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ISLAMABAD: The US government ordered the evacuation of non-essential staff from its consulate in Lahore on Friday due to the threat of attack, with the State Department also warning US citizens not to travel to Pakistan.
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Lahore has suffered from attacks by militant groups. The most notable attack crystal bay motels cheap was on a bus carrying members of the Sri Lankan national cricket team in 2009. That was followed by an attack on the office of Inter-Services Intelligence.
The US State Department initially announced the wider embassy closures crystal bay motels cheap would be only for last Sunday, then extended the closures of some by a week and added Burundi, Rwanda and Mauritius to the closure list.
Yemen, one of the poorest Arab countries, is the base for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the most active branches of the network crystal bay motels cheap founded by Osama bin Laden. Militants have launched attacks crystal bay motels cheap from there against the West.
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After killing of mountaineers in broad daylight whatever little tourism was left of in Pakistan is gone for a toss. Who will come to Pakistan with or without warning. Mr. PM please come.up crystal bay motels cheap with a stratergy to wipe out terrorists crystal bay motels cheap once and for all.
@Vikas I am sure u r from India, and yeah we r hoping for cricket revival because we love this game and no one should crystal bay motels cheap sit home fearing the worst. Brave nations face adversities head on. Pakistan is not the first nation to face problems, great nations are born after wars and history has proven it again and again.
@BruteForce: Zero option crystal bay motels cheap is not a prerequisite. The plan that Kerry talked about will leave army trainers, intelligence people to help provide input for drones and some consultants for counterterrorism and governance for t he new formed government. It is clear that post 2014 there will be no combat role for USA in Afghanistan. Thus NATO oute would no longer be necessary and any tough decisions necessary can be taken.
I don t think so I denied the problems, i said that many countries have faced problems in the past and many will face them in future, and if there is no cricket in pakistan its everyone s loss no one should be happy coz of this. Believe me things r not as gloomy as they portray in the media, if I am to believe media reports abt India then only thing I percept abt India is millions of poor hungry children dying in Mumbai slums and girls being raped in busses crystal bay motels cheap and thrown out, but we should see both sides of the picture
It is not so long back that Pakistan insisted on drawing US presence into South Asia, and India strenuously opposed it. Today, the same India looks for an extension crystal bay motels cheap of US presence, and Pakistan .. well! the less said the better!
So, quite evidently, lofty concepts of independence have been traded for strategic policies crystal bay motels cheap , and the enemy of our enemy still plays the tune we dance to. Let s wave our flags to that it s that heady month of the year again!
Pakistan will suddenly find IMF not so forthcoming, WB is angry at it, Kerry Lugar money will end exactly in 2014, which in the last 3 years gave Pakistan around $3 Billion, apart from CSF(Coalition support funds).
Instead of closing the diplomatic mission from Lahore or any other place, I would suggest to US President Mr. Barack Hussein Obama that he should appoint all Pakistani Nationals right from the post of Consul General up to the bottom line, instead of Americans, so that the diplomatic mission should keep on running and at the same time unemployed Pakistanis will also get the employment.
When the consulates start issuing alerts, there must be something brewing. I think another conflict may be in the offing. crystal bay motels cheap I hope it is a decisive one one way or another. The region is sick and tired of this simmering low-intensity conflict all the time.
Why should we maintain relations with a country who in 1965 directed our enemy to attack our air bases via Peshawar? At that time both USA and Pakistan were members of SEATO and CENTO. This led President Ayub to tell the Americans to evacuate the secret US base in Badaber, on the outskirts of Peshawar. (India crystal bay motels cheap was never a member of SEATO / CENTO).
Why should we maintain crystal bay motels cheap relations with a country who leased our airbase in Badaber and furtively flew U-2 spy planes on reconnaisance missions over ex-USSR (now Russia)? The USSR shot down the U-2 spy plane and captured the pilot Captain Francis Gary Powers and imprisoned him for three decades. PM Nikita Kruschev threatened to wipe out Peshawar from the world map by re-positioning their nuclear tipped crystal bay motels cheap missiles towards Pakistan.
Why should we maintain relations with a country, who in collaboration with Russia and India, hijacked Pakistan in 1971? The routing of the Seventh Fleet from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Bay of Bengal was a big drama played by President Richard Nixon.
