<b>'Musharraf to rule Pak for a decade more'</b>?<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: President Pervez <b>Musharraf is likely to be ruling Pakistan for another 10 years amid signs that the country could become more and more Islamic</b>, according to an Indian strategic expert.
With the army backing him, Musharraf is determined to win next year's general election and that means India will have to deal with him for at least a decade more, Vikram Sood told a gathering here.
<b>"Musharraf being the general that he is, he would eventually want to make sure that he wins (the election) hands down,"</b> Sood told a discussion at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
"A general who has given the impression that he is the saviour of Pakistan cannot afford to lose," he said. "I don't think the army wants to lose either.
"At the same time, he also has to give the impression of holding a free and fair election. How he is going to fine-tune this has to be seen."
<b>Sood quoted some Pakistani analysts as saying that Musharraf planned to consolidate "Islamic democracy" for the next five years and economic growth for another five. </b>
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"If that is the agenda, Musharraf is going to be our neighbour for the next two parliamentary elections in our country,"</span>said Sood, a former head of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's external intelligence agency.
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07-03-2006, 07:09 PM (This post was last modified: 07-03-2006, 07:58 PM by SSridhar.)
<b>Naresh ji</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus the Illuminating of the Rear Garden of Delights is a normal, usual and a very frequent habit as well as occurrence which invalidates the Pakistani declaration of narrow and tightness of the Pakistani body part referred to.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Very <b>illuminating</b> thoughts, indeed !! Of course, you are right. If a fragile piece of glass bulb can be inside so deep and upright and without so much as a scratch on it, it shows not only an expert craftsmanship but also the width of the orifice and the absence of friction, nay the confirmation of a well-oiled machinery much accustomed to top-class maintenance at expert hands and/or tools. Probably, the unrelenting and vigorous GUBOing from early 50s by the "uncle" is beginning to leave its effects, perhaps, even on an ordinary Abdul.
07-03-2006, 08:59 PM (This post was last modified: 07-03-2006, 10:52 PM by Naresh.)
<b>SSridhar Ji :</b>
It is sad that we Indians in General and members of various Indian Fora in Particular are unaware of the Accommodative Capacity and Capabilities of Pakistanis. I have been told by Proud Pakistanis that accommodating the bulb upright is a normal affair. The real Champion Pakistanis accommodate the bulb lengthwise i.e. across-sideways.
This is attributed to the sexual abuse of Pakistani Children and it is a known fact that of the 25% of Pakistani Children abused Sexually the greater part are boys.
Thus it is fair to assume that at least 40% of Pakistani Males have been sexually abused in their Boyhood. Of course the major part of such incidents are unreported.
The following Article from the Daily Times is most informative :
<b>KARACHI: The one thing Pakistan has in common with the West is an appalling child sex abuse, Dr Zeenat Essani, director of the National Institute of Child Health said at a seminar marking Universal Childrenâs Day on Monday.
âWe should accept that we have a big problem,â he told the seminar at Aga Khan University Hospital. The long-tern effects of child abuse include fear, anxiety, depression, inappropriate sexual behaviour, poor self-esteem, and difficulty with close relationships, she said.
Among victims of sexual abuse, the inability to trust others is pronounced, contributing to secrecy and non-disclosure, she said. Victims often failed to report the crime due to fear, she added.
Dr Ghaffar Billo, head of paediatrics at Aga Khan said people failed to realise how rampant child abuse was in Pakistan.</b>
He said the erroneous belief that unless children were beaten, they donât learn, was widespread in religious circles.
Dr Aisha Mehnaz, associate professor at Karachiâs Dow Medical College and president of the Pakistan Paediatrics Association said the exact magnitude of child sexual abuse was unknown, but unofficial estimates put incidences of abuse in Pakistan at 15-25 per cent of the population, an estimate based on newspaper reports, police records, reports of NGOs and healthcare providers, she said.
<b>She said the extent of child sexual abuse, according to newspaper reports between 1997-99 was: CSA/murder 297, including 111 girls and 186 boys; gang rape 680 including 449 girls and 231 boys; rape 528, including 528 girls; sodomy 272; molestation 279 including 185 girls and 94 boys; abduction for sex 253, including 222 girls and 31 boys. Totally, 2304 incidence of CSA occurred during this period. There were 1495 girl victims and 314 boysâ victims, she said.
She said according to data compiled by chief chemical examiners, the age group of victims varied between 12-18 years during January-June 1999. But the age group of victims between 1997-99 was 5-18 years.
She said the abusers fell into various categories : acquaintances 74.1 percent (3,009 cases); relatives 2.1 percent (87); incest 1.7 percent (70); teacher 1.1 percent (46); religious teacher 1.4 percent (57); police 2.2 percent (90); and strangers 17.2 percent (6,990. There were 4,058 cases of CSA during this period, she said.</b>
She said a multidisciplinary approach was needed to combat this crime and bolster public awareness of the crime. She said the media should address the menace. <b>Parents and teachers should be educated on the issue.</b>
Thus one can opine that may be the Pakistani Leadership i.e. Bureaucratic, Feudal, Military, Political and Religious, suffering from poor self-esteem, and difficulty with close relationships as well as the inability to trust others is pronounced due to the fact that they have been horrendously sexually abused during their childhood and therefore the belief of the Tight and Narrow parts attributed to the Pakistanis is a flight of fancy.
Yes, Paki military never trust anyone and keep everything secret. Its known fact, that 60% plus paki army are part time gay.
But this light bulb type of culture came from stoneage Arabia tribal invaders.
<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Jul 3 2006, 10:20 PM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Jul 3 2006, 10:20 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Yes, Paki military never trust anyone and keep everything secret. Its known fact, that 60% plus paki army are part time gay.
<b>But this light bulb type of culture came from stoneage Arabia tribal invaders.</b>
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<b>Fatima Mernissi has demonstrated in her studies of Arab societies in general and Morocco in particular that sodomy and bestiality are widespread, especially in the rural communities because of the segregation of men and women. My younger brother, who worked for years in the Pakistan Agricultural Supplies and Services Corporation (PASSCO), told me that in southern Punjab, much of NWFP, Sindh and Balochistan sodomy and bestiality are common among rural youths. <span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>In fact, he caught two boys trying to rape a goat in the vicinity of the mazar of Hazrat Sultan Bahu. The punishment meted out to them was 10 blows with a chhittar (shoe) each on their butts. They protested however that in many rural areas having sex with an animal was considered a rite of passage on the way to becoming full members of the male society!</span></b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>A senior office-bearer of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry on condition of anonymity told Dawn that during the last two years, no major industry was set up in the country. He said political and security risks, macroeconomic and banking risks and higher cost of doing business were major factors affecting investorsâ perception about Pakistan.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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