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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Indian Militancy and its Blame Game

in response to a few indians who claim india to have never played a role in insurgency???

see
"The Indian diplomat G. Parathasarathy admitted supporting terrorism in Sri Lanka. He synically recorded his confession “We have learnt our lesson” for backing the terrorist and that “India paid it price for backing the LTTE“. India has not paid a price for the atrocities committed by the LTTE. It needs to pay the price and call the dogs of war off. India is not doing that."
http://rupeenews.com/2008/07/26/india-admits-to-supporting-ltte-terroists-in-sri-lanka-pakistan-to-continue-to-help-lanka-crush-the-tamil-tigers/

and this
"In one of the biggest defeats of Indian foreign policy since it was thrown out of Sri Lanka, the Indian Intelligence services that supported the Indian based Tamil Tigers face imminent annihilation. President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka has reasons to be optimistic. The international rules of the game have changed. India in the 80s wanted to impose a Cypriot like bifurcation of Sri Lanka an Indian beached for the Tamils which would allow India influence to extend to Colombo. Nothing less than total capitulation to New Delhi was acceptable. In 2008 China is building a port in Sri Lanka. Pakistan is supply arms to the legal government of Sri Lanka that happens to be Sinhalese. These arms have had a tremendous impact on the Sri Lankan civil war, and Pakistanis will stand on the podium along with the Sri Lankan brothers and sisters to celebrate the victory of the unification of the island and defeat of Indian imperialism"

http://www.zimbio.com/pilot?ZURL=%2FWorld%2BPolitics%2Farticles%2F1466%2F911%2Btragedy%2Beverday%2BLanka%2BPakistan%2BGifts%2BIndian&URL=http%3A%2F%2Frupeenews.com%2F2008%2F06%2F18%2Fltte-was-created-by-india%2F

for those who say india have never been pakistan centric??? see
"PAKISTAN FACES A 911 every day. In the 80s, RAW, and KGB destroyed Bori Bazaar and 300 died. This week dozens were killed in the heart of the caiptal. “911″ was a tectonic event for the United States and rest of the world. The event showed the world the horrors of terror. Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangaldesh, Sikkim, China and Bhutan have been facing “911″ since 1947–the targets of Indian agression and its hegemony designs. Pakistan is portrayed the epicenter of terror, while the real terror central is New Delhi. New Dlehi has used strong arm tactics to incorporate Hydrabad, and 560 other independent states into itself. It has forced Sikkim into its union and threatens and bullies Bhutan and Bangladesh. It has unleased a full fledged civil war on Sri Lanka-supporting, arming and training the Tamil Tigers (the LTTE) and sending them to bifurcate the Buddhist island paradise called Lanka. India used the Mukti Bahni to force Dhaka away from Islamabad, and then used the Rakhi Bahni to impose a “president for life” on Bangladesh. The patriotic Bangladeshis killed Shiakh Mujibur Rehman and aboshied the “treaty of freindship” which would have incorporated Bangladesh as a province of India."
http://www.zimbio.com/World+Politics/articles/1466/911+tragedy+everday+Lanka+Pakistan+Gifts+Indian

bloody indians shld stop polluting Pakistan's image and look into ur own backyard... dude actually India has dug its own grave... they supported militants n insurgents for so long n most of them have now turned against them...
see
"Unfortunately for India, the controversial Indo-Sri Lankan Accord of July 1987 proved to be as much of a failure as India’s policy of direct intervention. The result was India’s massively assisted LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) turned on its benefactor and declared war against the Indian forces in Sri Lanka. All in all, this Indian adventure killed 60,000 men, women and children and forced the Indians to withdraw their forces without successfully completing their mission. The price has been steep for both India and Sri Lanka and even today Sri Lanka is paying the price for this Indian-initiated and RAW inspired polarised conflict. The extent of RAW’s role in this affair has been painstakingly documented by Gunaratna in his book on the Indian intervention."
http://rupeenews.com/2008/06/26/raw-the-rascal/

Currently there are militants movements going on throughout india. India has around 600 districts out of which more than 200 districts have their sepratist movements. Every year thousand of people die in india in result of clashes between these movements and indian government. None of these movement has any link to PAkistan.

india has so many terrorist movements in their homeland and still they are blaming on Pakistan without having any evidence.

india shys away from the responsibility by blaming pakistan... since this seems an easier option :)

has the indian economic growth been able to provide enough food and shelter to the ppl of india??? A Big NO!!! indian poor is poorer than pakistani poor... go check any stats...

it is just the matter of time now... indian militants will soon fight each other like hell.... they'll kill each other soon, pakistani agencies need not do anything against them...

Saturday, November 29, 2008

“911″ tragedy everday for Lanka & Pakistan: Gifts from Indian RAW

PAKISTAN FACES A 911 every day. In the 80s, RAW, and KGB destroyed Bori Bazaar and 300 died. This week dozens were killed in the heart of the caiptal. “911″ was a tectonic event for the United States and rest of the world. The event showed the world the horrors of terror. Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangaldesh, Sikkim, China and Bhutan have been facing “911″ since 1947–the targets of Indian agression and its hegemony designs. Pakistan is portrayed the epicenter of terror, while the real terror central is New Delhi. New Dlehi has used strong arm tactics to incorporate Hydrabad, and 560 other independent states into itself. It has forced Sikkim into its union and threatens and bullies Bhutan and Bangladesh. It has unleased a full fledged civil war on Sri Lanka-supporting, arming and training the Tamil Tigers (the LTTE) and sending them to bifurcate the Buddhist island paradise called Lanka. India used the Mukti Bahni to force Dhaka away from Islamabad, and then used the Rakhi Bahni to impose a “president for life” on Bangladesh. The patriotic Bangladeshis killed Shiakh Mujibur Rehman and aboshied the “treaty of freindship” which would have incorporated Bangladesh as a province of India.

