Pakistan - News and Discussion -7

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<b>SBP warns of forex deficit</b>

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<!--emo&:blow--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blow.gif' /><!--endemo--> <b><span style='font-size:9pt;line-height:100%'>Lashka e Toba
Pl join me in forming this gp to stop the nefarious deeds of terrorist organisations like (Toi)Let, Leq etc. The time is ripe for rising as 1 man against the extremists and their ilks. Govt can fail and fall but not the people. People of India

Rise

Awake

and finish these terrorist organisations.

History belongs to those who are prepared to write History. Let us refresh Gita's Updesh:

Veer arjun hathiyar uthao.

No point sitting twidling your thumbs and get killed by terrorists.

Jai Hind</span></b>
Capt (RETD) Manmohan Kumar

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Capt Kumar, please list clearly the scope and direction of this thread. Else this can be merged with Pakistan thread.

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<b><span style='font-family:Optima'>The purpose of this thread is to unite all Indians against the terrorists. We, the People of India, have to rise against the uprisings of terrorists so that they dare not look towards India with their nefarious designs and misdeeds.
However, if you still not satisfied, merge it with Mumbai Blasts-2 which is the source of this inspiration.</span></b>

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=twHSpQfbiZk&mod...rch=india%20war

1965 INDIA PAKISTAN WAR

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Look like another punjabi s**t want to talk, how about, f** pakistan, and india, they are both, corrupted in government, and butt kissers to USA, and now atleast pakistan is turning its back on usa and makin friend with china, and another war with pakistan, china, vs india, and usa, and i dont know if russia would join india or china, they probably wont participate.


ok u can keep telling ur self that... india thinks its superior but its not... ok u can try to single pakistan out, but like i said b4, its not us u should be worried about, china has its eyes on u

We have won before and we will win again
we won 1948 war and freed 3.5 million kashmires
we won 1964 war and counter attacked indian forces not once but twice in two offensive operations.<span style='color:red'>
we won 1971 war when west pakistan stoped india in their tracks but lost east pakistan. East Pakistan surrounded by india from all three sides and controled the water ways by indian navy. no wounder india won against a country that was 11 times smaller then india.
Pakistan Zindabad
Pkaistan Piandabad</span>

These Hindus forget that MUSLIMS have been winning wars and ruling India for 1000 years, LOL.

Look up your HISTORY!!

Don't worry BHINDU!! We will take you with us!! <span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Remember, Pakistan reserves the right to NUKE India first in any conflict. </span>Also, we Muslims of the subcontinent do not fear death because; we go to heaven in the afterlife.
BHINDUS GO STRAIGHT TO HELL!! So, peace out!!


Okkkk .. same old stuff!!
Now before i get into this let me tell you a couple of things about myself .. i am a Muslim and Also a patritic Pakistani.

Now having said that , lets go back to '65 , we kicked indias ass.. there is no doubt about that , no matter what some average indian might

know , its a open and documented fact.

Now in '71 we were beaten not by the indian military , please keep that in mind guys. we were beaten by your best weapon .. "wickedness" and our Bandladeshi brethren played into their hands pretty darn well. Now i am not saying at all that it wasnt our fault it happened, it was an explosion that was bound to happen because of the political atmosphere of the time and the fact that west pakistan and east pakistan werent being treated equaly by the rulers.

India needs to realize , Pakistan is soveriegn country and they should stop messing with us( and attacking us in the dark like '65 without warning). They need to gulp down the fact , that Pakistan is a worthy opponent. Lets face it , we both know each other pretty darn well , we both know India wouldnt ever dare attacking us and they should take care of there internal matters like Asaam and Bihaar etc <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Give
basic human rights in Kashmir and then see who wins , sounds fair ?


so in all air battle PAF has shot down 120 IAF planes while lossing just 70!!


