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05-09-2004, 22:31 PM
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Jay,
The Indian Army did not arrest the Pakistani soldiers in East Pakistan. They surrendered! In short, they put their hands up with their weapons at the feet!
Not one ot two, but 90,000 of them. This is a world record of sorts! Interestingly, they preferred to be in the safe hands of the Kaffir Hindus of the Indian Army than being lynched by the Bengali Muslims, whose wives and daughters they raped.
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05-10-2004, 01:42 AM
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Sorry Sir, for giving them more credit than they deserve
do we really need to reply to this troll's rantings anymore ?? 
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05-10-2004, 06:08 AM
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So far Pakistan received none, other than the Soya beans. Can you tell me how a F-16 52/60 is superior to MKI. Do you even know what role F-16 performs and what role does MKI has in IAF?
F-16 block52 or 60 has an aesa radar which in todays date most advavced radar in the world.whereas mki's use N011h radars which r good but not as good as aesa.
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05-10-2004, 08:21 AM
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Jay,
The Indian Army did not arrest the Pakistani soldiers in East Pakistan. They surrendered! In short, they put their hands up with their weapons at the feet!
Not one ot two, but 90,000 of them. This is a world record of sorts! Interestingly, they preferred to be in the safe hands of the Kaffir Hindus of the Indian Army than being lynched by the Bengali Muslims, whose wives and daughters they raped.
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I dunno where you baboons pull that 90,000 figure from, since only 45,000 Pak soldiers were stationed in east Pak at any one time...As for the bhunges, well **** them, they can feed themselves rice and fish without us.
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05-10-2004, 08:30 AM
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I dunno where you baboons pull that 90,000 figure from, since only 45,000 Pak soldiers were stationed in east Pak at any one time...As for the bhunges, well **** them, they can feed themselves rice and fish without us.
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Apart from history, the Hamdoor Commission Report of Pakistan that was set up to probe the debacle of Pakistan in 1971 is where I pulled it out, apart from the fact, I was there!
The Bengali Muslims are not the bhangis, read my post carefully and you will know who in particular! 
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05-10-2004, 08:40 AM
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[quote]pfff...3000 years ?? eh when did Muhammed born? 4000 years back?? so who is supreme here? Nazi's or Iranis or Afghanis or Punjabis or Rajputs or Maurya's or Guptas ??
We, Pakistanis, whatever our ancestors called themselves in the past ruled over you people and treated you like slaves. Religion has nothing to do with it.
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Want more?? How about Sindhu-stan or Balochi-stan??
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Erm, I'd prefer Khalistan, Tamilistan, Nagaland, Dalitistan, West Bengal joining with Bangladesh etc..
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Wrong MKI's were never grounded, its Su-30's.
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They are called Su-30MKI, the MKI is the Indian designation
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MMNA status was also offered to India, but India asked US to keep it. USA gives useless diplomatic status and soyabeans to Pakistan while at the same time it gives cutting edge military hardware like Phalcons ect to india. Now who actually got a slap on it's face
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MMNA status was also offered to India, but India asked US to keep it. USA gives useless diplomatic status and soyabeans to Pakistan while at the same
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lol, When MNNA was offered to Pakistan, India blew a massive diplomatic tantrum. It wasn't offered to India as far as I can recall, but even if it was, it was more of an afterthought than anything else. Of course now its just a case of sour grapes. Oh and the soyabean thing wasn't America, it was the great satan democrats.
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time it gives cutting edge military hardware like Phalcons ect to india. Now who actually got a slap on it's face
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Phalcons were not given to India by America, they were from Israel.
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05-10-2004, 08:59 AM
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pfff...3000 years ?? eh when did Muhammed born? 4000 years back?? so who is supreme here? Nazi's or Iranis or Afghanis or Punjabis or Rajputs or Maurya's or Guptas ??
tsk tsk...the K- in paKistan, Kashmir is with India for 50 or so years, just broke your nation in to two in 1971, arrested 90,000 of those supreme soldiers, and killed 4000 of your own soldiers just 5 years back. Want more?? How about Sindhu-stan or Balochi-stan?? 
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who gives a hoot about when Mohammed was born ....
