Posts Tagged ‘Jaish-e-Muhammad’

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 [...]

As the death toll from today's gruesome attacks on a Shiite procession commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Ali, probably the most venerated muslim saint after the Holy Prophet rises, few if any are addressing the core issues that have lead to these killings. Since the advent of Zia ul Haq, Pakistan has been wracked with violence that is State [...]

Source New York Times LAHORE, Pakistan — Days after one of the worst terrorist attacks in Pakistan, a senior Pakistani official declared in a surprising public admission that extremist groups were entrenched in the southern portion of the nation’s most populous province, underscoring the growing threats to the state. The statements by [...]

MCC is a grassroots organization founded by Tarek Fatah that provides a voice to Muslims who are not represented by existing organizations; organizations that are either sectarian or ethnocentric, largely authoritarian, and influenced by a fear of modernity and an aversion to joy. >Islamic organizations must repudiate their label of [...]

Last year alone, innumerable incidents made a mockery of the Punjab government and its denial. The truth is, there is no dearth of facts. The tragedy is, there is no visible action being taken to address the evil, which now resides within “What world am I bringing my child into?” I didn’t have the answer to my four-month pregnant [...]

From BBC Urdu جہادی کہانیاں یہ بات اب کسی سے ڈھکی چھپی نہیں رہی کہ ماضی میں جہادِ افغانستان اور جہاد کشمیر میں شریک کئی شدت پسند تنظیموں کو پاکستان کے ریاستی اداروں کی مکمل سرپرستی حاصل رہی ہے۔ [...]

Articles by Nasir Jamal and Muhammad Aamir Khakwani: On trail of Punjabi Taliban By Nasir Jamal Saturday, 17 Oct, 2009 LAHORE, Oct 16: A day after the triple-strike in Lahore, officials, counter-crime experts and academics in the province grappled with the question of how to deal with the upsurge in violence and the discourse (more...)

Fears rise over militants in PunjabTuesday, 06 Oct, 2009 (Dawn)Despite the ban, and repeated vows by (more...)

Cleaning up the act with convictionThe government of Pakistan, together with the leaders of the armed forces, and the main opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN), have done Pakistan a great service by heeding the voice of the international community in general, and China in particular, by taking action against the organisations [...]

However, sanctioning is not enough. The UNSC must constitute a high-level team to tbe stationed in Pakistan, to continuously monitor and implement the closure of all forms of Jihadi activities in Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and also in tribal areas. Such camps are supported by retired and serving military (more...)

At least 20 killed in powerful blast in PeshawarIslamabad, Dec 5 (PTI) At least 20 people, including three children, were killed and about 40 others injured in a powerful bomb blast targeting a prayer hall of the minority Shias in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar today.The blast took place outside an Imambargah in the congested Kucha [...]

Mastermind of Marriott Hotel bombing escapesMonday, November 17, 2008 (the News)By Tariq ButtISLAMABAD: The Peshawar-based alleged mastermind of the Marriott Hotel blast has fled to the tribal areas and is untraceable for the time being, a senior investigator told The News. The investigator, while withholding the mastermind's name, said that it [...]

Malegaon blast: Military school head questioned2 Nov 2008, 0328 hrs IST, Mateen Hafeez, TNNMUMBAI: Administrator of the Bhonsala Military School, Nashik, retired Colonel Shailesh Raikar, had attended a meeting along with the accused Retired Lt Col SS Raikar of the Malegaon blast 15 days prior to the September 29 explosion that killed six people in [...]

Profile: Amjad Farooqi (from BBC)Farooqi ran Afghan militant camps, Pakistani intelligence saysPakistani intelligence (more...)