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Friday, April 15, 2011

North Waziristan operation imminent?

Game plan: 
Pakistan army loudly protests drone attacks.
US announces drone attacks suspended.
Pak army announces N Waziristan operation.
Pak army gets even more CSF (Coalition support Fund) dollars and high-tech weapons. Baloch nationalists expelled from Afghanistan.

Evidence: 
Pak army, government politicians and media have all simultaneously started a loud new campaign against an old problem, namely drones.
Gen Kayani launches a new road project to be constructed by army which will extend from Bannu to Ghulam Khan border town, meaning heavy machinery and troops will enter the complete length of N waziristan. The bulldozers may be used to build roads or demolish taliban bunkers. ( http://www.dawn.com/2011/04/14/pakistan-army-to-build-road-link-to-afghanistan.html )
The federal government has directed the Fata Disaster Management Authority to prepare a contingency plan for thousands of families likely to be uprooted after a military operation in North Waziristan Agency, says Dawn.

Consequences:
Afghan Taliban, particularly Haqqani group who is an old ally of Pak army, will be broken. Security will improve in  Afghanistan.
TTP (Pakistani taliban) and other jihadi groups will be greatly weakened as well. Security will improve in  Pakistan.
In the initial phase, Taliban, Afghani and pakistani, will launch the most ferocious attacks possible against Pak army and the whole civilian population of Pakistan to stop the Waziristan Operation. 

 Is Pakistan really nearing the end of the Jihadi Dream? Let's pray we are. May peace return to Pakistan and her neighbours.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Missing Baby Girls in India

The latest indian census shows that the number of baby girls born in India is much less than the natural ratio. This almost certainly indicates that modern technology, specially ultrasound, which helps in finding out the baby's sex before birth is being misused to abort the girls. It hurts me personally as a Punjabi that the highest ratio of 'missing baby girls' is in Punjab, followed by her neighbour Haryana.We can also be certain that the same thing is happening in Pakistani Punjab as well.
It is also worth noticing that the only state with the natural ratio of baby girls is not the richest, but the most educated, namely Kerala.
The following graph has been copied from Economist, 9April 2011.