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a clip from heera mandi , just for laughs....

my dear did u also saw that clip where he gives the rating to diamond markets of indo-pak
here india leads man.securing top two positions.
 
Nothing new.. the United States made prostitution a booming business during their stay in Vietnam.
Didn't anyone hear what that kid in the Matrix said about food.??
"It doesn't have everything the body needs"
Heck..I'd sit on my rump in the cold for hours on guard duty.. as long as I get to romp later.
 
wow, same old illogical concerns :disagree:
Who cares, this move will em power ppl in those areas, let them cry...
 
Indian army to deploy prostitutes as women battalion in Held Kashmir
From Christina Palmer

Special Report

New Delhi—The Indian Army is deploying around 200 prostitutes under the cover of Border Security Force’s constables in the Indian occupied Kashmir along with the Line of Control., The Daily Mail has learnt through authoritative sources.
According to the sources, the decision of recruiting prostitutes for deployment in the held valley was taken some six months back and Indian Army Chief General Kapoor finally approved it. The Daily Mail has learnt that this decision was taken as result of discussions and consultancies regarding the alarmingly increasing incidents of suicides and killing colleagues by soldiers of Indian army that are deployed in the Indian Occupied Kashmir to fight insurgency. The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that the factor of suicides and random shoot outs on colleagues by Indian soldiers in the held valley had become a big dilemma for the Indian army top brass. When this exercise gained momentum earlier this year, the army leadership approached different consultants and analysts. The consultants and analysts reached to the conclusion that Indian soldiers, deployed in the valley were committing suicides and killing colleagues out of acute frustration and depression. Medical and psychological consultants and analysts were of the view that since majority of the soldiers, deployed in the valley were married and were away from their wives for very long time, they were gripped by sexual frustrations which ultimately transformed into mental frustration. These consultants suggested that the soldier posted in the valley should be sent on leaves to be with their wives once a month. This came as another dilemma for the Indian Army’s top brass as it was not possible at all to send such huge number of soldiers on leaves with regular intervals. The Daily Mail’s investigations further reveal that upon this a Major General was sent to Moscow to get some solution to the problems as Russians have been having some sort of similar problems around 2 decades back. This General, identified as General Kumar, returned with a very strange solution. The Russian consultants told the Indian army that the since the soldiers in the valley were women starving, they should be provided with women to meet their genuine and natural needs.


No link to the news article? sounds dubious..;)
Usually international media refers to J&K as India controlled/administered Kashmir.... India occupied Kashmir or Held Valley are usually terms used by Pakistani media.
 
No link to the news article? sounds dubious..;)
Usually international media refers to J&K as India controlled/administered Kashmir.... India occupied Kashmir or Held Valley are usually terms used by Pakistani media.

Check Times of India the news was there also sans the word prostitutes
 
Check Times of India the news was there also sans the word prostitutes

Searched in ToI and daily times websites, but couldn't find this news article. Wish you could post the links...
Thanks. Cheers :cheers:
 
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Frontpage | Chug to Kashmir through India’s longest tunnel

MUZAFFAR RAINA


Srinagar, Sept. 6: Jammu and Kashmir is bracing for a rare feat: the opening of the country’s longest railway tunnel that will realise the century-old dream of connecting the Valley with the rest of India by train.

Eight kilometres of the 11km tunnel have been completed, and it is set to be opened for traffic by December next year. The tunnel will run from Qazigund in the Valley to Banihal in Jammu, boring through the mighty Pir Panjal mountains.

It will be Asia’s second-largest tunnel, behind only the 20km Wushaoling tunnel in Gansu, northwest China, easily beating India’s current longest, the 6.5km Karbude tunnel of the Konkan Railway.

“This is surely an engineering marvel,” said Colonel Parminder Singh, assistant general manager of Ircon, the railway ministry arm constructing the tunnel. “We have completed 4.5km from the Banihal side and 3.5km from the Qazigund side. We are now in the last stage of the project.”

The Rs 647-crore project will cap another milestone by the railways — the 119km stretch from Baramulla in north Kashmir to Qazigund in south Kashmir, which became operational a few months ago.

However, a Valley resident who catches a train from Baramulla or Srinagar and arrives in Banihal will then have to ride a bus or car to Udhampur before he can take a train again to travel deeper into India. The railway stretch from Banihal to Udhampur is yet to be completed.

Work on the tunnel began six years ago simultaneously with the Qazigund-Baramulla stretch after then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced a 292km rail link between Baramulla and Udhampur, connecting the Valley with the rest of country, a project conceived more than 100 years ago.

