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New Ugly Scandal Of Nawaz Sharif With Chicago Tribune Journalist, Kim Barker چھپا رستم نوازشریف
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Pak_Passion
Councller (250+ posts)
If this is not true then Nawaz should sue this lady........... otherwise shame on him.
Geek
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Nawaz Sharif Pimping for Asif Zardari
US Reporter Says Nawaz Sharif Propositioned Her
Kim Barker, an American reporter who covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for Chicago Tribune starting in 2003, claims that she was propositioned by Pakistan Muslim League leader Nawaz Sharif when she met him for interviews for her newspaper.
In an interview with KERA radio, Barker said she followed her bosses advice to try and blend with the local population. However, being a young white female journalist with blue eyes who stands at 5 ft 10 in tall, she says she received unusual attention from the men she met to do her job in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In her recently released book "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan", Barker recounts how Nawaz Sharif gave her an Apple iphone as a gift and asked her to be his "special friend". When she declined Nawaz Sharif's sexual advance, Foreign Policy Magazine reports that he offered to set her up with President Asif Ali Zardari.
This latest report adds Sharif's name to the "illustrious" list of senior Pakistani political leaders who have made news for their dalliances with women.
A 2007 Youtube video showing Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani groping Sherry Rehman attracted a lot of attention. Then, President Asif Ali Zardari was shown gushing about US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and asking to "hug" her during a meeting in New York.
http://www.riazhaq.com/2011/04/us-reporter-says-nawaz-sharif.html
US Reporter Says Nawaz Sharif Propositioned Her
Kim Barker, an American reporter who covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for Chicago Tribune starting in 2003, claims that she was propositioned by Pakistan Muslim League leader Nawaz Sharif when she met him for interviews for her newspaper.
In an interview with KERA radio, Barker said she followed her bosses advice to try and blend with the local population. However, being a young white female journalist with blue eyes who stands at 5 ft 10 in tall, she says she received unusual attention from the men she met to do her job in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In her recently released book "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan", Barker recounts how Nawaz Sharif gave her an Apple iphone as a gift and asked her to be his "special friend". When she declined Nawaz Sharif's sexual advance, Foreign Policy Magazine reports that he offered to set her up with President Asif Ali Zardari.
This latest report adds Sharif's name to the "illustrious" list of senior Pakistani political leaders who have made news for their dalliances with women.
A 2007 Youtube video showing Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani groping Sherry Rehman attracted a lot of attention. Then, President Asif Ali Zardari was shown gushing about US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and asking to "hug" her during a meeting in New York.
http://www.riazhaq.com/2011/04/us-reporter-says-nawaz-sharif.html
jerry719964
Senator (1k+ posts)
The day they started attacking other politicians personal life such as Altaf and Imran khan ( though i dont like Altaf hussain but still think it was wrong to attack his personal life) i knew it's gonna come back hard at them because they are more corrupt at personal level
pak2010
MPA (400+ posts)
Battle-Zone Absurdity and Adrenaline-Fueled Folly
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: March 14, 2011
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A funny book about Afghanistan and Pakistan? It sounds like an oxymoron. Where is the comedy in a terrible war that continues to claim American and Afghan lives? What is comic about suicide bombers and I.E.D.’s, or a nuclear-armed Pakistan, reeling from corruption, violence and chronic dysfunction?
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William Coupon
Kim Barker
THE TALIBAN SHUFFLE
Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
By Kim Barker
302 pages. Doubleday. $25.95.
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What’s remarkable about “The Taliban Shuffle” is that its author, Kim Barker — a reporter at ProPublica and the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009 — has written an account of her experiences covering Afghanistan and Pakistan that manages to be hilarious and harrowing, witty and illuminating, all at the same time.
It’s not just that Ms. Barker is adept at dramatizing her own adventures as a reporter — though she develops the chops of a veteran foreign correspondent, she depicts herself as a sort of Tina Fey character, who unexpectedly finds herself addicted to the adrenaline rush of war. It’s also that Ms. Barker has discovered a voice in these pages that enables her to capture both the serious and the seriously absurd conditions in Af-Pak (Afghanistan and Pakistan), and the surreal deal of being a female reporter there, with dating problems ranging from the screwball (a boyfriend competing to cover the same story) to the ridiculous (being romantically pursued by the former prime minister of Pakistan).