The land and people .... today known as Pakistan existed within approximately the same boundaries as an independent entity for 5000 years ...
about Aryans ... Iranis+Afghans+Pakistanis .... being aryan are definitely supreme to the dark-skinned small structured untouchables to our east .... who comprise 90% of India ...
we have a third of Kashmir .... you haven't been able to take that back for 56 years ...
about B'desh .... it was an insurrection where we were attacked from within and behind .... so NOT much credit goes to you ....
sindhu-istan .... Baloch_istan .... you're welcome to try .... but then don't blame us if we liberate Khalistan, Assam, Nagaland, Kashmir, and many other oppressed peoples in india by encouraging free expresion of ones identity ...
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05-10-2004, 10:28 AM
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The land and people .... today known as Pakistan existed within approximately the same boundaries as an independent entity for 5000 years ...
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Tell that to Gupta's, Maurya's, Kushans, Moghuls and the British. Independent, my foot!! so where did you go to school? eh?
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about Aryans ... Iranis+Afghans+Pakistanis .... being aryan are definitely supreme to the dark-skinned small structured untouchables to our east .... who comprise 90% of India ...
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Why dont you bring in all the central asian states and may be nazi Germany, Russia in to the loop. They are more pure than you guys. Isnt that the reason Iranis are thickest with Pakistanis?? or may be is that the reason Arabs are treating you like dirt?? what happened to the tall, fair army ?? So how many Mohajir's are there in Pakistan?? Particularly Mohajir's from UP, Bihar ??
And I didnt know how you infer that Afghanis + Iranis + Pakistanis = Aryan, so can you prove it biologically to me? Based on archealogists the Aryan's who came in through Khyber later on moved in to India in more #'s. I can prove that to you.
To me, Pakistan is a land of mutations, I think thats what you guys claimed a couple days back, Pakistan is a land of Diversity, so where does this pure bred theory fit it then??
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we have a third of Kashmir .... you haven't been able to take that back for 56 years ...
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Which is bigger in size? 1/3rd or 2/3rd?? Should ask Madrassas to teach some Math!
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about B'desh .... it was an insurrection where we were attacked from within and behind .... so NOT much credit goes to you ....
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Dont whine like a kid! you lost it!! War is supposed to be fought that way, white skin aryan's didnt know that ? eh?
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sindhu-istan .... Baloch_istan .... you're welcome to try .... but then don't blame us if we liberate Khalistan, Assam, Nagaland, Kashmir, and many other oppressed peoples in india by encouraging free expresion of ones identity ...
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Ooooh, we are cho scared, isnt that what you are already doing?? Still cant pluck a hair from our legs !!! Already one down, 2 more to go!! 
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05-10-2004, 10:51 AM
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Why dont you bring in all the central asian states and may be nazi Germany, Russia in to the loop.
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Nazis aren't aryan, neither are russians, but yes turkic CA states are.
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They are more pure than you guys. Isnt that the reason Iranis are thickest with Pakistanis?? or may be is that the reason Arabs are treating you like dirt?? what happened to the tall, fair army ?? So how many Mohajir's are there in Pakistan?? Particularly Mohajir's from UP, Bihar ??
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Iranians and Pakistanis have a very strong bond, though we both act in our own strategic interest, like when Pakistan supported the anti-iranian taleban in Afghanistan. it was in Pakistan's interest to have a pro-Pakistani government in Afghanistan, or the military deals Iran have made with India, Indians actually believe they will receive Iranian help in a war against Pakistan. Iranians see your kind the same way we do.
Arabs treat Pakistanis like dirt? This is coming from a guy whos race has essentially become the dirt race of the Arabian gulf! Arabs treat Indians like animals, literally. They are bought and sold on the markets, and many don't get wages. I'm not condoning it, I'm just pointing it out.
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And I didnt know how you infer that Afghanis + Iranis + Pakistanis = Aryan, so can you prove it biologically to me? Based on archealogists the Aryan's who came in through Khyber later on moved in to India in more #'s. I can prove that to you.
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Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan are modern nation states and should not be confused with Aryan nationalism. But the people of all three are mainly Aryan, that is correct.
