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Photolog: Jackals in wolf skins: Azov

2022-06-01

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited Photos can be seen at the link [REGNUM] The wolf and wolfhound are fairly close relatives. In puppyhood, it is even difficult to distinguish them from each other and it is easy to mistake one for the other. Over time, their paths diverge, and the wolf in the pack is looking for the least risky prey, and the wolfhound is constantly striving to fight a strong and deadly enemy. People who have chosen the "path of arms" are very similar to them. In their youth, they can train in the same gym and compete in the same competitions. But later, someone chooses a pack that lives by robbing the weak and unprotected, and someone goes the other way, which has no easy prey. Because the "wolfhound" is not interested in easy prey. He needs a fight that he can be proud of later. He needs a service that gives him the right to respect himself. Humans are much more complex than wolves and dogs. There are plenty of weak sheep and cowardly jackals among people. These jackals really do not want to be sheep, but it is very scary to follow the path of the wolves, and even more so the path of the wolfhound. It happens that fate gives them the opportunity to "enroll" in a pack that is reputed to be terrible and ferocious, and due to this, go through life in a wolf's clothing, enjoying power and impunity. But the jackal nature does not go anywhere, and under the skin of a terrible wolf, the cowardly jackal soul still flutters. The terrible and ferocious Nazi regiment "Azov" did its best to portray a pack of wolves. He even chose "Wolfsangel" - a wolf's hook - as his symbol. Taking advantage of impunity, the members of this gang, which received the consonant nickname "Dung" among the people, showed off a lot over the weak and defenseless. And then the wolfhounds came and pinned them to the wall. Wolves driven into a trap make a desperate breakthrough and most often die. Jackals in wolf skins were incapable of this. Tail between their legs and constantly whining in the Internet space, they shat the hole in which they were hiding, and then dutifully trudged into the cages of the "zoo" ...

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Afghanistan

Hekmatyar: Prince Harry is a 'jackal' killing innocents, says feared Afghanistan warlord

2013-01-03

[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] In a rare and exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , who has been designated a global terrorist by the United States, heaped insults on the British Royal and pledged to carry out more attacks before the UK's withdrawal in 2014. Speaking from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location the warlord accused Britannia of dragging "herself into this unjustified, useless but cruel conflict to please the White House. The British did not gain anything instead they lost blood and treasure." "I do not understand how the British public accept their children being sent to certain death in order to please American generals. Turning to Prince Harry he said that "the British Prince comes to Afghanistan to kill innocent Afghans while he is drunk. He wants to hunt down Mujaheddin with his helicopter rockets without any shame. "But he does not understand this simple fact that the hunting of Afghan lions and eagles is not that easy! Jackals cannot hunt lions." Pointing to a recent attack on a base where Prince Harry was located he said: "During the Mujaheddin attack on the American base the Prince saw that he was the one about to be hunted and was searching for a hole in which to hide himself." And he added: 'It seems that some British authorities still dream about the times of the eighteenth and nineteenth century and they want their ambassador to be treated like a viceroy and their prince to go out in uniform to hunt for human beings and play the satanic role that they used to play in the past.' The warlord's comments came in an interview with the Daily Telegraph from a mountain base, reported to be close to the Afghan/Pakistain border. Probably closer to Miranshah than to Nangahar. Hek is a constant.

