Posted on 25 April 2010. Tags: Pakistan Manufacturing
The Engineering Development Board (EDB) has estimated that Pakistan’s engineering goods exports have the capacity to hit the $5 billion mark in next five years. It said that Central Africa and Latin America were potential markets, which could be easily exploited and the country could get a large chunk out of more than $165 billion market.
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 25 April 2010. Tags: Ugly American, US Embassy
How would Americans feel if the Pakistan Embassy sent a memo to the major American networks and told them that their anchors need to tone down their usual Anti-Pakistani rhetoric and their guests should not be Pakistanphobic. How would the US Congress react if the Pakistani Ambassador told the former head of the CIA that [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 25 April 2010.
Delhi has tried to play diplomatic hardball, blackmailing Washington with all sorts of threats. President Obama is not impressed. The UK, the US, and Russia admit that Delhi has an unusually large “Intelligence and Security” presence in Afghanistan. Various security organizations under the umbrella of the “Research and Analysis Wing” (RAW) are functioning in Afghanistan using the border areas as bases to direct trouble towards Pakistan. Many RAW agents provide support to terrorists in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province.
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 25 April 2010. Tags: Geert Wilders, Holland, Netherlands
We have been looking for a few good Dutch. Maybe we have found some–who have the courage to stop Holland’s slide into the deep well of bigotry and racist misogyny. It appears that a few smart politicians are repudiating Wilders xenophobia which has brought such infamy to the land of the Tulips. For years Mr. Wilders has provoked and sensationalized events to get cheap publicity. Maybe, just maybe the Dutch have finally seen through his smoke and mirrors. Perhaps he has had his fifteen minutes of fame and will fade away into oblivion.
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Posted on 24 April 2010.
Tehran has much to offer Pakistan, and Islamabad much to offer to Theran. The people of Iran and Pakistan are brotherly neighbors. The Iran Pakistan pipeline is a pipeline of peace that would reduce power shortages in Mirpur, Gilgit, Waziristan, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, and Karachi.
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 24 April 2010. Tags: China, Iran, Missile plant
Iran claims that it can duplicate the S-300 which Russian is supplying to Tehran anyway. Now there are news reports that China has already set up a missile manufacturing plant in Iran. China inaugurated a missile plan in Iran last month, even as the United States and its allies were pressing Beijing to support a [...]
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Posted on 24 April 2010. Tags: Hamas, Israel, Syria, War on Terror
Can Syria launch 60 long range missiles deep into Israeli cites and 600 short range missiles into the Israeli battlefield? This is a question that is open for discussion. Israel a Nuclear power with hundreds of US supplied weapons can devastate Syria–there is no question about the capability of Israel which is also a Nuclear power.
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Posted on 24 April 2010. Tags: Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkey
Armenia has to resolve the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijan–without which there can be no solution. Occupied land has to be returned. Turkey must continue to build its relations with Central Asia and the ECO–and this cannot be held hostage to Armenia.
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Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: India, Indo-Pakistan peace process, Manmohan Singh, Pakistn, SAARC
India has not yet emerged from the unfortunate condition that it had worked itself into after Mumbai. And unless Pakistan does his bidding, Mr Singh will not be consoled.
Mr Gilani will face the same quandary in the forthcoming SAARC Summit, where bilateral meetings are unavoidable. He will hear Mr Singh saying: “Whenever you accept our views and demands, we shall be in full agreement with you.” It is an old Indian refrain. We Foreign Office-wallas have heard it often. Mr Gilani should not be upset. He should merely stop smiling long enough to point out to Mr Singh that his boorish stance is self-defeating.
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: Bal Thackeray
Bal Thackeray should be handed over to Pakistan to face trial Comparing Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray with wanted Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed Pakistan wants New Delhi to take action against the Bal Thackery–the leader of a bigoted organization that routinely spouts venom against Pakistan. Mr. Bal Thackery is wanted for murder in [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA