Category Archives: Pakistan

Majority of IEDs are traced to Pakistan

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from USA TODAY

(H/T Richard)

WASHINGTON – Pakistan is the source of explosives in the vast majority of makeshift bombs insurgents in Afghanistan planted this summer to attack U.S. troops, according to U.S. military commanders.

  • The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.By Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty Images

    The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.

By Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty Images

The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.

From June through August, U.S. troops detected or were hit by 5,088 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the most for any three-month period since the war began in 2001.

Those bombs killed 63 troops and wounded 1,234, Defense Department records show.

More than 80% of the IEDs are homemade explosives using calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer produced in Pakistan, said Navy Capt. Douglas Borrebach, deputy director for resources and requirements at the Pentagon’s Joint IED Defeat Organization.

“The border is a sieve,” Borrebach said. “You can do your checkpoints, but that’s not going to help stem the supply.”

The military is working with the State Department, other U.S. agencies and Pakistan’s government to prevent fertilizer from reaching the insurgents’ bomb factories. Continue Reading →

Killer of governor of Pakistan’s Punjab sentenced to death

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This bears watching closely. A potential flash point for Pakistan. If the public accepts this death sentence there is the potential at least for Pakistan to rise from its descent into medieval, theocratic rule. My suspicion is riots so major will take place and soon, that the gov’t will somehow try and let this person off while pretending to carry it out in some way to appease Western nations. In any case, this is an important moment for Pakistan and Western relations with it as well.

From Reuters:

 

By Augustine Anthony

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan | Sat Oct 1, 2011 9:06am EDT

(Reuters) – A Pakistani court sentenced to death on Saturday the killer of the governor of Pakistan’s largest province after he had called for reform of a law against blasphemy, a defense lawyer and state-run media said.

Mumtaz Qadri was a bodyguard for Punjab province Governor Salman Taseer and shot him dead in the capital, Islamabad, on January 4.

Taseer was an outspoken critic of predominantly Muslim Pakistan’s blasphemy law and Qadri is viewed as a hero by many people who thought Taseer himself was a blasphemer by calling for the law’s reform.

Qadri had said he was enforcing divine law by murdering a blasphemer.

The killing highlighted a growing gulf between conservatives and more liberal elements in society.

Qadri’s supporters took to the streets to denounce the sentence soon after it was handed down at a hearing in a jail where he is being held in the city of Rawalpindi.

“By punishing one Mumtaz Qadri, you will produce a thousand Mumtaz Qadris!” one man shouted through a megaphone outside the jail.

Click over to Reuters for the rest of this story please. 

There are significant facts there still.

Punjab: armed Muslims rape a Christian, a “common practice”

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ASIA NEWS

by Jibran Khan
A 32 year old woman and mother of five children was abducted and raped in turn by three men. Threats to the husband to force him to withdraw his complaint. Police officers covering the crime, drawing up a report full of holes. Priest in Lahore: Christian violence against women is widespread and scandalous.

Lahore (AsiaNews) – The rape of Christian women in Punjab has become a “common practice” an “outrageous” phenomenon compounded by the fact that “the police protect the guilty” and not the victims. This is the bitter synopsis of Fr Jill John, of the Diocese of Lahore on the last recorded case of sexual violence against a Christian mother. The family calls for justice, but is struggling against a society in which the defenders of the law support the rapists. Even human rights groups like Masihi Life for All Foundation have intervened on the matter, asking government authorities to target the perpetrators of crimes and punish the corrupt and conniving police officers.
Continue Reading →

Pakistan ‘backed Haqqani attack on Kabul’ – Mike Mullen

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BBC Sept 22 2011

The most senior US military officer has accused Pakistan’s spy agency of supporting the Haqqani group in last week’s attack on the US Kabul embassy.

“The Haqqani network… acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency,” Adm Mike Mullen told a Senate panel.

Some 25 people died in last Tuesday’s 20-hour attack on Kabul’s US embassy and other official buildings. Continue Reading →

Some great SUN TV clips for Wed. Sept 21 2011

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Ezra is joined by Ottawa’s David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for CSIS to talk about the security charade that is Canadian security at airports

Day three of Ezra’s expose of the attempt, no the successful bullying via lawfare by the Saudis to silence criticism of their totalitarian misogynist and antisemitic regime. Notice how now other major media are picking up the story that Ezra first caught.

Ezra interviews the brother of the slain minister from Pakistan, who fought for equality of religious rights there

I’ll be adding a couple more within an hour or so. Check back to this post

No rights or drinking water for residents in one of Islamabad’s Christian ghettoes

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ASIA NEWS:

By Jibran Khan
Such is the fate of hundreds of residents of the France Colony, a walled area of some 600 dwellings, some of them one-room hovels for up to seven people, living in inhuman conditions and poor sanitation. Residents slam the authorities for their lack of concern about their fate and the government for its empty promises. An educational project by the Masihi Foundation could improve things.

Islamabad (AsiaNews) – Forced into a ghetto without basic human rights, Pakistani Christians often lack drinking water and decent sanitation, with up to seven people living in one-room hovels, children included. Many call the France Colony home, an area in central Islamabad that is isolated from the rest of the city by a wall. Despite complaints, nothing has changed. Now, there is a glimmer of hope after the Masihi Foundation set up a school for local children, providing them with books, bags and uniforms free of charge, a project activists hope to bring to the rest of the country.