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India-Pakistan

Nuggets From The Urdu Press

2012-10-21

Bharat eternal foe! Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Chief Editor Majid Nizami stated that India was Pakistain's eternal foe and as long as India existed every day in the life of Pakistain will be Defence Day. India was conspiring to deprive Pakistain of water and will remain illegally in occupation of Kashmire, he said. DPC's APC snubbed Reported in Dunya the clerical-jihadi leaders of Defence of Pakistain Council (DPC) were snubbed by opposition parties when they refused to attend an All Parties Conference (APC) to highlight Pakistain's protest at the government's efforts to normalise relations with India. Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... rejected the APC because he wanted friendship with India. Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... said DPC represented Taliban but DPC head Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... said the political parties refused because they did not want to offend America. ANP and Musharraf Writing in Dunya Wakil Anjum stated that in 2002 ANP leader Ajmal Khatak was asked by Musharraf to join in his new project of reviving democracy in return for giving him a special office; but when Khatak asked Isfandyar Wali he got a cold no as answer. Swati bears false witness Daily Express reported that Azam Swati of PTI had accused former Haj minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi of corruption but could not prove it at the Supreme Court. Swati said Kazmi had got bail because the proofs presented at the Court did not prove him corrupt, but the case was still on. Kazmi said that Supreme Court had rebuked Swati for swearing on the Koran falsely and had called him 'drama-baz'. India took Pakistain apart! Famous columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan wrote in Express that there was a time when India was careful about Pakistain and was not given to act impertinent (nakhray) because Pakistain governments were able to challenge it (aankh dikhana). But now after pulling Pakistain apart in 1970 India had made Pakistain a subordinate state. But after the breakup, Pakistain showed toughness and tested a nuclear device which killed the pride of Hindus. General Zia would have conquered India through warriors injected into Kashmire but America appeared on the scene and saved India. Imran should have employed Major Amir! Famous news hound Rauf Klassra wrote in Dunya that Major Amir was a great name in the world of intelligence and became known for his role in Operation Midnight Jackals ...which adventure resulted in President Zardari's sobriquet "Mr. Ten Percent"... against the government he served, after which he was tried for treason. He suffered imprisonment along with his children during the Musharraf era. Major Amir was full of anecdotes that will not bore anyone. It was a wonder that he was consulted by both Zardari and Nawaz Sharif. Columnist Haroon Rasheed had once sighed deeply and said Imran should have listened to him and appointed Major Amir as his political adviser. Klassra agreed with him. National security state not viable! Columnist Saleem Safi wrote in Jang that gunnies in India and Pakistain did not want trade between the two states and will go on trying to break the momentum of normalisation. Pak gunnies wanted the state to remain a national security state which was no longer viable because the masses could not improve their lot under it. Pakistain continued to think that India had snatched Kashmire and will block Pakistain's water. Angel of Death and Chief Justice Writing about the fictional deaths of Pakistain's top people poet Zafar Iqbal wrote in Dunya that when Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was buried in his files the Angel of Death appeared and stood by his side. The CJ was about to take suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... action against the Angel when he advanced on the judge and put an end to him (kaam tamam). Namaz Janaza of CJ was led by PM Raja Pervez Ashraf who thanked Allah for it (death) and dirt was thrown on the coffin inside the grave by registrar Faqir Hussain. ISI hates America! Golly gee, what a shock that is, Daily Express quoted Dr Shakeel Afridi under arrest for aiding America to discover and kill the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... as saying that the ISI had tortured him and said to him that America was ISI's greatest enemy. He said ISI helped Haqqani network attack Americans in Afghanistan. Afridi was forced to imitate a dog while eating his food. Indians hate Pakistain! They ought to, but really it's the other way round. Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that 59 percent Indians were intensely opposed to Pakistain but 77 percent wanted to sort out the Kashmire dispute. Only 13 percent Indians had a favourable view of Pakistain; 60 percent of the Hindus feared danger from Pakistain. But 60 percent Paks and Indians wanted trade relations to improve. Doomed universities in Pakistain Writing in Dunya Nazir Naji stated that in Pakistain enlightened and future-oriented teachers were mercilessly ousted and a crop of students was raised that penetrated the state institutions and infected them with bigotry. They fought the war against the Soviet Union for America and raised a whole new crop of reactionary persons that was to haunt Pakistain later. Elsewhere too Ikhwan in Egypt were busy rolling back tolerance and bringing into force laws that will curtail civic freedoms and persecute non-Mohammedan minorities. India dominates Pak TV channels Famous columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan lamented in Express that most Pak TV channels were showing Indian dramas and movies and even ads were featuring Indian movie stars. Hafiz Saeed and Bal Thakeray Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt when Indian foreign minister Krishna called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif he complained that Pakistain's Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... spewed hatred of India on a daily basis and that he should be stopped. The chief minister instead replied that India had its Bal Thakerey too who was doing the same sort of thing against Pakistain. Vice Chancellor spills beans Quoted in Dunya Vice Chancellor Punjab University Kamran Mujahid speaking to his academic staff on the subject of 9/11 revealed that Americans had staged the attack on New York and Washington through its agencies to find an excuse to attack the Islamic world. He added the important piece of news that in 2006 Pakistain had found Osama bin Laden dead and, after identifying him through a DNA test, handed his corpse over to the Americans who then brought it over to Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... and planted it in a house after attacking it. The Abbottabad operation was done to bring Pakistain under pressure and punish the Mohammedans. Aitzaz on 'two offices' Quoted in Jinnah Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan stated that no court could summon President Zardari on keeping two offices but if the institutions crossed their legal limits then ill-effects would follow. He said not writing a letter to the Swiss authorities was not against the Constitution. Imran turns away from North Wazoo Reported in Dunya Imran Khan had been advised by his inner circle not to go to North Waziristan but confine his long march comprising 100,000 followers to South Waziristan. Rimsha not under-age Daily Jinnah reported that people were not happy the way Rimsha Masih had been awarded bail after her arrest for burning the pages of the Holy Koran. When she was being taken out of jail she looked to be 20 instead of under-age and additionally the proof against the accuser by Hafiz Zubair was not considered acceptable. It was rumoured that the Christian girl was being let off the hook under international pressure.

