.

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    Paritosh Reply:

    i guess Pakistan will decimate itself. why waste energy??

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  • vijay Kumar

    @uncle vinod sharma,

    Dear uncle jibes about gay love at your age !! Hai Ram…. yeh aapko shobha nahin detaa…. :)

    Or maybe you are trying the old policy of divide and rule, when you cannot win an arguement …:)

    Errr…. I hope you have not been comprimised in a honey trap like Madhuri Gupta, during your Islamabad posting!

    Sorry for being curious…. :)

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    Pyarey bhanjey,
    self-praise is no recommendation. U must also know that curiousity kills the cat and ur just a dumb kitten blissfully unaware of the difference between the job profile of diplomats and journalists posted abroad. Got it or should I send the msg in Hindi? :) )

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  • yash

    @ VINOD(GAY) SHARMA,

    HEY IF YOU HAVE SUCH G-AY FANTASIES WHY DONT YOU SHIFT TO SHARUKH KHANS NEIGHBOURHOOD OR EVEN GO TO PAKISTAN WHERE I AM SURE THERE ARE LOT OF MULLAHS IMPRESSED BY YOUR LOVE FOR PAK AND ARE READY TO EMBRACE YOU AND KEEP YOU WARM INSIDE THEIR KURTAS………..

    AFTER ALL WHAT IS A LANGUAGE … JUST A MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATIONS…. IF ONE IS ABLE TO CONVEY WHAT HE WANTS THE SPELLINGS AND ALL DONT REALLY MATTER UNTIL UNLESS ONE IS TAKING ENGLISH LITERATURE EXAM…

    I FELT THAT BY HARPING ON THOSE QUINTESSENTIAL THINGS YOU ARE DIGRESSING FROM THE TOPIC.

    I WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU REFRAIN FROM USING OTHERS NAME IN NONSENSICAL WAY.

    THANKS,
    YASH

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Yash
    Nothing is good or bad. Only thinking makes it so. Why should you think that luv cannot be without sexual overtones— especially when it is between friends of the same sex. Hey man, get over your own prejudices before accusing others.
    PS: I continue to be impressed by your protective ways towards Vijay. Keep it up. Never called you gay. Never will.

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  • Rajiv

    Must read, from India’s ex top diplomat Chinmaya Garakhan, from Hindu

    http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article429238.ece

    ‘Trust’ is too loaded a term to be used in inter-state discourse; ‘confidence-building’ is a well accepted phrase and is safer to employ. The new buzzword in India-Pakistan dialogue is ‘trust deficit.’ Trust ‘deficit’ presupposes that there is trust, only its quantity or/and quality have diminished. Was there ever a time when there was ‘trust’ between the two countries?

    The circumstances surrounding Pakistan’s creation and its aggression in Kashmir ensured that there could be no ‘trust’ between the countries. Indira Gandhi tried ‘trust’ — she trusted Z.A. Bhutto to deliver on his promise of internationalising the Line of Control, made to her in Shimla — on the basis on which she agreed to all that she did in Shimla. Did Manmohan Singh trust Pervez Musharraf? We do not know but Indians cannot forget that the General was responsible for Kargil which cost us the lives of more than 800 of our best and bravest. Atal Bihari Vajpayee surely did not trust him after his experience at Agra.

    It came as no surprise that our Prime Minister went all the way in Thimphu, responding positively to Pakistan’s demand for resumption of dialogue at the political level. He jumped the several steps on Pakistan’s ‘road map’ and met his Pakistani counterpart in Bhutan for over an hour. Thus the road map suggested by Pakistan got reversed; it started at the highest political level and will be followed up at the ministerial and Secretary levels. He has set himself the vision of establishing cordial relations and is determined to shame Pakistan into good neighbourly behaviour.

