Where the Jihad Lives Now

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  • Posted By: silvabraga @ 11/05/2007 12:18:00 PM

    There's an interview with Philip Oldenburg at Columbia in which disagrees with this story, calling the danger "overblown."

    ???I don???t think Pakistan is dangerous. It???s not going to send waves of terrorists into the world,??? Oldenburg says. ???There???s an implication there that it could explode or implode in some fashion, that we could have a jihadist takeover and you could have some Ahmadinejad or someone like this taking over and doing things. I don???t see that either.???

    The video interview is at: www.theinterviewpoint.com (the direct link is: http://theinterviewpoint.com/ITP/Interviews/4A6D9AF5-87F2-42BB-8C0A-11429D58FB4B.html)

  • Posted By: karaswart @ 11/05/2007 9:22:52 AM

    Old chaps! Old Chaps!!! Don't get your collective knickers in a twist and resort to obscenity. All will be well. We await the prodigal's return. Tha fatted calf is ready.

  • Posted By: nickdouglos @ 11/05/2007 7:09:17 AM

    Nik005 !!!... my emotions towards you=(Recycle binladen)
    Babblu go home and dance that suite on indians.
    (I am +, you ll be entering in the hell with dancing steps and if u ll not "Angels" will beat you and make your BUTT RED)

    If you disbelieve in my say, go switch on your TV and open any chanel of yours and see every1 is Dancing even the Newscasters. :)

  • Posted By: nickdouglos @ 11/05/2007 6:32:55 AM

    Please don't attack on india by words. I like INDIAN Girls THREE MUCH :) especially Madhuri DICKSHIT and PAAD MONEY Koyela Puri, Urmilla Mar tor ker, Pretty Zinda, AssWarya, Dimple Kabadia, Rani Muker ji, Sonali bandariya and PAPPI Lay lee :).


    One day indian prime minister called our PM and said: we have above listed actoresses. what do you have ?
    Our PM replied we have place ;) bring them all :)

  • Posted By: atif abbas @ 11/05/2007 6:09:32 AM

    yahoo!!! I am very glad that atleast some where in the world in some place pakistan is the NO.1 .declared by other world. but v pakistanis are not terrorists as v r pure muslims who want peace every where but if a theif enters in our home v cannot keep silent . as for a theif a policeman is a sign of danger(terrorist)
    so when ever america or any wants to come in our home as athief v will fight to death .weather v r called terrorist or freedom fighter.so b careful !!!!!!! v r muslim and enemy of every one who is enemy of any muslim any where in the world either in pakistan ,afghanistan ,india,iraq,palestine, or any wehre. and if not disturbed v are peaceful most than anyother nation in the world.

    thanks,
    A muslim

  • Posted By: KAAK @ 11/05/2007 1:55:56 AM

    Nik005, there are imperfections in Pakistan as well, but that does not give anyone especially a non-Pakistani any right to insult our homeland. We respect others' countries and expect the same back in return. We are not ignorant, we are enthusiastic about Pakistan, you should come and see the young generation trying to make a difference by any means possible, myself included. But these things take time and need time. Just beacuse there are muslim extremitsts in Pakistan, no one can name it a terrorist country. What about India, where there are Hindu Extremists, or USA, where they have mercenaries, cults etc. The only difference is they do not have long beards, they do not wear turbans and they are not muslims.
    What we Pakistanis are saying here is to open your eyes and see Pakistan as it is, not what the media propoganda, wants you to see it as.
    Khalid Khan

  • Posted By: Nik005 @ 11/05/2007 12:34:58 AM

    Many Pakistanis are leaving emotion laden comments without much to argue. I wish they looked inwards instead of pointing and mocking at imperfectitons in other countries. This ignorant attitude of its citizens sums up the reason why Pakistan is in a state of turmoil.

  • Posted By: musafir @ 11/05/2007 12:25:31 AM

    Shame on you for writing such a outrageous, biased and ridicules article!!

    ???Pakistani leaders created the Islamist monster??????..Hang on a second! Where is the USA? It is crystal clear that the USA helped train the original fighters that became Al Qaeda during the USSR Afghan war and then betrayed them.

    This is all happening because of you. You are the one who are interfering with internal matters of the countries. You are the one who are trying to suppress the weeks and grab their resources and what is happening is the result of that.

    You are the main culprit (Even if you pretend to be not. World knows about it.).

  • Posted By: A.Khan @ 11/05/2007 12:17:15 AM

    Shame on you karaswart , even this 0.5 Pakistan is capable to give you a lesson which you will always remember. And what a shameful reality that A Gaint..INDIA is a rival of 0.5 Pakistan. Have you seen a grown up man fighting with a kid and yet no courage to attack that kid..:)
    Your actual match is China, and everybody knows you have to change your nappies a thousand times before you think nasty about china.

