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2005-04-23 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Fred 2005-04-23 00:00:00 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1740 views since 2007-05-07] Top

1 Wow! What a roundup! I think the Hindus as snakes is the winner, but there are so many truly paranoid and wanky conspiracies that it's a tough call. Mukhtar Mai and Mira is my second favorite nibble. Kissing and honor gang-rapes are pretty hard to beat. Wow. PakiWakiLand.

Posted by .com 2005-04-23 2:34:19 AM|| 2005-04-23 2:34:19 AM|| Front Page Top

2 Must be culture shock for some Pakistanis in the west.
Not a place i want to live in.
Love reading this stuff, totally bizarre perceptions.
The Balochistan thing, which i do not think is true, touches on the reality of 'the Baloch people', who live in the west of pakistan and the south east of iran, who are a 'people', certainly more than the palestinians are, and who are in semi revolt in pakistan.
In my 'this might be interesting' thought, why not help the Balochs to nationhood, and thus take a good sized bit of both pakistan and iran
for the new country. Pakistan is smaller, weaker, which, for me, is aok, ditto Iran. And if iran doesn't straighten up soon, i'd take off a chunk more and set up Kurdistan, with kurdish iraq as well, a home promised to the kurdish people, 25 million strong, leaving iran a much smaller place.
Oh well, just thoughts.

Posted by tran 2005-04-23 4:52:04 AM|| 2005-04-23 4:52:04 AM|| Front Page Top

3 Tran, I would continue with Azeris, that reside in a large chunk of Iran NE of Kurds.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-23 4:55:55 AM|| 2005-04-23 4:55:55 AM|| Front Page Top

4 And finish off with the Arabs of Khuzestan, as well as the islands in the Gulf. There a few others as well, although it will be difficult to carve out a contigous area for them except perhaps the Turkmen in the north east.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-23 5:46:03 AM|| 2005-04-23 5:46:03 AM|| Front Page Top

5 What's the deal with the death of General Zia on the C130 with the case of mangos? I do not recall what the cause was, except that possibly planted a nerve gas cannister that went off at altitude. Here is an article on the incident.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-04-23 12:01:31 PM|| 2005-04-23 12:01:31 PM|| Front Page Top

6 ...a Jew who had written on Pakistan army in the past and had been paid by those in control of Pakistan to write his present book The Idea of Pakistan.

But... but... don't The Jooos^TM control the world? I'm so confused...

Posted by Raj 2005-04-23 1:25:43 PM|| 2005-04-23 1:25:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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