    Sometimes, this approach can work. Going by media reports quoting unnamed MEA sources, Pakistan seems to have sold the line that Yusuf Raza Gilani has armed himself with new and enhanced powers under the 18th amendment to Pakistan’s Constitution, making him a worthy interlocutor for the serious discussion of all weighty issues. This may be overstating things a bit. Perhaps the ‘official sources’ felt the need for this argument to justify to the public as well as sceptics within the ruling coalition the resumption of dialogue. The real question is whether Mr. Gilani has the authority to take decisions that the army, including the ISI, might not approve of or whether he would have to clear all the issues in dealing with India, Afghanistan, Kashmir, etc. first with the military. As for the Pakistan Peoples Party, Asif Ali Zardari seems to be in control, as evidenced by the fact that the government has decided to declare the Swiss cases against him ‘closed.’ Mr. Gilani’s claim to be the valid interlocutor with Dr. Singh must be taken with a fistful of salt.

    It is essential that India does not engage Pakistan in talks without a clear idea of what it expects of the neighbour in terms of reducing the ‘trust deficit’; it cannot be simply a case of making a subjective judgment on whether Pakistan has done anything, or enough, to reduce the deficit. There are quantifiable criteria which can be spelt out and even publicly announced by our side.

    At the same time, we must be objective in our analysis and approach. As for prosecuting the perpetrators of 26/11, a judicial process is on in Pakistan. After the role the judiciary has played in toppling Gen. Musharraf and considering the role it wants to play in applying the revocation of NRO to Mr. Zardari, it would not be fair to doubt its independence. By the same token, it is unfair on the part of those in Pakistan who cast aspersions on our judicial process — whereby the two Indians co-accused with Kasab were acquitted of all charges. We must note that the Pakistan government has not joined in these allegations.

    The most important criterion has to do with terrorism. A statement by the Pakistan Prime Minister that his government will not allow Pakistan’s territory to be used for terrorist acts against India does not, by itself, carry much meaning. It should be accompanied by specific action. There should be credible evidence of Pakistan vigorously pursuing the prosecution of the perpetrators of the Mumbai blasts. We need not keep harping on the slow pace of the process, so long as we are satisfied with the seriousness of the prosecution. Pakistan can certainly do more to contain Hafiz Saeed. It takes recourse to the unconvincing argument that it is unable to produce admissible evidence against this terrorist, but it can definitely take administrative action to bring him under control.

    A related test is the rate of infiltration across the LoC. Our government has officially declared that it has gone up, and is a matter of concern. It should not at all be difficult to determine whether Pakistan has taken any measure to eliminate, or at least significantly reduce, infiltration. Similarly, the terrorist training camps — the existence of which in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and elsewhere is a known fact — should be dismantled. This is another assessable factor.

    Pakistan managed to introduce Balochistan in Sharm-El Sheikh in the official India-Pakistan dialogue. However, no less a person than its Foreign Minister said, post-Thimphu, that Dr. Singh had categorically assured his Pakistani counterpart that India had no intention of destabilising Pakistan. The fact that Shah Mehmood Qureshi mentioned this to the Pakistani media suggests that he and his government were satisfied that India was not in any way involved in Balochistan; it should, therefore, refrain from bringing it up in future discussions with us or others.

    It follows that Pakistan should stop objecting to the presence of our consulates in Afghanistan. Similarly, it should stop protesting against our development assistance to Afghanistan which has no hidden anti-Pakistan agenda. In fact, it can join India in some of the projects. This will help in persuading General McChrystal not to make gratuitous remarks about our assistance to Afghanistan — of the kind he made in his written report to President Barack Obama.

    We should expect that Pakistan too will have its yardstick to assess whether or not India has done enough to reduce the trust ‘deficit’. Kashmir would be on top of its agenda. We should not shy away from discussing Kashmir. After all, it is our territory it has occupied illegally for the past six decades; why should we not discuss with Pakistan the ways and means of getting the occupied territory vacated? If it brings up the long-dead United Nations resolutions, as its Foreign Minister recently did raise in its National Assembly, it will indicate that it is not serious about discussing Kashmir. In any case, is Pakistan ready to pull out all its forces, regular and irregular, from PoK, which is a condition precedent to the holding of any referendum? It is also worth recalling that the U.N. resolutions give only two options to the Kashmiri people — accession to India or Pakistan. Azadi is not an option.