Pakistan today is the target of Indian agression. Pakistan is the one that got away. Pakistan’s nuclear weapons forced India to treat after maassing 250,000 soldiers on its borders. The encroachment on Pakistan continues. India used a forged article of accession and took over Kashmir. It now claims the article of accession is lost, if it ever existed. The document shown today has wrong, incorrect dates and it would be impossible for the personalities to sign the document becuase they were not persent on the sitess to sign the document. (Read Alistair Lamb and Stanley Wolpert on this subject–also posted on http://www.rupeenews.com) Junagarh and Manvadar were Pakistani territory where the states had signed articles of accession with Pakistan. India’s agresion against Pakistan continues–it took away Kargil 9which used to be Pakistani territory ’till the 70s) and took away Siachin (which was Pakistani territory ’till the 80s) Indian Intelligence RAW: Recent 2008 strikes inside Pakistan. The Indian RAW has to be unleased and declared a terroirst outfit. It has attacked the Pakistani capital again using its proxies Bait Mehsud and the other gangs of thugs, criminals and rug barons that it supports. India intelligence: “‘the aim of RAW is to keep internal disturbances flaring up and the ISI preoccupied so that Pakistan can lend no worthwhile resistance to Indian designs in the region.” ”China’s Israel”–Pakistan has been threatened.

India RAW attacks Marriot at Islamabad

The peaceful people of the Indus Valley have been rocked by explosions by Indian operatives. In the 80s, during the Soviet occupation of Pakistan, Indian RAW, Russian KGB and the Afghan Khad had a field day in Pakistan. While Reagan was announcing “Mr. Gorbachev bring down this wall”, the USSR wsabeing gutted from the inside out in Afghanistan. Pakistan was the frontline state. As such she bore the brunt of the Soviet and Indian sabotage. 300 people died in Bori Bazar in Karachi. Islamabad Pakistan Marriot: What was the US Marine role?

On the 23rd of December Pakistan faced its 911. Indian agents brought down the Marriott. Other bobms exploded by RAW agents and their apparatchiks in 2008 are listed below.

The incredible amount of planning based on detailed “casing” (sophisticated observation, research, and analysis of traffic patterns, routes, weaknesses and strenghts) of the target, the amount of TNT and incindiary material used, the expenses incurred on accumalating the explosives, and the sophistication and planning of the attack points to state machinery and organizations like RAW which can carry out such carnage. No FATA cave dweller has the capacity to organize, plan, and execute an attack of this magnitude. This has the fingerprints of RAW all of it

The purpose of the attacks was to:

1) Demoralize the nation

2) Take revenge for the defeats in Afghanistan

3) To hide the Kashmiri problems

4) Possibly decapitate the entire parliamentary and political leaders of the country (at the party that was happening at the spot)

Indian imperialism using RAW to destabilize all neighbors. There has been the Indian angle in Baluchistan. The Indian consulattes have been using the Baluch “nationalist” terrorists to create problems for Pakistan and malign the patriotic Pakistanis. Mr. Hamid Karzai, threatened by the “talibaan” has several times issued veiled threats against Pakistan. The Red Mosque and other related matters are part of the Indian-Afghan nexus supported by other anti-Pakistan forces which may want to threaten the government in Pakistan to relieve pressure on Kabul and Srinagar Osama Bin Laden turned against his benefactors.The explosion in Islamabad is to put pressure on Pakistan by derailing the economic progress. Already the Indians have cut off the water supplies by stealing Pakistani waters from the Chenab. RAW facts on South Asia- India fails to occupy countries.

With delusions of world power, and hallucinations of absorbing all the neighboring countries (Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh) India is trying to destabilize Pakistan. India as World Power 1 Extremist Hindus show power using the Swastika in triple entendre–as an ancient Hindu symbol, reverence for Hitler and sign of Anti-Western Indian power

An exegetical examination will show that the furtive condotierri supportive of the Mesud coterie and other mercenaries has evinced shame to India. A majority of precocious humans have clearly voiced disquisitions against the doltish and vindictive votary propagating and divisively daphenous demagogy. The world has presented copious monographs against a deleterious Neocon philosophy used as an excuse to wage The New Crusades Against Islam (TNCAI).

Indian Consulates-dens of inequity in Afghanistan supporting terror in Pakistan

Red Mosque Hostages: When Freedom Fighters turn “Terrorist”. Consistant support for the mehsud Terrroists from the 4 Indian Consulates in Afghanistan has kep the Pakistan army at bay.

Taliban Statement issued on Jan. 30th, 2008. “We have been fighting for Afghanistan’s independence against foreign aggression since 2001 [when the Taliban were ousted] and the Afghan nation has a lot of hopes resting on us. That’s why they have stood with us against the foreign military might. They are not supporting us to fight with Pakistan, but to fight against the US-led NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] forces and liberate Afghanistan,” Zabihullah Mujahid said. He said the Taliban had already issued a statement disowning Baitullah on their website (http://www.alemarah.i67.org).

