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2010-09-08 India-Pakistan

Flood victims to get cash grants soon, says Gilani

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
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#1 Please hurry with your donations for the rebuilding of our roads, bridges, transportation and explosives manufacturing infrastructure. We have surrogate partners in Afghanistan to support and time is running out.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-08 05:37|| 2010-09-08 05:37|| Front Page Top

#2 There's one other thing that bothere me Besoeker. What are they going to spend their money on? They have insurance or systems to rebuild lost or damage property? Not. I guess they need the cash to send for more Russian arms since they probably lost a good number of caches.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-09-08 06:15|| 2010-09-08 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 PS: Or would that be Chinese arms these days, or both?

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-09-08 06:16|| 2010-09-08 06:16|| Front Page Top

#4 There used to be a nice little (not so little, really) gun manufacturing industry in Peshawar... Or so I've heard -- lots of little machine shops making whatever one could possibly want in the way of kinetic bullet pushers.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-08 17:48|| 2010-09-08 17:48|| Front Page Top

#5 There used to be a nice little (not so little, really) gun manufacturing industry in Peshawar... Or so I've heard -- lots of little machine shops making whatever one could possibly want in the way of kinetic bullet pushers.

The real shame of it is, they aren't stupid people. They're smart people grouped together into a very very stupid society. The whole is much less than the sum of its parts.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-09-08 18:52|| 2010-09-08 18:52|| Front Page Top

#6 PAK CAHS GRANTS

versus

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [500,000 Tonnes]SEED LOSSES THREATEN PAKISTAN 2011 WHEAT HARVEST. PAK, Asian floods have caused the loss of vital seeds + heavily water-damaged much arable land. PAK ALSO THREATENED BY INABILITY TO FEED MILYUHNS + DILYUHNS OF IMPORTANT FARM ANIMALS USED FOR FOOD, CLOTHING, ANDOR CHEAP SOURCES OF FARM POWER.

AND

* SAME > PAKISTAN FINANCE MINISTER: PAKISTAN TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF A COMPLETE ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN. The recent Floods may be the Catalyst, the proverbial "Straw which broke the Camel's Back", since the Pak Economy was allegedly already at high risk of breakdown before the Floods even began???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-09-08 22:59|| 2010-09-08 22:59|| Front Page Top

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