  • Posted By: pakinamlas71 @ 11/02/2007 8:52:27 PM

    To Karaswart: For any radical Hindu the dream of destroying or destabilizing Pakistan will never cherish. Pakistan is there forever and ever. Look at ur own backyard first where u are treating ur own people like animals and dividing them into different sects and races and then calling urself to be the biggest democracy in the world. I call that hypocricy and racial discrimination. No wonder some of the states are fighting for their independence from the union due to ur attitude. Your comments does not spread peace in this world.

  • Posted By: yasir.ilyas.shamsi @ 11/03/2007 8:57:02 AM

    Well, i dont believe in allegations, but any person in the right state of mind would clearly be knowning that it is US. The most feared country, the only nation to ever use a nuke bomb, the only country in the recent times to drop big bombs on civilian area, the only country in the recent times to kill innocent civilians in such high numbers, the only country to conqure for oil and other resources. Be rational!, I dont favour alqaeda's policies etc, but killing civilian is not legitimate under any religion, under any law. I surely place US also under the terrorist category, because my deifnation for terrorist is when an innocent person is targetted intentional or unintentionally, when an innocent has a fear of being targetted for what he has not done is terrorising, US surely lies under that category. I request wise american to analyze your country's policies and force your leaders to make right decision.

    • Posted By: tahirphysio @ 11/04/2007 2:58:55 PM

      Keep it up brother. I fully endorse what you said.

  • Posted By: tsmyers @ 11/03/2007 12:02:37 PM

    For Yasir.ilyas.shamsi - The US used the atom bomb two times in 1945 and that saved MILLIONS of Japanese and US lives. The Japanese elite rules were trying to force better concessions for themselves by having more people killed. The atom bombs stopped the war and saved lives. The US is NOT conquering for oil, it is stupid to imagine that we would pay so much in the Afghan and Iraq wars for oil, this is about the AlQaeda killing 3,000 US citizens in New York city and Al Qaeda trying to murder more Americans. I believe that the US soldiers are following the law and trying to avoid civilian deaths while they try to protect the world from evil murderers that are pretending to be religious leaders. In my opinion, my leaders are doing the right thing in trying to destroy AlQuaeda. Perhaps if the Islamic world would fight them we wouldn't have to be there in the Middle East. Your islamic leaders are moral failures, they advocate murder in the name of jihad.

    • Posted By: tahirphysio @ 11/04/2007 2:57:55 PM

      For tmyser ( or sth like that) : Really funny statement. What a great logic, to take lives in order to stop others doing so. Hilarious.
      You are killing Afghans and Arabs in response to those 3000 US citizens? Interesting rationale.
      What would you say if Al Qaeda or Taliban say that they did ( in case they really did it) this in response to what you have been doing for centuries?
      If you are so 'innocent' and 'law abiding' people and you think that you are not their for OIL, then why didn't you just kept urself away from OIL? Why are you using it's assets thinking they belong to you?
      You are earning more than you spend, mind it .

  • Posted By: tahirphysio @ 11/04/2007 1:23:32 PM

    Ha Ha Ha, an Indian is saying such things. Really interesting

  • Posted By: A.Khan @ 11/04/2007 4:15:38 AM

    This is simply a baseless article with wrong facts [which are not the facts exactly] and figures. U.S is now preparing ground to fulfill their nasty intensions against Pakistan.
    Dear U.S, don't think everybody here is a child with no brains. Who is the so called Osama Bin Laden. Its an imaginary character who is used by the US government for taking action against the countries which are either Oil Rich or having a good geographical location. Every time when someone talks about the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq or Afghanistan, a tape from Osama is released threatening for more attacks on U.S.
    For the US, the price for gaining access to Middle East and Afghanistan is only killing their own 3000 citizens in NY, which is really a profitable deal for them.
    But U.S should remember that we are not Afghanistan or Iraq. And people, who are saying that Pakistan will perish automatically, will see a totally different version of their dream as reality.
    Long Live Pakistan.

    • Posted By: karaswart @ 11/04/2007 11:40:43 AM

      You mean Long Live 0.5 Pakistan. ( Remember the rest is called Bangladesh).

  • Posted By: ahsan.warsi @ 10/27/2007 5:58:50 PM

    I do not understand why people from our neighboring countries are getting so involved in our problems. This just shows the bad intentions which India carries for us. And maybe this is a reason even after the problem we have, we are all united as a nation if God forbid a time comes to test us against our oldest rivals. Pakistan has its problems, as I have stated earlier. But, no one other than us has the right to discuss our internal matters. And authors and writers like Mr. Zahid Hussain of this article are just hypocrites who try to gain personal mileage at the expense of our country. .This act of selfishness equates them with the BBs and Sharifs in the regard that they are also satisfying their personal goals at the expense of our country. For more perspective about my views on the politics of Pakistan visit http://pakcentric.blogspot.com

    • Posted By: Newforce @ 11/04/2007 4:09:26 AM

      Mr. Ahsan,
      We are not meddling with your affairs. The fact is that Pak govt. have been trying to destabilize India for years, and now the sword is falling on your own head. We have been telling to the International media for years about Pakistan's malafide intentions. It is now that the international media is realizing that what we were talking was not rhetoric but real danger.

