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2011-09-28 India-Pakistan

Haqqani was 'blue-eyed boy' of CIA: Khar

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 **** cough **** since childhood **** cough ****...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-09-28 00:22|| 2011-09-28 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 True like Bin Laden was definitely not in Pakistan and your military is clean as a whistle.

Posted by Creregum Glolump8403 2011-09-28 04:55|| 2011-09-28 04:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The proper term is "fair-haired boy". Then again, the Pak Foreign Ministry gets a lot of things wrong.

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-28 14:34|| 2011-09-28 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Pappy, it depends which side of the pond one,s Engish comes from, to wit

a blue-eyed boy (British & Australian) also a fair-haired boy (American & Australian)a man who is liked and admired by someone in authority He was very much the blue-eyed boy in the office.
See also: boy
Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-28 23:46|| 2011-09-28 23:46|| Front Page Top

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