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2020-03-07 India-Pakistan
Pakistan is hit by its worst locust plague in 30 years: Insect swarms DECIMATE entire harvests as country declares nationwide emergency
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-07 02:08|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 They shouldn't have raped and enslaved poor christian girls and sold them to chinese men.

No one gets away... from GAWD !!
Posted by Dron66046 2020-03-07 04:53||   2020-03-07 04:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Pakistan has no money — as I recall, their budget is divided between the army and servicing their debt — so how will they pay for food?
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-07 05:28||   2020-03-07 05:28|| Front Page Top

#3 ^They'll beg/extort it from guess who?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-07 05:34||   2020-03-07 05:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Two thirds of the Pakistani Federal revenue goes to service interest payments on debts. The other third goes to military spending. This year like last, the spending on these two items is greater than revenue. Payment of pensions is in the civilian budget but 76% of pensions go to retired military. Those pension payments are equivalent to more than a third of revenue. So Pakistani liabilities exceed revenue. The entire budget is basically being met by borrowing.
Posted by John Frum 2020-03-07 06:24||   2020-03-07 06:24|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Could there be others employing a similar economic model? Asking for a friend.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-07 06:37||   2020-03-07 06:37|| Front Page Top

#6 
Posted by Angolet Thaviger4137 2020-03-07 07:47||   2020-03-07 07:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Welcome to the wonders of famine and ruin!
Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-07 10:22||   2020-03-07 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 It’s Old Testament again:

Plagues, locusts, droughts, floods, dogs and cats living together.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-03-07 11:08||   2020-03-07 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 "We don't need food. We got Islam!"
Posted by Frank G 2020-03-07 11:12||   2020-03-07 11:12|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't think DECIMATE means what they think it means.
Pakistan lost 1/10th of their crop? So what?
Posted by DonM  2020-03-07 11:55||   2020-03-07 11:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Terrorizing the christian community, raping and abducting their daughters can't have gone down well with GaWD.

So far, they don't have the capacity for quarantine, checks and testing; so there's no telling how many people are infected by the coronavirus either.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-03-07 12:22||   2020-03-07 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Trade them food for nukes. If they don't wanna do it then let them starve.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-07 14:06||   2020-03-07 14:06|| Front Page Top

#13 A record hajj would take care of this problem.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-07 14:54||   2020-03-07 14:54|| Front Page Top

#14 How bout some genetically engineered locusts that especially like poppies and qat?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-07 15:07||   2020-03-07 15:07|| Front Page Top

#15 Trade them food for nukes. If they don't wanna do it then let them starve.

Ah, the Panmunjom strategy?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-07 20:04||   2020-03-07 20:04|| Front Page Top

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