Following are the top 10 countries from the visitors come to Pakistan Forum website.
Pakistan.
United States.
United Kingdom.
India.
Canada.
Spain.
United Arab Emirates.
Saudi Arabia.
Australia.
Russian Federation.
Visitors To Pakistan Forum – Top 10 Countries
Osama Bin Laden is in Kunar, Afghanistan – Rehman Malik, Interior Minister
Rehman Malik, Interior Minister of Pakistan said Osama Bin Laden and other top Al Qaeda leaders are currently hiding in Afghanistan most probably in the Kunar area. He further said that the Pakistan military must have found him and his colleagues during its military operations if he was there in Pakistan. This news is released by Press Trust of India.
Great! Clinton to Bush to Mushraff to Obama all said the same thing with a little variation of the words. So what is new he is telling us. If he knows with that much confidence that Bin Laden is in Kunar why don’t he tell his US friends and collect the bounty.
Another question to Rehman Malik is why you could not find Baitullah Mehsood and Sufi Mohammad during your operation If you think your military operations were that effective.
Do you have any intention to find and catch Baitullah Mehsood and Sufi Mohammad? Apparently not.
Weekly News Wrap-Up
This would be a new feature we are introducing and will try to maintain it. We will briefly cover daily news but instead of posting them everyday we will compile them together on weekly basis.
Basically, we intend to cover only news from Pakistan but if there are news from outside of Pakistan which may effect Pakistan, we would also include those news items.
We need volunteer to compile these news if you are interested, please send an email with your resume to pakistanforum@gmail.com. If selected Weekly Wrap-Up will be published with your name.
India Blamed Pakistan Protecting Militants’ Satellite Phones
Today Indian Express has published a statement of Indian government that they have found evidence that Pakistan has set up an electronic infrastructer to protect Thuraya satellite phones used by Pakistani militants targeting India. According to Indian sources transmitters have been found along the Line of Control and Pakistan-Indian border which obscure the signals originating from the phones. Indian believe it could not exist without the implicit support of Pakistani government.
This allegation has come just a week before the the meeting of Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan to discuss steps Islamabad has taken to curb the terrorism directed against India.
Is Pakistan involved in this activity as India has blamed? May be? The problem is Pakistan has no credibility in front of world community. In November last year on the occasion of Mumbai terrorist attacks Indian blamed Pakistan and said they have evidence of mobile phone communication. President Zardari and Rahman Malik of Interior Ministry of Pakistan immediately denied the charges which turned out to be true later. So Pakistan should be careful.
If the Pakistani government is involved in this particular case the reason could be to shield it unsuccessful efforts to control militant activities. Why they cannot locate the people who are involved in these type of activities. May be Pakistan should seek help from India.
Unless there is a political will in Pakistan to curb the extremism, nothing is going to change. Recent events indicate government is afraid of religious parties and mullahs. PPP government is also afraid of Nawaz Sharif because he supports these mullahs and he has shown power to move the people with the help of TV media against PPP government.
Displaced People From Swat
People who are displaced from Swat due to military operation have been brought by the bus load to Karachi.
Why they were brought to Karachi? Like many other people I asked the same question to myself.
During the Afghan/Russian war all the displaced people were inhabited within the NWFP. Why this time when the displaced people were much lower in numbers were transported to Karachi. It seems it was preplanned with a hidden agenda.
I can think there were three motives behind this move.
Political. Pakistan Peoples Party wants to reduce the power of MQM in Karachi by
Most Expensive Electricity in The World
Today news have appeared in the local newspapers that with the recent purposed increase of Rs. 2.50 per unit will make electricity most expensive the world.
This is another deed of people’s government. Has anybody raised any voice against this increase? I have seen protest statements only from Karachi merchants and Jam Madad Ali, leader of the opposition in Sindh assembly. People of Karachi expect MQM to take strong stand on this issue.
If you go to low income areas of Karachi you would see a web of wires in the streets above your head. All these wires are running illegally from the distribution poles to people’s homes. In local language it is called kunda system. The question is, why the government cannot stop the stealing of electricity from the grid system? The burden of this free for all stealing goes to other people who do not steal.
Dunya TV has run a poll on their website about the budget 2009-10. As of today 86 per cent indicated that this is anti people budget.
Do you have any opinion on the budget or anything related to people’s welfare Pakistan Forum is open for anybody and everybody. You can say what ever is on your mind. You are welcome to write your comments.
How Much Afghan Governemnt Has Control Over Afghanistan
Helmand is the most violent province in Afghanistan. The governor of Helmand province, Gulab Mangal said the government controls only 8 of the 13 districts in the province. The districts where government has no control, three districts are in the north of the province, and two in the south. NATO security forces are planning to regain the control of these areas.
That tells you how much NATO and allied forces are successful over there.
