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snakelegs said:
you may well be right - after all, i think china has been pakistan's only consistent ally.
do you have any preference between bhutto and sharif - or do they both have the same stench?
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neither, I am of the opinion that not trying them for treason and stringing them up at the outset was one of musharaf's errors
 
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neither, I am of the opinion that not trying them for treason and stringing them up at the outset was one of musharaf's errors
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i wouldn't disagree with that, from all i have read about them.
sad to say, it doesn't look like there is much hope for pakistan....
 
Woman in Pakistan suicide bombing
Police in Pakistan say a woman suicide bomber in a burka has blown herself up near an army checkpoint in Peshawar.
Islamist radicals have carried out a wave of suicide attacks in Pakistan in recent months, but this is thought to be the first by a woman since 9/11.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7126637.stm
 
Its very sad to see a woman giving up at her life because she didn't find stability in her country.
 
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What people have to realise is that there is something fundementally wrong with pakistan. Namely, it's social culture. For example: You are supposed to carry your driving papers with you, but it is socially accepted to simply pay the cop who checks you. Similarly, judges can be bribed - not all such as the higher ones up who are the ones being kicked out by musharraf. Clearly, if the corruption is this deep, there is little hope.

So, presidents or candidates who boast about being able to clamp stuff like this down are lying through their teeth: they are claiming to fix problems that nobody actually gives a **** about. But, they offer hope and the people have no choice but to accept it. Unfortunately, all the presidents for the last 20 or so years have either become corrupt as a result of presidancy or were corrupt to begin with.

In short, pakistan has become so corrupt, it is beyond saving via presidents/leaders. Optimistically, the only thing that can be done is sustain it, i.e keep it as it is.
 
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aamirsaab Pakistan hasn't become so corrupt
their are people who follow the rules now also and they are also
not from armed forces
Yes i agress that ratio of corrupt people is more but
we haven't give up
now for those who think that this was first women suicide attack i think they had forgotten Palestine where number of women suicide attack had happened

Well it is said that History repeats its self, i see there is a chance of it but little, Can Pakistan become second Iran
Who knows whats coming ??

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some good news! not all news from pakistan is bad.

Airport in Sialkot to take off on 6th


By Abid Mehdi

SIALKOT, Nov 3: The citizens’ dream of having an airport will come true with the inauguration of Sialkot International Airport Limited (SIAL) on Nov 6. The local business community has built the airport on self-help basis at a cost of Rs2 billion.

Talking to reporters here on Saturday, SIAL Chief Executive Khawar Anwar Khawaja said the personnel of Airport Security Force (ASF) had taken charge of their duties at the airport to handle formal cargo and passenger flights operations.

He said this mega project was the first-ever project in South Asia completed by the private sector on self-help basis reflecting the business community’s struggle, commitment, dedication, enthusiasm and sincerity.

He said the project would help enhance local exports to worth $2 billion from the current $1 billion.

Mr Khawaja said the airport would be the busiest airport of the country in future and added that it would play an instrumental role during bad weather to ensure diverted flights’ safe landing particularly during foggy season because the runway had appropriate facilities of international standards.

President Gen Pervez Musharraf had approved the project and helped in fulfilling the dream of local citizens prominently businessmen and was also likely to inaugurate the airport, Mr Khawaja said.

He appealed to the PIA chairman to take adequate steps to start passenger and cargo flights from Sialkot to Lahore and Karachi at the earliest.

The airport’s apron along with 3,600-meter-long and 45-meter-wide taxiway has capacity to park six wide-body aircrafts or three airbuses besides smaller aircrafts.

The longest international runway of the country measuring 3.6 kilometres has been constructed and it will cater to the requirements of all international and domestic cargo and passenger flights.

The construction work on main passenger terminal is going on in full swing and temporary arrangements have been made to accommodate domestic passengers at the airport.

The airport is built on Build, Own and Operate (BOO) basis and has been developed over 1,004 acre and is fully equipped for handling Boeing and Airbus jumbo aeroplanes.

The potential traffic forecast has been scaled down at the time of opening to 530,339 passengers a year, while the estimated cargo tonnage at the time of opening is expected to be 28,515 tonnes.

The general public would benefit to the tune of over Rs2 billion in terms of saving time and money while cargo handling will save over Rs1 billion.

GAS: National Assembly (NA) Speaker Choudhry Amir Hussain on Saturday inaugurated the groundbreaking of project to supply gas to Sherpur locality at a cost of around Rs1.2 million.

Later, addressing a public gathering, the NA speaker said the present government was fulfilling its commitment and making all out efforts to raise the living standard of the masses particularly in the rural areas.

http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/04/nat9.htm
 
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Yes that's a Good news
Sialkot is one of the most important cities
Well known for making Sports Goods and surgical instruments

The birth of Sialkot’s surgical industry can partly be explained by what Paul Krugman [U.S. economist] calls an "historic accident". The Damascene craftsmen of Sialkot (koftgars or koftars) were famous during the Mughal period for their fine swords and daggers, but the introduction of rifle in 1857, put them out of work. The opportunity for alternative work arose in 1905, when some broken equipment at the American Mission Hospital in Sialkot afforded a chance to adopt their skills. Encouraged by the hospital staff, they gradually started manufacturing replicas of originals. Before long, orders were received from other mission hospitals in British India. By 1920, Sialkot was exporting to all parts of the British empire including Afghanistan and Egypt and was later selected for supplying surgical instruments for the Allied forces in World War II. The Metal Industries Development Centre (MIDC) was established in 1942 to act as a supply and inspection agency for the Allied forces. At present, the surgical instruments manufacturing industry in Sialkot is one of the world's largest surgical instruments manufacturing industrial clusters second only to Tuttlingen, Germany.

