[DAWN] IS Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar veering off script or reading from notes that his government has given him?
The question put to Mr Parrikar in parliament by a Shiv Sena A Hindoo nationalist political movement that presents a resistance using the same nasty tactics to aggressive Islamists and that's a pain in the underwear to other Indian political parties... member of the upper house, Sanjay Raut, was clearly meant to bait the government into giving a hard-hitting response.
A sensible response by Mr Parrikar would have been to state that investigations were ongoing. A more expansive response to Mr Raut’s question would have had the Indian defence minister acknowledging the role of non-state actors in the attack on the Pathankot air force base, but avoiding speculation about the link to the Pak state.
Instead, Mr Parrikar, who has earned a reputation for bellicose remarks off the cuff, went so far as to link all non-state actors, ie bandidosbully boyz and terrorists, on Pak soil to the Pak state. "Any non-state actors there, they cannot function smoothly without full state support," Mr Parrikar told the Rajya Sabha.
The Indian defence minister’s loose remarks underscore the challenges that bilateral dialogue has to contend with: when dialogue is stalled, hawkish elements in both countries can and do casually undermine the environment for talks and make it that much more difficult to resume them.
Pakistain clearly has a non-state actor problem -- bandidosbully boyz and turbans still operate with impunity on Pak soil in unacceptably large numbers. The Pathankot attack may well have originated from Pak soil.
But from the very moment of the attack, the state here -- both the political and military sides of it -- has tried to respond to India’s concerns, vowed to investigate the attack, shared information with India and the public in both countries, and appears committed to bringing the architects of the Pathankot attack to justice.
Nothing the Pak state has done since Pathankot suggests the group to which the attackers apparently belonged has been allowed to operate smoothly. If anything, there has been an unprecedented crackdown on an anti-India group operating inside Pakistain.
Mr Parrikar and his fellow hawks in government must surely be aware of the steps Pakistain has taken, even if they remain suspicious of Pakistain.
Are the hawks then trying to convince their own government to reverse itself on its decision to resume dialogue with Pakistain? Or is Prime Minister Modi using his cabinet to put pressure on Pakistain without directly implicating himself?
The history of the Pakistain-India relationship is replete with examples of politicians on both sides saying one thing and meaning another.
Perhaps what is important for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... ’s government, and the military establishment in Pakistain is to recognise that a drawn-out investigation into Pathankot is not in the interests of bilateral dialogue.
Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... has yet again suggested that a Pak investigation team is set to visit India soon. Perhaps the two governments are close to setting a date for the foreign secretaries to meet too.
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Pak hand waving not working? Too bad.
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[DAWN] Mumtaz Qadri was a member of the Elite Force of Punjab. The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported he had been "removed from a special police branch several years ago because of his bully boy religious views", and reinducted in 2008, when Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... became the chief minister of Punjab.
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Oooooh, first President al Sisi is going to dig up more tunnels.
Abu Abdallah offers one of the most detailed descriptions yet published of the cooperation between Sinai Province and Hamas, ties that include weapons smuggling by each group for the other; Hamas’s manufacture in Gazoo of Sinai Province’s uniforms, explosives and communications equipment; Hamas’s provision of medical care in Gazoo hospitals for maimed IS fighters, who are kept under the direct protection of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades; and even "feasts" held for IS leaders at the homes of senior Hamas officials in Gazoo.
[IsraelTimes] In letter to ‘caliph,’ jihadist in Syria complains of joint military efforts with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Sinai even as group tortures IS supporters
A bitter outcry over Hamas’s oppression of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... supporters in Gazoo, and its close ties to the IS affiliate in Sinai, has caused a stir among members of the self-declared caliphate, shedding new light on the tacit cooperation between Hamas and IS.
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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has threatened a terrible vengeance after his 10,000 point Tomb King army was rendered obsolete by new Warhammer rules.
Al-Baghdadi announced that the Great Satan America and its lapdog Games Workshop had fallen to a new low, after learning he’s wasted the last six months painting a whole shitload of skeletons.
The specially designated global terrorist claimed the Tombs Kings matched his playing style perfectly, as he’s used to leading an army of mindless zombies motivated by nothing but hate, rage and the need for power.
His followers cheered as he spoke yesterday of ISIS overrunning the lands of The Empire and Albion and crushing their enemies underfoot before toppling the towers of Araby, but started to sound a bit less certain when he went on to speak of a great invasion of Naggaroth and Ulthuan.
“In the name of Allah, the Just, the Merciful, we shall hunt down the infidel dogs who not only came up with the word ‘Urroks’ but also charged me over forty quid for a Liche High Priest I can’t even play,” he said petulantly.
“We shall overrun their lands, their shops and their shipping warehouse and they shall reintroduce 5th edition because that was best.”
The terror organisation is accused of wooing impressionable teenagers by telling them they can still play Chaos Demons and have a 1,000 point advantage when the Caliphate rules the world.
I remember reading about this sh*t storm back in the day.
[IsraelHayom] Imagine, if you will, the following scenario: An Obama administration official quits his job and devotes seven years of his life to writing a well-researched book that pulls the rug out from underneath his former boss regarding the Iranian issue. Then imagine that the book offers a sympathetic view of Israel that is factually based and that reveals information that was not previously known. U.S. President Barack Obama can only express anger, bewilderment, and frustration in response. This leaves the Democrats with a dilemma. Do they remain true to the facts or loyal to their president?
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