Quick notes: Mother tongue in playschools, 787 glitch...

• Centre wants all teaching in playschools to be in the mother tongue or the local vernacular language. "Once you start in the language that the child is comfortable in, it is very easy to move to the next level. Starting in the mother tongue gives a tremendous boost to the child's development."
  
  Some commonsense, finally. Foreign language medium in early education will ensure that we remain a nation of imitators, longing for all things phoren.



• Pakistan's Frankenstein: Taliban claim killing of Pakistani General



• Boeing's 787 Dreamliner suffers another glitch: A Norwegian Air Shuttle flight couldn't handle the full weight of the 250 passengers on board.



• Speculators exploit ethanol credits: Ethanol credits, which cost 7 cents each in January, peaked at $1.43 in July, and now are trading for 60 cents. “These things weren’t designed to become a speculative item. For the life of me I can’t see the justification for it.”

Quick notes: Digging temples, funding madrasas...

• White lady said 'money has to be found' for her socialist programs. Kaangress govt is digging temples to find it: Kerala temples asked to give details of gold they have.



• Maharashtra govt closing down Marathi medium schools to provide funds for Madarasas.



• Pro-Taliban rally by the Bengal Marxists fails to impress: Sushmita Banerjee, who had converted to Islam and rechristened herself as Sayeda Kamala, was dragged out of her house before being shot dead by the turbaned militants.

Target Pakistan, Karzai tells Taliban

Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday suggested that the Taliban should turn their weapons against Pakistan, escalating tensions with Islamabad days after the two countries exchanged fire along a disputed border.
No Afghan government, he added, will recognize as an international frontier the British-drawn boundary with Pakistan, known as the Durand Line, which cuts in two the ethnic Pashtun homeland. He called on the Taliban to "target the place that is hostile to Afghanistan."

Reuters: Karzai Suggests Afghan Taliban Target Pakistan 

Swine flu scores again in Kashmir

Unfortunately, Mufti Saheb's fatwa applies only to singing by teenage girls.

http://m.rediff.com/news/report/kashmiri-rocker-mufti-said-it-was-un-islamic-so-we-quit/20130205.htm

Now, it would be truly ironic if the Mufti were to be diagnosed with a strand of swine flu!

http://m.rediff.com/news/report/man-dies-of-swine-flu-in-srinagar-hospital/20130205.htm#






"Swine flu claimed yet another life in Kashmir valley bringing the toll to four since December 2012, according to sources in the state’s premier Institute of Medical Sciences."

Hindu terror in Peshawar?

Perhaps, the RSS runs Sunni Shakhas in the North West Frontier Province! And, Maulana Fazlur Rehman or Mullah Radio is the provincial Shakha Pramukh!

Ask "Digvijay Singh" and "Sushil Kumar Shinde". They are privy to "intelligence reports" as ministers and senior appartchiks in the tinpot dictatorship of the Nehruvian Stalinist Congress


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/02/01/world/asia/ap-as-pakistan.html?ref=news&_r=2


PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a Shiite mosque in northwestern Pakistan as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers, killing 23 people and wounding over 50 in the latest apparently sectarian attack in the country, police said.

Shiite Muslims in Pakistan have increasingly been targeted by radical Sunnis who consider them heretics, and 2012 was the bloodiest year for the minority sect in the country's history.

LeT chief is right for once

Here is the part that could potentially be agreeable in the
serendipitous episode:

The Mambo (Male bimbo), Shah Rukh Khan should comply with
Hafiz Mohammed Saeed's suggestion and move to Pakistan if he is feeling "insecure" and "persecuted" in India. Taste the Taliban's hospitality for a while..

At least, this Khan is no longer practising the Taqiya that he has bamboozled the gullible Dhimmi Indians with for so long. A re-affirmation of his roots in the Jihadi way is welcome, even if it only serves to cure the credulous Bollywood intoxicated masses of their idiocy and jolt them out of their stupor.


http://m.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-shah-rukh-should-give-a-befitting-reply-to-hafiz-says-bjp/20130129.htm

UPA's fake protests over Headley sentencing

The U.S administration can also
take a leaf out of Sheila Dixit's book, citing "possible law and order problems" as a result of a Headley execution in "sensitive areas" in the greater Chicago area, which does have a huge "peaceful" immigrant population, especially Pakistanis.

