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
Jan
25
Punjab Assembly: Resolution passed to ban ‘objectionable’ concerts
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By Abdul Manan in The Express Tribune, Jan 25
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday seeking a ban on organising ‘objectionable’ music concerts in private and public education institutions.
The resolution was among a total of eight presented in the House. Five were passed, two were pended and one was disposed off.
The session started at 11.55am, with a delay of almost two hours from its scheduled time. Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr Saeed Elahi answered members’ questions about his department.
When Seemal Kamran – a Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) member – moved the resolution against holding concerts in schools and colleges, Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood asked Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan if the treasury members opposed the resolution. Sanaullah replied in the affirmative, after which Kamran was asked to argue in favour of her resolution.
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Jan
25
PIC Free Medicines: Death Toll Soar Past 80 but authorities clueless
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By Ali Usman & Samia Saleem in The Express Tribune, Jan 25
LAHORE/KARACHI: While the death toll of Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) patients continues to rise, the federal government has sent samples of the suspected medicines to the Central Drug Testing Laboratory (CDTL) in Karachi for further investigation.
None of the eight different committees constituted by the Punjab government has so far prepared a satisfactory or comprehensive report probing the reasons why the PIC’s free medicine has now claimed over 80 lives. More damage is expected, as the total number of patients who might be at risk after taking free medicine from the hospital is about 46,000.
Dr Javed Akram, the principal of Allama Iqbal Medical College and head of a 22-member committee investigating the incident, had vowed to submit the report investigating the cause of the so-far-mystery disease within 48 hours, but has still to do so.
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Jan
25
JI chief hits out at military ops, Party to besieze Par if NATO routes restored
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KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan has hit out at the military for operations that have failed to eradicate militancy and terrorism, and said that instead, terrorism came to the GHQ. He also said he ‘condemned’ the government’s policy of de-radicalisation as it had actually failed to address any of the causes, including drone strikes.
Hasan spoke to journalists on Tuesday at a ‘meet the press’ event organised by the Karachi Press Club. He reiterated many of the party’s usual talking points, including its disenchantment with the government and its allies and its “failure” to act on the policy of reconciliation that it had announced when it was voted into power.
The JI chief also talked on current news topics, including the Memogate saga, involving an unsigned memo that Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz alleges was authored by then-ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani. Ijaz’s refusal to travel to Pakistan to testify a judicial commi..... Read More
Jan
25
School blown up, Khasadar official killed in Landikotal
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LANDIKOTAL: A Khasadar official was killed in an explosion on Tuesday while he was inspecting a school building that had been damaged in an earlier explosion on Monday night in Landikotal.
On Monday, militants blew up the building of Government Primary School Khalo Khan in Shinwari, Landikotal, with explosives.
Khasadar official Murtaza Shinwari was killed while his colleague Waliullah and a resident, Abdullah, were injured when a team of Khasadar force was inspecting the damaged building. The administration has reportedly arrested the school watchman to probe the explosions. The funeral of Murtaza Shinwari, who has left behind a widow, a son and two daughters, was offered at the graveyard of Peero Khel tribe.
Official sources said at least 23 schools had been destroyed by militants in Landikotal, while the number has climbed to 78 in Khyber Agency.
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Jan
25
Police claim extremists behind foreigners’ kidnapping
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MULTAN: Police on Tuesday accused militants of the kidnapping of a German aid worker and his Italian colleague at gunpoint five days ago, while a Kenyan aid worker had also disappeared, whom the police believe may have been kidnapped.
The German and Italian aid workers were abducted from the house they rented in Multan late on Thursday, bringing to six the number of foreigners kidnapped in Pakistan since July.
“The kidnappers have made no contact so far,” Azhar Akram, the head of the police investigation team, said in Multan. Masked gunmen kidnapped the two aid workers, but left behind a guard and a Western woman also staying at the house.
“It could be a simple case of kidnapping for ransom, an extremist group may be involved or may be linked to some personal issue,” he added. he German and Italian had been working for a year to help rehabilitate villagers affected by devastating floods in 2010.
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Jan
25
Shah Latif’s Faqeer found murdered: By Sameer Mandhro in The Express Tribune, Jan 25
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KARACHI: A Faqeer, who dedicated over 35 years of his life to reciting Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai’s poetry in front of his shrine, was murdered late Sunday night near his village.