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India-Pakistan

Nuggets From The Urdu Press

2012-06-24

PPP and establishment Writing in Jang Irfan Siddiqi stated that it was not correct to say that IJI was formed in 1909s to prevent Benazir from getting into power. Major Amir who was once an ISI officer has become a political thinker (mudabbir) after taking part in the famous Midnight Jackals scam. He has said that while IJI was meant to stand against the PPP its target was to make Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi of the PPP the next prime minister in place of Benazir. After she was ousted from power in 1990 and Jatoi was promptly made caretaker prime minister to 'manage' the next general election in favour of the IJI. The establishment preferred Jatoi to Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to avoid problems from Sindh. General Kakar's secret link with Benazir Columnist Irfan Siddiqi wrote in Jang that it may not be correct to say that the establishment is always hostile to PPP because in 1993 Benazir was secretly connected with Army Chief General Waheed Kakar. She was brought to Islamabad in a special plane and Nawaz Sharif was sent home by the general. Establishment against Nawaz Sharif Revealing that establishment was anti-Nawaz Sharif columnist Irfan Siddiqi revealed in Jang that in 1993 before kicking out the Nawaz Sharif government President Ghulam Ishaq Khan had reached a secret understanding with the PPP. Before this President Ghulam Ishaq Khan had a special cell in the presidency collecting cases against Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... but the next cabinet under Prime Minister Balakh Sher Mazari featured Zardari as a minister. Hindu girls as false brides Daily Mashriq reported that parents of the Hindu girls who converted to Islam and then married Mohammedans men protested in front of the Supreme Court in Islamabad that their daughters were unfairly allowed to go with the Mohammedan husbands. They said that the girls while away from the Mohammedan husbands told them they did not want to be false brides because they were kidnapped by a PPP leader and MNA Mian Mithu. Islam cannot be enforced because of sects Quoted in Jinnah Ahle Hadith leader Hafiz Zubair Zaheer stated that Islam could not be enforced in Pakistain because of sectarian differences. He said rulers, politicians and civil military bureaucracy were not in favour of a pure Islamic system. Pakistain helped US kill Osama! Quoted in Jang Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar stated that Pakistain government and Army had a part in the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing... . After that opponents of government may want to use Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... Commission to trap the government and unseat it but Allah will save! Jang also reported that in a TV discussion PPP and the PMLN both thought that the Abbottabad commission was nothing but a farce (topi drama). Taliban victory will dangerous Quoted in Mashriq General Khalid Rabbani of 11 corps on the Afghan-Pakistain border stated that a victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan will be dangerous for Pakistain because it will strengthen the Tehrik Taliban Pakistain and inflict more terrorism on Pak people. He also said that if the drones did not involve civilian casualties they could help in putting an end to terrorism. Baloch ministers as criminals President PPP Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Sadiq Imrani was quoted in Jang as saying that the ministers in the Balochistan cabinet were involved in crimes. When the bureaucracy did not give their share from the money made through corruption they got gangs to fire on their houses. He said there was no such thing as government in Balochistan. Dr AQ Khan on Nawaz Sharif Writing in Jang father of the Pak nuclear bomb Dr AQ Khan stated that right after Nawaz Sharif became the chief minister of Punjab his Ittefaq Foundry swelled into 30 big industrial establishments making steel, sugar, paper, textiles, etc, with an annual income of $400 million. Then the Motorway was made at the cost of Rs20 billion. Then at the cost of $700 million about 50,000 cars were imported in Yellow Cab Scheme by borrowing money from one bank and placing orders for cars at another bank. People linked to the party bravely ran away with cars including Mercedes cars causing a loss of $500 million to the banks but the Sharif family got $60 million from it according to revelations made by the next PPP government. Rasheed on Nawaz Sharif World famous columnist Haroon Rasheed write in Jang that during the Bhutto period the Sharif family came under attack of nationalisation and lost all its assets as industrialists during the decade of the 1970s. But today their assets are strewn all over the world and only in London they have invested millions of dollar and no law can convict them. About Governor Syed Masud Kausar Writing in Jang Saleem Safi stated that Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti (now in Tehrik Insaf) had once thrown a party for PPP friends while General Musharraf as president was also in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. Present in the party was also the current governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Barrister Syed Masud Kausar (after whose appointment FATA is today subject to chaos or loot-maar) who said that Musharraf was just like a PPP jiyala in having a good time but was not responding to his overtures. Azam Hoti and Nasim Wali's sacred sugar Columnist Saleem Safi wrote in Jang that the father of the present chief minister and brother of Wali Khan's wife Nasim Wali Khan - Azam Hoti - fell foul of the brigadier in charge of Peshawar after the takeover of General Musharraf in 1999 and was hauled before a court. Azam Hoti's lawyers appealed to the court for mercy because of his ill health while Nasim Wali Khan was putting scared sugar (with special prayers breathed on it) in Azam Khan Hoti's mouth. End this internal fight! Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang to tell General Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... that he should end the war against the Taliban as soon as possible because Pakistain's enemy is not internal but external and Pakistain has to unite against the external enemy. For that to happen all aspects of difference that cause internal festivities should be removed and the nation should stand up as one to face the enemy from without. Kick out politicians, bring in technocrats! Famous father of Pak bomb Dr AQ Khan wrote in Jang that politicians were destroying the country and now technocrats should be brought in to save it. He said he did not cry at the death of his father but cried at the separation of East Pakistain. Bhutto never called him, he offered his services to Bhutto. He told Pak Army that if you don't make the bomb you will be finished in ten years. He said India nearly died (jaan nikal gayee) after he successfully tested his Ghauri missile. Osama fired from Al Qaeda in 2003 Talking to Mashriq Brig (Retd) Shaukat Qadir said that Osama was laid off by Al Qaeda in 2003 after which he was living as a retired gentleman. He came to Kohat in 2002 (the year he got a kidney implant) and then went to Shangla and Haripur in 2003 and to Abbottabad in 2005. He fathered four children in Haripur and Abbottabad. Daily Mashriq also reported from Abbottabad that like the people of 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.... people there also did not believe that anything unusual had happened. They believed Osama's dead body was brought to Abbottabad and a drama was staged.

