10-01-2007, 09:39 AM (This post was last modified: 10-01-2007, 09:41 AM by Naresh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Oct 1 2007, 08:33 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Oct 1 2007, 08:33 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Nareshji, please post more about lakhi bai urf lady khurshid. thank you.
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<b>Bodhi Ji :</b>
In Bhuttoâs Biography Stanley Wolpert devotes a Paragraph or Two to Lakhi Bai and Haridasâ Janam Patri - Horoscope.
If you can get the book - fine - and if not then I shall copy the relevant Paragraph(s) and post it.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>BANNU : <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>A suicide bomber set off a blast at Afsar Chowk in Bannu that killed at least 13 people Monday, police said. According to reports 19 persons were injured in the attack.</span></b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>PAKISTAN is rated as the least stable of 24 emerging markets surveyed in the Global Political Risk Index produced by Eurasia Group, a global political-risk consultancy.</span></b> <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo--> The monthly index uses a range of qualitative and quantitative indicators to measure both the capacity of countries to withstand shocks and their susceptibility to internal crises. Uncertainty over Pakistan's political future, the country goes to the polls on October 6th, keeps it at the bottom. Iran and Nigeria vie with it for vulnerability to surprises. Hungary is considered the most likely to withstand trouble at home or from abroad.
<b>Suicide bomber in burqa kills 16 in Pakistan </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - A suicide bomber disguised in a woman's burqa blew himself up at a busy police checkpost in northwest Pakistan Monday, killing at least 16 people including four policemen, officials said.
The blast happened on the outskirts of <b>Bannu, a key garrison town near Pakistan's </b>troubled tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, where the army is battling Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
It was the latest in a string of deadly attacks in Pakistan since government troops stormed the Al-Qaeda-linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July, and comes days before President Pervez Musharraf seeks re-election.
"A man disguised in a burqa got out of an autorickshaw when police stopped the vehicle for a search at a checkpoint. He then blew himself up," police officer Asar Islam told AFP.
<b>Examination of remains "confirmed that it was a male suicide bomber" wearing women's clothing, while initial reports of a possible female attacker had been discounted,</b> Bannu police chief Ameer Hamza Mahsud said
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<b>EC names five presidential candidates</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain, covering candidate for President General Pervez Musharraf, withdrew his nomination papers.
President Pervez Musharraf, Justice ® Wajeehuddin Ahmad, Pakistan Peopleâs Party Chairman Amin Fahim, Senate Chairman Muhammadmian Soomro and Nawabshah District Nazim Faryal Talpur are the candidates vying for the presidential slot in the poll slated for October 6.
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<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Pakistan to grant amnesty to Benazir </b>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct 2 (AP) - Pakistan government agreed Tuesday to quash corruption cases against ex-Premier Benazir Bhutto. President Pervez Musharraf will issue an ordinance as early as Wednesday granting amnesty in cases up to 1999 in which politicians had not been convicted, Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azeem said _ meeting one of Benazirâs key demands in long-running talks with Musharraf on a possible power-sharing deal. Azeem also said that talks between representatives of Benazir and the government had been held in London and Islamabad on Tuesday. There was no confirmation from Bhutto's party. (Posted @ 20:15 PST)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Karachi bomb blast damages electricity pylon </b>ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (APP): A High Tension Tower of Wapda near the Northern Bypass in Karachi was severely damaged by a bomb blast on Tuesday, while another bomb was defused on Tuesday. Police said two bombs were planted with HT Tower at Deh Mai Gari area, of which, one exploded blowing off one of the pillars of the Tower, while <b>another bomb strapped with the other pillar was defused</b>. (Posted @ 18:10 PST)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Ex-ISI chief appointed Musharraf's successor</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kiyani is also a non-controversial officer, who had in the past not come to notice for any dubious association with the Taliban or Al Qaeda or any of Pakistan's fundamentalist organisations. He was liked by the political leaders, who were attracted by his unassuming nature and humble demeanour. A man of few words, he is quite a contrast to Musharraf, a braggart.
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Kiyani, who had done some training courses in the US, is believed to have a wide network of contacts in the US Armed Forces, but he really attracted the attention of the US' political and military leadership at the time of the Indo-Pakistan military confrontation in 2002 after the terrorists attack on the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001. He was the Director-General, Military Operations, at that time and the US was reportedly impressed by the cool manner in which he handled the crisis
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<b>The US has strongly backed his elevation as the COAS because of his known loyalty to Musharraf, his friendship with Benazir Bhutto and its hopes that he would improve the morale of the Army and vigorously pursue Al Qaeda & co</b>. Its hopes in him may ultimately be belied just as its hopes in Musharraf were. The US has never been a good judge of Pakistanis and particularly of Pakistani Army officers. Will it be different this time? Let us wait and see.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>KARACHI - The real Gross Domestic Product of Pakistan in 2006-07 stands around 87 billion dollars at constant prices that does not include the impact of inflation, The Nation learnt on Wednesday.