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The outrage of a Mumbaikar

Somak Goswami/Reader
Posted online: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 1420 hours IST
Updated: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 1934 hours IST

July 19: The tragic Mumbai bomb blasts will be followed by an all too familiar process now for a week. Interim investigations will ‘reveal’ the hand of Lashkar/Jaish terrorists or the infamous ‘foreign hand’; the US will condemn the blast and advice India to show restraint in this ‘hour of crisis’ (translation: back off from our partner in the "war on terror" and let us handle that end); committees, whose reports will never see the day of light, will be formed to see how security can be "beefed up"; politicians and babus will be shown on TV, looking important, as they come in or go out of endless ‘meetings’ whose net outcome will be 0; the police will be seen patrolling the streets ; the ‘spirit of the Mumbaikar’ will be praised by politicians (translation: good thing Mumbaikars help each other out and know not to expect anything from us. We are busy with dance bars and 2 bit attention seekers like Rakhi Sawant); Sonia Gandhi and her troupe of jokers will pay lip service along the lines of, "the perpetrators will not be spared" even as the evil doers, safe across the border, plan the next attack; cash compensation will be announced but even this meagre amount will be never received, because 90 per cent of it will make its way into the pockets of politicians and babus.



After the week is up, news channels will move onto some new issue, the police on the streets will go back to protecting alleged VIP's, the average Mumbaikar will lose interest knowing he's helpless to do much, India will continue ‘talking’ and sending buses to Pakistan and undertake other "confidence building measures" like presenting them with a list of wanted terrorists that Pakistan will deny are in their country, politicians will be glad they rode out the storm without lifting a finger- in short, life will go on till the next blast happens, and the same events outlined here will repeat itself.

Indian Governments through the years have shown that they are most unwilling to take stringent action against terrorists. This is not an isolated incident. Bangalore happened just a few months back, as did Varanasi, and the wounds of Akshardham are still raw. Bombings in J&K are a regular occurrence. The terrorists, and their home country, have realised that India might be have a huge arsenal of weapons, but they don't have the courage to use it because that courage, unfortunately, cannot be bought.

The only time India acted, when the Army was sent to the border, was when the politicians’ own backyard was attacked. So long as their kin are not the one's dying, the politicians are least bothered about what happens to the average taxpayer. The soft underbelly of India has been exposed time and again, and successive governments have done little other than pay lip service to how "terrorists will be defeated", while terrorists from across the borders seem to be able to sneak in at will to do their dastardly deeds.

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Why only terrorists? Even a non-entity like the Bangladeshi border guards can apparently come in, kidnap our BSF men, carve them up like turkeys and deliver the carved bodies, gift wrapped, while the Indian government is perennially busy "taking up the issue" with Bangladesh. It is a certainty that even if the ISI's hand in the blasts is proved beyond a doubt, India will not do a thing-just as it hasn't in all the previous bombings.

Just why do we fear to strike at terrorists when they show no fear in killing Indian citizens? What are we trying to prove to the world, and at what cost? That we are this great peace loving country that is willing to sacrifice the lives of citizens while letting terrorists run amok? Ironically enough, the very countries whose praise and accolades we are trying to win, at great cost to the taxpayers’ life and limbs, are busy running a Guantanamo Bay and designing vigilance policies to keep a close watch on Muslims. It is outrageous that Indian politicians beg us for votes and take their orders from America or Britain. We must realise that the world recognises power and bows down to the powerful. Nobody is going to help us. Britain and America have their own problems and are least bothered about Indians dying. The misfortune of Indians is that our own government, perhaps, holds a similar opinion of us.

If we are to move forward, certain things need to be done. It is about time that our ‘secular’ country realised that the protection of its citizens comes first and foremost. There is no doubt that though outsiders may have brought the material and money for the blast, the meticulous planting of the bombs was done by local Mumbaikars, just as it was in 1993.

Another thing that needs to be done is overhauling of the intelligence. Just muttering "we knew something was up but didn't know exactly what and where" is simply not good enough. To make the intelligence departments more efficient, along with an increase in the budget, the red tapism must go. Indian intelligence officials have to inform a thousand different babus and politicians, to make these inept creatures feel important, before they can do a single thing. This is a cardinal waste of time. Compare this to the FBI and the CIA which can, short of deploying the army, do pretty much anything else by informing just a few people. The Mossad is equally efficient. Why, even the ISI seems to be far more organised than IB/RAW, judging by the number of times they have outwitted the IB/RAW.

