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Muslim Woman status does the Quran endows for women. The details are lengthy but their gist is that Islam / Quran calls both man and woman, Zauj (counter part) to each other which means companions.

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2009/11/3

The Rise is Coming

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@ 09:20 AM (3 days, 15 hours ago)
Despite the problems our beloved country is facing, despite the fears that are lurking around, despite all the deception and frustration that is being inflicted upon us, despite all the evil designs of the enemies against us, despite all what seems to be going wrong…………We are going to emerge as a glorified and dignified nation, we are going to acquire the stature that we are meant to, we are going reach the top………we are going to rise! This is our destiny, this is what Allah Pak has decided and written for us, This is Allah’s Will and Rasool Allah’s promise and Iqbal’s dream. This is going to happen….The Rise is definitely Coming Insha’Allah… Pakistan Hamesha Zinda-o-Paindabaad PKKH

2009/10/29

Peshawar Bomb Blast and Pakistani Elite Class

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@ 02:37 PM (8 days, 10 hours ago)
To Our Elite And Not Just The President: Was a reception for a US foreign Secretary “Hillary Clinton” more important than sharing the grief of your people? More than one hundred innocent Pakistanis killed in one day, more than two hundred in less than a month. Attacks linked to our own and America’s failed Afghan policy. Attacks supported by anti-Pakistan forces in the region and not just unknown ‘extremists’. Children left without parents, a nation terrorized. And the response of our political elite? Dinner, toasts and merrymaking in Islamabad. Was a reception for a foreign guest more important than sharing the grief of your people? A shameless foreign-backed ruling elite. One hundred and ten killed in one day. More than two hundred dead in less than a month. If this were any other country, emergency would have been declared, nation would have been mobilized, and intellectuals would have moved to question the policies of rulers who draw their strength from Washington and London and not from the people and the interests of Pakistan. Above all, there would have been a national mourning. But not in Pakistan. Not in a country where one ruler sold his nation in exchange for a deal offered to him by the Am-Brits and where ‘elected’ rulers consider receiving someone from Washington and London the high point of their careers. Ahmed Quarishi www.ahmedquraishi.com

