Posts Tagged ‘Sectarianism’

By Imtiaz Ali Pakistan’s Kurram Tribal Agency has been at the center of sectarian Shiite-Sunni conflict for decades. The area witnessed bloody clashes between the two rival sects of Islam long before the arrival of the Taliban phenomenon and foreign al-Qaeda elements in the region in the wake of the U.S. attack on the Taliban regime in [...]

Agreement kindles hope of peace in Kurram By Bakhtawar Mian ISLAMABAD, Oct 16: A grand jirga of Kurram Agency has brokered a peace deal between warring sectarian groups in the region. Under the agreement, the two sides agreed to exchange kidnapped people and reopen all roads in the area. The agreement was signed after weeks of efforts [...]

Parachinar Massacre Warning: Graphic Images By: Ali Imran (July 2008) So I was waiting for months (considering this has been going on for months now) to see if someone will start a thread on this issue or not as I didn't want to start it cuz' I start to get labels of campaigning for Shiaism or something. But I think it's crossed the limit [...]

ISI is playing a dangerous game by forcing Shias of tribal areas to rise against Taliban. On 10 October, Army forced Shia tribe Alizai to form a lashkar in Orakzai agency while providing little protection and logistic support to the Alizai tribe. As a result, the Alizai jirga was attacked by Taliban and more than 100 people killed. The pro-Jihadi [...]

Sign the Petition To: Govt. of Islamic Republic of Pakistan The President & Prime Minister of Pakistan, and The Governors, Chief Ministers, I.G.Police, Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan, N.W.F.P Provinces. The barbaric sectarian violence in Pakistan is taking its toll again but in a very dangerous way. On the day of Ashura 50 innocent [...]

ANOTHER day, another district, another suicide bombing. The victims, however, are always new. Every suicide bombing tears a new hole in the social fabric of Pakistan and the Bhakkar attack is no different. The senseless death of at least 22 individuals and injury to over 60 at the hands of a religious zealot has been rightly condemned in the [...]

The following report confirms that there is no difference between terrorists who are operating in different names. In other words: Taliban = Al-Qaeda = Sipah Sahaba = Lashkar Jhangavi = Jaish Muhammad = other terrorist groups. Unfortunately most of these groups belong to Deobandi school of thought (although they do not represent the [...]

Nirupama Subramanian, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2008 According to Shia leaders and independent analysts, the Taliban control the Sunni tribes in Kurram and want to battle the Shias until they have control of the region. Kurram is not the average tribal area on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The Pashto-speaking population has higher literacy rates [...]

Reuters ISLAMABAD - Monday, 6 October 2008 - A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people (update 25) and wounded a leading Pakistani opposition politician and member of the minority Shi'ite Muslim community on Monday, police said. The attack targeted the home of Rashid Akbar Khan Nawani, a member of parliament for former prime minister Nawaz [...]

Suroosh IrfaniThree men who led the anti-Ahmedi movement (including Maulana Maududi, then head of Jamaat-i-Islami) were tried by a military court and sentenced to death, later commuted under pressure from Muslim countries, to life imprisonment. Even so, the writ of the state had prevailed, it did not submit to any of the agitators’ demands, and [...]

A Sunni-Shia clash has killed 30 and wounded 130 in Parachinar, the major city of the Kurram Agency on the border with Afghanistan. The Sunnis accused the Shia of having hurled a hand-grenade at their central mosque in Parachinar during Friday prayer. The Shia community accused Sunni militants from nearby towns of starting the violence by firing [...]

95 killed in Kurram Agency clashes * More than 200 injured as Taliban-backed Bangash tribesmen attack Toori tribe * Tooris retaliate with support of local tribal militia, capture opponent headquarters in Bugzai * Taliban launch suicide attacks on tribal militia PARACHINAR: At least 95 people were killed and more than 200 injured in fresh [...]

Please watch the following two programs on Parachinar and Kurram Agency. The people in Parachinar are desperately begging the Pakistan Government to send its security forces to save them from the genocide they face at the hands of Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Their ordeal has continued for more than a year now. Question: Why is not the [...]

http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsJune2001/coverstory4.htm Cover Story The War Within? Intra-Sunni conflict adds yet another dimension to Karachi’s war with itself. By Massoud Ansari Tension gripped Karachi and life in the city came to a grinding halt on Friday, May 18,when stick-wielding, turban-clad students from various seminaries took [...]

Taliban are sectarian terrorists - an extremist cult defaming the Deobandi tradition of Islam - They attack hospitals and kill innocent men, women and children indiscriminately. Suicide bomber kills 30 in D I Khan, Taliban claim responsibility Tuesday, August 19, 2008 D. I. KHAN: A powerful suicide blast ripped through the crowded emergency [...]

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The New York Times Report PESHAWAR, Pakistan — It was once known as the Parrot’s Beak, a strategic jut of Pakistan that the American-backed mujahedeen used to carry out raids on the Russians just over the border into Afghanistan. That was during the cold war (more...)

There is ample evidence that the State of Pakistan (read ISI and Pakistan Army) is supporting the siege of innocent people of Parachinar by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists. The Shia and Sunni population of Parachinar is being punished because they have refused to provide safe havens to the operatives of ISI/Taliban/Al-Qaeda to conduct their [...]

Source: ZEEST Development Organisation 2008/5/11 18:19 code:108632 Currently, over half a million of people residing in Kurram Agency of tribal areas of Pakistan are facing a catastrophic genocide due to the complicity or ineffectiveness of the Government of Pakistan to establish the rule of law in the Kurram Agency. These people living [...]