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To me, Pakistan is a land of mutations,
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That was uncalled for, both me and visioninthedark could make vulgar comments about India.
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I think thats what you guys claimed a couple days back, Pakistan is a land of Diversity, so where does this pure bred theory fit it then??
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Culturally, Pakistan is diverse. Race and culture are two different different things.
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Dont whine like a kid! you lost it!! War is supposed to be fought that way, white skin aryan's didnt know that ? eh?
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We left *******desh because we didn't need them.
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Ooooh, we are cho scared, isnt that what you are already doing?? Still cant pluck a hair from our legs !!! Already one down, 2 more to go!!
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We aren't really doing much, just the occasional donation delivered from ISI, most of these movements are strong enough to be sustained independently. Thats why we went through with the peace initiative. We will just stand around and let our economy and military develop, and wait until India undergoes an interal breakup, then we will invade and finish this "Bharatiya" wet dream once and for all.
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05-10-2004, 11:35 AM
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Nazis aren't aryan, neither are russians, but yes turkic CA states are.
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Wrong, go see Vision's post in Image gallery! And yeah Aryans are there in western Russia.
http://www.aryanrace.net/
http://www.aryanunity.com/slavs.html
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Indians actually believe they will receive Iranian help in a war against Pakistan. Iranians see your kind the same way we do.
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Yeah speculate it, didnt you hear Karzai's growl against Pakistan?
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Arabs treat Pakistanis like dirt? This is coming from a guy whos race has essentially become the dirt race of the Arabian gulf! Arabs treat Indians like animals, literally.
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Wrong again, ask any Pakistani who returned from Gulf, expecially from UAE!!
Animals, you mrean the Pakistani boys that are used as camel jockeys ??
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Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan are modern nation states and should not be confused with Aryan nationalism. But the people of all three are mainly Aryan, that is correct.
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Aryan nationalism? pfff....first sustain Pakistan as a nation then lets talk about Aryan nationalism!
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That was uncalled for, both me and visioninthedark could make vulgar comments about India.
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Apologies to you, but Vision is already over the board, so I dont give a damn to him!
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Culturally, Pakistan is diverse. Race and culture are two different different things.
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Can you prove me that using genetics??Oh and yeah do give my wishes to the non-aryan mohajir from Delhi, Pervez Mushraff, your ruler!! An aryan nation with out an Aryan leader!! True Pakistan is diverse!!
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We left *******desh because we didn't need them.
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Yep, this same attitude, we need some more of it!!
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We aren't really doing much, just the occasional donation delivered from ISI, most of these movements are strong enough to be sustained independently.
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yep, self sustainable, may be tell that to dead ULFA's in Bhutan, or the huge arms cache we got in BD or may be the arrested NLFT's from Myanmar.
6 Cheif Commanders of Hizb got killed in last 6 months. Let the enunche Sayeed come out of Pakistan to Kashmir to fight for himself, he'll be sent to the same place.Or what happened to fat ass Mazood bhai? Are they Kashmir these days? Last I heard he was in Pakistan!
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Thats why we went through with the peace initiative. We will just stand around and let our economy and military develop, and wait until India undergoes an interal breakup, then we will invade and finish this "Bharatiya" wet dream once and for all.
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Oh we all know about your initiative! we've been through this a lot of times, everytime only the poverty % rises !!
1000 cuts has already broke your nation in to 2, wait for some more time, we are gonna see another 2 sovreign pure aryan nations !!
Wet dreams? the one I know involves a pure breed aryan who wet his sherwani, ran and begged to Bill Clinton to save an aryan army, too late 4000 of them were already killed then.
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05-10-2004, 12:25 PM
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Tell that to Gupta's, Maurya's, Kushans, Moghuls and the British. Independent, my foot!! so where did you go to school? eh? 
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Pakistan from 3000 BC to the present:
1. Indus Valley Civilization: 3000-1500 B.C. i.e. about 1500 yrs. Independent, separate from India.
2. Aryan period: 1500-522 B.C. i.e. about 978 yrs. Independent, separate from India.
3. Small semi-independent states: 522-326 B.C. i.e. about 196 yrs. Under the suzerainty of Iran's Kayani (Achaemenian) Empire.