When completed, it would be a viable alternative to the 300km Jammu-Srinagar highway, on which travel is risky but which is now the only surface link between Kashmir and the rest of India.

The Rs 11,000-crore rail link is divided into three sections — Udhampur-Katra, Katra-Qazigund and Qazigund-Baramulla. The third stretch alone stands completed and is operational.

The remaining two sections pass through difficult terrain and will have numerous tunnels and bridges, including the world’s highest bridge, 359 metres high and 1.3km long, over the river Chenab.

Only when these two sections are complete will the dream of a long-distance train chugging into the Valley from mainland India be realised. Work on the Katra-Qazigund stretch, however, was stopped last year after some experts raised doubts about the track alignment.

But work on the Qazigund-Banihal tunnel has continued uninterrupted, and care is being taken to provide it with modern drainage, fire-fighting and ventilation facilities. The tunnel has a three-metre-wide road running parallel to the tracks to deal with emergencies.

Construction is being done following the Austrian tunnelling method, first used in India for the Delhi Metro. The method involves the integration of surrounding soil formations into a ring-like support structure.
 
Lol am just thinking if its only about indian army and They only sex hungry. Am just wondering what pakistani and chinese army does LOL. i mean look at china. They got double the army compared to india. Am just wondering what they do??? Yes i heard that chinese communist goverment worried of china's increasing 'prostitution' industry and i heard chinese goverment crack down on agents (which are alot good) but what will happen to chinese army??? Two things coming in my mind. One is may be chinese army turn monks lol. 2nd is indian tigers vanishing. No indian 'tiger' no 'bones' that chinese loves to eat for 'performing' on 'bed' lol cheers.
 
If thats true then it might solve the sex frustration problem but will increase AIDS and HIV in army personnel. and when they'll get back they'll transfer it to there family as well. So i guess its better that 1 or 2 soldier shoot themselves in a month instead of whole battalion gets AIDS in a week.

yeh toh achi baat hain na? agar poora army bhi aids se suffer kare toh bhi kam hain india ke liye:cool:
 
The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : The Hurriyat's moment of decision

Will New Delhi's latest attempt at an engagement with Kashmir's secessionists prove more fortunate than its four earlier attempts?

Speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day last month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he saw "no place for separatist thought in Jammu and Kashmir." From much of this summer, though, envoys from New Delhi have held a series of secret meetings with the leadership of the secessionist coalition which constitutes the principal voice of that sentiment: the All Parties Hurriyat Conference. New Delhi hopes to revive the negotiations which collapsed in 2005.

Each time in the past, talks with the Hurriyat have led to what has become depressingly familiar: impasse. Will this fifth attempt prove more fortunate than the four ill-fated rounds? New Delhi's renewed pursuit of peace isn't difficult to understand. Levels of jihadist violence have diminished steadily since 2002, and a record number of voters defied secessionists to participate in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections last year. But Islamist-led hardliners have succeeded in generating urban protests which, though limited in scale, have repeatedly brought the State government to its knees.

Policymakers are hoping that the foundations for a successful dialogue can soon be put in place. Kashmiri secessionists are being encouraged to articulate a political vision that acknowledges India's concerns over sovereignty. Rejectionists such as the hardline Islamist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and his jihadist allies are also being addressed. Perhaps most important, Pakistan is being asked to endorse the talks - no small ask at a time when its relationship with India is fraught.

Hopes that the Hurriyat can be persuaded to operate within the structures of democratic politics are founded on the realisation that many secessionists want a negotiated end to a battle they cannot win.

Back in 1997, the former Jamaat -e-Islami chief, Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, called for "a political dialogue." In 1999, Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Butt broke ranks with his organisation, and called for talks between secessionists and mainstream groups like the National Conference and the Congress to build consensus on the State's future.

During the summer of 2002, the Hurriyat's Abdul Gani Lone emerged as the principal voice of pro-dialogue realists. He travelled to Sharjah for discussions with the powerful Pakistan-administered Kashmir leader Sardar Abdul Qayoom Khan and the then- Inter Services Intelligence chief, Lieutenant-General Ehsan-ul-Haq. Lone is believed to have told both men that the Hurriyat Conference had no choice but to initiate a direct dialogue with New Delhi. Not long after the meeting, though, Lone was assassinated by a Lashkar-e-Taiba hit squad - a blunt message to all those contemplating making a deal with New Delhi.

