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  • Hina Rabbani To be Stoned to Death? Of Bilawal Love.

    Bangladesh Tabloid Blitz broken a Story, that Hina Rabbani , Pakistan Foreign Minister and mother of two is in Love with Bilawal, on of Pakistan President Zardari.

    Bangladesh Muslim Clerics have recommended ‘whipping her to death’ as per the Sharia Law.

    No reactions from the Clergy in Pakistan yet.

    Bilawal, Hina Rabbani.jpg.
    Bilawal, Hina Rabbani.

    While Rabbani circles denied this affair, Zardari clan is silent.

    • The weekly Blitz breaks the news that Bilawal Bhutto is in love with the 11 years older Hina Rabbani Khar.
    • President Zardari is miffed and strongly opposed to his son’s entering into marital relations with Khar.
    • Hina discovers that her multi-millionaire husband Firoze Gulzar is having an affair with one of his staffers.
    • Firoze Gulzar officially moves an application seeking details of two ‘suspected’ numbers.
    • Islamist groups in Pakistan are likely to issue fatwa (religious decree) against Khar and Bilawal Bhutto over their illicit romantic affair.
    • Blitz also reported that 24-year-old Bhutto had a ‘knack’ for romance since he was a mere 19 year old student.

    According to the tabloid, the clergies recommended such horrible punishment for Pakistan Foreign Minister and Chairman of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) under Sharia law.

    One eminent Muslim scholar was quoted as saying, “If this report is true, it cannot be accepted under the Islamic laws. If Bilawal Bhutto is truly a bisexual and alcoholic; he does not have right to become thehead of the state of any Muslim nation. The laws inPakistan, does not permit such illicit activities.”

    “This is a severe offense under the Islamic laws. Bilawal Bhutto is a criminal in the eyes of Islamic law and such people can never be allowed to continue as a leader or head of the state in any Muslim nation,” added the scholar.”

    News over Hina-Bilawal’s alleged romantic relationship went viral on net. However, both Hina and her millionaire husband Feroze Gulzar have rubbished the reports terming the news as “reprehensible” and “trash”. Gulzar also accused political classes in Islamabad of hatching such conspiracy against Hina and their family to malign their image. Though there were no official statements from Bilawal or his father,Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari.

    A senior PPP official, however, stated a completely different story claiming that it was a conspiracy by Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) aiming to damage Hina’s reputation as ISI blames her for facilitating a UN investigation into thousands of missing people detained by the security forces.

    “They are not happy with her. The UN mission received a cold reception but Hina was called in by the president to meet him and the army chief. She crossed some red line,” the PPP official was quoted as saying.

    Rubbishing such allegations against ISI, Pakistan military too said, “These allegations are absurd and baseless. The ISI has nothing to do with this defamation campaign and neither any problem exists between the Foreign Minister and the agency.”

    Referring to the Bangladeshi tabloid, Hina Rabbani Khar discovered that her multi-millionaire husband Firoze Gulzar is having an affair with one of his staffers, before moving on to find love in the arms of Bilawal Bhutto.

    If reports are to be believed, Khar is alleged to have attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills, when she discovered her husband Firoze Gulzar in a relationship with a staffer.

    Reports said that Khar’s multi-millionaire husband Firoze Gulzar has officially moved an application seeking details of two ‘suspected’ numbers; however Pakistani officials completely brushed off the alleged affair.

    Referring to a prestigious national daily — the Ittefaq, the tabloid said that Islamist groups in Pakistan are likely to issue fatwa (religious decree) against Khar and Bilawal Bhutto over their illicit romantic affair, which is said to be a punishable crime under the existing law of Pakistan.

    The romance has also drawn the ire of self-declared custodians of religion from Bangladesh and Barelvi sect of Uttar Pradesh, who claim that the relationship is illegal, adding that stones should be pelted at the duo.

    Sources;news.one.india; post jagran.com

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  • Coup in Pakistan? Zardari in Dubai-to step down.

    English: Asif Ali Zardari.
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    It is reported in the US media that Zardari ,President of Pakistan,is reported to be in Dubai for Treatment of Heart Attack and Dawn of Pakistan has reported that he is advised rest and kept under observation.

    In the meanwhile,US Media speculates that Zardari has offered to step down in the wake of memogate and has been under severe pressure and during his telephonic talk with US President Obama on Memogate was reported to have been incoherent.

    Now this is interesting.

