[Dawn] SHOCKING is the only way one can describe the police raid on a PIA official's home and his subsequent detention. Irshad Ali Rind, deputy shift manager, was on duty at the Bloody Karachi ...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... airport where the inspector general of police, Sindh, was due to arrive for a Sukkur-bound flight. The police chief was late and his protocol staff asked Mr Rind to delay the flight. The PIA official said he had no authority to do so, with the result that the flight departed on time, leaving Mr Shah behind.
On Tuesday, 20 coppers, led by the district superintendent of police, Clifton and the Boat Basin station house officer, arrived at Mr Rind's apartment, threatened to open fire if he didn't open the door, ransacked his home and dragged him to a police van.
He was taken to the Boat Basin cop shoppe where, he alleged, he was not allowed to sleep and was mentally tortured. Mr Rind would perhaps still have been in the lock-up had the Sindh home minister not responded to pleas by the PIA labour union and officers' association.
Subsequently, the SHO was suspended, but no action was taken against the DSP. The IGP has himself chosen to keep quiet, and there is no evidence to suggest that the raid was carried out on his instructions. The real issue is police behaviour. Even if Mr Rind had, for argument's sake, violated the law, the police should have followed due process. Apparently the coppers acted to please their chief, and in that process did not care that they were violating something that they are supposed to uphold -- the law. We demand a full investigation and action against those involved in the raid on an innocent citizen's home, his arrest and alleged torture.
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#1
1. Russians collectively and individually have a much greater insecurity problem than the Chinese and not without reason. They are in secular decline. Their friends in the west are also in decline and EUrope could descend into chaos without too much pushing. And the Germans, not yet BFF, seem to be the only ones with their act together. China is on the rise and faces no neighbors who physically threaten it.
2. China is too busy counting its dollars to get overly nasty.
3. China knows Obama is a wimp and there is no upside to excessive bellicosity.
Even in Czarist times, Russia had similar problems to what it has today. Their personality is half European and half Asian, and they are unhappy in either world.
Putin wants to restore Russia as his sole real prerogative, but the nation is in a nightmare situation, and he can only do what the Russians as a whole want to do, and how they want to do it.
They have a strong streak of xenophobia, so he is trying to play that for all it is worth, short of any real confrontation. Russia still has its seat on the UNSC, but that is only good for saying "Nyet" to anything anyone else wants to do.
#3
Very interesting post. The Russians are a complex diverse people. The old world lives with the new.
This is election time for them, March as I recall. Putin himself has caused allot of these problems within his own country. The Russian people want a modern country but wish to perserve its rich culture. They have all the social problems we have. They have a strong economy. In the longrun I see them much stronger than the Chinese. China is too much like Japan, resource poor. Russia has vast resources. Tremendous potential for future growth. Russia and China have a long history and long memories. They merely tolerate each other. So its the election that provokes much of this foreign policy upset in my opinion.
#4
Yes, Anonymoose. "Even in Czarist times, Russia had similar problems to what it has today. Their personality is half European and half Asian, and they are unhappy in either world". They want peace. They want what all people want. They don't want war. Some in power want the old days. They sit with dreamy eyes of what it was and could be again. The people want no part of that. Better to build a country than divide it. The protest movement and underground are very much alive and well there. They live in fear of winters return.
However their bones will always be Russian.
#7
..well technically the Mongols do. The Chinese are circumspect about calling their Mongol period of occupation the Yuan period to maintain a degree of lineage.
(1) Russian incomes are several times higher, but growth is much slower, so seeking out a foreign bogeyman is a poll-tested way to get out of the electoral doldrums.
(2) Putin is merely responding to underlying popular attitudes - something that the Chinese government doesn't have to, except during exceptional incidents like the EP-3 crash landing or the Belgrade embassy bombing.
I suspect (2) is a much bigger factor than many realize.
#10
Chinese ownership of what's now the Russian Far East was a lot longer than just the Yuan dynasty; they controlled it for the Ming and parts of the Qing dynasty.
#11
...oh #6 mentioned specifically Siberia and then identified Russia separately. The Eastern part of Russia was under the Mongol yoke for quite a time. While Russia has been invaded unsuccessfully many times from the West, it was that Mongol one from the East that was most successful.
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[Dawn] SHOCKING is the only way one can describe the police raid on a PIA official's home and his subsequent detention. Irshad Ali Rind, deputy shift manager, was on duty at the 
