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- oboy, on 10/28/2009, -1/+93It's control-v, not shift-v, to paste the description. Good post, though. Inspiring images.
- DonutCrash, on 10/28/2009, -0/+52Whoever the photo editor is for that blog can do no wrong, incredible.
- shourn, on 10/28/2009, -1/+40#9 guy has a flaming beard!
- deepak1uw, on 10/28/2009, -2/+31i'm busted !!
- nepidae, on 10/28/2009, -1/+24orange-beard is awesome
- inactive, on 10/28/2009, -0/+20i feel bad for the kids...i remember fun times in my grandmas backyard with my family, not riding on the back of a truck with all my belongings waiting to go through a checkpoint..
- D1Foley, on 10/28/2009, -0/+20Agreed, as soon as I see Boston.com and [pics] I know i'm in for a great collection of images
- Oinkie, on 10/28/2009, -0/+13<3 Boston.com images
- Tyrghast, on 10/28/2009, -0/+10A disproportionately high number of Persian chicks are smokin' hot
- MxM111, on 10/28/2009, -0/+8Interesting observation: Lots of pictures shows crowds of random of people on the streets. I do not see even a single women in them.
- Ghstfce, on 10/28/2009, -3/+11The woman in #13 (peace sign and candle photo) on the right is gorgeous. Reminds me of Eva Mendes
- BotchaMcCoola, on 10/28/2009, -2/+9Do we know if the captions are accurate? Clinton should go around at street level and try to get to the bottom of the rising Anti-USA sentiment in Pakistan.
- zrcochran, on 10/28/2009, -0/+7I just realized that by hitting "j" on my keyboard will scroll through these images easily. Is that a Firefox feature?
- acdcfanbill, on 10/28/2009, -2/+9A clever viral marketing scheme for the new V mini series perhaps?
- MatchStick, on 10/28/2009, -0/+6So if they knew, they'd stop playing?
- DreamSpirit3, on 10/28/2009, -2/+8Pakistan is a very diverse place. Places like Waziristan are completely different than other places like Punjab. Punjab has a more Indian culture while Waziristan has a more Afghani culture. This was not the case 10 years years ago. But there have been thousands upon thousands of refugees flooding into Pakistan from Afghanistan after USA invaded Afghanistan.
Surprisingly people in Delhi and Lahore consider themselves the same race. While those from Lahore and those from Waziristan don't consider themselves the same ethnic group/race.
This is because much of the population in Waziristan is Pushto. While those from Punjab/Sindh are more Indian.
They say "You haven't experienced life until you visit the Heart of Pakistan, Lahore"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore
A Beautiful Wondrous City and Country.
People have the wrong Image about this country.
If you do some more research you will find its a magical place very different from what you originally believed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunza_Valley
This is the Inspiration for Hamelton's Shangri La ^^ - deepak1uw, on 10/28/2009, -0/+6That belongs to the man just in front of him. You can even see his cap also.
- diggbigwig, on 10/28/2009, -0/+6Yes. Welcome to firefox. (k is page up)
- sanman, on 10/28/2009, -0/+5Pakistan is part of the basis for the problem occurring today, as they are the inheritors of British imperial borders created by wars of conquest for Her Majesty.
The Pashtuns once lives in a single common land, which was attacked by the British who sought to expand British India's borders northward. The Brits conquered some of the Pashtun territory, but not all of it. Those Pashtuns who were conquered were incorporated into the NorthWest Frontier Province of British India, now inherited by Pakistan.
The Pashtuns to the north who weren't conquered then similarly seized neighboring non-Pashtun lands and cobbled them together with their own, into a patchwork state ruled by them, which became known as Afghanistan.
Ever since the Pashtuns were divided by the artificial British-imposed "Durand Line" (the so-called "border" between Afghanistan and what's now Pakistan), those people have been kept in a state of chaos and backwardness which has allowed toxic ideologies like Islamism propagated by Taliban and AlQaeda to infiltrate and infect them.
