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It seems to be a recurring thing. More often than not, aircraft crashes are caused due to pilot error, and considering the IAF's history, we can't rule that our completely. However, Dhruv's a relatively newer platform that's been getting into a lot of trouble. It seems to be building itself an...

Abu Zolfiqar, the standard Indian, as you put it, wants to hear nothing about the occupation in the Valley of Kashmir. They would much rather talk about their fantasies of popular support for India or that there are poor people in Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan (as ironic as it may be for an...

My family's original language is Potohari. However, since my mom is from Lahore, the version of Punjabi I speak is a mixed-cocktail. Sir, we are in a state of partial-war, are we not? Do we require to go through a million layers of bureaucracy to help our policemen, FC-men and soldiers survive...

ptldM3, brother, your Prime Minister is one serious dude. He was angry at the shameful performace of your winter olympians. He said "the people responsible should write their resignations. If not, we will help them write them". But really, it's just games man! So what if we absolutely thrashed...

I'm still waiting for my boss' email. I think I should send her this song, which is an alltime favourite of mine: Also, only 45 minutes left before I leave for my first ever political interview. Time to put my game face on. Update Wow, what a sequence of events. I called the Project Manager...

On Friday it snowed a lot here in Toronto, and the highways were jammed to the point that it was taking more than 2 to 3 hours to get from one end of the city to another (generally takes about 45 minutes to 1 hour depending on traffic). My office is beyond the West end of the city and my home is...

The Dawn News ticker says that a Magnitude 6.2 earthquake has been recorded in Mansehra and surrounding areas (Swat, Malakand, Peshawar), with minor tremors being felt in Islamabad. Please, can anybody from these areas update as to the magnitude? Magnitude 6.2 is generally not considered very...

As far as I know, nobody currently running Afghanistan has any right to be speaking of extradition laws. This entire War was started based on a faulty but convenient interpretation of international extradition laws. How many people who have been the source of terrorism and crime in Pakistan sit...

Sarhad Police deserves every bit of help they can possible get, they are the unsung heroes of this war. Sarhad government should have brought this issue to the media months ago, and pressured the government to release them (NOC or no NOC). This really is a shameful act of bureaucracy, and...

It certainly is very clean. You do not see any Rickshaws or Horse-carts in Wah, which is why the streets are far cleaner than, say, Lahore. Also, Wah is heavily guarded, I hear it's taking up to 2 hours of waiting at the barriers to enter the City these days, because of increased security after...

A 20 Million Dollar plane that can be turned off by flipping a switch? No such thing exists. The United States imposed sanctions on Pakistan in 1989/90 under the Pressler Amendment. At that time, the PAF operated two fully fledged squadrons of F-16s. If there was such a thing as a kill switch...

Ballistic missiles are offensive by nature. Pakistan is not Canada, it does not live in an all-friendly neighborhood surrounded on three sides by three different oceans. We require these missiles to build something called "minimum offensive deterrence" so as to keep our enemies at bay. If...

A picture of Sheikh Rashid: The only thing missing is a Zardari sticker, on top of a Parvez Musharraf sticker, on top of a Choudhary Shujat sticker on top of a Nawaz Sharif sticker. The place where I live is near Rawalpindi, and I am aware that the city had developed quite a but under Sheikh...

At least they are talking. As long as the talks don't focus only on terrorism inside India, which clearly they haven't, things look positive. Regardless of what they say outside the doors, at least inside they are speaking about the issues. And Kashmir was discussed "briefly" is as big a piece...

Self-defense 8000 miles from home? When was the last time Bahadur or Nazir were involved in an attack on the American soil? Also, did you just equate the unofficial "occupiers" to the "Afghan people"? You're there waging a war, not on a humanitarian mission, and everybody, most of all the Afghan...

The problem is not drone strikes, the problem is American drone strikes within Pakistani territory. No doubt drone strikes are relatively successful (no way to confirm this, but it seems to be the case), and there is little doubt the terrorists find them extremely disturbing. However, these...

Please also take action against the two dudes, Trichy and Vikram, who thanked krish for saying what he did. Anybody who appreciates such behavior can never be good for this forum.

Maybe he was in the bathroom? Maybe he had a study session? Maybe he had a date? You all know how power and money can make a man more attractive for a woman. But seriously, Mr. Bill doesn't have to attend these discussions. His seat has been guaranteed by the PPP leadership and the millions of...

This is not BR or Indian Defence Forum or some other cheapskate web forum, so don't worry, you won't get banned for asking questions. You might, however, get a warning for repeating the same questions that've been answered on this very thread time and again. If you take the time (which I'm...

Most Pakistanis prefer that, just like most Indians prefer flat tracks. Every country in the World prepares pitches that suit their players. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to produce a bowling track in Pakistan (except Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore) so you don't see Pakistani bowlers breaking...