Black humor, it turns out, is a perfect tool for capturing the sad-awful-frequently-insane incongruities of war.
“The Taliban Shuffle,” in fact, reads like a rollicking and revealing mashup of “Imperial Life in the Emerald City” (Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s devastating 2006 portrait of the unreal world of Iraq’s Green Zone), “War Reporting for Cowards” (Chris Ayres’s entertaining 2005 account of being a newbie war reporter for The Times of London) and Robert Altman’s darkly satiric 1970 movie “MASH,” with a bit of Evelyn Waugh-esque satiric verve thrown in for good measure.
Ms. Barker conveys the shocking lack of security in Pakistan, even after the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Of a meeting between the newly sworn-in Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and the Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Islamabad, Pakistan, she writes that “the event featured absolutely no security, no metal detectors, no bag searches, even though the list of people who wanted to kill either man was surely the size of a New York phonebook.”
She conveys how small the war in Afghanistan still was in the spring of 2005, before insufficient American resources and growing anti-foreigner sentiment fueled the Taliban’s resurgence: “Sure, the Taliban blew up things in the south, but so far they mostly blew up themselves, and their attempts to use recalcitrant donkeys as suicide bombers” — known in the parlance as D.B.I.E.D.’s, donkey-borne improvised explosive devices — “only provoked laughter. It was a known fact: Afghans and Pakistanis were probably the worst suicide bombers in the entire spectrum of militants.”
Also conveyed here is the daunting challenge that the United States faces in trying to develop a police force in Afghanistan. “The only thing that would make a difference,” Ms. Barker writes, “was a whole lot of training, for a whole lot of years, with a whole lot of money. This was a largely illiterate country racked by 30 years of war, a place where young men from the provinces didn’t know how to lace their boots because they’d never had boots.”
As for the chaotic election process in Afghanistan, Ms. Barker notes that in the 2005 parliamentary elections, voters had to choose from 390 candidates : “The ballot folded out into seven large pages, and each candidate had a photograph and a symbol, because many Afghans were illiterate. But creativity ran out, and symbols had to be reused. Candidates were identified as different objects, including a pair of scissors, one camel, two camels, three camels, two sets of barbells, mushrooms, two ice-cream cones, three corncobs, two tomatoes, stairs, a turkey, two turkeys, one eye, a pair of eyes, a tire, two tires, three tires — to name a few. The symbols were randomly drawn out of a box.”
Ms. Barker argues that two dates figure prominently in explanations of why America’s war in Afghanistan went off the rails: March 2003, when the United States invaded Iraq and turned its focus and resources away from Afghanistan; and May 29, 2006, when a United States military truck “plowed into rush-hour traffic in Kabul, killing three Afghans” and fueling resentment against the Americans.
In part, she says, it was a simple question of numbers: whereas “post-conflict Kosovo had one peacekeeper for every 48 people,” Afghanistan, “already mired in poverty, drought and more than two decades of war, with little effective government and a fledgling army that was hardly more than a militia, had just one peacekeeper for every 5,400 people.” In part, it was weariness with “the growing gap in the country between the haves and have-nots,” and the pervasive corruption — “the warlords now in parliament, the drug lords doubling as government officials” and “the fact that no one ever seemed to be held accountable for anything.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/books/the-taliban-shuffle-by-kim-barker-review.html
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: March 14, 2011
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A funny book about Afghanistan and Pakistan? It sounds like an oxymoron. Where is the comedy in a terrible war that continues to claim American and Afghan lives? What is comic about suicide bombers and I.E.D.’s, or a nuclear-armed Pakistan, reeling from corruption, violence and chronic dysfunction?
Enlarge This Image
William Coupon
Kim Barker
THE TALIBAN SHUFFLE
Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
By Kim Barker
302 pages. Doubleday. $25.95.
Enlarge This Image
What’s remarkable about “The Taliban Shuffle” is that its author, Kim Barker — a reporter at ProPublica and the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009 — has written an account of her experiences covering Afghanistan and Pakistan that manages to be hilarious and harrowing, witty and illuminating, all at the same time.
