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PAKISTAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR DEFENCE STUDIESPakistan and China: A History of FriendshipBy Mumtaz Ahmed KhanThe history of friendly relations between Pakistan and China is long and unique. Pakistan was only two years old when on October 1, 1949, China was proclaimed a People's Republic by the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung at a huge public rally in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. At that time we were faced with many grave threats to our very existence. Living in an uneasy peace with a hostile India, we did not lose much time in extending diplomatic recognition to the new revolutionary regime in our neighbourhood.The ...

Usama bin Laden's face is sad. Yes, it is. It is true, he is still alive, wearing his khaki made in the USA. Wanted Dead or alive, but . . . . . . perhaps let us leave this little man to his paranoid visions of Jewish ghosts haunting him in his cave a little longer, as he speaks of spirit and tell us of his ministers of God. He tells us he leads his men of spirit, but surrounding him instead he, sine qua non, had to habit little men who have no spirit at all, not men of ...

Islamic culture did not "invent zero" Of late, I have heard several educators and politicians tell us that Islamic culture invented the numeric zero. In fact, this is not correct. One of the world's first universities was over 2,700 years ago located in Takshshila in North-western India where the zero was used. The historian Al Biruni, himself a Muslim, who wrote histories during the era of about 1030 AD including histories of India, acknowledged that the Arabs learned the use of zero from Brahmanic and Jain scholars of India. The basis of Arabic numerals, including their use of 'zero', originated in ...

see comments below article, FOX reporting journalists taken blindfolded in Peshawar . . . also see India reports that Russians are closing in on bin Laden . . .Taliban chief is mad, says doctorDeccan Chronicle (India, October 8, 2001)London, Oct. 7: Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban chief, Mullah Mohammad Omar, currently defying the US and its allies demand to hand over Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden, is mentally unstable and suffers fits, a leading British daily said here today."He locks himself away for two or three days at a time and the official line is that he is having visions, but in ...

Bush Administration second agendum in the war on terrorism: DENOUNCE ISRAELIsrael will not be Czechoslovakia, because Israel fights terrorism, and has been fighting terrorism, and will continue to fight terrorism even if the Bush administration does not want them to fight terrorism simply because the Bush administration tries to appease the Arabs at the expense of Israel. But the very fact that some of saying this, is a sure sign that something isn't being done right, something is really wrong. Of course, the immediate response from the Powell Administration is that no one is to say it. In fact, those ...

Bush Administration first agendum in the war on terrorism: FOOD NOT BOMBS We are told that there will be surgical strikes and special forces or commando raids of target bunkers of the bin Laden caves and camps in Afghanistan, which will cause decisive and "massive" elimination of bin Laden's "foot soldiers", and that the "people" of Afghanistan are not the target, that even the Taliban which was a target is perhaps not a target, that the bridges and factories of Afghanistan will be avoided because the Afghani "people" are not the target.That's funny, but, didn't we specifically target the bridges ...

A conversation with an Afghani The following are words from an Afghani man who claimed he is the owner of an Afghani restaurant in California. Judging from his watch, shoes and his jacket, he appeared to be well-off financially. What was strange about the whereabouts of this conversation was that, though he claimed to be an owner of a restaurant, he himself was eating in a popular US chain restaurant which stays open 24 hours. It was late at night, but the 24 hour restaurant was crowded. He wasn't afraid to engage in conversation with others, and though he could have ...

MSNBC just ran the notice on their rolling banner headlines, "Powell may let Taliban remain in power if they turn over Osama bin Laden".I suppose we will hear a lot about how Powell only said "may" and not "will". Fine. Doesn't matter, because even if he said "may", well, then this "may" not be a war on terrorism.The Bush Administration has said many things regarding this war on terrorism, things about accountability for those who harbor terrorists, but the same Bush Administration through Powell has said that the war on terrorism will be conducted in the same way as the ...

Islam dictates Usama bin Laden must be executedIslam in all of its ramifications has many competitors and contenders for the throne, be is Sunni, Shi'ites, Ahl'i'Hadis, Kharijites, and you can add Ahmadiya or Sufis to this, or modern dialectics of its rendition in Sir Syed Ahmad Khan or Syed Amir Ali, et all. We hear of "Islamic clerics" much in the news of these last many days since the murders of those in New York, "clerics" who gather together to make council or judgment, yet who are these and of which Islam do they articulate? While perhaps some of these ...

