A very odd and on first read confusing story. Why were they flying Kathmandu to Islamabad via New Delhi? If what normally happens is fake notes go from Pakistan to Nepal, so they can seep into India over the easier Nepali border, why would this manager have been taking INR out of Nepal to India and maybe Pakistan?
With so many stories like this I wish there was more speculation – preferably on the part of some informed commentator rather than the reporter. Mostly one group seems to care only that the other does fishy things – not how or why or what the bigger picture is. This is equally true of all sides, and the newspapers are content to follow rather than lead.
Pak band manager caught with banned Indian notes-India-NEWS-The Times of India
Arzu
December 22, 2006
What exactly are the dynamics behind all of NYC’s Central Asian restaurants being Kosher? (Aside from those run by Jewsih Central Asian immigrants.) Maybe I could understand all of the ex-Soviets along the lines of Nick Cage’s father’s restaurant in Lord of War.
Anyway, it was my travels in Uighur areas that convinced me that peoples of the steppe have the worst cuisine after peoples of the mountains. (Basically you have two choices – tough dry strips of meat on noodles, or the same combo in broth. Talk about arzu.) But lots of cuisines which are absolutely awful in the real world are made delicious in restaurants, so, can’t wait:
village voice > nyclife > Counter Culture by Robert Sietsema
Hardened Criminals
December 22, 2006
Extra judicial killings are a plague, and I can’t decide if it’s more or less disgusting that policemen are being paid for them, but I had to point out two less serious things:
First, this is apparently the original story (from the wires, a police blotter, or an IE writer?):
“Two hardened criminals Zulfikar and Nazakat, residents of Hawalpur in Ghaziabad, were killed in an encounter at Timarpur on July 31; two country-made firearms and a stolen vehicle were recovered from their possession.”
Is that supposed to be a joke – the hardened criminal Nazakat? (Nazakat can have several connotations, but generally it means fragility, elegance, or um, ziddiness – I’ll figure the English for that last one out.) I suppose it could be some sort of ironic criminal moniker, but what I can’t stop wondering is who was the writer who decided to slip this in.
Second, while I’m linking to the Indian Express, isn’t it shameful for them to be showing ads telling me I’ve won a new laptop due to being the 1,000,000 th visitor? (Note, that’s not the 10,00,000 th visitor.)
IndianExpress.com :: Delhi cops took contract from own to kill 2 in ‘encounter’