4. Conquered by Alexander and remained under his successor: 326-300 B.C. i.e. about 26 yrs. Under Greek rulers, not part of India.
5. Province of Mauryan Empire which included Afghanistan: 300-200 B.C. i.e. about 100 yrs. Part of India, mostly Buddhist rule.
6. Graeco-Bactrian period: 200-100 B.C. i.e. about 100 yrs. Independent, not part of India.
7. Saka-Parthian period: 100 B.C.- 70 A.D. i.e. about 170 yrs. Independent, separate from India.
8. Kushan rule (1st phase): 70-250 A.D. i.e. about 180 yrs. Pakistan-based kingdom ruled over major portion of north India.
9. Kushan rule (2nd phase): 250-450 A.D. i.e. about 200 yrs. Independent, separate from India.
10. White Huns and allied tribes (1st phase): 450-650 A.D. i.e. about 200 yrs. Pakistan-based kingdoms ruled over parts of north India.
11. White Huns (2nd phase--- mixed with other races): 650-1010 A.D. i.e. about 360 yrs. Independent Rajput-Brahmin Kingdoms, not part of India.
12. Ghaznavids: 1010-1187 A.D. i.e. 177 yrs. Part of Ghaznavid empire, separate from India.
13. Ghorid and Qubacha periods: 1187-1227 A.D. i.e. about 40 yrs. Independent, not part of India.
14. Muslim period (Slave dynasty, Khiljis, Tughlaqs, Syeds, Lodhis, Suris and Mughals): 1227-1739 A.D. i.e. about 512 yrs. Under north India based MUSLIM govts.
15. Nadir Shah and Abdali periods: 1739-1800 A.D. i.e. about 61 yrs. Iranian and Afghan suzerainty, not part of India.
16. Sikh rule (in Punjab, NWFP and Kashmir), Talpur rule in Sind, Khanate of Kalat in Baluchistan: 1800-1848 A.D. i.e. about 48 yrs. Independent states, not part of India.
17. British rule: 1848-1947 A.D. i.e. about 99 yrs (1843-1947 in Sind). Part of India under FOREIGN rule.
18. Muslim rule under the nomenclature of Pakistan: 1947-present. Independent, not part of India.
The above table reveals that during the 5000 years of Pakistan's known history, this country was part of India for a total period of 711 yrs of which 512 yrs were covered by the MUSLIM period and about 100 years each by the Mauryan (mostly BUDDHIST) and British (CHRISTIAN) periods. Can anybody agree with the Indian 'claim' that Pakistan was part of India and that partition was unnatural? It hardly needs much intelligence to understand that Pakistan always had her back towards India and face towards the countries on her west. This is true both commercially and culturally.
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05-10-2004, 12:31 PM
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we have a third of Kashmir .... you haven't been able to take that back for 56 years ...
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Which is bigger in size? 1/3rd or 2/3rd?? Should ask Madrassas to teach some Math!
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which is bigger in size
India with a population of nearly 1.2 billion or Pakistan wth a population of 150 million .....
India with an army of nearly 2 million or Pakistan with 500,000 ....
and still you Indian couldn't take BACK the 1/3 of kashmir we liberated .... from an enemy nearly 10 times our size in numbers ...
we're working on the other 2/3'rd .... we already have 1/3'rd which your huge army is INCAPABLY of taking back for 56 years from a force that is 1/10 your size ...
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05-10-2004, 12:35 PM
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Yeah speculate it, didnt you hear Karzai's growl against Pakistan?
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since you mentioned our Afghan aryan brothers .... here is a article from less than a week ago ... for your reading pleasure;
http://www.jang-group.com/thenews/may2004-.../main/main6.htm
A pleasing welcome in Kabul
By Nusrat Javeed
KABUL: Security and immigration personnel posted at Kabul international airport, it seems, do not anticipate "al-Qaeda types" boarding a PIA plane to Afghanistan. Along with 50-plus passengers, I landed there Monday afternoon. Not more than two desks were enough for a speedy check of visa and passports. Only one was in operation, though, and the queue was moving agonizingly slow.