    We must not feel embarrassed or go on the defensive if Pakistan wants to talk Kashmir. We must also not revive the Musharraf deposit about his so-called four-point proposal. We must not leave Pakistan in any doubt that the only solution, which in any case will need endorsement from the Indian Parliament, is to convert the LoC into an international border. If Pakistan does not agree, we will be under no compulsion to offer anything by way of ‘out-of-the-box’ proposals. In any case, we must not agree to any ‘confidence-building’ measure which would give Pakistan a locus standi, however indirect, in the affairs of the Valley, in a consultative or any kind of mechanism. ‘Trust’ must have its limits. We can certainly agree on and encourage more people-to-people contacts, etc.

    Of late, Pakistan has whipped up domestic sentiment against India on the water issue. It will certainly bring it up in any dialogue with us. Here, it is important to acknowledge that Mr. Qureshi has publicly admitted that the water woes of Pakistan are a consequence of its own mismanagement of its resources and that India is not to blame. If Pakistan has specific complaints, it should be encouraged to raise them within the framework of the Indus Waters Treaty. However irrational, Pakistanis are not suicidal; they know that the IWT is much more generous to them than to India and they would not want to renegotiate it.

    The people of India are not against talking to Pakistan. Indeed, nearly all political parties support dialogue. What they do not favour is India going into the talks with its eyes shut. What they do not approve of is profession of good neighbourliness unaccompanied by matching action, and repetition of the usual mantras of not allowing Pakistan’s territory for terrorism against India. They are also not convinced that asking for American intervention is the right or dignified thing to do; it gives an image of an India that is not self-confident. We must have well defined criteria or benchmarks, some of which have been spelt out above, to judge whether or not Pakistan has done anything to reduce the ‘trust deficit.’ If the civilian government in Islamabad can deliver on the issues, we would welcome it.

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    Conclusion : India must be extremely careful in engaging Pakistan.
    From Shimla to Lahore declaration , every previous engagement, has ended in India getting cheated or defrauded by Pakistan.

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  • vijay kumar

    Dear Uncle Vinod ! :)

    I can picture you like Shakespeare pictured his characters—moving around the multistoried Hindustan Times building in Connaught Place and gloating and smirking with joy—that you have managed to answered me or Yash up !

    Well, dear uncle, live in your fools paradise because here cometh back Vijay…  

    First, your professions of gay love can only be a reflection of desires deep inside. Nothing wrong now, after all section 377 has been repealed. But unlce ji, aunty won’t like this….  

    And then again the stupid question of Pakistan. Mere bhai… sorry uncle, whatever thesis you give here, Pakistan just doesn’t change in a positive manner. As Rajiv pointed out earlier, it would require a cataclysmic event. Like Nazi Germany was made to change by the world.

    Maybe we should all debate on how to put this cataclysmic event together. Or at least debate on how to do a reverse brainwash of the Pakistani people to make them stop believing that they are going to jannat if their jihadis convert or blow up people all around the world…. 

    Cheers!!

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  • Rajiv

    ——————————————————————
    India getting ready to be fooled again.
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    Pak army and ISI looks like getting ready to take advantage of this new phase of foolish and suicidal engagement with Pak.

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_militants-regrouping-in-pakistan-occupied-kashmir-to-cross-over-to-indian-side_1383400

    Militants regrouping in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to cross over to Indian side
    PTISaturday, May 15, 2010 14:38 IST Email

    ISLAMABAD: Militants have regrouped in large numbers in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and are crossing the Line of Control to sneak into the Indian side of the Himalayan region, local residents and political leaders have said.

    The militants have regrouped and launched jehadi activities in the Neelum valley on the Pakistani side of the LoC, local politician Arif Shahid said. Local residents and Shahid said the militants were not from PoK.

    “Jihadi activities have been restarted during the last few weeks,” said Shahid, the secretary general of the All Parties National Alliance.

    “Most of the activities are concentrated in the Neelum valley along the LoC,” Shahid told the BBC.

    Shahid, who had visited the region with other APNA leaders, said the militants were based there in large numbers and had set up camps in the area.

    “The men are not locals they have long hair and beards. Most do not speak the local language,” he said.

