Posts Tagged ‘Taliban’

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 [...]

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 [...]

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-25680.htmlUsman30-08-2007, 11:40 PMDuring his student years, when Mufti Taqi Uthmani sahib got to know that Izhahul Haq Jhangvi was coming to meet him at his house, Mufti sahib used to open the door without even wearing his shoes, for the students back then, you can ask them yourself how Mufti [...]

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 [...]

ANP Provincial Chief stresses need for curbing militancyWednesday, August 20, 2008Says issue more important than restoration of judgesBy Khalid KheshgiPESHAWAR: Provincial President of Awami National Party (ANP) and Peace Envoy to NWFP government Afrasiyab Khattak Tuesday said that checking militancy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas [...]

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 [...]

By Anwarullah KhanKHAR, Oct 5: Hundreds of tribal volunteers marched in Mamond and Wara tehsils, strongholds of militants in Bajaur Agency, on Sunday and warned pro-Taliban elements to either surrender or leave the area.The armed tribesmen did not encounter any resistance.Elders leading the lashkar visited mosques and hujras in villages and urged [...]

Sept. 21, 2008 (EIRNS)—Bodies are still being pulled out from under the rubble that the Islamabad Marriott Hotel has become, following the truck-bomb attack by a suicide bomber on the evening of Sept. 20, when the faithful were breaking fast on the 16th day of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan. Already 60 deaths have been announced, including [...]

Why does not Imran Khan condemn terrorist activities by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda?Is he being blackmailed by Mullahs for his (more...)

Dr Hasan-Askari RizviThis state of affairs did not develop in a year, but gradually since 2001. The Musharraf regime and the MMA government in the NWFP allowed these elements to entrench themselves and expand their influenceThe October 2 suicide attack at the residence of the ANP chief, Asfandaryar Wali Khan, was another frightening reminder of [...]

Unhurt Asfand vows to hit back, establish govt’s writ5 killed in attack on Wali’s houseStaff Reporter/AgenciesPESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up as he tried to run into the house of Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan on Thursday, killing five and injuring 12 others. Asfandyar remained unhurt. Asfandyar Wali Khan was [...]

What should one make of Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s appeal to the Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Umar that he should “return home” under guarantees of safety and “help bring peace to Afghanistan”? President Karzai says he has been “sending messages to the Saudi Arabian king requesting him, as a world Muslim leader, to help us bring [...]

By Abbas Ather Read this column; Taliban drink alcohol; they take money and weapons from Pakistan's enemies to conduct suicide operations against innocent Pakistani and foreign citizens in Pakistan. This group does not represent Islam. Pakistan's war against Taliban and Al-Qaeda is in fact Islam's war against terrorists. Long live martyrs [...]

From ladies man to the Taliban Khan Imran Khan, the man who sparked the Newsweek riots: Islamist politician by day, London playboy by night. by James Forsyth and Jai Singh 05/31/2005 WITH 17 PEOPLE DEAD and anti-American sentiment even higher than usual in the Muslim world, people are looking for someone to blame for the riots that [...]

Mehsud visits parts of S.Waziristan Updated at: 2050 PST, Thursday, October 02, 2008 WANA: Supreme commander of the banned outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud visited different area of South Waziristan on Thursday. According to Taliban sources, Meshsud visited Makeen, Ladha, Badar, Salay Rogha and other areas. The [...]

Sami al-Haj, an Al Jazeera cameraman, was beaten, abused and humiliated in the name of the war on terror. He tells our correspondent about his struggle to rebuild a shattered life Sami al-Haj walks with pain on his steel crutch; almost six years in the nightmare of Guantanamo have taken their toll on the Al Jazeera journalist and, now in the [...]

WHILE President Asif Ali Zardari says we are in a state of war, it is amazing that the government and the media have not yet clearly spelled out how the enemy is to be defined.Normally, an enemy is an enemy. But every war has, and must have, a well-developed jargon that conveys to the world and to the people the idea of the enemy as perceived by [...]