A pleasant looking officer in late twenties "caught" me filling the disembarkation card and virtually took over the job of quickly finishing with it. Without consulting the passport, he declared someday of 1968 as my birthday and made me a "tourist" with "business" credentials.
Soon he came back with entry stamped on my passport. The profuse expression of gratitude in English, Darri, Pushtu and Urdu were responded with a polite grin and dropping of the word, "Shirini (sweats)". Discreet passing of a Rs 500 (Pakistani) note acknowledged the hint. The same amount accelerated the luggage check and passing through "nothing to declare", green channel.
Almost a swarm of yellow cabs was waiting outside to fiercely compete with each other in offering the bargain ride to downtown and recommending a "very nice and newly constructed room with attached bath in a very safe and comfortable area". Selecting one was surely a hassle.
But this "welcome to Kabul" was far more pleasing than the one this correspondent had been receiving after various landings to this city since early 1990s. In the memory bank of mine, all of them are associated with nerve-wrecking whistles of flying missiles and heart-sinking thuds, artillery pieces of the competing groups would generate with their ruthless battles for territory.
A thick layer of the perpetual smoke always covered all the residential quarters of the Afghan capital. Driving towards downtown was a frightening experience, turning desolate with intense exposure to never-ending devastation. Posh areas with high-rise apartments would generate the feeling of a ghost town. For, hardly a resident dared coming out in the streets to elude getting into the crossfire of warring factions.
Most scary was a visit in early 1995. One had accompanied a nominated ambassador to Afghanistan. Before presenting his credentials to then President of Afghanistan, Professor Rabbani, he opted to spend a night at Pak embassy. It was a huge compound, covering around 22 acres. During the heydays of the "great game", diplomats of the British Empire had been operating from this awe-generating compound. In 1995, the place was handed over to Pakistan, as per the understanding reached during discussing the nitty-gritty of dividing the British assets to sovereign states of India and Pakistan.
It surely was a very bad time for savouring the delayed transfer. As if the forces of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmad Shah Masood were not enough for devastating Kabul with perpetual firing at each other’s strongholds with very deadly weapons, the Shia residents of the Afghan capital also decided to carve and secure an exclusive territory for them in the same year of 1995.
All of them, known as Hazaras coming from Central Afghanistan, comprised a huge army of daily wage earners with taxing labour at bread making ovens etc. The elitist Kabulis would not sell or rent properties to them. In desperation, "Hazaras" began digging the shantytowns amongst hills surrounding Kabul. From the vintage points of these hills, they were pounding the enemy factions with heavy artillery, when we reached the Pak embassy in early 1995. The stray pieces of the competing guns often landed in the vast compound of our embassy, sandwiched in fashionable "quarters" of the elitist residents. All of us spent the whole night awaked in fear. Those also were the days, when Taliban were virtually knocking at the doors of Kabul as well.
The Afghan capital looked very chaotic even on May 3, 2004. This chaos, however, reflected a different kind, you would associate with feverish energy of building and reconstruction. No television network of the global variety has ever captured and projected the vigour you notice amongst the present-day residents of Kabul for grabbing the "economic" space and territory.
The Afghan capital was never designed to accommodate more than half a million people. A decade of resistance against the communist occupation, however, brought hordes of internally displaced persons from all over the rural areas. The trend continued even after the liberation of Afghanistan in 1992. Taliban reversed the said trend with their obsession of measuring beards of the Kabul residents and baton beating the "naked" parts of its women in public. Not everyone could cross over to Pakistan or Iran to escape the frenzied "enforcement of Islam" by Taliban. Thousands of Kabul’s residents thus ended in relatively "soft" environs of Mazar-e-Sharif in the north.
The fall of Taliban in November 2001 had radically altered the scene for another time. Now any Afghan with any kind of skill or enterprising idea wants to employ his or her talent in Kabul. Little wonder the population of this metropolis had already gone beyond three millions and waves of fresh arrivals remain unabated.