The citizens also have a major part to play. It is about time that we, the citizens, realised that there are some issues more important than putting food on the table, for there might come a day when we won't be around to put food on the table, like it happened to the victims of 11/7. Citizens must get together as one, and use the Right to Information Act to see the status of investigations into previous blasts in Mumbai, what the government has done so far to bring the perpetrators to book, how many police officers are on the job etc. Armed with this information, citizens should go to the Supreme Court for justice, because it is patently obvious that unless politicians suffer losses to their near and dear ones, they will do nothing. So, a higher body has to order them to get their house in order. Lawsuits against the Indian State for regularly failing to discharge its duty of protecting the Indian citizens would be a start.The only way we can cut down on terrorism, instead of constantly having to see 11/7 repeated with alarming regularity in different parts of the country, is for the citizens to take an active role in the administration of the country, for an apathetic citizenry deserves an apathetic government like the one currently in place.


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Of course!

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Another friend of mine writes to me in pers email:
People of India had never and will never let india down; It are politiicians:

Security guards of india are corrupt so untrustworthy.

Creed and /or colour does not matter: Cap may be white, green, saffron or blue or mixture of all. They are the chips of the same BLOCK

"SELF DEFFENCE IS THE LAW OF NATURE; IF ONE DOES NOT USES IT, IT IS ONE'S FAULT NOT THE FAULT OF THE ATTTACKERS AS IT IS THEIR JOB"

RAJ

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<b>Act fast else Pak will have an edge: IAF</b>

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<b>We have no control over ISI: Pak Defence Min</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Islamabad, July 20: Amid allegations that ISI and Military Intelligence (MI) kidnapped several people for interrogation, Pakistan's Defence Ministry has said it had no operational control over the two intelligence agencies and was unable to enforce court orders to provide information about those ‘abducted’ or ‘detained’ by them.

In a sworn affidavit filed before the Sindh High Court(SHC) yesterday, Defence Secretary General (retd) Tariq Waseem Ghazi said his ministry had no operational control over the ISI and MI and, therefore, it could not enforce the court's direction on both agencies in detention matters
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http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/r...e.php?id=269880

<b>India, Pakistan: Islamabad's Kashmiri Militant Strategy </b>
July 20, 2006 00 34 GMT

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I am MAN. Bravo!!!


<b>Give proof, will cooperate, Musharraf to India</b>
Indian government should give proof.

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News via FT
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Frank discussion”</b>

Our mole tells us that the real PM has had, what in diplomatic parlance is called, a “frank discussion” on issues of mutual concern with one leading Sheik of Araby. When they met recently they spoke of the need to co-operate on fighting terrorism. Rumour has it that the real PM asked the <b>Sheik to cough up one of Nawab Khair Baksh Marri’s sons who is holed up in the Sheik’s emirate</b>. It became clear to the real PM during the course of the meeting that the Sheik could not and would not oblige. <b>Irritated, the real PM is reported to have told the Sheik that he could live with that. “Bombs go off every day in my country” he is supposed to have said, “and we live with it. But if a bomb goes off in your emirate, everything that you have so painstakingly built will disappear in one huge sandstorm”. </b>
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Who is he? Any idea?

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Nuggets from the Urdu press
<b>Illegal Pakistani killed abroad</b>
According to daily Pakistan last year 2500 Pakistanis were killed by security forces on the border areas of Iran, Turkey and Greece. These Pakistan were trying to enter Europe illegally and their dead bodies were lying unclaimed in the wilderness. Travel agents and recruiters numbering 472 in the Gujrat-Kharian area in Punjab had become billionaires after collecting heavy fees from these innocent and illiterate people. 

<b>Don’t trust Bharat!</b>
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt federal minister for provincial coordination Salim Saifullah Khan said that India should not be trusted and those who are fond of visiting India all the time should know that India was Pakistan’s enemy. He said they should ask India why it had stopped Pakistan’s river waters. He said politicians and the army were wheels of the same vehicle. Editor Majeed Nizami said that Pakistan came into being as a welfare state but now it was run by cheeni-chor ministers.