Fifty-five-year-old Faqeer Khan Muhammad Lanjwani from Kehar Lanjwani village had been invited to the UK, France, Germany, Holland and Austria, to read out Shah Latif’s poetry for which he had earned much respect.
It appears that Lanjwani was murdered on the way to his village. “When he left for home he telephoned us at around 9pm but he never reached,” said his younger brother Bisharat Lanjwani while speaking to The Express Tribune on Tuesday. A villager found his body about half a kilometre from the village. “It seems like an attempted robbery but he was shot in the leg and nothing was missing, including his motorcycle and mobile phone.” A distraught Bisharat said he failed to understand why anyone would do such a thing as they didn’t have any enemies and were a ..... Read More
Jan
25
NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq on Tuesday said that his party could make an alliance with the PTI as both parties had the same objectives of freeing the country from the US influence.
Talking to a 25-member delegation of the PTI at his residence, the JUI-S chief said those accusing Imran Khan of being the agent of Jews were afraid of the popularity of his party. The JUI leader also said the graph of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was rising due to the party’s anti-US stance and support for the Taliban and the Jihadi elements.
He said that Imran Khan had been doing pragmatic politics for the last four years. He argued that the PTI had represented the religious forces by staging sit-in against the US drone attacks. Samiul Haq said that he was not interested in revival of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal. The delegation discussed the option of making an alliance with the JUI-S..... Read More
Jan
25
Mullahs, militants and military – Pakistan’s shadowy coalition: By Matthew Green in The Financial Times, Jan 24
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Rawalpindi: As sword-emblazoned banners fluttered above the crowd, Hafiz Saeed, a burly professor-turned-militant chief, basked in the adulation of Pakistani nationalists who see him as a hero, not a terrorist.
The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose commandoes killed 166 people in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Mr Saeed is – to outside eyes – the public face of the nexus between spies and jihadists that makes nuclear-armed Pakistan so dangerous.
Now, he is back.
For years confined to his power base in the eastern Punjab province, Mr Saeed is on the march – criss-crossing the country with a radical road show starring sectarian hate groups, Islamist parties and hawkish ex-generals. They call themselves the Pakistan Defence Council.
In the latest gathering, held near Pakistan’s army headquarters in the city of Rawalpindi on Sunday, Mr Saeed addressed an estimated crowd of at least 10,000 who chanted: “If God asks, we will go for jihad.”
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Jan
25
Getting back to the negotiating table: op-ed by Ayesha Haroon in The News, Jan 25
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It is not going to be easy but both Washington and Islamabad will be working hard to arrive at some kind of arrangement to handle the Afghan situation in 2012. A billion-dollar cash cheque coming to Pakistan from the coalition coffers is expected to help move the process along.
Admittedly, almost seventy percent of the money is likely to be for the army, but some of it will to the civilian government also. There are serious issues about the benefit that these projects do to the people, and there are questions about that, but the government will definitely welcome it. However, it might not be enough to change the larger perception on US-Pakistan relations in the Pakistani public at large or for that matter in the American public.
For many months Washington and Islamabad have been holding a conversation wearing noise-cancelling headphones. Listening to anti-Pakistan and anti-US rants on their headphones, they had little idea what the other party was saying.
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Jan
25
The reprehensible drone attacks: op-ed by S M Hali in the Nation, Jan 25
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The writer is a political and defence analyst.
The reprehensible drone attacks in Pakistan commenced in 2004, nearly three years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. They have been conducted by CIA’s Special Activities Division (SAD). The question of drone attacks targeting terrorists in Pakistan’s Wild West – the tribal areas – is rather complex. To date 285 drone attacks have been carried out, which have taken a toll of 2,692 lives. It is not clear how many were actually terrorists and what number of collateral damage was suffered.
Meanwhile, the role of the Government of Pakistan has been rather duplicitous. Pakistan covertly permitted the drones to operate from two of its air bases – Jacobabad and Shamsi – but publicly condemned the drone attacks. When public outcry over the attacks reached a crescendo, on October 4, 2008, The Washington Post reported that there was a secret deal between the USA and Pakistan allowing these drone attack..... 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