After all, David Coleman Headley aka Dawood Gilani was a double agent for the CIA and the ISI, therefore by extension the LeT.

Secondly, Dhimmi GOI has hardly covered itself with glory when it comes to punishing perpetrators of terrorism on Indian soil. GOI needs to first implement the Supreme Court's order to execute Mohd. Afzal Guru - before daring to demand the extradition of Headley et al.

Foreign minister, Salman Khurshid in his previous avatar (sic) as the Congress chief leading the election campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly had promised that "rivers of blood will flow if reservations for Muslims are not implemented."

His phoney demand for "harsher" punishment to Headley/Gilani is laughable.
The usually poker faced incoming Secretary of State, John Kerry will have a hard time
controlling his laughter, the next time he meets India's Foreign minister.




Thirdly, the Indian Home minister, Suhail Qamar Al Hinde
has declared just a couple of days ago that there are only "Hindu terrorists" in India - directly inciting the Pakistani Taliban to issue ominous threats
of strikes on Indian soil against
"state sponsored Hindu terrorists" and implicitly negating
Indian requests, howsoever meek, for action against terrorist networks acting from foreign soil.

Typical Stalinist strategy to decimate political opposition: kill
anyone who raises their voice against the government's tyranny and label them "Hindu terrorists". No questions will be asked. No answers will be required.

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/US-defends-decision-not-to-seek-death-penalty-for-Headley/articleshow/18185566.cms

"India made clear on Friday its disappointment over David Headley not getting a "harsher" sentence than 35 years in jail for helping plot Mumbai terror attack even as the US justified its decision against seeking death penalty for the Pakistani-American LeT terrorist.

External affairs minister Salman Khurshid while asserting that India will try to push for Headley's extradition from the US for facing trial in India said he would have got "harsher punishment" had he been tried in this country. "

After Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, who?

Recall Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, a "peaceful" leader from the valley of Kashmir who had the distinction of being the first Moslem to serve as the Union Home minister of India - courtesy, the arch traitor V.P Singh (curse be upon him), an actual descendant of Jaichand, the traitor (curse be upon him) who betrayed Prithviraj Chauhan and the motherland to
an early Jihadi invader, Mohammad Ghauri.

Mufti's sole achievement in his tenure as Union Home minister was to stage manage the "abduction" of his daughter, Rubaiya Sayeed and release several dangerous Jihadi terrorists as her ransom - terrorists who had been captured alive at great cost, in men and material.

As if on cue, the Pakistani Taliban, with great alacrity have threatened to attack the alleged "BJP & RSS terrorist camps" in India!!!

The Home minister's propaganda is now directly threatening national security. He should be held personally culpable for any Jihadi attacks on Indian soil, from this poin onwards. The head honchos of the UPA regime are liable of wilful endangerment of the security of Indian citizens by tolerating, indeed actively encouraging this vile propaganda on behalf of the Lashkar E Taiba emanating from the precincts of the Indian Home ministry!!!!

This would be equivalent to U.S Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton denouncing the Republicans as "Christian terrorists" and inviting Al Qaeda to strike at them on U.S. soil!!!

Except, such an outrageous statement would not have been issued in any other self respecting nation - including by confused American "liberals". It is inconceivable, except in Nehruvian Stalinist India!!

Pakistani Taliban vows to strike at "BJP terror camps"
in India

http://m.risingkashmir.in/news/pak-taliban-vows-to-strike-at-%E2%80%98bjp-terror-campsacute-in-india-40578.aspx

"Agencies
Peshawar, Jan 24: The Pakistani Taliban will carry attacks in Kashmir if the UN bodies and the US fail to stop the “BJP-sponsored state terrorism” against Muslims in the region, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said Thursday.
“Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's statement regarding BJP-backed terrors camps is an open confession that Hindu extremists are being patronized under the state's authority for killing innocent Kashmiri Muslims,” The Dawn reported.
Ehsan said the US and the UN should also order drone strikes and coalition troops invasion to target these terror camps.
He said that if the US and the UN does not take action against BJP and RSS terrorism against Muslims in India, then TTP would "take care" of it.
"

Do we now have India's 2nd Moslem Home minister? In addition to his recent preposterous allegations of
"Hindu terrorism", providing grist to Pakistan's propaganda - some of his recent statements may provide a clue to his reality.
Judge for yourself:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-13/india/34431008_1_hazratbal-shrine-sushilkumar-shinde-home-minister

Was my childhood desire to pray at Hazratbal: Shinde
IANS Oct 13, 2012, 06.24PM IST

SRINAGAR: Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Saturday it was his childhood desire to pray at the Hazratbal shrine, but it came about so that his wish was fulfilled only after taking over as the country's home minister.