In an effort to move the dialogue process along, the then Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani met with the Hurriyat leadership for the first time in January 2004. This was followed up with a second meeting that March. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held two more rounds of talks, in May and September 2005.

But fearful of the jihadist wrath, the Hurriyat never brought an agenda to the table. In March 2006, APHC leaders promised the mediators that they would attend Dr. Singh's second Roundtable Conference on Jammu and Kashmir, but backed off after threats from the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.

New Delhi now focussed its energies on Pakistan. In secret meetings which began in 2005, Dr. Singh's envoy, S.K. Lambah, and his Pakistani counterpart, Tariq Aziz, arrived at five points of convergence. First, the two men agreed, there would be no redrawing of the Line of Control. Second, they accepted that there would have to be greater political autonomy on both sides of Jammu and Kashmir. Mr. Lambah and Mr. Aziz also agreed that India would move troops, co-operatively manage some resources, and, finally, open the LoC for travel and trade.

Emboldened by this progress, Mirwaiz Farooq began to prepare his constituency for the future. During a January 20, 2006 dinner hosted by Pakistan-administered Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Attique Khan on January 20, 2006, the Srinagar cleric candidly admitted that the secessionist movement had failed. "We have already seen the results of our fight on the political, diplomatic and military fronts, which have not achieved anything other than creating more graveyards,." he said.

"I think the agenda is pretty much set," the Mirwaiz told an interviewer in April 2007. "It is September 2007," he went on, "that India and Pakistan are looking at, in terms of announcing something on Kashmir."

The Hurriyat leaders hoped that that the deal would hand them power - but by the time Mr. Lambah and Mr. Aziz arrived at their five-point formula, President Pervez Musharraf was in the midst of a storm that would sweep him out of power.

Desperate, the Hurriyat leadership reached out again to New Delhi. "Let us come out of our delusions," Mirwaiz Farooq said at a May 19, 2008 seminar in Srinagar. Mr. Butt, in turn, called on the National Conference and the People's Democratic Party to work with the secessionist formation to "mutually work out a joint settlement." For his part, the People's Conference chief Sajjad Lone called on the secessionists to focus on the "achievable."

Mr. Geelani hit back, using ethnic-communal issues to mobilise people people against what he described as a sell-out. Speaking at a religious conference in Baramulla on May 26 last year, he warned his audience that India was seeking to change "the Muslim majority into a minority by settling down troops along with their families." Then, "they will either massacre Muslims as they did in Jammu in 1947, or carry out a genocide as was done in Gujarat.".

By June, helped on by the communal storms unleashed by the grant of land- use rights to the trust which manages the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir, Mr. Geelani was able to turn the tables on the Hurriyat's realists. In a June 19 declaration, authored in the midst of the Shrine Board violence, the Mirwaiz dropped the option of direct talks with the Indian government. "Both sides," the document states, "after considerable argument and discussion, reached the conclusion that the Hurriyat Conference will continue its political struggle for self-determination, which can be achieved through tri-partite talks [involving Pakistan] against the backdrop of the historic struggle of the Kashmiris."

Last year, though, the wheel began to turn again. Kashmir's people rejected Mr. Geelani's calls to oppose the elections. Islamist mobilisations this summer remained confined to urban centres, a sign of their diminishing credibility.

In June, on his way home from Yekaterinburg in Russia, the Prime Minister announced that he had "not given up hope on Jammu and Kashmir." "I have always said that we would be happy to engage in a dialogue with any groups, and I mean any groups," he said. Asked specifically about the Hurriyat, the Prime Minister said, "Iif they have any views, we are quite willing to discuss them."

Mirwaiz Farooq has said he wants New Delhi to first implement a five-point agenda to "prepare the ground for negotiations." These are: the revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act as well as other special terrorism-related legislation, graduated demilitarisation of the State, the initiation of a process to narrow the differences between the parties to the dispute, the promotion of free trade across the LoC and, finally, India committing itself to a strategy "free of all political gimmicks and purely based on far-sightedness, wisdom and realism."

New Delhi is unlikely to meet these demands. As things stand, its negotiators are even resisting a meeting between the Mirwaiz and the Prime Minister until preliminary negotiations have been conducted to prepare an agenda.

Behind his resistance to this line of action lies one stark fact: the realists have never been in a weaker political position. Even in his old-city Srinagar heartland, Mirwaiz Farooq's repeated calls to pro-Islamist youth to end their now-routine clashes with the police have been ignored. Sajjad Lone's historic decision to fight the Baramulla Lok Sabha elections ended in an ignominious defeat.