The solution to the current problem is then very straightforward - CHANGE THE BORDERS OF THAT PLACE. The best thing to do is to RESTORE A UNIFIED PASHTUN STATE, because such a single unified ethnic state would have the political unity to competently administer over the people and to eliminate the Taliban, who are overwhelmingly Pashtun.
Undo the ugly divisions created by British imperial war, and the region will be healed, so that the extremists disappear. Trans-national Islamist ideology would quickly be sidelined by Pashtun ethnic national identity, so that trans-national militant groups would no longer find safe harbor.
Changing the borders would create a lasting legacy that would survive long after US military withdrawal from the region. Anything less won't work, and would quickly collapse as soon as US troops leave.
If Americans have the stomach to do this, then they should, since that's the only solution that will work. If they don't have the stomach for this, then they should quite while they're ahead and get out as soon as possible, rather than wasting lives, effort and money on a futile intervention. - DreamSpirit3, on 10/28/2009, -1/+6I went to Lahore last summer. I can tell you that most people still love the USA and would give up anything to live here. Its really hard to believe after I kept hearing on the News that Pakistani's image of the US was declining. It turns out that Pakistan's just don't like what the US does politically.
But after actually being there for 3 1/2 weeks I can tell you that American Music/Movies/Fast Food/Fashion and American Culture is as popular as ever !
Especially with teenagers. Its amazing how different the people of this country are than what they are portrayed to be on Media.
Hell !... I saw like every other teenager wearing jeans. And from the last time I went. Less women are wearing a scarf and in the summer more and more women are wearing half sleeve shirts and western outfits...
Its hard to believe lol - vdopower, on 10/28/2009, -0/+5Amazing post, I do agree with what you say. But how can the US just go in and change borders? Would these people accept having this new Pashtun ethnicity thrusted upon them by people who really don't know firsthand of their situation? I don't know what to say. At least you bring logic and reason to some of this.
- GarageMann, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5I want that beard.
Great images though, and God bless those over there. - Lefts, on 10/28/2009, -0/+4Oh god, that truck.
- Kitakaze, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5#8 buys it for me. That poor little girl is looking right at the camera, and looks as if she's about to cry. But that doggie looks like he's not gonna let that photographer get any closer. Guarding her. Wonderful. And the dog looks like a damn bear. Great picture.
- KroniKFpLiOnYkD, on 10/28/2009, -0/+4Agreed, somehow it seems nearly every picture is incredible.
- minnymoo, on 10/28/2009, -0/+4It's henna-dyed :)
- andyb747, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5What is up with the guys left arm in pic # 19
- andyb747, on 10/28/2009, -0/+4ahhhh.
- nouman1989, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5That's what she said today at the press conference today.Lets hope things get better soon.
- Radthanael, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5It amazes me that kids can still play games and appear to be happy (if only momentarily) in a situation like that.
- sanman, on 10/28/2009, -0/+4@vdopower,
Hi, the thing is that the Pashtun national identity is not a new identity - it's existed for thousands of years, along with the single common Pashtun land. So the US would not be engaging in "nation building" - on the contrary, it would be RESTORING THE PRE-EXISTING NATION to help bring order to that fractured and chaotic place. It was the destruction/division of this nation by British imperialism which brought instability to that area.
My dad was a UN peacekeeper in Vietnam during the early part of the US military intervention there - a war which the US ultimately lost. The US saw them as North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese, or as communists and non-communists. The Vietnamese saw themselves as one people - this was nothing new or artificial to them, because for them that "border" had always only existed on a map somewhere, and not on the ground or in their hearts.
Likewise, it's the same thing for the Pashtuns on both sides of the "border" there. To them, that border isn't real - it something that exists on maps located in foreign capitals. In their own perception they are one people, and they freely cross that "border" line because it doesn't exist on the ground.
