Posts Tagged ‘Amir Mir’
Blood of Shia Muslims flows freely in Pakistan – by Amir Mir
Source: Asia Times ISLAMABAD - The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ - Army of Jhangvi), a Pakistan-based, al-Qaeda-linked, anti-United States, Sunni Deobandi sectarian-turned-jihadi group, has let loose a reign of terror against the Shi'ite minority. In its latest attack, the LeJ on Tuesday killed 13 Shi'ites traveling on a bus to work in Quetta, the [...]
Kidnappers of Taseer’s son want release of Mumtaz Qadri – by Amir Mir
Related posts: Bold statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on Shia massacres in Pakistan under the patronage by Pakistan army In support of Shahbaz Taseer ****** Expressing grave concern over the release of Malik Mohammad Ishaq, one of the founding members of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) an al-Qaeda-linked anti-Shia and [...]
Hiring of Pakistani fighters for Bahrain angers Iran – by Amir Mir
Related articles: Sectarianism and racism: The dishonest narratives on Bahrain – by Hasnain Magsi Recruitment of Bahrain National Guards in Lahore to kill Shia protesters in Bahrain Racist Shia Arabs lynching Pakistanis in Bahrain? – by Ram Alamdar Hussain Tehran has conveyed its resentment to Islamabad over continuing recruitment of [...]
Video of General Tariq’s abducted son-in-law emerges – by Amir Mir
Related article: General Tariq Majid’s son-in-law kidnapped by extremist Deobandis Here is a rude reminder to Generals Kayani, Pasha, Tariq Majeed and others who still believe in the Good Taliban theory and the Strategic Depth theory. Investing in jihadi (faith-motivated) violence is neither good for Pakistan nor it is of much service to [...]
In the name of God, you are dead – by Amir Mir
When Punjab Governor Salman Taseer stepped out of the Table Talk restaurant in Islamabad, after having lunch with his hotelier friend Sheikh Waqas on January 4, he was most likely aware of the possibility of religious extremists lurking around the corner. But what Taseer could not have imagined is that a religious extremist dressed in uniform of [...]
Qari Saifullah Akhtar, ISI’s most valued asset, resurfaces in Punjab
About Qari Saifullah Akhtar is a senior al Qaeda military leader who operates in Paksitan. Akhtar is the influential leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and commands Brigade 313, a unit in al Qaeda's Shadow Army. Akhtar has direct links with Mullah Omar, Osama bin Laden, and Ayman al Zawahiri. Source. He is a graduate of the Deobandi Banuri [...]
Why Benazir Bhutto’s killer can’t be taken to task – by Amir Mir
Three years after Benazir Bhutto’s tragic assassination in Rawalpindi and almost nine months after the United Nations Inquiry Commission released its report, carrying broad hints about her probable assassins, the actual mastermind of her murder still remains at large. The UN commission report, which was released 28 months after her [...]
Pushtun, Shia, Ahmadi and Barelvi: main victims of terrorism in Pakistan in 2010 – by Amir Mir
Source: The News, December 24, 2010 The year 2010 has proven to be the bloodiest for the people of Pakistan since 2001 as the unending spate of lethal suicide bombings in almost every nook and corner of the country has killed 1,224 innocent Pakistanis and injured 2,157 others in 52 gory attacks between January 1 and December 23, 2010. Even [...]
Just who is not a kafir? – by Amir Mir
Source: Outlook India War On The Kafirs The broad Sunni-Shia division does not explain all of it Most Sunnis adhere to the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. Only 5 per cent of the country’s population belongs to the Ahle Hadith sect or Wahabis. The Sunnis are subdivided into the Barelvi and Deobandi schools of [...]
Sipah-e-Sahaba responsible for Khalid Khwaja’s murder – by Amir Mir
Killers of Khwaja wanted custody of Afghan Taliban, not release Sunday, May 02, 2010 By Amir Mir LAHORE: The Asian Tigers’ demand for the release of some key commanders of the Afghan Taliban, including Mulla Omar’s second-in-command, in exchange for the freedom of two abducted former ISI officials, was apparently motivated by the hate [...]
Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi leads a grand rally in Jhang with the help of PML-N’s Punjab government
We at LUBP proudly present to our readers the latest specimen of good governance of PML-N's government in Punjab. Residents of Jhang (central Punjab) are currently experiencing an incredible surge in the presence and public activities of Sipah-e-Sahaba, a banned terrorist organization with close links with Al Qaeda and Taliban. The [...]
