A Masked Taliban Warrior
Aftermath of a Taliban suicide blast in Wana
A recent blast in Lahore
Maulana Fazlullah, who radicalised Swat
Taliban police flog a smuggler in Charbagh, Swat
Pak Taliban police get ready to execute US spies, June 2007
No haircut for you, says a Taliban poster on display at a barber shop in Matta Tehsil
Taliban supporters at Killi Nalai, a_village near Pak-Afghan border, JUne 2007
Sucide attack took place near a military guest in Kabal,Swat, Jan 2008
Public testing and display of weapons by Taliban is a norm in NWFP interiors
Taliban fighters seen in South Waziristan
Taliban flags on Pak side of the border with Afghanistan
Taliban suicide squad attacked a police station at Mingora on Dec 29, 2008
Hundreds of thousand have been forced to leave Swat
Villagers looking at the debris of a school blown up by Taliban on Feb 19, 2009
Car bomb blast at Police and ISI headwquarters in Lahore leaves 31 dead on May 27, 2009
Police inspecting a crater formed after a car bomb blast in Lahore, May 27, 2009
Lahore police headquarters was damaged and the adjoining ISI regional headquarters partially damaged in car bomb attack on May 27, 2009
A militant stands near the sign board of a police station after it renaming it as Taliban Station in Swat Valley on April 19, 2009
A boy looks up to the sky as displaced people line up for food at Chota Lahore Refugee Camp in Swabi, May 24, 2009.
A monument is erected at Ittehad Town, near Karachi, where Taliban from Waziristan come to take treatment
May
18
HANGU: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) leader Mufti Kifayatullah on Thursday said the so-called ëwar on terrorí was actually the war between secularism and Islam.
Speaking at the Sheikhul Hind Conference at Jamia Farooqia in Orakzai Agency, the JUI-F MPA said the real jihad was in Afghanistan and that the violence in Pakistan was a conspiracy launched by the imperialist forces to defame Islam.
“Picking up arms and spilling blood could not resolve problems but it further aggravates the situation,” he said. He added that the tribesmen took part in the jihad under the leadership of Sheikhul Hind and they were supporting the implementation of Shairah.
He said after the fall of the Soviet Union, the CIA started targetted killing of the mujahideen and launched a propaganda campaign against the madrassahs.
He asked the rulers to stop toeing the US line and formulate policies in the interest of the country. “The government, army and secular politicians are..... Read More
May
18
PESHAWAR: The Taliban have resurfaced in the militancy-hit Bajaur Agency by resuming broadcast on their FM radio channel.
In one of the broadcasts heard by local people, the militants warned women in Bajaur against acquiring computerised identity cards and casting votes.Tribesmen in Bajaur’s Salarzai subdivision said they were able to listen to the Taliban FM radio after a long time on Thursday.
“We are back in Bajaur and would like to warn women to refrain from acquiring the computerised national identity cards and casting votes, otherwise they would pay the price,” a tribesman who didn’t want to be named said while quoting a Taliban commander Maulvi Gul as saying on the FM radio.
He said they heard jihadi songs and threatening speeches of the Taliban on the FM channel. Other tribesmen also confirmed that the Taliban FM radio was again being heard in Bajaur. They said the Taliban were also reportedly seen addressing funeral ceremonies in r..... Read More
May
18
Haqqani boycott, disputed forensics diminish memo commission
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ISLAMABAD: The commission, created by the Supreme Court to investigate the memo sent by Mansoor Ijaz to US Admiral Michael Mullen, will meet again today (Friday) but its deliberations are unlikely to have the same significance they seemed to have when the commission started its work in January.
Having denied Husain Haqqani’s request to record his statement by videoconference and failing to make any effort to get statements from other potential witnesses such as US General James Jones, who transmitted Ijaz’s memo, and Admiral Michael Mullen, the commission is now dealing only with Ijaz’s claims.
Haqqani has already withdrawn from the commission’s proceedings, saying that he found the commission uninterested in seeking his version while going out of its way to facilitate Ijaz, including allowing him to record statement by videoconference from London and arranging an examination of his BlackBerry handset on his own terms.Read More
May
18
NEW YORK: Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani said that his life is threatened in Pakistan and his return is likely only after the eradication of radicalism from his home country, DawnNews reported.
While giving an interview to a news channel in the US, the former envoy rejected the option of facing the memo commission saying that his life was at risk in Pakistan.
Answering another question he said that Pakistan had serious reservations concerning Afghanistan’s future and the United States’ lack of confidence in Pakistan is uncalled for.
Haqqani added that in order to solve the problems faced, the US would have to understand the sentiments of the people of Pakistan and both the countries would have to resolve their conflicting issues.
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May
18
Enforced disappearances: PCNS to propose ‘landslide amendments’ in security laws
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By Zia Khan in The Express Tribune, May 18
ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on the National Security (PCNS) decided on Thursday to propose landslide amendments in laws governing the country’s counter-terrorism campaign to address the burning issue of enforced disappearances, especially in Balochistan.
During a meeting, the 13-member bipartisan, bicameral panel decided to forward the government two separate sets of recommendations – legislative and administrative – to sort out one of Pakistan’s most complicated human rights issues.
A participant told The Express Tribune, after the meeting, that the panel decided to toughen laws not only to bring intelligence agencies under civilian control but also to make sure that detained terrorists could not escape due to weak prosecution or lack of evidence.
On the administrative side, he said, the committee would recommend what and how provincial governments should take measures to address..... Read More
May
18
Lal Masjid case: Bring DSP to court, judge orders SHO
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RAWALPINDI: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Court No 1 judge Shahid Rafiq on Thursday issued nonbailable warrant of arrest of DSP Altaf Aziz Khatak and constable Gul Sher for not appearing before the court in the Lal Masjid case.
