... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
speaking on Thursday about the need to resume talks between the two countries, the dates could swing dramatically closer.
September 19 will see the cricket teams playing each other in the Asia Cup contest in Dubai. The same month the military contingents of the two countries will be having their first joint participation in Russia to combat terrorism together with other members of the Shanghai club.
While Mr Khan’s Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
party looks set to form the next government, the good news from India’s point of view is that religious turbans have been shown the door by the watchful electorate. This could heighten the already existing chatter that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be around to bless the new government in Islamabad along with other Saarc players should such an invite go out for the inauguration.
"More significant than who won is who lost," said former minister Mani Shankar Aiyar in his blog. Urging India to resume talks with Pakistain he noted that Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
’s Allah-o-Akbar Tehrik fielded 50 candidates. All of them lost.
"The self-styled ’Islam-pasand’ parties ‐ the Jamaat-e-Islami
...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
, the Jamaat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistain, the Milli Awami League, et al ‐ banded together in a new political alliance called the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal... lost almost all the seats they contested, not just in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
but even on their home ground in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa."
They had "failed to fulfil Pak Senator Sherry Rehman’s nightmare, revealed on election night on one of our TV channels, of snuffies filling the ranks of the Pakistain National Assembly," Mr Aiyar noted with cheer.