Talking to reporters outside the Hazratbal shrine where he went with Kashmir's Minister of Home Nasir Aslam Wani and union Home Secretary R.K. Singh, Shinde said: "As a child it was my desire to come and pray at the Hazratbal shrine. I have been coming to Kashmir since 1980, but God so ordained that I should visit the shrine only after taking over the country's home minister."

Part 2 of BBC Documentary: Secret Pakistan

Here is 'Backlash' - Part 2 of the BBC Documentary, 'Secret Pakistan':

Taliban Assassinate Rabbani After Gaining His Trust

Former Afghan President and Jamiat-i-Islami leader Burhanuddin Rabbani has been assassinated. I'm reminded of that moment 10 years ago when news came forth that his close associate Ahmad Shah Masood had been assassinated by Taliban ally AlQaeda. This was of course the day before the 9/11 attacks.

Here too, the Taliban say that an elaborate ruse had been created to gain Rabbani's trust by leading him into a pretense of negotiations. This enabled a pair of suicide bombers to gain close access to Rabbani, before detonating their hidden explosives.

This is a severe blow which shows that Taliban/ISI can never be trusted, especially when they claim to want to negotiate.

Stratfor's Friedman on the Taliban Strategy

George Friedman of Stratfor gives his analysis of the Taliban strategy, following the recent Taliban attack on the US embassy in Kabul:

Taliban Ambush SEAL Team Six, 38 Killed

SEAL Team Six, the covert US special forces group which gained fame for killing Osama Bin Laden at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, has suffered huge losses after a Chinook helicopter carrying them was shot down by the Taliban in Wardak province, next to Pakistan.



One has to wonder if ISI isn't coordinating a campaign to hunt down and eliminate US specops from Afghan territory. After all, since Pakistan's military have spared no effort in getting US commandos removed from Pakistan, they would logically shift their focus to those US specops who continue to operate nextdoor. Meanwhile, the US is looking to expand the scope of its attention to Balochistan.

Attack on Naval Base Has Pakistanis Asking Questions

In the aftermath of the attacks on Pakistan's Mehran naval base in Karachi, talkshow hosts and panelists wail over why Pakistan is in its predicament, and what to do about it:



As usual, Pakistanis always seem to be one major disaster away from introspection.

Pak Naval Base Attacked, P3C Orion Aircraft Destroyed

In a scene reminiscent of Colombo airport in 2001, armed militants are attacking Pakistan's Mehran naval base in Karachi, destroying both of its prized P3C Orion aircraft, used by the country for maritime patrol and surveillance. They may have taken hostages.




Since Pakistan continues to refuses to dismantle the terrorists, it seems the terrorists will continue to dismantle Pakistan.

More:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-22/explosions-firefights-erupt-at-pakistani-naval-aviation-base-under-attack.html

Update: Looks like the operation is now over, and Interior Minister Rehman Malik has arrived on scene to make an inspection.

Maher Asks Clarke About Pakistan

Comedian and nightly talkshow host Bill Maher asks former Whitehouse National Security Advisor Richard Clarke about Pakistan:



Here's the whole interview:

Taliban Murder Pak Minister of Minorities

Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani Christian who was Pakistan's Minister for Minorities, was assassinated by gunmen who left leaflets at the scene signed by AlQaeda and Taliban, warning that his opposition to Pakistan's infamous blasphemy laws justified his murder.

Taliban's Founders Dead

2 leading Pakistani figures who helped to create the Taliban are now dead - Naseerullah Babar and Sultan Amir (aka 'Colonel Imam'). It's a symbolic reminder of how Pakistan, its praetorians and their policies are all going down the tubes, gasping their dying breaths. Even Benazir should be included on that list. 'Strategic Depth' has turned into a millstone around their necks.