    The rumors of a Coup is possible and more than probable, considering the political situation in Pakistan,with Imran Khan being projected as an alternate  to Zardari with some parties supporting him along with intelligentsia,Nawaz Sharief having scored a political point by moving the Supreme court to order an enquiry into memeogate scandal and consolidating his position .

    Add to this the possibility of Zardari anointing his son Bilawal to succeed him with the support of some groups.

    In this cauldron the Military stand is unclear and they seem to be upset over memogate and the attack by NATO.

    Let’s see how this plays out.

    Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari left Pakistan suddenly on Tuesday, complaining of heart pains, and is now in Dubai. His planned testimony before a joint session of Pakistan’s parliament on theMemogate scandal is now postponed indefinitely.

    On Dec. 4, Zardari announced that he would address Pakistan’s parliament about the Memogate issue, in which his former ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani stands accused of orchestrating a scheme to take power away from Pakistan’s senior military and intelligence leadership and asking for U.S. help in preventing a military coup. Haqqani has denied that he wrote the memo at the heart of the scheme, which also asked for U.S. support for the Zardari government and promised to realign Pakistani foreign policy to match U.S. interests.

    The memo was passed from Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz to former National Security Advisor Jim Jones, to then Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen on May 10, only nine days after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani military town of Abbottabad.

    Ijaz has repeatedly accused Haqqani of being behind the memo, and Ijaz claims that Haqqani was working with Zardari’s implicit support.

    Early on Tuesday morning, Zardari’s spokesman revealed that the president had traveled to Dubai to see his children and undergo medical tests linked to a previously diagnosed “cardiovascular condition.”

    A former U.S. government official told The Cable today that when President Barack Obama spoke with Zardari over the weekend regarding NATO’s killing of the 24 Pakistani soldiers, Zardari was “incoherent.” The Pakistani president had been feeling increased pressure over the Memogate scandal. “The noose was getting tighter — it was only a matter of time,” the former official said, expressing the growing expectation inside the U.S. government that Zardari may be on the way out.

    The former U.S. official said that parts of the U.S. government were informed that Zardari had a “minor heart attack” on Monday night and flew to Dubai via air ambulance today. He may have angioplasty on Wednesday and may also resign on account of “ill health.”

    “If true, this is the ‘in-house change option’ that has been talked about,” said Shuja Nawaz, director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, in a Tuesday interview with The Cable. Nawaz said that under this scenario,  Zardari would step aside and be replaced by his own party, preserving the veneer of civilian rule but ultimately acceding to the military’s wishes to get rid of Zardari.

    In Islamabad, some papers have reported that before Zardari left Pakistan, the Pakistani Army insisted that Zardari be examined by their own physicians, and that the Army doctors determined that Zardari was fine and did not need to leave the country for medical reasons. Zardari’s spokesman has denied that he met with the Army doctors

    http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/06/president_zardari_suddenly_leaves_pakistan_is_he_on_the_way_out?test1=test1

    Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is in Dubai for treatment for a heart condition, the government said on Wednesday, with one source saying he had suffered a minor heart attack and fuelling speculation that the leader may resign.

    The statement from the prime minister’s office said Zardari went to a Dubai hospital at the insistence of his children, who live there. It contradicted earlier reports from Zardari’s own office that the tests were scheduled and routine.

    “The president went to Dubai following symptoms related to his pre-existing heart condition,” Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s media office said.

    “The president will remain under observation and return to resume his normal functions as advised by the doctors.”

    A presidential spokesman later quoted Zardari’s doctor as saying his condition was stable.

    A Pakistani source in Dubai familiar with the 56-year-old president’s condition told Reuters that he had suffered a minor heart attack.

    “Two days ago, he had chest pain” and decided to go to Dubai, the source said.

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  • Pakistan Wake up,all is not Lost.

    Very objective assessment.

    We share your anguish and concern.

    So long as people are aware of the failings of the State , any problem can be fixed.

    For that The people of Pakistan must realize that they hold the power to drive the megalomaniacs out.

    Also that the average Pakistani is not really concerned about jingoism whether it be Nationalistic or Religious.

    Every Pakistani is, as far as I come to know of them,are as much patriotic and religious as the jokers who control Pakistan.

    If only well-meaning people come forward to set Religious and false Patriotism away and set Growth as their objective,decide to throw away the corrupt Generals and Politicians of yore,infuse young blood( preferably Non-resident Pakistanis), FIRMLY DECIDE THAT DEMOCRACY IS THE OPTION and resolve that they shall resolve their problems including Economic, with-out running to West,especially the US, Pakistan shall be in the comity of Proud and Self Reliant Nation.