    Residents of Neelum valley backed Shahid’s assertions. “We are scared… The armed men are moving around the area and are trying to cross the border,” a local resident said.

    “We can make out from their appearances and languages
    they are not from any part of Kashmir,” the resident said.

    Shahid said he believed that militants are planning to sabotage ongoing peace negotiations between India and Pakistan.

    “They have set up camps in the region and many are crossing the border… This is the start of another proxy war,” he said.

    Following a meeting between Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh last month, the Foreign Ministers of the two countries recently agreed to meet in Islamabad on July 15 to nudge the peace process forward.

    Shahid’s comments were supported by Jammu and Kashmir
    National Liberation Front leader Shaukat Maqbool Bhat. “The
    fighters are there and they are regularly crossing into
    India,” Bhat said.

    “The local people are very scared ” they believe the (militant) crossings are going to restart artillery exchanges between the Pakistani and Indian armies,” Bhat said.

    Indian and Pakistani troops regularly fought artillery duels and exchanged small arms fire till a ceasefire was put in place along the LoC in November 2003.

    From 1988, militants aided by Pakistan’s security forces and intelligence agencies waged a guerrilla campaign in Jammu and Kashmir. Their activities were curtailed during the rule of former President Pervez Musharraf, who quit in August 2008.

    The BBC quoted unnamed officials as saying that jehadi activities had recommenced across the LoC in recent weeks. It also quoted its correspondents as saying that the renewed militant activity is bound to be of concern to India, especially when Delhi and Islamabad almost came to war when militants “accused by India of being Pakistani-based” attacked the Indian parliament in December 2001.

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  • vijay kumar

    Dear Uncle,

    Hamar comment hat-ta diya… tch tch…

    cheers

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Vijay
    Kaun sa comment bachchey? I take care of keep your posts so that others who visit this blog are aware of your true worth.

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    Rajeev Reply:

    Mr.Sharma,
    It looks like you are loosing sanity. If Vijay is a kids, you need not behave like one.

    I may not agree with your namby pamby approach but I do read your views to know what other side thinks.

    I’d request you to be little more constructive.

    Vijay,
    Please use less :) It’s very annoying.

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    vinod sharma Reply:

    @Rajeev
    Thanx for the unsolicited advice.

    Rajeev Reply:

    You are always welcome Mr.Sharma. A little humility will also do…
    Take care and convey my regards to your assistant Manish Tiwari.

  • Rajiv

    @Vinod Sharma & others
    ————————————————————————————–
    Hamid Mir and Pak Taleban.
    —————————————————————————————-

    Hamid Mir is the pro-ISI, army face in the Pak media, who is most famous for his anti Hindu/Kafir, ant-Jews, USA tirades on Pak TV.

    Khalid Khawaja, an ex-ISI agent, who had developed differences with Hamid Mir, was recently murdered by a section of Taleban in Pakistan. This tape, now being played in Pak , shows how deeply Hamid Mir is involved with terrorists.

    Anyone who follows Pak affairs must hear this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooch6Pg1Udk

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  • Rajiv

    Continuing on the same topic , Hamid Mir, here is a more detailed background of this episode.

    http://cafepyala.blogspot.com/

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  • sailah

    I love prateik.he so innocent.god bless him n gve him success ameen.xx

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  • DaniFashions.com

    Wonderful This is good comparison between the India vs western fashion wears. According to me India fashion is the best.

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  • AR

    private sector is primarily driven by profits….. one cannot force them to have impose employee reservations based on caste…… A pvt sector would just care about actual ability of its potential employee rather than the caste and creed he belongs to….. if you really want to empower all sections you got to do away with reservations …… Ensure that primary education is made compulsory and a quality education is imparted to all sections of society….. Make them equally capable and let them free to compete with each other…..

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  • RG

    Yeah I’m thinking of common man from last 65 years ..and that’s all we did “thinking” – RG

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  • dfer

    He can start by empowering a promising guy from a backward community to be the CEO of the county..a certain Mr. Narendra Modi. How bout that? :)

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    TMM Reply:

    So that he can divide and communalise this nation like he has done in Gujarat???