    • Posted By: karaswart @ 10/27/2007 6:10:59 PM

      No bad intentions old chap. Just want Punjab and Sindh back. The Afghans want NWFP back and the Balooch's want to march to their own drummer. Not get sold to the Chinese, in a manner of speaking..

  • Posted By: dms_jrry @ 10/29/2007 3:05:40 PM

    i am infact a regular reader of the news week... since many years...and i always appreciate and love this megazine for their balance news since i start reading in mid 1990's,i always infact encouraged my friends to buy and read NEWS-WEEK since the start,but once i have read your this article,it makes me exrtremly sad and turned off from this megazine because of this article by Ron Moreau and Michael Hirsh and i was SHOCKED that what indian media is propagating since many years against pakistan,is now already propagated by this article and this megazine.cuz this article is 100% baised and UN-TRUE and its only propagating the negative image of pakistan,which is infact NOT TRUE.and its for the purpose of making some anti pakistan people in india and in USA happy.so if you two Ron Moreau and Michael Hirsh don't know really the real pakistan, pakistan army and pakistani people...then SHUT YOUR MOUTHS,cuz whats written in this OBSERED article is 100% UN-TRUE and far from reality.cuz pakistan is a country of 170-milion people and just a fraction of such miscreants does not make pakistan the most dangerous place on earth,and for your information pakistan army is NEVER been demoralized and nor it will be EVER in the future,cuz they are one of the strongest army in the world and pakistan nuclear assets are in the safe hands and safer than the USA,UK and INDIA.so please Ron Moreau and Michael Hirsh say the TRUTH and use your brains if u two has some thing inside your brains and DON'T put a bad name to this HIGHLY respected megazine,and the news-week authorities must not print againyour these kind of UN-SCRUPULOS ideas in news-week... cuz 98% pakistani condem terrorisom and they are the victims of terrorisom and we all say together....DEATH TO TERRORISTS...
    thank you very much....
    s u rahman
    peshawar,pak.

    • Posted By: Newforce @ 11/04/2007 3:52:03 AM

      For every plight in Pakistan, India is responsible, and also articles like this one, is it not guys!! Now stop complaining about India, and clean your backyard. you cannot hide the truth. from everyone's eyes.

  • Posted By: qassu @ 10/24/2007 6:15:46 PM

    I would rather urge Fareed Zakaria, a Muslim of Indian descent, one of the top notch people working for NEWSWEEK to leave his plush home in Manhattan and rather go live in India, where he would have to suffer from the pangs of living in a Hell Hole and may be learn of what it is like to live as a second class citizen in a country which is championed in the US as a model for democracy around the world. boo-haa!!

    May be that will be more news worthy for readers in America than him goading his fellowe editors at NEWSWEEK to publish stories against Pakistan.

    • Posted By: ladyinred @ 11/03/2007 10:07:11 PM

      I think you need to wake up and stop getting brainwashed by your government and media.
      Muslims in India hold very high positions, our president was a muslim, the richest Indian is a muslim, go to small villages and see for yourself how integrated hindus, muslims, christians and sikhs are...Yes, there have been problems, riots, but it is because of 1% of Indian muslims who believe what neighbors like you preach them...

    • Posted By: Lahaina @ 10/24/2007 10:10:53 PM

      Fareed Zakaria's father was the Governor of the state of Maharashtra, India and his mother was an editor at the Times of India.
      Would you call them second class citizens?
      Can you find such an instance of Hindus in such posiitons in Pakistan?
      There are more than one hundred million muslims in India who enjoy far more liberties and individual freedom than most citizens of Pakistan.
      How about yo go visit India and see for yorself?

  • Posted By: ladyinred @ 11/03/2007 10:02:00 PM

    A peaceful Pakistan is very important for stability and peace in the subcontinent.
    I wish Pakistani citizens well, hope God be with you all during these difficult times.

    - An Indian gal

  • Posted By: karaswart @ 11/03/2007 2:23:55 PM

    Now what old chaps? Pervy has declared emergency and Pakistani soldiers are surrendering en masse to the Taliban. If military commanders revolt then who gets the nukes?? Scary, very scary. This article was very prescient.

  • Posted By: Bpolitical @ 11/03/2007 11:14:59 AM

    Once again the militants have started to wreak havoc in Pakistan. These people are nobody's friend. They are just insane killers. To stand against them, what moral ground will Benazir (aka Bezamir) use to govern the nation even if they are stupid enough to elect her? Her record of corruption hardly stands as a shining example. She is one of the many parasites that have sucked the blood of Pakistan and should be treated as such. She is all talk and no action. Unfortunately the people of Pakistan are too poor and simple to realize how they are being played. May God help them and have mercy on the poor people who will be caught in the middle of this crisis. It is situations like these that create emotionally charged kids who become deranged adults.

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