    There is no joy in asking this. Pakistan exists in a tough neighbourhood. A strong and vibrant army is necessary and desirable.
    But as the initial shock and disbelief wears off, there is a deep, deep sense of unease here.

    Did they know he was here? Surely, they knew he was here?…..

    It’s too frightening to make sense of. The world’s most-wanted terrorist. A man who triggered the longest war in American

    history. The terrorist mastermind the world’s only superpower has moved heaven and earth to track down. A decade of
    hunting. Hundreds of billions of dollars spent. The blood of countless Americans and others spilled.

    And when he was finally found, he was found wrapped in the bosom of the Pakistani security establishment….

    Why would they do it? What did they hope to gain? Pakistan has nothing in common with Al Qaeda. They serve no purpose to us; there is no confluence of interests that can be imagined.

    Did we think we could produce him like a rabbit out of the hat when we needed to? Did we think if we turned him over, the American attention span would lapse and they’d move on, leaving us unable to suckle at the teats of the superpower?

    Or, assured in our assumptions about the world around us, did we simply think we could get away with it?

    It makes no sense. And yet, perhaps there was an inevitability to this. Did the 1965 war make any sense? It was hard to find any sense to it then, even less so today.

    Did Kargil make any sense? Not then, not today.

    Did hawking nuclear paraphernalia on the international market make any sense? Buying did perhaps, but selling? And now we
    have the world’s most-wanted terrorist recovered from the bosom of the Pakistani security establishment.

    So maybe it does make sense after all. The establishment has flirted with irrationality in the past. Now it appears to have
    perfected it…..

    As long as national security and foreign policy remain in the hands of a cabal of generals — unaccountable and untouchable, a

    lay unto themselves, and in thrall to their own irrational logic — what future can this country have? Surely, not much of a
    future.

    Is self-correction an option? Good luck trying to find anyone in the homeland or beyond with even a modicum of knowledge
    and understanding of the institution who believes it is capable of reforming itself.

    Zia’s army, Musharraf’s army, Kakar and Karamat’s army — it may seem difficult to reconcile the differences. But while they were very different men, the strategic orientation of the army has more or less been the same. Some addressed the strategic imperatives from a religious angle, others from a more secular angle, but it has always been the army’s angle.

    Can anything be done?

    The outside world can’t fix us. In fact, even now the US is probably a better friend of the Pakistan Army than of the Pakistani people. Soldiers and intelligence networks are more useful than an under-educated and impoverished population. Double-gamers and duplicitous allies at least have something to offer; what can the wretched Pakistani people offer myopic Americans?

    Can we fix ourselves? Take a look around. Does anyone think Asif Zardari has what it takes? Nawaz Sharif may have the chutzpah, but does he have the nous? Beyond them, what is there but a fetid pool of opportunists and political mercenaries?

    So maybe that’s the answer after all. They knew. They knew he was there. And they knew they could get away with it……

    http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/06/the-emperors-clothes.html

  • Osama killing,Channels Blocked,Massive Cover up ON.

    An Al Qaida recruit dreams about Osama bin Lad...
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    Like sealing the Ocean with a Cork!

    Block Internet service providers.

    If you have any doubts ask China.

    Stupidity knows no bounds.

    The Pemra issued a restraining order in a statement released by the government’s Press Information Department on Saturday evening, accusing nine channels, the BBC and CNN included, of violating section 30 of the Pemra Act.

    The move, which is likely to come under criticism on grounds of curbing press freedom, comes amid continuing interest at home and abroad in the May 2 operation by US navy commandos that killed the world’s most wanted man in Abbottabad.

    The statement added that Pemra had stopped “foreign satellite TV channels from illegal uplinking of signals and live covering (of) news from Abbottabad”. The agency named the channels as Fox News, NBC News, CNN, CNS, IBN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Voice of America (VOA) and Sky News.

    “All foreign channels have been issued notices to show cause (about their alleged illegalities) and stop illegal activity immediately,” the statement said.

    It said: “Pemra issues temporary uplinking for covering any event live from Pakistan for a specific event and time” and added: “Pemra being a regulator is steadfast in discharging its regulatory responsibility and ensuring level playing field for all stakeholders.”