It’s not just that Ms. Barker is adept at dramatizing her own adventures as a reporter — though she develops the chops of a veteran foreign correspondent, she depicts herself as a sort of Tina Fey character, who unexpectedly finds herself addicted to the adrenaline rush of war. It’s also that Ms. Barker has discovered a voice in these pages that enables her to capture both the serious and the seriously absurd conditions in Af-Pak (Afghanistan and Pakistan), and the surreal deal of being a female reporter there, with dating problems ranging from the screwball (a boyfriend competing to cover the same story) to the ridiculous (being romantically pursued by the former prime minister of Pakistan).
Black humor, it turns out, is a perfect tool for capturing the sad-awful-frequently-insane incongruities of war.
“The Taliban Shuffle,” in fact, reads like a rollicking and revealing mashup of “Imperial Life in the Emerald City” (Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s devastating 2006 portrait of the unreal world of Iraq’s Green Zone), “War Reporting for Cowards” (Chris Ayres’s entertaining 2005 account of being a newbie war reporter for The Times of London) and Robert Altman’s darkly satiric 1970 movie “MASH,” with a bit of Evelyn Waugh-esque satiric verve thrown in for good measure.
Ms. Barker conveys the shocking lack of security in Pakistan, even after the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Of a meeting between the newly sworn-in Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and the Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Islamabad, Pakistan, she writes that “the event featured absolutely no security, no metal detectors, no bag searches, even though the list of people who wanted to kill either man was surely the size of a New York phonebook.”
She conveys how small the war in Afghanistan still was in the spring of 2005, before insufficient American resources and growing anti-foreigner sentiment fueled the Taliban’s resurgence: “Sure, the Taliban blew up things in the south, but so far they mostly blew up themselves, and their attempts to use recalcitrant donkeys as suicide bombers” — known in the parlance as D.B.I.E.D.’s, donkey-borne improvised explosive devices — “only provoked laughter. It was a known fact: Afghans and Pakistanis were probably the worst suicide bombers in the entire spectrum of militants.”
Also conveyed here is the daunting challenge that the United States faces in trying to develop a police force in Afghanistan. “The only thing that would make a difference,” Ms. Barker writes, “was a whole lot of training, for a whole lot of years, with a whole lot of money. This was a largely illiterate country racked by 30 years of war, a place where young men from the provinces didn’t know how to lace their boots because they’d never had boots.”
As for the chaotic election process in Afghanistan, Ms. Barker notes that in the 2005 parliamentary elections, voters had to choose from 390 candidates : “The ballot folded out into seven large pages, and each candidate had a photograph and a symbol, because many Afghans were illiterate. But creativity ran out, and symbols had to be reused. Candidates were identified as different objects, including a pair of scissors, one camel, two camels, three camels, two sets of barbells, mushrooms, two ice-cream cones, three corncobs, two tomatoes, stairs, a turkey, two turkeys, one eye, a pair of eyes, a tire, two tires, three tires — to name a few. The symbols were randomly drawn out of a box.”
Ms. Barker argues that two dates figure prominently in explanations of why America’s war in Afghanistan went off the rails: March 2003, when the United States invaded Iraq and turned its focus and resources away from Afghanistan; and May 29, 2006, when a United States military truck “plowed into rush-hour traffic in Kabul, killing three Afghans” and fueling resentment against the Americans.
In part, she says, it was a simple question of numbers: whereas “post-conflict Kosovo had one peacekeeper for every 48 people,” Afghanistan, “already mired in poverty, drought and more than two decades of war, with little effective government and a fledgling army that was hardly more than a militia, had just one peacekeeper for every 5,400 people.” In part, it was weariness with “the growing gap in the country between the haves and have-nots,” and the pervasive corruption — “the warlords now in parliament, the drug lords doubling as government officials” and “the fact that no one ever seemed to be held accountable for anything.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/books/the-taliban-shuffle-by-kim-barker-review.html
malikbhai
MPA (400+ posts)
yaar tumhai bad rating dainai kai ilawa bhi kuch aata hai, grow up man, haqaiq ka samna karo oor apnai aaqaoon ko pehchano, kitni oor gulami karo gai, wakeup man.