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India-Pakistan

Nuggets from the Urdu press

2012-01-01

Aslam Beg wants Zardari's resignation   World famous military strategist and ex-army chief Aslam Beg told Daily Express that to avoid getting into more trouble President Zardari should submit his resignation. He said Memogate was actually an effort to stage an uprising within the army for which the army was very angry. He said Osama was not in Abbottabad when the US operation took place and some people in government knew about the US attack.   Sipah agitates in Jhang against blasphemer   Daily Express reported that Sipah Sahaba had agitated quite dangerously in DJ Khan because the police had not arrested an insulter of the Sahaba or Companions. The city remained subject to marches and shutter-downs but the name of the blasphemer was not revealed by the paper.   Qatar Pakistanis condemn Veena Malik   Daily Pakistan reported that expatriate Pakistanis in Qatar got together and agitated for the expulsion of Veena Malik, the Pakistani filmstar who had allowed objectionable photos of her in an Indian magazine. They said that because she had insulted the country and nation (mulk-o-qaum) she should be divested of nationality and thrown out of Pakistan. Nawa-e-Waqt also reported that the film industry in Pakistan got together on one platform and demanded the same treatment of Ms Malik. According to Mashriq, a palmist proudly predicted that such people as Veena Malik often died by suicide or in an accident. Earlier Veena Malik was condemned by the Pakistani nation for acting in TV programmes that showed her being intimate with a Hindu actor. Most Pakistani film actors who are very pious and live cleanly made public statements against her immorality.   Caught for burning Quran   According to Mashriq a couple - Khurram and Mrs - were secretly burning pages of the Holy Quran in Shahdara Town near Lahore and could have gone scot free had not a conscientious neighbouring lady with utmost honesty and industry looked into their house despite all kinds of obstructions. She reported the matter to the police who lost no time in arresting both the culprits.   Mian Azhar angry with Imran Khan   Daily Mashriq reported that former Muslim League leader Mian Azhar who had just joined Tehreek Insaf of Imran Khan was greatly offended when Shah Mehmood Qureshi formerly of the PPP was accepted into the party and made vice chairman of the party over his head. (Mian Azhar has since been mollified.)     Mittel's offer on Thar-Coal rejected   Daily Express reported that Pakistan proudly rejected can offer made by the Indian tycoon Lakhsmi Mittel to invest $2 billion in the extraction of coal from the region of Thar in Sindh. His company was to extract gas and set up a power station in Thar. Pakistan's security was at the heart of all Pakistanis. Daily Jang reported that Dr Samar Mubarak Mand will start producing gas from the coal in Thar in the month of February 2011. Dr Mand said that billions of dollars will come as foreign investment but did not notice the rejection of Mittel's offer.   Taliban want Islamic sharia first!   Daily Jang quoted Taliban commander Dadullah as saying that the Taliban will not talk peace with Pakistan Army before the enforcement of Taliban's sharia in Pakistan. He said Maulvi Faqir of Bajaur - vice chief of the Taliban movement - was talking to the Pak army in his private capacity but Dadullah as commander of Taliban was not in favour of talking before the imposition of sharia in Pakistan. He said Taliban were split in Bajaur. One commander said in Jang that during peace talks the Army had released 154 Taliban terrorists. He said he was very happy that Pakistan had quarrelled with America.   When NAB chief fell to his knees   Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that during the Musharraf rule Asif Ali Zardari and NAB chief of Nawaz Sharif Saifur Rehman came to court for their hearings. When Saifur Rehman saw Zardari he approached him and prostrated himself in front of him and begged to be forgiven for having cooked up false NAB cases against when he was NAB chief.   Genera Ehtesham Zamir and 'zamir'   Writing in Jang Hamid Mir revealed that he was approached by ISI officer Major General Ehtesham Zamir to ask Zardari that and Benazir should quit Pakistan for ten years after which Musharraf would release Zardari from jail. Hamid Mir wrote that Zardari thought he was a Kashmiri brother of Nawaz Sharif while Nawaz Sharif thought he was close to Imran Khan.   Major Amir's luxurious retreat   Chief Editor Khushnood Ali Khan wrote in Jinnah that going from Islamabad to Peshawar near the Attock Bridge there was a luxurious establishment on the left side owned by a former ISI officer Major Amir which was the destination of 28 editors and distinguished newspapermen of Pakistan. This was a farm house to beat all farm houses because Major Amir was a very well-endowed man from his famous Panjpir madrassa background. Major Amir was an asset of Pakistan and had gone into business to become so rich. Major Amir lost his job after being accused of trying to overthrow the PPP government in the 1990s through a plot named Midnight Jackals, the jackals being Major Amir and Brigadier Imtiaz alias Billa who later spent time in jail.   Dr Fai destroyed by ISI   Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that Dr Abdul Nabi Fai from Indian administered Kashmir was resident in Washington and was honestly agitating for the freedom of the Kashmiris from India but was destroyed by someone in the ISI who thought of giving him money for doing what was his national mission. He was not made a formal lobbyist for Pakistan and was therefore caught and punished for taking money from the ISI.   Karachi madrassa keeps pupils in chains   Daily Mashriq reported that a madrassa in Sohrab Goth in Karachi was keeping its pupils in chains for the last ten years and the children and youths were picked up from all over Pakistan and brought to the madrassa by their relatives. The madrassa trained them for suicide-bombing missions and jihad, but gave them little food, whipped them hundreds of lashes at a time with their feet chained. The police got to know about it after ten years and rescued 57 chained pupils.   Christians want wine banned for them too   As reported in Mashriq Christians protested in Lahore against the government for allowing Christians to drink alcohol and giving them licences to buy wine while Christianity under Bible prohibited the drinking of wine just like the Muslims.   Musharraf and Ijaz Shah sheltered Osama!   Ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Ziauddin said in Mashriq that General Musharraf and Brigadier Ijaz Shah had given shelter to Osama bin Laden but Memogate was an American sting operation to entrap Pakistan. He said America could not save any government in Pakistan from being toppled. When it considers democracy inadequate, the Army takes over. According to, General Ziauddin said that America had trained 90 commandos to capture Osama but ISI chief General Mahmood had scrapped the scheme.