According to a myth, the sport goods industry started in Sialkot because an English man broke his tennis racket and, since an immediate replacement was not possible, he asked a local to repair it. The man did a perfect job and the sports goods manufacturing industry took root in Sialkot. Recorded history of the industry goes back to 1895 when the city started becoming famous for its tennis racquets. By 1903, cricket bats were being crafted from imported English willow and exported to different parts of South Asia and beyond. In 1922, a local manufacturer was awarded the British Empire Export Award for supplying footballs to the British Army. Over the years the industry grew to include a variety of wood and leather-based sports equipment, and diversified into related industries such as sports apparel and riding equipment and even the Scottish bagpipes. International collaborations with the well-known sports brands exits like Adidas (Germany), Puma (Germany), Nike (USA), Dita (UK), Slazenger (UK - owned by Puma now).

The quality of city is that whatever product is made locally is ready for export.

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Bomber attacks Pakistan school bus
Up to seven school children were among nine people injured after a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a school bus near an air force base in northwest Pakistan.

"About seven children were injured ... [after] a terrorist targeted a school children's bus," said Major-General Waheed Arshad, a military spokesman.

"The driver and the guard who were sitting in the front have been seriously injured," he said.

He said most of the children were saved because of the timely reaction of the driver during the incident about 75km northwest of the capital, Islamabad.

The bomber was killed in the attack.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/519BD4D1-7433-43FA-A9E9-23987FA94FDF.htm
 
Bomb blast damages girls’ school
PESHAWAR, Dec 9: Militants set off a bomb, damaging a girls’ school in a village near here on Saturday night.

Teachers and students of the Govt Girls Middle School in Ahmed Shah village had received several warning letters asking them to start wearing veil.

This is the second bomb blast in the limits of the Matni police station over the past two weeks. A blast had damaged the Govt Primary Girls’ School in Sher Bahadur village on Nov 26.

Police have registered a case on the complaint of a tribal elder.
http://dawn.com/2007/12/10/top14.htm
 
it seems like hardly a day goes by lately, that there is not another suicide bombing. :unhappy:
 
I think its the time Musharaff to raise up the costs-or to suggest that to the economy department. Here its so expensive to build a house than you would never have the gut to destroy it.
 
;D if only it was that simple.
the thing is, if someone destroys it, it is not them who will have to get a new house! so the more it costs to build a house, the bigger a crime it is.
 
snakelegs said:
;D if only it was that simple.
the thing is, if someone destroys it, it is not them who will have to get a new house! so the more it costs to build a house, the bigger a crime it is.
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Still i have the feeling the houses are not soo expensives :-[ and don't forget everyone should live there in fear because they will never know when will come their house turn.
 
Jama'at-e-Islami is boycotting elections and that is a major mistake on their part. First of all, the APDM has made a decision that any component party is free to participate in elections - it is their choice. Following this decision, the major party Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz group) has decided to participate. Only Imran Khan's Tehrik e Insaaf and some other obsolete parties like Achakzai's Milli Awami Party are boycotting. But all the major players are participating in elections. By boycotting, Jamaat e Islami is handicapping the Muttahida Majlis e Amal and this may result in the MMA losing many seats in NWFP where in last election they had a landslide victory. Jamaat e Islami motivation for boycotting is to re-instate the judges, particularly chief justice muhammad iftikhar chaudhry, but they don't realize they will be in a better position to demant their re-instatement if they get representatives in parliament and the provincial assemblies.

Maulana Fazlur Rahman's JUI(F), Allama Shah Anas Noorani's JUP(N), Allama Sajid Mir's Markaz Jamiat Ahle Hadith, and Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi's Islami Tehrik are all participating in elections, only Jamaat e Islami is stubbornly refusing to participate. Now the MMA has lost much of its strength thanks to Qazi Hussain Ahmad's hasty and very silly mistake.
 
do you think this could be the end of the MMA?
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No it's definitely not the end. Differences have frequently arisen throughout its six year history. Consider what it has been able to endure up to this point.

1) Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani died in 2002 when the alliance was in its infancy. He was the first president and very charismatic and pious leader respected by all Pakistanis for his great contributions to Islam and the nation. He was the one who single handedly resolved the Iran-Iraq war, and he was the one who strengthened the campaign to declare Qadianis as non-Muslims and raised the banner of Nizam-e-Mustafa to oust secular prime minister zulfiqar ali bhutto.

2) Sajid Ali Naqvi was imprisoned on charge of conspiracy to murder, but was later released.

3) Sami ul Haq and his faction departed the alliance

4) Sajid Mir also left the alliance temporarily because MMA was making a deal to back the Musharraf government, and Sajid Mir is a close associate of Nawaz Sharif, who is a bitter opponent of Musharraf.

5) Jamaat e Islami almost split recently with JUI(F) on issue of resignation from the provincial assemblies, but despite this great tension the alliance remained intact.

Now Jamaat e Islami is boycotting elections. This will doubtless damage the alliance performance in general elections, but Qazi Hussain Ahmad has made it clear MMA is not finished, it is still an ideological alliance, and after the elections it will re-convene to launch a new strategy to re-instate judges.

So I hope and pray to Allah Taala He keeps MMA strong. It was an unfortunate decision of Jamaat e Islami to boycott elections. Basically they were tricked. They thought Peoples Party and PML(N) would also boycott, but now they too are participating, so it is rather pointless for Jamaat e Islami to stick by its decision at this point. Maulana Fazlur Rahman is a very shrewd and intelligent politician, he knew from very beginning Benazir Bhutto is a sly fox and is hungry for power and will never turn down a deal with the devil if it means more power for her and her party.
 
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