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Don't waste time. The OP is a well-known Indian-American troll named @JayAtl You can tell by his telltale inferiority complex to project himself as the ultimate American. Forget China or Pakistan, this guy used to get into fights with Indians when he lectured the lowly "Indian" Indians as an...

The question isn't what Pak wants or India wants. The point is that India has centered its entire relationship with Pakistan around terrorism. It's a single-faceted approach that only works when there is a gross disparity between the players. US can take that approach towards Afghanistan...

India is still stuck in 2001. They saw how the US leveraged the victim-of-terrorism card to push through its agenda, and India decided to use the same rule book against Pakistan. Lost in translation was the fact that India is not the US, and Pakistan is not some pipsqueak country. Indian...

I still feel that allowing autonomous systems to decide what is a legitimate target for lethal force -- outside of programmed bounds and based on heuristic analyses -- is a dangerous concept. That's not to say that countries wouldn't be developing, or even deploying, such systems in combat...

PTV used to have a rotation of dramas from the four provinces. It was a friendly competition between Peshawar, Quetta, Lahore and Karachi to see which one could produce the best drama series. It also made people aware of Pakistan's cultural diversity and appreciate the other provinces as part...

That's a circular problem. People keep electing these same people into power. The problem is that there is no national civilian institution which is considered neutral and acceptable to all Pakistanis. The closest thing we have is the army, but the army is not a civilian outfit and its job is...

Please don't let the detractors distract you. Your post is very well written and addresses several core issues. Pakistan's problems will be solved by thinking Pakistanis who understand the issues, propose solutions, and work hard to implement them. Some pf these Pakistanis are outside the...

Your solutions, like those of other members, are valid but my fundamental point remains that these solutions can not be implemented without a sense of national unity. Any reform -- whether it's in the police, political parties, religious institutions -- will fail because the targets of that...

The divisions are not just along religious sects. Pakistan is divided along political party lines (Zardari fans, Sharif fans, IK fans, Musharraf fans, etc.) and along ethnic lines. To take your example of disarming the civilian population, it won't work because the mainstream political parties...

Great writeup. However, I disagree with this statement of yours. I have argued with non-Pakistanis on this forum to defend Pakistani unity, but the reality is that modern Pakistan has failed to build a sense of national unity. Whatever sense of Pakistaniat we had existed until the 80s but has...

Yes. All these texts are allegorical in many ways. Anyone who believes that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) actually flew up to heaven on a physical flying horse is also nuts.

I didn't read the whole article (20 pages) but I don't think it is talking about the same thing. AI implies the ability to learn from events and the apply that learning to unforeseen circumstances. Do these systems have the programming to decide what is and is not a valid target and to activate...

Until someone can provide physical evidence, anyone who believes in ancient spaceships and nuclear weapons is a nut.

World's richest person by the country

No story. Real life. Happened just last week.

Well, I had a recent real life experience with a Hindutva nut. This guy was straight out of this forum - Modiji superman, India supa powa, Hindu culture fantastic, Muslim invaders, flying vimanas, ancient nuclear weapons, etc, etc. I told him ancient space ships and nuclear weapons were...

I and others have already pointed out the hypocrisy of the French law. The issue is not what Charlie Hebdo published or didn't, it is what it cannot public by French law. There is no point me repeating it over and over, since you refuse to read this point already written.

I didn't read the whole quote, but you are right. Media ownership is extremely concentrated in the West. (Other parts of the world are irrelevant because it is Western media which dominates the world). A handful of companies decide what the world gets to hear.

You missed the point. Cartoons - or any speech -- denying the Holocaust is illegal in France. The magazine would be punished by French law if they published such a cartoon. There is only one law in the world. From the beginning of time until the end. Might is right. As I wrote, if you are...

Boycotting is a double-edged sword. Even stretching the imagination to believe that Muslim countries could act in unison, what happens if Muslim countries boycott? If the West boycotts back -- or withholds Western technology -- will Muslim countries survive? Not a chance. In order to impose...