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Economy
High petrol prices and very short memories
Video: When Bush was in office Dems screamed bloody murder over high gas prices...
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/26/2012 08:27 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Hatching evil
[Dawn] The weather in Karachi changed rather suddenly last week when instead of getting warmer, it actually reversed and became chilly. Of course, as usual the weather experts had all those typical explanations to offer, sighting high pressure there that generated dust and cold winds here and all that.

But the truth lies somewhere else. It was HAARP! The United States' High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program -- an ionospheric research programme jointly funded by the US Air Force, the Navy, the University of Alaska, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Kilingon High Command.

Yes, the same programme that caused the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the 2011 Japanese earthquake and the 2011 Imran Khan tsunami.

Before you dismiss me as being some conspiracy nut job, consider this: It was people like me who were the first to suggest that there were Blackwater agents roaming in Pakistan, that the Americans were using drones in Waziristan and that the earth was actually flat and hollow.

People laughed at people like me but not all people but only people serving the interests of people trying to break up Pakistan and its people and turn them all from being true keepers of the faith and patriotism to becoming liberal scum, so you see, people, what kind of people I am talking about, even though you are not that kind of people, are you, people?

Now also consider this: I have on purpose used the word people over and over again in the preceding paragraph. Count the times I used this word. Nine times. Now divide 9 with 777 and then multiply the resultant number with 365 and you'll get the figure of 666. If you didn't get this number then you are liberal scum. If you did, then welcome to reality. And that is: Lucifer is in control of the United Nations.

I'm sure some of you must be squirming and itching to ridicule me, but remember it was I who first suggested that the CIA was using fake polio vaccination campaigns in FATA to gather intelligence in the area, that Husain Haqqani was working against the interest of Pakistan and that man never walked on the moon. It was an elaborate hoax.

It is a conspiracy to label men like me as conspiracy nuts because the powers that be want to hide the truth from the masses, a truth, rather truths, that can expose the large, all encompassing conspiracies that the powers that be are conspiring to implement for world domination through so-called elected governments, the media and nano genetic implants in our heads that are mixed into our branded mineral water by the powers that be through multinational corporations, secular political parties, NGOs and the leading cast of Hamsafar.

And did I mention all this was being done by the powers that be? I did. Thrice. Now multiply 3 by 5 then divide by 2; multiply the resultant number with 6, divide it by 9 and add 77. You'll get 666 again. Make sure you use a halal pencil while doing the adding and multiplying, or if you're using a calculator, make sure it's a local brand and not a Zionist one.

Because then the calculator is likely to blow in your face and the powers that be will blame the explosion on the Taliban who really do not exist but when they do they are actually a non-Muslim race of Reptilian people working for the CIA, RAW, Mossad and Nana Patekar to balkanise Pakistan and sell all of (true) Muslim population as slaves to the makers of a certain fruit juice residing on the island of Atlantis that does not exist in the Atlantic Ocean but somewhere in the Arabian Sea. I know this because I can speak and understand Arabic fluently.

In fact, all Pakistanis should be able to understand and speak Arabic fluently. It is a conspiracy by the powers that be who are bosses of the powers that be that I was talking about earlier that instead of Arabic, Pakistanis were made to learn to speak regional languages, such as Sindhi, Balochi, Pashto and Saraiki.

These languages were taught to us by Hindu baniyas and tyrants who ruled over us before Muhammad bin Qasim came to our rescue on 14th August 711 AD and created the Islamic Arabic Emirates of Bakistan.

Now look what the liberal scum want to do. They want to rearrange our history textbooks and fill them up with lies like Qasim Shaheed was not the first Pakistani and that Imran Khan is not a tsunami. People like me have struggled hard to fight the conspiracies of the liberal scum present in some sections of the Pakistani media.