Is Jerry Falwell America's Taliban?I do not know a lot about Jerry Falwell since I am not interested in his religion. Of course, I am familiar with him as a media icon of sorts, and have seen him on television giving commentary on current events as a guest of news talk programs on the networks, such as MSNBC or FOX. Even though I do not necessarily agree with some of the viewpoints which I have heard him express, and since I have no interest in his religion there is sometimes a disconnection between reality as I see it and his ...

BOMBAY INDIA: The Afternoon Dispatch and Courier September 13, 2001Bajrang Dal state President Shankr Gaikar calls for death of terrorists- Shiv Sena leader Madhukar Sarpotdar offers to help US fight against Islamic terrorists - According to the Bajrang Dal's state president, Shankar Gaikar, the incident has once again exposed the imminent threat posed by Islamic terrorism to world peace. "The entire nation now stands by the United States to fight against these elements. Today it is the US, tomorrow it will be India or any other country. Those destroyers of peace have forfeited their right to live. They have to ...

THE POTATOES BLOSSOMBodies are being ferried across the Hudson river. Many of you people have not seen or lived through anything of this kind, many are perhaps young people for which all of this seems to be simply some sort of television special, the only connection between your little world and what has now happened is the cable that runs from 'out there' into your television set. You watch for a while, and perhaps then turn on MTV. Of course, as a product of liberal education, that is what is expected from you, desired of you, by those who have ...

Bush mentioned the Valley of Death in his address to the nation. It is imperative that we understand ourselves, where we came from. All lives are different, and there are good and bad everywhere. In every place, there are women, and children. But when the day of tragedy comes, it is time to say to those who harbor the enemy, let them listen to the drone of planes at night. The ancestors of men put to record in old Babylonian the following scattered text:Before the day of tragedy, the old King had put many of our angry gods into prison. ...

Why I Love Vicente FoxI am very glad that President Vicente Fox addressed our U.S. Representatives today, because, though I already had an impression, albeit but a motif, of his dignified persona and was positive about his election and the administration he has brought his nation which he is trying to build as the new Mexico, now having heard him address our American representatives, as well as address both the citizens of the USA and Mexico, now I have a very accepting, and very positive opinion about him. I have come to understand him better, and why he is so ...

By 2005, 42% of HIV cases will be resistant to any medications - Rabbi David Eidensohn comments on how Gay diseases drain the economy   Note: some parts are translated and thus English rendering is approximateThe Associated Press on September 2, 2001 reported that drug-resistant HIV is on the rise, and that by 2005, 42% of HIV cases will be resistant to any medications. The team of California researchers who made this discovery have made four suggestions on how to deal with this, including inaugurating drug treatment later in remedial therapy, establishing new centers of highly experienced medical experts, developing ...

Bush appoints Gay Activist to U.S. Commission on Fine Arts The Data Lounge - A Gay/GLAD Activist Website on Current EventsLog Cabin Official Named to Arts Post Tuesday, 28 August 2001 WASHINGTON -- In a move sure to anger his stalwart conservative allies and unlikely to mollify his gay critics, George W. Bush last week named New York real estate developer and gay Republican activist Donald A. Capoccia as a member of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, the Washington Blade reports. Capoccia's appointment is a non-paid, voluntary position in the seven-member Fine Arts Commission. The group is charged with ...

Report: U.S. Will Share Missile Shield Details With ChinaSunday, September 02, 2001In an attempt to reverse Beijing's resistance toward a U.S. missile defense proposal, the Bush adminstration will give China a sneak preview of plans for testing the system, the White House said Sunday.China will get an update on U.S. missile plans before President Bush visits Beijing next month, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. The United States will also try to convince other countries that the proposed shield is not a threat. "This is part of the administration's outreach to China and other nations such as Russia to discuss with them the reason why we are ...

Bushies are now the "15 percenters" - Bush's sell-out of the farmers in Klamath Falls If you are a conservative who voted for G.W., here is how it works. What you get is 15 percent. I will explain in a minute. But some folks get 85 percent, and some get 100 percent, and some get 101 percent. But if you are a conservative, a patriot, or for that matter a farmer in Klamath Falls - you get 15 percent. 15 percent is what you get, unless of course, you're the U.N. - then you get $582 million of American taxpayer ...

Bush soon to announce 'half-reparations' for slavery - both sides, left and right, have criticisms"WASHINGTON (Fox News website/AP) — The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold the use of racial preferences in some government contracting, a position at odds with the president's campaign pledges." --- boy, that says it all.So how about lack of readiness of our military, telling it like it is on just how serious the situation is and what Clinton-Gore have done to impair our military? Haven't heard Bushman say much on that lately. Or perhaps he isn't very concerned about it. Perhaps ...