NEW DELHI: Children and grandchildren not taking care of their elders would go to jail while running the risk of being disinherited from property bequeathed to them.
After a year of brainstorming over the sensitive issue of 'penal clause' amid fears it could create rift in families, social justice ministry has concluded that the law would not work without a deterrent. The ministry will soon seek the cabinet nod.
An important feature of the proposed bill is that it would provide protection to not just the 'old' but every parent in need of care. 'Old', by definition, is a person above 60 years, and would not cover a younger parent who may need looking-after.
Giving it a wider range to include 'non-old' parents, social justice ministry has changed the legislation's name to "Parents and Senior Citizens (Welfare & Maintenance) Bill, 2006.
It was conceived as "Older Persons (Maintenance, Care and Protection) Bill, 2005. Parents, below 60, would be legally entitled to maintenance if they have adult and earning children.
Children should take care of their elders or else they could land in jail. The law would set up tribunals in every district where the aggrieved can complain about being neglected.
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The general's 'frank' memoir leaves his countrymen unimpressed
At the upscale Ferozesons Book Store in Lahore, people invariably head straight for the New Arrivals section. Invariably again, they reach out for the hardbound book, In the Line of FireA Memoir, that their president, Pervez Musharraf, has written. The curiosity about the book is incredibleand understandable. Rarely has a head of state chosen to pen his autobiography; and scarcely has an autobiography generated such headlines worldwide as Musharraf's has.
Journalism student Jameel Yousaf is sitting cross-legged on the floor of the store and leafing through the book.
Its price of Rs 1,295 is beyond him. Jameel's bespectacled friend nudges him and mutters, "It's the same old crap." They think they have already read the more "gripping" sections in excerpts in newspapers. Standing there is retired government official
Azam Qureshi, who is curious to know "what lies Musharraf has to offer this time". The problem is, he says, "I can't force myself to spend Rs 1,295 and let that man benefit."
The elderly man at the sales counter is jubilant: a thousand copies have flown off the shelves in just two days. But these have been largely through bulk orders placed by the Punjab chief minister's secretariat, the Governor's House and scores of government departments. The old man huffs, "Most of the people who show interest in the book do not buy it. The sale of Musharraf's autobiography is similar to that of President Gen Ayub Khan's Friends, Not Masters."
Like Musharraf, Gen Ayub Khan had written his memoir while in office. Soon after its publication in 1969, he abdicated his post saying he did not want to preside over the destruction of Pakistan. His plainspeaking book was addressed to the United States, which, he wrote, had deserted its "most allied ally" after its 1965 war with India.
So, what was Musharraf's compulsion to pen his memoir? He provides the reason in the book's preface. "I decided to writemy autobiography after Pakistan took centrestage in the world's conflicts, including the war on terror. There has been intense curiosity about me and the country I lead. I want the world to learn the truth."
Analyst Zubeida Mustafa says the 'truth' has brought him in the line of fire of both friends and foes alike. "One can understand why Ayub Khan became an author while governing the country," she adds. His book, after all, sought to promote Pakistan's interests. By contrast, Musharraf seems to have been fired by the desire to glorify himself, to justify his past deeds and bolster his future prospects. As cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan told Outlook, "Musharraf has tried to recast history, the very same way many dictators have tried in the pastto make themselves look good, wise and powerful, to establish themselves as the defenders of their countries." Imran feels the book is typical of an extrovert 'army type' with many a boast of past victories and juicy war stories. "This is part of the book's charm, for it greatly humanises Musharraf."
Others like Roedad Ali Khan, a former senior bureaucrat, feel Musharraf has written the book for foreign readersand not for those at home where he is "thoroughly discredited". The chapter 'The War on Terror', for instance, is designed to inject a sense of relief among Western readers that Musharraf is at the helm of affairs in Pakistan. "He's telling the West that you have to keep me there, if you want to win the ongoing war on terror and you have to allow me to keep my uniform, if you want me to win this war for you," Roedad told a news agency.
Most analysts feel Musharraf's book threatens to strain relations with countries like India and the US. Leading political analyst Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi argues, "I don't see any good impact on Indo-Pak relations because of this book; rather it could harm them.His questioning of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's approach to the peace process, his claim that Vajpayee was responsible for the failure of the Agra talks, and his claim that the Kargil war eventually led to the Indo-Pak peace talks are likely to have a negative impact on relations with India."