But thanks to support and backing of gallant and pious institutions like Fauji Fertiliser and Fauji Cornflakes, and renowned scholars and profound intellectuals like doctor (both medical as well as academic), engineer (both Chinese as well as Islamic) and all round hunk, Zaid Hamid, Hakeem Ali Azmat and Austin Powers, the people of Pakistan are waking up to the deep conspiracies being hatched by the powers that be and the Powerpuff Girls to discredit Pakistan's armed forces and make Switzerland's Israeli Francophile Vatican-backed banking system to continue funding local Freemasons like Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif and make decent Muslim Pakistani women pose nude on the covers of Anglo-Indian-Angelo-Mathews fashion magazines with 'Pasha Baby' tattooed on their arms.

Think about it. What more proof do you need? Now, coming back to the changing weather conditions in Karachi and HAARP...
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Before you dismiss me as being some conspiracy nut job,

Anyone who misspells Klingon is a nutjob...
Posted by: Raj || 03/26/2012 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  One hopes the writer was trying to be funny.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2012 12:24 Comments || Top||

#3  I give up. When it comes to Pakistain, I can't tell zany, lunatic satire from zany, lunatic business as usual. Although, I suppose the lack of death threats, overt or implied, might be a hint.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/26/2012 13:57 Comments || Top||

#4  FRED! Ok, you win with this one. And I thought climate change was fictional. Turns out its not, just yet another USA plot to do things like huricanes on its own soil. The question is --does this guy get the right to vote --anywhere?
Posted by: Northern Cousin || 03/26/2012 18:06 Comments || Top||

#5  To paraphrase "The Fifth Element":

What good is learning English when this is what you do with it?
Posted by: Gabby Cussworth || 03/26/2012 18:10 Comments || Top||

#6  *falls off chair -- twice*
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/26/2012 19:16 Comments || Top||


The case of JuD
[Dawn] THERE is substantive evidence to suggest that Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) is gaining ground in Pakistain. Irrespective of the causes, the rise of the group from within a relatively smaller religious sect and its ability to create an immense impact both on public and policy discourse in Pakistain is considered by its associates as a great 'triumph'.

Having conceived its objectives in a narrow sectarian and anti-democratic perspective, the JuD is now struggling to adjust itself as an important player in the country's religious-political landscape.

During the last one decade or so, it has launched and led many mass movements: a campaign against the Prophet's (PTUI!) images by a Danish cartoonist; countrywide protests against the Iraq war; Tehrik Hurmat-e-Rasool (in reaction to the desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo some years ago); a movement against the women's protection bill; and the pro-Soddy Arabia campaign in the context of Riyadh's role following the unrest in Bahrain. The group is now among the leading members of the Difaa-e-Pakistain Council (DPC).

Once the Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JI) had the ability to mobilise the immense mass movements and its participation in any religious and political agitation was considered the key to success but now the JuD has taken over the role. One reason could be that the JuD has built its organizational structure on the pattern of the JI. Also, the top leadership of the group has served in the JI. Is it a sign of transformation of a hard-core thug organization into a mainstream religious political party? Is the JuD following a pattern similar to that of Hezbullies and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,?

It can be discerned from the recent history of radical and thug organizations that when the infrastructure of one among such organizations expanded on a large scale, the group's stakes grew in the same system it had been opposing previously.

Contrary to this, thug groups that failed to develop their organizational infrastructure were subjected to divisions and became more violent. The JuD has succeeded over time in diversifying its infrastructure and resources, employing the strategy of social delivery programmes and exploiting contemporary religious and political issues.

At the same time, despite internal and external pressures, it has succeeded in keeping its thug network the Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) intact. Many thug groups in Pakistain, contemporaries of the JuD, could not diversify their ideological and physical resources and ultimately faced erosion within their organizational structures. Their breakaway factions got involved in terrorism inside the country, which forced them to limit their links with them and remain underground.

Nevertheless, the JuD is on the surface and owns a solid and stretched-out infrastructure inside Pakistain which includes more than 300 offices, mosques and madressahs. The group has set up many commercial ventures including more than 400 English-medium schools, colleges, transportation companies, residential projects and media groups and has acquired farmland on a large scale.

Its charity wing has one of the biggest fleet of ambulances in the country, seven hospitals and more than 200 health centres.

The group has the second largest charity network in Pakistain after Maymar Trust, formally known as Al-Rashid Trust. This means that the JuD cannot afford any confrontation with the state that could force it to abandon its activities in the country.