Housing is the sector you instantly notice the impact of this wave. The land prices have hit the sky and every third or fourth spot in the sprawling avenues of Kabul is busy with frenzy construction or reconstruction of buildings. Islamabad is perhaps the most unbearable for an average middle class person, when it comes to rent a house. But a house, you might get in a comfortable sector of Pakistan’s capital with the monthly rent of say a thousand dollars, would cost you not less than three to four thousands in the Afghan capital.
The cement and iron rod producers of Pakistan were the net beneficiaries of the construction boom in Kabul so far. Now is the turn of highly skilled masons and carpenters as well. They only trust their regular labour for execution. Hordes of them are also noticed while working in Kabul these days.
It had been very difficult for a group of obvious looking Pakistanis to move about the streets of Kabul, when I visited it last in 1995. Although Ghazi Ziaul Haq Shaheed and his fellow "Jihadis" in our establishment had been telling us, all through 1980s, that they were cultivating the "strategic depths" in Afghanistan, this correspondent endured the frightening hostility while moving about in Kabul with a group of colleagues that year. Noticing us, the crowds of teasing boys would instantly assemble to chase us with abusive refrains against "Punjabis", chanted with rhythmic background of hand-clapped music. This correspondent never relished the privilege of visiting Kabul, when "Ummah-loving" Taliban controlled this city. But many journalists claimed that things were friendly for Pakistanis in the Afghan capital those days.
After their fall in 2001, a spate of media stories made us to believe as if Pakistanis invoke instant hostility if "discovered" in Kabul. Throughout my stay in the Afghan capital since May 3, I have been deliberately using Urdu for communicating with every Afghan I met in the streets or restaurants. Despite acquiring the functioning knowledge of the Pushtu and Darri expressions of daily use, I would act deaf to them while asking for entrance to carefully guarded offices of some Afghan officials. This "suicidal" declaration of one’s nationality has never put me in trouble anywhere. It rather is becoming very difficult to "separate" the Pak and Afghan identities in the streets of Kabul. Blending of the two is all-pervasive. Ruling establishments of both the countries could just not do anything about it. They should better prepare living with it for moving on to actualise a plethora of very positive possibilities with mutual cooperation in our instant future.
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Wrong again, ask any Pakistani who returned from Gulf, expecially from UAE!!
Animals, you mrean the Pakistani boys that are used as camel jockeys ??
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these sick retard sand-****** araabs are pieces of shitt ... their time is come too ... we'll take care of them,
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don't be under any illusions that these sand-******s treat you any better .... here's and article for your reading pleasure ... they treat you as bad .... if not worse than Pakistanis ....
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Death in Dubai
Every year, scores of kidnapped children are smuggled from South Asia to the Middle East where they are maimed and killed, all for the amusement of the oil-rich rulers of kingdoms on the camel racing circuit
By Ron Gluckman/Dubai, UAE
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ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP JOCKEYS poses for a photo by the track. His smile says it all. Two front teeth are missing. Raji Shubir ranks with the youngest champions of the race course.

The six-year-old tyke has won scores of trophies. Yet he claims no secret skills. His success stems from two factors known well by the local press and punters. The tiny Indian child is the lightest on the track. And he's always roped to his mount.
The races Raji runs are dangerous brushes with death in the camel pits of Dubai. No riches await young riders like Raji, who are stolen or bought from beggar parents in the slave markets of India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. And fame is a foolish notion. Fans will never see Raji's name in magazines, not even if he is trampled to death during a race or murdered afterwards by jealous child jockeys.
But die they do, kicked to death by camels or killed by rival baby riders. Such is the sad, short life in the fast lane for untold slave children shipped to the camel pits of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Raji, whose name was changed for this article, arrived in Dubai like hundreds of other children from the Asian subcontinent. He was sold by his pauper family to a servant of an Arab lord. Raji slipped through immigration, posing as the child of the Indian servant.
This is typical, according to authorities in India, who smashed several child-selling gangs during the early 1990s. The kids are sold for as little as US$3. Hundreds more are kidnapped, often toddlers as young as two.
UAE immigration and police turn a blind eye to the baby trade that serves the sordid sports of sheiks and sultans of the oil-rich emirates. Even tales of vicious brutality are brushed aside.
A five-year-old rider was beaten to death by other child jockeys last year. But neither he, nor his six-year-old assailants, were mentioned in media or police reports. "This happens often, too often," says a local reporter, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal.
Arab officials maintain the races are a vital link to the nation's Bedouin birthright. "Our interest in camels is not because it is a good sport or because it is economically important to us, but because the camel is part of our heritage, part of the Arab environment," said Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid, UAE Defense Minister, at the opening of the first International Camel Symposium in Dubai in February 1992.
Camels, called the "Ships of the Desert," have an indisputable place of prominence in UAE history. A 7,000-year-old camel fossil drawing was found on an island near Abu Dhabi, capital of the seven-state confederation known as the United Arab Emirates.
However, modern camel racing resembles nothing from the past. These desert dwellers once raced camels at festivals and weddings, but they never rode so hard for so long. A camel must be trained for years to maintain the ungainly pace of a race. At full throttle, its legs all kick in different directions, a bizarre sort of bounding that is most abnormal for the animal.
And while camels were the mode of transport long before there was oil for the nation's numerous Mercedes and Land Rovers, few racing camels actually originate in the UAE. Dubai, for instance, has an estimated 50,000 of the world's 14 million camels, but only a fraction are born here. Thousands are imported every year from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Africa. The arrivals of the camels are heralded by local headlines that refer to the "VICs" - Very Important Camels.
The costs are astronomical, even without counting perks or adding expenses. Champion camels can sell for US$500,00 or more.

The stakes are equally high. Betting is banned by the government, which, instead, showers winners with prizes and publicity. The races are covered live by television, and written up in the sports pages of the local dailies. The camels become celebrities. The jockeys, often as young as four, are never mentioned. Instead, praise is heaped upon the rich owners of both animals and riders, who claim prizes that include luxury cars, four-wheel-drive trucks, yachts and cash. Last season's finale in April, 1992 featured 15,000 camels and prizes that included over 120 luxury cars and jeeps and US$1.5 million in cash.
Yet participants insist that prizes aren't the appeal of camel racing. "It's a big honor to win," says Khamis Harib, who keeps five camels and has been racing for 20 years. "It's very competitive. If you win, you get your name in the newspaper and on television."
More important than all the cars he has won, Harib says, "If you win, everybody comes to kiss you on the nose."
Long ago, Harib himself was a jockey. "I rode in races when I was five or six," he says through a translator. "But these days, all of them are Indian and Pakistani. For the past three years or so. Before, they were all from Dubai."
There are 15 racetracks throughout the UAE, but nowhere is the sport bigger than in Dubai, which claims two of the six main stadiums, as well as a modern Camel Hospital near the larger of the two, Ned Al Sheba. The season runs from October into April. Races begin at four kilometers, gradually increasing to reach the full 10 kilometers.
The training is grueling, lasting years. Camels are fed a rich diet most likely monitored better than yours or mine. Special factories prepare the grain, with magnet sweeps for metal, and vacuuming of any dirt. Racing camels munch high-nutrition trail mix consisting of milk, dates, honey, barley and clover, sometimes spiked with vitamins. Yet camels often vomit this breakfast before or after the race. Trainers consider that a good sign, indicating a camel that is ready to run.
Camels move at four different speeds, which all involve unique leg patterns. At its fastest, the camel has been clocked at 65 km/h, but not for long. Females can maintain a steady speed of 40 km/h for a full hour, which makes them the more competitive camel.
Fifteen to 20 camels usually participate in each race, but the field grows to six dozen at the close of the season.
Riding camels can be difficult, on or off the race course. The single hump of Arabian camels makes seating a serious quandary. When tourists take short treks, camels are usually kitted with a rope saddle. You try and maintain this perch while holding the rein with one hand and hanging onto the hump with the other.
The bouncing during a race is treacherous. There are stories of children not only being roped to the mounts, but attached with Velcro. It's a dangerous sport. Slipping from the saddle can result in broken bones or being dragged to death.
"Maybe this is why they are using foreign children," says one western worker. "You won't see any Arab children out there."
During random visits to the Dubai track, children from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were all represented, but none from the UAE. The children ran in packs and behaved like standard street urchins. Many were charming as they posed for pictures in between races. All cowered from the trainers.