However a small splinter group led by Mr. Mehsud has now turned its guns on Pakistan. Why is Mr. Bait Mehsud with his new organization “Tehrik e Taliban” now attacking Pakistan? These rhetorical questions were asked for effect.

LTTE was created by India

Indian sponsored Tamil terror in Sri Lanka continues unabated

Lanka: Indian LTTE terrorists use youth as cannon fodder

Lanka Letter: RAW THE RASCAL by Prem Raj in Columbo

Pakistan Sri Lanka growing military alliance

Growing Pakistan Sri Lanka ties

The Pakistan Afghan border map

Hands off Pakistan is the slogan on the Pakistan news media. Selective amnesia of Americans. Pakistan is the most mistreated friend of America. The post Benazir era must be different. The USA has often treated Pakistan as a colony. Kissinger threatened Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto the father of Benazir said it most elequently. Pakistan first: The devastating affects of appeasing India and kowtowing to the USA. Mr. Kissinger and US policy still threatens Pakistani leaders. Perhaps Mr. Kissinger living in the 70s should face the new realities. Waving goodbye to American Hegemony.

Indian penury: The reality vs. the Bollywood marketing gloss:
India as World Power 1 Extremist Hindus show power using the Swastika in triple entendre–as an ancient Hindu symbol, reverence for Hitler and sign of Anti-Western Indian power
Superpower India Pt 2 Extremist Hindus revere Hitler and use the Swastika as the Indian flag
How long to extripate penury from india? 300 years! India’s budget– fit for a superpower

Murder of 10 million Indian girl babies:Before or right after birth. The media is silent.

Sino-Indian relationship

India Balkanizing? Naxalite insurrection widening cracks in deep cavaties
The 2nd world revolution (after Buddhism) from Nepal: Another threat to India

Pakistan is China’s “Israel”

Red Nepal: Clear and present danger to India

The Singh Doctrine Fails

The Indian RAW has to be unleased and declared a terrorist outfit. It has attacked the Pakistani capital again using its proxies Bait Mehsud and the other gangs of thugs, criminals and rug barons that it supports. India intelligence: “‘the aim of RAW is to keep internal disturbances flaring up and the ISI preoccupied so that Pakistan can lend no worthwhile resistance to Indian designs in the region.”

Islamabad Pakistan Marriot: What was the US Marine role? The incredible amount of planning based on detailed “casing” of the target, the amount of TNT and incindiary material used, the expenses incurred on accumalating the explosives, and the sophistication and planning of the attack points to state machinery and organizations like RAW which can carry out such carnage. No FATA cave dweller has the capacity to organize, plan, and execute an attack of this magnitude. This has the fingerprints of RAW all of it. Here is a list of major RAW attacks in Pakistan since January 2008.

January 10: Twenty people, mostly policemen, killed in suicide bomb attack outside Lahore High Court.

January 14: Bomb kills 10 people at a market in Karachi.

February 9: Suicide bomber kills 25 people at an opposition election rally in the northwestern town of Charsadda.

February 11 : Nine killed in suicide bombing at an election meeting of an independent candidate in North Waziristan.

February 16 : Suicide car bomber strikes a rally of Pakistan People’s Party in the northwestern town of Parachinar, killing 37.

February 22: Roadside bomb hits wedding party in Swat, killing at least 14.

February 25: Suicide bomber kills army surgeon Lieutenant General Mushtaq Baigand seven others in Rawalpindi.

February 29 : Forty-four killed in a suicide blast in Mingorain northwest Swat valley during the funeral of three policemen killed by a roadside bomb earlier in the day.

March 2: Suicide bomber kills 43 at tribal elders convention in the northwestern district of Darra Adam Khel.

March 4: Two suicide bombers attack Pakistan Naval War College in Lahore, killing five people.

March 10 : Suicide truck bombings target Federal Investigation Agency building in Lahore; 26 killed.

March 15: Bomb blast at a restaurant in Islamabad kills a woman and wounds 10 others, including four FBI men.

July 2: Suicide car bomb outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad kills eight.

July 6: Fifteen killed in suicide attack on policemen during a rally to mark the anniversary of Lal Masjid raid.

August 12: Roadside bomb attack targets Pakistan Air Force bus in Peshawar, killing 13.

August 19 : Twenty-three killed in suicide attack on a hospital in northwestern Dera Ismail Khan town.

August 21: At least 78 killed in twin suicideattacks outside Pakistan’s main ordnance factory in Wah.

August 28: Nine persons, mostly policemen, killed in roadside bombing in North West Frontier Province.

September 6: Thirty people were killed and 70 injured in suicide bombing near a police check post in Peshawar.

Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, S. Asia History Tagged: Indian terror on RAW, Pakistan.

The article is copied from:

“911″ tragedy everday for Lanka & Pakistan: Gifts from Indian RAW - World Politics - Zimbio

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Friday, October 31, 2008

Superpower arrogance

Superpower arrogance

WHETHER it is a member of the ‘axis of evil’ or ‘a major non-Nato ally’, the Bush administration does not seem to miss an opportunity to flaunt its military prowess and the unilateralism that has been its characteristic. With the presidential election only a week away, American forces on Sunday raided a Syrian town and claimed killing eight people, including what a US military spokesman described as “one of the most prominent foreign fighter facilitators”. The raid would remind the world of the Sept 3 attack by American troops in Fata, the first to come in the wake of President Bush’s secret order, signed in July, authorising raids inside Pakistan, the ‘frontline state’ in the war on terror. The Sept 3 raid by American special forces that killed 20 people in Angoor Adda sent shock waves across Pakistan. Since then, even though an incursion by US troops has not taken place, the Pentagon has continued to launch missile attacks on suspected Taliban targets in Pakistan — 18 have been reported since September — with the casualties each time not necessarily being the militants.