In the beginning, the JuD's ideological discourse was built on an extremely narrow sectarian agenda of spreading hatred against the Shia and Barelvi communities, as reflected in its earlier publications. But after 9/11, it adopted a reconciliatory approach and invited opposing sects to its platform to 'wage a joint struggle for a common cause'.

The approach worked and not only the JuD but the Ahle Hadith school of thought too gained ground in public and religious discourses. The JuD even struck roots in the Hindu-dominated districts of Sindh, where more numbers among the local population were seen to embrace Islam.

It must be a good feeling among JuD's brothers in Soddy Arabia and other Gulf states that the thug group has had a significant impact on Pakistain where these countries had been spending enormous resources on promoting their orthodox school of thought for decades, but had failed to attract the Sunni majority.Is JuD's active participation in political rallies and membership of an alliance of political parties and individuals a sign that the group has ambitions to move towards electoral politics? Though their rejection of democracy was one of the prime objectives behind the establishment of the JuD, the group leadership appears to have changed tack.

It seems that the group has the willingness to participate in electoral politics but is concerned about the absence of an electoral support base. Nevertheless, JuD members had contested local bodies elections in their individual capacity and supported different candidates in previous general elections. The JuD's taking part in electoral politics would be an interesting phenomenon for political scientists to see how a thug group had completed its lifecycle in Pakistain.

The JuD still believes in achieving its goal through the use of violence but it is becoming extremely cautious in its sociopolitical rhetoric. Although it has not yet abandoned ties with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) it avoids admitting its links with it at a public level.

It may not be because of any fear of public reaction but mainly to avoid external pressure. There is a dissident voice also in the organization that this indifferent policy towards LeT could lead towards complete detachment from it.

The assessment of JuD's probable political transformation is only relevant if the group is considered as an independent entity with no links to and patronisation from any quarter of the establishment.

Certainly, establishments use non-state actors for their legitimate and illegitimate purposes, but non-state actors gradually become independent and it becomes difficult for the establishments to control them as it happened in the case of many thug
organizations in Pakistain which were created in Afghanistan and Kashmire but later turned against the state.

For instance, Ilyas Kashmiri, once an asset, rebelled and dealt a blow to the security forces. He was considered the criminal mastermind behind some major attacks on security forces in Pakistain.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336084 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba

#1  The guys in the picture are JuD in disguise.
Posted by: Penguin || 03/26/2012 22:46 Comments || Top||


Lyari's misery
[Dawn] UNREST has reigned in parts of Bloody Karachi's
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
locality for the past several days as police and protesters have fought pitched battles on its congested streets. The trouble started last Sunday when a leader of the Kuchhi Rabita Committee, along with several associates, was bumped off; leaders of the banned People's Amn Committee were nominated in the murder case. Following the killings the police launched an 'operation' in the area, though some Lyari residents claim the police's actions are 'one-sided'. There is an element of ethnic rivalry in the feud between the KRC and the Baloch-dominated PAC, while the tussle has a political element as well: the PAC is said to have the backing of some elements of the PPP while the KRC allegedly enjoys the support of the MQM. There is also reported rivalry among supporters of the PPP in Lyari; the area is one of the party's few political strongholds in Bloody Karachi. But perhaps the biggest cause of violence in Lyari -- one of Bloody Karachi's oldest localities -- is the struggle between different groups for control of the extortion, drug and gambling rackets that thrive in this working-class area.

Law and order in Lyari has been worsening for the last decade. While criminal elements have destroyed its social fabric, the state has also largely neglected the locality. Even though some civic projects have been carried out over the past few years, a precarious law and order situation renders such gains useless. While action against criminals is needed across Bloody Karachi, it must be concentrated on eliminating illegal activities in Lyari. A complementary plan also needs to be drawn up for the socio-economic uplift of the locality, particularly to ensure that Lyari's youth don't fall into the clutches of criminal gangs. The state, particularly the PPP, needs to act now to end Lyari's perpetual misery.
Posted by: Fred || 03/26/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


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