HINA RABBANI KHAR: Over the top - a Pakistani Perspective!

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Masood Hasan, / http://thenews.com.pk / Sunday, July 31, 2011.

HRK – Hina Rabbani Khar is drop dead gorgeous. Her three day fashion onslaught has left the Indians gasping for breath and ambulances howling all over the countryside. Here we are crooning with delight – the men exchanging high fives, the women – the sensible ones that is, shaking their heads slowly from side to side. Is HRK the nuclear device that we promised we’d explode over the Indian capital? Have we scored a major diplomatic victory over arch enemy India? Is HRK going to lead the country armed with nothing but a Hermes bag and change global policies with a snap of her diamond encrusted fingers? As the euphoria subsides and her Birkin bag is safely stowed away along with her undoubtedly large Hermes collection, we, the ordinary riff-raff of this despondently poor country need to take a good long look at the events of last week. If we don’t, rest assured the lollypops in Islamabad certainly won’t. Introspection is not as fashionable as Roberto Cavalli shades.

Let’s get one thing straight. One dresses for the occasion. Anyone recall Angelina Jolie’s ‘designer’ outfits on her many visits to the Afghan camps? There is a time and place for all things. I think HRK didn’t quite get that right. She has many things going for her but maturity and a sense of balance seem to be virtues that Pakistan’s new foreign minister does not care about much.

It is amazing that the old hands at Hotel Scherezade that masquerades as Pakistan’s foreign office thought little of actually ‘briefing’ Lady Bond before she flew in her special aircraft to New Delhi. (No PIA please. That’s for the plebs). Did anyone tell her what precisely was her mission, if any on her maiden voyage to India? I doubt it. While she must have spent an enormous amount of time choosing her wardrobe and accessories – she has a talent for accessories as a gushing designer confided last week, one wishes there were men or women who could have briefed her on how she must conduct herself – but this is unlikely in a country where ‘yes sir, yes sir, three bags full’, is the most successful strategy.

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PAK CAULDRON: Pak considers India, not Afghanistan existential threat: US Admiral!

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July 8, 2011 / PTI, Washington / DC.

Pakistan and its leaders consider India as an existential threat to them not terrorism or Afghanistan, said Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the United States.

He said the above while noting that Islamabad needs to do more in the war against terrorism.

"We may disagree with this, but I can tell you their existential threat is not Afghanistan, their existential threats aren't terrorists in their country. Their existential threat is India," Mullen told reporters during a luncheon with the Pentagon Press Association.

"And that's where they focus on. I do not think, they are going to not focus on that (existential threat from India). So they keep that. They keep training people. They keep rotating people to that as well," Mullen said when asked why Pakistan is not doing enough in the war against terrorism.

"So I would certainly put it in the category of they haven't done what we want them to do along the lines. Although their frontiers corps two years ago were a force that wasn't well led, wasn't well equipped, wasn't well trained and now all those things have changed and they are a much more capable fighting force than they were historically. They have taken on eight or nine different campaigns on that western border," he said.

Good that American Establishment is willing to acknowledge this fact, which is otherwise known in the circles of Analysts and Observers, for long!

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PAK PERCEPTIONS: Pakistanis see India as bigger threat than Al Qaeda!

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June 22, 2011 / IANS Washington / D.C.

Most Pakistanis see India as a bigger threat than the Taliban and the Al Qaeda and disapprove of the US military operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a new poll.

Although Al Qaeda leader bin Laden has not been well-liked in recent years, a majority of Pakistanis describe his death as a bad thing. Only 14 per cent say it is a good thing, according to a poll released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Centre.

Moreover, many Pakistanis believe the US raid on bin Laden's hideout, which was located about 35 miles from Islamabad, will have a negative impact on the already strained relations between the US and their country.

The poll also indicates that concerns among Pakistanis about an extremist takeover and support for using military force against extremist groups are slipping, but the groups themselves remain widely unpopular.

Just 12 per cent of Pakistanis have a positive view of Al Qaeda, down from 18 per cent in 2010. Only 12 per cent give the Taliban a favourable rating with both Pakistan based Tehrik-i-Taliban and the Afghan Taliban getting similarly low levels of support.

What a pity Pakistanis would love to hate India than their own administration that has been murdering journalists, backing land-lords who rape their teenaged children and the Terrorist outfits that indiscriminately bomb their schools, marques, police stations, military offices and public places, killing scores of innocents, without a reason or rhyme!!!

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WIKILEAKS: The world of Bollywood as seen through American diplomatic eyes!

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A. SRIVATHSAN / The Hindu



'Excessive production expenses and high payments to stars may make the industry unsustainable in the long run'


Hollywood studios, which are “amongst the highest revenue earners in the world,” were attracted by the growth potential of the Indian film industry and made forays into Bollywood. Unfortunately, the cable documented, all the joint Hollywood-Bollywood productions released thus far have failed at the box office, signalling that “a successful entry into Bollywood is not easy.”


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