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The Clueless Mr Harrison The only question that can possibly arise from any sensible follower of international relations after reading Center for International Policy director and former Washington Post South Asia bureau chief Selig Harrison's August 26 op-ed in the New York Times is this: Is...

We have an official passport:- The website of the Directorate General of Immigration & Passports says :- Since the number of official passports is quite large (53,000 in 07-08), then it must be issued to armed forces personnel. Perhaps a serving one can let us know. I'm sure about one...

Selig Harrison and Pakistan Media A column in the New York Times newspaper by American commentator Selig Harrison has raised quite a bit of media attention around a conspiracy theory that the government is giving Gilgit Baltistan to China, a claim publicly denied by the Foreign Office. As...

Since it was I who posted the NYT story, I need to post the reality as well:- Pakistan denies giving Gilgit Baltistan to China Tuesday, 31 Aug, 2010 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Foreign Office strongly denied the news propagated in the US and Indian media claiming that ‘Galgit Baltistan’...

Urdu version of your nuttery has already been published by leading newspapers:-

I've finally bought Mubarak Ali's argument that trying to regain Jinnah's Pakistan is a retrogressive obsession since we're clearly assuming that we cannot create a new social contract, state structure and ideology ourselves. Jinnah died on September 11, 1948 but his corpse was dug up and...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/us/31plane.html?_r=1

Anybody who follows PakPassion knows that Majeed has arranged many interviews besides being interviewed himself once. Mazhar Majeed known to Pakistan players Osman Samiuddin August 29, 2010 Mazhar Majeed, the man at the centre of the spot-fixing controversy that has engulfed the ongoing...

ICC is handling it since it has all the power to do so. Chapter C of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Officials makes it clear that spot-fixing will result in life-bans and nothing else. The Anti-Corruption Unit has already reached London. What PCB can do is initiate criminal...

You are disgusted by Dasti, aren't you? But in his constituency he is known as "15" as in Rescue 15 for paying a heed to the problems of his constituents immediately. I'm not defending this swine, but fact is that a society based entirely on patron-client relations creates a political...

Sab ko dili mubarakan.

Females have been CT trained in significant numbers for ICT Police and Punjab Police earlier as well. Here's another video that I came across:- So anybody who thinks that they can eve tease these girls should think twice.

At least the Lankan embassy is doing its job of taking up the issue. Pakistani, Indian and Bengali diplomats cannot imagine to take up such an issue (or should I say dozens of issues).

salman has a valid question as to what makes democracy the best (timebound for today or across time) or even the best of the worst systems of governance. That however is an entirely different issue. These one-stop solutions, orgasms about saviours and hero worship have and continue to ruin this...

The bitter reality in a op-ed-cum-resignation-letter. Powerpoint presentations have ruined the war for the US (regardless of your support or opposition to the war). Army colonel in Afghanistan fired for criticizing PowerPoint By John Cook By John Cook john Cook – Fri Aug 27, 11:04 am ET...

It was first thought of even in the early 90s and in 2005 considered again. Afghanistan being a problem besides the fact that connecting it to the national grid and importing it through rough territory is costly. Much better to import from Iran, or dare I say, India. We import 40-100MW from Iran...

China's Discreet Hold on Pakistan's Northern Borderlands By SELIG S. HARRISON Published: August 26, 2010 While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over...

Open Letter to Prime Minister of Pakistan on Kalabagh Dam - Marvin Memon, Member National Assembly Honorable Prime Minister of Pakistan Prime Minister House Islamabad Subject: Kalabagh Dam (KBD) – some technical observations June 24, 2010 Dear In the present budget session...

Relief Web mapping ReliefWeb Pakistan: Floods - Jul 2010 Maps ---------- Post added at 01:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:36 AM ---------- Road blockages in Punjab from Govt. of Punjab http://floodrelief.punjab.gov.pk/RoadsRiverStatus.aspx ---------- Post added at 01:37 AM...