Latest News and Pak

I have been following the news lately and God!

If they really want to end terrorism then why are they just dancing to the tune of NO PROOF all the time?

One fine day some Pakistani Official, that even includes Zardari and Nawaz Sharief, says yes Pakistani hand is involved and the next day when LeT points its guns towards these "GENTLEMEN" they again start singing NO PROOF NO PROOF. And then they claim it to be communication error.
Are all people in Pakistan Deaf and Dumb and Blind?

And Kasav seeking for legal help and Pakistan is not even accepting him as a Pakistani notional.
How the hell do we prove his nationality. What do we do if he wasn't a registered voter there. The least we could have done was to look for his passport. But damn! when do these Pakistanis even come on legal passports and visas. Some times they infiltrate from Indo-Pak border. Some times from Bangladesh border. And most of the times on fake passports and forged documents.

Pakistani government has some of the best magicians in the world:
Day1: Masood Azhar under house arrest
Day2: He was never put under house arrest
Day3: He was never there in Pakistan!

Have you heard the latest:

Ind refused to send its cricket team to Pak so the Pakistanis have decided not to send the hockey and Squash teams to India citing security concerns...LOLZ ...Yea, we are so desperate to have the Pakistani HOCKEY and SQUASH team here.
I bet the Pakistan sports official are well aware that India is way safer than Pakistan.

Another One:
Sri Lankan team refuses to tour Pak saying it is expressing solidarity towards its friend India. Now Pakistan can play T20 hosted by Dawood Ibrahim.

I wonder till when can Pakistan keep singing its tune of NO PROOF, when the whole world knows that "All the roads of terrorism leads to Pakistan".
I swear there is no place on this earth more irritating than our very own neighbors (unfortunately).
Like this one US official had mentioned Pakistan as an international migraine...LOLZ

Calling All Pakistanis

This article was published in New York Times. What i really like about this is the manner in which questions and suggestions are put forward to Pakistanis. The article is by Thomas L. Friedman.

"On Feb. 6, 2006, three Pakistanis died in Peshawar and Lahore during violent street protests against Danish cartoons that had satirized the Prophet Muhammad. More such mass protests followed weeks later. When Pakistanis and other Muslims are willing to take to the streets, even suffer death, to protest an insulting cartoon published in Denmark, is it fair to ask: Who in the Muslim world, who in Pakistan, is ready to take to the streets to protest the mass murders of real people, not cartoon characters, right next door in Mumbai?

After all, if 10 young Indians from a splinter wing of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party traveled by boat to Pakistan, shot up two hotels in Karachi and the central train station, killed at least 173 people, and then, for good measure, murdered the imam and his wife at a Saudi-financed mosque while they were cradling their 2-year-old son — purely because they were Sunni Muslims — where would we be today? The entire Muslim world would be aflame and in the streets.

So what can we expect from Pakistan and the wider Muslim world after Mumbai? India says its interrogation of the surviving terrorist indicates that all 10 men come from the Pakistani port of Karachi, and at least one, if not all 10, were Pakistani nationals.

First of all, it seems to me that the Pakistani government, which is extremely weak to begin with, has been taking this mass murder very seriously, and, for now, no official connection between the terrorists and elements of the Pakistani security services has been uncovered.

At the same time, any reading of the Pakistani English-language press reveals Pakistani voices expressing real anguish and horror over this incident. Take for instance the Inter Press Service news agency article of Nov. 29 from Karachi: “ ‘I feel a great fear that [the Mumbai violence] will adversely affect Pakistan and India relations,’ the prominent Karachi-based feminist poet and writer Attiya Dawood told I.P.S. ‘I can’t say whether Pakistan is involved or not, but whoever is involved, it is not the ordinary people of Pakistan, like myself, or my daughters. We are with our Indian brothers and sisters in their pain and sorrow.’ ”

But while the Pakistani government’s sober response is important, and the sincere expressions of outrage by individual Pakistanis are critical, I am still hoping for more. I am still hoping — just once — for that mass demonstration of “ordinary people” against the Mumbai bombers, not for my sake, not for India’s sake, but for Pakistan’s sake.

Why? Because it takes a village. The best defense against this kind of murderous violence is to limit the pool of recruits, and the only way to do that is for the home society to isolate, condemn and denounce publicly and repeatedly the murderers — and not amplify, ignore, glorify, justify or “explain” their activities.

Sure, better intelligence is important. And, yes, better SWAT teams are critical to defeating the perpetrators quickly before they can do much damage. But at the end of the day, terrorists often are just acting on what they sense the majority really wants but doesn’t dare do or say. That is why the most powerful deterrent to their behavior is when the community as a whole says: “No more. What you have done in murdering defenseless men, women and children has brought shame on us and on you.”

Why should Pakistanis do that? Because you can’t have a healthy society that tolerates in any way its own sons going into a modern city, anywhere, and just murdering everyone in sight — including some 40 other Muslims — in a suicide-murder operation, without even bothering to leave a note. Because the act was their note, and destroying just to destroy was their goal. If you do that with enemies abroad, you will do that with enemies at home and destroy your own society in the process.

