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The political narrative is so ghattiya and cut-throat that another Muslim is being called a swine with no regard or regret. And I say this not as if I am a fan of NS and his ilk. Sochnay ka maqaam hai...

We have Haris Falcon II HF radios in service among others. However, these are man portable tactical radios. For PRC, my understanding from open sources is that we assemble an Aselsan VHF product also in use by the Turkish military and some other countries in the region.

We don't have foreign armies on our shores and in our skies. The recipe is in front of the current government. They have started talks with IMF...as I said limping will continue into the foreseeable future with IMF funds being made available. However, nothing of what you state will happen...

Nothing is collapsing. Pakistan will get the IMF loans and things will limp along. My personal concern (aside from political instability) is whether long-term economic reforms will be taken up. Without these reforms, we will yo-yo in and out of these meltdowns.

Azm was a co-opt program from the start. There was never a plan to build from scratch for the simple reason that we don't have the wherewithal for it. My read was that the idea always was to re-leverage an ongoing initiative (either Chinese, Turkish or a combination) with some indigenous...

It's ok, recycling is not an issue. Sometime it is hard to track what has been posted and what not (can't expect people to go through 334 pages of this thread alone).

What puzzles me is how every Tom, Dick and Harry is allowed into secure areas. All security measures are half-baked. Any civilian (non-Police) can enter and leave as they desire. The attack at the Tarbela mosque was similar. How could anyone enter without checking etc.?

What was IK able to do for Balochistan in his 3 years? The militancy increased. So let's not kid ourselves. There is a military dimension in Baluchistan. No insurgency survives without external support to destabilize our country. The serious military action started in a democratic...

Tau mainay kaha thaa kay motorway banao? Don't see you complaining about M1 cutting down the time of a trip from ISB to Peshawar drastically but loans lainay pa badda masla ho gaya hai ab. For the sake of argument, let's say everything you say is the gospel. They made an excess of $9B on the...

So why did Bhutto not agree with Mujib? Why were editorials being written in West Pakistani newspapers calling on the army to take action to keep the unity of the country intact and not let Mujib govern? Some of you are either purposely or ignorantly leaving out the political context of 1971...

He is suggesting no such thing, rather responding to the idiotic "Army gave away East Pakistan" nonsense. He is just addressing the point that militarily we were at a massive disadvantage. You are right, PA is not assigned to fight wars within. PA has never opened up fire against unarmed...

How is that any different than the bakvas that Trump or Boris Johnson used to shove down the throats of the people? This is better than riots on the road.

I swear, this is the only sane thing that I have seen come out after a long while. This is how things should be discussed in sane countries. Bring up the bile openly in front of the nation. Insaan kay bacchon ki tarah... Debate, call out each other's fallacies and propaganda. Inform the...

When things are posted without context, it does not leave much room for discussion or debate. Entire books have been written on why Pakistan needed to lean on x, y and z. We have never been a "rental force". This is the routine, nonsensical bile that continues to pour out of PTI propaganda...

I don't think it was "willing" but it got dragged into the war because of the structures in place. Don't think anyone in their right minds would have gone into the mess willingly. We had our interests to protect and we took a huge cost to keep them intact. I think when IK would say "its not...

Siddiqui sahib, It was our war because we had belligerents in our country who moved back and forth creating acute challenges for Pakistan in the face of American presence in Afghanistan. I am not debating the right of the Afghans to fight an occupier, rather the fact that this movement and...

You stopped loving him the day he spoke about the right of Kashmiris so it wasn't his Taliban affiliation that turned Indians against him. Also, it's funny to hear Indians talk about IK being a "Taliban"/extremist when the sitting PM of India is a far more pronounced fundamentalist than IK.

There isn't even a need to take their boots off....these chaps have full rukhsat (religious allowance) from above to pray with their boots on..8-)

No, it has nothing to do with Nadeem Anjum. He is just executing on policy that has been decided months ago which is to keep Pakistan's relations with the US intact and potentially grow. This is the position of the establishment and also of those others who are seeing the situation up close in...

When this entire bakvas started, I had stated this many months ago that the external factor is the all important one. IK chose to ignore the elephant in the room (our relations with the US) and actually snubbed the Americans by sticking his thumb in their faces twice (once on his own "Afghans...