Since the Iraqi invasion, American military planes have often violated Syria’s air space, and sometimes US troops have chased militants across the border. But Sunday’s raid by US commandos in four helicopters near the Syrian border city of Qaim is the first incident of its kind and must shock observers of the Middle Eastern scene. With the level of ‘Sunni insurgency’ in Iraq having come down considerably and ‘the flow’ of foreign militants from Syria to Iraq declining by America’s own reckoning, Iraq appears to be gradually returning to normality. Hence why the need for such a raid at a time when the US has almost decided to cut troop levels in Iraq and send more troops to Afghanistan’s killing fields? America has had no qualms about launching attacks on the tribal areas of Pakistan to target Al Qaeda terrorists but without consultation with Pakistan. Since after the first ground attack, the subsequent attacks have been from the air, the casualties have been massive with civilians also being killed.

It is felt that these raids — especially the Syrian one — could be the Republican administration’s last major bid to boost John McCain’s sagging electoral prospects. A renewed demonstration of the Bush administration’s ‘hard line’ to the extent of carrying out a raid on an Arab country is something the strong Zionist lobby would love, more so at a time when Israel is in the midst of a political crisis. As for Al Qaeda, any military campaigns undertaken by the US for destroying its operatives have won popular support for the presidency.

DAWN - Editorial; October 29, 2008

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Leadership not IMF is the issue

By Yousuf Nazar
PAKISTAN’S current economic meltdown is a crisis of competence if judged in light of the recent past. In the context of history, it represents a colossal failure of the establishment’s long-term foreign and economic policies.

Pakistan desperately needs $4-5bn to avoid default on its external obligations. The government is working on the multilateral institutions and the Friends of Pakistan to raise this sum within the next few weeks failing which it will go to the IMF.

The government does not want to borrow from the IMF to keep its hands relatively ‘free’ and avoid the likely political fallout from following the IMF’s prescriptions. Does Pakistan have an option? Unfortunately, no.

The World Bank has not disbursed any aid so far for this fiscal year. Its yearly aid to Pakistan is about $500-600m and is unlikely to come through now, that is, before the IMF puts its seal of approval on Pakistan’s economic plan.

The Friends of Pakistan group includes Saudi Arabia, China and the United States. Saudi Arabia has observed a meaningful silence for several months regarding Pakistan’s request to supply oil on credit. China’s commitment to help with specific projects is welcome but its ambivalence about outright cash loans is understandable given its own policy to channel foreign aid through project assistance. It did provide emergency loans to Pakistan in the past (in Dec 1996 and April 2008) but not to the tune of billions of dollars.

The People’s Party government took charge in April 2008 and put the privatisation programme on hold without making alternative funding arrangements. It did not act upon proposals from global banks to raise money from international markets at a time when market conditions were relatively stable. It kept hoping it would get the Saudi oil facility whilst the oil price shot up and the foreign exchange reserves evaporated. Capital flight ensued as the market confidence sank and business sentiment turned negative.

The government’s team of economic managers and advisers lacked the experience in international financial markets to anticipate or manage what was about to hit the economy. This writer warned on these pages of Dawn (May 30, 2008): “If the economy continues its present slide, even the US may not be able to bail Pakistan out. Its own once mighty financial giants are being rescued by Chinese and Arab investors. Pakistan’s last resort would be the IMF with its usual conditionalities and the inevitable pain they would cause. For Pakistan, the most sensible course would be to put its house in order now”. But the government devoted almost its entire attention to the judges issue and power politics as the country headed towards its worst financial crisis in a decade.

The government continued Musharraf’s Washington-centric foreign policy. Yet, in the hour of its greatest need, the US not only ditched Pakistan but a third-ranking state department official publicly humiliated its ‘friend’ by saying that the Friends of Pakistan “wouldn’t throw money on the table”. This wasn’t surprising given Condoleezza Rice’s more subtle remarks earlier on Sept 26: “We are very engaged with Pakistan, through the international financial institutions, to help Pakistan as it takes the difficult decisions that it is and must take on economic reform.” Translated: Pakistan should go to the IMF and reform its economy.While the US pressure on Pakistan to go the IMF has political undertones, it is also true that Pakistani rulers’ historic tendency to indulge in profligate spending and corruption has left them with few sympathisers despite the much trumpeted ‘geostrategic’ importance of Pakistan.

The US has historically directed most of its ‘aid’ to make Pakistan fight its wars. The aid has been primarily used for military purposes (e.g. Pakistan’s arms purchase orders in 2006 alone totalled $5.1bn) but the indirect cost of the conflicts since 1980 has been catastrophic, although some people continue to believe in the ‘benefits’ of such ‘aid’.

The ‘aid syndrome’ stymied any serious effort to reform the economy. Infrastructure investments and tax reforms were neglected because the so-called austerity programmes advocated by the multilaterals hit subsidies but not the pockets of vested interests. Oil and food subsidies played a major role in Asia and the European Union respectively in keeping the prices low because the governments had fiscal space, of which Pakistan never had much. Cutting fat in defence and establishment expenditures and taxing the rich were not high on the multilaterals’ reform agenda as the focus was usually on indirect taxes (e.g. sales tax) that inevitably hit the lower-income groups.