shehreyar
MPA (400+ posts)
hello mr MQM funded tum kab tak miyan baradaran kay khalaf batein doundh dondh kay latay raho gay sab maray jarayhay haien panjab ki kursi kay liya yahan koi dodh ka dola nahi hay sab hi eak jaysay haien tum zara apnay bap ki taref bhi kar liay karo jis ko bhai altaf kahtay ho woh soer ki shakal ka azab jo mayray piyarya karachi ko kha giay hay apna muh zara dhod kay rakhao
lllcolumbuslll
Banned
اگر ایک گوری امریکن جو کچھہ بھی کہہ دے کیا اسے آنکھیں بند کر کے سچ مان لیا جائے۔? اگر امریکن سچے ھیں تو پھر جھوٹا کون۔? یہ وہ مسلمان ھیں جو اپنی دشمنی میں غیروں کا سہارا لینے میں دیر نہی کرتے۔ کیا اس کے پاس آڈیو یا وڈیو ھے جس سے یہ ثابت کیا جائے کہ نواز شریف نے واقعی یہ حرکت کی ھے۔ اور اس بات کو میڈیا پر وہ اچھال رھا ھے جو نواز شریف کا پکا مخالف اور ایم کیوایم ، مشرف کا یار ھے۔ کیا ایک لکھی کتاب کو ثبوت مان لیا جائے۔ اگر یہی سچ ھے تو پھر بش بھی سچا تھا۔ اس کا باپ بھی سچا تھا۔ اور ان کی سچائی کو سچا ثابت کرنے میں اس وقت کے مسلمان سب سے آگے آگے تھے۔
میں عمران خان کے چاھنے والوں میں سے ھوں۔ جس طرح عمران پر گند اچھالا گیا اسی طرح کی یہ کوشش اب نواز شریف کے خلاف بھی کی جا رھی ھے۔ جب تک نواز شریف کی طرف سے کوئی بیان نہ آجائے اس بات کو سچ نہی مانا جا سکتا۔
جہالت کی انتہا ھے۔
میں عمران خان کے چاھنے والوں میں سے ھوں۔ جس طرح عمران پر گند اچھالا گیا اسی طرح کی یہ کوشش اب نواز شریف کے خلاف بھی کی جا رھی ھے۔ جب تک نواز شریف کی طرف سے کوئی بیان نہ آجائے اس بات کو سچ نہی مانا جا سکتا۔
جہالت کی انتہا ھے۔
Raaz
(50k+ posts) بابائے فورم
Right now our Pakistan is burning .
and these people are discussing about a bittch kind of ( in the personal life , these people are not more than bittch ) reporter .
I am not favouring about NS. but talk about country.
this is yellow generalism.
Better to talk about some honest people working for Pakistan.
My question is , What about Altaf Hussain ?
is he not چھپا رستم
Better not to talk personal issues, talk nationally.
and these people are discussing about a bittch kind of ( in the personal life , these people are not more than bittch ) reporter .
I am not favouring about NS. but talk about country.
this is yellow generalism.
Better to talk about some honest people working for Pakistan.
My question is , What about Altaf Hussain ?
is he not چھپا رستم
Better not to talk personal issues, talk nationally.
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Veila Mast
Senator (1k+ posts)
I was listening to Mubashir Luqman's EXPOSING Nawaz Sharif that reminded me memories:
First Trigger: Council on Foreign Relation (CFR)
People who have a little bit know-how about foreign policy may be aware it's importance in shaping up US foreign relation though it's a "PRIVATE" think tank.
Kim Barker:
http://www.propublica.org/site/author/kim_barker
There are so many other "famous" name related to this board but I won't go into detail.
Second Trigger:
See Video @35:00 onwards
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8085945499556832271#docid=-2562011283313707032
Third Trigger:
If you have watched Najam Sethi's talk show recently then you must be aware of formulation of NEW COALITION in Punjab.
Fourth Trigger:
If you have watched Jawab Deh with Mustafa Kamal then you may recall your memory how is trying to convince SOMEONE about Nawaz Sharif being a "WITHOUT BEARD........."
Moreover it seems Kamal Bhai has proved his HITMAN SKILLS in Karachi too. (if you have read Confession of EHM by John Perkin then you may agree to me)
Looking Forward To:
Whether people buy this story or it will come to same end like it did in Indonesia.
So someone wants to carry on similar rift as found todays between Federal Govt. and Provincial Govt.
Let's wait and watch!
First Trigger: Council on Foreign Relation (CFR)
People who have a little bit know-how about foreign policy may be aware it's importance in shaping up US foreign relation though it's a "PRIVATE" think tank.
Kim Barker:
http://www.propublica.org/site/author/kim_barker
There are so many other "famous" name related to this board but I won't go into detail.