‘I will suck oxygen out of their system so there will be no Talibs’:Zardari ready for US training of army anti-terror units* Vows to rid country of terror threat, calls Taliban ‘cancer for society’* Says anyone not conforming with govt policies will be thrown outDaily Times MonitorNEW YORK: We want to co-operate with the United States in [...]

Imran Khan, Hamid Gul, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Ansar Abbasi, Irfan Siddiqi, Kashif Abbasi, and Hamid Mir say: Terrorist activities against innocent Pakistanis are a reaction against the US policies. Shame on terrorists (more...)

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A job well doneFRIDAY’S police action against suspected terrorists in a Karachi locality comes as a reality byte that home-grown sectarian and extremist outfits are but extensions of global terrorist networks like Al Qaeda. There is no ambiguity now that the terror machine that has unleashed itself against targeted individuals and the public [...]

FATA’s silent majority now seems to be stirring. It has for years watched in agony the destruction of its environs. Its once peaceful valleys and ravines are now a theatre of war, with homes, fields and shops destroyed, the tribesmen’s means of livelihood disrupted, and hundreds of thousands of men, women and children turned into internal [...]

The NWFP Governor, Mr Owais Ghani, has asked the United States “to talk to Mullah Omar, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Jalaluddin Haqqani, to negotiate peace in Afghanistan”. His contention is that “political stability will only come to Afghanistan when all political power groups, irrespective of the length of their beard, are given their just and [...]

MANY Pakistanis will tend to agree with what one of America’s top generals said on Thursday — the extremists threaten the very existence of Pakistan. Gen David Petraeus, who is to take over next month as commander Centcom (US forces in the Middle East and South-West Asia), told the media in Paris that Pakistani and American forces would have [...]

* FC IG says 1,000 Taliban, 63 soldiers killed in operation* Says 65% of problem would be eliminated if Taliban defeated in BajaurKHAR/TANG KHATTA: The situation in Bajaur Agency will be stabilised within two months, the Frontier Corps (FC) chief in the region said on Friday.“My timeframe for Bajaur is anything from between one-and-a-half to two [...]

IMAGINE you are a radical Islamist leading a war against the infidels from the badlands bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan. In front of you is the statement, “We are prohibited from committing aggression, even if the enemies of Islam do that.”You are Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second highest leader of Al Qaeda, and this thunderbolt comes from your [...]

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An unknown terrorist outfit calling itself Fidayeen-e Islam has telephoned the Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV office in Islamabad to claim responsibility for the attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday. The phone call was made from within Pakistan but not from Islamabad. But that doesn’t mean (more...)

Digesting the Marriott blast Some facts about the Marriott Hotel blast are coming out gradually as the scene of destruction is carefully examined and videos from the security cameras are scrutinised. More and more people are put off by the concept of suicide-bombing and are criticising it. The fifty-odd clerics who had issued the fatwa against [...]

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MNA threatens to sue journalist Tuesday, September 23, 2008 ISLAMABAD: Mumtaz Alam Gillani, member national assembly (PPP) on Monday strongly contradicted a news item appearing in a section of the press on September 21 that he was witness to a US embassy white truck carrying steel boxes, which were unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott [...]

Pakistan’s 9/11 Monday, September 22, 2008 The Marriottt in Islamabad is no more. This is a reality that many are still finding it hard to come to terms with. The hotel, where wedding guests assembled, where friends chatted, where journalists covering key events gathered, where business deals were struck and from where tourists ventured out [...]

According to the US-based Pew Research Centre’s Global Attitudes Project, the number of Muslims globally supporting suicide attacks and Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has fallen sharply in the past six years. But the think tank still has its red signal on about “significant Muslim minorities in eight countries continuing to endorse suicide [...]

Sunday, September 21, 2008 By Muhammad Ahmad Noorani (The News) ISLAMABAD: The Marriott attack was actually aimed at parliament where the entire civil and military leadership of the country had gathered, in violation of the security codes, but it was thwarted by the strict security arrangements. Two security check-posts established on the [...]