Pakistani Muslim Girl wins Beauty Contest and poses in a Bikini

This contest generated tremendous interest in Pakistan as well as India.Ramina won the Miss Earth Pakistan title and posed in a bikini. 

Ramina and the Sharia

Ramina the Sindhi girl has done wonders. This the least we can say about the girl because she broke out of the cloistered world of the Pakistan women.This would not have been possible in case Ms. Sonia Ahmed had not got the idea to give an exposure to Pakistan women to the world of beauty. The contests are now held every year. Ramina has won the Miss Earth Pakistan title and represented Pakistan at the world title in October 2017.

Pakstan has to get out of its death wish. The only news coming out of Pakistan is of terror attacks and last week over 150 have been killed. It's a wonder the Pak government has not seen the light. All credit to the organizers of the Miss Pakistan contest. One hopes despite the noise by the Shiv Sena, Ramina could get a break in Bollywood. After all, Mahira Khan starred in "Raees".

Last Word

Much water has flown down the river since Ramina won the title. India- Pak relations have nose-dived and political parties like the Shiv Sen are enforcing a ban on Muslim actresses from Pakistan acting in Bollywood. So there is little chance of getting a break in Mumbai.In addition, Pakistan is increasingly being dominated by Islamists and Ramina cant do much in Pak as well.

Royal Navy Dismisses 9 Sailors And 2 Officers For Drugs And Sex On Board

The Stars and Stripes News Paper has reported that when the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Vigilant docked in the US to replenish its stock of Trident nuclear missiles, the crew held rave parties at which drugs flowed freely. A mandatory drug test revealed that nine sailors were positive and these nine have been dismissed. Considering that the submarine has a complement of 11 officers and 121 sailors, dismissing 9 sailors is perhaps the tip of the iceberg. It is inconceivable that only 9 sailors took part in the "rave parties".

This was not all and two officers a Commander and Lieutenant Commander have been removed from command for bedding two junior female officers while the warship was on the high seas. These sexual liaisons seriously undermined the discipline and efficacy of the crew and the submarine.In turn, the defense of the UK was in jeopardy. Both the officers have been removed from command though no action is taken against the female crew who slept with the officers. perhaps this is understandable as it is the man who is invariably the dominant partner.

The Defence Minister Micheal Fallon is seriously perturbed at this moral turpitude which has seriously undermined the security of the UK and he has ordered a detailed investigation into the state of affairs aboard all warships of the Royal Navy.

Racial Divide America from the time 13 Black Soldiers hanged

In 1917, the US entered the First World War on the side of the Allies against the Central Powers led by Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany. In the same year, a platoon of black soldiers was sent to guard a depot in the deep south. To the White Supremacists, seeing black soldiers strutting about carrying rifles and guns was like a red rag to a bull. They were incensed and the police began to take it out on the local blacks. One of the soldiers who was witness to the beating of a black woman intervened and was beaten-up and arrested. This enraged the black soldiers, who came in a group with the specific intent of killing the policemen responsible. It led to a fire-fight and 15 whites and four blacks were killed.

The incident was treated as a mutiny and 63 blacks were court-martialed. After a trial lasting 22 days, where the laws of evidence were studiously ignored and 63 defendants were represented by just one lawyer, 13 were sentenced to be hanged. 

Charlottesville is a symptom and part of a disease in the USA. There are reports, that even now many whites move away if blacks or coloreds come and settle in their neighborhood and many will not send their children to schools where black children also study. The events in Charlottesville, have brought to the fore the simmering problems among the white supremacists and the blacks

General Sisi of Egypt is sitting on a Volcano

General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is the ruler of Egypt. He ousted the elected president of the Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and brought in military rule again. Unfortunately, it not smooth going for him and though he has Morsi behind bars, the Egyptian state is threatened by a spate of terror attacks by the ISIS and some new splinter groups.  The latest attack is chilling as two German female tourists were stabbed to death. In addition, four other tourists have been wounded.  The attack took place on Friday at the Red Sea resort of Hurghada. All Jazeera News Channel has reported this news.

The rule of General Sisi is under threat. He was one of the first world leaders who was invited by Donald Trump to Washington. Sisi hit along well with the president and despite opposition Trump endorsed his rule. The General is on a sticky wicket as just a week earlier 23 Egyptian soldiers were killed by ISIS in the deserts of Sinai.