Taliban Maim Children for Spying Game

The Taliban have taken to maiming, shooting, and burning children in order to use them as passports to spy on US/NATO forces.

Hey, no problem, right? All in a day's work for the Religion of Peace(TM).

Obama's Speech on Afghan Situation

Obama has given a speech on the state of the situation in Afghanistan. From it, I quote the following:

It's important to remember why we remain in Afghanistan. It was Afghanistan where al Qaeda plotted the 9/11 attacks that murdered 3,000 innocent people. It is the tribal regions along the Afghan-Pakistan border from which terrorists have launched more attacks against our homeland and our allies. And if an even wider insurgency were to engulf Afghanistan, that would give al Qaeda even more space to plan these attacks.

And that's why, from the start, I've been very clear about our core goal. It's not to defeat every last threat to the security of Afghanistan, because, ultimately, it is Afghans who must secure their country. And it's not nation-building, because it is Afghans who must build their nation. Rather, we are focused on disrupting, dismantling and defeating al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and preventing its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future.

This sounds like an ill-conceived strategy for never-ending fighting there. Since AlQaeda cannot be driven out from Afghanistan while that country remains in chaos without effective government, then the US will be stuck in never-ending skirmishing with AlQaeda and its local jihadi allies, the Taliban. Meanwhile Pak will sit back and keep watching the US aid money rolling in, becoming ever more stubborn and uncooperative while lining their pockets.

Rather than playing a never ending "disrupting" game of hide-and-seek with AlQaeda and its local jihadi affiliates, the US should instead focus on "draining the swamp". And that then brings us to the real solution to this seemingly intractable problem - changing the borders of that chaotic area. Only re-drawing the borders of that place will heal it, because the chaos of that place dates back to the time of British colonial wars of conquest against that region. Britain attempted to conquer the Pathans, and it wasn't very successful, even though it then claimed that the Pathans had been made part of British India. Pakistan then later claimed to have inherited those Pathan lands from British India's partition, and obviously their claim is just as hollow as Britain's was.

When Jinnah sent the Pathans to attack Kashmir in 1948, it was precisely because of his fears that the restive Pathans would follow the Kashmiris' example in also opting out of Pakistan. He was simply attempting to deflect Pathan nationalism and restiveness against the convenient "evil Hindoo Indian" bogeyman, in order to avoid having to deal with Pathan nationalism himself. The Pathan issue is thus the real root cause of the Kashmir dispute.

Likewise, when the Afghan War against the Soviet Union resulted in increased militarization and gun culture among the Pathans, the Pakistani leadership again sought out a new stunt of creating Taliban to invade Afghanistan. They didn't need to invoke an Indian bogeyman to start that misadventure, because they were eagerly proclaiming their desire to re-create a "Silk Road" into Central Asia. But since non-Pathans of northern Afghanistan were not going to be rolled over so easily, Pakistan kept injecting the Taliban with more toxic Islamist 'steroids' to increase their aggressiveness. This made conditions ripe for AlQaeda to thrive, and led to their infamous attacks on the US on 9/11. Now Pakistan is stuck riding out this latest cycle of misadventure, in its never-ending attempt to hang onto the Pathans. The Pathan issue is thus the real cause of the USA's fruitless War on Terror.

Hanging onto the Pathans is only fueling Pakistan's stuntsmanship, as it lurches from one crazy stunt to the next for an ultimately futile goal. Instead of prolonging the misery and chaos of that region, the US needs to simply restore the borders back to their rightful state, so that order can again prevail, and AlQaeda can be purged from its safe havens in the area. Separating the Pathans and the Baloch from the Punjabi grip, and allowing the Pathans to reunify across both sides of the artificial Durand Line, and likewise allowing the Tajiks and Uzbeks of Afghanistan to reunify with their respective motherlands of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, will bring a wave of peace across that region - a peace that was taken away by the British and their Great Game so long ago.

Sikhs in NW Pak Told to Flee or Convert

Here's a story in TIME about Sikhs being forced to convert or flee from Taliban-dominated northwest Pakistan.