“I often make the comparison to Catholics during the pedophile priest scandal,” a Muslim woman friend wrote me. “Those Catholics that left the church or spoke out against the church were not trying to prove to anyone that they are anti-pedophile. Nor were they apologizing for Catholics, or trying to make the point that this is not Catholicism to the non-Catholic world. They spoke out because they wanted to influence the church. They wanted to fix a terrible problem” in their own religious community.

We know from the Danish cartoons affair that Pakistanis and other Muslims know how to mobilize quickly to express their heartfelt feelings, not just as individuals, but as a powerful collective. That is what is needed here.

Because, I repeat, this kind of murderous violence only stops when the village — all the good people in Pakistan, including the community elders and spiritual leaders who want a decent future for their country — declares, as a collective, that those who carry out such murders are shameful unbelievers who will not dance with virgins in heaven but burn in hell. And they do it with the same vehemence with which they denounce Danish cartoons."

Pakistan, do you think we are fools?

There are some questions in my mind today. I want to know who Pakistan thinks they are trying to fool? Themselves?

Yesterday night i was watching Times Now when this particular former chief of some Important organization or something was brought live on the channel. The newsreader asks him about about ISI and ex-army men of Pakistan training terrorists. He clearly denies any role of ISI and says Let is banned in Pakistan so Pakistan is not involved in the terror attacks. The newsreader then asks him "WHERE DOES LeT OPERATE FROM?". The answer "LeT IS BANNED IN PAKISTAN". Once again "WHERE DOES LeT OPERATE FROM?" The answer "LeT is banned in Pakistan". So "WHAT THE F**K DO I DO IF LeT IS BAN IN PAKISTAN??. Let that go to hell, but yes" LeT OPERATES IN PAKISTAN" . The whole world knows this FACT.That former chief of something knows this FACT very well and must be saying, "LeT OPERATES IN PAKISTAN BUT WHAT DO WE DO OUR HANDS ARE TIED DOWN."

Another question put forward by the newsreader is that " if 10 young Indians from Mumbai traveled by boat to Pakistan, shot up two hotels in Karachi and the central train station, killed at least 173 people, and then, for good measure, murdered the imam and his wife at a Saudi-financed mosque while they were cradling their 2-year-old son — purely because they were Sunni Muslims — where would we be today?

The man tongue tied, talks about terrorism being No. 1 problem in his own country and other crap. Another question remains unanswered.

I want to know that "When the Indian government had asked Pak to send its ISI chief to India it sent across an official confirmation that it would. But why was that U-turn later on from Zardari?".
"If Pakistan really wants to fight terrorism why is it not cooperating?"

When Zardari was on Larry King Live he said that he will not handover the most wanted terrorists that India had listed. "I seriously think that while he was saying that at the camera there must be 5-10 people pointing guns at him".

" Pakistan says that if India gives proof against the terrorists listed they will be tried in Pakistan courts and sentenced." HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA for this should be the " JOKE OF THE CENTURY ". Yea right. We believe you.

Pakistan talks bullshit like this and wants us to believe them when the whole world knows that Dawood Ibrahim lives in Karachi and has full support of the government as well as the ISI. It is a well known fact that Dawood is wanted for zillions of crimes, attacks, murders, bombings, drug smuggling, kidnapping and what not. And Pakistan asks for proof against Dawood.
When the Indian Intelligence agencies came to know about Abu Salem in Portugal along with his girlfriend. They were supportive. They allowed the Indian agencies there. Do you know why? Because their country is not controlled by insane people. It is clear from Pakistan's attitude that it is not interested in supporting India in a real way. The only thing they know is to give fake promises. Pakistan, we know you well. We've had enough of you since 1947. Those words might please the US but not us.

I remember reading somewhere that this person had predicted that World War III would start due conflicts between India and Pakistan. I so hope this is not true. The thought of it is so scary. God save this world. I am hoping for a miracle to happen. Waiting for the day when happiness, peace and prosperity will rule every country in the world.

PEACE FOR ALL!!!

Why They Hate Mumbai

I picked this article from the opinion section of the times of India. Referring to the recent Mumbai attacks, the author, Suketu Mehta, a professor of journalism at New York University gives his political opinion along with his nostalgia attached to Mumbai.


"My bleeding city. My poor great bleeding heart of a city. Why do they go after Mumbai? There’s something about this island-state that appals religious extremists, Hindus and Muslims alike. Perhaps because Mumbai stands for lucre, profane dreams and an indiscriminate openness.

Mumbai is all about dhandha , or transaction. From the street food vendor squatting on a sidewalk, fiercely guarding his little business, to the tycoons and their dreams of acquiring Hollywood, this city understands money and has no guilt about the getting and spending of it. I once asked a Muslim man living in a shack without indoor plumbing what kept him in the city. “Mumbai is a golden songbird,” he said. It flies quick and sly, and you’ll have to work hard to catch it, but if you do, a fabulous fortune will open up for you. The executives who congregated in the Taj Mahal hotel were chasing this golden songbird. The terrorists want to kill the songbird.