No group has claimed the killing of the policemen but a new terror group called Hasm, could have been behind the killings. The attack took place on the weekly holiday when traffic is less but there appears to have been little or no resistance from the policemen. The terrorist looted their weapons and set the vehicle o fire. Considering the attack took place close to Cairo is cause for alarm.

The killing of the German tourists is a pointer as well. The man who reportedly swam across the sea from an island attacked the tourists with a knife. He was young, just about 20 plus but he targeted only the foreigners and nobody else.

Egypt has been rocked by deadly suicide bombings and other attacks since 2013 when Sisi ousted Morsi. Sisi is on a sticky wicket and he may well wonder what happens to him in the future as examples of Nassar, Sadat, and Mubarak are not very encouraging.

North Korea has the H-Bomb ** 75

Many people are wondering what it means for North Korea to have a Hydrogen Bomb. What is a hydrogen bomb? It is a bomb that is more lethal by at least a 100 times than a conventional Atomic bomb and includes breaking of the Hydrogen molecule and release of mass energy.

The North Koreans have claimed they have this weapon and the world is up in condemnation of this act of supposed terror. Is it so? what if Kim Jong-Un had no weapons of mass destruction, then what would have happened? How many can answer this question?

The fact is in case Kim had no deterrence, then by now he would have been sodomised with a baynot like Gaddafi and hanged like a common criminal like Saddam. The Americans are adept in attacking weak opponenst and this is borne out by history. Can any one answer where was American rhetoric when China went nuclear and exploded A and H-Bombs? They kept quiet and now see than prancing about like a tiger. Kim has held them at bay, and I am sure he will never give up his nuclear arsenal. America will have to live with it.

Ovid; Romantic poet from Rome *** 97

Ovid was a poet during the 'classical age' of Rome when Augustes ruled. He wrote a number of books with verses. His'Art of love` is a stand out verse. Ovid describes love and allows the reader to infer about rape with his verses on the `Gaze.` Ovid was of the view that a rape can only commence after a man gazes at a woman. A gaze by a man in which he takes stock of the woman for carnal knowledge is the beginning of rape. Ovid himself does not describe the rape in his verses, but as a master poet leaves it to the imagination of the reader. This is classical poetry and proves that Ovid was a master of the verse. His other works are  Heroides, Amores and Ars Amatoria, and o Metamorphoses, 

Ovid was a poet during the reign of Augustus in Rome and wrote the "the art of love".Ovid wrote other works as well, but his forte was poetry and verse. There is no doubt he had the pulse of poetry creation in his grip. Ovid was perhaps a great lover himself. Ther is no doubt that to write love poetry an element of personal experience is always a great help. Ovid died at the age of perhaps 56 or 58. Despite a relatively short span Ovid is recognized as one of the great romantic poets from the classical age from Rom

A Bridge Too Far As North and South Korea Are Riven Apart

In 1953 an armistice was signed by the USA and its allies and the communist north along with China and a border was defined at the 38th parallel. This is known as the DMZ or demilitarized zone that is monitored by UN observers. On both sides, troops are amassed with the US having 28000 soldiers on the border. There is a lone bridge that joins the two Koreas and after I visited it, a thought crossed my mind that it is a bridge too far and in reality divides the two nations who have the same religion and are from the same racial stock.

Who is responsible? It's not an easy answer as the lines of division are so deep that the North, if threatened, can resort to a nuclear attack as well.The South leadership is to be faulted for dancing to the American tunes and allowing an escalation of tension by letting the US army install the THAAD missile system.

The USA is selective in choosing enemies and if they are big and strong then compromise and others? just bulldoze. If you don't have the means to defend yourself then you go to to the world of Hades like Saddam and Gaddafi. So there is a legitimate reason for the North led by Kim Jong-Un to have weapons for retaliation. My word ! if he didn't have a deterrent he would be giving company to Saddam and Gaddafi in Hades.

The future? It's a long and tough road and the key is with the US. I wonder they are planning a strike against the North and in the bargain, Korean Peninsula will be wiped out. That doesn't matter for the US president who in a private conversation is reported to have said; if there is a war it's THEY who will die and not the US. Strange logic.

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