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India-Pakistan

Nuggets from the Urdu press

2011-10-16

Jinnah wanted normal relations with India Columnist Ataul Haq Qasmi quoted Mujibur Rehman Shami's letter about Jinnah in Jang explaining how founder of the nation Jinnah was talking to the Indians about retaining his house in Bombay which he might visit once Indo-Pak relations returned to normal. Lucky for Mr. Jinnah he died only a year after Pakistan became independent. He would have been very upset to see what his little project became. Asfandyar got $23 million? Daily Jang quoted MQM leader Altaf Hussain as saying that ANP leader Isfandyar Wali got $23 million from America to pay his way to winning the 2008 elections in Pakhtunkhwa. Altaf said he did not consider Pashtun leader Ghaffar Khan as a traitor. (Hussain later apologised for the charge.) Dr Safdar defeats Ziring Famous historian and ex-Intelligence Bureau officer Dr Safdar Mehmood wrote in Jang that the following American scholars were predicting Pakistan's failure: Selig Harrison, Stephen Cohen and Prof Lawrence Ziring. Ziring was author of half a dozen books predicting Pakistan's demise and when Dr Safdar encountered him on one occasion in Islamabad he challenged him on his basing his prediction on Dr Safdar's books. Later when Pakistan survived Dr Safdar challenged him again. On this occasion Ziring apologised for having predicted death of Pakistan. Dr Safdar wrote: 'Friends! Believe me, Allah has his protective shadow falling on Pakistan which will live forever'.   Army needs MQM Reported in Jang news commentator Kamran Khan revealed that MQM was greatly needed by the ruling party PPP. At the same time both the Americans and the Pakistan Army also needed the MQM. All this meant that the PPP-MQM alliance was needed by all the important actors in the region. Did Musharraf kowtow to America? Writing in Jang ex-president Pervez Musharraf stated that the allegation that he accepted all the demands for cooperation by America after 9/11 was wrong. He took the American demand to his generals, then to all the cantonments and talked to the rank and file of the army and got agreement everywhere. Then he went to the cabinet and got its agreement and thereafter discussed it with all the big stakeholders. He gave Shamsi airbase in Balochistan to the Americans only for transit into Afghanistan and the Jacobabad base in Sindh, but did not allow use of airports and ports.   Jinnah's doctor made millions Daily Pakistan revealed that Jinnah's personal doctor Col Ilahi Baksh managed to squeeze a lot of benefits from the government for his treatment of the Father of the Nation. He got a big plot in a place which later became Gulberg in Lahore and he got allotted a hotel in the Shah Alami Market. Kulsum Saifullah regrets Reported in Jang Kulsum Saifullah who wrote Meri Tanha Parvaz (My Solo Flight) regretted that her book contained slander against the person of late General Akhtar Abdur Rehman whose family was greatly perturbed. She apologised to the sons of General Rehman and said that the said general was an asset to Pakistan and that her book wrongfully contained sections against him because she could not supervise the proofreading and publishing of the book. Ch Nisar's children are American! Chief Editor Jinnah wrote that it was shameful that the parliamentary opposition leader in Pakistan Ch Nisar Ali Khan of PMLN had dual nationality and his children were all American citizens. Perhaps this was an American reward for handing over Aimal Kansi to the Americans whom Ch Nisar now criticises. Why were the children of Ch Nisar given American nationality without spending the mandatory five years in America? Ch Nisar Ali Khan responded that his wife was American at the time of marriage and her children were all American as a result.   