2009/10/27

War On Terrorism in Pakistan

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@ 04:47 AM (10 days, 20 hours ago)
Reports of insurgents using sophisticated weapons including Russian made 14.7 anti-aircraft guns, against helicopters and fixed wing aircraft of the Pakistan air force have surfaced. Apparently it has been fitted on strategic heights in the area to target military aircraft. This anti-aircraft gun along with the 12.7 Russian model has long been in use by the Indian army. Pakistan has previously raised its concerns pertaining to Indian involvement in Waziristan entailing alleged financial and arms support to the TTP. Besides, Pakistan had been relaying its concerns to US involving Indian activities in Afghanistan. It is felt that these directed at Pakistan are deliberately ignored by the US, as part of a long-standing policy to maintain some sort of twisted leverage, by playing one against the other. This has led to a bigger trust deficit between Pakistan and US. The perception in Islamabad is that the US has been studiously ignoring its demands that India be restrained from exploiting the ongoing instability in its frontier region. Whose side is the US on? Though it has been pressuring Pakistan to undertake military operations against Taleban insurgent groups and had strongly opposed peace deals previously brokered with these groups, it does not seem to be supporting Pakistan in the ongoing battle in South Waziristan. Such a conclusion can easily be dismissed if one relies on the golden nuggets of rhetoric, spewed from the US State and Defense department! But as realpolitik goes, actions speak louder than words. And US actions to help Pakistan at this critical point have so far failed the test. A massive military operation aptly titled, Operation Rah-e-Nijat (path to purge) involving ground forces, artillery strikes and air power has been launched in Waziristan. Now Waziristan, North and South, border Afghanistan’s eastern provinces of Patika, Khost and Paktia. In such a scenario, the natural assumption would be that Pakistan would be extended a helping hand by the coalition forces, especially, when Pakistan’s military has been extending the same cooperation in recent coordinated operations, in Helmand and other places. This assumption is not only based on natural reciprocity but is a derivative of standard military logic and the deep military to military cooperation existing between the two sides. Apparently, the US outposts on the Afghan border parallel to Waziristan have been evacuated. Strange, considering the coalition forces should have boosted troops on their side given the significance of this operation. It is not a localised engagement being carried out in Swat or even other agencies in FATA, such as Bajaur and Mohmand. This is about striking the epicenter of Taleban insurgency in Pakistan, whose nuisance value for the coalition forces runs very high. Considering the past pressure on Pakistan to target Waziristan — hosting the core group, the Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan — the US seems to have slunk from active involvement in supporting the operation. The implications of such a move at this point allows unhindered access to Taleban/foreign fighters from Afghanistan to aid the TTP in fighting against Pakistan’s armed forces besides trafficking of weapons. An influx of fighters and weapons is the last thing needed at 
this point. This is probably why General Tariq Majid, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) urged the UK Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup to seal the Pak-Afghan border to prevent cross-border movement of terrorists and flow of weapons into Pakistan. Proliferation of smuggled weapons is nothing new in this part of the world. Not only has it been a thriving trade since the days of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, this tradition has been sustained in the following years. Reports of insurgents using sophisticated weapons including Russian made 14.7 anti-aircraft guns, against helicopters and fixed wing aircraft of the Pakistan air force have surfaced. Apparently it has been fitted on strategic heights in the area to target military aircraft. This anti-aircraft gun along with the 12.7 Russian model has long been in use by the Indian army. While the insurgents long apprised of the impending operation in the area, may have procured these highly coveted weapons, contention tilts towards possible Indian involvement. Pakistan has previously raised its concerns pertaining to Indian involvement in Waziristan entailing alleged financial and arms support to the TTP. Besides, Pakistan had been relaying its concerns to US involving Indian activities in Afghanistan. It is felt that these directed at Pakistan are deliberately ignored by the US, as part of a long-standing policy to maintain some sort of twisted leverage, by playing one against the other. This has led to a bigger trust deficit between Pakistan and US. The perception in Islamabad is that the US has been studiously ignoring its demands that India be restrained from exploiting the ongoing instability in its frontier region. While Pakistan has charged India for fanning unrest and supporting 
nationalist insurgents in Balochistan and vice versa — Delhi holds Pakistan responsible for not doing enough to bring perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice, the ISI for the Indian embassy blast in Kabul and sponsoring dissent in Indian held Kashmir—
both states have not missed any 
opportunity for ‘encouraging and exploiting’ trouble. This myopic perspective is disturbing. If the objective is to create deeper destabilisation in the region (what that may achieve for any is the bigger question) then each—the US, India and Pakistan—must be accorded full points. However, it may be wiser for all to think beyond short-term tactical victories, that are potentially pushing them towards a bigger fallout. It will eventually backfire on the larger goal of defeating terrorism—affecting all stakeholders. While presence of foreign fighters in the area including Uzbeks and Arabs is nothing new, their contribution to the current engagement is particularly irksome. Not only do they provide vital human support to the fierce fighters within the TTP ranks, they bring strategic experience from years of fighting in asymmetrical conflicts against well-armed international forces. The problem with Waziristan is that the Pakistan army is fighting a guerrilla war with conventional forces. It is very likely to turn out to be a protracted engagement. The decisive point for the military would be to gain local support among the tribes in Waziristan particularly the Mehsud tribe. This is why Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani sent a special message seeking support for the operation while detailing the objective that is to secure the state and oust foreign terrorists from the area. While curtailing the operation at this point would be detrimental in every respect, efforts to engage the tribes must be top priority. The military is already doing that to bolster supportive resistance against the insurgents. However, a long-term strategy should look at working out a power sharing formula and regain control of the area from the influence of these groups. The TTP and affiliated groups support base among certain tribes needs to be alienated and rejected by others. At the same time a reread of history of how the British eventually got Waziri tribesmen to desist from challenging state authority would be useful. Peace was won on the strength of 
understanding and shifting responsibility and authority to the leading tribes with the withdrawal of forces from the area once control was wrested from miscreants. This should be integrated within 
the strategic doctrine at this time. Eventually, it will be the tribes who will act as guarantors of security of these hinterlands.

