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Seven teachers shot dead in Swabi (Pakistan)

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More here at the Daily Mail also

 

Pak-Tribune

 

Published: January 1, 2013

Gunmen targeted teachers, including six women and a man, working at an NGO-operated school.

SWABI: Seven teachers, six women and a man, working at an NGO-operated school were shot dead on Tuesday in Swabi, Express News reported.

The incident took place in Sher Afzal Banda area in Tehsil Chota Lahore, when unidentified gunmen targeted the teachers who had just exited the school building.

Earlier in December 2012, the office of an NGO in Muhallah Gulbahar in Swabi was destroyed when a bomb exploded near its building.

In recent months, a number of government and NGO offices as well as CD shops have been targeted by assailants in the relatively peaceful district. So far, police have been unable to arrest any culprit behind these incidents.

Taliban kills five women aid workers in Pakistan as they administer polio vaccines to children

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An up close opportunity to watch Darwinian evolution in action. H/T EDL Buck

daily Mail:

  • Four women aid workers gunned down in the southern city of Karachi and another killed in a village outside the north-west city of Peshawar
  • Aid workers were administering polio jabs as part of 3-day vaccination drive
  • Taliban claim the campaign to immunise children is a cover for U.S. spies

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 11:06 EST, 18 December 2012 | UPDATED: 11:51 EST, 18 December 2012

The Taliban murdered five women polio health workers in a series of attacks in Pakistan today.

The victims were shot in the head at close range, two of them as they administered vaccine drops to young children.

The killings halted a polio campaign that international health officials say is vital to contain the crippling disease but which the Taliban claim is a cover for US spies.

Rescue workers move the bodies of two of the Polio vaccination workers to a mortuary after four female polio vaccination workers were killed in Karachi, Pakistan, todayRescue workers move the bodies of two of the Polio vaccination workers to a mortuary after four of the aid workers were killed in Karachi, Pakistan, today

 

Attack: Unknown armed men killed four female workers who were on a three-day polio vaccination campaign funded by UNICEF in KarachiAttack: Unknown armed men killed four female workers who were on a three-day polio vaccination campaign funded by UNICEF in Karachi

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Proposed Army manual tells G.I.s not to insult Taliban, speak up for women

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Published December 12, 2012

FoxNews.com

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    A proposed new Army manual says its cultural ignorance on the part of American soldiers that causes Afghan soldiers to kill them. (Reuters)

A proposed new handbook for Americans serving in Afghanistan warns them not to speak ill about the Taliban, advocate women’s rights or criticize pedophilia, and the general in charge is not happy with it.

The draft of the newest Army handbook seems to suggest that ignorance of Afghan culture is to blame for deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers against the coalition forces, according to The Wall Street Journal, which got a peek at the 75-page document. But its message of walking on eggshells around the locals is not going over well with U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan.

“Gen. Allen did not author, nor does he intend to provide, a foreword,” said Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. “He does not approve of its contents.”

More than three dozen attacks by Afghan soldiers have claimed the lives of some 63 members of the U.S.-led coalition this year. The insider attacks could jeopardize plans to transfer full security control to Afghan forces in 2014.

 

“He does not approve of its contents.”

– Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen

 

But a claim by their own government that they’re to blame is not likely to buoy the spirits of Americans risking their lives to serve.

 

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Pakistan gunmen shoot 14-year-old girl in the head for speaking out against Taliban

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Jibran Ahmad, Reuters | Oct 9, 2012 8:02 AM ET
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MOHAMMAD REHMAN/AFP/Getty Images Pakistani hospital workers carry injured Malala Yousafzai, 14, on a stretcher at a hospital following an attack by gunmen in Mingora on October 9, 2012.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday a 14-year-old schoolgirl who rose to fame for speaking out against Taliban militants, authorities said.

Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad. Two other girls were also wounded, police said.

Yousufzai became famous for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban at a time when even the government seemed to be appeasing the hardline Islamists.

The government agreed to a ceasefire with the Taliban in Swat in early 2009, effectively recognizing insurgent control of the valley whose lakes and mountains had long been a tourist attraction.

The Taliban set up courts, executed residents and closed girls’ schools, including the one that Yousufzai attended. A documentary team filmed her weeping as she explained her ambition to be a doctor.

REUTERS/Hazart Ali BachaHospital staff assist Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old schoolgirl who was wounded in a gun attack, at Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital in the Swat Valley region in northwest Pakistan October 9, 2012.

