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India-Pakistan
What exactly is Punjab Police doing?
[Pak Daily Times] We are living in the computer-age, which has increased the thinking capacity of our citizens. Now people from all walks of life are showing interest in all local and national activities. The past has been long forgotten when people only wanted to know about things like politics and education.

A question on the top of the list since last several months is why our law enforcement agencies have failed to stop terrorist activities, even after getting prior information, and who is responsible for this, law enforcers or politicians?

Now the masses are losing their patience and the world is watching incidents of brutality all over the country, case in point being the Sialkot killings and the blasts in Lahore, when people not only tortured policemen, but also burnt government as well as private property.

However, managing this situation peacefully and technically is the need of the hour. Our politicians must think about it, but surprisingly our politicians are doing totally different things, which could not only damage the country, but damage them too.

This is an open secret and everyone knows that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was very keen about top-to-bottom postings and transfers in the Punjab Police during each of his tenures. In this tenure, this duty has been transferred to Hamza Shahbaz and now he is deciding the postings and transfers of officials of the Punjab Police.

Sources in law enforcement agencies have said that basically the Punjab government is intentionally avoiding taking action on the information provided by the federal government. How interesting it is to know that the Punjab government prefers its own province over the whole country.

The incidents of two brothers in Sialkot being killed, the killing of a youngster in Shujaabad and killing of a man in Lahore were already question marks on the face of the Punjab Police. When the horrible terror attacks took place in Lahore, news reports and statements by the Lahore commissioner proved that all of Punjab's authorities concerned had prior information about the terrorist attack in Lahore, but they did nothing.

Amazingly, the worst situation started the next day of the incident when speculation started roaming in all corners concerned about massive-level transfers and postings in the Punjab Police. Then the high-ups who need to work on busting terrorist networks and their arrests leave all such positive efforts and start working to save their jobs.

Everyone knows that such types of officers were earlier deputed due to their strong links in the political circles. So now they are again using these links to save their jobs and interestingly, the rest of the officers who are waiting for deputation are also busy in searching links in the political circles for their postings.

However, this situation takes its toll on the citizens and some incidents proved that the public's emotions are at their dangerous peak. In this situation, they can do anything because now the Punjabi people are getting desperate. This scenario could also create problems for politicians who prefer to depute their loved ones on lucrative seats, especially in the Punjab Police Department.

On the other hand, the corners concerned are showing their apprehensions that the floods are not only damaging the country's economic situation, but could also damage the country's law and order situation.

The government's poor grip in the flood-affected areas regarding the law and order situation has already been proven, as several foreign social workers and representatives of foreign organisations returned from these areas after receiving threats by terrorist groups.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  "but could also damage the country's law and order situation"

I'm curious - how do you damage something that doesn't exist?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/06/2010 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2  From my reading of Pakistan, Punjab and Pashtun seem to be the most anti american element of Pak society and hence make up the majority of the PakArmy.

If we can encourage Balochistan and Sindh to establish independence from these two this would be the best way forward to create peace in South/Central Asia!This is what the Pak army fears most.
Posted by: Paul2 || 09/06/2010 7:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Angry Kid: Greenpeace video
Posted by: tipper || 09/06/2010 04:02 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is Bush's fault, here is the kid 10 years ago. /sarc off

Posted by: Goodluck || 09/06/2010 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "...by the time I grow up there won't be any fish left in the sea. Rainforests and clean air will be a thing of the past...Entire countries will disappear. Life will change, in ways you can't even imagine. There could be famine, world-wide epidemics...life expectancy will be lower..."

News flash, kid. We got the same message when I was your age, almost forty years ago. So relax. And get off my lawn.
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 09/06/2010 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  what a little twat. Get a vasectomy.
Posted by: anon1 || 09/06/2010 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  definitely a bedwetter
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2010 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Take a Prozac. Or a Valium. Maybe both.

I guess your "educational facilitators" (formerly referred to as "teachers") never told you that America's actually cleaner than it was back before I hit puberty.

You aren't breathing in lead fumes from gasoline, many endangered animals have made a comeback, and even the crime rate has dropped.

Your "threats" make us laugh. We weren't bubble wrapped when we rode our bikes, like you and your fellow precious flowers...we deliberately jumped them off of rickety "ramps" for the fun of it. Our parents never strapped us in the car, we drank from the hose, and we ran around unsupervised for hours in the summer. Some of us even blew crap up on occasion. So, yeah, kid...can't wait for you and your sheltered playdate buddies to "bring it."

You think your pathetic little whining is gonna make an impact on generations that grew up thinking they were gonna get nuked before breakfast because someone in the White House or the Kremlin was having a very bad day and wanted to take everyone with them?