2009/10/23

Missile strike could complicate Pakistan Battle

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@ 11:15 AM (14 days, 14 hours ago)

Just when the Pakistan Army has started a major operation against TTP and foreign militants in South Waziristan the US Military has started to stab Pakistan in the back again. First there are confirmed reports that US and NATO troops have moved back from border area surrounding South Waziristan and have given a big escape route for TTP to move back into Afghanistan. Before starting this operation, Pakistan Army had won the loyalty of Hafiz GulBahadur, and Maulvi Nazir. Now when the operation is in full swing, and hard fought battle is raging on, when brave sons of Pakistan Army are sacrificing their lives for their nation, US drone handlers are hitting missiles at pro-Pakistan Taliban based in Waziristan so as to ignite them into joining Takfiri TTP.

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2009/10/21

Anti Pakistan Terrorists: Taliban Equipped With U.S Indian German Weapons

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@ 09:08 AM (16 days, 16 hours ago)

In one case, Germany sent 10,000 small weapons to Afghanistan.  Half of them have disappeared.  This is a classic way of supporting insurgencies without being caught.  German investigators can never accuse German intelligence of crossing the NATO mandate and helping CIA in extracurricular activities.  The Americans are good at dismissing their double actions in Afghanistan as conspiracy theories.  Here is a brief, detailed and sourced account of what types of foreign-origin sophisticated weapons are in use against the Pakistani military.  A ragtag army of criminals, throat-slitters and mercenaries could never have faced one of the world's largest organized armies if not for outside sophisticated support.

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2009/10/17

Obama Signs ‘Kill Bill’. What Can Pakistan Do?

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@ 02:26 AM (20 days, 23 hours ago)

President Obama has signed the ‘Kill Bill’ [Kerry-Lugar bill] despite the reservations of most Pakistanis on offensive language in some clauses.

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2009/10/15

Open Letter To Citizens Of the U.S

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@ 11:43 AM (22 days, 13 hours ago)

Citizens of United States

We Pakistanis are ordinary beings like you, having the same dreams, same needs, ambitions, emotions, reservations and same passion if not more for our country. We like you, to feel the same regret for wars, same grief for the world problems, same distress towards injustice, same hopes for a better tomorrow. We, like you, also fantasize having serene borders, comfortable homes for our children, fine education, some leisure, and a satisfied mind that what we are contributing to this country and the world at large today will benefit us and our future generations tomorrow. We fancy the feeling of living in sheer coziness of our homeland, away from overseas interventions and foreign-extremism in the exact same way as an average American desires.

We didn’t get our independence as a birthday present, we got it after much struggle and sacrifices (over 4 million lives were lost during the migration); after much strangling and many fatalities, we finally broke free of the quandary at the hands of British and Hindu rulers. After independence, we have shown remarkable progress in many areas despite having rulers who placed personal interests over national interests, who never really had to face the trauma of poverty, sickness, injustice, or leaving their loved ones behind to inhabit a land with no promises. Yet we did not give up and made a nation out of it. We did not fail as our current leaders try to put it, to solicit more and more aid to gratify their own greed. In our short history we have never been blessed with a true leader after our founder, and yet imagine our courage, we did not break down, we moved on and on. And we never really looked for shortcuts to this existence, we have paid plenitude.

We have now been presented with yet another aid package from your country which will be financed by American taxpayers money, which is the right of American citizens and on which we have got no claim. To your surprise neither do we need it to solve our problems. We do NOT need it. We have been seasoned to rely on our own resources, our own means; because at the end of the day this money will not be utilized for our poor nation it will land somewhere you cannot imagine its terminus to be. Period.

Let us give you a reality check, as the voice of our Pakistani country men and as a friendly gesture to the fellow citizens of U.S. who have a right to know. In all veracity this little aid which comes with a lot of dictation, will be utilized to finance foreign lavish trips of our government personnel who will take approximately 200 personnel including their family members to luxurious places. It will be utilized to provide notorious yet special security services that we cannot afford, to people who are not even part of the government but somehow our democratic rulers are much obliged to flatter. The so-called economic development this new aid promises will definitely not materialize. We know this because this has been happening for the last several decades.