Punjabi Taliban belonging to Sipah-e-Sahaba responsible for the Lahore’s Model Town suicide attack – by Amir Mir
Police and rescue workers stand near a crater, which was made from a suicide bomb targeting the Special Investigation Agency in Lahore. A suicide car bomb attack on a police intelligence unit in Lahore killed at least 12 people and wounded about 89 on Monday during the morning rush hour, officials said. –Reuters Photo/Mohsin Raza Punjabi [...]
Judicial activism may lead Pakistan towards a military intervention – by Amir Mir
LAHORE, 15 February 2010: A fresh tussle between the Pakistani President Asif Zardari and the Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry over the appointment of the superior court judges has snowballed into a major political crisis which may lead to yet another military intervention by Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani, who is due to retire this year and [...]
366 killed in 7 attacks targeting mosques in 2009 – Report by Amir Mir
7 December 2009 LAHORE: At least 366 innocent Pakistanis have been killed and 901 injured in the first 11 months of year 2009 in seven bloody incidents of terrorism across Pakistan, targeting mosques with the help of suicide bombers as well as explosive-laden vehicles. According to the figures compiled by the Pakistani ministry of interior, [...]
Book Review: Talibanisation of Pakistan – By Amir Mir
Talibanisation Of Pakistan: From 9/11 To 26/11 By Amir Mir Pentagon Press | 422 pages Introduction of the review by Abdul Nishapuri Amir Mir, unlike the pro-Taliban and pro-conspiracy theory tendencies of his brother Hamid Mir, has truly maintained the anti-establishment and anti-conservatory attitude and integrity of his legendary father, [...]
Why did Taliban-US talks fail? By Amir Mir
LAHORE: The American initiative to hold talks with the Afghan Taliban through Saudi and Pakistani intelligence agencies has failed to produce the desired results so far primarily due to the trust deficit between the two sides and the obstinacy of the former rulers of Afghanistan who are still determined to (more...)
Pakistan’s Top 10 Militant Commanders
By Amir MirIn a recent article, prominent Pakistani journalist Amir Mir warned that the killing of Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was "unlikely to give Pakistan a reprieve" in its fight against the Islamic (more...)
Aik jihadi bhai ki shahadat (‘martyrdom’ of a jihadi brother). May his soul burn in hell.
Ilyas Kashmiri had planned to attack COASFriday, September 18, 2009 (The News)By By Amir Mir LAHORE: The reported death of the Ameer of the Azad Kashmir chapter of the Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI) Commander Ilyas Kashmiri in a US drone attack on September 7 has confirmed that the trouble-stricken Waziristan region has become the new battlefield [...]
A comprehensive review of the ISI money, Nawaz Sharif, IJI and MQM Pandora Box
PML-N’s losing graceISI money case to reopen old wounds, hurt manySituationerSaturday, August 29, 2009By Amir MirLAHORE: Former chief justice of Pakistan Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui’s statement that the Inter Services Intelligence dished out millions of rupees to different politicians during President Ghulam Ishaq Khan’s regime to manipulate the [...]
Pakistan extradites ten Taliban terrorists to China – by Amir Mir
10 terror suspects extradited to China By Amir Mir LAHORE: Pakistan has extradited 10 arrested terrorists belonging to the pro-independence Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) to China, an Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed to The News on Friday. The spokesman in Islamabad, confirming the extradition, said the ETIM militants [...]
Amir Mir: Punjabi and Pushtun militants behind Manawan attack
Monday 30 March 2009LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities investigating the 30/3 bloody assault on the Police Training School in Manawan on the outskirts of Lahore believe the highly trained and equally equipped terrorist squad involved in the Monday attack (more...)
Amir Mir: Peace deal in Swat a high-risk affair
Govt-TNSM deal a high-risk affairTuesday, February 17, 2009By Amir MirLAHORE: Islamabad’s decision to sign a peace deal with the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi by enforcing the ‘Sharai Nizam-e-Adl Regulation’ in the Malakand division of the NWFP, (more...)
Amir Mir: Has Swat fallen to the Taliban?
Wednesday 21 January 2009LAHORE: Fifteen months after the launching of a military operation in the lush-green picturesque valley of Swat by the Pakistan army to dismantle the militant network of Maulana Fazalullah, a major part of the mountainous region seems to have fallen to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and Swat apparently lives under the [...]