During the hearing, former cleric of the Lal Masjid Maulana Abdul Aziz, his wife and other accused of the Ranger killing case appeared before the court. The major witnesses, including DSP Khatak, constables Gul Sher, Falik Sher, Ajmal Wahid and Gharab Nawaz, were summoned by the court in the previous hearing for giving arguments in the case. However, the two witnesses – DSP Khatak and cop Gul Sher – did not come to the court on Thursday.
Maulana Abdul Aziz’s counsel Maulana Wajiullah told the honourable judge that three witnesses of the case had been produced before the court while two others, including then SHO Altaf Aziz, who was promoted to the rank of DSP, and constable Sher Gul “are not present.”
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May
18
Mehran Bank scandal: SC seeks record of amount withdrawn by Younas Habib
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday directed the Habib Bank Limited (HBL) president to present a statement of the bank’s ledger showing withdrawal of amount by Younas Habib, central character of the Mehran Bank scandal, for its alleged distribution among anti-PPP politicians.
Hearing Air Marshal (r) Asghar Khan’s petition regarding alleged disbursement of funds by the ISI, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry told the counsel for petitioner to be careful while talking against the ISI, saying the army had sacrificed a lot for the country’s defence.
The court also asked the government to hand over the notification about the creation of a political cell in the ISI by former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in May 1975.
The court was told that reports of Mehran Bank and HBL could not be traced.
The State Bank of Pakistan governor was asked to share information, if he had any, about the case with court.
The bench also..... Read More
May
18
SC asks govt to provide ISI political cell notification: by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, May 18
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ISLAMABAD, May 17: The notorious political cell of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was the focal point of hearings in the Asghar Khan petition on Thursday and the Supreme Court ordered the government to procure and hand over the notification under which the cell had been set up in 1975.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain asked Attorney General Irfan Qadir to present the notification which, according to the petitioner, was issued by then prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to set up a special political cell in the ISI.
The court said it would be willing to examine the notification in camera if needed.
The last time the cell was mentioned in the Supreme Court on June 16, 1997, when the then attorney general acknowledged its existence in front of chief justice Saiduzzaman Siddiqui.
Asghar Khan also said in his Jan 30, 1999, letter to Justice Siddiqui that I..... Read More
May
18
Reopening the supply routes; op-ed by M A Niazi in The Nation, May 18.
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The writer is Executive Editor of The Nation.
If ever the USA doubted the utility of agents of influence, those doubts should have been laid to rest by the DCC meeting, followed by the Cabinet meeting that approved the restoration of the Nato supply routes, leaving the exact modalities to be settled by the ‘technical teams’ of both sides. The big difference between this decision and the original one of joining the war on terror is that when General Musharraf took Pakistan into the war on the American side, the Americans had not killed any Pakistani soldiers. It seems that the quid pro quo was rushed. As Pakistan decided to reopen supplies, its President was invited by Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to attend the Chicago Summit later this month. Not only will President Asif Zardari get the opportunity to meet his US counterpart, Barack Obama, but he will meet the Commander-in-Chief of the men who killed 26 Pakistani soldiers.
The DCC meeting, and the succ..... Read More
May
18
Drone attacks: need to separate politicking from statecraft : op-ed by Jamal Hussain in The Daily Times, May 18
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The writer is a defence analyst and Director of Centre of Airpower Studies of Pakistan
Introduction: the term administration rather than establishment has been used deliberately since the latter as understood in our part of the world identifies the men in khakis in GHQ, with some elements of the bureaucracy in tow. Administration on the other hand encompasses all major players of the state headed by the directly elected political elites who alone have been given the mandate of formulation and execution of national policies at all levels. Administration, rather than the establishment, therefore, must answer for the current ambiguity in the covert and overt stands on the CIA drone attacks on Pakistani soil.
Critics would point out that despite the democratic credentials of the present government, the establishment, rather than the administration crafts and executes the country’s security policies, which parliament merely rubber stamps. On the issue of the drone strikes lo..... Read More
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Deserted village of Mandana in South Wazirstan
Govt school blasted with explosives at Saidu Sharif, Swat Valley on 17 Jan 2009
Marriott Hotel, Islamabad set ablaze on Sep 21, 2008
Warehouse of World Food Programme was set on fire at Kanju, Swat, Oct 21, 2008.jpg
Pak boyswalk past a sign, which reads Madrasa Islamia al-Arabia in S Waziristan, May 24, 2008
Supporters of Sufi Muhammad marched through Mingora streets after he signed the Swat deal
Taliban Militants have Pak women in their ranks as this Pix shows
Terrorists in a dare devil mood driving along the highway
A pro-Taliban protest, a common sight in Pakistan
Children walking on the debris of their school. Taliban blasted this and three other schools in Swat on Feb 19, 2009
Taliban is forcing the closure of girl schools.If it has its way even religious schools will be out of reach for Swat girls
Taliban is the master of highways and roads in Swat as this picture shows
Supporters of Maulana Sufi Mohammad stage victory march in Mingora after the Swat deal was signed
A car bomb destroyed an Internet Cafe and tore through a bus carrying handicapped children in Peshawar on May 16, 2009
A vehicle is burnt during sectarian clashes in Karachi on April 29, 2009
NATO oil supply tankers went up in flames after an explosion near Peshawar in April 2009
A huge truck bomb set ablaze Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Sept 21, 2008
Refugees leaving Buner May 19, 2009.
Gunmen attacked Ahmadis place of worshiop in Karachi, Oct 2005
Scene after a bomb blast at Qissa Khawani bazaar in Peshawar, May 28, 2009
People leaving troubled region in Lower Dir on April 27, 2009