The so-called promises to create jobs for us will never be fulfilled, whereby this money would rather be utilized for expanding the job market within the USA for the American people, which itself is being hit by the worst recession in decades. Not only that, the conditions mentioned will destabilize our civil system, will cripple our autonomy, our existence, will rob our craftsmen and the population on the whole of their much deserved earnings, and in turn will fan more frustration. The ordinary Pakistani is already paying a heavy return against the lending of IMF. Our electricity, fuel and other bills have been incremented, and those too over the dictation of the IMF. The Kerry Lugar Bill does not attempt to bring any solution for our challenges at all, instead, it will be sucking blood from our innocent population in the name of few miscreants who are not a part of us in the first place, in the name of a war that didn’t belong to us by any means and was imposed on us. Are we really attempting to build peace in here? Who are we fooling in the name of amity?

Islamic Republic of Pakistan is an independent country, which means that we are fully capable to take care of our needs, self reliant and complacent like Islam teaches us to be. We do not rely on shortcuts for realization of our needs. By the grace of our creator, we have been seasoned to work hard and achieve the impossible. The elite on powerful positions do not in anyway represent the opinion of general public. In their sinister yet sadly successful efforts, public is kept so busy in their basic problems that they never really get to question them on where was the Aid money utilized and why was it even asked for in the first place.

Its time the U.S realized that and leave the treachery of aiding us on the face and stabbing us at our backs. As the voice of enlightened Pakistanis, let us assure you, we will be delighted if the same money is utilized in your own country to deal with the recession it faces, to deal with the crimes soaring high with U.S. topping the list of most crimes in the world in a year. We will be glad if it is also spent on researches and precautionary measures on why so many Americans die with stress-related diseases every year, why life is getting tougher and tougher for an average American family and their social values are declining. We urge you to ask your Government whether this aid package is really helping us, the fellow citizens of Pakistan, or are you helping our shameless government with their lifestyles and luxuries? Are you helping in setting up schools and better health care or fanning more extremism due to ill-utilization that our rulers will ensure and frustration that the brutal conditions on this sell-out package will bring for us? Are you actually helping to support our displaced countrymen or giving them more reason to hate you for financing our depraved rulers?

Your financial aid will not do us any good, since more than this amount already stays in the bank accounts of some of our narcissistic leaders, who occupy the ‘seats’ but are indifferent towards the distress of the majority. If you are still so keen to help us however, start sharing best practices, help us in establishing good governance, help us in making our systems more transparent, help us in medical researches, help us in building up universities to polish our youth else we really don’t need your help, we can help ourselves.

We also request you to ask your government on how this bill helps the American nation and us, when it will just land in a few pockets and exactly what will our unfortunate nation be faced with as conditions to comply, tragedy of which is unimaginable but appalling enough for us to reject any aid from U.S. at all! The Patriot act which has left your nation so vulnerable cannot be allowed to implement in Pakistan. Let us make it more apparent, we will not allow the U.S. access to any of our properties or our citizens. These citizens belong to a free country, accountable to none other than their own national laws and America as a knowledgeable and well-developed country should respect that. Our country is fully capable to deal with any miscreants itself and we have been doing it to our best since this so called war on terror started. We will not allow interference in any form whatsoever in the internal matters of our country, in its governance, in its institutions and above all in its authority that this bill carefully ensures. Our rulers may be dissolute, our nation is not.

Your country has not only deceived you in the name of wars to eliminate terror while being exceptionally involved in creating it, but it also has left many homeless, many innocent killed, many children orphans, many women widows, houses and hopes shattered. It hasn’t just betrayed us, it has betrayed you. And rest assured, the bullying tactics that your country specializes in will someday become a pit in itself. Haven’t we all started witnessing that it in front of our eyes already?