Just as cinema is a mass dream of the audience, Mumbai is a mass dream of the peoples of South Asia. Bollywood movies are the most popular form of entertainment across the subcontinent. Through them, every Pakistani and Bangladeshi is familiar with the wedding-cake architecture of the Taj and the arc of the Gateway of India, symbols of the city that gives the industry its name.

Mumbai is a “soft target”, the terrorism analysts say. Anybody can walk into the hotels, the hospitals, the train stations, and start spraying with a machine gun. Where are the metal detectors, the random bag checks? In Mumbai, it’s impossible to control the crowd. In other cities, if there’s an explosion, people run away from it. In Mumbai, people run towards it — to help.

I grew up in a Bombay where your religion was a personal eccentricity, like a hairstyle. In my school, you were denominated by which cricketer or Bollywood star you worshipped, not which prophet. In today’s Mumbai, things have changed. Hindu and Muslim demagogues want the mobs to come out again in the streets, and slaughter one another in the name of God. They want India and Pakistan to go to war. They want Indian Muslims to be expelled.

They want India to get out of Kashmir. They want mosques torn down. They want temples bombed. And now it looks as if the latest terrorists were our neighbours, young men dressed not in Afghan tunics but in blue jeans and designer T-shirts. Being South Asian, they would have grown up watching the painted lady that is Mumbai in the movies: a city of flashy cars and flashier women. A pleasure-loving city, a sensual city. Everything that preachers of every religion thunder against.

In 1993, Hindu mobs burned people alive in the streets — for the crime of being Muslim in Mumbai. Now these young Muslim men murdered people in front of their families — for the crime of visiting Mumbai. They attacked the luxury businessmen’s hotels. They attacked the open-air Cafe Leopold, where backpackers of the world refresh themselves with cheap beer out of three-foot-high towers before heading out into India. Their drunken revelry, their shameless flirting, must have offended the righteous believers in the jihad. They attacked the train station everyone calls VT, the terminus for runaways and dreamers from all across India.

The terrorists’ message was clear: Stay away from Mumbai or you will get killed. But the best answer to the terrorists is to dream bigger, make even more money, and visit Mumbai more than ever. If the rest of the world wants to help, it should run towards the explosion. It should fly to Mumbai, and spend money. Where else are you going to be safe? New York? London? Madrid?

I’m booking flights to Mumbai. I’m going to go get a beer at the Leopold, stroll over to the Taj for samosas at the Sea Lounge and watch a Bollywood movie at the Metro. Stimulus doesn’t have to be just economic. "

Imagine if there is no religion....

" Imagine there's no heaven,It's easy if you try,No hell below us,Above us only sky,Imagine all the people living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,It isn't hard to do,Nothing to kill or die for,No religion too,Imagine all the people living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer,but I'm not the only one,I hope some day you'll join us,And the world will be as one.
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can "

...these are of course the lines from the song "Imagine" by the Beatles.Extremely disheartened by the current state of national and international affairs, i was wondering the value that this song holds today. It does hold a lot of value and makes a lot of sense at this moment. You might say that it is completely baseless and doesn't make sense at all, still lets try to imagine it for once.

When you want to know where you stand today the best possible way would be by taking a look at the past. Talking about the past and the way religious differences have altered the course of history is very significant. If we take a look at the terror activities, riots and other menaces in India, say, the '93 Mumbai blasts, the Varanasi blasts at Sankat Mochan, bombing in Malegaon mosque in 2006 to cite a few, we come to one conclusion. 'Religion' is the big word here. The root cause for all these unfortunate incidences. Moving out of India, let's consider the 9/11 tragedy which created anti-Islam feelings amongst millions of people around the world. It was the 9/11 attacks that actually shook the world and made terrorism a global issue.

The innumerable bombings and suicide bombings in Pakistan and India and a couple of them in Britain too add up to the numbers. What the sad part is that these terrorists believe they are doing good deeds! Deeds which even maulvis and Muslim leaders severely condemn. Coming to the more recent times, the Amarnath land row was a big issue. The cultural clashes which led to bandhs, riots, violence, and curfews. The latest to make it to the breaking news is the Church violence starting off in Kandhamal in Orissa and catching up with the rest of the country too. The attacks on churches is just sad. It has given India( which is well known...(or should i say 'was') for religious tolerance since centuries) a bad name. And the government is freaked out and doesn't know what to do! I almost forgot to mention Hitler's hatred towards Jews which made his name synonymous with cruelty. What a pity! So much has happened on the name of religion.

Now, what if religions are abolished? I mean why don't we just remove the virus from the system? I am not saying people should turn atheist. There could be one common religion for the whole world. A 'new' religion which would be based on modern ideologies and thoughts and would be free from all forms of superstitions and unnecessary practices. From the many reasons which lead to tension and communal imbalance at least one could be eliminated from the list. Religion being one of the reasons for more than half of communal violence in many countries, we could expect less of these violence. It would lead to peace and feeling of oneness. People of a country could come together with their culture. Agreed religion is one of the most important aspects of a culture but then there is more to a culture. Like they say, to gain something you lose something, which is so apt here. If you can sacrifice something for good then, why not?

I wonder if this can ever be possible. The end of religion and religion based violence both seem impossible to ever happen. But anyways, it was just a passing thought. What say?