Musharraf murder plot by jailed militant busted: Taliban+Sipah-e-Sahaba+Al-Qaeda = terrorism … By Amir Mir
Amir MirThursday 18 December 2008LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities have busted a clandestine assassination plot being hatched by the jailed killer of American journalist Daniel Pearl, to kill the former Pakistani dictator President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.Highly placed interior ministry sources have disclosed that the assassination plot [...]
Who killed General Amir Faisal Alvi? Was General Alvi about to expose the secret alliance between the ISI, Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba?
Who killed Gen Alvi? By Amir MirThursday, November 20, 2008 (The News)LAHORE: The authorities investigating the murder of Maj-Gen (retd) Amir Faisal Alvi, former General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the elite Special Services Group (SSG), by two unidentified gunmen in (more...)
Profile of a terrorist: Amjad Farooqi of Taliban/Al-Qaeda/Sipah-e-Sahaba/Jaish-e-Muhammad, who was involved in dozens of terrorist activities….
Profile: Amjad Farooqi (from BBC)Farooqi ran Afghan militant camps, Pakistani intelligence saysPakistani intelligence (more...)
Partners in crime: Ex-Servicemen’s Association (the new face of ISI sponsored thugs) – by Amir Mir
Partners in crimeAmir MirHardly a fortnight after Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani directed the officers of the Pakistan Army through an official letter not to indulge in politics and pay heed to their professional responsibilities, a group of prominent ex-servicemen – retired military officers including high profile [...]
Suicide bombers’ Who’s Who – Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Jaish-e-Muhammad – By Amir Mir
Suicide bombers’ Who’s WhoAmir Mir (Amir Mir is a senior journalist, and a brother of the famous TV host Hamid Mir)thenews.com.pk9/22/2008LAHORE: Intelligence agencies believe the endless wave of deadly suicide bombings, climaxing with one of the deadliest 9/11 type attack on the Islamabad Marriot on Saturday, signify the revival of al-Qaeda [...]
Pakistani Fatwa Against Suicide Bombing
Amir Mir is a brother of the renowned TV anchor Hamid Mir...........By Amir Mir (2005)A group of 58 religious scholars from Pakistan representing all major schools of Islamic thought issued a Fatwa (edict) on May 19, 2005 stating that Islam strictly forbids suicide attacks on Muslims and those committing such acts at places of worship and public [...]
Fatwa by Mufti Rafi Usmani and Mufti Muneeb-ul-Rehman in support of Aamir Liaquat Hussain
We believe that the current dirty, sectarian propaganda against Aamir Liaquat Hussain is a reaction by the pro-Taliban groups, the extremists of Sipah-e-Sahaba, the Gustakhan-e-Rasool elements within the Pakistani society, who have become hostile to Aamir Liaquat Hussain because of the following reasons:1. His sincere efforts to promote the [...]
On 9/11 anniversary, Pakistan has a new breed of Taliban
Thursday, September 11, 2008By Amir MirLAHORE: Seven years after the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States that shook the entire world, Pakistan, despite being a key American ally in the war on terror, continues to be plagued by the menace of Talibanisation with home grown militants persisting with their calls for Jihad.As the Bush era is [...]
Was Jinnah a Secularist? – by Amir Mir
Perhaps the most contentious issue in Pakistan since its very inception in 1947 is the nature of the state. Should Pakistan be a sharia based Islamic state or should she be a Modern democratic secular state? The (more...)
Book Review: The True Face of Jehadis – By Amir Mir
The True Face of Jehadis; Inside Pakistan's Network of Terror Amir Mir Roli Books Private Ltd Pages xvii+ 308, Rs. 395 Review by: Kalim Bahadur Amir Mir's volume The True Face of Jehadis is a very comprehensive and a definitive handbook on the rise and growth of the militant Jehadi groups in Pakistan. Amir Mir traces the origins of the [...]
The true (ugly) face of Jehadis and the Mullah-ISI alliance in Pakistan: Amir Mir
The true (ugly) face of Jehadis and the Mullah-ISI alliance in Pakistan: Amir Mir, an eminent journalist, son of legendary Professor Waris Mir, brother of journalist Hamid Mir, provides a personal account of how he became a target of Jehadis cum intelligence agencies in Pakistan because of his book "The True Face of Jehadis".Source: Journalist [...]
