Kp Prateesh

Music Producer, Arranger and Recording Engineer, with an undying thirst for Computers and Music

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@zomatocare Ordered delayed twice. Been over an hour.

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Is there an @airtelindia outage ? @Airtel_Presence ? Only WiFi seems to work? The normal call and mobile data is not

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“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

#muthuvinkelvi
#staraikelungal
Reposting with one more hashtag.
1. Mike Hussey 2008
2. Ajinkya Rahane 2023
3. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan 2008

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

#muthuvinkelvi
1. Mike Hussey 2008
2. Ajinkya Rahane 2023
3. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan 2008

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@royalsundaram Your customer support num isn't free! Yet there's a high waiting time and calls get disconnected randomly, costing us money. Chasing your team for an issue and a grave mistake by truncating my policy based on incorrect information. Please DM me asap.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@Airtel_Presence 7 days since home internet stopped working. Absolutely no action from your side. Disrespectful and discourteous customer services coupled with third grade quality of internet. Surrendering connection today!

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@HDFCBank_Cares @HDFC_Bank
You may wanna check your transaction OTP service, particularly for credit card transactions. Not receiving for the past 15 minutes. Both via email and SMS

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@Airtel_Presence It's important to address the obvious. You may be concerned about the issues reported, but it looks like your field team isn't bothered about the 36+ hours of unplanned outage enjoyment that you have given us.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@Airtel_Presence @airtelindia Can there be some action on this unplanned outage that's gone past 24 hours? Appalled to see no field technician examining the junction box.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@ACTFibernet @Airtelxstream4 @airtelindia @Airtel_Presence @Airtel_Presence I was told by your customer support that the network will be restored by 10:49 pm, which itself is a 5 times revised ETA.

@nch1915 - This company needs some serious customer service re-evaluation.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

Used @ACTFibernet for 8 yrs, with total downtime of maybe less than 6 hours in all of 8 yrs. Had to switch to @Airtelxstream4 15 days ago due to house shifting. 14 hr internet downtime today and yet not recovered @airtelindia @Airtel_Presence

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@Airtel_Presence Sent you details on DM. Let's see how much more y'all take to actually fix the issue.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@HDFC_Bank @HDFCBank_Cares I've been trying to reach your customer care for the last 36 hrs to unblock my credit card. Please DM me and I will share my details.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@HdfcbankC81926 @Yuga_Manjrekar Please do not call that number. Its a scam. Its not the actual HDFC Customer care.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@BlueDartCares @CourtIndia @jagograhakjago Blue Dart always marks consignment as undelivered due to incorrect address when other courier services deliver without issues. Happens mostly on Debit Cards.@HDFC_Bank Are you aware this is happening?
#bluedart #India #scams

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@chennaicorp Thank you very much!

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

MADIPAKKAM. Chennai. Zone 14. Ward 188.
Areas including Kuberan Nagar, LIC Nagar, Lakshmi Nagar, Govinda Swamy Nagar, Balaji Nagar, and the vicinity behind Kamakshi Hospital in Pallikaranai are currently experiencing flooding, with water levels ranging from 4 to 5 ft.

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

@TANGEDCO_Offcl Kodanakodi nandrigal

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

Over 4000 families reside here, and if this situation persists, we will be deprived of basic supplies within a day.

Thanks in advance.

PS: Photos are from various times during the day.

#chennai #GCC #ChennaiRains #ChennaiCorporation #ChennaiFloods

[Kp Prateesh @prateeshkp]

Despite rainfall stopping, we observe a continual increase of around 1 inch per hour. If the nearby canals are not cleared promptly, water levels could easily reach 6 to 7 ft by morning.

This has transpired within the last 12 to 14 hours.