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Blackwater / Xe’s dark side exposed as Mercenary Army
Aug 4th
After my recent post about Black Water This video is quite interesting with some facts as well.
Guys also take a look on book by Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army is a book written by independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, published by Nation Books in 2007, as a history and analysis of Blackwater USA, now Xe Services. It won a George Polk Book Award.
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Kashmala Tariq a Controversial figure (Biography)
Jul 1st
Kashmala Tariq age 38 was born on January 24, 1972 in Lahore and She’s a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from the Women Reserve Constituency NA-277 for the province of Punjab. She belongs to the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) AKA PML-Q. She is also actively involved in woman’s rights.
Kashmala Tariq is married and has one daughter and a son.
Kashmala Tariq entered the Pakistani Parliament on a seat reserved for women. The political party in direct proportion to seats won in the election gets a portion of its nominated women into parliament from the total pool of 72 women seats. On July 8 2008 her membership for the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) was cancelled since the Party President accused her of making the Forward Block of this party.
She was elected Students Union President at Lahore School of Economics (LSE) .She worked as corporate lawyer with a leading law firm Mandviwalla & Zafar for eight years and later got elected as Member National parliament in 2002. She got re elected as Member National Assembly of Pakistan (MNA) in 2008.
She was elected as Chairperson of Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians in CPA Annual conference held in India in 2007. She got elected by female MPs of 125 legislatures of 53 commonwealth member countries. Prior to this, she also served as Vice Chair of Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) and member of steering committee representing Asian region.
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PTCL & DSL Operators Interconnect Agreement for Provisioning Broadband Services
Oct 31st
PTCL and DSL Operators have signed a DSL agreement for provision of broadband services under the auspices of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The signing ceremony was held at PTA HQs, Islamabad where Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen, Member (Finance) Syed Nasrul Karim Ghaznavi, Member (Technical) Dr. Khawar Siddique Khokhar, Senior representatives of PTCL and DSL operators were present.
Under this agreement, DSL operators will now have a choice to acquire IP bandwidth from any other operator in addition to PTCL which will enable DSL operators to offer broadband services at competitive tariffs.
It may be mentioned that PTCL and DSL operators were unable to reach consensus on some of the issues such as permissibility to DSL operators to lease bandwidth from other private operators, laying of fiber in PTCL collocation sites, prices and discounts offered by PTCL for domestic and international bandwidth and provisioning of VPN services.Resultantly, the DSL interconnect agreement was pending for quite some time.
Taking cognizance of the issue, several meetings under the supervision of PTA were held between PTCL and DSL operators to resolve these issues. PTA also carried out detailed consultation with PTCL and DSL operators regarding finalization of DSL Interconnect agreement.
Chairman PTA said that owing to this agreement and resulting competition broadband tariffs will be reduced significantly. This would not only attract new broadband subscribers but would also motivate dialup users to shift to broadband services thereby increasing the broadband penetration in Pakistan.
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Conficker Internet Worm Set For Fresh Wave Of Attacks On April 1 Say Experts
Mar 28th
A fast-moving computer “super worm” that has infected over three million computers is set to morph into a more aggressive form on April Fools’ Day, experts have warned.
A bounty has been placed on the super-worm’s authors
The Conficker worm, which has spread across the internet at great speed, can be triggered to steal data or give control of infected computers to hackers.
But up to now, the worm’s authors have had their ability to control infected machines heavily limited by a coalition of web security firms.
The firms have been able to work with domain name registrars, which administer web site addresses, to block attempts from infected machines to get instructions from the worm’s authors.
But those efforts are set to get much harder. On April 1, many Conficker-infected machines will generate a list of 50,000 new domains a day that they could try.
Researchers already know which domains the infected machines will check, but pre-emptively registering them all, or persuading the registrars to neutralise all of them, is a big hurdle.
Passwords are at risk
If they can be controlled, the infected machines are expected to begin a campaign of “zombie attacks”, coming to life to steal passwords, send spam, spread the worm and clog networks.
Technically, this could cause major network outages or even a “cyberweapon of mass destruction” which could then attack government computers.
But researchers who have been tracking Conficker say the date will probably come and go quietly.
Richard Wang, research manager at Sophos plc said: “It doesn’t make sense for the guys behind Conficker to cause a major network problem, because if they’re breaking parts of the Internet they can’t make any money.”
Control of infected PCs is valuable to criminal networks, as the machines can be rented out and used for various illicit means.
Jose Nazario, manager of security research for Arbor Networks, said: “We expect something will happen, but we don’t quite know what it will look like.
“With every move that they make, there’s the potential to identify who they are, where they’re located and what we can do about them,” he added.
Microsoft has placed a bounty of $250,000 (£170,000) on those responsible for creating the worm.