The book has also prompted the US to dub some of Musharraf's claims as sheer exaggeration. The CIA, for instance, has stoutly refuted the contention that Washington paid millions of dollars to Islamabad for taking custody of terrorists apprehended in Pakistan. Cornered, Musharraf tamely suggested that the section on cash-for-terrorist deal needs a "revision".Says Zubeida, "Musharraf has spilled many beans that should not have been spilled at this stage. Not tied by the constraints of a democratic system, he probably feels he doesn't have to worry about the repercussions of his words."
Former ISI chief Lt Gen Asad Durrani says he has pondered over the vital question: Does Musharraf's book help Pakistan, its image or its policies? "All
that I can conclude is the book only helps one man and that is Pervez Musharraf," Durrani replies.The book has also goaded the Opposition into slamming Musharraf for disclosing state secrets, and spending public money on the launch of his book. The Opposition has demanded a special session of Parliament to discuss these contentious issues. A statement issued on behalf of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif says Musharraf seems to have decided to make some money now that he realises his political demise is near.
"The book is nothing more than a pack of lies aimed at rewriting history. The general has lied about the Kargil disaster and the 'illegal coup' he mounted to overthrow an elected government," the statement says.
Adds Farhatullah Babar, the spokesman for former premier Benazir Bhutto: "The Musharraf Memoir has set a new and dangerous precedent for the chiefs of air force and navy to record their memoirswhile in service and then take official jets to set out on tour to Europe and America on promotional campaigns. Gen Musharraf's visit to the US was less for promoting national interests and more for boosting the book's sale."
Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Asma Jahangir, minces no words either: "In disclosing state secrets in his book Musharraf has violated the President's oath that binds the incumbent of the office to keep the affairs of state secret." But then, you could well ask, since when has Musharraf ever bothered about constitutional propriety.
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LONDON: General Musharraf has mixed rank self-righteousness with a remarkably stark warning to the West that it could be 'brought to its knees' if Pakistan withdraws its cooperation in the so-called war on terror.
Launching a fierce and finger-wagging attack on the West's growing doubts about Pakistan's role in fighting Islamist terrorism, Musharraf said the US and UK had to understand Pakistan is the West's "main ally...If we were not with you, you won't manage anything".
In his strongest warning ever on the issue, Musharraf declared, "You'll be brought down to your knees if Pakistan doesn't co-operate with you. That is all that I would like to say. Pakistan is the main ally. If we were not with you, you won't manage anything. Let that be clear. And if ISI is not with you, you will fail."
But sources here said Musharraf's passionate defence of his country and its infamous intelligence agency early on Saturday morning was yet again undermined after Mumbai's police chief firmly blamed the ISI for planning the 7/11 train blasts.
In an extraordinary coincidence, Musharraf issued his blunt warning to the West to cease doubting Pakistan's role and commitment to fighting terrorism just a couple of hours before the Mumbai blasts were formally alleged to have been masterminded by the ISI.
Commentators said that Musharraf's attempt to silence Western critics of Pakistan came across as blustering over-defensiveness after the Indian allegation.
Musharraf's firm denial of Pakistani two-facedness in the war on terror came just days after a leaked British report criticized the ISI for fomenting Islamist radicalism by indirectly helping the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Late on Thursday, an angry Musharraf challenged British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the issue and received a public assurance that the British government does not doubt Islamabad's commitment to fighting terrorism.
But Musharraf, who remained in the UK over the weekend, has let it be known he is riled about Western doubts over Pakistan 's role in the war on terror.
With a visible sense of entitlement, Musharraf said the US and UK should acknowledge a "historic debt" of gratitude to Pakistan because it had helped "win the Cold War" for the West. Blaming the West for creating al-Qaeda, he said it had been foolish for the West to arm and train the mujahideen to fight the Soviets and then leave them to turn their rage - and weapons - on their creator.
Insisting that Pakistan was left "high and dry" by the West and left to deal with the purposeless mujahideen on its own, Musharraf argued that it was unfair to blame his country for all the evils of the world.
The stern rebuke and warning to the West comes as Musharraf assumes an increasingly combative and hectoring tone on the ever touchier subject of Pakistan's real role in the war on terror.
Late on Friday, the General delivered the same message in a speech to students and academics at Oxford University. He demanded that the West to offer assistance rather than criticism to Pakistan's battle against terrorism.
And he blithely batted aside criticism from Amnesty International that his government was illegally detaining innocent people on suspicion of terrorism, secretly imprisoning them and transferring them to US custody for money.