    However, representatives of several foreign electronic media organisations told Dawn their crew were still in Abbottabad and some said their channels, like BBC, Al Jazeera, VOA and NBC, were not airing their news live from the spot.

    The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has barred all major foreign television channels from making live broadcasts from Abbottabad five days after US commandos killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden there, reflecting the government’s unease over the coverage of perceived failures of its agencies.

    http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/08/foreign-channels-live-coverage-from-abbottabad-barred.html

    ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha has embarked on a foreign trip to an undisclosed location against the backdrop of reports that he may step down over the debacle of the Pakistani military’s failure to detect Osama bin Laden’s presence in the country.

    Pasha set off for an undisclosed location yesterday and it is believed that his visit is linked to the fallout of Monday’s US raid that resulted in the killing of bin Laden in a compound located a short distance from the Pakistan Military Academy in the garrison city of Abbottabad, sources told PTI.

    The influential Dawn newspaper had reported that Pasha had gone to Washington on a “critical mission for putting an end to misgivings about Pakistan in the US” but the sources said the ISI chief had not gone to the US.

    Some reports said Pasha may have travelled to a friendly country like China or Saudi Arabia but this could not immediately be confirmed.

    http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?721148

    Amid mounting international and domestic pressure on the government over the May 2 US special forces’ “get Osama bin Laden” operation, the country’s top civilian and military leadership got their heads together on Saturday in an effort to come up with a collective response.

    President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani met for the second time at the Presidency since the Abbottabad operation.

    According to an official statement, they ‘comprehensively reviewed’ the situation in the “perspective of Pakistan’s national security and foreign policy”.

    http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/08/post-osama-strategy-being-thrashed-out.html

  • Osama Killing-More Questions for Pakistan.

    Mobs gathered in the streets across Pakistan yesterday to mourn the killing of Osama bin Laden Photo: AP

    1 May 2011: “According to eyewitnesses, a low-flying helicopter crashed in a populated area near the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA); as a result, a man was killed and two others were injured. The injured have been shifted to the Combined Military Hospital. Two houses caught fire in the incident. Rescue teams reached the scene and started the relief work.” Pakistan Army Aviation Helicopter Crashes Near Abbottabad …

    Was more than one helicopter brought down?….

    “The discovery that bin Laden has been hiding under its nose near a military garrison is a blow to its reputation on almost as great a scale as defeat at the hands of the Indian army over Bangladesh in 1971. A lawyer in Abbottabad, Mohammed Iqbal, told me of his shock that a 700,000 strong army should have been unable to arrest bin Laden, and “foreigners should come here and take him away”.

    The impotence of the Pakistan army was rubbed in again last night, when the United States led another drone attack on Pakistan soil, reportedly killing 10 militants in the remote north-western province of Waziristan.

    The killing of bin Laden is also a major blow for the country’s president, Asif Ali Zardari. The operation was kept secret from Zardari because he was not trusted by his US allies. Meanwhile there are charges that the house was connected to the Pakistan intelligence service, the ISI – an institution now privately regarded by the US as akin to a terrorist organisation.”…

    “Further confusion now concerns the level of Pakistani involvement in the operation that killed bin Laden. According to the United States, the Pakistan government only found out about the raid after it had finished. Many security experts say this account defies credibility. President Zardari may not have known, they say, but someone in the upper echleons of power must have”.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8498996/Pakistan-must-hear-the-truth-about-the-raid.html

    ”
    “Even if the helicopters had evaded Pakistan’s expensive early warning radar systems – itself highly unlikely – they say that there is no way they could have remained unnoticed for 45 minutes in one of Pakistan’s premier garrison towns.”..

    “”Furthermore, even trying to avoid detection would be highly dangerous in case Pakistani fighter planes shot down the US helicopters…”

    Did the Pakistan authorities know what was going on?

    “It was suggested to me that trusted individuals within the Pakistani defence and security establishment – and certainly the Pakistan chief of staff, General Kayani – were informed through discrete channels, most probably when General David Petraeus paid a surprise visit to Islamabad last week.”…

    Consider this as well.

    Zardari or his PM are yet to make a Statement on what happened in Abbotabad.

    Questions:

    Was the attack on Abbottabad  carried out by Pakistan forces, working for the CIA?

    OR
    The attack on Abbottabad was carried out by Pakistan forces, against the wishes of the CIA.?

    The Attack was carried out by Both the Governments.

    Is it the reason why Pasha,ISI Chief had been hauled over to US?