America will be destroyed in one year! Famous leader of Jamaat Islami Munawwar Hasan told Jinnah that American will come to an end in one year because people like Osama are born only for achieving shahadat (martyrdom). He wanted the nation to rise after tying shrouds to their bodies (kafan bandh kar) and form themselves into an army of the faithful and put an end to America. Ch Pervaiz Elahi is like dengue mosquito! Famous law minister of Punjab Rana Sanaullah told daily Pakistan that PMLQ leader Ch Pervaiz Elahi was like a huge dengue mosquito which was ever ready to bite the poor and suck the blood out of them. This was his reply to Elahi's criticism of the PMLN's readiness to counter dengue fever in Punjab.   Alexander killed by dengue mosquito! Daily Jang reported that the people of Pakistan suffering from the epidemic of dengue fever should know that as long ago as 3 BC a mosquito had attacked and killed Alexander the Great when he was conquering Punjab. Mosquitoes also killed the biblical villain Nimrod and malaria spread by mosquitoes also killed the famous Italian poet, Dante.   Drones do selective killing! Famous columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that American troops are present in the Afghan province of Kunar in good numbers but when Pakistani terrorists from Bajaur attack from Kunar the Americans don't do anything to stop them. American drones too ignore these terrorists who recently abducted Pakistani children from Bajaur during a picnic. Was Osama in Abbottabad? Head of the judicial commission on Osama bin Laden's death in Abbottabad told Jinnah that he would also probe whether Osama actually died in Abbottabad. He said people were upset after his death and this anxiety must be removed through honest investigation.   National hockey too goes crooked! Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that after Pakistani cricketers were found to be corrupt, Pakistan's leading lady hockey player Huma Nur too was discovered to be a con artist. She stole a cheque from her school and got it encashed. Just like the cricket players she was caught red-handed on the bank's CCT camera.   Kulsum Saifullah is lying! World famous military mind ex-ISI chief Hamid Gul was quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that Kulsum Saifullah's allegation in her book that Pakistan blew up the Ojhri camp in 1987 because it had stolen and sold them to Iran a number of Stinger missiles from the munitions depot was wrong. He said that Ojhri fire was an accident and the 248 stingers were destroyed in the fire. Gul was in charge of ISI then.   Gems from Major Amir of ISI Chief Editor of Jinnah wrote that he had met ex-ISI officer Major Amir of the Midnight Jackals fame and discussed the current crises of Pakistan on which Major Amir said that those who had not made money were predicting doom while those who had were enjoying Pakistan. Major Amir is a famous and much admired former officer of the ISI who came with the true Islamic credentials of the seminary Panjpir in the Tribal Areas from where Pakistan was to produce such great sons of Islam as Maulvi Faqir Muhammad of Bajaur, putting the fear of God in the breasts of the Americans. AQ Khan's no comment on Kulsum's book Famous nuclear scientist Dr AQ Khan was quoted in daily Pakistan as saying that he will be mum on Kulsum Saifullah's book where she claimed that Dr AQ Khan and some others had a part in Pakistan's crime of nuclear proliferation. Her book is titled My Solo Flight.