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  • Nishant kumar

    Does he own a mantra or similar to Namo Mantra, common the guy is too naive to even find his brain at the right place..

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  • corrupt congress party

    the mantra for success of any industry any here in the world had been the workers ability to perform to the best as per accepted company’s standards and as per if a person belongs to any lower class or minority such as scheduled class or backward class or belonging to a minority such as muslim .

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  • corrupt congress party

    if the rahul wants to give away jobs because a person belongs to the minority or a lower class .then he would be better off giving away some of the money his mother has looted thru various scams to the tune of $900,000 crores and increasing daily,instead of asking industry to give the jobs away whether or not a person is qualified to do it or not.

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  • AshishC

    Spin away…
    Rahul speech received a lukewarm reception because it was anti-pvt sector? Or pointed out non-inclusive nature of pvt sector policies?
    It received a lukewarm response because it showed up an immature young man for what he is. It was a speech full of “huh” and “duh” moments.

    Sample these:

    - “if you can do business in India, you can do so on the moon”- Who takes credit, Mr Gandhi?

    - China’s development/ social sector progress got dismissed, rather arrogantly- “dragon”/ “simplistic place”/ lack of accountability- witness this driver who ran over pedestrians and absconded. Point??

    - Beehive – again, what was the point? That we all slog and the Queen bee grows rich?

    Anyway,

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  • http://www.facebook.com/lightpandey Prakash Pandey

    There really, is no differential between policies of the two. And that is primarily because both seem to be puppets of the same corporates that increasingly control this nation. Its big money all over.

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    Ashok Reply:

    There is bog difference between the two while Manmohan is puppet of corrupt Sonia piling money in her Swiss Bank account, Modi has zero tolerance for corruption and that makes the story different.

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  • Anonymous

    seriously! modi is mms of the 1990’s

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  • kanishka

    Below are two contrasts between Gujarat Model of Modi and Khangrace Model of MMS:

    1. In April 2013, Surat in Gujarat was judged India’s best city. The parameters for this included, according to a report in The Times of India, “mobility, water
    supply network, cleanliness, public amenities, pollution control, greenery,
    safety and easy processes of getting work done at the corporation.”

    2. Delhi is declared most unsafe city for women and known as R@pe capital in the world for the last 3 years. The child malnourishment has reached at an alarming high level of 52% according to the CAG report tabled on March 2013. The CM of WB was assulated in day light last week right in front of Planning commission building.

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  • David

    Its a misleading news, how can one compare Modi with leader of corrupt, scandlous, Scamster, corrupt, Looter, Traitor govt.

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  • kanishka

    Another stark difference is not having two+ centers of power for an elected head of the state who has taken the oath of office and one Super PM without any accountability and press conferences/interviews.

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  • KANISHKA

    MODI – NAA MEIN KHATAA HOON NAA KHANE DOONGA

    MMS – LOOTO KHAO BACHE TAU SWISS BANK BHARAO

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  • KANISHKA

    MODI – NAA MEIN KHATAA HOON NAA KHANE DOONGA

    MMS – LOOTO KHAO BACHE TAU SWISS BANK BHARAO

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  • Poor Indian

    Notice the new trend of Paid news – Since Rahul baba is shit scared of fighting against Modi -Papu now wants to rule using Shameless MMS as dummy with no accountability as that that way he can protect his Billions of loot and now HT is paid to start a new spin to compare Modi with MMS and suggest both are same.

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  • Poor Indian

    Notice the new trend of Paid news – Since Rahul baba is shit scared of fighting against Modi -Papu now wants to rule using Shameless MMS as dummy with no accountability as that that way he can protect his Billions of loot and now HT is paid to start a new spin to compare Modi with MMS and suggest both are same.