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from our knees we can still glass you over, asshole. What a delusional pretentious ass
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You'll be brought down to your knees if Pakistan doesn't co-operate with you. That is all that I would like to say. Pakistan is the main ally. If we were not with you, you won't manage anything. Let that be clear. And if ISI is not with you, you will fail.
Translation: you stupid infidels cannot resist anybody with a well developed sense of entitlement.
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But to what exent does Perv really control the ISI? My guess would be "hardly at all." I think it was a mistake to humiliate (and possibly weaken) him in this way; he really is the best Pakistani leader we could ever hope for.
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But to what exent does Perv really control the ISI?
No operational control over ISI and MI, defence ministry tells court
KARACHI, July 11: The ministry of defence exercises only administrative control over Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) and it does not have any operational control or jurisdiction to enforce the courts direction on these agencies, an official of the ministry informed the Sindh High Court on Tuesday.
Mull over that a second.
The Pak Government (Defence Ministry) has no control over Pak Military Intelligence and the ISI.
Or at least that is what they told the Sindh High Court
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I wouldn't mention kneecaps if I were you, Perv.
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and from our knees, the USAF will provide close air support for the Indian Army as they wipe you and your pissant midieval kingdom off the face of the earth and force the few survivors to convert to Hinduism. Think of the countryside covered with cartoons showing Shiva kicking Mohammed's ass to entice your "lions of Islam" out of their holes where they can be more easily killed.
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Musharraf himself already spends 24-7 on his knees. The General is gay for the Taliban and refuses to do the necessary house cleaning. What the towel head for Allah does not understand, America on its knees is worth 400 Pakilands.
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Perv should take a good long look around him at Afghanistan and Iraq to see what befalls those who change teams. I would welcome his realignment with terrorists. Nothing could please me more than to have Pakistan scrubbed clean of its terrorist madrassahs, be it with regime change or nuclear fire, I no longer care which.
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Wonder what he would say if we threatened to sell Pakistan back to India cost (being they occupy it and actually kill terrorist) take Balouchistan in the South give them independence and put Warizistan into Afghanistan so we can roll over AQ/Taliban once and for all.
I think Musharaf's flirting with China has made them forget who thier Daddy is. Time to check a b*tch.
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You are way behind the time, Perv. Back in the 40s, yes, our bombariers would aim our nukular weapons from a kneeling position.
Nowadays, it's seated in a comfy chair and turning a key. And that's what would happen eventually. We'll remember General LeMay "War is about killing people, and if you kill enough, they stop fighting." I hope it doesn't take 1.2 billion, but I would sleep just fine at night if it did.
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It looks that General Musharraf is in the last days as the ruler of Pakistan. He seems to be loosing his grip on his military. This is bad news cause who will own Pakistans nukes in the near future?
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This is bad news cause who will own Pakistans nukes in the near future?
Quite possibly, the USA. If Musharraf lost power to a genocidal mullahcracy it might well require us to come in and confiscate their nuclear weapons, quite possibly at the threat of pre-emptive nuclear attack.
Such a scenario would even push back the importance of intervention in Iran. Islam has proven itself so immune to logic and reason that there is no way to believe that Pakistani mullahs wouldn't either hand off a few nuclear devices to terrorists or launch them against Israel themselves. Iran has already made clear its willingness to commit mass suicide in such a pursuit, we must believe that other theocratic Muslim regimes could do the same.
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What a monumental maroon. The Brits created Pakiwackiland out of nothing, and gave it to the muslim nutjobs, partly as a snub to India and Mahatma Ghandi's activities. We've helped them create a nation in exchange for some "help" - a launch site for U-2 overflights of Russia, a chance to keep an eye on a left-leaning India, and listening-posts near the main Russian Cosmodrome as it was being developed. We've asked for a little help today to bring down the taliban. Instead, Pervert lectures us: it's our fault the ISI-backed (created?) taliban took over Afghanistan, we "can't win" without Pakland's help, and Pervert's our biggest ally in the GWOT. The guy needs an enema - he has to be constipated to be that full of sh$$. The pak military wouldn't last half as long as Iraq's "vaunted" republican guard, their air force and navy would be history in less than three days, and we could literally glass the country over if that was what we decided was necessary. Pervert, save your wind for someone who might believe it. You're a dead man walking from this moment on, either at home or wherever you choose to go into exile.
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Perv is in this up to his balding tip. Al Q's recent tape Zacki demands scientists with biologics and "dirty" bombs. That message was directed at Perv. Binnie and the lads pay him an amazingly pretty penny for the sanctuary and the support. This is their demand of him.