A coalition of online security firms have joined their offensive against the worm, including Symantec, F-Secure, VeriSign, Afilias, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), and the Shadowserver Foundation.
:: Advice on defending against Conficker is available online at microsoft.com/conficker.
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Drunk Atif Aslam with Babes
Mar 15th
Ralph Peter’s Drawn Map of Middle East
Feb 8th
Ralph Peter’s article Blood Borders: How a better Middle East would look.
Drawn by self-interested Europeans & Americans..
International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war.
The most arbitrary and distorted borders in the world are in Africa and the Middle East. Drawn by self-interested Europeans (who have had sufficient trouble defining their own frontiers), Africa’s borders continue to provoke the deaths of millions of local inhabitants. But the unjust borders in the Middle East — to borrow from Churchill — generate more trouble than can be consumed locally.
While the Middle East has far more problems than dysfunctional borders alone — from cultural stagnation through scandalous inequality to deadly religious extremism — the greatest taboo in striving to understand the region’s comprehensive failure isn’t Islam but the awful-but-sacrosanct international boundaries worshipped by our own diplomats.
Of course, no adjustment of borders, however draconian, could make every minority in the Middle East happy. In some instances, ethnic and religious groups live intermingled and have intermarried. Elsewhere, reunions based on blood or belief might not prove quite as joyous as their current proponents expect. The boundaries projected in the maps accompanying this article redress the wrongs suffered by the most significant “cheated” population groups, such as the Kurds, Baluch and Arab Shia, but still fail to account adequately for Middle Eastern Christians, Bahais, Ismailis, Naqshbandis and many another numerically lesser minorities. And one haunting wrong can never be redressed with a reward of territory: the genocide perpetrated against the Armenians by the dying Ottoman Empire.
Yet, for all the injustices the borders re-imagined here leave unaddressed, without such major boundary revisions, we shall never see a more peaceful Middle East.
Even those who abhor the topic of altering borders would be well-served to engage in an exercise that attempts to conceive a fairer, if still imperfect, amendment of national boundaries between the Bosporus and the Indus. Accepting that international statecraft has never developed effective tools — short of war — for readjusting faulty borders, a mental effort to grasp the Middle East’s “organic” frontiers nonetheless helps us understand the extent of the difficulties we face and will continue to face. We are dealing with colossal, man-made deformities that will not stop generating hatred and violence until they are corrected.
As for those who refuse to “think the unthinkable,” declaring that boundaries must not change and that’s that, it pays to remember that boundaries have never stopped changing through the centuries. Borders have never been static, and many frontiers, from Congo through Kosovo to the Caucasus, are changing even now (as ambassadors and special representatives avert their eyes to study the shine on their wingtips).
Oh, and one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works.
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Dutch MP Geert Wilders charged on Anti-Islamic film ‘Fitna’
Jan 22nd
A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements.
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
“In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is in the general interest to… draw a clear line,” the court in Amsterdam said.
Mr Wilders said the judgement was an “attack on the freedom of expression”.
“Participation in the public debate has become a dangerous activity. If you give your opinion, you risk being prosecuted,” he said.
Not only he, but all Dutch citizens opposed to the “Islamisation” of their country would be on trial, Mr Wilders warned.
“Who will stand up for our culture if I am silenced?” he added.
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
“In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is in the general interest to… draw a clear line,” the court in Amsterdam said.
Mr Wilders said the judgement was an “attack on the freedom of expression”.
“Participation in the public debate has become a dangerous activity. If you give your opinion, you risk being prosecuted,” he said.
Not only he, but all Dutch citizens opposed to the “Islamisation” of their country would be on trial, Mr Wilders warned.
“Who will stand up for our culture if I am silenced?” he added.
‘Incitement’
The three judges said that they had weighed Mr Wilders’s “one-sided generalisations” against his right to free speech, and ruled that he had gone beyond the normal leeway granted to politicians.
“The Amsterdam appeals court has ordered the prosecution of member of parliament Geert Wilders for inciting hatred and discrimination, based on comments by him in various media on Muslims and their beliefs,” the court said in a statement.
“The court also considers appropriate criminal prosecution for insulting Muslim worshippers because of comparisons between Islam and Nazism made by Wilders,” it added.
The court’s ruling reverses a decision last year by the public prosecutor’s office, which said Mr Wilders’s comments had been made outside parliament as a contribution to the debate on Islam in Dutch society and that no criminal offence had been committed.
Prosecutors said on Wednesday that they could not appeal against the judgement and would open an investigation immediately.