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Europe

Serbia Indicts Nine Men in Kosovo Killings

2010-09-12

BELGRADE, Serbia (Reuters) — Serbia has indicted nine former paramilitary members over the killing of 43 ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict, the country’s war crimes prosecutor’s office said Saturday. The move appeared to be a sign of Serbian resolve to deal with its wartime past and burnish its effort to join the European Union. A crucial condition for Serbia’s membership is that it prosecute atrocities committed by Serbs during the 1990s wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The indictment was the product of a decade of investigation, and was one of the most significant since pro-Western Serbian authorities started arresting former military, paramilitary or police figures on suspicion of war crimes after the ouster of President Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. Nine men who served with a paramilitary unit known as the Jackals>Jackals were indicted in connection with the killing of the ethnic Albanian civilians in the Kosovo village of Cuska on May 14, 1999, said the statement from the Special War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office, based in Belgrade. They were detained in March. The statement said the suspects “showed immense cruelty” and often fired a “large number of rounds into the backs of their victims. “They later burned bodies to conceal evidence and prevent identification of their victims,” the statement said. The indictment arose from cooperation between the prosecutor’s office and Eulex, the European Union judicial and police mission in Kosovo, the statement added. The Jackals fought alongside Serbian security forces in Kosovo. They were also implicated in rapes, beatings, plundering, and burning of homes and property, the statement said.

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Afghanistan

MoD to order £500 million worth of armoured vehicles for Afghanistan troops

2008-09-29

Britain is to spend £500 million on hundreds of heavily armoured vehicles to protect troops in Afghanistan. The decision to acquire 600 vehicles that can withstand landmines and roadside bombs comes after criticism of the Ministry of Defence from the families of servicemen killed while on patrol in lightly armoured "Snatch" Land Rovers. Susan Smith, from Tamworth in Staffordshire, whose 21-year-old son Private Phillip Hewett died in Iraq in 2005, is suing the MoD for providing vehicles that "gave little or no protection against improvised explosive devices". Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, has been negotiating with the Treasury over the plan to buy the 600 vehicles, which will partly replace the Land Rovers but also add to the stock of heavier troop-carrying systems in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is hoped that the new vehicles will be in place by next spring, in time for an expected resurgence of Taleban fighting. The sense of urgency surrounding the provision of better protection for troops was underlined yesterday when it was confirmed that 100 of the 600 vehicles would replace the Viking armoured vehicles, which came into service with the Royal Marines in 2006 and have been deployed across Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The Viking has proved to be vulnerable to landmines. About a dozen Viking drivers from the Royal Marines and the Queen's Royal Lancers have been killed or seriously wounded by mine strikes, and steps were taken to thicken the armour under the driver's seat. Under the new proposal, the Vikings will be replaced by 100 better-protected "high-mobility tracked patrol vehicles". The 500 other new vehicles will consist of 100 Mastiffs, a huge British-modified version of the American Cougar troop-carrier, 100 Jackals, a mine-resistant open-top vehicle, and 300 light-support mine-protected vehicles, which have not yet been identified.