With 1.6 per cent of the population and some 3 million believers, Pakistan’s Christian minority is the country’s second largest religious minority after Hindus. For a long time, it has been the victim of marginalisation and violence, made worse by the progressive Islamisation of the country launched by General Zia-ul-Haq in the mid-1980s.

Most Christians are rural migrants. When they arrive in the cities, they are forced to live in so-called colonies, virtual ghettoes, and take humble jobs as cleaners and sanitation workers with a status comparable to that of India’s untouchables. Continue Reading →

Holy month of ramadan, the most deadliest time, of, the year.

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Holy month of Ramadan and the body count climbs. Like every year. When Muslims get pious, its time to get on the flack jacket, flack boxers, flack cod piece and flack hat and mitts and hope they lose religion before your health insurance premiums are 120% of your income.

The Weather Channel

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The outgoing Israeli embassador to the United Nations is reported to have quipped to a reporter, (paraphrasing and adding my own commentary…)

‘When Jews kill Muslims it’s a massacre (even after it is discovered that it never took place such as in Jenin)

‘When Christians kill Muslims it is a crusade’ (even after it is discovered that it was a defensive action against an invading and hostile Islam like, well like the crusades)

‘But when Muslims kill Muslims it is the weather channel’ (like we see every day and nearly everywhere Muslims represent enough of the population to act with impunity or with complicity of a Muslim law enforcement. Contemporary Syria or Pakistan is one example that manages to stay off of our TV sets while we focus on the deluded rantings of an extreme narcissist because he fits a relativist narrative, and that, even though he didn’t kill any Muslims, yet is being used as an example of how evil ‘our side’ is.

Have a look at some of these videos recently smuggled out of Syria. Then, have another look at Bill Whittle’s excellent video on ‘The Narrative’. A clip that does more to explain where and why the great eye of TV media shines than does Lord of the Rings for Sauroman.

Masked Gunmen Filmed Sniping Into Large Syria Protest  

Bloody Day in Syria as Opposition Protest Continue

 

And dozens more here: 

H/T Dan F NYC

U.S. formally accuses Iran of working with Al Queda

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From The Wall Street Journal:

By JAY SOLOMON

WASHINGTON—The U.S. for the first time formally accused Iran of forging an agreement with al Qaeda, helping operatives move money, arms and fighters through Iranian territory to the terrorist group’s bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The U.S. Treasury Department outlined on Thursday what it said was an extensive fund-raising operation devised by al Qaeda that utilizes Iran-based operatives and draws from donors in oil-rich Persian Gulf countries such as Kuwait and Qatar.

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The Treasury said it had sanctioned six al Qaeda members for allegedly overseeing this network. The network’s head, Syrian-national Ezedin Abdul Aziz Khalil, is based in Iran and has been operating there under an agreement with Iranian authorities since 2005, according to senior U.S. officials.

“Khalil moves money and recruits from across the Middle East into Iran, then on to Pakistan for the benefit of al Qaeda’s senior leaders,” the U.S. Treasury Department said in a written statement.

U.S. officials alleged Mr. Khalil requires all operatives transiting through Iran to deliver the equivalent of $10,000 to al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan. The officials also said that Mr. Khalil has worked closely with Iranian authorities to secure the release of al Qaeda militants held in Iranian prisons who are then returned to Pakistan-based camps.

“By exposing Iran’s secret deal with al Qaeda allowing it to funnel funds and operatives through its territory, we are illuminating yet another aspect of Iran’s unmatched support for terrorism,” David Cohen, the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said on Thursday.

Please click through to the WSJ for the rest of this article.

Donkey killed for adultery.

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I’ll post this story as I found it, with this key that hopefully will help anyone sort out the facts of this case. As I understand it, a mans donkey cheated on him by having sex with some other Muslim , and so he had to kill it to preserve his family’s honor cause after all, it brings great shame to ones family when one’s livestock has sex with someone else. At least I think that is the issue here.

H/T Fred @ gayandright

Dearly Beloved, now dearly departed

From The News.com.PK

Donkey declared ‘Kari’ killed

our correspondent
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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SUKKUR: Incredible though it may sound, a donkey was declared ‘Kari’ and shot dead here in a remote area on Monday. The Jirga imposed 110,000 rupees fine on the alleged ‘Karo’.

The reports said that in Village Ghahi Khan Jatoi, a villager Ghazi Khan alias Malang shot dead his donkey on being ‘Kari’ with Sikandar Ali alias Deedo. He attempted to kill Sikander too but the alleged Karo managed to escape and surrendered himself to an influential person of the area.

Sources said the influential person summoned both the parties and imposed 110,000 rupees fine on the Karo. They said Sikander and his family were forced to pay Rs 50,000 on the spot and the remaining amount in two installments.

The sources added that the alleged Karo pleaded innocence at the Jirga, but the Jirga members paid no attention to it. Sikander’s family said he paid Rs 50,000 to save his life otherwise he would have been killed.