The End ... Pakistan

``As he spoke outside the main administration building in the town center, a crowd of women gathered around begging for tents. “It is chaotic,” he conceded. “The population of the town has quadrupled overnight.”''

``Despite the preparations, when the banks broke and flooded the area around Sujawal, people had to flee, villagers said. “My home is inundated,” said Muhammad Saleem Amaro, 30, a father of eight who lives with his extended family of about 50 in the village of Hajji Usman, a few miles from Sujawal.''

``Commandos Storm Prison

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Security forces raided an army intelligence office in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, freeing two prison guards who had been held hostage by three escaped militant prisoners, officials said.

The militants, all Pakistanis, were being questioned by an intelligence agency less than a mile from the United States Consulate when they overpowered the guards about 5 a.m. and seized their rifles, a police spokesman said. After a battle that went on for about 10 hours, commandos from the elite Special Services Group freed the hostages and captured the militants. One guard suffered minor injuries.''

NYT.

Imagine everybody in your place, then in the morning, there are three more for each one of you!

Hey, I need to use the shower!

American soldiers are useless there. Stop this stupid war in Afghanistan President Obama. It is insane to pay one million dollars a year for each one of those American kids you are sending there. This has to stop.

Source: http://relevantscience.blogspot.com/2010/08/end-pakistan.html

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Flood money or blood money?

While the US and UK pour money into the human disaster that is Pakistan, its Arab Islamic neighbours have not, on the whole, done so. Neither group comes out of the situation particularly well.

The UK has put in 23 times more than Iran and 15 times more than the Saudis....a belated recognition by the Government that it screwed up the week before last. The Saudis have given nothing because Pakistan's President Zardari is a Shia muslim, which is not quite their colour. And as most of you know already, the Saudi royal family lives in obscene and corrupt luxury while their subjects muddle along on not very much. As for Ahmadinnejhad's Iran, well - Pakistanis are a useful recruiting source for ignorant suicide bombers, but they're not short of those. And anyway, their priority right now is building a nuclear bomb with which to wipe the Israeli stain from the surface of the Earth....that's assuming all those short skirts don't cause a deadly earthquake there before then anyway.

They're not a nice lot on the whole in this region. Good at preaching to the West about its decadence, but not good on the morality/ethics/fairness/21st century dimensions. One chap (featured in several papers and on various sites yesterday) arrived from Iraq as an 'asylum seeker' in 2005. Since then he has married an English woman, sired two kids, committed four criminal offences, and tried on several occasions to pervert the course of his umpteen appeals against deportation. Thanks to smart lawyers (paid for by us) a tribunal last week granted him the right to stay in Britain.

You can only ask why and move on, really - to asking why the hell we went into Iraq in the first place. True to US form, Eye-Rack is now electorally unpopular and so must be ceremoniously dumped. Thus the wet-dream for Iranian insurgents begins, with every day bringing more and more bombs detonated in order to bring the one true God to the people. Sorry, the one true version of the one true God to the people.

The West has been stupid (Bush), vainglorious (Blair), hypocritical (Brown), naive (Cameron) and weak (all of them, especially Obama) in its 'approach' to this hornets' nest. Now it promises to get tough in Afghanistan while clarifying for every opponent the exact date upon which it will do a Pontius Pilate. Our standing in the Muslim world is at rock bottom - which I don't mind because I see that on the whole as a compliment: what I object to is why we're seen as vermin - the perceived total lack of spine and ruthlessness. For these are (as I've written on endless occasions in the past) the only thing that matter to a fundamentalist, misogynist, insanely controlling mindset....and the only things they respect.

We are going to have to deal with these nazis sooner or later. And opening our arms to a Turkey in the EU is not the way to do it.

Source: http://nbyslog.blogspot.com/2010/08/flood-money-or-blood-money.html

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Pakistan Flood Aids

A man trying to join a naval boat with his children in Sukur
Picture: Reuters

Extract from the UN news centre

“According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 14 million people – almost one in every 10 Pakistanis – have so far been affected by the flooding, which began late last month in the wake of heavy monsoon rains.
More than 1,200 people have been killed, and at least 2 million left homeless, by the disaster which has also destroyed homes, farmland and major infrastructure in large parts of the country, most notably the north-west province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK).”

Although there have been some mixed sentiments, a lot of countries have pledged aids for the disaster, one of which is India, a country known to be in a political conflict with its Neighbor Pakistan.

It is interesting to see who are the donors countries to date. Te list ranks the donors as per their contributions as of Aug 18,2010.
To view the full list click on the following link http://www.ideasgrp.com/blog

Source: http://experientiallearningsolutions.blogspot.com/2010/08/pakistan-flood-aids.html

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