The tiny riders are kept to a painful pace. As soon as they finish one race, they are pulled from the camels, tossed in vans, and saddled up for the next, which starts within minutes. Jockeys wear the colors of their owners, jogging suits of blue, white, red and green, topped with tiny helmets or headgear. Many are equipped with small radios, so the trainers can signal every swing of the riding crop.

The children scream loudly at the starting line, shrieks of pure terror. This is part of the plan. Their startled cries excite the camels, pushing them to top speeds. Trainers say it is impossible to find Arab children who will scream with such fright at the camels.
As the camels lurch around the sandy track, a convoy of vans follow on a ring road. Video cameras catch the action, which is replayed on television screens mounted on poles in front of the viewing stands.
There are several segregated sections. Sheiks and sultans claim the luxury boxes in the middle, while common folk sit off to the right. The last section is for western guests and gawking tourists.
Tea and tiny sandwiches are served in an environment that reeks of colonialism, all the more startling since Dubai and the other emirates tossed out the British in the 1960s. Still, relations remain close. British nationals are the only visitors who can move with even a mockery of freedom about the UAE. All other visitors must obtain sponsors for visas, even the baby jockeys.
Yet, when child-selling gangs have been busted in India, the investigation never goes beyond the local buyers and sellers. Nobody questions how the kids can clear immigration so easily, when even the global jetset is grounded.
"We believe that the trade can only be stopped if the authorities in the receiving countries take steps to control the issuing of entry visas to children under 18," says Anne Marie Sharman, a spokesperson for Anti-Slavery International, in London. She adds that the group has protested through British diplomatic channels and received assurances that UAE law prohibits children under the age of 11 from racing.
Indeed, Dubai officials, when queried for this story, responded with written statements that the tracks are closely monitored to ensure no children under the age of 11 are involved. However, no riders over the age of eight could be found during several spot checks of the track. "They become too heavy," confided a trainer.
Middle East Watch, the human rights group, has been considering an investigation of violations in the UAE, including those reported in the camel pits. Anti-Slavery International worries about what happens when these children grow too old to race. Local reporters are afraid to probe that matter, as well.
"We're not allowed to print news stories on the races, on what goes on behind the scenes," says one local reporter, blaming strict state control of UAE media. "It's simply too controversial. We can't print anything critical of the government. It's not allowed."
Nor are race officials willing to lift the veil of secrecy for foreign reporters. Repeatedly denied access to the young riders, this reporter walked among them and was immediately accosted by a muscular guard. He twisted my camera gear and threatened arrest until a roll of film of the baby jockeys was surrendered - the first I've lost to a goon anywhere in over a decade of snooping.
"We've had problems before with reporters," explains my guide, apologizing for the rudeness. Not of the races themselves, but my rough treatment. "They just wouldn't understand in the West," he adds.
But in Dubai, the situation is condoned at every level, including the government, from immigration authorities to police. It's more than status quo, it's what happens when society standards are set by the state. In a kingdom ruled by oil, where the media is muffled and everyone sets aside ethics to placate the sheiks and sultans.
Locals accept the races, even if they don't participate. Arabs hold to the heritage line. Those of Indian descent, who might be expected to express outrage, especially since they outnumber Dubai natives by three to one, accept the situation as just another ugly condition of wealth. And westerners are noticeably nervous to broach the subject, especially when notepads are present.
"Besides, this may sound like bad taste," says one western worker, "but the kids probably have a better life here than at home."
Then, he waits for the taste of the statement to settle, and adds: "We all do."
Ron Gluckman is an American reporter based in Hong Kong, who researched this story during a trip to Dubai and several other states of the United Arab Emirates in 1992. This report was soundly criticized by officials in Dubai and across the UAE, as was a widely-shown BBC documentary that followed this report. However, the facts in the story were never repudiated.
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Originally Posted by Jay
Wet dreams? the one I know involves a pure breed aryan who wet his sherwani, ran and begged to Bill Clinton to save an aryan army, too late 4000 of them were already killed then.
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Wrong again .... it was the dhoti wearing indians who begged Clinton to pressure Pakistan to ask the fighters to wi | |