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  • 9Para

    This is not a surprising conclusion. Regardless of the political party that is in power, certain factors like the bureaucracy, and the corporations that actually run the country remains essentially unaffected. Since it is in their (and the politicos) best interest to ensure maximum profitable exploitation of resources, questions like ethics, inclusive growth, and societal growth don’t really come into the picture, except as superficial hogwash designed to dupe the voting masses come election time. This fact is one of the core, unavoidable problems with Indian democracy as it now stands. No one is power is interested in changing a repressive and exploitative status quo because it goes against their own beneficial interest. Communalism, vote-bank politics, issues of caste, etc. are all incorporated into political discourse to disguise this essential fact that everyone in power wants their share of the enormous pie that is India and its natural, economic, and man-power resources. The relationship between India’s people and its governing classes needs to be reoriented fundamentally. A system reset, if you will.

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  • 9Para

    This is not a surprising conclusion. Regardless of the political party that is in power, certain factors like the bureaucracy, and the corporations that actually run the country remains essentially unaffected. Since it is in their (and the politicos) best interest to ensure maximum profitable exploitation of resources, questions like ethics, inclusive growth, and societal growth don’t really come into the picture, except as superficial hogwash designed to dupe the voting masses come election time. This fact is one of the core, unavoidable problems with Indian democracy as it now stands. No one is power is interested in changing a repressive and exploitative status quo because it goes against their own beneficial interest. Communalism, vote-bank politics, issues of caste, etc. are all incorporated into political discourse to disguise this essential fact that everyone in power wants their share of the enormous pie that is India and its natural, economic, and man-power resources. The relationship between India’s people and its governing classes needs to be reoriented fundamentally. A system reset, if you will.

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  • GK

    That is … if you assume… Manmohan has a model :)

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  • KANISHKA

    @Author, ” Modi had suggested in Kolkata earlier this week that Bihar should take leaf from Gujarat’s development.”

    Did you miss the rest of MODI speech where he explained that models differ from one DISTRICT to next and MODIFICATION (not NAMO-fication) would be required for Gujarat Model of develop to meet the local conditions?

    Is Bihar from other planet? 33% share of each agriculture, Industry and Service has maximum flexibility to sustain natural calamities such as draughts becasue the state has already developed its own revenue based on indusrty and service sector. Gujarat has its own tax and non-tax revenue around Re 66,000 Crores which are three times larger than Bihar thus Gujarat does not have to go on begging spree every now and then. Priorities can be changed depending on situation as long you have enough funds of your own and share from center. Besides, industrian states contribute huge sums to the central kitty which agriculture base states don’t. The ganga belt (UP, BIHAR AND WB) is and will remain a drag on the growth rate of India unless India adopts “TWO-CHILDREN FAMILY” policy fo reduce the rate of population growth. UP, BIHAR and WB combined are around 400 million and growth cannot match to feed new mouths every year.

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  • Chaddi Utaro Abhiyan

    And we would expect our next PM Mr Narendra Modi to not run away from
    Interviews when faced with hostile questioning as it happened in the
    past. Chaddis supporting him say that the matter is sub-judice and hence
    any ’sane’ Chief Minister would refrain from speaking about it. For
    these Chaddis, a basic refresher course in English language is being
    provided – FREE of cost!!!

    And here goes the brilliant interview where Mr. Modi shows his oratory and management skills :
    http(colon)//www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=TP1QFcvIg9c .

    I hope he is more prepared the next time, once he assumes office and
    hopefully gets a visa to the US. If the New York times turns hostile,
    please ask him to keep calm and bazinga!!

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    Pappu_FAIL_ho_Gaya1 Reply:

    i THINK YOU ARE A NAUKER paid by the Pappu relief Fund sponsored by Congress loot money. Please go clean diapers of your failed Pappu rather than give these puerile comments being paid at 25 paisa a comment by Congress

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  • Raghav

    All I have to say is that Hindustan Times is owned by Shobhana Bhartia – a Congress MP. Enough said.

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  • krishna reddy

    MMS since his school days has only one strategy. Turn in your answer paper blank. Every one fills it the way he wants and feels you are a genius. He is like a blank paper used as a tissue paper by the Madam.

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  • Toriasmith

    Both of them are motive same for the Indian economy.They are always encouraged the Large scale industry to develop in the Indian economy.

    http://www.prlog.org/12113774-guitar-center-promo-code-save-up-to-10-off-snap-shortly.html

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