Perv is also taking an amazingly pretty penny from the West for his "assistance" in the WOT. And the poor boy can barely keep his lies straight at this point.
he's dead in six months. And India better be ready.
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Beyond the overheated rhettoric we in the West notice, does anybody think this is a bright move. Hes basically saying that Pakistan is the lynchpin to Al Queda victory and making himself somewhat of a target.
12 (or there-abouts)empty tubes; 12 (or there-abouts) lovely mushroom clouds, now it's "Miller Time". (Oops, Miller just went multi-natl. Make that Budweiser, Coors, Oly, etc.)
OTOH ISI demonstrated their power with the assasination in Balochistan. OTOH Iran is close to having a nuclear device of their own.
Looking at it from the perspective of domestic and Muslim politics, aligning himself with these forces looks like a winning move indeed. He thinks he's aligning himself with the winning side, at least in his own neighborhood.
Remember, this is the man who authorized the Pakistani army's attack on Indian forces at Kargil but brazenly claimed for a long time that it was the work of Kashmiris. He's not quite the wimp he appears.
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Perv is heading into an election. One of the biggest things the Islamists have been hitting him with is that he is "the US's lap dog". After the election, let's see what he has to say.
Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say. The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said. AN Roy said the Students' Islamic Movement of India had also assisted.
Pakistan rejected the allegations and said India had given no evidence of Pakistani involvement in the attacks.
"Lies! All lies!"
"We have solved the 11 July bombings case. The whole attack was planned by Pakistan's ISI and carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba and their operatives in India," Mumbai (Bombay) police commissioner AN Roy told a news conference. Mr Roy said 15 people had been arrested, and that some of the bombers had received training in Pakistan.
Tariq Azi, Pakistan's minister of state for information, rejected the allegations. "India has always chosen this path of pointing fingers at Pakistan without evidence," he said. "If they have any evidence, they should provide us evidence and we will carry out our investigations."
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So, what are they (India) going to do about it?
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These Pak attacks happen on an annual basis. When is India going to do a real smackdown ? It's way overdue. They need to apply some real hurt on the Paks, to really indicate their displeasure. Everyone's still waiting.
a long anti-Perv whine. Posted because of this nugget about General Mushaf Mir, who the Pak journalist Amir Mir says had knowledge of 9/11
The report said in the wake of 9/11, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Mir, was questioned at a very high level meeting in the federal capital about PAF air defence capabilities.
The report quoted the PAF chief as having bluntly stated that the air force would be eliminated in less than half an hour in case the US chose to attack Pakistan. This report is yet to be denied. There is no reason why its contents should not be believed, irrespective of how bitter and unpleasant the reality may be. Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Mir, along with his wife, was after sometime killed in an aircraft crash near Kohat.
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LAHORE: A religious organisation's activist was killed by two unidentified motorcyclists in Shadbagh on Thursday night. Jaffer Hussain Naqvi (45), a resident of Jaranwala, was an employee of the Jaranwala district government and the caretaker of an imambargah as well. He was visiting Lahore with his wife Jabeen and their children, and the family was staying at Naqvi's in-laws' house.
Two motorcyclists shot Naqvi in front of his in-laws' house when he returned from a shrine late on Thursday night. His family rushed him to Mayo Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. The body has been sent for an autopsy and police have registered a case.
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Do you know what this is?
I had to stop and think for a minute.
What cold game was he playing ...
How did this involve Nancy and ... How does he make his voice sound like that?
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Mayo Hospital is the oldest and largest hospital of the country, serving the humanity since 1871.
Mayo Hospital was completed in 1870 and it started patient care in 1871. It was named after the Earl of Mayo, the then Viceroy and the Governor General of India.
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Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (21 February 18228 February 1872), known as Lord Naas between 1842 and 1867, was an Irish statesman and prominent member of the British Conservative Party.
Was appointed Viceroy of India in 1869. He consolidated the frontiers of India and reorganized the country's finances; he also did much to promote irrigation, railways, forests and other useful public works. While visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, for the purpose of inspection, he was assassinated by Sher Ali, a convict.
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Ummm, I just want to know, does the Earl of Mayo have anything to do with inventing Mayonnaise?
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Ummm, I just want to know, does the Earl of Mayo have anything to do with inventing Mayonnaise?
I'll put it this way. The Earl of Mayo met the Earl of Sandwich at Ham House
and the rest is history.