Now shaddup, you entitled little ugly brat, and go get me a beer. And some sushi while you're at it. I wanna enjoy some fish before it's all gone.

Chop-chop, pinhead, or I'll smack you with my cane.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 09/06/2010 10:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Haha what a sucker.

Kids used to rebel against authority, now the ones you see are all suck-ups.

How sad. He'll look back on this moment as the low-light of his life, when the entire world pointed at him and laughingly said "RUBE!"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/06/2010 10:38 Comments || Top||

#7  No car for you. No droid for you. No laptop for you. No TV for you.
Ya wanna save the world, kid? Here's a tent, a shovel and a canteen. Go live in the yard, ya little prick.
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/06/2010 10:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Here is the real Angry Kid.

There are a whole series of Angry Kid adult-oriented animations, produced by Aardman Animation, the folks who make Wallace & Gromit.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/06/2010 10:51 Comments || Top||

#9  The kids an actor guys. He's probably getting paid well to do this ad so he can afford a new IPOD and scooter. He could probably give a shit one way or the other just as long as he gets paid. Greenpeace on the other hand need to be dealt with...
Posted by: 49 pan || 09/06/2010 11:44 Comments || Top||

#10  A future red-green recruit since arrested adolescent development seems to be a socialized trait in them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2010 11:46 Comments || Top||

#11  The little creep needs to lose the hoodie and get out in the sunshine a bit more. It's good for the soul.
Posted by: Bulldog || 09/06/2010 12:26 Comments || Top||

#12  I'm now worried that the production studio had to stop the contrast adjustment at +98 instead of +100 for fear of turning their pitchboy into an albino jawa.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/06/2010 13:26 Comments || Top||

#13  A little too much sand in the v-j.

Typical liberal. Start you decision with emotion and then try to justify it.

He just wants my wallet.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia || 09/06/2010 14:51 Comments || Top||

#14  kinda feel sorry for the little actor brat. Every time he gets in a car, plane or turns on his electronic equipment, he will be marked as a sell out. Haha. Doesn't he stop to wonder how the world will be able to watch the video? Useful twit.
Posted by: Martini || 09/06/2010 16:19 Comments || Top||

#15  Wife sayz, "He's still just a rat in a cage, but can he fake it for one more show?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/06/2010 18:58 Comments || Top||


Letting Leftists Limit Language
American Thinker via Instapundit
The money quote
...Make no mistake: Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al. believe in nothing but power. They are not "socialists." There are no socialists in the world except those in mental institutions or very young children who have never seen modern political debate in action. The façade of socialism has always been the same -- a phony banner for the acquisition of power. Every brutal thug, every Hitler or Stalin wannabe, first champions the masses against the despised few who exploit them. It is almost impossible, in a free society, for anyone to exploit anyone else for very long. But the lust for power must be sated, and the fruits of freedom must be slandered and spat upon with invented words.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/06/2010 01:39 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Walker has it about right. It is all about unrestrained power.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2010 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice comment, Ima gonna copy it. I hope the sleezes over at wronghellbitches don't sue me...
Posted by: 49 pan || 09/06/2010 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  excellent article. Sinisterists. I like it. I intend to use it.
Posted by: Martini || 09/06/2010 16:12 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2010-09-06
  ETA declares ceasefire
Sun 2010-09-05
  Dronezap waxes five in North Wazoo
Sat 2010-09-04
  Suicide blast kills senior Tajik police officer: ministry
Fri 2010-09-03
  37 dead, 150 maimed in attack on Shiites in Lahore
Thu 2010-09-02
  At Least 25 Die in Nuevo Leon in Shootout
Wed 2010-09-01
  Gunman Holds 1 Hostage in Maryland
Tue 2010-08-31
  Molotov Cocktails Thrown: At Least 8 Killed In Cancun Bar Attack
Mon 2010-08-30
  Iran media brands Sarkozy's wife as 'prostitute'
Sun 2010-08-29
  Series of US drone attacks in Pakistan, at least six killed
Sat 2010-08-28
  Yemen officials, Houthis reach peace deal in Qatar
Fri 2010-08-27
  10 Tonnes of Bomb Chemicals found in E. Afghanistan
Thu 2010-08-26
  56 killed, 250 injured in string of Iraq attacks
Wed 2010-08-25
  Reports: 3 killed in Beirut clashes
Tue 2010-08-24
  MPs slain as Somali gunmen storm hotel
Mon 2010-08-23
  Israel says Iranian reactor use 'totally unacceptable'


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