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Pakistani Politicians – A real Look
Sep 29th
A real closer Look at Pakistani top Politicians
Prime minister Sir Yusuf Raza Gilani with Information Secretary Sherry Rehman
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You can see they even cant stop in Cameras
Information Secretary Sherry Rehman
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Nato Bravery Now in Pakistan, Killing Innocents
Sep 5th
US strike claims innocent lives in Pakistan
Missiles fired from an unmanned aircraft have killed at least five people in the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan. According to local residents and officials, two women and three children died in the strike.
This is the third attack on militants operating from Pakistani soil in the past few days. On Wednesday, a helicopter strike allegedly carried out by US-led forces in South Waziristan left 20 dead, including women and children. On Thursday, at least five Taliban militants were killed when a missile from a pilotless plane hit a house in North Waziristan.Wednesday’s attack met with outrage in Pakistan. There were calls in parliament to retaliate in cases of incursions into Pakistani territory by foreign troops. It is widely believed that US forces have stepped up their anti-Taliban offensive to reduce the chances of terrorist attacks ahead of Pakistan’s presidential elections on Saturday.
Last Attack
Pakistan furious over alleged US incursion
Pakistan is furious about an alleged US attack on its territory on Wednesday. Twenty people were killed in the helicopter raid on a Pakistani village in the Afghan border region. According to an anonymous Pentagon source, the target was a Taliban hideout.
Islamabad has summoned the US ambassador and lodged an angry protest. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry says attacks like this damage cooperation with the United States in the war against terror. Washington has not yet responded to the allegations.
I don’t know this government also sold to US or not but people are really angry and people are becoming more and more anti-American in Pakistan while US claiming good image in people.
Who US is to bomb Pakistan Land…If there’s really some one hiding there tell government of Pakistan they can better manage or bomb them.
I know one Thing by killing Innocents US creating more fighters (Terrorists for US) andmore resistance…..
I really condemn this act.
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Mian Nawaz Sharif, A History of Nation’s Pride
Jul 12th
After the comment on my post
Inside student life, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, I decided to post it. Credits are at bottom of page, Feel Free to comment.
Pakistan If you are one of the Pakistanis who applauded for former prime Nawaz
Sharif when he addressed a crowd of deranged lawyers and paid hungry supporters – who turned the most expensive piece of property in the heart of Pakistan’s federal capital into an open air toilet last night, then you should know that Mr. Sharif is not as innocent as he portrayed himself to be.
This is a guy who went shopping in Washington DC for a U.S. $ 25,000 watch as brave Pakistanis died fighting for their honor in Kargil, a battle that Mr. Sharif ensured we lost because he was busy in a personal fight with the nation’s military leaders.
Mr. Nawaz Sharif’s record is so embarrassing that, in another country with educated voters, he would never be reelected by the people.
His record includes unforgettable lapses and mistakes, each of them worthy of an inquiry commission that could disqualify him for life:
1. This man declared emergency after the May 1998 Nuclear detonations. Under the pretext of sanctions, he swallowed up the nation’s $10 billion foreign reserves. No questions asked and no accountability since!
2. This man, Nawaz, siphoned off millions of dollars of the money collected under the ‘Qarz utaro mulk sanwaro’ scheme where he appealed to the Pakistani nation’s patriotism and asked everyone to donate money to pay off the national debt. No accountability so far!
3. This man was shopping for $25,000 Philip Patek watches in the United States when our brave soldiers were dying in Kargil. No shame!
4. This man built a 2000-acre Raiwind palatial complex for himself and his family when our nation was contributing to the “Qarz utaro mulk sanwaro” scheme to pay off the national debt.
5. This man Nawaz is a PROTEGE of past military rulers who turned him from a dumb, Nehari-loving imbecile into a leader. General Imtiaz brought him from Dubai. General Jillani and General Zia-ul-Haq groomed him. Lt. Gen. Hameed Gul created for his an entire new political party, the IJI. Today he makes fun of the military. It says something about his character. He is an ungrateful person, someone we call EHSAAN FARAMOOSH in our language!
6. He is the first ruler in the history of Pakistan and maybe the world who ransacked the Supreme Court building and unleashed the private armed thugs on Shahbaz Sharif’s payroll as a private Sharif Militia and used them to stone the building of the Supreme Court and chase out its judges who dared to challenge his actions in 1997.
7. More than 80 complaints of corruption and misuse of authority were pending at different stages of inquiry, investigation and trial against former PM Nawaz Sharif when he was granted pardon by the president and went into a self-chosen exile. The complaint said Nawaz Sharif did not mention in his declaration of assets in the nomination form for NA-12 in 1997 that he owned a helicopter. It was alleged that he did not pay duties of Rs. 30 million on this machine.
8. According to a report:
8.1 Rs. 1.5 billion loan was taken out by the Sharif brothers against the security of their company, Ittefaq Foundries More >
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