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Wait a minute here ... what's the big deal again - apart from the motivation behind such rumour-mongering? Did everybody not lose money in this ongoing racket? Except for the corruption it engenders, in China's case, aren't you just "losing" money you are never going to see anyways...

Yours seems to me a "balanced" and "mature" view. I sincerely hope Afghanistan gets an effective, unity government in the near future that will carry its writ everywhere in the land ... Anarchy is what enables such practices to continue. With education along with judicious and determined...

It took a functional, albeit brutal government to eradicate the ubiquitous opium dens in old China ... So basically any functional government will do a decent job in "throwing the books" at this "Bacha Bazi" business ... is what you are saying. I admit - the fact that Taliban seemed to have...

Here is an article on this from 2007 ... something doesn't jibe ... it ain't Kazai ... or is it him? Boys in Afghanistan Sold Into Prostitution, Sexual Slavery By zadzi. Wealthy former warlords in Baghlan, a northern province of Afghanistan, recruit adolescent boys for *** and...

Yes Taimi, we are here to learn - about the good, the bad, and the ugly. The scale and "entrenchedness" of this practice are certainly news to some of us. Your sympathetic analysis would help. Thank you.

Well at least you didn't fall into the trap set by the article and IMO you correctly blamed "moral degeneration". The article sure didn't explore whether it was at all possible these could have been "ancient feudal customs" from pre-Islamic days ... perhaps comparable to certain "customs"...

As per announcement last Sunday, donations to entities such as above will be matched $ for $ by the government of Canada as in line with past practices. Canadian Red Cross, if I am not mistaken, essentially funnels donations into Red Crescent on the ground in this instance. BTW, even World...

I see you at least displayed enough sense to edit out the "white men" part ... Pay attention friend, CardSharp lives in Canada! Even in the US, from what I saw and what I was told, it's been a while now that more Mexican migrants carry out these menial tasks. The bits about "antebellum South...

Are all Zionists Jews? Even most of the informed South Asian members of this forum know the damage some of the so-called "Christian Zionists" have done ... to Muslims, Jews, and above all Christians ourselves. No, Druze or jews are not on trial here.

When you put it this way I suppose I should do some more of that introspection. So I'll enter "sabbatical lurking mode" and keep it to myself for a while ... :cheers:

Yes, I am a fanboy of certain conspiracies - don't know about 9/11 ... BTW, do you take everything at face value? Polemicist, uh? "Contrarian"? How about just having an opinion? Hey where is my little Dragon friend when we need him? Look Dragon: big words, "poor social skills" ... :azn...

The PRC has a habit of under-reporting many things ... history is proof enough. I for one (as do many) believe that the PRC fudges numbers - that's not to discount any genuine progress. It's simply "tradition". But when the Yanks fudge, it's carried out differently ... when they don't like...

That may be. But I am with Bozo here. From the account you quoted, this so-called Army Captain was guilty as sin. But it doesn't establish why the little girl was milling around there, or whether someone was indeed hoping to "profit" from her death ...

Good. :tup: Having "conquered" a molehill that is Singapore (a rich, functional and relatively smooth-running one at that, I'll give you) does not automatically render you fit for scaling the Everest ... We'll let that go. That bit makes sense ... but I am not convinced even an in-depth tome...

I support Ambassador Bhadrakumar for the post of next UN secretary general ...

That is a good observation ... and not without applicability even today as you say. And we see a parallel of a slightly different sort in the PRC, too.

And they call me a pompous jerk? Perhaps it takes one to know one. Frankly this rant is below_rahul IMHO ...

Sorry Mister. South Asian members would be much more knowledgeable about the upheavals that resulted in the displacement of Kashmiri Pandits from the "valley" ... And the Pandits were by no means the only group it seems - just the most famous. There may have been Muslims displaced from the...

Let's show some respect (yes even from me who is working on my "attitude"), and not solely "以成败论英雄" ... especially considering this old Kashmiri Pandit dispatched medical teams to China as early as 1938 during much worse times ...

The above is unusually well-articulated ... deserves being singled out for appreciation. The underlined part is a perversion of reality, I must say however. There is no need to artificially pound one set of "victims" to elevate the injustice done to another set of "victims" ... But I agree...