The Taliban claims its forces killed 5,220 foreign troops, downed 31 aircraft, destroyed 2,818 NATO and Afghan vehicles and killed 7,552 Afghan soldiers and police during the year 2008...!!
haa...what a great joke...Hope they know how to count... ;-D
Taliban top leadership contains pakistanis too,so no one should be surprised hearing such blatantly exaggerated lies...
For the record,NATO's member countries announce all troop deaths, providing names, ages and hometowns and how the soldiers were killed. According to an Associated Press tally of those announcements, 286 foreign forces died last year in Afghanistan, including 151 American and 51 British troops.Even this figure may not be true.But this seems far more accurate.
Courtesy :AP
Monday, January 5, 2009
An approval --Food for thought
It's being reported that President Pratibha Patil has approved the law giving her a three-fold hike in salary taking her pay cheque to Rs 1.5 lakh from Rs 50,000 per month in the New Year.
mmmmm....A huge jump in salary...Could not find a reason for this decision..
And top of it,the person whose salary is raised is given the opportunity to approve the hike...!!!What a joke...
When the salary is raised to such huge levels,the least that could have been expected is to have a clear explanation to the general public on what basis this hike is approved.Is the President's workload going to increase???
mmmmm....A huge jump in salary...Could not find a reason for this decision..
And top of it,the person whose salary is raised is given the opportunity to approve the hike...!!!What a joke...
When the salary is raised to such huge levels,the least that could have been expected is to have a clear explanation to the general public on what basis this hike is approved.Is the President's workload going to increase???
Sunday, January 4, 2009
India's real enemy behind the scene
China had tested for Pakistan its first nuclear bomb as early as in 1990, enabling Islamabad to respond within weeks to the Indian atomic tests eight years later, a top US nuclear expert has claimed.
"The Chinese did a massive training of Pakistani scientists, brought them to China for lectures, even gave them the design of the CHIC-4 device, which was a weapon that was easy to build a model for export," former US Air Force Secretary Thomas Reed told American news magazine 'US News and World Report'.
Reed, who had worked at Livermore National Laboratory as a weapons designer, had co-authored a new book -- The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation -- with Danny Stillman, the former director of the technical intelligence division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The book makes a scathing indictment of China, alleging that it intentionally proliferated nuclear technology to "risky regimes", particularly Pakistan, the magazine said.
The Chinese gave the nuclear technology to Pakistan as "India was China's enemy and Pakistan was India's enemy," Reed told the magazine.
"Under Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto , the country built its first functioning nuclear weapon. We believe that during Bhutto's term in office, the People's Republic of China tested Pakistan's first bomb for her in 1990," he said.
He said there are numerous reasons to believe this, including the design of the weapon and information gathered from discussions with Chinese nuclear experts.
"That's why the Pakistanis were so quick to respond to the Indian nuclear tests in 1998. It only took them two weeks and three days," Reed said.
News item courtesy :rediff.com
"The Chinese did a massive training of Pakistani scientists, brought them to China for lectures, even gave them the design of the CHIC-4 device, which was a weapon that was easy to build a model for export," former US Air Force Secretary Thomas Reed told American news magazine 'US News and World Report'.
Reed, who had worked at Livermore National Laboratory as a weapons designer, had co-authored a new book -- The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation -- with Danny Stillman, the former director of the technical intelligence division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The book makes a scathing indictment of China, alleging that it intentionally proliferated nuclear technology to "risky regimes", particularly Pakistan, the magazine said.
The Chinese gave the nuclear technology to Pakistan as "India was China's enemy and Pakistan was India's enemy," Reed told the magazine.
"Under Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto , the country built its first functioning nuclear weapon. We believe that during Bhutto's term in office, the People's Republic of China tested Pakistan's first bomb for her in 1990," he said.
He said there are numerous reasons to believe this, including the design of the weapon and information gathered from discussions with Chinese nuclear experts.
"That's why the Pakistanis were so quick to respond to the Indian nuclear tests in 1998. It only took them two weeks and three days," Reed said.
News item courtesy :rediff.com
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