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Taliban beheads children, skins 16-yr-old boy

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I’m sure we can find common ground with these people and create a good negotiated settlement don’t you?

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“What ‘immoral’ acts did these children commit?”

A 12-yr-old boy and a 6-yr-old girl were recently discovered beheaded in Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan.

As reported by Reuters, Jawid Faisal, the spokesman for the provincial governor of Kandahar, stated that the severed head placed next to the body of an unnamed boy served as a Taliban warning to the local populace.

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More horror, murder, slaughter of the vulnerable from the religion of peace

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H/T Don L

This video is not embedable where it lives now, so you will have to pop over to youtube to see it here.

It is a video of Talibani-tards attacking a civilian passenger bus and slaughtering all the people in it except one while chanting ‘Allah hu ackbar’ while doing so.

 

Taliban beheads 13 Pakistani soldiers

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h/t Don L

SMH.COM

 

May 8, 2012 – 2:44AM

AP

Taliban fighters have killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheading all but one of them and hanging two of the heads from wooden poles in the centre of town, officials say.

The killings in Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, highlight the dilemma facing the military in dealing with an area used by both the country’s fiercest enemy, the Pakistani Taliban, and Afghan and Pakistani militants believed to be close to the government who are battling US-led forces in neighbouring Afghanistan.

The US has repeatedly demanded that Pakistan launch an offensive in North Waziristan, especially against the so-called Haqqani network. Pakistan has promised to do so in the future, but claims its forces are stretched too thin right now fighting the Pakistani Taliban in other parts of the tribal region.

“Something has to be done, and it’s in the offing,” Lt Gen Khalid Rabbani, the army’s top commander in the northwest, told The Associated Press on Monday. “North Waziristan is the only place left” that hasn’t been the target of an operation, he said.

Many analysts believe Pakistan is reluctant to target militants in North Waziristan with whom it has strong historical ties and could be useful allies in Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw. But those militants are also allies with the Pakistani Taliban, complicating matters even further.

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British publisher preparing release of Taliban poetry anthology

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H/T Bear:

Yahoo News

LONDON – A British publisher is preparing to release a collection of poems authored by Afghanistan’s Taliban.

Many of the works in “Poetry of the Taliban” centre around the movement’s decade-long war against NATO-led forces in Afghanistan. But others touch on themes of religion, nostalgia and love.

Editors Alex Strick van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn, and Faisal Devji said in their introduction to that they’d compiled the anthology not for its novelty value “but as a way of understanding who the Taliban are.”

The book is being published in Britain by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd. later this month. It is scheduled for release in the U.S. in September.

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Online:

http://www.poetryofthetaliban.com/

Pakistan comedian who poked fun at Taliban militants abducted

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I guess in Pakistan they don’t bother with ‘Human Rights Commissions’ (Pardy v. Earle and Ismail) for politically incorrect comedians…

IBN LIVE:

Islamabad: A comedian who poked fun at the Taliban’s practice of apprehending thieves and meting out summary punishment to them was kidnapped from Peshawar in northwest Pakistan while he was entertaining guests at a wedding, according to a media report today.

Nisar Khan had recently written a comedic song about thieves being caught and punished by the militants with lyrics like: “Shave my head, paint my face black; Mount me on a donkey and make fun of me.”

Khan was entertaining guests at a wedding at Matani, a suburb of Peshawar, on Monday when around 20 militants entered the ‘hujra’ or guesthouse where he was performing and abducted him, The Express Tribune reported.

Pakistan comedian who poked fun at Taliban militants abducted

The militants told the gathering that they “needed an entertainer urgently”. The incident occurred near a police check point. “The militants took Nisar away, saying they too needed an entertainer on an urgent basis,” a person who was present at the hujra told the daily.

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Poison scare highlights threats to girls’ education in Afghanistan

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More than 100 schoolgirls have been rushed to hospitals in northeastern Afghanistan after drinking what is feared to be poisonous water from a tank at their school.

More than 100 schoolgirls in Afghanistan have fallen sick after drinking water that is suspected to have been poisoned in the small town of Rustaq in the northeastern Afghan province of Takhar.

In what appears to be an attempt by opponents of education for girls, the poison scare incident highlights threats to girls’ education in Afghanistan.

“I think some radical elements who oppose girls going to school are behind this act,” said district governor Mohammad Hussain, adding that police were investigating the incident.

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