If a unitary Pashtun state were to be reconstituted, the city of Kabul would literally be on its northernmost periphery - the equivalent of the US having its capital in Niagara Falls. The northern half of what is now Afghanistan is mainly populated by non-Pashtuns, ie Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras who are minorities in today's "Afghanistan". The Tajik Afghans of course speak the language of Tajikistan to the north, of which they were once a part, and the same thing for the Uzbeks and Uzbekistan. The Hazaras are religiously Shiite, but racially they are Mongolian, immediately identifiable by their mongoloid features.
So again, the ethnic national identities of the peoples of that region are nothing new, as their former states had long existed before British colonial warfare sliced and diced them up. They see themselves according to their own historical ethnic identities, and not as outsiders see them. The Pashtuns who make up northern Pakistan and southern Afghanistan see themselves as a single people.
The Pakistanis are fearful of any potential uprising to change the borders, and so their natural interest has been to inject as much Islamic fundamentalism as possible into the Pashtuns to submerge their independent ethnic identity and to promote a common Islamic identity - that's how Taliban got their start and how AlQaeda managed to piggyback onto that.
The Afghan Pashtun rulers like Karzai meanwhile mainly try to keep the non-Pashtuns in Afghanistan from asserting their ethnic independence by using corruption, bribery, etc to buy loyalists for themselves. Hence, a corrupt drug-running crime-infested dysfunctional Afghan state.
Heh - remember that muppet movie "The Dark Crystal"?
Recombine the two different sides and order will naturally be restored to the land. Until they are brought together and made whole again, nature will be out of balance. - prateeko, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3Sometimes I just cannot believe anyone can truly be sane and believe they're doing the right thing when you look at the terror, suffering, and violence they inflict on the violence. I mean, really, how could any sane person not step back and see how absolutely despicable these things are?
- Ghstfce, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3I don't believe I typed "ha ha" or "/s"
- mrand2008, on 10/29/2009, -0/+3Line jumpers are hated in every culture, apparently.
- opticwind, on 10/28/2009, -1/+4The picture of the injuried baby with cuts all over it from the car bomb was pretty rough to see. Cultural understanding only goes so far.
- zrcochran, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3As calibud said "Page up/down does not center the image in the window. J & K do." That's what I thought was so unique. I used to hit Page Up and Down but had to manually center the image on the screen. It's awesome that Firefox will just automatically align to the top of the image.
- jbmcb, on 10/28/2009, -1/+4It's a good thing the Muslims in that area got their very own country, so that they may live in peace, side by side, a single brotherhood enriching their lives. For, certainly, it is haram for one Muslim to take up their sword against another.
Oh, wait... - calibud, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3Page up/down does not center the image in the window. J & K do.
- zrcochran, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3Awesome. Thanks for the tip!
- opticwind, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2Fair point.
- Danial, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2It is hard to believe, but the Pakistan from the pre-Zia era was wonderful.
And Swat Valley used to form part of the 'Hippie Trail' back in the 60's. - DreamSpirit3, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2Unfortunately with the Military situation in Waziristan right now it is not very safe for Women out in the streets. But its only an isolated situation. In Lahore, Karachi and areas like every other person on the street is a women lol.
edit... Heres a recent pic. of women protesters
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?6f6a713a ... - adeelarshad82, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2for me the the third picture says it all
- Zetal, on 10/28/2009, -2/+4That dude's beard is a total win.
- AlmightyWang, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1Look at how many of those guys in the crowd are smiling at the prospect of that dude getting whipped in Picture 17. They love it! haha
- Truth3, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1For some reason, I thought bayonets were listed as a banned (perhaps not the best term) weapon according to Geneva Protocol.
- frequentFlyer, on 10/28/2009, -1/+2I have no doubt that that region was once beautiful. Now, it reflects the worst of humanity.
- calibud, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1Incredible photos of a ***** up attack
- inactive, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1I thought you meant why is it so thin for someone who is a soldier :)
- identifiedlogo, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1who is keeping count, car bombs, suicide bombs..
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