MUMBAI: An Indian court on Friday convicted five more Muslim men of conspiracy in a series of bomb attacks on Mumbai 13 years ago. Gul Muhammad Noor Muhammad Shaikh, Muhammad Hanif Muhammad Usman Shaikh, Shaikh Usman Man Khan, Shaikh Ibrahim Shaikh and Muhammad Sayed Muhammed Ishaq were found guilty after the court was told they had received arms training in Pakistan at the behest of the masterminds behind the blasts. "This judicial decision is crucial for it shows these people went to Pakistan for specific arms training camps set up ahead of the blasts," said chief prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
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The father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl said a top Al Qaeda operative, accused by the Pakistani president of killing the young reporter, should be punished if his role in the crime was proven. Former Al Qaeda No 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of masterminding the attacks of September 9/11, was blamed by Musharraf in his book for killing Pearl, or taking part in his 2002 murder in Karachi. "It is important if Mohammed had any part in the crime, he should be brought to justice," said Judea Pearl late on Thursday in an interview over the telephone from New York.
Mohammed, a dual Kuwaiti-Pakistani citizen, was arrested in 2003 in Pakistan and had been held by US authorities in a secret location until he and 13 other terror suspects were recently transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Pakistani officials had not previously confirmed Mohammed's role in Pearl's brutal murder after his kidnapping on January 23, 2002. Musharraf, however, wrote in his book, "The man who may have actually killed Pearl or at least participated in his butchery, we eventually discovered, was none other than Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."
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I'd like to fly Pearl's Dad to Cuba, and give him 2 days to do what he wants with that fat piece of shit.
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If this piece of dogshit is still breathing, he hasn't had enough. All information of value should have been extracted by now. I believe it's time to announce he's contracted a fever,and, after hospitalization and a valiant struggle to save him, he "passed away" of natural causes. Naturally.
PESHAWAR: The Taliban claimed responsibility on Friday for executing a man described as a spy for US and Afghan intelligence in North Waziristan. Leaflets justifying the slaying were distributed in the semi-autonomous Pashtun tribal region a day after Malang Rahim Jan's bullet-ridden body was found. "With Allah's blessing, Taliban captured this spy and gave him punishment according to Shariah (Islamic law)," read the leaflet, bearing a photograph of Jan, with his identification card pinned to his chest.
The dead man was said to be an Afghan. The leaflet was titled "Da Jasoosi Anjam", meaning "Fate of the Spy". "He had reported that 10 Taliban centres were here," the leaflet said. "He was working for Afghan intelligence."
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"He annouced our secret presence reads the leaflet."
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In other news, there are ten "Taliban centres" in North Waziristan.
So, what's a "centre"? Depot? Training centre? Barracks? Malt shop?
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MIRANSHAH: The government is trying to reach an accord with militants in South Waziristan and Bajaur agencies similar to the one it made with pro-Taliban militants in North Waziristan early this month, official and tribal elders told Daily Times. "The government, having made peace deals with militants in South Waziristan in November 2004 and February 2005 respectively, is interested in amending them to make them similar to the one made in North Waziristan," the official and a tribal elder told Daily Times.
The official said the government would seek the assistance of the 45-member tribal jirga that brokered a peace deal in North Waziristan to amend the two deals in South Waziristan, and reach a North Waziristan-like accord with the militants in Bajaur Agency. NWFP Governor Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai told reporters after the September 5 deal in Miranshah that the tribal jirga "still has work to do", but declined to set a timetable for the missions in the Bajaur and South Waziristan tribal regions.
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President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday rebuked critics who have alleged he has failed to do enough to quash a resurgent Taliban, and urged the West to offer assistance rather than criticism. Speaking to an audience of students and academics at the University of Oxford, Musharraf said his government was working hard to remove the Taliban, who have become entrenched in his country's tribal regions.
"The West and anyone else that criticises us needs to understand we need understanding and assistance, instead of criticism," he said. Musharraf did not specify what sort of assistance he required, but he has repeatedly asked for more helicopters and surveillance equipment to be better able to monitor the Pakistan-Afghan border.
"We are doing our best to bring (Pakistan) back to the previous levels of peace, tolerance and prosperity," he said. Musharraf said Pakistan had been trying to separate the Taliban into moderates and extremists, and to co-opt the moderates into helping to identify the militants. "The most dangerous possibility for us is that the Taliban gets converted into an ethnic people's movement," he said Friday. "We cannot let the moderates drift to the extremists. That would be a disaster."
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Ol' Pervy's gotten pretty good at the triangulation and "assistance" games.
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...urged the West to offer assistance rather than criticism.