According to provisional real GDP estimates, the total value of the Gross Domestic Product in GY07 amounted to Rs 5240.721 billion that amounted to 87.05 billion dollars, if calculated at 60.20 dollar-rupee exchange rate for 2006-07.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Pak poll may be first free one since 1970: observers</b>
This heading is saying war with India and Freedom to Sindh, Balochistan, Balwaristan and Wazirstan . <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
10-05-2007, 06:35 PM (This post was last modified: 10-05-2007, 06:41 PM by Husky.)
Dharma under attack all over Asia. Burma's oppression of Buddhism, Ramar-Sethu issue, Nepal 'secular' communist take-over ('no longer a Hindu country'), attempts to make the Thai constitution say Thailand is not a Buddhist country :blink, and now this:
TSP is trying to blow up the second largest Buddha statue (2nd after Bamiyan that their islamic brethren in Afghanistan blew up).
<img src='http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2007/09/11/pakistan-buddha.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
And much of the news is silent, because I certainly didn't come across it in the news (found this in a Hindu blog). Silence is probably due to everyone feeling the need to pretend that islam is the ... what was it ... the tolerant religion of piecemeal ... I mean, piece, or whatever.
TSP has no respect for heritage. For them the magnificent Buddha statue must go because it is haraam. Everything is haraam in islam, even beauty (Buddha statue, women's faces), fun (poetry, music, ....), and humanity (adoption, getting along with people of other religions).
When they tried to blow it up the first time in Sept, the islamis failed. They are now trying a second time.
Note that the texts excerpted here do not contain the internal links that the original texts have.
http://varnam.org/blog/archives/2007/09/buddha_wins.php
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<b>Buddha wins</b>
Islamic terrorists, this time from Pakistan, continue their fight against Buddhist rock carvings.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There was, however, no damage to the image of the sitting Buddha carved into a 40-metre high rock in mountains 20 km north of Mingora, a town in the scenic Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad.
A group of masked-men tried to destroy the carving on Tuesday, said provincial archaeology department official Aqleem Khan.
"Militants drilled holes in the rock and filled them with dynamite and blew it up," Khan said on Wednesday.
"The explosion damaged the upper part of the rock but there was no damage to the image itself," he told Reuters.[Pakistani militants try to blow up Buddha carving]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Joy at the Buddha escaping unscathed is shortlived because the faithful Islamis will not give up. They are determined to destroy the Buddha.
http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/10/04/a...o-bamiyan/
(Other links in this post obtained from this one)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Most of you would remember the senseless destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by Taliban from a few years ago.
Some days go, I had alerted readers to another attack on Buddha statues - this time in Pakistan - which most media channels (including the revered BBC) chose to downplay.
Two days ago, the Islamic zealots returned to complete their unfinished business.
Excerpts from the story:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->â<b>The historic statue of Buddha in Pakistanâs Swat Valley was attacked for the second time in 20 days on Saturday night, damaging its head and shoulders. Militants have threatened that a third attack is imminent when they will âdestroy it completelyâ.</b>
â¦The Pakistan government has not yet issued any statement.
Musa Khankel, local correspondent of The Newsâ¦told HT over telephone: â<b>They told me they will come again to complete the job. They were proud of what they had done. They said they considered it their religious duty</b>.â<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Information on this heritage Buddha statue: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-09...an-buddha_N.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->7-meter (23-foot) statue<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Nasir said before extremist violence scared off most tourists to the region, Buddhists from Sri Lanka, Thailand and Japan would come to visit the statue, which shows Buddha sitting cross-legged.
The statue was <b>built around the 1st century, during the Gandhara era, which flourished in that part of Pakistan from the 6th century B.C. to the 11th century A.D.</b>, according to Fida Ullah Sehrai, an expert on Buddhist archaeology and former director of the Peshawar Museum.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This archaeologist 'Sehrai' has indirectly admitted to what exactly ended Buddhism: 11th century is more than a mere indicator, it marks the occasion as well. Islam.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->TSP is trying to blow up the second largest Buddha statue (2nd after Bamiyan that their islamic brethren in Afghanistan blew up). <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Buddha status is already gone, was not a major news because Mushy is US buddy.
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