But what is the point in complaining about the US’s ‘real agenda’ or the IMF’s ‘conditionalities’ when the country’s leaders are unwilling to tighten their belts and undertake necessary reforms and are known to own assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars abroad? Confidence and credibility are important issues and cannot be wished away.

Today, there is hardly a major country in Asia or the Middle East that owes any debt to the IMF except Turkey and Pakistan. Turkey is the largest borrower of the IMF and accounts for about 40 per cent of its $18.3bn total lending worldwide. Pakistan owes about $1.3bn.

Turkey went to the IMF in 2001 and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) came to power in 2002. During the last six years, Turkey’s inflation fell to single digits (though it has risen again due to higher energy and food prices) and foreign direct investment (FDI) rose, helping it to repay almost two-thirds of its loans from the IMF. Turkey still has issues (e.g. a persistent current account deficit) but AK’s economic record is one reason why it easily won the July 2007 elections.

India was nearly bankrupt in 1991 when a balance of payments crisis forced the country to pledge its gold by actually shipping 20 tonnes of it abroad. It was left with no choice but to approach the IMF. Its then finance minister Manmohan Singh recalled later: “There was a silver lining though. India launched the most sweeping economic reforms that year dismantling decades of licence raj, and didn’t ever look back although progress was fitful in the first few years.”

Pakistan can learn from the experiences of India and Turkey. They had serious problems, although their nature differed. However, their leaderships demonstrated sincerity and political acumen to undertake difficult reforms to enable their economies to recover. The reform process was led and executed by people who were highly respected for their integrity and competence. In Pakistan’s case, the real problem is not the IMF; it has been and continues to be the country’s leadership.

DAWN - Opinion; October 29, 2008

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HEC Affair

THE international scientific community is dismayed at the unfair criticism in some newspapers against the chairman of the Higher Education Commission, Prof (Dr) Attaur Rahman, for spending billions of rupees without any visible impact on quality and performance of universities and their graduates.

Those who have closely watched the development of higher education in Pakistan from outside and have been involved in the numerous programmes established by Prof Rahman in the past eight years can testify to the contrary:

the progress made was breath-taking and has put Pakistan ahead of comparable countries in numerous aspects.

To name just a few, the establishment of a free access to scientific literature by high-speed Internet for all universities, the thousands of promising young scientists who were granted PhD studies at top universities abroad, the upgrade of research equipment accessible across the country and the programme of establishing new universities of science and technology, including technology parks attracting foreign investors, prove the efficiency and the long-term benefits for the country enabled by the HEC’s chairman.

His efforts have made Pakistan a respected partner for cooperation for many countries leading in research and development, and it has to be feared that without Prof Rahman this status will be lost.

The United Nations Commission on Science and Technology has closely monitored the development in Pakistan in the past years, coming to the unanimous conclusion that Prof Rahman’s policy and programme is a ‘best-practice’ example for developing countries aiming at building their human resources and establishing an innovative, technology-based economy.

Moreover, to poorly qualify the graduates of Pakistan universities is another unjustified blame: almost all of the thousands of young Pakistani university staff sent for doctorate studies to Europe’s and Asia’s top universities in the past five years have performed well at these foreign institutions, thus causing their academic supervisors to ask for further supply of PhD candidates from Pakistan.

Those who have completed their PhD and returned to Pakistan to share their knowledge with students at their home institutions are keeping close contacts to their former supervisors, creating valuable international research networks.

The impact of this programme, installed by Prof Rahman, will only be seen after some more years, and is expected to bring progress to the country, not only in terms of science and technology, but also in terms of economy. DR BERND MICHAEL RODE Chairman/European Coordinator of ASEA-UNINET

You can find this article at: 'Higher Education Commission affair'Dawn ePaper - Digital replica of Print Edition.

the international scientific com- munity is dismayed at the unfair criti- cism in some newspapers against the chairman of the higher education commission, prof (dr) attaur rahman, for spending billions of rupees without any visible impact on quality and per- formance of universities and their graduates. those who have closely watched the development of higher education in pakistan from outside and have been involved in the numerous programmes established by prof rahman in the past eight years can testify to the contrary: the progress made was breath-taking and has put pakistan ahead of compa- rable countries in numerous aspects. to name just a few, the establish- ment of a free access to scientific liter- ature by high-speed internet for all uni- versities, the thousands of promising young scientists who were granted phd studies at top universities abroad, the upgrade of research equipment acces- sible across the country and the pro- gramme of establishing new universi- ties of science and technology, includ- ing technology parks attracting foreign investors, prove the efficiency and the long-term benefits for the country ena- bled by the hec’s chairman. his efforts have made pakistan a re- spected partner for cooperation for many countries leading in research and development, and it has to be feared that without prof rahman this status will be lost. the united nations commission on science and technology has closely monitored the development in pakistan in the past years, coming to the unanimous conclusion that prof rahman’s policy and programme is a ‘best-practice’ example for developing countries aiming at building their hu- man resources and establishing an in- novative, technology-based economy. moreover, to poorly qualify the grad- uates of pakistan universities is anoth- er unjustified blame: almost all of the thousands of young pakistani universi- ty staff sent for doctorate studies to europe’s and asia’s top universities in the past five years have performed well at these foreign institutions, thus causing their academic supervisors to ask for further supply of phd candi- dates from pakistan. those who have completed their phd and returned to pakistan to share their knowledge with students at their home institutions are keeping close contacts to their former supervisors, creating valuable international re- search networks. the impact of this programme, in- stalled by prof rahman, will only be seen after some more years, and is ex- pected to bring progress to the country, not only in terms of science and tech- nology, but also in terms of economy. dr bernd michael rode chairman/european coordinator of asea-uninet