<b>Make Arabic the official language</b>! <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Dr Israr Ahmad said from Lahore that it was a conspiracy to change textbooks in Pakistan and a prescribed book (in some private institutions) called Pakistan Kahaniyan should be immediately banned. To set things right Arabic should be declared the official language of Pakistan. According to him Jinnah was wrong in proposing Urdu as the national language. School-chain-owner Adeeb Javidani said that the government had assaulted two sectors, South Waziristan and Islamic textbooks. Qazi Hussain Ahmad said that America was taking all Islamic matter out of the textbooks in Pakistan. 

<b>Yusuf’s younger brother too embraces Islam</b>
Quoted in Khabrain test cricketer Muhammad Yusuf’s younger brother Tariq Hamza said that another test cricketer Danish Kaneria would soon be embracing Islam. Tariq Hamza was a Christian named Tariq Bhatti. After his brother Yusuf Yuhanna embraced Islam he too embraced Islam and was now a very happy man. He said when Yusuf embraced Islam he attacked him and exchanged blows with him but later saw it was good to embrace Islam. His said his wife was beaten up by her Christian parents after she embraced Islam.
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<b>Nawabzada Balaach Marri</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The organisation is reportedly headed by Nawabzada Balaach Marri, the <b>Moscow-educated son of Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, who is known to have Marxist leanings</b>. Some sources believe that the BLA was a Russian creation and came into being during the Afghan war of the 1980s, and was propped up as a reaction to Pakistan’s anti-Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. However, this claim is countered by others who view it as a purely secular-nationalist movement without any foreign links. These sources say that the BLA activists receive no foreign assistance and use their own resources to keep the struggle going.

But a question that is frequently asked is whether an insurgency of this level can be sustained without outside support. A report that was submitted by the Pakistan intelligence to the government in the late 1990s mentioned the location of a militant training camp linked to the BLA, in Kishan Garh, India, a few kilometres away from the eastern border, and along a route of illegal arms supplies. Eyebrows were also raised when Balaach’s brother, Nawabzada Gazin Marri, was arrested in Dubai in March 2006 and accused of channelling funds to the BLA from Dubai-based sympathisers.

Even though it is considered to have a loose structure, the attacks the BLA has claimed responsibility for in Balochistan have been successful and coordinated. In 2004 alone, the rebels carried out almost 1,500 attacks
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<b>Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri The Great Baloch leader</b>

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FT
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Sectarian strife: a chronology of death </b>
Allama Hassan Turabi’s death is the third in Karachi this year and the first with a Shia-Sunni sectarian dimension. A look at the statistics on sectarian violence provides a grim picture.

Shiite mosques and Imam Bargahs have been attacked seven times since 1995; 102 people have been killed and 250 injured in these attacks. Two of the attacks occurred on the same day in 1995; a total of 22 people were killed and 18 injured. Two mosques were attacked in May 2004 which killed 49 people and injured 200. The latest incident was reported in May 2005 in which six people, including three suicide bombers, were killed. In the violence that followed the attack, a KFC outlet was torched; six of its employees were roasted alive. The last three attacks were suicide bombings.
<b>Some important dates </b>
<b>May 30, 2004:</b> Armed men ambushed their car and killed pro-Taliban Sunni cleric and chief of Banori Town mosque in Karachi, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. His son, nephew and driver are wounded.

<b>July 24, 2004:</b> An employee of a local seminary, Jamiatul Rasheed, was killed and seven people, including four teachers, were injured in a bomb attack in the Gulshan-e-Maimar area of Karachi.

<b>August 8, 2004:</b> At least 10 people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed and 50 others injured in two bomb explosions near the Jamia Banoria SITE Town.

<b>October 6, 2004:</b> Two police personnel were killed and a civilian injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a security post outside a Shia mosque in Karachi.