Key elements of the Lambah-Aziz formula, on which the realists had pinned their hopes, have meanwhile been appropriated by mainstream parties. Last month, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti laid out her vision for an "azaad riyasat"- a term she translated for The Hindu as a "free state," but could also mean an "independent state." Based on the PDP's Self-Rule Document, she called for a free movement across Jammu and Kashmir's international frontiers, demilitarisation and the creation of cross-LoC political institutions.

For its part, the National Conference has been campaigning for the revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and a dialogue between New Delhi and the Hizb - issues on which the Hurriyat once spoke alone. Little space has thus been left for the Hurriyat to claim a victory - but the cost of rejecting New Delhi's new engagement could mean complete marginalisation. Either way, Mirwaiz Farooq's decision will be fateful.
 
Your challenge is a logical fallacy - argumentum ad ignorantiam, or proving a negative.

I cannot prove that which does not exist, which is why a court of law places the burden of proof on the accuser, to prove the crime, and not on the accused to prove their innocence.

So the burden of proof is on Indians, to show that all this massive 'ID card fraud' and settlers etc. have impacted the demographic balance.

First off, you fail to realize that the "proof" to show how the demography has been affected on the Pakistani side would be available only via a census conducted by Pakistani authorities....why would you people dig a grave for yourselves by conducting such a survey only to show how much Pakistan really "cares" about maintaining the integrity of Kashmir......

And please read my post carefully, since Im the accuser according to you, I only accused Pak of not passing laws like India to prevent dilution of Kashmir....which is true.....What else do you want me to prove?

Us Indians have done our due diligence by passing laws preventing other Indians from buying land in Kashmir, conducting surveys and maintaining records of Kashmiri's to prevent "dilution".....
If you dont have a response to show what Pakistan has done towards the same.....then shut up instead of trying to twist words to prove a point!!!
Our actions speak louder than your words.....

Do you have an answer to my question about how "Kashmiri" are the Kashmiri's in the Pakistan occupied side???
 
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First off, you fail to realize that the "proof" to show how the demography has been affected on the Pakistani side would be available only via a census conducted by Pakistani authorities....why would you people dig a grave for yourselves by conducting such a survey only to show how much Pakistan really "cares" about maintaining the integrity of Kashmir......

Us Indians have done our due diligence by passing laws preventing other Indians from buying land in Kashmir, conducting surveys and maintaining records of Kashmiri's to prevent "dilution".....
If you dont have a response to show what Pakistan has done towards the same.....then shut up instead of trying to twist words to prove a point!!!
Our actions speak louder than your words.....

Do you have an answer to my question about how "Kashmiri" are the Kashmiri's in the Pakistan occupied side???
My my, no answer and shown to have made an illogical claim so we resort to being rude now eh.

The point remains that the accusation is yours and therefore the burden of proof to substantiate the accusation is also yours. That's bare-bones, simple reasoning - the 'word games' are all yours.

The lack of a census does not establish guilt - it does however suggest that all of the Indians and apologists for the Indian allegations on major demographic changes in the NA's and Azad Kashmir are talking out of their arse since they can't validate their allegations with any evidence.

Either prove your contention or just slink away admitting you can't.
 
First off, you fail to realize that the "proof" to show how the demography has been affected on the Pakistani side would be available only via a census conducted by Pakistani authorities....why would you people dig a grave for yourselves by conducting such a survey only to show how much Pakistan really "cares" about maintaining the integrity of Kashmir......


No need for a census.....any person can live in AJK but cant become a citizen or vote in kashmir elections.

And please read my post carefully, since Im the accuser according to you, I only accused Pak of not passing laws like India to prevent dilution of Kashmir....which is true.....What else do you want me to prove?

Us Indians have done our due diligence by passing laws preventing other Indians from buying land in Kashmir, conducting surveys and maintaining records of Kashmiri's to prevent "dilution".....
If you dont have a response to show what Pakistan has done towards the same.....then shut up instead of trying to twist words to prove a point!!!
Our actions speak louder than your words.....

Non kashmiris living in AJK or any part of pakistan can not buy land in AJK but people from AJK can buy land anywhere in pakistan.

Do you have an answer to my question about how "Kashmiri" are the Kashmiri's in the Pakistan occupied side???

What a silly question.......lets just ask the kashmiris what they want.....india or pakistan:rofl:
 

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