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Prefering dunya over Fighting in Allah's Cause

9. Surah At-Taubah [The Repentance]

24. Say: If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your kindred, the wealth that you have gained, the commerce in which you fear a decline, and the dwellings in which you delight ... are dearer to you than Allâh and His Messenger, and striving hard and fighting in His Cause , then wait until Allâh brings about His Decision (torment). And Allâh guides not the people who are Al-Fâsiqûn (the rebellious, disobedient to Allâh).

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Removing / Hiding Page Numbers from Latex document (Remove / Hide)

Getting rid of page numbers from a latex document is a tricky thing to do :) sometimes you do not want page numbers in your document but the document class or style file you are using puts page numbers...

many websites/manuals/blogs suggest the use of \thispagestyle{empty} after \maketitle tag to overwrite the style file and remove the page numbers. But some style files will still print the page numbers on all pages except the first one... if this is the case then add \pagestyle{empty} tag and the page numbers from all the pages will be removed :)... the code will look like

\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{empty}

this trick worked in my case where i was using ieeetr.cls as document class... i hope it works for other cases as well...

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The following things copied from comments section may also help (I thank the people who commented):

Manhoso said...

In my case using only the command \thispagestyle{empty} worked fine!

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Anonymous said...

Didn't work for me. Perhaps because of the custom header package I use.

Instead I use

\renewcommand\thepage{}

to get rid of page numbers.

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Anonymous said...

thank you anonymous, for me too worked in the scrreprt class just \renewcommand\thepage{}

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Luís de Sousa said...

That is a pretty radical solution, it not only removes the numbering, but also all the remanding style, such as headers and footers. To kill a fly you do not need a bazooka. Simply use \pagenumbering{gobble} to switch off page numbering.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Musharraf will wait for his political comeback. An interesting story

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

By Shaheen Sehbai

KARACHI: General Pervez Musharraf has finally broken down and has accepted defeat, whether fully on his own terms is not yet clear, but he has set a very precious and respectable precedent for future of Pakistani politics and democracy.

By resigning in a constitutional way and allowing a non-violent, smooth and dignified transition, he has broken the tradition of past military dictators who would never quit, unless forcibly pushed, assassinated or removed unconstitutionally.

Of course the stage was set for this ultimate defeat by the political parties through their votes of no-confidence in the provincial assemblies, yet Mr Musharraf could have become a big spoiler, if he had so wanted. He had all the powers to do so, as he said in his final departing address.

But his last words gave away a lot of what remains as an active thought process in Musharraf's mind. The way he presented a long list of his achievements and successes it appeared that he was making the pitch, as if in an electoral contest, for his political comeback, believing firmly that he had, and would like to have, a future political role in Pakistani politics.

This role is not yet available to him but much will depend on how the coalition partners and major political parties behave in the next few months and years. If the six months after the Feb 18 elections are any guide, the omens are not very encouraging but politicians have to rise up to the occasion if they have to survive.

Musharraf had very obviously and conveniently devised the wait and see strategy after the elections as he expected, somewhat rightly, that the PPP and the PML-N would not be able to keep the coalition together and once they break up he and his supporters will again get a breakthrough and regain the initiative. He came perilously close to achieving his goal, of course through efforts he could make as the man occupying the presidency.

Yet Mr Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif stood together, demonstrating that they have understood one core and fundamental fact for their political survival and success ñ their sticking together for the common cause, as enunciated in the Charter of Democracy. It is that core value which defeated Musharraf and all his machinations.

Musharraf's insistence that he would stay in Pakistan is again based primarily on the calculation that until the two major parties break up he should be provided a safe stay and when they break up, he would re-launch himself, probably as a leader of the Karachi-led Mohajir population, with or even without, the blessings of Mr Altaf Hussain.

This streak of leading the Karachi political scene was more than evident in his recent visits to Karachi where he tried to create his own lobby of businessmen and mohajir leaders, almost to the exclusion of Altaf Hussain and his hard core supporters.

Musharraf's address one night a few weeks ago to a select group of Karachi businessmen, where his strong supporter Governor Ishrat ul Ebad was present and Karachi Mayor Mustufa Kamal made his famous, but mysterious, comment that within a few months the geography of Karachi may change, was seen by Altaf Hussain as an attempt to challenge him on his turf.

Within hours of that Musharraf address, his first after months of post-Feb 18 polls hibernation, Altaf Bhai had to arrange his own gathering of Karachi businessmen and address them from London. Why this need for a parallel event felt by the MQM headquarters in London was obvious: Mr Musharraf was trying to hijack his party and Altaf Bhai is not an amateur in fighting turf wars. Soon thereafter both Governor Ebad and Mayor were summoned to London for whatever happens to MQM men when they err.