Second Trigger:
See Video @35:00 onwards
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8085945499556832271#docid=-2562011283313707032
Third Trigger:
If you have watched Najam Sethi's talk show recently then you must be aware of formulation of NEW COALITION in Punjab.
Fourth Trigger:
If you have watched Jawab Deh with Mustafa Kamal then you may recall your memory how is trying to convince SOMEONE about Nawaz Sharif being a "WITHOUT BEARD........."
Moreover it seems Kamal Bhai has proved his HITMAN SKILLS in Karachi too. (if you have read Confession of EHM by John Perkin then you may agree to me)
Looking Forward To:
Whether people buy this story or it will come to same end like it did in Indonesia.
So someone wants to carry on similar rift as found todays between Federal Govt. and Provincial Govt.
Let's wait and watch!
sirfpakistan
New Member
Nawaz offered Kim to be her girlfriend which she rejected..After that Nawaz offered Kim that he can help her to be a girlfriend of Asif Ali Zardari..This means nawaz is really a brother of Zardari.:(
http://www.riazhaq.com/2011/04/us-reporter-says-nawaz-sharif.html
In Kim's own words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RS2jtFyrQE
http://www.riazhaq.com/2011/04/us-reporter-says-nawaz-sharif.html
In Kim's own words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RS2jtFyrQE
Shabaash - Imran Khan ki siasat iss se ziada aur nahein
Achoon ko bura kehna yeh zamane ki purani aadat hay
Khud hi socho aqal ke andho - kya issi ka naam siasat hay
Quaid-e-Azam ki siasat per yaqeen rakhne walo - kya Quaid-e-Azam ye kaha tha - hamesha gaalyon ki siasat kerna.
Aggar tum log hakoomat main aa jao - toa kal ko yehi kuch kro ge. Phir toa tum Musharraf aur Zardari ke bhi dada ban jao ge.
Behtar hay sharam kro.
Sochna ho ga ke media ka ye kardaar kya Pakistan ke interest main hay.
Apne aap ko prominant banane ke lye kissi bare ko galyaan do. Lagta hay aqal ka janaza hi nikal gya hay.
Shaed Pakistan ka koi dushman tumhain essi harktain kerne ki tarbyyat de raha hay.
Khudaya ham per raham ker.
Achoon ko bura kehna yeh zamane ki purani aadat hay
Khud hi socho aqal ke andho - kya issi ka naam siasat hay
Quaid-e-Azam ki siasat per yaqeen rakhne walo - kya Quaid-e-Azam ye kaha tha - hamesha gaalyon ki siasat kerna.
Aggar tum log hakoomat main aa jao - toa kal ko yehi kuch kro ge. Phir toa tum Musharraf aur Zardari ke bhi dada ban jao ge.
Behtar hay sharam kro.
Sochna ho ga ke media ka ye kardaar kya Pakistan ke interest main hay.
Apne aap ko prominant banane ke lye kissi bare ko galyaan do. Lagta hay aqal ka janaza hi nikal gya hay.
Shaed Pakistan ka koi dushman tumhain essi harktain kerne ki tarbyyat de raha hay.
Khudaya ham per raham ker.
funkymonk
Minister (2k+ posts)
a person who has billions of rupees and can pay any A, B or c list acrtress or supermodel for one night stand had to resort to this ugly skunk who is not good enough to touch
seriously ?
atleast MQM payroll agent Luqman should have selected any other good looking woman ..
seriously ?
atleast MQM payroll agent Luqman should have selected any other good looking woman ..
code_decode
Senator (1k+ posts)
Listen Nawaz sharif can't pay to actresses because then it will become a scandal and he can be black mailed, however it was much easier for him to ask a friend, whom he had trusted because he had been passing information to her. And it is absolutely true about Ajmal Kasaba because Nawaz sharif did give some statements in favour of India at that time. Nawaz sharif is a very cunning politician, and if Nawaz Sharif hasn't done anything like that then Nawaz Sharif should SUE this journalist....who is stopping him? But no one can accuse someone for a sexual assault and atleast not someone who is a journalist and has written a book...sooo if Nawaz hasn't done anything (Which I highly doubt) Nawaz should go to court.
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Pak_Passion
Councller (250+ posts)
Exactly.............. and if he wins his popularity graph will touch the sky. Why to worry and why to blame Luqman or for that matter Ms Barker.
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