Indeed. Americans are one paranoid lot anyway. Terrorist or no terrorist, I would have loved to visit Lahore, the sites of Mohen-jo-daro and Taksashila, if I had the visa and perhaps a host on that end. The memories of college days when we travelled right from Arunachal to Bhutan (via West Bengal) and from there to Nepal (via Bihar), without crystal bay motels cheap any visa are still vivid in my head.
@Naveen: You feel Americans are paranoid because they are closing Lahore embassy based on specific intelligence they have received. You are entitled to your view. Another way of looking at it is that American government has been forced to worry about security of its consulates also and not just what happens to US citizens within US after the Ben Gazi incident. This is people power and worth appreciating. Better than situation where VIPs get untold security and entire roads get blocked for their visit but there is no concern crystal bay motels cheap for the common crystal bay motels cheap man as happens in our subcontinent unfortunately more so in Pakistan than India but sadly happens to smaller or greater extent in both countries. Recommend
As you have said I am entitled to my view and so I stick by it. I am not assuming anything. People power has no say in opening and closing crystal bay motels cheap of Consulates and VIP privileges are by no means a monopoly of Indian political elites. As for Paranoia, Those who have read history right from Operation Cyclone (and even before that) know perfectly well that 9/11, Ben Ghazi Incident, Taliban and Al-Qaeda were all infact blowback of West s own policies in West Asia and Central Asia (Reagan infact cheered Mujahideens that included Bin laden enterprises calling them inspirational crystal bay motels cheap freedom fighters). Next, one can observe how these chaps go around bombing entire countries back to stone age on a mere suspicion of WMDs, expanding Red Wave, made up human right issues and so on.
Americans and infact the entire West (by that I refer to Anglo-American Empire and the Puppet Western Europe) in general crystal bay motels cheap are a paranoid lot. Perhaps its because of the age structure (the risk averse Old people dominate in population) and imperial hangover (where the others were supposed to do exactly what the Europeans wished). Recommend
crystal bay motels cheap I know you mean well. But, don t you agree that, in the case of Pakistan, it has been the only major country that has encouraged, created, nurtured, trained and deployed terrorists as foreign policy assets, a practice that has had the unexpected consequence of boomeranging on Pakistan itself? What I mean is, you can t equate Pakistan with brave nations. Pakistan is just reaping the reward of the seeds it sowed and cultivated.
Paranoid? crystal bay motels cheap Really? It looks like you don t keep up with the news and history. If you did, you would realize that Islamic terrorists have declared an open Jihad against any and all Americans and westerners. I wonder if you were working (many native people also work in American Embassies) in the American Embassy in Lahore, you would stay put in the embassy carrying out your duties as usual.
You are wrong. When the consulate was not evacuated in Ben Gazi despite intelligence that terror attacks were imminent, it has had a huge fallout on the State department. They do not want a repeat. This is why the prompt action on embassy/consulates in middle east also.
I did not say they were. I referred to Indian and Pakistani elites but VIP culture does prevail in many third world countries. Such a VIP culture does not prevail in USA where even the late Ted Kennedy and Al Gore are required to remove their shoes before they board an aircraft. When Bush was president and his minor daughter crystal bay motels cheap was involved in a DUI, as per laws, Bush and Laura had to go to a police station, where the police talked to him and his wife just as they would to the parents of any teenager caught in DUI.
Those who have read history right from Operation Cyclone (and even before that) know perfectly well that 9/11, Ben Ghazi Incident, Taliban and Al-Qaeda were all infact blowback of West’s crystal bay motels cheap own policies in West Asia and Central Asia
This is partially true but has no relevance to the fact that I dispute the fact that you call Americans paranoid. You have not provided any evidence to substantiate such an opinion. USA Navy Seals got OBL. Do we Indians dare to go and get Dawood and Tiger Memon who are not even hiding in Karachi or Hafiz Saeed who is a television celebrity? Recommend
The thing is Pakistan still not the country who is fighting. In fact most Indians I know think they even don t know what their actual problems are. Only thing Pakistan crystal bay motels cheap have done so far is blaming media and naming it a propagan