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2005-10-18 Afghanistan-Pak-India

Kashmiris question Pakistani response to the quake

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-10-18 02:05|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ''Everything is funded by private donations," said spokesman Salman Shaheed He wore a scraggly beard of the sort usually worn by religious conservatives. ''We even have surplus supplies of food and medicine."

Jamaat ud-Dawa is more than an aid agency. It is widely viewed as a fund-raising front for Lashkar-i-Taiba, one of the largest jihadi groups in Kashmir.

and the Boston Globe is only too happy to promote their cheap, propaganda fund raising effort, so transparent that only an AP/Reuters reporter would be opaque enough to fall for it.

Send money...for um...the children, yeah, that's it....the children...and poor Abdul with a limp

barf

Posted by 2b 2005-10-18 02:46|| 2005-10-18 02:46|| Front Page Top

#2 It's MORE than just an aid agency. It slices, dices, enlarges breasts and cures baldness.

Posted by anon 2005-10-18 02:47|| 2005-10-18 02:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep in mind that all of the ppl who become dependent on the JuD's good will are likely to remain such for the immediate future. Talk about a perfect recruiting pool from which to replenish their losses.

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2005-10-18 03:06|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2005-10-18 03:06|| Front Page Top

#4 "1990 as a citizen of Indian-administered Kashmir,"15 years later and still showing welts,that must of been one hell of a beating.

Posted by raptor 2005-10-18 06:31|| 2005-10-18 06:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Now foreigners can roam almost anywhere in Pakistani-held Kashmir. The biggest revelation has been the area's chronic underdevelopment.

Revelation to whom?
Visitors from Pakistani Kashmir have viewed with surprise the medical school and engineering colleges in Indian Kashmir (something their diet of pakistani TV does not show). There was nothing like this in Pakistani controlled areas.

It is no surprise that the pakistani praetorian state does not spend on development. The army preceeded the existence of the state itself and takes precedence in the line for funds.

Posted by john 2005-10-18 06:33|| 2005-10-18 06:33|| Front Page Top

#6 the Boston Globe is only too happy to promote their cheap, propaganda fund raising effort

Boston funded the IRA, too. It's in the liberal blood.

Posted by Floluse Slomort3781 2005-10-18 07:24|| 2005-10-18 07:24|| Front Page Top

#7 "1990 as a citizen of Indian-administered Kashmir,"15 years later and still showing welts,that must of been one hell of a beating.

Good catch. Will reporters swallow anything?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-18 07:30|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-18 07:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Will reporters swallow anything?

Once you get over the gag reflex, it's easy!

Posted by Raj 2005-10-18 09:31|| 2005-10-18 09:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Once you get over the gag reflex

Silly, that's what makes us professionals.

Posted by Nina Totenberg 2005-10-18 14:13|| 2005-10-18 14:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Among the extremists who survived, some have turned to charity.

That's what happens when your main talent is killing people and most of them happen to be dead already.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-18 14:42|| 2005-10-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Al Qaeda supporters were bought in the first place because Binny funded these poor tribes. USAID is the best diplomatic tool we have in Kashmir. What a hoot to think they even accepted Israeli aid, although it had to be disguised through a third party.

Posted by Danielle 2005-10-18 16:38|| 2005-10-18 16:38|| Front Page Top

#12 "1990 as a citizen of Indian-administered Kashmir,"15 years later and still showing welts,that must of been one hell of a beating.

Pakistan has regular tours of "refugee camps" where "oppressed" Kashmiris recount their woes to foreign reporters.

One visit had a few Indian reporters. One woman related her sad tale of woe, telling of rape by Indian soldiers. The press dutifully recorded this.
Then the Indian asked, in Kashmiri language, for more details. She had been speaking in Urdu, with an english translator. There was confusion as the Pakistan army handlers realized the game was up.

They made up an excuse saying the woman could not bear to speak Kashmiri because it reminded her of her oppression. The Indian reporter then asked if it was Indian Kashmiri soldiers? The J+K regiment?
Most of their units are not even posted in Kashmir.
The interview was abruptly ended as the woman was "tired".

Posted by john 2005-10-18 17:22|| 2005-10-18 17:22|| Front Page Top

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