We however maintain, the U.S. citizens don’t deserve to be kept in darkness. Since World War II, your country has intimidated directly or indirectly at least 44 countries, if not more in the name of peace while creating havocs in real, distributing civil wars, turmoil, oppressing nations, breaking them into pieces, dictating policies that completely butcher the civil structure. As your infamous Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger once put it so correctly: "While being America’s enemy may be dangerous, being America’s friend is invariably fatal". Who would comprehend that better than our nation, who has a history of 62 years being your ally and what did we get in return? Treachery, betrayal, deception?

What did the US get out of it; a deteriorating economy, a failed social structure, not to mention countless killed soldiers? It isn’t a surprise the same Kissinger who believed in brutal de-population of the world and whose policies your government still follows, also said "Soldiers are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy". Decide for yourself, where this face will lead you? This hatred your government is mongering against your beautiful country is pushing you down the path of obscurity too, with a point of no return.

Ask yourselves, are the U.S soldiers really worthless herds of cattle to be thrown into hostile territories just so that a few in the Govt. can benefit by selling their weapons to the U.S Govt., which buys them from these local multi-million dollar businesses at such dear cost of American tax-payers’ blood-earned money? Decide yourself, where this will lead you as a nation? This hatred your Government is mongering against your beautiful country is pushing you down the path of obscurity too, towards a point of no return.

We as responsible citizens of Pakistan request the responsible citizens of U.S. to really ask their government on the effectiveness of wars it has waged in the past and what it plans to wage in future. For instance, what did the Americans get out of the Vietnam war? Did the Vietnamese attack them? What did the Americans get out of the War between Iraq and Iran? What did the American people get out of the recent war in Afghanistan and Iraq? Did the American people get a share of the oil wealth that is being ripped off the Iraqis by use of brutal force?

Think about the latest package of deceit this Kerry Lugar Bill brings for us, the ruthless face of which we are already seeing, yet you are kept so oblivious to. We respectfully ask you to convince your government to keep the same money to themselves and utilize it to benefit your ailing economy, or maybe it can be used to return the debt that US owes to China.

Only then will we as a nation be inspired by the high spirits on your nation’s conscientiousness, and will be stimulated to follow the right footsteps.

A Pakistani

2009/10/9

International concerns grow over the safety of the Indian Nuclear Arsenal

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@ 08:20 AM (28 days, 17 hours ago)

Far removed from the photo-shopped images of ‘Shining India’, lies a dark and sinister shadow that stalks the Indian Republic. The spectre of the Naxalite threat now has middle-class urban Indians nervous as they watch increasingly worrisome media reports of the repeated failures of Indian Security Forces in containing the ‘red menace’ in the jungles and hinterlands of India.

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2009/9/26

Blind Followers

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@ 03:41 AM (1 month, 11 days ago)

Self preservation is a powerful force in humans, this exist on both personal & national level; in fact its a constant fear of facing a defeat, even on a intellectual level. In an attempt to avoid intellectual defeat, proof and evidence is created either consciously or subconsciously for beliefs that are held in them. Failure even in minor situations cause a feeling of being overwhelmed which is leading to an inferiority complex and a fear. This is why when people are confronted with something disproving their beliefs, their automatic reaction is to reject those new ideas and principles. They move towoards own ideas and construct fort of protection around themselves; and this is known as blind following, or taqleed. This manner of blind following is an opne enemy of knowledge and stand as opponent to all of invitation to the truth and to revolutionary movements. A vivid display of this is given by the nations to whom the various prophets were sent. To every prophet’s plea to follow the Guidance, the masses invariably responded ,How can we leave what has been passed down to us from our ancestors? We are not prepared to do this. In Quran chapter 43 verse 23 has highlighted this significant element;

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2009/9/19

Eid In Islam: Muslim Woman

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@ 03:27 AM (1 month, 18 days ago)

Islam is the name of the life of preservation of the self within the boundary walls of the Quran. For this purpose it is necessary that the mankind must know as to what are the boundary walls of the Quran and along with it they must also get themselves up for self-control. The month of Ramadan is the specific instrument for inculcating and substantiating each of these two matters. Today we can relate this as a Training Camp or a Refresher Course. The fasting makes the men to build up such a character which make them capable of reaching higher goals given by Allah Almighty. And when this month long exercise has ended up it has been asked to celebrate it known as “Eid”

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