Message to Perv:
Make a presidential declaration that North and South Waziristans are a No Man's Land. The US strategic and tactical air forces will then kill anything that moves sunset to sunrise. Suspected taliban/terrorist strongholds will be bombed into oblivion. The Waziristans will cease to be a problem.
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I feel for Perv. He has a tough job trying to drag his people into the 19th century, keep the country from degenerating into total islamo-nuttiness and not get killed in the process. I'm betting that Waziristan has been declared a free-fire zone. We shall see, although I expect the forthcoming 'incidents' will not be broadcast on the evening news.
I also predict that Seymour Hersh's next book will detail how the Evil Amerikkkan War Machine(tm) violated Pakistan's sovereign without first saying please.
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need from western help. Well hell haven't we been trying too kill these fuckers for the longest time but if we hit someone across the border then they cry like babies
SRINAGAR, India - Islamic rebels warned on Friday of dire consequences if India executes a Kashmiri Muslim convicted over a 2001 attack on parliament, amid a paralysing protest strike in Indian Kashmirs main city and a third day of clashes between demonstrators and police.
The turmoil erupted in the Muslim-majority state after a New Delhi judge ordered that Mohammed Afzal, found guilty last month of helping to mastermind the attack, should be hanged on October 20. We warn of dire consequences if the death sentence is carried out, said Sadaqat Hussain, a spokesman for the United Jihad Council, Indian Kashmirs main militant alliance which is battling New Delhis rule here.
"We shall have Dire Revenge!"
Hussain, who said Afzal was innocent, did not make any specific threats in the statement published in local Indian Kashmiri newspapers.
"Use your infidel imaginations!"
Shops, businesses and schools were closed in Srinagar to protest the planned execution of Afzal.
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Uh oh, "dire consequences". I'll wait for john's assessment...
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Who are these fuckwits and how is it that they think to steer an entire nation's policy via threats of violence? This extortion writ large and the regions or countries which harbor such terrorist organizations should begin facing retaliation every time these assholes pipe up with such twaddle.
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India doesn't execute many people. The Indian Supreme Court says that sentences should be "rare", for particularly gruesome crimes.
Killing or attacking Indian leaders is a sure way of ensuring that you go to the gallows.
India values its democracy and sees the murder of leaders as an attack on the integrity of the state itself.
The assassin of Mahatma Gandhi was hanged even though the disciples of the Mahatma begged for his life.
The assassins of Indira Gandhi were likewise hanged, the last time the gallows in Tihar Jail were used.
Only Nalini, one of the killers of Rajiv Gandhi was spared, on request of Sonia Gandhi, his widow, because executing both her and her husband (also a killer) would leave their child an orphan. It was decided that no act of the Indian state should deprive a minor citizen of their parents.
Out of all of the attacks on India, the one attack (which killed just a handful of people) that caused India to mobilize its army for an invasion was the parliament attack. This attack nearly wiped out the entire Indian political class. The Indian VP was seconds from death.
They are not going to forgive this.
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Oh, all right, then. Go and execute the imam in his hometown mosKKK, and all the instructors in his Madrassa. Fair trade?
MUMBAI, India - Four more people have been arrested in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed 186 people, police said on Friday. Three were arrested in Mumbai while a Muslim man was picked up in the eastern city of Kolkata. It was not immediately known if those arrested in Mumbai were also Muslims or if they were all held on Friday.
The new arrests took the total number of people in custody for their alleged role in the blasts to more than 15. They include an engineer, a journalist, a computer software professional and a doctor.
Anyone think they've got them all yet?
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(KUNA) -- Five people were injured when suspected banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) rebels hurled a grenade at a crowded market in Tinsukia town in India's Northeastern state of Assam Friday. The blast took place at Tinsukia Friday evening, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. This is the second attack in Tinsukia district of Assam after the Indian government called off a six-week-old ceasefire and resumed military operations against ULFA last weekend. Seven people were injured including two Indian paramilitary personnel in grenade attack in the oil-refinery town of Digboi in Tinsukia district Thursday.
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(KUNA) -- Five people were injured when suspected banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) rebels hurled a grenade at a crowded market in Tinsukia town in India's Northeastern state of Assam Friday. The blast took place at Tinsukia Friday evening, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. This is the second attack in Tinsukia district of Assam after the Indian government called off a six-week-old ceasefire and resumed military operations against ULFA last weekend. Seven people were injured including two Indian paramilitary personnel in grenade attack in the oil-refinery town of Digboi in Tinsukia district Thursday.