<b>October 9, 2004:</b> Two Sunni clerics, Mufti Mohammad Jamil, a close aide of the late Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, and Maulana Nazeer Ahmed Taunsvi were shot dead on Jehangir Road in Karachi.

<b>November 16, 2004:</b> Asim Ghafoor alias Qasim Sukkurwala, affiliated with the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), was shot dead in an exchange of fire with police personnel in the Saeedabad area of Karachi.

<b>April 6, 2005:</b> Maulana Mohammed Amin Qadri, Sunni Tahrik leader and a government schoolteacher, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Pirabad area of Karachi.

<b>June 23, 2005:</b> Mufti Atiqur Rahman, a cleric at the Jamia Banoria SITE Town was shot dead and his son and a man accompanying them were wounded in an attack near the Sindh Secretariat.

<b>July 9, 2005:</b> Unidentified men abducted and later shot dead Maulana Shamsuddin, a cleric in the Orangi Town area of Karachi.

<b>July 17, 2005:</b> A cleric, Maulana Abdullah Ahmed Madni, was killed and his father, Mufti Muhammad Ahmed Madni, injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in the Buffer Zone area of Karachi.

<b>March 2, 2006:</b> A US diplomat, identified as David Fyfe, his Pakistani driver and a Rangers official were killed and 54 persons injured in a suicide car bombing near the US consulate in Karachi. This was a day before the US President George W Bush reached Pakistan.

<b>April 6, 2006: </b>Allama Hassan Turabi escaped unhurt while four people, including his son and a guard, suffered injuries in a bomb blast.

<b>April 11, 2006:</b> At least 60 people, including the top hierarchy of the Sunni Tehrik and other prominent religious personalities, were killed. More than 100 were injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack at Nishtar Park.

<b>July 13, 2006:</b> A suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the home of prominent Shiite cleric Allama Hassan Turabi in this southern Pakistan city on Friday, killing him and one of his relatives.

<b>Date & Year Place Killed Injured</b>
Feb 25, 1995 Abul Fazal Abbas Mosque 6 16
Feb 25, 1995 Mehfil-e-Murtaza Mosque 16 2
Oct 1, 1999 Masjid-e-Hur 10 12
Feb 22, 2003 Muntazir Mehdi Mosque 9 9
May 7, 2004 Hyderi Mosque 24 150
May 31, 2004 Ali Raza Mosque 25 50
May 30, 2005 Madinatul Ilm 12 11
Total Karachi 102 250
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<b>Pak rejects Indian demand to extradite Dawood, Salahuddin</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Islamabad, July 22: Rejecting India's demand for deportation of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, Pakistan on Friday claimed there was nothing to warrant pointing finger at it in the Mumbai train blasts.

A strongly-worded statement by Pakistan Foreign Ministry said the fact that after 10 days of the blasts India had little to say other than to mention Ibrahim and Salahuddin "demonstrates that there was nothing to warrant the irresponsible act of finger-pointing at Pakistan immediately after the Mumbai attack."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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<b>India has responded to Pak's proposals: Kasuri</b>

Now where is anger or Indian's Mumbai blast reaction.
Spinless PM fizzeled within week. What a moron he is?

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?p...25-7-2006_pg7_1

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
<b>Jihad integral part of curriculum, says Javed Ashraf</b>
* Education minister unveils highlights of Islamiat curricula
* Says revised national curriculum to be implemented from next year

By Irfan Ghauri

ISLAMABAD: <b>Jihad is not being deleted from the new curriculum because it is an
integral part of Islamic teachings and Muslim beliefs, </b>said Education Minister
Lt Gen ® Javed Ashraf Qazi on Monday.

“Jihad has many dimensions which also includes self-negation (Jihad bin nafas).
<b>We will teach students the full concept of Jihad</b>,” Qazi said during a briefing
on the draft of the new curricula for classes 1 to XII. He said that Sura Al
Anfal and other suras over which certain western countries had reservations with
regard to their Jihad teachings, were still part of the Islamiat curriculum.

