The World We Live In !!

NEW DELHI: While the Indians celebrate 62nd Army Day, country’s Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, just after a couple of weeks of announcing a new war doctrine of Indian army to eliminate Pakistan and China in matter of hours even if it has to fight on simultaneous fronts, outrageously admitted Indian Army’s Armoured debacle and expressed concern about the force’s ‘night blindness’ in the area of Armoured Corps and mechanized infantry.

‘My major concern is that night blindness of the army is removed so we are able to fight in the night as in the day,’ Kapoor said at New Delhi, an admission that stunned the world in the backdrop of his two weeks old remarks.

The situation also forced Indian Defence Minister Antony to chew his own buts as he had been endorsing and projecting General Kapoor’s announcement regarding the new war doctrine for Pakistan and China.

Earlier, when his attention was brought to the fact that the Indian Army’s tanks have a night vision capability of 20 percent, Pakistan’s have 80 percent while China has 100 percent, General Deepak Kapoor admitted this outrageous military debacle by saying: ‘You are right.’ Read more…

UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations agency UNFPA has said in its report that India lags behind Pakistan in literacy rate as the literacy rate here in Pakistan is much more higher than that of its rival neighbor.

According to report, total 32.3 percent male while 60.4 percent female aged above 15 years are literate in Pakistan,

But however, on the contrary to aforementioned calculation, there are only 23.1 percent male and 45.5 percent female aged over 15 years enjoy education in India.

via Pakistan ahead of India in literacy rate: UN.

India is condemning another generation to brain damage, poor education and early death by failing to meet its targets for tackling the malnutrition that affects almost half of its children, a study backed by the British Government concluded a week ago.

The country is an “economic powerhouse but a nutritional weakling”, said the report by the British-based Institute of Development Studies (IDS), which incorporated papers by more than 20 India analysts. It said that despite India’s recent economic boom, at least 46 per cent of children up to the age of 3 still suffer from malnutrition, making the country home to a third of the world’s malnourished children. The UN defines malnutrition as a state in which an individual can no longer maintain natural bodily capacities such as growth, pregnancy, lactation, learning abilities, physical work and resisting and recovering from disease.

In 2001, India committed to the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving its number of hungry by 2015. China has already met its target. India, though, will not meet its goal until 2043, based on its current rate of progress, the IDS report concluded.

“It’s the contrast between India’s fantastic economic growth and its persistent malnutrition which is so shocking,” Lawrence Haddad, director of the IDS, told The Times. He said that an average of 6,000 children died every day in India; 2,000-3,000 of them from malnutrition. Read more…

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi  said the government would disclose evidence regarding India’s involvement in Balochistan diplomatically at the right time.

To a question about induction of over 1,000 Marines by the US embassy into Islamabad, the minister said: “The US embassy is reinforcing its personnel for strengthening its security.” He said it should be taken as a message from the US that it wanted long-term relationship with Pakistan.

The News Article

Will someone please tell me how we decide what time is right. Should the Pakistani government actually be covering up evidence that proves India’s or any other countries involvement in the current unrest.

Personally, i’m getting kind of sick of this game. If we have something, come out and say it, else just keep it shut. If you ask me it was the right time when the Indian govt accused us of sporting terrorism, it was the right time when they fell short of proving their point. If not then, its the right time now, if we are going to pin the blame on someone, lets come out and do it already. Heck, it was the right time yesterday. Do it already.

Now coming to the second para, who are these leaders trying to kid, since when is sending soldiers a sing of wanting long term relationship. If it is, where is the Iraqi govt (Bath Party) gone, did they not get the memo, what about the (Taliban) Afgani govt, or were they just too stupid to not understand what thousands of soldiers mean.

I don’t see any Palestinians jumping with joy, why wont our leadership address their nation and give them the comforting msg, how stupid these Palestinians can be, thinking those soldiers are there to kill them. All they are really doing is showing how the Israelis want longterm relationship with the Muslims of Gaza and Palestine

It seems that the biggest democracy has its own way of treating prisoners, especially from the neighboring country. I am referring to Jamil Khan, whose coffin was handed over to Pakistani authorities by the Indians. As always they all die there of natural causes, as our neighbor claim. The unfortunate soul, hailing from Baluchistan was on a trip to Sindh when he somehow crossed the forbidden line, 18 years back. With no real charge sheet he was sentenced to 5 year in prison, but after 18 years instead of shame on still holding him illegally, his tortured body was sent back to his relatives.

This is not the first time that an episode like this has taken place, rather it has become a custom that any captured Pakistani will seldom make it back in full shape. Numerous reports are there where the bodies have been found with drilling and burn marks all over them.

May be the champions of human right, secularism and democracy can shed some light on this treatment, which is a clear demonstration of extremism in their ranks. Our hearts go out with the family, but one feels that at least this ended his ordeal by the hands of Indians.

May be Mr. Ansar Burni gets some thing out of his news. Until now he has earned laughter for campaigning to release proved spies, why not earn some respect by highlighting the sad and brutal stories of people like Jamil Khan?

Article By :- Hamid Abbasi

Image: Dawn

SHIMLA : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday expelled senior leader Jaswant Singh from the party, in the wake of him praising Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his recent book.

The BJP top brass took the decision to sack Jaswant Singh at the party’s chintan baithak (introspection meeting) being held in Shimla.

The development came even as Jaswant Singh stayed away from the opening session of the three-day meeting which began here today.

The BJP had yesterday distanced itself from Jaswant Singh’s remarks on Jinnah in his new book, “Jinnah – India, Partition, Independence”, with party president Rajnath Singh saying that his views were against party’s ideology.

AAJ TV : Pakistan Ki Awaz.

Barnala (Punjab) (IANS) The Indian Army on Sunday started its ‘Hind Shakti’ exercise in this southwest Punjab district to check the operational readiness of its strike corps, officials said.

The exercise is being conducted as a two-sided operation aimed at practising the elite Kharga Corps in its operational task of proactive strategy, an army spokesman said.

The exercise commenced with massed mechanised manoeuvres undertaken as part of offensive operations in the plains of Punjab.

A large number of tanks, BMP combat vehicles, artillery guns and specialist vehicles commenced their manoeuvres by day and night under near war-like conditions. A parachute drop by airborne troops and other heliborne operations were also undertaken to complement mechanized forces. The operations were aimed at conducting penetrative manoeuvres into the enemy heartland.

Reported May 3rd by :-

The Hindu News Update Service.