Yet while it is too early to discuss the future of Musharraf, the coalition has to decide whether they would let him go Scot free, let him enjoy the interim period of absence from the scene, and then bounce back when the people get frustrated with the democratic experience or possible coalition infighting.

The alternative for them is not to allow Musharraf to leave the country, press on the charges that they have been preparing against him, restore the judiciary in its original form and let these independent judges decide whether Musharraf is guilty of any punishable crimes and what sentence should he be handed.

The mid-term strategy to get this possible political threat out of their way would be to get Musharraf convicted in a fair trial on any one or more charges and get him sentenced so that he is disqualified for holding an elected office.

Any indemnity, if offered under whatever domestic or foreign pressures, must be strictly conditional with a definite term that Musharraf would never indulge in politics and would not be qualified to hold any elected office. This could form the basis for a new NRO to be written by Mr Zardari for a fallen dictator who must now be left to stew in his own juices as people of Pakistan celebrate.

Yet if the fallen dictator is given a general amnesty, there is no reason on earth to offer the same to all the corrupt cronies and middlemen, who had descended on Pakistan from all around the world to enjoy power, pelf and perks. These men, like PCB Chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf and his types, must be brought to book and made examples of.

Musharraf will wait for his political comeback

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Not the time to resist, says musharraf

President Pervez Musharraf said political reconciliation needed to be sought for stability of Pakistan not the resistance.

ARY OneWorld Leading News Protal of Pakistan (Urdu - English), Watch Live ARY News,8/14/2008 3:11:34 PM

so mr mush, y r y resisting??? y dont u go home when 3 assemblies have showed no confidence in u??? when will u get unpopular???? when u say tht its not the time to resist, whom r u addressing??? the coalition parties???? y dont u apply ur sayings to urself???

kuch to sharam karein sadar sahab... jab bacha bacha gaaliyan dega tab aapko feel hoga k aap unpolpular honay waalay hain???? chalein sharam na karein, damagh hi istemaal ker lein... ohh sorry! chalein aisa karein kisi damagh walay se mashwara ker lein...

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War on Terror, its root cause as per Gillani's point of view

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said the war on terrorism and extremism is the war of survival for Pakistan, adding, ‘We will fight this war to ensure the writ of the government.’
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Poverty is the main cause behind terrorism and the government has hammered out policy to cut down this menace to nothing, he observed.

ARY OneWorld Leading News Protal of Pakistan (Urdu - English), Watch Live ARY News

i disagree with both of his stmts.... nothing will happen to pakistan if pakistan stops attacking the bearded pakhtoons just because they do not want american or anyone else's occupation on their land... poverty is not the cause... its foreign occupation on their land... deprivation of rights... suppression of their breed... even if do not do anything for their poverty but u leave their area for them n let them live with their traditions... they'll do no harm to u...

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MQM helps Sindh Assembly pass a unanimous resolution against Musharraf :)

The 168-member assembly of the southern province of Sindh Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution that demanded a vote of confidence on President Pervez Musharraf in the presidential electoral college or his resignation.

One of Musharraf's devout allies, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), staged a walkout as the debate on the resolution started, leaving no one in the house to defend the beleaguered leader.

The Sindh assembly has around 69 pro-Musharraf members from the MQM and three other smaller parties.

Sindh Assembly passes resolution against Musharraf's ouster

PML-Q and MQM should have voted and prevent a unanimous resolution... i mean this is the province where mush could get some support... 60 to 70 legislators could have voted for him n let him feel a bit stronger... but the 'representatives' of ppl of khi, who were blindly supporting mush for last so many years, suddenly turned their back towards the president... will the ppl of khi who kept supportin mush for many reasons includin the 'economic boom' ask their legislators y did this happen??? y did the legislators left their beloved man alone in difficult times??? wht is the stance of mqm??? wht caused them to change their loyalties???

From other provinces, where there was no or negligible support for mush, the resolution could not pass unanimously. Even in punjab, where there r so many critics of mush, PML-Q stood bravely for their leader... But in a province where almost 40% legislators were musharraf's ally, the resolution passed without any resistance... '0' votes against the resolution

the credit goes to 'representatives' of ppl of khi, and PML-Q... well done both parties...

it seems tht mqm is now friends with ppp coz it only needs govt. it only needs incentives... who cares for the ppl n their wishes... will ppl of khi think abt this behavior by their party??? will they ever hold them responsible for anything???

the time is not far when ppl of khi who were the strongest supporters of mush, will have anti mush sentiment... ppl r just waitin for an order from the headquarters, their only leader, the world's only honest man... altaf bhai... this is how mqm proceeds... this wht they call politics

Also see the following:

MQM members’ decision to boycott the session was described by Sindh Information Minister Shazia Mari as "a positive role" and a victory for the people of the province.
Earlier, a joint meeting of parliamentary party of MQM in Sindh Assembly and Rabta Committee late on Tuesday night announced that the party would not support the impeachment resolution against President Musharraf. A statement released by MQM affirmed its support for President Musharraf claiming that the party never ditches its friends.

Khaleej Times Online - Sindh MPAs pass no-trust motion against Musharraf

a unanimous resolution clearly shows tht "MQM never ditches its friends" hehehe... it just shows its back when friends need it... MQM actually is a friend in need... i.e. it is friends with u only if it is in need :)... wht does it need???? govt., power n its hold on khi... thts it!

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Corruption charges on mush

DAWN - Cartoon; August 12, 2008

I do not think corruption charges should have been there in charge sheet against mush... because corruption is what every pakistani always does... so y shld hold him responsible for the corruption when there r stronger charges available n greater crimes mush committed... he was responsible for sowing hatred among the federating units against the federation and each other... he is also responsible for damaging constitutional, social, moral, geographic and ideological basis of my country...

i'd say include all charges but do not include the corruption thing... NRO kay bal pay aanay waalay corruption charges laga rahay hain... seems funny :) the above cartoon is very correct...

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Impeachment ??

WITH the judges issue having apparently taken the back seat, the national scene now seems focussed on the president’s impeachment. Certain questions crop up. If the PPP co-chairperson had to make common cause with the PML-N, why did Mr Asif Ali Zardari have to wait for all these four months? He agreed to sign the Murree Declaration, which visualised an April 30 deadline for the restoration of the judges, extended it to May 12 and later appeared to be going back on it again. If he had agreed to stick to the Murree Declaration the nation would have been spared several unsavoury developments — like the PML-N’s withdrawal from the federal cabinet while the budget-making was on and the lawyers’ long march. The PML-N’s priority all along had been the judges’ restoration, which in its opinion would make President Pervez Musharraf go. It seems Mr Zardari feels that getting rid of the president is easier than restoring the judges.

Now that the grand coalition looks determined to go ahead with Musharraf’s impeachment all sides need to keep in mind the overriding need for ending the agony that has gripped the nation since March 9 last year when Chief Justice Iftikhar was made non-functional. Unfortunately, it is Pakistan that has been non-functional for 17 months, the ‘who will go to Beijing’ controversy itself announcing to the whole world the kind of ludicrous politics that exists in the country. The lawyers are unhappy with Thursday’s announcement, because they wonder what would be their fate if the impeachment move fails. Besides, sections of the people still doubt that the grand coalition will finally clinch it.

The constitution does provide for impeachment, but the procedure has not been spelt out. The National Assembly speaker has to make rules for what is going to be the first — and an unfortunate — constitutional move in Pakistan’s chequered political history. We thus hope that the speaker will make the rules at the earliest.

On Friday, the Senate saw angry exchanges because the opposition expressed the fear that there could be horse-trading to buy votes. To pre-empt the sale and purchase of lawmakers, it is essential that the vote for the impeachment be by a show of hands or division rather than by secret ballot. The president has resolved to fight rather than seek an honourable exit, and there are reports he is being advised recourse to the Supreme Court. This could prove to be a harrowing development, and the crisis could drag on indefinitely, the ultimate sufferer being the people. The onus is on the coalition partners to take the impeachment process to its culmination as quickly as possible. Pakistan has virtually come to a halt, and the nation feels as if there is no government. Dawn Editorial, August 10

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Impeachment vs Restoration

Rise of Pakistan

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delayin tactics

I am unhappy with the decision made by the ruling coalition... impeaching and sending mush home is not the solution... they shld had restored the judges... n then decide whatever they want to... the argument tht restoring judges will result in conflict with presidency is invalid... i mean its strange to assume tht mush will hit back if we restore judges but will remain silent n will not hit back if we directly attack him... come on nawaz n zardari... haven't u seen this guy before???? he has couped twice n each time makin an excuse tht there were conspiracies being hatched against me, so for the 'greater good' of the nation n country i took unconstitutional steps...

mr. nawaz the goal is not achieved... u could not stay firm on ur principle stand... do not call this decision a success... u have been fooled once again i guess :) mush will stay there, rather will become even more powerful... n judges issue will b buried :(

u shld had left the coalition on the basis of all the delaying tactics played by zardari n co. ... now mush can refer to the 'neutralized judiciary' for help, n they'll certainly help him... he is their boss... he appointed them for the 'greater good' of the nation n the state... how can they betray their 'constitutional' boss who is not eligible to b president by any law :) ...

in my opinion mush is in a position to handle this impeachment thing successfully n he'll stay there... only an independent judiciary could have punished him for his wrong doings...

Monday, August 4, 2008

Gumnaam Qabrein...

Jang Group Online

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Monday, July 28, 2008

Movement in decisive phase: Iftikhar

BAHAWALPUR, July 27: Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said here on Sunday the lawyers’ movement had mustered support at the global level and a number of international bar associations had joined the campaign.

Addressing a lawyers’ convention held under the auspices of the local high court bar association, he said the issue had been ‘internationalised’ and with the masses behind the deposed judges, the movement had reached a decisive juncture. “The people know that only an independent judiciary can guarantee good governance and help solve economic problems,” he said.

The convention was scheduled to be held at 7pm on Saturday, but the motorcade of the chief justice and other judges took 15 hours to reach here from Multan, making brief stopovers in Shujaabad, Jalalpur Peerwala and Lodhran.

Justice Iftikhar praised high court judge Justice Jawad S. Khwaja and civil judge Saeed Khursheed Ahmad for taking a principled stand and quitting their jobs. He said Bahawalpur and Multan bars should confer the title of ‘Farzand-i-Bahawalpur or -Multan’ on Saeed Khursheed. Mr Khursheed, who was posted in Bahawalpur as a civil judge, was the first member of the subordinate judiciary to resign in protest.

Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan warned that if the judges were not reinstated by Aug 14, lawyers might decide to launch a civil disobedience movement. He urged Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to fulfill his promise and reinstate the judges.

Movement in decisive phase: Iftikhar -DAWN - Top Stories; July 28, 2008

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