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Jackals attack Indian village injuring 35

2006-10-05

Our Jackal has an alibi - he was here all day yesterday. :-) A pack of jackals prowling for food attacked villages in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, injuring at least 35 people, officials said on Thursday. The attack took place in Madhubani district, about 120 km (75 miles) north of the state capital, Patna, late on Wednesday. "We are still trying to ascertain the number of jackals involved in the attack and the extent of injuries sustained by human beings," Mala Kumari, a government official said over the telephone from Madhubani. Jackals have sometimes been seen roaming the streets in India as their forest habitat dwindles, but reports of attacks on humans are rare. "We have not seen or heard anything like this in the last 12 years," Santosh Kumar, who saw the jackals attacking the villagers. "Some of them were badly bitten," he said. It will be attributed to encroachment. Too many humans.

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Arabia

Islamic personality of the year

2005-10-26

There he is, Mr. Islam. A Muslim cleric who has prayed to "terminate" the Jews was awarded Islamic Personality of the Year at a ceremony in which he called Islam a religion of "harmony and kindness" that rejects terrorism. As WorldNetDaily reported, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al Sudais – the veteran Quran reader and imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia – prayed to Allah in 2003 in front of 2 million followers to "terminate" the Jews, who he called "the scum of humanity, the rats of the world, prophet killers ... pigs and monkeys." And Jackals? Therefore But he was honored Sunday during the closing ceremony of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award, an annual event in the United Arab Emirates capital during Ramadan aimed at promoting Islam's main text. According to the event's website, the Islamic Personality of the Year "must have an honorable history in serving Islam and Muslims." In his remarks upon receiving the award, the sheikh said, "The message of Islam and Muslims is modesty, fairness, security, stability, sympathy, harmony and kindness and lying." In his April 2003 address in Mecca, however, Al-Sudais urged Arabs and Muslims to abandon peace initiatives with Israel – comments carried worldwide by Reuters and the Associated Press. While some media at the time suggested his racist characterization of Jews was a singular occurrence, Al-Sudais has described Jews variously as "evil," a "continuum of deceit," "tyrannical" and "treacherous," WND reported. Last December, Al-Sudais was listed as a "specially invited guest" of an Islamic conference in Florida. Following media exposure, however, his name disappeared from conference materials. On the International Holy Quran Award website, the event's organizing committee said Al Sudais "has been selected for his devotion to the Quran and Islam." "His remarkable and ear-catching intonation of the Quran during the Haj [pilgrimage] season and during the Taraweeh [special night prayers during Ramadan] in the holy mosque has made him very famous and beloved among the Muslim community," said Saeed Hareb, vice chairman of the organizing committee. Al Sudais reflects a bright picture of Islam and Muslims, Hareb added. "He became a recognized personality among the Muslim community through his Quran reading and working as a specialized professor in Fuqoh [Islamic jurisprudence]," he said. The award selection is carried out through nomination by states, universities and specialized institutions, according to the website. The winner's "writings or stances should be universally recognized," it says. Al Sudais was born in 1961 in the Al Qaseem area of Saudi Arabia where he reportedly memorized the Quran at the age of 12. The Ann Coulter option is looking better all the time.

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Home Front: Tech

Death can be cured

2005-06-28

At least in dogs (and maybe Jackals?). Human trials in a few years. At first, I was going to suggest some jihadis for testing, but then again, who would want them other than permanently dead? SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution. The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock. Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre. However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours, But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss. During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death. Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved. Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts. Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.

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Terror Networks & Islam

Future of Terrorism Symposium (Yours Truly is a Participant)

2005-04-22

A new deadly strain of terrorism is on the horizon. How can we defeat it? To discuss the future of terror with us today, Frontpage Symposium is joined by a distinguished panel: Evan Kohlmann, the author of Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe and founder of Globalterroralert.com. He is currently scheduled to testify as an expert witness on behalf of federal prosecutors in the upcoming trial of alleged jihad recruiter Ali al-Timimi in northern Virginia; Simon Reeve, a New York Times bestselling author and television presenter. His book The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, was the first in the world on bin Laden and al Qaeda; Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, the author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. He is Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore; and Dan Darling, a counter-terrorism consultant for the Manhattan Institute's Center for Policing Terrorism. He is considered the terrorologist of the blogosphere. Visit his blog at Regnum Crucis.

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