He said the new curricula will be implemented in junior classes from the start
of the academic year in 2007 and will be introduced in all classes up to grade
XII by 2009. The draft curricula has been sent to the provinces for
recommendations and will be finalised after their proposals are considered, he
added.

Qazi said the revised Islamiyat curriculum has been divided into five topics: Al
Quran Al Kareem (Quranic teachings), Imaniyat aur Ibadaat (Haqooq Allah) (Rights
of God), Seerat e Tayyaba (Life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Akhlaq aw Adaab
(etiquette) (Haqooqul Ibad) and prominent personalities of Islam. He said that
Nazara Quran would start in grade-III, leading up to completion of the Holy
Quran by the end of grade-VIII. The students will also memorise 19 small suras
by the end of class-VIII. The suras include Sura Ikhlas, Sura Nasar, Sura
Fathihah and Sura Falaq. He added that students would also memorise with simple
translation 27 Quranic supplications recited during prayers.

The education minister said that students of grades IX and X would be taught 20
selected ayaats from Sura Baqara, Al Nisa, Al Madina, Al Tauba and Al Haj with
translation and interpretation. He added that in grades XI and XII the students
would be taught the entire Sura Al Anfal and 39 selected ayaats from Sura Baqua
with translation and simple interpretation. He said that simple translation of
18 Hadith for grades IX and X and 12 for grades XI and XII had been incorporated
in the curricula.

Qazi said that monotheism, prophethood, faith in angels and the revealed books
had been included in the topic of Imaniyat aur Ibadaat (faith and worship). He
said that the basic pillars of Islam – belief in one God, prayer, fasting,
pilgrimage and Zakat — are also covered in this topic and added that the
chapters also contained an introduction to Jihad, its importance and forms in
the light of the <b>Holy Quran and Sunnah.</b> He said that the topic on the life of
Prophet Muhammad would also <b>highlight battles led by the Holy Prophet (PBUH)</b> to show his exemplary leadership and <b>tolerance towards his enemies</b>.. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo-->

In the topic of prominent personalities of Islam, he said that the profiles of
28 personalities would be covered from grades III to XII.

Qazi said that Pakistan studies would be compulsory in grades IX and X while
advanced Pakistan studies will be available as an elective subject in grades XI
and XII. The course for Pakistan studies for grade IX and X will be derived from
the revised history curriculum for grades VI and VIII. He said that the courses
had been designed to make the students understand the objectives of the creation
of Pakistan and also its ideology, history, culture, geography and economics. He
said the course covered major historical, political and constitutional
developments in Pakistan and the salient features of various regimes.

Qazi said the geographical component of the curriculum aims to enhance the
understanding of the physical features and human resources of the country. It
will also promote an understanding of the major environmental hazards and
conservation strategies for water, land, vegetation and wildlife, he added. The
minister said a chapter has been added on “Pakistan in world affairs” in the
course to familiarise students with Pakistan’s international relations and the
latest developments in world affairs with particular reference to neighbouring
countries, the Muslim world, major world powers and the United Nations. Qazi
said that changes have been made in natural science curricula to make them
relevant to modern day developments.

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->  Islamabad, July 26: Pakistan would cooperate with India to root out terrorism but would pay back in the 'same coin' if any 'punitive action' was initiated against it in 'hot pursuit' of terrorists, President Pervez Musharraf has said.
"Nobody should have this wishful thinking that Pakistan will bear any kind of adventure inside its territory. No one is there who can take any punitive action against Pakistan, as its defence is in strong hands," Musharraf was quoted as saying by Pakisan's Online news agency.

This was stated by the Pakistan President while inaugurating an oil refinery and laying the foundation stone for a liquid cargo terminal at Port Qasim near Karachi on Tuesday.

"Nobody should be under any illusion or cast an evil eye at us or talk of punitive action," he said referring to reports in the Pakistani media in this regard.
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Now Mushy is talking George Fernandes's language.
Now India is ruled by spineless, even next door donkey is behaving like Lion.

I challenge Mushy, just do it. Two thing will happen, Queen will leave India with her kids and spineless will have LB Shastri. Atleast it will help India for long run.