Taliban prefer American products

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Pornographic material found from terrorists hideouts in N. Waziristan

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MIRANSHAH: During the ongoing military operation in North Waziristan, pornographic material, foreign currency, Cds and drugs have been recovered from terrorists’ hideouts.
Pakistan Army has confiscated the recovered material however it has not been shown to media and the details about foreign currency was not revealed.
In the latest development, Pakistan army has taken full control of Miranshah and its surroundings and now they have decided to expand their range for targeting terrorists in other parts of the North Waziristan.
According to the details, Pakistan Army has launched all-out ground operation today in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan where two soldiers were martyred in a gun attack by terrorists.
On the other side, relief activities of Pak Army for IDPs in Bannu, Tank and DI Khan are underway.
http://www.thekooza.com/pornographic...aziristan.html

And they want shariah.

[DaZahroJaam.]

You are talking about Afghans in the west who think that way. The people back in Afghanistan buy something cheap and tell people they bought it expensive and the reason they do that to make people think he/she is living the high life.

do you suppose there ever will bea time when people would know what they mean to say or talk about without you having to trouble yourself and correct them instead?? or there some sort of a higher meduim of knowledge or wisdome that only you are blessed enough to have access to which gives you the power to decide for others what they mean to say instead of what they do say all the time??
try letting others speak for themselves and see how they manage to survive all on their own. if it bothers you to the point where you can't sleep at night, o well.. it's only one night. you will manage just fine.. yeah??

[khushal]

And they want shariah.

pak army are hypocrites, no one believes them except for manufiq like yourself.

[khushal]

do you suppose there ever will bea time when people would know what they mean to say or talk about without you having to trouble yourself and correct them instead?? or there some sort of a higher meduim of knowledge or wisdome that only you are blessed enough to have access to which gives you the power to decide for others what they mean to say instead of what they do say all the time??
try letting others speak for themselves and see how they manage to survive all on their own. if it bothers you to the point where you can't sleep at night, o well.. it's only one night. you will manage just fine.. yeah??

no one is preventing you from speaking.

[khushal]

I think the point the article is alluding to is that it sounds to "good to be true" which makes people question if the product is fake or really real. Certain countries only manufacture products in their own country or certain selected countries where they have factories. As for your Armani issue, you are aware that it is a high end clothing company is mainly appealed for the rich right? you claim that you can buy 20 pieces for $17 yet looking at their website, the average Armani shirt cost around $40 US. Even with a fake logo, it makes you look cheap.

Most people rip on other folks for wearing cheap knock offs because it makes them look fake.

Ive seen pakis put mercedes benz logo on a Toyota.

[Badlun]

We all like american and western products of good quality but do not like America and the West. My simple logic is that if we like western world why not make our own world on their standards so that no one has to leave his/her family and land and go to foreign countries.

Simply make Afghanistan/Pakistan on the model of the developed world by adopting secularism and democracy as well as market economy and modern education.

[Friends of Baloch]

duh who would like porkis products they smell like ghual

Very true. Not even Taliban wants to use smelly, inferior paki products. They'd rather use soaps and other products from the West than stinking paki products. This speaks volumes about just how inferior napakistan is that even the Taliban prefer the West to punjabis and dont want to end up smelling like pakis.

Shopping secrets of the Taliban revealed

By Riaz Sohail BBC Urdu, Bannu

An army offensive in Taliban-dominated tribal areas of Pakistan has caused large numbers of people to flee to safer regions. Among them is shopkeeper Rasheed Rehman, who until recently counted Taliban fighters among his best customers.

"I'm sorry my clothes smell," he says. "I used to live like a prince in Miranshah."

Miranshah is the administrative capital of North Waziristan, close to the Afghan border. Rasheed says he had a large shop in the main market there, selling all manner of cosmetics, socks and stockings, and a few electronic items.

He says he used to earn between 100,000 and 115,000 rupees a day, and that Taliban militants were the biggest spenders. According to Rasheed, they would buy plenty of goods on every visit - and they wouldn't haggle to get prices reduced.

"They used to prefer foreign or branded perfumes and imported body sprays. They liked the ones with a strong scent."

In fact, Rasheed would travel especially to Islamabad and Lahore in order to procure the kind of imported merchandise the Taliban preferred.

"They didn't like Pakistani products," he says.

The perfumes they bought for their womenfolk included one called Secret Love, and Blue Lady by Rasasi.

They would ask for Head and Shoulders or Clear shampoo and Dove soap.

When it came to underwear, they preferred it white - briefs or Y fronts.

Right now, Rasheed is not travelling anywhere to buy perfume or other goods, he is shovelling earth.

He left Miranshah when the aerial bombardments began. Like many of the 800,000 people displaced from North Waziristan to Bannu, he has chosen to live with a host family rather than in a government camp.

He is earning his keep as a labourer on a construction site just outside the town, on the edge of a barren dun-coloured plain dotted with scrubby trees. He is in his early 20s, lean and proud.

Another shopkeeper from Miranshah, Sohail Masih, a tailor, confirms that the Taliban would invariably be the best customers in the market, spending 2,000 to 3,000 rupees at a time - for many people that would be two weeks' salary.

"They would drive to my shop in big white cars with black-tinted windows and had no qualms about doling out wads of cash," he says.

"The kind of things they would buy, well people like me can't even conceive of buying them."

I was told that before the operation began, the Taliban knew what was coming and started selling off their electronic equipment at dirt-cheap rates.

Their expensive tastes appear to have influenced those around them.

Rasheed Rehman took a good look at me and pointed at my Sony camera.

"I had better cameras than this at my shop," he said.

Additional reporting by Amber Shamsi